Heart of Worship

the mc : Joanne Jun

the crowd!

the song leader : Jennifer Anne

the guitarist : Christiana

the pianist : Swee Vien

FUN TIME !

ALL of you knows who is the winnner d la...
hey amy! pick on someone ur own size la! poor thing Mel!

Preach it Sister!

Miss Tan Seaw Chin-the preacher! XD

HEART OF WORSHIP

John 4:23-24

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and His worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.

What is Worship?

• Being thankful for WHO God is.
• Giving the due respect, glory, offering to Him because of His greatness above and beyond all things. There is no other to be feared or respected more than God.
• Even if we do not receive anything from Him, He still deserves our gratitude of being God.
• God doesnt seek our worship, but we should seek to worship Him.
• Worship is seeing what God is worth and giving him what He's worth.
• Worship is not about the songs we sing, its about our heart and our lifestyle.

What is a TRUE worshiper?

• GENUINE worship is responding in love with all I am-mind, emotions, will and body to do all that God is, says and does.
• True worshipers worship in spirit and in truth.
• God is spirit.
• When we accept Jesus into our life, His spirit dwells within us.
• God created within us a thirst to glorify Him, to want to experience His presence always.
• It's about our heart, our relationship with God. Just like our relationship with parents and loved ones.
• Truth is about the knowledge of God. It's our head knowledge.
• We cant really worship without knowing who or what are we worshipping.
• So, we express our adoration, our love through our worship.

STORY

I heard about TWO men who went into business. One man's name was "Jim HEART" and the other man's name was "Paul HEAD". Mr. Heart and Mr. Head.

So, naturally they named their company "HEART AND HEAD". Not long after they began, tragedy struck. Heart died. At the funeral, a friend of the family in referring to the company said, "Poor Heart had died and left Head alone."

I'm afraid that much of the time when we come here to worship, our Heart has died and had left Head alone. I want to suggest that we need to resurrect our Heart! We need to put our HEART back into WORSHIP.

HOW to be a TRUE Worshiper

• We worship Him by reading the Word of God, praying, singing songs, giving offering, most importantly our lifestyle- our action and speecd, attitude, behaviour.
• Worship lifestyle requires
  a) complete availability
  b) personal holiness
  c) radical life changes
  
• 1 Cor. 6:19-20
  "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
  For you were bought at a pricem therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's"
  
• 1 Cor 10:31
  "Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of GOd.
• Will the people see Jesus in us in our daily living?
• Praise and worship session is a time when we meet with the most high God.
• Worship ought to be ALIVE! Worship ought to be delightful, not dead and dreary.
• When people worship with us they ought to leave saying, " Those people love JEsus, and those people are excited about the things of GOd."
• THe truth is many times we're just selfish. We come to worship to see what's in it for me. We read our Bible so we receive a blessing. We pray so that God will fulfill our wishes.
• BUT we're to come here primarily to worship God. We're to come here to offer Him something, not just to see what we can get.
• We can praise and worship Him by singing (praise, expression), standing (respect, honour), kneeling, bowing down(humility), lifting hands (surrender), clapping hands, dancing, shouting (joy, gladness, victory!)

Conclusion

• Worship is a lifestyle, an expression of our love.
• Worship is all about JESUS!