# Private Worship

## Metadata
- Author: [[Nancy Missler]]
- Full Title: Private Worship
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- This means that without worship (without being in His presence) we will have no joy, and without joy we will have no strength. Our life’s blood will dry up—we will wither and die spiritually. ([Location 266](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=266))
- This is why Tozer, in the quote on the first page, intimated that learning to worship the Lord is the most important thing a Christian can do. It’s the key to His presence and, thus, to our happiness. ([Location 270](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=270))
- George Barna, the famous author and statistician, says, “Virtually every church in the nation provides opportunities for worship, yet, we rarely really worship God. Most Christians admit they seldom feel like they have connected with Him.” ([Location 313](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=313))
- The goal and purpose of worship is to magnify, exalt, love and adore the only true God, Jesus Christ. Worship is simply a prayer of relationship in which the “created” lauds and magnifies the “Creator.” ([Location 369](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=369))
- if the body of Christ was really taught how to genuinely worship, it would revolutionize the Church! ([Location 383](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=383))
- It’s interesting to note that prior to Moses’ revelation of God’s glory on Mt. Sinai, he prayed, interceded, wept and pleaded with God, but he never worshiped. Exodus 34:8 is the first mention of him worshiping the Lord. ([Location 387](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=387))
- Worship is not simply an act of our willpower but an all-consuming yearning in our spirit, as well as an overflowing of our emotions of gratitude and love. ([Location 391](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=391))
- Our external act of prostration simply denotes our inward attitude of humility and submission to His will. ([Location 398](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=398))
- As I wearied myself through seven long years of waiting, God finally showed me my sin: His promise had become more important than His Presence! ([Location 404](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=404))
- The triumph of faith is seen just as much in the bearing of a temporary defeat, as it is in the securing of a victory. Overcomers are the ones who, in faith and love, find their way into the Holy Place and experience an intimacy with the Lord they never thought possible. ([Location 419](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=419))
- We cannot go from the covering of the Lord to communion with the Lord, without first experiencing the cleansing of the Lord and the consecration of the Lord. ([Location 454](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=454))
- The Lord is telling us here that the only ones permitted to worship Him are those with a cleansed soul and a purified spirit. ([Location 458](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=458))
- Dr. R. A. Torrey, the great author and evangelist, testified that transformation came into his experience only when he “learned not only to give thanks [praise] to the Lord, but [also] to worship Him, asking nothing from Him, occupied and satisfied with Him alone.”3 ([Location 494](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=494))
- we worship God only when we can truly enter His holy place and His presence. ([Location 498](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=498))
- As we have seen, this only occurs when we are clean and holy. In other words, praise can be soulish (it can be done when we are in the “flesh”), whereas worship can only be done in the “spirit.” ([Location 499](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=499))
- Another difference between the two is that praise is often seen, whereas worship is secret—only God knows who the true worshipers are. ([Location 500](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=500))
- Remember Psalm 24:3-4, “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His Holy Place? He who hath clean hands [or soul] and a pure heart [or spirit].” ([Location 512](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=512))
- The definition for passion is extreme suffering. ([Location 534](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=534))
- David Wilkerson defines the term surrender as “giving up or relinquishing something to another that is granted to you.” To me, this is a perfect definition. When God calls us to surrender all to Him, He is simply asking us to give back to Him the life that He granted us in the first place. ([Location 576](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=576))
- The Levites were commissioned not only to guard all the temple gates, but also to sing a new song each day. Sunday they sang Psalm 24; Monday, Psalm 48; Tuesday, Psalm 82; Wednesday, Psalm 94; Thursday, Psalm 81; Friday, Psalm 93; and Saturday, Psalm 92. ([Location 681](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0087HI55K&location=681))