3. CORPORATE WORSHIP
• What is Worship
• Spheres of Worship?
• How Do We Worship?
• What are benefits of Corporate
Worship?
• Concluding remarks
4. What is Worship?
Worship is paying homage or ascribing
worth to something or to someone,
for what they are or have done for us
5. Spheres of Worship
Worship happens in two spheres
Private or Personal Worship
Public or Corporate Worship
John 4: 19-21
6. How do we Worship?
We worship in Spirit and in Truth . (John 4.24)
The Worship that God Honours is;
• Worship that Honours His presence (Ex.33. 13-14)
• Worship that Humbles the Heart ( Matt.18.3, 10)
• Worship that Sacrifices and then expects(Mal.
3.10-12)
• Worship that extends Gods Love by every means
7. Corporate Worship entails:
• Divine Invitation: God’s call to worship (Ex 24, Ps
95), invitation to sing, to dance, to bow down even
to be silent
• Divine Revelation: reading the word (Ez.1),
proclaiming the word (unfolding its meaning so
that it can change lives), responding to the word.
• Divine Presentation: our offerings to God
• Divine Consecration: the blood of Christ, Holy
communion
• Divine illumination: Gods Word id designed to
Change and reshape us
8. Benefits of Corporate Worship
Intimacy with God
Restored Faith
Defeated Enemies
Contentment in Life
Salvation of others
Transformed Lives
9. Who is the Winner in Worship?
When you worship you are saying ( according to Rev. 4)
God, I nominate you for honour
You alone are Worthy , to receive Glory which means
to excel beyond….
God we give you praise and thanks
Nobody can do what you can do God
GOD IS THE WINNER, GIVE GOD THE PRIZE
God ends up SHARING that prize with us.
10. Conclusion
Fuel of Worship Truth of God
Spirit of Man
Furnace of
Worship
The Holy Spirit of
Fire of Worship God
11. WHAT IS YOUR CONDITION?
Heart Heart
Right Wrong
Worship Worship
Right Right
Heart Heart
Right Wrong
Worship Worship
Wrong Wrong
Editor's Notes
During worship we recognise God for who He is, God’s worth, recognising God is God. Worship is the foundation of the Christian life.The only reason we should be in the church today is to worship GOD and we should never loose focus of that it all about you God
Worship according to Jesus John 4: 19-21which says a time will come when neither this mt.Gerizim worship place of the Samaritan nor Jerusalem temple of the Jews shall you worship the Father. Jesus emphasis was that worship is not in a place but a state of heart and mind Worship should be our way of life our bodies are the temple
It is God who calls us to worship, in Exodus 24.1 then God said to Moses, come up to the Lord you and Aaron, Nadab and Ahibu and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance. In 2 Chronicles 29: 27 the Levites the entire assembly worshipped the Lord as the singers sang and trumpets blew.Singing is putting the truth of God to music, the psalmist tells us to shout, make a joyful noise notice who the audience is …. God , the Rock. During worship we can move we can bow down, kneel in quiet humility before the Lord our maker this worship is associated with the heart attitude,(Have mercy on me oh Lord I am sinner)Sometimes we just need to be silent Habbakuk 2.20 The Lord is in His Holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before Him.Divine revelation, the things that we learn about God are the things He decides to tell us the there three areas related to what God wants us to learn, from His word. In the book of Ezra when he read the book of the Law the people wept when they heard the word of God, reading the word of God has power on our lives, especially reading it a second time and asking the Holy Spirit to teach us. Proclaiming the word declaring what God has said, explaining its meaning and its application to our lives. The third aspect is responding to Gods word in Exodus 24 the people responded by saying they will be obedient.Worship is responding to God as well as hearing from God. No response means no discipleship
There is a pay off for those who follow CHRIST IN WORSHIP. What will be different in your if you begin worshipping as a way of life as individuals and as a church?Intimacy with God. Psalms 22.3 says God inhabits the praises of His people if you want to get Gods attention worship Him. Worship God daily, draw near to Him but you must be willing to under go scrutiny God will expose and deal with your sin. Jesus is a doctor who deals with our root issues of sin not the symptoms of our sin. Gods cure is also simple If you choose to walk in the light the Blood of Jesus Christ the son cleanses us from sin 1 John 1.7 The reason many of us do not hear from God when we come to worship is that we fail to come with a sincere heart. We do not come clean, come to him in His own terms. Do you say the same prayers every day, if we told the truth we would be on our knees all day.Restored Faith. Are you trying to serve God as a Christian and doing good seems to get you nowhere. Go back and worship because worship restores your faith when we get our eyes off God we begin to be envious of the prosperity of the wicked psalm 73 16-17 says it was trouble some keeping my heart pure………(13-14) until I came to the sanctuary of GOD.(he went to worship) then he confessed and his faith was restored. In worship God lets us see things things that we would not normally see.Worship and Gods provision, Abraham took his only son to sacrifice at the altar, as he left his servants he said he was going to worship God and return to you, He went up and in obedience he found a ram caught up in the thicket. If you commit to worship God He can show you where the thicket is. Worship helps you to hang in there when you want to throw in the towel. If you feel like quiting worship JesusDefeated Enemies. Do you have enemies any one who tries to pull you down or out to hurt you. Romans 12.19 says vengence is mine I will repay in 2 chronicles 20 God fought the israelites enemies while they were worshipping him, worship saves lives, saves time, and collapses your Jericho. So when your spiritual adversary comes turn to Christ in worship. Contentment in life. Something is wrong inside of us, but God can give us inner peace. The inner peace of worshipper even when in distress.Salvation of others. Worship brings people to Christ in the book of Acts as the belivers worshipped people were getting saved every day. Parents keep worshipping God and our children will get saved. Dear God bring your self glory through my son, daughter, spouses, sickness, healing helps people to turn others to GOD.Transformed lives; Moses got a glow from worshipping God, when we worship the Holy Spirit carries us into the presence of God and the SONSHINE affects us making us glow.
When you worship you are sayingGod, I nominate you for honourYou alone are Worthy , to receive Glory (means to excel beyond….) , praise and thanksNobody can do what you can doRevelation 4, Who can create, transform lives, heal only God He is the winner, give Him he prize because when we worship something amazing happens. God SHARES the prize with us. When we come to give him all the praise and glory due to his name, He compensates us for our worship.
The story of Cain and Abel in Genesis gives us the first lesson in the Bible on the true worship of God. God considers the heart of the individual first and our worship. Phillipians 2: 10-11 says in the end all creation will worship Him every knee will bow ( this is an act of worship ) every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father. Where will you be as you worship God because we will ALL worship Him only one condition is fruitful
