What are the expressions of worship?

What are the expressions of worship?

Give thanks

Psalm 100:4–5 ESV4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! 5 For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Those who are learning to worship. Where do I begin?Start by giving thanks

Sing

Psalm 95:1 ESV1 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!

Psalm 96:1–2 ESV1 Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! 2 Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.

We have a long list of songs, old and new, fast and slow.Thank God for the wonderful hymns - Amazing Grace. What a Friend we have in Jesus. O for a Thousand Tongues to sing. It is well with my soul.But we need the new songs. The songs of what God is doing today.Just as some are afraid of hymns, there are those who are afraid of the new songs.Here’s the key - sing what is in your heart! In my heart there rings a melody, of heaven’s harmony.

Ephesians 5:18–20 ESV18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Sing, sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing doing the dishes, Don’t just listen to music. Sing. Not to exercise your vocal chords but sing unto Him.I like to hear by boys sing - sometimes in the shower, in the roomImagine how God feels! When we sing to Him!Don’t let Satan hinder you. Sing.It changes the atmosphere in your heart and home.

Clap our hands

Psalm 47:1 ESV1 Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

You may recall the days when people referred to the Pentecostal church in a derogatory manner as the clap hand church.You had very little instruments but we clapped and sang with the joy of the Lord and enthusiasm.During the COVID lockdown I saw an Indian Pastor and wife, sitting clapping and singing joyfully to the Lord.Remember the days when we gathered in homes and sang choruses, clapped and rejoiced in the Lord.we have the drums now to help with the beat but we can still clap and sing.

Lift our hands

Psalm 141:2 ESV2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

Psalm 134:1–2 ESV1 Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who stand by night in the house of the Lord! 2 Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord!

Half way - perfunctory worship [mechanical, minimal effort]. Just doing it because I am expected to.Palms inward petitionto receiveone hand outstretchedBoth hands fully outstretchedblessing God with everything, will all my strengthPastor Samaroo: ‘When you raise your hands you are yielding yourself to God. It’s a sign of surrender.”

Shout

Psalm 47:1 ESV1 Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

When you are a game, volleyball, basketball, you are not quietyou shout for your team - whether losing or winning.Well, this team will never lose.According to Lester Lewis, the Jamaican evangelist: Jesus is the winnuh man!

Psalm 100:1 ESV1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!

Sometimes we can’t tell we are in a Pentecostal church.I am not talking about noise from the PA system.We need to make a joyful noise unto the LordIll- visiting CAOG in G/t Guyana.

Dancing

Psalm 30:11 ESV11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,

Psalm 149:3 ESV3 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!

2 Samuel 6:14 ESV14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.

Here was the king of Israel dancing before the Lord.

Music

Psalm 150 ESV1 Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! 2 Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! 3 Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! 4 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! 5 Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! 6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

Kneel

1 Kings 8:54 ESV54 Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.

Daniel 6:10 ESV10 When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

Philippians 2:10 ESV10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

Psalm 95:6 ESV6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

Fall prostrate - before God.