Worship has so many meaning to different
people to my understanding of what it is I will say is an act of connecting with
God.
The act of worshiping can be done by praises,
dancing, serving God in his house and by prayer and fasting. As children and
daughters’ of the most high our worship should be a link to open heaven for
blessing, good health, break through to any problem and as well as healing.
The bible tells us of stories of women who
have called to God in worship and he answered. The book of Esther (4:15-17) tells
us how Esther and the Jews call to God in worship by prayer and fasting and he
heard their cry and the evil plans of Haman to kill the Jews was destroy.
Also the bible tells us in (Luke 1:5-17) about
Elizabeth and her husband Zechariah a priest who had no child and he always
worshiped God in prayers was blessed with a child at their old age. Hannah was
another woman in the bible who cried out to God in prayers because of her
barrens and she saw the result of her worship.
We saw with the situation they faced they
never gave up and where truthful in their worship to the Lord and at the end
they were rewarded joyfully.
As believers we should strive to offer true
worship. True worship is when we give God our best and not the left-overs. All
throughout the Old Testament, God demanded the very best from His people: the
firstlings of the flock, the firstborn of man and animal, and the first fruit
of our harvest. When the site and the sacrifice were offered to David free of
charge so that he might appease the wrath of God, because he had presumptuously
numbered Israel without God's approval David said: "No, but I will surely
buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God
with that which costs me nothing" (1 Sam. 24:24). The heart that says:
"Let's worship God, but let's do it as quickly, conveniently, cheaply, and
effortlessly as possible" does not understand the very essence of what
true worship is all about. If God would not accept "the leftovers"
from His people in the days of the prophets (Mal. 1:7-8, 10; cf. Amos 5:21;
Hos. 6:4-6; Isa. 1:11-15), He will not accept anything less than the very best
that we have to offer Him today.
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when
the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father
is seeking such people to worship him. (John 4:23)
