Worship is of key importance in a believer’s life, but just what is worship?. 

Psalms 16:11  You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy;  At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

We can worship God in many ways - in the way we live our lives, in love for others, in obedience to His Word, in prayer, in fellowship or in song or dance.  

There is a very special kind of worship, though, in which we have a divine encounter with God Himself. It's coming into His presence, bowing down, falling down and showing Him our complete reverence.

What does ‘reverence of God’ mean?  We are told many times in Scripture that we are to “fear God”.  This is to be in awe of God, in awe of His holiness, in awe of His might and power.  This is to revere God.  But we are not to be afraid to be in His presence.

Worship is the place that God promises to "meet with us," because worship is something that is done on the inside - i.e., in our spirit.

As Jesus tells us in John 4:23-24, "the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth."  Worshiping the Lord, then, means coming into His presence, adoring, praising and loving Him in the same nature as He - in the spirit.

Most believers know that they have a responsibility to worship, but when asked to define what true worship means or how it's done, they are unable to offer any answers.

Whom Do We Worship?  -  Mankind, in general, has an ingrained need to express his love and gratitude to some deity and that "someone" is who determines his worship.

Believers can worship the Lord with all their heart and soul because they have already invited Him into their lives - their spirits have already been united with and quickened by His Spirit. In other words, believers in Christ can "internally" communicate their love of the Father through the spirit.

Jesus, in John 6:63 says this: "It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing...."

Nonbelievers, on the other hand, cannot really worship the Lord in this way because their spirits are not yet united with or made alive by God's Spirit. In other words, they cannot "internally" communicate or fellowship directly with the Father. They can only have an external form of worship. Therefore, they cannot personally or intimately know the Father.

Notice what Jesus says in John 3:5-6:  “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and  the spirit , he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."

Although God does not need our worship, He is seeking those who are worshipers. One of the reasons we worship is to minister and to bless Him. Worship is the time we forget about ourselves, concentrate on Christ and experience His presence.

What Makes Worship so Important?
Worship is important because, as A. W. Tozer once said, "...it's the reason Christ came, the reason He was crucified and the reason He rose again."

Furthermore, the entire Revelation of Jesus Christ concerns the importance of worship and what God thinks of worship.