Today God impacted me directly with scripture about What TRUE worship is, with an actual Old Testament account, and before I share that account that shows exactly what WORSHIP is (and believe me, it is NOT what the church today passes off as worship), I will give you a quick over view of a New Testament account first.
 
 The scripture that the Holy Spirit dropped into my head today was not a scripture I have been reading lately, in fact, it's been quite sometime since I read this particular passage, yet when it came to mind, it was precise when I verified it with the bible.  Please enjoy this read, and ask the Holy Spirit if this is true (don't take my word for it.. search it out for yourselves).
You might not look at what you have been taught worship is the same way, after reading this.
 
When I originally first posted this writing, it was to make the point that "praise" and "worship" are not the same even though current church systems pass them off as one and the same if not equal, but they are not even close.
 Our church systems ALL teach us that when we go to church Sunday and sing songs that that is worship. Again.. it is not. But what’s scarier is what I found we are "required" to do as worship,....  and it is a price most will not do, almost to the point reflecting that statement Jesus made in John 6:53, 
 
John 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
 
John 6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
 
John 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
John 6:67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
 
The section below this statement that starts with "What worship is" (in quotes), makes some very good sound doctrinal examples of "worship" which has nothing to do with song services, or ridiculous titles incorrectly given as "worship leaders", while "praise music" is continually incorrectly labeled "worship music".
The section below correctly illuminates us to what is expected from us.
 
This next example below in the section is a direct, clear example of worship... Dying to your self’s desires and replacing them daily with Gods will and desire for you, which is 100% worship.

"What worship is"
Worship is our entire being surrendered to God's every wish, his every command. Which is His desire for us as it pleases him. It's our daily "death of self" to fulfill his great plan. (The scriptures say we are to die daily "I die daily" 1 Cor 15:31).
 
Our life is no longer our own if we are really walking according to the scriptures! Our will should be sacrificed daily in exchange for his will in our life. "That is worship"! Later below it is confirmed in old testament covenant, but Jesus confirms it here in new testament covenant.
 
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your "reasonable" service.
 
A living sacrifice (doing this is worship not singing praise).
1Cr 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1Cr 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
 So according to scripture, when we accept Jesus as our savior and we die with him in water of baptism, leaving our old life behind, and coming up a new creation that Christ himself can personally live through, leaving our desires on the cross daily and selflessly living as God directs... "that is worship in it's deepest form". Because it is with sacrifice of our life in exchange to live for him.
Jesus did that. Do we fully comprehend and do this?
Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

FOOTNOTE: If we are truly crucified with Christ, then our lives are over, our fleshly desires are over, and Christ can then live through us, and that is "ultimate worship".
 
Rom 6:7  For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Rom 6:8  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9  Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Rom 6:10  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

NOTE: Lives unto God. That kind of thinking leaves no place for personal flesh... does it?
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Rom 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
 
and this also...
Mat 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mat 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
And the point of this entire writing is to look at what is sung during services and taught in church to the people today as worship, labeling our praise music even as worship, when clearly it is not, but it is praise, and the people don't understand the difference, and or the requirements involved.
         
 This also means that many have been cheated.. yes, they have not been taught how to worship, only how to praise, and yet God commands us to worship him. Can you see why this is critical?

So Today....
As I sat at lunch and pondered how lately I have not been worshipping God (laying down my life for God to do with as he pleases), my will today for his will today. How many of us actually really do this? It is a command from Jesus to all professing believers: Deny yourself, pick up your cross (death to self) and follow me.
Jesus was our new testament example, but too many can't seem to see that as attainable, after all he is Christ.
So as I sat and talked to my Father in heaven, he instantly spoke into my spirit this...

Gen 22:2-5
 Gen 22:2  And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Gen 22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
 
Gen 22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
 
God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. This was death to Isaac, and also death of "Abrahams will" when he became "obedient" to what Gods will was for Abraham.
This was what worship is.
 
Worship is not song, dance, titles etc. It is death to self, death to our will, replaced by Gods will working through us.
As I sat at lunch instantly, this came to mind when I said to my Father I have not been worshipping you lately, I have replaced your will for me daily, and taken back my life and my desires. And as I sat there he spoke this to confirm I was correct in my statement...
 
Abraham new exactly what he was about to do. He was going to KILL Isaac. That was exactly what he was to do. In doing so, "his will died", and even his sons will died as well, but notice the statement Abraham makes to the servants (keeping in mind you know exactly what he was going to do).
 
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the donkey; and I and the lad will go yonder and "worship", and come again to you.
 
He was dying to self in 100% obedience to Gods will. Worship is exactly that. That is exactly what Abraham did and he knew that was what worship was. My life for your life.
So, can you see what worship really is and what God expects of us?, nothing less than what he expected of Abraham and his own son Jesus... complete submission unto him everyday. Does that sound like what you've been taught a Sunday service is? There is nothing remotely close in our churches that resemble this "reasonable service".
 
Can we "see" how the 20th & 21st century church has not been correctly teaching God's children what "worship" is and what God expects seriously from each believer?, and instead, how they have dumbed it down to songs, music, improper titles, money collections, and none of them come close to what worship is... A Living Sacrifice daily.
 
So the people have not been worshipping God. They have been like David with the ark of the covenant and Uzza. They thought they were doing it correctly until God said "WRONG".
Good intentions are rejected by God all the time, the same as David’s good intentions were rejected by God, as well as Cain’s incorrect sacrifice. Good intentions killed Uzza, (for lack of knowledge my people perish).
Do it our way, and it accomplishes nothing.
Do it Gods way and it is accepted and blessings follow.

Now.. what will you do with this truth? Please pass this on to your friends, and even your church leaders. Christians don't know the difference.

Kenny out

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