The Heart Of WorshipLord with humility I write this, Father I ask for Your Holy Spirit to speak and move through this entry, touch everyone who reads this, open their eyes of understanding I ask, may Your Will be done, glory and honor be to Your Name, in the Name of Jesus Christ I pray, Amen.
Many people have wrote about true worship and expounded on what worship really means, but I believe there's always more in the things of God, and we can only receive more when we have the right attitude and heart which God will fixed His eyes on.
What is a heart of worship?
Ps 51:17The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart-- These, O God, You will not despise.
A humble heart is a heart of worship, humility is a very general word, let me explain in God's term.
Humility is recognizing that God's Holy, and after realising we're nothing but just a man, and that we're undone, we submit to Him and His Will, and follow His ways, it gives us an unquenchable thirst and hunger to seek and adore Him, and an unexplainable trust in God.
It's His Holiness, that makes Him so worthy to be praise, it's because of His Holiness that's He's deserving of all blessing and honor and glory, it's His Holiness that makes His sacrifice on the cross means something, because He was without blemish so that He can have victory over death, hence setting us free from eternal death, giving a remedy for our sins, if we believe in His work on the cross and confess that He is God.
Isa 6:1-3
[In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy [is] the LORD of hosts; The whole earth [is] full of His glory!"
Isaiah saw God's Holiness, and it results in a true attitude of worship and it completely changes his life.
Isa 6:5So I said: "Woe [is] me, for I am undone! Because I [am] a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts."
A revelation of God's Holiness, humbles and transforms a persons spirit into a broken and contrite heart hence God can touch his life, enables a person to have fellowship with God, and makes the worship a person gives acceptable and pleasing in God's sight.
The only character of God that is sounded so ever loudly from the beginning of the Genesis to the end of Revelation is "I AM HOLY".
Rev 4:8[The] four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: "Holy,* holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!"
It's the beauty of His Holiness that compels us to worship and adore Him, that makes Him worthy.
A heart of worship is a heart humbled by His Holiness, a heart that sees the Holy God, a heart that cries Holy Holy Holy, because of His Holiness, He loves unconditionally, His glory is everlasting, His faithfulness is unquestionable. He cannot deny Himself or go against Himself because He is Holy.
A heart of worship is found in every true worshipper. A true worshipper is always found in His presence, His tabernacle.
A worshipper with a heart of worship, is a perfect man, pleasing in God's sight. Perfect doesn't mean sinless, but is a man like David, a man after God's own heart.
What do you mean a perfect man?
James 3:2For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
What do you mean stumble in word?
James 3:9-10With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.
Matt 15:11Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
Many fall into this category.
Matt 15:8-9'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with [their] lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'
It's only when we have a heart of worship, and we tame our tongue, purifies our worship and songs to God, creating a sweet aroma unto God, it's only then can we truely please God with our worship.
And we ought to repent and cleanse ourselves everytime we enter into a time of worship, how many times do we do that? No wonder we only get a tiny bit of God's presence, we need to do it lest we offend the Holiness of God's presence, and I can tell you for sure if you honor God's Holy presence, your worship will be in a deeper and more intimate level, when you'll be in the fullness of His presence.
God bless all who reads this.