Starting Question Why is Worship necessary ? All Human beings worship Jeremiah 2:13 "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

1 2 3 People worship ideologies People worship things People worship themselves Jeremiah 2:5 This is what the LORD says: "What fault did your fathers find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

Worship is essentially a battleground

The Battle of Alignment

God Creation How is everything kept in balance ? Revelation 4:6-5:1 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." Whenever the living creatures give glory, honour and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."

or Whatever you worship controls everything

The prayer Jesus taught Let your will be done on______________ On earth as it is in heaven John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth."