Chapter One
What is worship?
According to Meriam Webster, worship is either a verb or a noun. The verb worship isto regard with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion for example, a celebrity worshipped by herfans.
The noun worship isextravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem for example, worship of the dollar. Now let us look at the Bible references for worship in Hebrew andGreek.
Worship is when we give our entire being (spirit, soul and body) to God. The Hebrew word for worship according to Strong’s concordance isshachah which means to depress oneself, that is, prostrate (especially reflexively in homage to royalty or God);-bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make)) obeisance, do reverence, make tostoop.
In Greek, the wordlatreuo means to serve or to worship. Universally, to serve, minister to, either gods ormen.
Proskuneo which meansprostrate.
So, in our case, the WHO we are talking about worshiping here is the Almighty God. He is the object of our worship. Psalm 81:1-10 says, “Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you! O Israel, if you will listen to Me! There shall be no for