Corperate Worship: Part 1

Worship to God in songs is not about how loud you sing or how good your voice sounds; although they are important factors because you should always give God the best, will discuss that some other time.


Worship to God has to be in Spirit and in truth as Jesus said to the curious woman at the well side in John 4 verse 23 & 24. This apply to every way you worship God with your life as also in singing.


We should worship God in spirit i.e from our recreated spirit as believers in Christ. We are spirit being cause we were born of the spirit (John 3:6), so what happens during worship is the Holy spirit energies our spirit and the expression is true. For Jesus promised the holy spirit will teach us all things, even to worship.


Now to worship God in truth has to do with revelational knowledge of what you are doing. An understanding of the what you are saying and who you are saying it to. Knowing the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, what he has done and given to you.

With these you are conscious of what you are doing, you are conscious of how awesome God is, your words are true. In this state when you sing "You are the reason i live" it totally will be from your spirit and there is always a way our spirit connect with our emotions. When we say "Jehovah, you are the most high", we mean it. We worship and our understanding is fruitful.


It has happened to almost everyone of us that we sing a song so much and get so familiar with the song that when we sing we are unconscious of what we say but we just sing, like when we sing "Thou at worthy o lord", guilty right???


I will end with an experience Rick Jonah shared in one of his books. He was ministering one day and when they started praying it was like a prophetic  encounter, a vision, he could see the hearts of every member and there problems but they all were worshiping God, reverencing Him for how awesome he is, in the mist of there troubles. And immediately he was caught up to a place that seems like heaven and he saw the lord smile at what the congregation did, and the host of angels joined in singing praises to the Lord. Now Jesus was standing close to him and said "For just this moments my Father smile, my death on the cross was worth it"...


Worship the Lord in spirit and in truth always ...for the Father seeketh such to worship him(John 4:23c), itrs a demand. Do it right and do it well so you make big Daddy smile for your sake.


-Osahen Oghogho