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Day 6: True Worship, Part 2

Have you ever started crying while you were worshiping or even entered worship in tears? When we worship God in truth, we're bringing all of who we are to God and laying it at His feet. Worshiping, in truth, is a state of real vulnerability before God. We’re bringing our brokenness, our hurt, our mistakes, and every other imperfect thing and laying it all at His feet. We can cry and lay out before God and let our raw emotions loose in worship to Him.

To worship God in truth is not only worshiping Him from our spirits but also from our souls. So worshiping in Spirit and in truth encompasses all of us. It means that we worship God with everything within us. We do not have to shy away from worshiping God when we feel broken. In fact, God wants us to bring that brokenness to Him. When we come into God’s presence broken, we leave whole.

I can’t tell you how many times I went into God’s presence hurting and came out healed. When we go before God saying, “What I’m going through really hurts, and I can’t make it on my own. God, I know you can help me. You are all powerful. I give you this burden because I can’t carry it anymore.” Then you lay that thing down as a sacrifice to God. Do you know how great that makes God feel, for Him to know that you trust Him with your pain; and you trust Him to heal and restore you? It is what He desired all along.

So don’t think that your worship has to look a certain type of way. You just have to have a heart of faith and surrender towards God and reverence Him in His presence. All you have to do is bring the Holy Spirit and your truth.

Declare: I let my guard down in the presence of God. I also bring all the broken parts of me, and I lay them at His feet. He knows exactly what to do with them. I find healing and restoration in God’s presence when I bring my truth to Him in worship.

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