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How We Worship
We May Stand When We Sing. "And the Levites,...of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high." 2 Chronicles 20:19
We May Clap Our Hands. "0 clap your hands all you people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph." Psalms 47:1
We May Lift Our Hands. "Thus will I bless You while I live: I will lift up my hands in Your name." Psalms 63:4 "Lift up your hands in the sanctuary 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
We May Have Vocal Praise To God. "I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth." Psalms 34:1 "And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God..." Acts 4:24
We May Have Musical Instruments And Dance. "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 stringed instruments and organs. Praise Him upon the loud cymbals: Praise Him upon the high sounding cymbals." Psalms 150:3-5
We May Pray Or Sing In Tongues And our natural languages. "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also." 1 Corinthians 14:14-15
We May Worship In The Spirit. "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth for the Father seeks such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in 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
We May Sing Choruses As Well As Hymns. "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns, and Spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Ephesians 5:18-19 "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns, and Spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Colossians 3:16
We May Have Prophecy. "Follow after charity, and desire Spiritual Gifts, but rather that you may prophesy." 1 Corinthians 14:1 "... The Lord God has spoken, who can but prophesy?" Amos 3:8 "But he that prophesies speaks to men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort." 1 Corinthians 14:3 "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal... To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy." 1 Corinthians 12:7,10 "For you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be comforted." 1 Corinthians 14:31 "Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge." 1 Corinthians 14:29
We May Have Speaking With Tongues And Interpretation Of Those Tongues. "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 kinds of tongues: to another the interpretation of tongues." 1 Corinthians 12:7,10 "I would that you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you prophesied: for greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, except he that interpret, that the church may receive edifying." I Corinthians 14:5 "If any man speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course, and let one interpret." 1 Corinthians 14:27 Colossians 3:16
We May Have 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
We May Anoint With Oil And Pray For The Sick. "Is there 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 offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him." James 5:14,15
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