True worship is the result of Our intimate relationship with you. It begins with wanting to be with Us with all your heart. 1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
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True worship is this: remaining humbly grateful rather than licking your wounds in self-pity. Matthew 10:39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. James 1:2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing
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True worship does not need a building, musical instruments or air conditioning. True worship cannot be scheduled on a calendar. 1John 2:26-27 26 I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 27 But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him. Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.
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True worship is this: keeping your thoughts in the present, forgetting the past and remaining blind to the future by trusting in My Love to provide for you. Philippians 3:13…Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have laid hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus. Romans 8: 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.
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True worship is this: following My Voice in obedience that brings you to the altar of painful sacrifice. Matthew 10:39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Matthew 11:12 From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force. Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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True worship is this: hiding your innermost thoughts and conversation with Us from the world and keeping Our intimacy personal, holy and set apart as sacred. Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Luke 6:12 In those days, Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
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True worship is this: wanting fellowship with Me even if it costs you the loss of all other relationships. Luke 9:23 Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. 24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.…\” Luke 14:26 If people come to me and are not ready to abandon their fathers, mothers, wives, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as their own lives, they cannot be my disciples. 27So those who do not carry their crosses and follow me cannot be my disciples. Matthew 10:37 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me; 1 John 3:11 Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to cling to, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross. Matthew 26:27 . . . whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave— 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.
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True worship is this: to wake every morning hungering for My Presence and My Kingdom with the same intensity as you hunger for another breath of fresh air. John 4: 34 Jesus explained, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. Psalm 42:1 As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God. Luke 11: 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 11: 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
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True worship is this: a soul who does everything with Me, through Me, for Me and in obedience to Me; every thought, every spoken word, every decision and desire is filled with only Me. This is true worship. I seek those souls who will worship Me within their inner being and in the Truth of My Kingdom. John 4: 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. Acts 17:28 for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’;as even some of your own poets have said, For we are indeed his offspring. Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Psalm 100:1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. 2 Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3 Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. 5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
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The demons of religion will always bear false witness as they accuse and condemn the beloved in their courtroom of darkness. Forgive their hosts. Forgive the ones they work through. Matthew 10:16 Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. 17 But beware of men; for they will hand you over to their councils and flog you in their synagogues. 18 On My account, you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to respond or what to say. In that hour you will be given what to say. 20 For it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. Luke 23: 34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Acts 6:12 They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin. 13 They presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the Law.\” Acts 7:59 While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
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