Prayer And Praise Power Ministries Kingstown. St. Vincent and the Grenadines Bible Secrets To Worship

What Is Worship? But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers (proskyn ē t ē s) shall worship (proskyne ō ) the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship (proskyne ō ) him God is a Spirit: and they that worship (proskyne ō ) him must worship (proskyne ō ) him in spirit and in truth – John 4: 23 & 24

WHO WE WORSHIP  God is a spirit – pneuma  385 times in 350 verses  God wants to direct and lead us in worship  Does not want worship to be scripted  God is a spiritual being  Leads  Empowers

WHO WE WORSHIP God is a spirit – pneuma  Speaks and reveals  Casts out devils  Is holy  Fills the believer  Teaches the believer  Quickens the believer

LAW OF DIVINE ORDER - CREATION  Genesis 1: 1 & 2 – Creation – Moving - Speaking  The purpose of God in worship is to create order out of our disorder  To bring beauty out of formlessness and emptiness  To bring us out of oppression

LAW OF DIVINE ORDER - CREATION  Genesis 1: 1 & 2 – Creation – Moving - Speaking  To water our lives, nations – Jesus told the Samariatan woman that she was dry and needed water  Worshippers must allow the Spirit of God to FIRST MOVE AND SPEAK  Worship teams

WE WORSHIP TO ASCRIBE GLORY TO GOD Revelation 4  Throne – God  24 Elders lead worship in heaven  They have status  The 24 elders join the angels  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created – Revelation 4: 11

WE WORSHIP - TO DWELL  in the Presence of Holy God  To Experience a Divine, Lifelong, Eternal Encounter with God  Church of the Firstborn is our heavenly pattern  Spirits of just men made perfect – Hebrews 12: 22 & 23

WE WORSHIP FOR TRANSFORMATION – slides 3 & 4 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord - 2 Corinthians 3: 17 & 18

WORSHIPPERS (proskyn ē t ē s) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND  Proskyn ē t ē s occurs once – John 4: 23  Root word – proskyne ō  Wise men  … are come to worship him – Matthew 2: 3  … they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him… - Matthew 2: 11

 … if thou wilt fall down and worship G4352 me - Matthew 4: 9 G4352  The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped G4352 him – Matthew 18: 26 G4352  …they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped G4352 him – Matthew 28: 9 G4352 WORSHIPPERS (proskyn ē t ē s) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND

 Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped G4352 him – Acts 10: 25 G4352  the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped G4352 him that liveth for ever and ever – Revelation 5: 14 G4352  And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped G4352 God – Revelation 7: 11 G4352 WORSHIPPERS (proskyn ē t ē s) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND

 …the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped G4352 God – Revelation 11: 16 G4352  the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped G4352 God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia – Revelation 19: 4 G4352 WORSHIPPERS (proskyn ē t ē s) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND

 I fell at his feet to worship G4352 him – Revelation 19: 10 G4352  I fell down to worship G4352 before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things - Revelation 22: 8 G4352  Worship in heaven – the elders fall down with faces to the ground WORSHIPPERS (proskyn ē t ē s) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND

 and bowing their knees worshipped G4352 him – Matthew 15: 19 G4352 WORSHIPPERS (proskyn ē t ē s) KNEEL

 Friendship  Obedience  Surrender  Alliegance  Versus worshipping the beast MEANING OF WORSHIP

Under the control/guidance/unction of the Holy Spirit  Mary conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost G4151 G4151  Jesus was led by the Spirit – Matthew 4: 1  immediately the Spirit G4151 driveth him into the wilderness – Mark 1: 12 G4151 WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)

Under the control/guidance/unction of the Holy Spirit  the Spirit G4151 of your Father which speaketh in you - Matthew 10: 20 G4151  I will put my spirit G4151 upon him - Matthew 12: 18 G4151  … cast out devils by the Spirit G4151 of God - Matthew 12: 28 G4151 WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)

Under the control/guidance/unction of the Holy Spirit and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost … And she spake out with a loud voice, and said… - Luke 1: 42 & 43 WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)

By the revelation and not by own interpretation  Scribes said Christ is the son of David  Jesus replied, “David in spirit G4151 call (ed) him Lord” – Matthew 22: 43 G4151  David himself said by the Holy Ghost G Mark 12: 36 G4151 WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)

By the revelation and not by own interpretation  worship under the instruction of the Holy Spirit  God is the choreographer  it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost G Mark 13: 11 G4151 WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)

Worship from your spirit and not by external forms and rituals of the flesh or religious orders and scripts  the spirit G4151 indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak – Matthew 26: 41 G4151  Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit G4151 truly is ready, but the flesh is weak - Mark 14: 38 G4151 WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)

Worship from your spirit and not by external forms and rituals of the flesh  Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost G Matthew 27: 50 G4151 WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)

Worship from your spirit and not by external forms and rituals of the flesh  Jesus perceived in his spirit G Mark 2: 8 G4151  And he sighed deeply in his spirit, G4151 G Mark 8: 12 WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)

God rejects forms and rituals and requires honesty and confession – Psalm 50 & 51  God rejected the forms and requires broken and contrite spirits  Jesus warned the Scribes and Pharisees about their pretense – Matthew 23 WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)

Worship honestly before God, with no pretense, fearlessly, confessing, no corruption  we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, G225 neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men – Matthew 22: 16 G225 WORSHIP IN TRUTH (al ē theia)

Worship honestly before God, with no pretense, fearlessly, confessing, no corruption  Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly: G225 - Luke 20: 21 G225 WORSHIP IN TRUTH (al ē theia)

Worship honestly before God, with no pretense, fearlessly, confessing, no corruption  the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth G225 - Mark 5: 33 G225 WORSHIP IN TRUTH (al ē theia)