If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times in the past 45 years in the ordained ministry.

And I've heard it in variety of ways, but the problem is the same.

Why don't I seem to be able to have victory in my life?

Why I don't seem to be able to live the Christian life in joy and victorious

and in a sense of achievement or accomplishment for the Lord? Why? Why I don't feel contented and

joyful? Why do I feel frustrated in my spiritual walk? I can tell you why. The bottom line

is they all have one thing in common, and that is a faulty view of worship. What is worship?

The word comes from the Latin origin when we get it into the English language. The original word is worthship.

That's where it comes from.

Worthship.

So the question is, what is God worth to you?

What is God worth to me?

Romans chapter 12 gives us a picture of what is true worship is all about. At the heart of worship

is not what we can get out of it, but what we can give to it. That is really the bottom line,

and that's where the confusion comes from. Worship is not getting, but it is giving.

Here in Romans chapter 12, verses 1 to 8, Paul gives us the only way for true joy, for contentment, for satisfaction, for victory in a Christian life.

Please listen to me. Worship is not getting high on some emotional high, and then it wears off, and then you're back in the dumps in worse condition.

No.

Verse 1, therefore, I urge you in the view of the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as living sacrifice, holy and

pleasing to God. This is your spiritual worship. Remember the principle of therefore. In fact,

here tells us what it is for, the mercies of God. Therefore, in view of the mercies of God, in view of what you

saw in the last message from Romans chapter 11, particularly verse 33, oh, the depth of the riches

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