Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the spirit and in truth.

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JOHN 4:23-24

ATTITUDES OF WORSHIP

LAUGHING &

SINGING MOUTH

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PSALMS 126:2 Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy.

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PSALMS 89:1 I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth, I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.

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PSALMS 105:2 Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.

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PSALMS 98:1 Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

BOWED KNEES & PROSTRATED FACE & BOWED HEAD

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PSALMS 95:6: Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;

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1 KINGS 18:39: When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The Lord—he is God! The Lord—he is God!

REVELATION 11:16-17: And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God.

NEHEMIAH 8:6: Ezra praised the Lord, the great God; and all the people lifted their hands and responded, “Amen! Amen!” Then they bowed down and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

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2 CHRONICLES 29:30 King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down their head and worshiped.

RAISED HANDS

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LAMENTATION 3:41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say…

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PSALMS 134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord.

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1 TIMOTHY 2:8 Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

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PSALM 141:2 May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice

CLAP OUR HANDS

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PSALMS 47:1 - Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.

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PSALMS 98:7-8 Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy;

SING & SHOUT FOR JOY

A JUBILANT VOICE

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PSALMS 95:1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

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PSALMS 98:4-5 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing.

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PSALMS 100:1-3 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God.

A DANCING BODY

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PSALMS 149:3 Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with a tambourine and harp.

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2 SAMUEL 6:14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might, and David was girded with a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

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EXODUS 15:20 Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.