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23 “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind
of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his
worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” John 4:23-24 (NIV)
3 For it
is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory
in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh-- Philippians 3:3 (NIV)
8 So the
women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell
his disciples. 9 Suddenly
Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came
to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. 10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee;
there they will see me.” Matthew
28:8-10 (NIV)
29 When
the offerings were finished, the king and everyone present with him knelt down
and worshiped. 30 King
Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David and of
Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed their heads and
worshiped. 2 Chronicles 29:29-30 (NIV)
1 Then
Job replied to the Lord: 2 “I know that you can do all
things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. 3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel
without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too
wonderful for me to know. 4 You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will
question you, and you shall answer me.’ 5 My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen
you. 6 Therefore
I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
Job 42:1-6 (NIV)
1 In the
year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and
exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphs, each
with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered
their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one
another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and
thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am
ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean
lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord
Almighty.” 6 Then
one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken
with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has
touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” 8 Then I heard the voice of the
Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am
I. Send me!” Isaiah 6:1-8 (NIV)
43 The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding
Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of
Bethsaida. 45 Philip found
Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law,
and about whom the prophets also wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46 “Nazareth!
Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said
Philip. 47 When Jesus
saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here is a
true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false.” 48 “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before
Philip called you.” 49 Then
Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.”
50 Jesus said, “You believe because I
told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see greater things than that.” 51 He then added, “I tell you the
truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and
descending on the Son of Man.” John 1:43-51 (NIV)
6 Come,
let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; 7 for he is our God and we are the people of his
pasture, the flock under his care. Psalms
95:6-7 (NIV)
1 Therefore,
I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1 (NIV)
BUTTER
“We
should dedicate ourselves to becoming in this life the most perfect worshipers
of God we can possibly be.” Brother Lawrence
“The
pervasive sinfulness of human beings becomes evident when contrasted with the
radiant holiness of God.” Richard J. Foster
“To
worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind
with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the
heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.” William Temple
“God
is actively seeking worshipers. Jesus
declares, ‘The true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for
such the Father seeks to worship Him’ (John 4:23). It is God who seeks, draws, persuades. Worship is the human response to the divine
initiative.” Richard J. Foster
“We must be aware of the various ways sin
pulls us to wrong thoughts about God, righteousness, grace, ourselves and sin
itself. Only the truth of God’s word and meditation in prayer can reveal the
deceitfulness of sin.110 Sin works against God. Sin will either deceive us into
thinking God is a cruel taskmaster, or, if that will not work, will deceive us
into thinking He is like a doting grandfather who really does not care what we
do. Sin affects every Christian’s view of God and leads us to worship idols,
figments of our own imaginations, and not the true God. Sin will deceive us concerning
grace. We will either be deceived into thinking it is too good to be true, or
we will buy into cheap grace and think that ethics are unimportant.” Dr.
Bob Flayhart
“The gospel...should be seen as not only a
message of good news for lost people to be saved from sin's penalty, but also a
message of good news for Christian people to be saved from sin's domineering
power. The goal of the gospel is not merely to forgive us, but to change us
into true worshippers of God and authentic lovers of people.” Dr. Steve Childers
“Of
all today’s miracles the greatest is this:
to know that I find Thee best when I work listening…Thank Thee, too,
that the habit of constant conversation grows easier each day. I really do believe all thought can be
conversations with Thee.” Frank Laubach
“I
cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of
the Presence of God. Those who have once
tasted the Shekinah of God in daily experience can never again live satisfied without
the practice of the presence of God.”
Brother Lawrence
“Preaching
that is without divine unction falls like a frost on worship. Heart preaching enflames the spirit of
worship; head preaching smothers the glowing embers. There is nothing more quickening than
Spirit-inspired preaching, nothing more deadening than human-inspired preaching.” Richard J. Foster
“The dearest idol
I have known, whate’er that idol be; help me to tear it from Thy throne, and
worship only Thee.” William Cowper
“Happy
the soul which by a sincere self-renunciation, holds itself ceaselessly in the
hands of its Creator, ready to do everything which He wishes; which never stops
saying to itself a hundred times a day, ‘Lord, what wouldst thou that I should
do?’” Francois Fenelon
HEART
SAVOR
- · God seeks for me to worship Him in both spirit and truth.
- · I am to worship Him because He and He alone is worthy of worship.
- · I am made to worship something. If I worship anything or anyone besides Him I will constantly be found wanting. Sufficiency is found in Christ alone.
