In a true adoration and praise to our Lord we reflect with our life our love for Him. And it is that when we really know his presence our life becomes sacrifices and works to please Him, and that is love.
1 John 4:19 tells us that: “We love him, because he first loved us”, from the day we experience his love, there is nothing that fills our hearts more than making our Father smile.
Praise
Praise is understood as the action of celebrating with our own words something positive that makes our souls happy. For this fundamental reason, our praises are affirmations that exalt the power, the value, the virtue and the majesty of God. When praising we take the priority of describing, thanking and celebrating our Eternal God and his wonderful works, through songs, poems and prayers of fragrant smell to Him.
Worship
Worship is understood as a human instinct and spiritually necessary in every being. In a nutshell, worship is esteeming or honoring God with complete devotion. For adoration is the state of our spirit that implies the shock and humiliation of ourselves before God. By worshiping in spirit and in truth, your being is given to God, faithfully placing yourself at his disposal and fulfilling what was our main reason for being, creatures with God’s DNA who honored the Eternal Father.
praise in scripture
In the Hebrew language, the word “praise” comes from “להלל lehalel”, which actively means an act of Celebration to the Glory of something someone.
Praise is an act of exaltation to our Lord Jesus, and it is pleasing before Him. Praising also demands the surrender of our heart (Psalms 9:1 “I will praise you, O Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders”); The word “praise” in Hebrew means: praise, give thanks or confess, it also means honor and praise, so a heart delivered to Him in gratitude, that is, a grateful heart even in the midst of difficulties is an act of praise to God (Psalms 100:4 “Enter his gates with thanksgiving; come into his courts with hymns of praise; give thanks, praise his name”).
Our Lord is the only one worthy of praise (Psalms 96:4 “For great is the Lord, and worthy of supreme praise; fearsome above all gods”); (Revelation 5:12 “who said with a loud voice: The Lamb that was slain is worthy to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and praise”).
worship in scripture
The meaning of the Greek word worship (proskuneo) includes “prostrate before” or kneel before “.
John 4:23-24 tells us that the Lord seeks true worshipers who worship Him in spirit and in truth, this means that the true worship of HIM originates within our hearts. Many people believe that to worship God is to go to church, raise our hands and worship with our mouths, when the Lord really seeks humble hearts before his presence, a heart that exalts him is a pleasant perfume towards Him. Our daily living has to be a constant adoration, because everything we feel in our hearts was part of our thoughts and that is what defines our daily actions, that is, our life, acts, (our living together) reflects if we are really worshiping him in spirit and in TRUE.
Our acts/actions (the external) reflect what is inside our heart (the internal), and the beginning of all this has to be love. Because God is not interested in masks: 1 John 4:11 “Love be without pretense. Hate the bad, follow the good” and this leads us to what I emphasized at the beginning, when we love him we always seek that our lives are pleasing to God and the Fear of God flows, Psalms 96:9 expresses “Worship Jehovah in the beauty of holiness; Fear before Him, all the earth”, let’s observe in John 14:15 that the Lord tells us “If you love me, keep my commandments”, He shows us that the formula of good works is love.
Similarity Between Praise and Worship
The similarity between praise and adoration denotes the act of surrendering and exalting God, primarily with our spirit, from our thoughts. Glorifying him with our lives regardless of their state, just to please him and please him, God.
Admiration and gratitude are present in both models of surrender to God, because both the one who praises and the one who worships prostrates himself in joy for his works, and thanks the goodness of his God, with complete surrender and obedience.
Differences Between Praise and Worship
the praise It is the act of complete gratitude for everything that our Father works in our lives, when we praise God with our spirit, we grant him the position that corresponds to him, filling him with all glory and honor through our lives.
the praise it is based on admiration and glorification, through the affirmations that we declare with words, praying, singing and even writing.
The adoration it is the profound encounter with God, the complete encounter with his Spirit. Through her we can find God, embrace him and rest in his divine presence.
The adoration it is based on a lifestyle that perpetuates our being and begins at the bottom of our heart, to keep it there, even without saying a word. It is a spiritual state that characterizes seekers of the presence of God in their lives.
Importance of praise and worship
Worship and Praise they are important for the life of the Christian (servant of God) in intimacy with the Lord. We have been called to fellowship with our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 1:9) and praising him as well as adoring him is part of that fellowship and intimacy. By putting these actions into action we managed to paint a sincere smile on the face of God, and more than our objective, that is our main purpose in life.
Prayer to Become a Worshiper in Spirit and in Truth
Next I invite you to declare with your mouth and in faith the following words to become a Worshiper in Spirit and in Truth:
Eternal Father, first of all I want to thank you, I want to thank you and I want to honor you for everything. I want to honor you for everything you have done in my life. I want to bless you, I want to praise you, I want you to put in me a sincere sense of admiration, that allows me to understand and value your power, describe your infinite love, and thus be able to praise you through poems, prayers, songs, so that everything that comes out of my mouth, and everything that goes through my thoughts, can be a fragrant smell for you, to your liking. I beg you to put in me this sense of worshiper, to plant in me a true devotion, teach me to humble myself, and thus be able to adore you with my heart. I ask you today, God, to make me a worshiper in spirit and in truth. And give me the tools to be able to adore you with my life, praise you with my thoughts and reflect the face of Jesus Christ at all times.
In the mighty name of Jesus, amen.