Monday, December 12, 2016
The 5. W's of Worship
The 5's of worship?
Who do you worship?
What do you worship
When do you worship
Where do you worship
Why do you worship
And how do you worship.
Worship is not reserved for Sunday mornings, worship is not exclusive to music, worship is meant to be intimate, personal, private, public, exclusive, and everlasting.
So why do you worship? To honor God, and praise Him for all He has done already?
What do you worship? The idea of God as Creator, Father, Savior and friend? Or the great big genie you come to when problems arise?
When do you worship? On Sundays with everyone else? Or in all things are you worshipping God?
Where do you worship? Only in the sanctuary, or wherever you are?
Why do worship? Because everyone else is, or are you drawing close to God?
How do you worship? By singing only or do you put your mind, body and soul into all of who Jesus really is and has done?
Worship for a child of God should be a lifestyle, the things we say, the things we do, the places we go, the way we work, the way we live, should all be acts of worship to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, we should do this with all our hearts, minds, body and souls, exclusively reserved for Him.
“Jesus told her, “Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.” “I am He,” Jesus told her, “the One speaking to you.””
John 4:21-26 HCSB
“Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said: These people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commands of men.” Summoning the crowd, He told them, “Listen and understand: It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.””
Matthew 15:7-11 HCSB
“Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
Romans 12:1-2 HCSB
“Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”
Colossians 3:16-17 HCSB
“He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 22:37-39 HCSB
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
God pursues you
When Adam and Eve sinned against God, God came to them knowing they had sinned.
They hid from God because their pride had turned to shame, God pursed them for His love for them was still the same.
Genesis 3:8-9
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
God still calls today where are you, knowing where we are, mankind still tries to hide from God, knowing they truly cannot deep inside.
God came to mankind to pay the price for Adam and Eves sin, for Brian Kinnetts sin and for your sins.
Instead of walking in the cool of the morning in the garden, He walked the path up Golgotha's hill bearing our cross of sin and shame.
And He said Father forgive them,
Luke 23:33-34
And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Are you trying to hide today?
if so stop.
God knows it all, and He has seen the cost of sin, for He paid the price we could not pay, for the sins He did commit so you and I could be reconciled to Him.
Colossians 1:3, 17-23
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven.....
God does not turn any way who are willing to repent of their sins, will you respond to His calling today?