{"id":1905,"date":"2021-09-05T10:34:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2021-09-14T09:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T14:13:34","slug":"things-god-loves-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"Things God Loves: Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9-5-21.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The OT Hebrew word for worship is shachah (shaw-khaw&#8217;): to bow down.  <br> Genesis 24:26-27 <br> Genesis 24:52<br> The NT Greek word for worship is proskune\u00f3 (pros-koo-neh&#8217;-o): to do reverence to <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can\u2019t contain Him. Isn\u2019t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?\u201d ~Francis Chan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God deserves our worship.<br> God doesn\u2019t need our worship.  <br> Job 41:11 <br> Psalm 50:10-12 <br> Psalm 89:11 <br> Acts 17:24-25 <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God doesn&#8217;t need our worship. (But He wants it anyway!)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 4:23 <br> When we bow ourselves in worship, He knows our hearts belong to him.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br> \u201cWorship is an act of war against the enemy of our hearts.\u201d  ~Holly Gerth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worship is Powerful<br> Acts 16:25-26 <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cWorship is more than singing. It\u2019s more than just lyrics to a song. Worship is standing in the presence of God and declaring praises to His name.\u201d ~Unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9-5-21.mp3\">Things God Loves: Worship<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9-5-21.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OT Hebrew word for worship is shachah (shaw-khaw&#8217;): to bow down. Genesis 24:26-27 Genesis 24:52 The NT Greek word for worship is proskune\u00f3 (pros-koo-neh&#8217;-o): to do reverence to &#8220;Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=1905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things God Loves: Worship<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-god-loves","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}