FAITH CAPSULE: Worshipping God is a sacrifice to honor God.

Daniel 6

Sacrifice is as to offer.
That is to give up as an offering to God.
David reacted by offering God a costly sacrifice (offering) to God for the deliverance of His people. 2 Samuel 24:24 records, “Then the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God with that which costs me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.” 
Abraham was willing to sacrifice even his son to God.
Sacrifice is costly, not cheap.
Worshiping is a sacrifice to God.
Worshiping God is giving honor to God. 
Honoring God is not in quoting the word of God but in living and behaving in the word of God. 
God does not move by just the words of mouth but by the actions behind His word of mouth. 
1 Samuel 2:3 records the character of God to actions before Him, “…For the LORD is the God of knowledge; and by Him, actions are weighed.” 
Worshiping God is an action that measures before God.
God is a faithful whose word does not return to Him void.
God confirmed the validity of His word when He spoke, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11)
Know that honoring God counts before God. 
Through the pages of scripture, is learn and identify what it means to be honoring (be worshipping) God. 
Are you worshiping God from the heart to find God?
God responded to all that honored Him with honor beyond their imagination. 
Daniel and Joseph are examples that honored God through their action.
Daniel knew the gravity of denying other gods to honor his God.
Action of Daniel provoked his enemies when he went to his upper room with his windows open toward Jerusalem. 
Daniel knelt three times a day to pray and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since the early days. (Daniel 6:10) 
Daniel honored God, and God shut up the mouth of the lion not to hurt Daniel.   
Joseph had a good reason to despise God, but he honored God. 
Joseph was in a position to become the master of the house when the wife of his master persistently attempted to lie to him. 
Genesis 39:11-12 records, “But it happened about this time when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house was inside, that she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand, fled, and ran outside.” 
Joseph dishonored the wife of his master to honor his God. 
Make honoring God your way of life like Joseph and Daniel.
God gives attention to those who honor Him.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live a life honoring God.