Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Mark 12:30. (NIV)
The kind of worship that pleases God has four characteristics:
The kind of worship that pleases God has four characteristics:
2. God is pleased when our worship is authentic.
When Jesus said you must “worship in spirit,” he wasn’t referring to the Holy Spirit, but to your spirit. Made in God’s image, you are a spirit that resides in a body, and God designed your spirit to communicate with him. Worship is your spirit responding to God’s Spirit.
When Jesus said, “Love God with all your heart and soul” he meant that worship must be genuine and heartfelt.
It is not just a matter of saying the right words; you must mean what you say.
Heartless praise is not praise at all! It is worthless, an insult to God.
When we worship, God looks past our words to see the attitude of our hearts.
The Bible says, “Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
One thing is certain: You don’t bring glory to God by trying to be someone he never intended you to be. God wants you to be yourself.
“That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship.” Amen.
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