Thursday, March 31, 2005

Worship & Trust

The Lord is pleased with those who worship Him and trust His love. Psalm 147:11

WORSHIP is coming to God and inviting His presence to dwell with you in greater measure than ever before.

When you love God, you want to express it. That is called Worship. Worship is far more than praying or singing in church. You worship when you trust God completely; love Him supremely; obey Him wholeheartedly, thank Him and praise Him continually. Anytime you bring pleasure to God, you are worshipping Him! Worship is the first purpose of your life!

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever. Psalm 138:8

Your most imtimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days when your heart is aching, when you feel rejected, when you are out of choices, when the pain is great, and you turn to God alone. The deepest level of worship is PRAISING God in spite of pain, trusting God during times of trouble and loving God when He seems apart.

Why does God uses our weakness? Because when He does, he gets all the glory. When God uses you in spite of your weakness, it gives people hope. They realize "God could use me too." Your weakness is not an accident. God deliberately allowed them in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.

If God made you to love you and He values you enough to keep you with Him for eternity, what greater importance could you have?

So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us. I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer. Romans 12:1

But the time is coming and is already here when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for anyone who will worship him that way. John 4:23

Jesus is Lord.

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