My mind-set comes to full maturity when my mouth is truly filled with praise and thanksgiving toward Our Heavenly Father, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit. I will then enter into worship to Him.
Praise is about God, worship is to God. Praise is opening up, worship is entering in. Praise is boldly declaring what HE has done in your life; worship is humbly bowing in the presence of a Holy God. Praise acknowledges and exalts what God has done; worship is honoring God for who He is. Thanksgiving means to respond to FATHER’S goodness and grace with gratitude. All of these are expressions of Love toward THEM.
It is written by The Holy Spirit in Psalm 69:
30 Then My song will be a burst of praise to You. My glory-shouts will make Your fame even more glorious to all who hear My praises!
31 For I know, Yahweh, that My praises mean more to You than all My gifts and sacrifices.
32 All who seek You will see God do this for them, and they’ll overflow with gladness. Let this revive your hearts, all you Lovers of God!
33 For Yahweh does listen to the poor and needy and will not abandon His prisoners of Love.
34 Let all the universe praise Him! The high Heavens and everyone on earth, praise Him! Let the oceans deep, with everything in them, keep it up!
Jesus spoke in John chapter 4:
23-24 From here on, worshiping the Father will not be a matter of the right place but with the right heart. For God is a Spirit, and He longs to have sincere worshipers who worship and adore Him in the realm of the Spirit and in Truth.”
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Colossians 2:
6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
As we move into this realm of maturity, our positive imaginations will allow us to see in our hearts those things which we can’t see with our eyes in a heightened manner. FATHER will release those resources reserved for the mature Sons and Daughters to be brought forth into manifestation as a blessing to mankind. HE will not allow those with vain, perverse, and worldly imaginations to access what has been reserved for HIS Children. We are ultimately to be problem solvers on earth and promote HIS Kingdom with those solutions accessed from Heaven.
Don’t sacrifice the long term for the short term. The things of this world are temporary in nature. Love is forever!