Stewarding Your Emotions (Worship)

Worship

What is Worship:

1. The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object.

2. The ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is expressed.

3. Ardent admiration or love; adoration.

Simplified: True worship is a valuing or a treasuring of God above all things

We know that all of heaven worships God and declares him Holy:

Before sin existed or negative emotions existed there was worship

Since before time the angels have been worshipping God

The actual land before time

Because of Satan, pride will always be something that we have to keep in check

If the presence of God isn’t enough for you be careful!

Satans Demise:

Ezekiel 28:14–19 NKJV

14 “You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you. 16 “By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within, And you sinned; Therefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones. 17 “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you. 18 “You defiled your sanctuaries By the multitude of your iniquities, By the iniquity of your trading; Therefore I brought fire from your midst; It devoured you, And I turned you to ashes upon the earth In the sight of all who saw you. 19 All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you; You have become a horror, And shall be no more forever.” ’ ”

The first temptation is:

Second guessing God’s word

Genesis 3:1–5 NKJV

1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” 4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Being prideful in your own understanding

“True worship is not confined to what we do in church or open praise (although these things are both good, and we are told in the Bible to do them). True worship is the acknowledgment of God and all His power and glory in everything we do”

The Ultimate form of stewardship is Worship

Worship is a spiritual response to natural emotions

1. True worship is a sacrifice of us

-The highest form of praise and worship is obedience to Him and His Word

Romans 12:1–2 NKJV

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

LAY OURSELVES DOWN

Paul laid himself down:

In prison

WE LAY OUR CROWNS DOWN AT THE FEET OF JESUS

at the end of our lives we gain a crown then lay it down

2. True worship creates humility

1 Peter 5:6 NKJV

6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,

James 4:6–7 NKJV

6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” 7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Back to the first temptation:

We have to resist the urge to do it own our way

To lean on our own understanding

Proverbs 16:18 NKJV

18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

PRIDE WILL CHOOSE A DESTRUCTIVE LIFESTYLE

MY TESTIMONY

I felt like I had something to prove

“We can feel like we have something to prove rather than God proving something through us”

3. WORSHIP sets the location for battle

Ephesians 6:12 NKJV

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

DON’T TRY AND FIGHT ON THE FLESHLY LEVEL

2 Chronicles 20:1–4 NKJV

1 It happened after this that the people of Moab with the people of Ammon, and others with them besides the Ammonites, came to battle against Jehoshaphat. 2 Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar” (which is En Gedi). 3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 4 So Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

He didn’t know what to do:

So he asked for Help

It takes humility to not try and fix things your own way

2 Chronicles 20:12 NKJV

12 O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

They don’t focus on the fear

They don’t focus on the battle in front of them

BUT OUR EYES ARE UPON YOU!

2 Chronicles 20:15–17 NKJV

15 And he said, “Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the Lord to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s. 16 Tomorrow go down against them. They will surely come up by the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the brook before the Wilderness of Jeruel. 17 You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.”

THE LORD IS WITH YOU!

2 Chronicles 20:21–22 NKJV

21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the Lord, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying: “Praise the Lord, For His mercy endures forever.” 22 Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.

Do you have a battle that your going through?

Romans 10:9–10 NKJV

9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.