Is worship really necessary?

1. PASSION FOR WORSHIP
BY AIREEN MENDI

2. INITIAL OBSERVATION
A. There are different kinds of
passion

3. INITIAL OBSERVATION
B. Our passion for God and
passion for worship must be stronger
than any other passion in our life.
 We will automatically focus more and
spend more energy on whatever we
are passionate about.

4. INITIAL OBSERVATION
C. No one can determine your level of
passion but you.
 We choose what we want to be
passionate about and through our
thoughts, actions and words we shape
that passion in our lives.

5. I. SCRIPTURES AND
DEFINITIONI. Scriptures that Describe Passionate Worship
“ As the deer pants for the water brooks, so
pants my soul for You O God”
PSALM 42:1

6. SCRIPTURES AND
DEFINITIONI. Scriptures that Describe Passionate Worship
“ My flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land
where there is no water”
PSALM 63:1

7. I.SCRIPTURES AND
DEFINITIONI. Scriptures that Describe Passionate Worship
“ You’re all I want in heaven!
You are all I want on earth!
I desire no one but You!
PSALM 73:25

8. I. SCRIPTURES AND
DEFINITIONI. Scriptures that Describe Passionate Worship
“ How lovely is your dwelling place. O Lord of
Hosts! My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts
of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the
living God. For a day in your courts is better than a
thousands elsewhere
PSALM 84:1-2

9. I. SCRIPTURES AND
DEFINITIONB. Definition
Passion is defined as an intense emotional
excitement or the object of any strong desire.

10. I.SCRIPTURES AND
DEFINITIONB. Definition
1. To be passionate means to rely and operate
from your inner core, your heart, your soul.
2. To be passionate means to live with enthusiasm.
3. To be passionate for God means that every fiber
of our being is drawn to God and given to God.

11. II. PASSIONATE WORSHIP DESCRIBED
1. Passionate worship is enthusiastic.
2. Passionate worship is heartfelt.
3. Passionate worship involves the total person
4. Passionate worship is expressive and
unashamed

12. I rejoice with those who said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord”
Psalm 122:1

13. O God, you are my god, earnestly I seek
you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for
you, in a dry and weary land where there is no
water.
Psalm 63:1

14. David, wearing a linen ephod, dancing
before the LORD with all his might,
2 Samuel 6:14

15. II. PASSIONATE WORSHIP DESCRIBED
5. Passionate worship is overflowing
6. Passionate worship is life changing
7. Passionate worship is anointed by the Holy Spirit.

16. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
1.
LOVE GOD
FERVENTLY

17. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
1. LOVE GOD FERVENTLY
o Passion for worship goes deeper
when your soul loves God fervently
“Love the Lord your God with all your hert and with
all your soul and with all your mind.”
Matthew 22:37

18. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
1. LOVE GOD FERVENTLY
o Passionate worship flows from love.
o Where love is deep, worship will
overflow. Where love is meager,
worship will be scant.

19. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
2.
GET TO
KNOW HIM
DEEPLY

20. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
2. GET TO KNOW HIM DEEPLY
o Passion for worship goes deeper
when we get to know God more and
what He has done for us

21. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
2. GET TO KNOW HIM DEEPLY
o It goes without saying that we
cannot love someone we do not
know. Knowledge is the foundation
of a relationship.

22. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
2. GET TO KNOW HIM DEEPLY
o This is the eternal life, that they may
know You, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”
-John 17:3

23. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
3.
THIRST AND
HUNGER
FOR MORE

24. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
3. THIRST AND HUNGER FOR MORE
• When there is no hunger for the presence of
God, It is an individual that something is
wrong spiritually.
• Thirsty people drink deeply. They worship
deeply, passionately and with their whole
heart.

25. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
4.
WORSHIP IN
SPITE OF

26. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
4. WORSHIP IN SPITE OF
• Passion for worship goes deeper
when your soul worships in the hard
places of life.
“Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head,
and he fell to the ground and worshiped.”

27. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
5.
LOVE GOD’S
PRESENCE

28. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
5. LOVE GOD’S PRESENCE
• Passion for worship goes deeper
when we love and pursue God’s
presence.
“You will seek the Lord your God and you will find him. If
you search after him with ll your heart and with all your
soul”

29. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
6.
BE FILLED
WITH THE
HOLY SPIRIT

30. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
6. BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
• Passion for worship goes deeper when you
are full of and filled with God’s Spirit.
“..But be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making
melody with your heart to the Lord.”
Ephesians 5:19

31. 7Keys that unlock
PASSION FOR
WORSHIP
7.
REMEMBER
HIS
WONDROUS