We come to church on Sunday morning or Wednesday night or whenever expecting to worship God.  We get up that morning, rush around to get ready, get our family together and hurry to the church.  We walk into the church greeting our friends, talking about our week, etc…  After all this, someone may read a verse or pray, but most likely just say welcome and then we are supposed to be ready to sing to the God of the universe.  For some, like me, this may be a tough transition to make.  I tend to lack focus when this happens.  This is not entirely the fault of the church or me.  However, the situation can be made better.  We all desire to be better focused worshipers.

There are many pieces of wisdom the Bible offers us to help this situation be improved.  I am going to look at three.  These three texts can help a person prepare their heart for worship and come ready to see Jesus and worship Him in a powerful way.

[1] Colossians 3:16-17 – ” 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.  17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.“

The First piece of wisdom from the Bible is the Word of God must be dwelling in you richly, abundantly and overflowing.

The “richly” here means overflowing and abundantly.  If the Word is overflowing in your heart, then worship will overflow from your heart easier.  So this means before you come to worship, you should be full of the Word of God.  This builds expectancy in your heart to worship and give glory to Christ.  So read a lot of the Word the night before and in the morning before worship.  God uses this and causes your heart to explode in worship to Him.

This is not just the case for corporate worship, but for everyday life.  This is shown in the second part of verse 16 where it states that we will be “teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.”  The “teaching and admonishing” goes beyond corporate worship to your lifestyle.  The next verse (verse 17) states exactly this when it exhorts us to do everything we do for the name of Jesus.