Honor the Place

That first covenant between God and Israel had regulations for worship and a place of worship here on earth. There were two rooms in that Tabernacle. In the first room were a lampstand, a table, and sacred loaves of bread on the table. This room was called the Holy Place. Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the second room called the Most Holy Place. Hebrews 9:1-3 NLT

However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that? asks the LORD. Could you build me such a resting place? Acts 7:48-49 NLT

And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. Hebrews 10:19-22 NLT

Don’t let God’s accessibly minimize the priority you put on the sacred place we have with Him.

2) Choose the right Posture

Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the LORD our maker. Psalm 95:6 NLT

A graced combination of humility and honor is the appropriate way to worship our Father God.

3) Embrace Expression

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Psalm 40:3 ESV

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! - Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever. Psalms 100:1-2 & 4-5

Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. Ephesians 5:18-19 NLT

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Romans 12:1 ESV

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come.” Whenever the living beings give glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever), the twenty-four elders fall down and worship the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever). And they lay their crowns before the throne and say,

“You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things,

and they exist because you created what you pleased.” Revelation 4:8-11 NLT

May we live in such a way that every word, action and attitude are an act of worship to our God.

4) Always - Our ancestors carried the Tabernacle with them through the wilderness. Acts 7:44 NLT

Worship is a weapon the enemy can’t overcome!

5) With your Whole Heart

I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart. Psalm 9:1 NKJV

We don’t worship God because He needs our worship, but because He is worthy of our worship.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Psalm 150:6 ESV

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy. Psalms 103:1-3 ESV