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How We Worship

WorshipComes actually from God's word and in facts it is not set up by a person but by God himself through his inspired word. For instance, the singing of psalms and the praising are all taken from the book of Psalms. Also the ways of worshipping are all the Apostle's ways. Now let's answer some of the questions that hits the mind of some people so that you may enjoy the true worshipping that is full of warmth due to God's presence and his power to change, To deliver and to heal during our prayer meetings.

This subject is presented here under the form of questions and answers as follows:

1. Why are we praising God through singing of psalms during our spiritual meetings?

Because the Holy Bible is commanding us by saying: "Do not get drunk on wine which leads to debauchery, instead be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord" ( colossians 3:16)

2. Why are we using different kinds of musical instruments during worshipping?

God loves it and rejoice while we're using musical instruments during singing praising and worshiping. If God of the Old Testament loves it back then he might as well loves it now after salvation and commands us to use musical instruments to praise him. In the book of Revelations we read about the musicians and singers in Heavens. "Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet praise him with the harp and lyre praise him with tambourine and dancing praise him with the strings and flute praise him with the clash of cymbals praise with resounding cymbals let everything that has breath praise the Lord " (psalms 150:3-6)

David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps and on psalteries and in timbrels and in cornets and in cymbals And David danced before the Lord with all his might and David was girded with a linen ephod (2 Samuel 6:5-14) "I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps and they sung as it were a new song before the throne" To rejoice in the Lord and before the lord is the peak of humility and submission to his presence. Listen to what King David said to his wife Michal when she saw him dancing before the Lord with shouts and the sound of musicians "I will play before the Lord I will become even more undignified than this and I will be humiliated in my own eyes" (2 Samuel 6:21-22)

3. Why do we raise our hands during worshipping?

Because the Scriptures is teaching us to worship God in Spirit and Truth (John 4:24) "Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice" (Psalms 141:2) "Thus will I bless thee while I live I will lift up my hands in thy name" (Psalms 63:4) "I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer without anger or disputing" (1 Timothy 2:8) Check also (1 Kings 8:22; Luke 24:50)

4. Why do we clap by hands during singing to the Lord?

Because God has commanded us to do so as it glorifies him lifts him up and exalts him and this is one of the main goals in worshiping God. "Clap your hands all you nations shout to God with cries of joy. How awesome is the Lord most High the great King over all the earth" (Ps 55:12) "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all the earth make a loud noise and rejoice and sing praise let the rivers clap their hands let the mountains sing together for joy" (Ps 98:4-8)

5. Why we do pray out loud as a church?

The church during the time of the Apostles used to lift up voices in their prayers to God in one accord. "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 and the sea and all that in them" (Acts 4:24)

6. Why do we pray over sick people and lay hands on them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord?

"And these signs shall follow them that believe. they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover" (Mark16:17-18) "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. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up" (James 5;14-15)

7. Why do we collect tithe and offers during our spiritual meetings?

Because this is how we express our thanks and our worship to the Lord. Also giving the tithes to our local church to which we belong and from which we are spiritually fed is an essential matter to acquire material and spiritual blessings from the Lord otherwise we're getting curses as we are robbing God and his works (Malachi 3:7-12; Matthiew 23:23)

(Malachi 3:10) "Bring the whole tithe unto the storehouse that there may be food in my house, test me in this says the Lord Almighty and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it"

(1Corinth 16:1-2) "Now about the collection for God's people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. On the first day of every week each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income saving it up so that when I come no collections will have to be made"

8. Why do certain people talk in unknown tongues and others got the interpretation of tongues?


Because the Bible says:

"And these signs will accompany those who believe in my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues" (Mark 16:17)

"Now to each one the manifestation of the spirit is given for the common good to another speaking in different kinds of tongues " (1Corinth12:7-10)

"Therefore, my brothers, be eager to prophesy and do not forbid speaking in tongues" (1Corinth14:39)

"If anyone speaks in a tongue two or at the most three should speak, one at time and someone must interpret" (1Corinth 14:27).

 


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