What is worship?
Anything that you do that brings pleasure to God is an act of of worship.
When we come together to worship, we come wanting to please God alone, offering to Him our very best. The biggest distraction in worship is yourself - your interests and your worries over what others think of you.
Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless.
One thing worship costs us is our self-centeredness.
Preperation for worship
1) Be Determined - when we are determined, God meets us in our efforts and enables our spirits to rise up.
2) Be Enthusiastic - God deserves more than the dregs when we worship Him.
3) Be Honest - we need to be honest before God and confess our need and our difficulty in worship.
4) Be Thankful - give thanks in all circumstances
5) Be Consistent - Worship is not just a performance on a sunday morning. It is a way of life
6) Be Clean - We must ask God to forgive us and clean us up in preperation for what is about to take place.
7) Be Thoughtful - Resist the temptation to get involved in thoughtful or thoughtless conversation
8) Be Attentive - We need to listen for God to speak to us as we worship
Michelle Cozins
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