WORSHIP

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WORSHIP
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Worship

• 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 (Richard
  Foster).

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Worship

• The true worshipers will worship the Father in
  spirit and in truth, for such is God the Father
  seeks to worship him (John 423).
• Worship is the human response to the divine
  initiative (Richard Foster)

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Worship

• What we must see is that the real question in
  worship is not, what will meet my need? The
  real question is, what kind of worship does God
  call for (Richard Foster).

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Worship

• Singing, praying, praising all may lead to
  worship, but worship is more than any of them.
  Our spirit must be ignited by the divine fire
  (Richard Foster).
• You shall worship the Lord your God and him only
  shall you serve (Matthew 410).
• You shall have not other Gods before me
  (Exodus 203).

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Worship

• Love the Lord your God will all your heart, and
  with all your soul, and with all your mind, and
  with all your strength (Luke 1027).
• If we long to go where God is going and do what
  God is doing, we will move into deeper, more
  authentic worship (Richard Foster).

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Worship

• Go, even if you dont feel like it. Go, even if
  worship has been discouraging and dry before.
  Go, praying. Go, expecting. Go, looking for God
  to do a new and living work among you (Richard
  Foster).

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Worship

• I cannot imagine how religious persons can live
  satisfied without the practice of the Presence of
  God (Richard Foster).

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Worship

• When more than one or two come into public
  worship with a holy expectancy, it can change the
  atmosphere of a room. People who enter harried
  and distracted are drawn quickly into a sense of
  the silent Presence. Heart and minds are lifted
  upward. The air becomes charged with expectancy
  (Richard Foster).

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Worship

• Genuine worship has only one leader, Jesus
  Christ (Richard Foster).

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Worship

• If we are accustomed to carrying out the
  business of our lives in human strength and
  wisdom, we will do the same in gathered worship.
  If, however we have cultivated the habit of
  allowing every conversation, every transaction to
  be divinely prompted, that same sensitivity will
  flow into public worship (Richard Foster).

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Worship

• No less than forty-one psalms command us to
  sing unto the Lord. If singing can occur in a
  concentrated manner it serves to focus us. We
  become centered. Our fragmented minds and
  spirits flow into a unified whole. We become
  poised toward God (Richard Foster).

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Worship

• God calls for worship that involves our whole
  being. The body, mind, spirit, and emotions
  should all be laid on the altar of worship.
  Often we forget that worship should include the
  body as well as the mind and the spirit (Richard
  Foster).

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Worship

• Learn to practice the presence of God daily.
  Really try to follow Pauls words, pray without
  ceasing. Punctuate every moment with inward
  whisperings of adoration, praise, and
  thanksgiving.

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Worship

• Have personal times of inner worship and
  confession and the Bible study and attentiveness
  to Christ, the present Teacher. All this will
  heighten your expectancy in public worship
  because the gathered experience of worship just
  becomes a continuation and intensification of
  what you have been trying to do all week
  (Richard Foster).

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Worship

• Cultivate holy dependency. Holy dependency
  means that you are utterly and completely
  dependent on God for anything significant to
  happen (Richard Foster).

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Worship

• When people are gathered for genuine worship
  they are like a heap of fresh and burning coals
  warming one another as a great strength and
  freshness and vigor of life flows into all
  (Richard Foster).