Praise the Lord Church. Today's Church Service is all about when we let our emotions dictate
our worship. Our very first scripture today is John chapter 4 verse 24 and it says, God
is spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. So what is emotional
worship? Well it is when worship is less focused on Jesus and more focused on how we feel. It's
more focused on me and what I'm going through than God and who He is. We also don't feel the Holy
Spirit but it's deeper than a feeling. We experience Him. We don't feel Him. To worship in spirit
means to put away with our emotions. God wants us to worship in spirits because our feelings
change like the weather and we may not always feel like worshiping and that's when your flesh tries
to go against your spirit. The spirit wants to do what God wants us to do but the flesh wants to
do the opposite. But when we decide to not have emotional worship and when we decide to have worship
focused on Jesus then we're tapping into our spirit and that's how we worship Him in spirit and in
truth. Our second scripture today is James chapter 5 verse 13 and it says, is anyone among you
suffering? Let Him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let Him sing praise. So we also have to tackle the
question what to do when you don't feel like worshiping. Well many scriptures in the Bible talk
about praying in all circumstances and worshiping in all circumstances but why does the Bible make
an emphasis on this? Well prayer leads us to look at God and not our circumstance or our emotions.
Take Paul and Silas. When they were thrown in prison they started singing praises to God and
worshiping Him. How could they do that when they were changed in a dirty prison? Well they decided
to focus on God and not their situation and when they decided to focus on God, God changed their
perspective and then God changed their situation and made the whole prison shake and the doors
flew wide open. But we look at the story and what I just talked about and you might think why did
God even give us emotions to begin with? When we feel badly inside God wants us wants this to lead
us to Him. When we feel any type of emotion He wants our emotions to lead us to Him rather than
let our emotions lead our lives. God wants to be the leader of our lives and He uses our emotions
to try and get us to our needs but when we start to listen to our emotions we start to become people
who are very double-minded and people who nobody can rely on and when we start to follow our emotions
we start to rely on ourselves but we can't rely on ourselves we have to rely on God which is what
worship is all about giving everything back to God. In Matthew chapter 15 verse 8 it says this
people honors me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. This scripture really makes you
think it makes you think about what's on the inside and how we should let the outside reflect
what is on the inside. If there's bad and on the inside if there's evil on the inside then we're
gonna do evil things on the outside we are not going to represent Christ but if there's good on
the inside then we should be showing Jesus on the outside and when we worship it should be an
expression of our honor and humility unto the Lord. Jesus also wants our hearts and He wants us to
be devoted to Him as He is to us. When our hearts are far from Him then what we speak is an anointed
by the Holy Spirit but it's just intellect which brings me into our points. One when we let our
emotions lead our worship our worship becomes meaningless. Yes you heard me meaningless it
doesn't have any effect it doesn't even get to heaven because we are so focused on ourselves
instead of being focused on the Lord and two we need to always give God our first our best and
our all even when we don't feel like it because when we make it through those tests we become
stronger. Three let your praise be from the Spirit and from the heart worship in truth. When I say
the heart I don't mean your physical heart because that's following your emotions I mean the
spiritual heart the one that the Holy Spirit has filled because when we do that we worship in truth.
So if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ then this message will help you but if
you don't have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ then I invite you to give your heart to
the Lord today. To receive Him into your heart go to Romans 10 9 through 10 it says that if you
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the
dead you will be saved for with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. If you said this prayer with sincerity you are saved and now
have eternal life with Jesus. You are saved from all your sins past present and future sins you may
commit. This truth is not a free past this in any time instead Jesus gives you power over all
wrong choices and empowers you to spread the gospel to others. You are saved forever and your name
is written in the book of life.