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True Worship IV

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Relationship Vs Prayer Without a relationship with God all prayers recited are lip service and idol worship. When one enters into a relationship with God, one becomes a transformed person inside out. One’s behaviour changes. Speech changes. Thought process changes. One becomes a new creation for the relationship causes the changes. Love is Worship God believes in a relationship. The very first and foremost commandment without any ambiguity commands us, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ Matt 22:37.  It does not say worship the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. For, love itself is the highest and the ultimate and the complete form of worship. Let us visualise the scene in the Garden of Eden. God and Adam were walking in the garden in the cool of the day. It was customary I believe. Adam did not kneel down and chanted a litany or sang a hymn. Thanks Heaven there was n...

True Worship Part III

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  Love and Adoration In the last blog we have seen that the true worship is doing the will of God. In order to kow the will of the Father, one has to develop a true and genuine relatiohsip with God. Admire him with reverance.  "O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth" (KJV).  Worship, in general, has two factors: Reverence that is love and Adoration. Adoration means experiencing the love of God with a wow feeling. In most of our prayers, we miss out this wow feeling because our soul is very dry and parched and devoid of love. Without love, there is no worship at all.  Worship is part of Love In Mark 12: 28-33 One of the teachers of the law asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘ Hear, O my people, The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all you...