Embracing True Worship: Surrendering to Jesus as Lord

Do we really still confess Jesus as Lord in our lives?

Right in English, you have a saying: He is either Lord of all or he's not Lord at all. He's the Lord of everything in my life or he's not the Lord at all. Is he the master? Is he the king of your life?

Is that amazing? So this will help you to worship. Meditate on who he is and what he did for you. I love the gospels because I don't only see the names of God, but I see the person of Jesus. I see who he is towards other people, how loving he is. But I also see that he is a God of action. He is not a God that stands afar. I see the Holy Spirit and just lets us mess around and do not for my village, but he's closely involved in our lives.

Who is Jesus to me? He's my savior. He's my Lord. He's my master. He's my friend. He's the author and finisher of my faith. He is my advocate. He's the bridegroom. He's the head of the church. I said, "Hope on the cake, I expect him soon." He is my beginning and he is my end. I remember he is my bread of life.

He's the word of God. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Later, Jesus is the servant. Jesus is the Son of God. He is the King of Kings. He's altogether lovely, Allah, and worthy to be praised.

Who is he to you? Just ask yourself that. That's how you should worship him. Maybe you don't always know what to say, but then you start with a few words and then you start worshiping him in spirit. Worship is something that you do.

I mentioned this before, but years ago I had a vision. I had a lot of visions, but I remember this vision very clearly. This is one of the ones that I got very shortly after I was born again. I wasn't married yet, so the Lord showed me in this vision a large group of people, almost like a city square, filled with people who were tormented, that were bowed down.

In the middle of worship, I was the one that got up in that group of people and I said, "Lord, how do I worship?" And he answered, "Just do it. Do it at home. Just do it."

That was before Nike, but this is nice: just do it. Just do it at home. You're like, "I don't understand exactly." I didn't understand either, but I saw all these people that were bowed down in worship to God. I asked, "How do I worship you?" And he said, "Do it. You just worship."

You know what it is? You acknowledge that he is God. You acknowledge that he is Lord. You throw yourself down at his feet the same way that people in the New Testament did. They ultimately threw themselves down at the feet of Jesus. That is what worship means: throw yourself down at his feet and acknowledge him as your master.

You acknowledge him as your Lord. You acknowledge him as the love of your life. He is your first love. It's that simple. So simple. Don't make it more complicated. Worship is actually quite simple.

It's the same thing with praise. It's actually quite simple. It's ultimate, but as you start doing it, you will always learn how to do more. The reason why it's so hard for some people to worship is because it's hard for them to surrender their lives. They don't really want to throw themselves down, and they don't really want to acknowledge him as Lord.

They don't mind saying that he is Lord, but to really acknowledge that he is Lord, or the boss of their lives, that's a different level. So that's why the Bible says, right? It's not enough to just believe in Jesus because even demons believe. They are afraid, right?

So we need to believe, but we need to acknowledge him as the Lord of our life. Is he the Lord of your life, or are you still your own boss? Worship is not so hard, but it's the hardest thing in the world because it means you surrender your life over.

It's not just saying, "I just need to tell myself, 'Lord, you are mighty.'" It's not just saying, "Lord, you are beautiful." It's not just lifting your hands and singing pretty songs. It's bowing down at his feet. It's bowing down of your heart. That is saying, "Lord, you are in charge of my life."

What is worship? It's acknowledging that he is God and that you are not. We are the subjects, and he is the king. It means loving him at this level. It means expressing our emotions to him. That is also a motive. It means adoring him.

You can only worship God in the areas that you have a revelation of him. He needs to reveal himself to you. So in the beginning, you probably worship him as your savior, but from there, you will get to know him in so many different ways.

I worship him as my father. He's my heavenly father. He is my source. Everything I have, all I own, all I see for myself in the future, all of it is amazing that you can make this. Amen.

Hebrews 10 verse 22: "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water."

So let's draw near to God. We need to draw near to God. We should have times of worship, right? We should have times of worship not just in the church, but in our house. It's very good to start with praise and worship and then from there move to prayer and intercession.

It's not necessary, but it's helpful. But more than just our times of worship, we should realize that our lives should be a continuous worship. Worship becomes easier the more we know him and the more we realize that he is with us.

We need to be presence-conscious. Be conscious of his presence. So it helps when you just acknowledge it out loud.

Does it help? What I said when I used to have alarms on my phone? I didn't do tunics right, and every hour I would get a notification: "Practice his presence." I would take the time, "Yes, thank you, Lord, for your presence. Your presence is here doing good things. There's none like you that is in all the heavens and all the earth. There is none like you."

And then I would go on and do my work. It helped me to worship him throughout the whole day. Worship is more than singing. It's obedience.

You need to know his character. So that's why you go to the Word. Don't find the law in the Word, but find him in the Word. That's the secret of reading the Bible.

From the Bible, find Jesus in the Word of God. It's Jesus. What is his purpose? His purpose was to manifest himself. This is what Jesus also said. He was there to manifest the Father. He said, "If you know me, you know him."

So know Jesus because he is the Word of God made flesh. Go to the Word and then spend time with him. The more time you spend with him, the easier it is to worship. The easier it is to praise him.

Amen. Amen. Study who he really is. One of the first things that I did when I became a Christian was study the names of God. I had one guy that came to me because I talked to him about all the names of God.

He said, "I don't understand this. Why is this so important to you, all these Hebrew names?" A couple of weeks later, he came to me because we were singing a song. I don't remember which name, but it probably was Adonai or something else.

He said, "You're actually right because I didn't even know what I was singing." I said, "Yeah, you can sing Adonai, but you don't know what Adonai means."

Anything else to die, but you don't know what else to die because I'm not going to tell you today. So that could be a challenge for you to start reading up on this.

Did you know that what it means? He says, "I'm El Elyon." I'll just let that simmer right there. The more you know about God, the easier it is to worship him.

God is who he says that he is, and he reveals himself throughout the whole Bible. I opened by itself for doing the daily life.

That's why the Word of God is so powerful. A lot of times I hear people talk about the law, and it's not like the law is not important, but this is the revelation of God.

I did this to open bodies. It's not the revelation of the law. I just need to open bodies. It's the revelation of God. This is the open body. Through the law, you get to know him by obeying the law, by knowing why he wrote what he wrote. God.