In Your Bible Read This
Revelation chapters 4 and 5
Here Is Your Memory Verse
Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your
food and water.
I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry
or
be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span. Exodus
23,25-26
Afterwards Talk About
This
What are some of the idols and false gods that people tend
to serve today which makes God jealous and angry?
Something To Do Before
Next Time
Arrange an evening which will be exclusively devoted to
worshipping God,
using as many of the different ways as possible. Look for and
choose
anointed people to participate and make God very happy
with a symphony of praise and worship.
Written Diploma Work
Make a list of as many different verses as you find in the
Psalms
which refer to the ways they worshipped God.
Meditate Word By Word On
This Passage
Ephesians 5, 19-20
- Spend
a Minute to Change the World
- Pray For Albania -
Just 3,500,000 Europeans
- Once the worlds
first atheist state now devastated by anarchy and
refugees
- Now it will be either
the gospel or Islam that becomes dominant.
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Be sure to
teach this lesson to others.
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Always pray
and prepare well adding
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your own verses and stories to
bring it to life.
Man is essentially a worshipping creature.
It is part of his nature. The only question is who he will
worship? Whatever we worship we ultimately end up serving. The
more we worship something or someone, the more our commitment
increases, and the more we become like the thing we worship.
1. What Does It Mean To
Worship?
The Hebrew word is shachah which means to
worship, bow down, do obeisance, give reverence or fall down. The
New Testament word proskuneo similarly means to kiss the hand or
to fall upon the knees and touch the ground with the forehead in
profound reverence. Two other worship words mean to physically
serve, to perform sacred service and to offer gifts to God.
2. Let My People Go, So
That They May Worship Me
This was Gods repeated demand to
Pharaoh which led to the exodus of Gods people from Egypt.
Since then God, who is a jealous God, has fought with his people
to keep them from worshipping other gods and idols rather than
worshipping the one true living God.
Worship is to glorify God and to enjoy
him forever. God actively seeks worshippers and to worship is
our first calling, see John 4.23. True worship is when we
allow Holy Spirit to draw adoration from our spirit, or heart
and leads us to worship in spirit and in truth. See Phil. 3.3
Worship is priceless and uniquely belongs
to God and to his Son Jesus Christ who alone are worthy. Lucifer,
who was in charge of the worship in heaven, wanted that worship
for himself and that led to his downfall. Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28.
He even offered Jesus the kingdoms of the world in exchange for
worship but the Lord refused, of course. Matthew 4.8-10
3. Worship Fills The
Room With God
In Bible times lots of men and women were
anointed by God and appointed by leaders to lead the people of
God of those ancient days into prophetic worship not just the
singing of songs as we often do today in our meetings. 1 Chron.
25,1; 6-8.
Worship prepares the way for God to
come and for salvation to fill your life, see Psalms 22.3; 50.23.
Childrens worship even silences the enemy, see Psalm 8:2.
4. I Will Bless The Lord
At All Times
When do we worship? At all times. For set
times of worship Psalm 100 tells how to begin, but above all our
personal lives should be never ending worship. Every breath we
breathe, every thought, word and action should be worship to the
good God we serve, for ever and ever, see Psalm 145.1,2.
5. Worship, Past Present
And Future
Men first began to call on the name of the
Lord in prehistory. When Abram was going to the Promised Land the
first thing he did was to build an altar of worship wherever he
went. See Gen. 4.26; 12.6.
In days gone by Gods people
worshipped in Temple and synagogue but these days our bodies are
Gods temple, 1 Cor. 6.19. This means we can worship without
waiting, wherever we are, whatever the circumstances. Paul and
Silas even worshipped in prison, Acts 16.25.
But our worship on earth only reflects
the worship in heaven. You must read the glorious chapters 4,
5 and 19, 1-10 of Revelation and see how worship in heaven is
full of colour, light, sound, motion, and activity. Our
worship should aim to be just the same.
6. How Do We Worship?
The Bible tells us how people used their
hearts, minds, arms, hands, feet and lips in songs. They shouted
for joy with bowing down, dance, praise, blessing and
thanksgiving.
Words from the Psalms like halal or
hallelujah mean to praise, boast of and celebrate the Lord.
Yadah means to throw out the hands, and barak means to kneel
in worship to bless God.
The offering of our bodies for the
service of God and man is also worship, see Romans 12,1. Gods
people also worship him in their art, sculpture, writing,
drama, music and architecture as well as in giving their
money for the gospel.
7. Worship In Church
In church our meetings should be full of
psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs which can be led by the Spirit
in new languages that he gives. So many modern meetings are no
more than platform led Christian entertainment, not very
different from the theatre. People merely watch but do they
worship? The presence of God and the manifestation of his Spirit
in our worship should cause unbelievers to fall down and worship.
Col 3.16, 1 Cor. 14, 15-16; 25; 26, Eph. 5.19, Acts 2.4.
Is Praise The Same As Worship?
We need to praise God for all he is and does, but God
seeks out and needs worshippers, not just worship.
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Praise can be very public but
worship is always intimate.
Praise is always seen or heard,
worship can be quiet and hidden.
Praise is often expressive,
exuberant and aggressive,
whilst worship is often awe
in the presence of God.
8. True Worship Is
Costly
The Bible talks about sacrifices of praise.
David danced before the Lord with all his might, and refused to
offer God a sacrifice which cost him nothing, 2 Samuel 6,14, 24.24.
Wise men from the east offered costly gifts as they came to
worship Jesus, see Matthew 2:9-12, and a woman anointed Jesus
with expensive perfume, washed his feet with her tears and dried
them with her hair, see Luke 7:36-50.
Taken from the
Joshua Project Unreached Peoples List
these people have no church and as yet
no cell, church or mission has committed themselves
to prayer, adoption or church planting among this people.
India (1)
|
People Name |
Language |
Population
|
Agariya (Agria) |
Agariya |
11,800
|
Baiga (Baigani, Bega) |
Baiga |
10,000
|
Bathudi |
Bathudi |
104,500
|
Bedia |
Bedia |
32,200
|
Bhim |
Bhim |
19,900
|
Bhottara (Dhotada) |
Bhottara |
342,000
|
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