The Worship Experience!

Have you ever asked yourself what is worship, and why do I worship?

Worship--Reverent (deep love and respect) honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage or to any object regarded as sacred (intense love & passion).

We worship because God has commanded us to worship him and this is how we get closer to God and enter into His presence.  (Psalm 42:1-2) As the deer pants for streams of water so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.  When can I go and meet with God?  This is worship, when you desire, thirst, have a deep passion to go to a place where it is just you and God. You don’t worry about who is looking at you; you are in a place that secret place with no one else but you and Him. When you worship you may experience tears of joy, deep thankfulness, when you go deeper there are all types of feelings.  Your emotions are so deep others will not know what is going on. You may jump, run, raise your hands, and kneel wherever God takes you this where you will go. You go so far into the presence of the Lord nothing but peace and joy engulfs you.

Looking at King David how he danced before the Lord with all his might, Sauls daughter was upset because of how he danced and said to her I will celebrate before the Lord.  I will become even more undignified than this (2 Samuel 6:14-23). When we are in the presence of the Lord we can’t worry about who is looking at us or what others are saying.  We can’t be ashamed of him or He will be ashamed of us. (Mark 8: 38)

How do we get there to that place of worship and deep intimacy with God?  By wanting to go! Asking God to take you deeper with Him, It’s not about you it’s about being in his presence.  Being obedience to what he has commanded us to do.

Different types of worship:

Deuteronomy 6:5-7 Love the Lord your God with all your hearts and with all your soul and with all your strength.  These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.  Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Exodus 23:25 Worship the Lord your God and his blessing will be on your food and water.  I will take away sickness from among you.

Psalm 100:1-5 shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.  Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.  Know that the lord is God.  It is he who mad us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.  Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.  For the lord is good and his love endures forever, his faithfulness continues through all generations.

God wants all of us for He is a jealous God, Deuteronomy 6:15.