WHY DO WE WORSHIP GOD?
YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND HIM ONLY SHALL YOU SERVE. MATTHEW 4:10
O COME, LET US WORSHIP AND BOW DOWN: LET US KNEEL BEFORE THE LORD OUR MAKER PS 95:6
FOR ALL NATIONS SHALL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE THEE REV 15:4
HOW SHOULD WE WORSHIP GOD?
BUT THE HOUSE COMES, AND NOW IS, WHEN THE TRUE WORSHIPERS SHALL WORSHIP THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH: FOR THE FATHER SEEKS SUCH TO WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH JOHN 4:23-24
FOR WE ARE THE CIRCUMCISION, WHICH WORSHIP GOD IN THE SPIRIT, AND REJOICE IN CHRIST JESUS AND HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH PHILIPPIANS 3:3
O WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS PSALMS 96:9
WHY DO WE STAND TO SING?
AND THE LEVITES . . . STOOD UP TO PRAISE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL WITH A LOUD VOICE ON HIGH 11 CHRONICLES 20:19
AFTER THIS I BEHELD, AND LO, A GREAT MULTITUDE, WHICH NO MAN COULD NUMBER, OF ALL NATIONS, AND KINDREDS, AND PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONS, AND KINDREDS, AND PEOPLE AND TONGUES, STOOD BEFORE THE THRONE AND THE LAMB, CLOTHE WITH WHITE ROBES, AND PALMS IN THEIR HANDS: AND CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, SALVATION TO OUR GOD WHICH SITS UPON THE THRONE AND UNTO THE LAMB. REVEVELATION 7:9,10
WHY DO WE CLAP OUT HANDS?
O CLAP YOUR HANDS, ALL YE PEOPLE, SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF TRIUMPH! PSALMS 47:1
WHY DO WE LIFT OUR HANDS?
THUS WILL I BLESS THEE WHILE I LIVE. I WILL LIFT UP MY HANDS IN THY NAME. PS 63:4
LIFT UP YOUR HANDS IN THE SANITARY, AND BLESS THE LORD PSALMS 134:2
I WILL THEREFORE THAT MEN PRAY EVERYWHERE, LIFTING UP
HOLY HANDS, WITHOUT WRATH AND DOUBTING 1 TIMOTHY 2:8
WHY DO WE HAVE AUDIBLE PRAISE UNTO GOD?
BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL: AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME, BLESS HIS HOLY NAME PSALMS 103:1
BY HIM THEREFORE LET US OFFER THE SACRIFICE OF PRAISE TO GOD CONTINUALLY, THAT IS, THE FRUIT OF OUT LIPS GIVING THANKS TO HIS NAME. HEBREWS 13:5
AND AFTER THESE THINGS I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OF MUCH PEOPLE IN HEAVEN, SAYING ALLELUIA; SALVATION, AND GLORY, AND HONOR, AND POWER UNTO THE LORD OUR GOD . . . AND I HEARD AS IT WERE THE VOICE OF A GREAT MULTITUDE, AND AS THE VOICE OF MIGHT THUNDERINGS, SAYING, ALLELUIA: FOR THE LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT REIGNS REVELATION 19:1,6
WHY DO WE DANCE BEFORE THE LORD?
PRAISE YE THE LORD. SING UNTO THE LORD A NEW SONG, AND HIS PRAISE IN THE CONGREGATION OF SAINTS. LET ISRAEL REJOICE IN THEIR KING. LET THEM PRAISE HIS NAME IN THE DANCE: LET THEM SING PRAISES UNTO THE TIMBREL AND HARP. PSALMS 149:1-3
WHY DO WE SING IN TONGUES AND IN ENGLISH?
FOR IS I PRAY IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, MY SPIRIT PRAYS, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IN UNFRUITFUL. WHAT IS IT THEN I WILL PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT, AND I WILL PRAY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO: I WILL SING WITH SPIRIT, AND I WILL SING WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO. 1 COR 14:14-15
WHY DO WE PRAY WITH LAYING ON OF THE HANDS AND ANOINTING WITH OIL?
THEY SHALL LAY HANDS ON THE SICK, AND THEY SHALL RECOVER MARK 16;18
IS ANY SICK AMONG YOU? LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH: AND LET THEM PRAY OVER HIM, ANOINTING HIM WITH OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JAMES 5:14
WHY DO WE HAVE SPEAKING IN UNKNOWN TONGUES AND TH INTERPRETATION IN THE CHURCH?
WHEREFORE, BRETHREN, COVET TO PROPHESY, AND FORBID NOT TO SPEAK WITH TONGUES 1 CORINTHIANS 14:39
BUT THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SPIRIT IS GIVEN TO EVERY MAN TO PROFIT WITHAL . . . TO ANOTHER DIVERS KIND OF TONGUES: TO ANOTHER THE INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES 1 CORINTHIANS 12: 7& 10
I WOULD THAT YE ALL SPAKE WITH TONGUES BUT THAT PROPHESIES THAN THE THAT SPEAKS WITH TONGUES, EXCEPT HE INTERPRET, THAT THE CHURCH MAY RECEIVE EDIFYING 1 CORINTHIANS 14:5
IF ANY MAN SPEAK IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, LET IT BE BY TWO, OR AT THE MOST THREE, AND THAT BY COURSE, AND LET ON INTERPRET 1 CORINTHIANS 14;27
WHY DO WE PROPHESY?
BUT HE THAT PROPHESIES SPEAKS UNTO MEN TO EDIFICATION, AND EXHORTATION, AND COMFORT 1 CORINTHIANS 14:3
FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY, AND DESIRE SPIRITUAL GIFTS, BUT RATHER THAT YE MAY PROPHESY 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1
WHY ARE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS A PART OF THE WORSHIP SERVICE?
PRAISE HIM WITH THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET: PRAISE HIM WITH THE PSALTERY AND HARP. PRAISE HIM WITH THE TIMBREL AND DANCE. PRAISE HIM WITH THE STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND ORGANS. PRAISE HIM UPON THE LOUD CYMBALS. PRAISE HIM UPON THE HIGH SOUNDING CYMBALS. PSALMS 150:3-5
WHY DOES THE WHOLE CHURCH PRAY AT ONCE FOR SPECIFIC NEEDS?
AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT , THEY LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE TO GOD WITH ONE ACCORD, AND SAID, LORD THOU ART GOD, WHICH HAST MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH . . . ACTS 4:24
