How to Worship a King Quotes

“The religious heart says, “I must do my duty in order to be of value to God.” Worship is the opposite of religion. The heart of worship says, “Jesus proved I am of value to God. I serve Him because He is also of value to me.”
― Zach Neese, How To Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare The Way.

“A worshiper is a person who has complete freedom to choose, but loves God so much that he chooses to serve and obey him because there is nothing he’d rather do.”
― Zach Neese, How to Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare the Way

“If the Old Testament word for worship means to bow down in awe of God, the New Testament word means to bow even lower because you love Him.”
― Zach Neese, How To Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare The Way.

“That is the main reason it took me so long to get saved. God’s priests just never showed me what He was really like. And if God was like Christians, I didn’t want to have anything to do with Him.”
― Zach Neese, How To Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare The Way.

“When we worship God as we ought, that’s when the nations listen.1 —EDMUND CLOWNEY”
― Zach Neese, How To Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare The Way.

“MY PROCESS I got bullied quite a bit as a kid, so I learned how to take a punch and how to put up a good fight. God used that. I am not afraid of spiritual “violence” or of facing spiritual fights. My Dad was drafted during Vietnam and I grew up an Army brat, moving around frequently. God used that. I am very spiritually mobile, adaptable, and flexible. My parents used to hand me a Bible and make me go look up what I did wrong. God used that, as well. I knew the Word before I knew the Lord, so studying Scripture is not intimidating to me. I was admitted into a learning enrichment program in junior high. They taught me critical thinking skills, logic, and Greek Mythology. God used that, too. In seventh grade I was in school band and choir. God used that. At 14, before I even got saved, a youth pastor at my parents’ church taught me to play guitar. God used that. My best buddies in school were a druggie, a Jewish kid, and an Irish soccer player. God used that. I broke my back my senior year and had to take theatre instead of wrestling. God used that. I used to sleep on the couch outside of the Dean’s office between classes. God used that. My parents sent me to a Christian college for a semester in hopes of getting me saved. God used that. I majored in art, advertising, astronomy, pre-med, and finally English. God used all of that. I made a woman I loved get an abortion. God used (and redeemed) that. I got my teaching certification. I got plugged into a group of sincere Christian young adults. I took courses for ministry credentials. I worked as an autism therapist. I taught emotionally disabled kids. And God used each of those things. I married a pastor’s daughter. God really used that. Are you getting the picture? San Antonio led me to Houston, Houston led me to El Paso, El Paso led me to Fort Leonard Wood, Fort Leonard Wood led me back to San Antonio, which led me to Austin, then to Kentucky, then to Belton, then to Maryland, to Pennsylvania, to Dallas, to Alabama, which led me to Fort Worth. With thousands of smaller journeys in between. The reason that I am able to do the things that I do today is because of the process that God walked me through yesterday. Our lives are cumulative. No day stands alone. Each builds upon the foundation of the last—just like a stairway, each layer bringing us closer to Him. God uses each experience, each lesson, each relationship, even our traumas and tragedies as steps in the process of becoming the people He made us to be. They are steps in the process of achieving the destinies that He has encoded into the weave of each of our lives. We are journeymen, finding the way home. What is the value of the journey? If the journey makes us who we are, then the journey is priceless.”
― Zach Neese, How to Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare the Way

“God, I haven’t been living life Your way, and it is not working well for me. I want to worship You. I want to follow You as Lord and live life Your way. So from now on, I’ll do anything You tell me to. Make Your reign, Your kingdom, Your love, and Your power evident in my life. I totally submit to You, in Jesus’s name. Amen.”
― Zach Neese, How To Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare The Way.

“A biblical blessing was not given to tickle a person’s fancy, nor was it intended to cause a feeling that lasts only for a short time. Biblical blessings catalyze destiny in people’s lives.”
― Zach Neese, How To Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare The Way.

“Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.1 —PAUL E. BILLHEIMER”
― Zach Neese, How To Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare The Way.

“The second most used Greek word in the Bible that means to worship is latreuo, which means “to minister to God.” We will discuss this word in greater detail later. For now it is enough to know that there is not a single word for worship in the Bible, Greek or Hebrew, that includes the idea of ministry to mankind. Worship is simply not for us. It is for God.”
― Zach Neese, How To Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare The Way.

“A priest’s first ministry is to God. There is no greater honor, no greater joy in the entire world than to minister to the King of kings. At its very essence, worship is just that—ministry to the King. And it is what you were made for.”
― Zach Neese, How To Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare The Way.

“Religion teaches us that our function determines our worth and our identity (I am because I do). Worship teaches us that our identity determines our worth and our function (I do because I am). And God determines our identity.”
― Zach Neese, How to Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare the Way

“When we worship God as we ought that’s when the nations listen. —Edmund Clowney”
― Zach Neese, How to Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare the Way

“our actions often belie our “emotions.” The true emotions of our hearts are the ones that inform lordship. We will obey the lord that we love. If we love our flesh, we will obey it. But if we love God, our emotions will prove true through obedience. I say this so that we can judge ourselves, not the world around us. Let’s look to ourselves. I love Jesus. I want Him to make His home with me and I want Him to show Himself to me. I love Jesus, so I obey Him. That’s worship.”
― Zach Neese, How to Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare the Way