True & Proper Worship!

True & Proper Worship!
- Pastor Ashish Mathews

Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

Let me ask you, when you hear the word worship, what comes to your mind? Is it something that happens every Sunday? Is it clapping, dancing or singing? What is true and prosper worship?

This verse gives us a powerful aspect of worship. True and proper worship is to offer your body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. Unless you give your body to the Lord, anything else you do - be it clapping, dancing, shouting and giving - will not benefit you. Believer, your body is not yours, your body belongs to the Lord for He has purchased it with His own blood. Be conscious, you live in a body that doesn't belong to you. Therefore be all the more eager to present it to God in way that is holy and well pleasing to Him. Your body is the temple of God because the Holy Spirit dwells in you. Consecrate and dedicate every member and faculty of your body to the Lord. Give your body to the Lord - that's the biggest offering. Say, " The body I live in doesn't belong to me, doesn't belong to sin, doesn't belong to the world. It belongs to Jesus for He has purchased my body with His own blood. Therefore I offer my body to Him by living a holy life and a life that is well pleasing to Him. This is my true and proper worship". Worship is a lifestyle, you live in worship and therefore you offer your bodies to the Lord every moment and every day of your life as long as you live.

Friend, as you give your body to the Lord, He will work wonders through you. Become a vessel of gold in hands of the Master, useful for Him and prepared for every good work by offering your bodies to the Lord. This is the greatest act of worship. This is the greatest act of service. All throughout the Bible, you will see the heroes of faith offering their bodies to God in private and in public and God used them to shake nations and to change the course of history. Won't you enroll yourself in the army of the Lord and offer your bodies to Jesus, your Commander in Chief so He can use you to shake the nations of the world? Go on with Jesus! Nothing else matters!