Scripture Study on Worship Postures - Ministry Exchange (MX)

Worship Postures in Scripture

Bowing Down/Kneeling
Psalm 95:6-7
(6) O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our
Maker!
(7) For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep
of his hand. O that today you would listen to his voice!
Rom 14:11 “For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall
bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God.””
Phil 2:9-11 Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name
that is above every name, (10) so that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, (11) and every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.
Luke 5:8 “But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees,
saying, ‘Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!’”

Lay Prostrate
Deut 9:18 “Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and
forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin
you had committed, provoking the LORD by doing what was evil in his sight.”

Ezek 9:8 “While they were killing, and I was left alone, I fell prostrate
on my face and cried out, “Ah Lord GOD! will you destroy all who remain of
Israel as you pour out your wrath upon Jerusalem?””

Clapping
Psalm 47:1 “Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout to God with loud songs
of joy.”

Lifted Hands
Psalm 28:2 “Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to you for help, as
I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.”
Psalm 63:3-4 “Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will
praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands
and call on your name.”
Psalm 134:
“Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD,
who stand by night in the house of the LORD!
Lift up your hands to the holy place, and bless the LORD.
May the LORD, maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.”
Lam 3:41 “Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands to God in heaven.”

Dancing
Jer 31:4 “Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel!
Again you shall take your tambourines, and go forth in the dance of the
merrymakers.”
Jer 31:13 “Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young
men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will
comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.”
Psalm 150
Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty
firmament!
(2) Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his
surpassing greatness!
(3) Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! (4)
Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe! (5) Praise him with clanging cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
(6) Let everything that breathes praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
Exo 15:20-21 “Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in
her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with
dancing. And Miriam sang to them: ‘Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed
gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.’”
2 Sam 6:5,14-16 “David and all the house of Israel were dancing before the
LORD with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines
and castanets and cymbals. (14) David danced before the LORD with all his
might; David was girded with a linen ephod. (15) So David and all the house
of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound
of the trumpet. (16) As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David,
Michal daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David
leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
Psalm 149:3 “Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him
with tambourine and lyre.”

Shouting
Psalm 32:11 “Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for
joy, all you upright in heart.”
Psalm 71:23 “My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to you; my soul
also, which you have rescued.”
Psalm 81:1 “Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of
Jacob.”
Isa 12:6 “Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion, for great in your
midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

Speaking in tongues:
1 Cor. 14:1 -2 “Pursue love and strive for the spiritual gifts, and
especially that you may prophesy. For those who speak in a tongue do not
speak to other people by to God; for nobody understands them, since they
are speaking mysteries in the Spirit.”
1 Cor. 14:13-16 “Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the
power to interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays by my mind
is unproductive. What should I do then? I will pray with the spirit, but I
will pray with the mind also, I will sing praise with the spirit, but I
will sing praise with the mind also. Otherwise, if you say a blessing with
the spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say the “Amen” to
your thanksgiving, since the outsider does not know what you are saying?”