Did you ever wonder where the Bible says to bow your heads? Bowing causes us to face the ground and is a show of humility and respect. Psalm 95:6 states, “Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.” God is worthy of our humble respect because He created us and loves us. I have seen people so overcome with emotions that they lay face down on the floor as they worship God and make their petitions. There are many ways to worship God: singing, dancing, lifting hands, kneeling, and joyful shouting. However you desire to worship, it needs to be done in reverence.
Nehemiah 8:6 states, “Then Ezra blessed the Lord the great God. And all the people answered, “Amen, Amen!” while lifting up their hands; then they bowed low and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.”
Nehemiah was written after the 70-year Babylonian captivity ended and many Israelites returned to Jerusalem. Ezra was appointed High Priest. Since the people forgot the law, Ezra read it to them. When they heard it, they were humbled and mourned their sinful behavior. Nehemiah encouraged them to rejoice because this day was holy, and that the joy of the Lord was their strength (8:10).
So, bowing our heads in worship and prayer symbolizes humble repentance and submission to God’s will for the requests we ask with thanksgiving. As you worship God this week, seek God to search your mind and heart to reveal sins you need to repent of. Ask Him to show you how you are not loving Him with your whole heart, mind, and soul and not loving others. When you repent, then you can worship with a pure heart,
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WEEK 33 –August 13-August 19
Day 225-Aug. 13—Worship God because He gives you strength and power to endure.
Being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy. –Colossians 1:11
Day 226-Aug. 14—Worship God for qualifying you to inherit eternal life.
Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. –Colossians 1:12
Day 227-Aug. 15—Worship God for transferring you from darkness to His kingdom.
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. –Colossians 1:13-14
Day 228-Aug. 16—Worship God for reconciling us to Himself and seeing you as holy and blameless.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. –Colossians 1:21-23
Day 229-Aug. 17—Worship God for making us complete in Him.
For in him, the whole fullness of deity (Godhead) dwells bodily, and you have been filled (made complete) in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. –Colossians 2:9-10
Day 230-Aug. 18—Worship God for canceling your record of debt (sins).
Canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. –Colossians 2:14
Day 231-Aug. 19—Worship God for disarming the demonic rulers and authorities.
He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. –Colossians 2:15
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Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
1 Peter 5:6,7
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And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
Luke 22:40,41
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