{"id":24209,"date":"2020-02-02T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T17:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24209"},"modified":"2020-02-02T18:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T17:54:29","slug":"true-worship-a-matter-of-the-heart-not-just-lips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24209","title":{"rendered":"True Worship: A matter of the heart, not just lips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Sam Kputu<\/strong><br \/>\nWe had just come out a &#8216;worship extravaganza&#8217;, hours of high tempo and roof-blowing singing and stumping &#8211; unto the Lord. Then the unexpected happened, one of the guests runs into the car of the &#8216;worship leader&#8217;s as she made\u00a0 to\u00a0 pull out of the car park.<br \/>\nHell was let loose,\u00a0 the shouts, the curses. All attempts to calm things down were rudely rebuffed. How could people so easily transit from &#8216;worship&#8217;\u00a0 to war? Was it a mere performance?<br \/>\nOur generation loves worship, But true worship is scarce. True worship is not so much the singing or dancing; It is the surrender of our wills and all to God; honoring Him as Father and Lord [Rom. 12:1; Malachi1:6]<br \/>\nOur\u00a0God is never desperate.\u00a0He is EL-SHADDAI, sufficient in Himself and by Himself. Whatever we bring to Him, including our worship, must meet His standard or miss His blessing.<br \/>\n&#8220;For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.\u201d &#8211; John 4:24 NLT<br \/>\n<strong>\u25aa Kputu is the International Director of Calvary Ministries (CAPRO), and lives in Lagos.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Kputu We had just come out a &#8216;worship extravaganza&#8217;, hours of high tempo and roof-blowing singing and stumping &#8211; unto the Lord. Then the unexpected happened, one of the guests runs into the car of the &#8216;worship leader&#8217;s as she made\u00a0 to\u00a0 pull out of the car park. Hell was let loose,\u00a0 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[908,909],"class_list":["post-24209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","tag-heart","tag-lips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}