Worship That Pleases God ~ Day 13 ~ Part 2

This is the second part of "Worship that Pleases God ~ Day 13". In this lesson we will provide the last two characteristics of worship that pleases God.

God is pleased when our worship is thoughtful.

Just as God wants us to use our hearts and feel our prayers, He wants us to use our minds. God is not pleased when we just go through our prayers without a thought. If worship is mindless, it is meaningless. In Matthew 6:7, Jesus called thoughtless worship "vain repetitions". 

We want to honor God by putting a special effort in our prayers. God wants us to be specific in our prayers. He knows what we need; He knows what we praise Him for; but He wants to hear us pray it back to Him.  Just as we might know how a friend is feeling or what they are going through, we would still like to hear it from them. We want to share in their sorrow and in their good times. So to, God wants to be involved in our lives. He also wants to hear His word prayed back to Worship Him.  He loves to know that we read His word constantly; that we hide His word in our hearts.


God is pleased when our worship is practical.

In eternity, we will receive a new and improved body. However, while we're here on earth, our bodies in which we reside are very limited. In spite of this, the Bible says, "Offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship" (Romans 12:1). God knows that we are limited, but He wants all that we have. He is being practical; he knows that we are restricted by our bodies.  To offer ourselves as living sacrifices, is to live for Him (2 Samuel 24:24).

If we live for him, we no longer live for self. So correct worship costs us are self-centeredness. Our focus is now on God instead of self. This is what it means to die to yourself daily. We are to praise God always; when we first wake up in the morning, when we see the day, when we are sick, when we are well, always.

Point To Ponder:

God wants all of me.

Verse To Remember:

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength" (Mark 12:30).

Question To Consider:

Which is more pleasing to God right now – my public worship or my private worship? What will I do about this?