PRAYER OF WORSHIP
Worship is our response to the love of God the Father.
Therefore, we cry out Our Father!
What is prayer of worship?
Why worship?
Worship in the Bible.
Worship in church tradition
WHY WORSHIP?
Worship is our RESPONSE to the love of God the Father. That's why we pray praising Him and calling out OUR FATHER!
Worship is MOST expressed in the attitude of our heart which acknowledges that HE is our God. We are encouraged to worship using Bible. The Apostles and Church Fathersworshiped and Christian Church around the world praises God.
Worship is a prayer, which is conversation with God, a unique conversation, because we do not talk about ourselves, but about HIM.
Prayer of worship is a way to express our relationship with God.
We respond to His goodness, to WHO He is, recognizing that He is God, that He is our Creator.
Worship is not evidenced by its form, but by a HEART FOCUSED ON GOD, which worships Him not because of what HE does, but because HE IS.
God will be glorified when we allow things to be the way HE wants them to be.
Worship in the Bible.
What kind of worship does the Bible encourage us to?
Here are some passages that call us to prayer of worship:
"Sing to him; yes, sing his praises. Tell everyone about his wonderful deeds."
We can tell about God's wonderful work by singing and playing. Music, like poetry is the language of feelings. When we sing to God we express our feelings to Him.
Worship manifests itself throughout our lives. We hear it when we talk to each other, we hear it in our reactions to adversity, we hear it in our relationships with loved ones.
"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. And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you with [all its] riches: with all wisdom teach and admonish yourselves through psalms, hymns, spirit-filled songs, under the influence of grace singing to God in your hearts."
Worship not only carries our personal confession of faith, but also carries the confession of faith and teaching of the entire Church.
In many passages, the call to prayer of praise is associated with encouragement to sing together. If this is what the Bible invites us to do, shouldn't we join in sincere, worship full of songs and hymns?
"Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
praise him with the harp and lyre"
"Praise him with timbrel and dancing,
praise him with the strings and pipe"
"Praise him with the clash of cymbals,
praise him with resounding cymbals"
Does this mean that we should read the words of the psalm literally? Use the same instruments and forms of worship that the Psalmist talks about?
Certainly, the psalms encourage us to praise God with all our hearts, with everything we have, with everything we can -WITH ALL OF OURSELVES.
God is spirit: it is necessary, therefore, that His worshippers worship Him in Spirit and truth."
Worship and Church tradition
The Catechism of the Catholic Church encourages us to worship
It reminds us that "Worship is that form of prayer in which man most directly recognizes that God is God. He praises Him for Himself, gives Him glory not because of what He does, but, because HE IS. It participates in the happiness of pure hearts that love Him in faith before they see Him in glory. Through it, the Spirit unites with our spirit to testify that we are children of God; it bears witness to the Only Son, in whom we have been adopted as sons and through whom we glorify the Father. Worship unites other forms of prayer and carries them to Him who is their source and goal [...]." CCC 2639
Church offers a continuous sacrifice of praise to God....
Church offers a continuous sacrifice of praise to God through the Liturgy of the Hours. It is a Christian continuation of temple and synagogue psalmody. It was practiced by the Lord Jesus himself. Prayer of Worship, derived from the Liturgy of the Hours, does not replace the Holy Mass, and the Mass does not replace Worship. These are two complementary parts of Church's constant prayer and offering to God.
To adore means as much as to have someone in the first place, to think about him, to imagine him, to direct one's feelings towards him. To adore means to recognize value, to place above other values, to love above all else.
St. Francis of Assisi is an author of beautiful prayers of worship. Below is one of them:
"You are the Holy Lord God alone,
Who performs miracles,
You are great,
You are the highest,
You are the King almighty,
Holy Father,
King of heaven and earth.
Thou art in the Trinity alone
Lord God over gods,
You are the goodness of all goodness,
highest good
The Lord God alive and true.
You are love and loving
You are wisdom,
You are humility,
You are patience,
You are beauty,
Thou art graciousness,
You are safety,
You are the solace,
You are the joy,
You are our hope and joy,
You are justice,
You are gentleness,
Thou art fully all
our wealth,
You are beauty,
Thou art graciousness,
You are our keeper
You are our guardian and protector,
You are the power,
You are renewal.
You are our hope,
You are our faith,
You are our love,
You are our entire sweetness,
You are our eternal life
The great and foreboding Lord,
God almighty, merciful,
Savior."
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