parkerwilhelm - Worship

Definition: The act of attributing reverent honor and homage to God.

Worship to me has always been with music, whether that be live or listening to Spotify. But just recently, I learned that worship can be in any form… Like sitting still with no music and just being in His presence. Feeling the breeze, feeling the sun, feeling the grass brush against my leg, feeling him through all of this. Now worshiping via music will always be something I do because that’s the best way I can connect with God, but discovering what true worship is and different ways I can worship has been very rewarding. Here are some things I have discovered about what worship is…

Worship is a response to God
- "We love Him because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:19)
Worship is declaring worth and value
- "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first [foremost] commandment.” (Mark 12:30)
Worship is “heart-felt”
- "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.” (John 4:23)
Worship is giving not getting
- I don’t have any bible verses about this, but this is very, very important. Sometimes when I worship I worry too much about how I sound or how to look and not about why I'm doing it. I'm worrying too much about what I’m getting out of worship instead of what I'm supposed to be giving.

I have provided links to my YouTube account that has 2 clips of our worship today… Right before it, our ministry host (David) was talking to the worship class about making the choice to worship instead of worshiping because we have a scheduled time slot for it. He reminded us, that all it takes is for some of us to start singing and others will join. And soon after he told us that, we tried it and It worked! After a couple of songs, the whole squad joined… it was a beautiful moment, and a good lesson learned. I can't wait to see how this will affect our squad in the future. Thanks for reading!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5PJIYSdGI4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUrfAzwJTc