Worship Thoughts...

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling ‘darkness’ on the wall of his cell. –C.S. Lewis

Your inner worship of Jesus will transform your outer life as well. A heart set upon God’s Kingdom will bring your life into stark contrast with false gods worshiped by this world—money and power, sports and entertainment, youth and beauty. –New Rebellion

There is something about vulnerability, risk, and generosity that is intrinsic to the very core of worship. –New Rebellion

Sometimes You’re further than the moon; sometimes You’re closer than my skin; and You surround me like a winter fog…You’ve come and burned me with a kiss. –Martin Smith

The central paradigm…is that our worship of God either affirms or contradicts our message about God. –Sally Morgenthaler

Why, then, do we worry about recession, cartels, changes in the world leadership, and ungodliness? Can they stop God from presenting to this world a Church which is glorious, spotless, and full of the power of God?
-Judson Cornwell

I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him. Your offering must be only for God and pleasing to him, which is the spiritual way for you to worship. Don not change yourself to be like the people of this world, but be changed within by a new way of thinking.
-Romans 12:1-2 NCV

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. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. –John 4:23-24 NKJV

"Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to
come!" And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and
thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,
the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. –Revelations 4:8-10 ESV

All nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee,
O Lord; And they shall glorify Thy name. For Thou art great and doest
wondrous deeds; Thou alone art God. Psalm 86:9-10 NAS
The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving
thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other
instruments, they loudly praised the LORD, singing: "Certainly he is
good; certainly his loyal love endures!" Then a cloud filled the LORD's
temple. The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud;
the LORD's splendor filled God's temple. -2 Chronicles 5:13-14 NET

-ps