WORDS for your PSYCHE - Part I

Topic: Worship

“Ezra praised the Lord, the great God; and all the people lifted their hands and responded, ’Amen! Amen!’ Then they bowed down and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.” (Nehemiah 8:6 / NIV ®)

“You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.” (Nehemiah 9:6 / NIV ®)

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” (Psalm 51:17 / NIV ®)

“Come let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts….” (Psalm 95:6-8 / NIV ®)

“Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth! Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy. Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.” (Psalm 100:1-3 / NLT)

“…this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people. Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help. Then your salvation will come like the dawn, and your wounds will quickly heal. Your godliness will lead you forward, and the glory of the Lord will protect you from behind. Then when you call, the Lord will answer. ’Yes, I am here,’ he will quickly reply.” (Isaiah 58:6-9 / NLT)

“They will be my people and I will be their God. And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me.” (Jeremiah 32:38-40 / NLT)

“Rise during the night and cry out. Pour your hearts like water to the Lord.” (Lamentations 2:19 / NLT)

“’Even now,’ declares the Lord, ’return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments.’” (Joel 2:12-13 / NIV ®)

“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” (Amos 5:24 / NIV ®)

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ’Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me...I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’” (Matthew 25:34-36 and 40 / ASD-NIV)

“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:23-24 / ASD-NIV)

“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.” (1 Corinthians 3:16-17 / NET)

“… I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on the earth is named. I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love, you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:14-19 / NET)

“...be filled with the Holy Spirit, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves and making music to the Lord in your hearts. And give thanks for everything to God and Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Ephesians 5:18-20 / NLT)

“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts....” (Colossians 3:15 / NIV ®)

“And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” (Colossians 3:17 / NIV ®)