Worship His Majesty: How Praising the King of Kings Will Change Your Life
Overview
The Father certainly doesn’t need our praise, yet He prescribes worship as a daily activity. Why? Pastor Jack Hayford shows that God graces His people with worship as a gift, not a demand. Worship liberates God’s people to discover genuine wholeness only as they recognize and acknowledge the holiness of God. In this classic work, Hayford examines the lives of more than a dozen biblical figures to describe the fulfilling effects of worship, including seven truths Jesus revealed about the blessings of praise. God’s grace fills everything He gives and calls us to do, and this grace overflows in a special way on those who humbly and wholeheartedly worship God.
Top Highlights
“This precise symmetry is foundationally important to our whole understanding. Worship will only make complete sense when we understand its place in God’s complete plan. He did not give worship as a test of wills but as the source of our potential. He has not created man as a pawn or a plaything but to become a partner in His highest purposes.” (Page 38)
“the essential idea is that whatever you value most highly or place the greatest worth upon, that is what you worship” (Page 6)
“Your worship will determine what flows from your life” (Page 8)
“But the flesh is impatient. Revolution, not renewal, is too often its choice. Our flesh wants action, even if it’s at the cost of pain. We’re inclined to consider this an acceptable tradeoff—simply exchanging one kind of pain for another. We are willing to take our lumps in hope that our revolution will secure a new day of God’s way. But all too easily we get our way instead, and apparent victory becomes only another kind of defeat. What renewal might have brought with time, revolution demolished in our carnal zeal for speedy results.” (Page 119)
“God doesn’t need pushing; He calls for praise. God doesn’t use programs; He uses people—people who worship” (Page 138)
- Title: Worship His Majesty: How Praising the King of Kings Will Change Your Life
- Author: Jack W. Hayford
- Edition: Revised and Expanded Edition
- Publisher: Regal
- Print Publication Date: 2000
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: God › Worship and love--Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9781441228413, 0830723986, 1441228411, 9780830723980
- Resource ID: LLS:WRSHPHSMJSTY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:54:24Z
Jack Williams Hayford (born June 25, 1934) is a prolific and best-selling writer. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 books and composed 600 hymns and choruses—including the internationally known and widely recorded “Majesty.” Dr. Hayford is a graduate of L.I.F.E. Bible College (now Life Pacific College) and Azusa Pacific University.
Described by Christianity Today magazine as “The Pentecostal Gold Standard,” Hayford served as founding pastor of one of the largest churches in southern California, The First Foursquare Church of Van Nuys, California (now known as The Church on the Way). Hayford also founded the King’s University in Los Angeles, where he currently serves as Chancellor, and from 2004 to 2009 Hayford also served as president of The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
“Pastor Jack” is the author of several popular titles including Hayford’s Bible Handbook, Prayer is Invading the Impossible, and Appointed to Leadership. He was the general editor of Spirit-Filled Life Study Bible.
Hayford and his wife, Anna, have four children, eleven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.