You Worship When...

Some people have a hard time understanding that they are worshipers. They don't express worship outwardly like many others...and they may not have intense feelings of passion like some of us. 

If this describes you - don't focus on your feelings or expressions of worship - just focus on being in His presence - through the Word and in prayer.  Practice BEING with Him in a very simple yet deliberate way.

Apart from all the obvious times when we worship - let me say this...because you have given Him your life:

You worship when you smile at Him

You worship when you smile at strangers

You worship when you serve the unlovely and unholy

You worship when you enjoy what He has made

You worship when you are thankful for all He does

You worship when you obey Him

You worship when you take time to love a child

You worship when you love the old and infirm

You worship when you give Him your time

You worship when you wash the feet of the broken

You worship when you are faithful even when it is difficult

You worship when you seek to understand others

You worship when you wait, and linger in His presence

You worship when you do as Jesus did

You worship when you whisper His name

You worship when you make those thousands of small and large decisions each day that show He is the center of your life and worldview. He is the reason you do what you do. He is the Lord and Champion of your life - this is your reasonable worship (Romans 12:1)

Worship Is...

Just a few thoughts to answer the age-old question, "What is worship?"

— Worship is pouring out our hearts to God

— Worship is gazing at God and seeing His glory

— Worship is encountering God face to face

— Worship is the whole of me responding to the whole of God

— Worship is an encounter with God that will "ruin" you for the ordinary

— Worship is God breaking in on us, and us responding

— Worship is God's heart and the worshiper's heart becoming entwined

— Worship is kissing God

— Worship is loving God

— Worship is adoring God

— Worship is magnifying God

— Worship is revering God

— Worship is prostration before God

— Worship is ascribing worth to God

— Worship is being loved by God

— Worship is a cycle of my love for God and His response to my love

— Worship is the fragrance of our hearts before God’s throne

— Worship is the perfume of our devotion that touches Gods garments

— Worship is responding to the presence of God

— Worship is born in the reality of His presence

— Worship is an opportunity to linger in and enjoy God’s presence

— Worship is our response to God's manifested presence

— Worship is direct, two way communication with our Creator

— Worship is God’s language of communication

— Worship is intimacy with God

— Worship is a journey into God and his courts

— Worship is standing as a priest before God and ministering to Him

— Worship is a journey into unseen realms

— Worship is walking and talking with God

— Worship is heaven's heartbeat

— Worship is giving glory to God

— Worship is receiving glory from God

— Worship is heaven's unveiling our faces and looking at glory

— Worship is responding to glory

— Worship is being transformed by glory into glory

— Worship is removing the barriers we put up to behold God’s face

— Worship is what allows us to be changed and formed in His image

— Worship is the beginning and end of our relationship with God

— Worship is a Heavenly act performed in an earthly place

— Worship is our response to God's revelation of Himself to us

— Worship is an unparalleled expression of love

— Worship is evangelistic

— Worship is serving all nations and people

— Worship is God's kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven

— Worship is declaring God's covenant to the nations

— Worship is a declaration of God's Kingship throughout the Universe

— Worship is relationship with God in spirit and truth

— Worship is engaging spirit to Spirit

— Worship is the bridge from the physical realm into the spiritual

— Worship is uninhibited

— Worship is our means of connecting with Heaven

— Worship is when God touches us and we touch Him

— Worship is when God speaks to us and we speak to Him

— Worship is life changing

— Worship is a lifestyle

— Worship is evidence of God's life changing work in my heart

— Worship is the enjoyable encounter on the worst day of your life

— Worship is the enjoyable encounter on the best day of your life

— Worship is seeing God as He truly is

— Worship is an uncovering of our hearts before God

— Worship is exposing

— Worship is our response to God revealed

— Worship is God revealing His heart to His children

— Worship is impossible without a revelation of God

— Worship is God Emmanuel (God with/among Us)

— Worship is where we are changed into His image

— Worship is where we find the peace that passes all understanding

— Worship is an open door to the throne room audience with God

— Worship is the tenderness of God’s Love

— Worship is delighting in God

— Worship is initiated by God

— Worship is transformational

— Worship is contagious

— Worship is hearing and obeying His word

— Worship is obedience

— Worship is Intercession

— Worship is just one touch of the Masters hand

— Worship is where we allow the voice and will of God to be heard

— Worship is God filling our deepest longings

— Worship is joy unspeakable and full of glory

— Worship is the undoing of self as we pour out our hearts to God

— Worship is a fresh fire in our hearts for God every day

— Worship is healing: physical, spiritual, and emotional

— Worship is sharing the thoughts of Christ

— Worship is spending quality time in conversation with God

— Worship is an encounter with His name

— Worship is an open heart to hear from God

— Worship is a tiny glimpse of the glory and nature of God

— Worship is the counsel of God

— Worship is deep calling to deep

— Worship is the heartbeat of the Church

— Worship is a revelation of God that leaves a wake of destruction in my humanity

— Worship is God's call to intimacy and maturity

— Worship is our response to God for who He is, what He has done, and what He is doing

— Worship is a Holy Ghost ultrasound; it enlightens and detects the conditions of our lives within

— Worship is where God opens up the womb of heaven to deliver an announcement, revelation, or presentation of Himself to us here, in the earth
— Worship is loving Him, receiving Him, being changed by Him, showing Him, and then serving Him
— Worship is a full life response to the greatness and grace of God (Louie Giglio)
— Worship is getting to know and communicate in the heart of the Lord (Howard Faltz)
— Worship is an encounter with God for all generations, all, nations and all denominations!

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