Day 6 - Week 32 - Revelation 4:11 "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."

Worship is the gyroscope of the soul  A person without personal patterns of worship is like a ship or an airplane without any stabilization or direction.  When we worship, we are aligning our minds to God's truth, our imagination to God's glory, our emotions to God's stability, and our souls to God's songs.  When we worship, we are approaching a glorious throne, joining an eternal chorus, praising a triune God, and glorifying a worthy Lord, saying, "You are worthy, our Lord  and God, to receive glory, and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they were created and have their being." - Robert J. Morgan

What is your personal pattern of worship?  I think that is a very pertinent question for each believer.  To be honest, I haven't really thought about my "pattern of worship" before, I have more often felt that my worship was spontaneous, when my appreciation of God and His majesty were so overflowing that I just had to express it in someway.  Or, on the flip side, my other style of worship was totally non-spontaneous---following the "Worship Service" program as written down in the church bulletin and worshipping God corporately with other believers in a very prescribed manner.

I'm not going to chastise myself for either of those modes of worship - I think they are both valid and valuable to me in my walk of faith and my relationship with God.  But what I just realized is that we also need an intentional "pattern of worship" in our daily lives so that even when things are not bringing to mind how wonderfully worthy our God is of our worship, we do it anyway!  For whether I am feeling worshipful or not, God is totally worthy of my worship.  And when I begin my time with Him worshipping Him, praising Him with words of adoration, my heart becomes alive with the awareness of just how amazing it is that I, me, Janice Roeckeman Hodges, can come before the Lord of the universe and give Him glory and honor....and that, most amazingly of all, He cares to receive it!  I think that's sometimes what we have the hardest time believing...that our worship of God matters to Him. 

When I read David's words in 1 Chronicles 16, they impress upon me a heart of worship, and the words are those that I can use in establishing a beautiful "pattern of worship" of my own!

 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him! Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!" Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise. Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!"   Then all the people said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD.

 AMEN!  Now let's praise the Lord!  In word and in lifestyles, let us bring our praise to Him...for He is worthy!