Spiritual Disciplines - Worship
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Transcript
Order
Order
Foster Care
Revive
Worship Instructions
First Song
It is well Talk
Yeshua talk
Invite People up for communion during Yeshua
Holy Forever Talk
Foster Care
Foster Care
There are nearly 30k children in Foster Care in Texas.
On average, children stay in foster care for just over 21 months
Between 31% and 46% of youth exiting foster care will end up homeless by the age of 26.
Only 1 out of every 2 foster kids who age out of the system will have some form of gainful employment by the age of 24.
When a child is removed they often leave the home with almost nothing.
The process to become a foster parent is hard, challenging, emotional, and costly. My response to that and your response if you are called to be a foster family is so be it. These kids are worth it.
Not everyone can foster and not everyone should foster but I believe with all my heart that the people of God can do something. I have been feeling that we as a church can make a difference but I will be honest I do not know what that is. I am praying into it and I would ask that you be praying too.
Mention Revive on Wednesday
Mention Revive on Wednesday
This Wednesday night at at 6:30 we have a Revive Night. I want to encourage you to come out. We are going to take some extended time of worship this morning as we press into the Spiritual Discipline of worship. But Wednesday will be a whole other level.
Worship Today
Worship Today
As we go through this morning. You might need to sit, you might need to kneel, you might need to do whatever, we are going to talk about and practice worship in a tangible way. We have communion available and anytime during the third song feel free to come up and receive.
The Bible talks about Worship a lot because our God is worthy of worship and because as created beings we are built to worship. That gets perverted in our culture all the time. We find all sorts of things to elevate and worship. But God alone is worthy of our worship.
Two teaching points about worship this morning.
We worship in truth
Worship can be costly.
Worship is not about an emotional experience but emotions can happen an we should not be afraid of them. In worship we of have freedom and space to make proclamations and statements that we would not normally be comfortable making because we are connected in the Spirit.
To worship is to worship in truth. Singing gives us freedom to express the deep connections and convictions of soul in a way that acceptable so we feel comfortable making statements we might otherwise not be comfortable making.
For example in the song Good Father, we sing;
You're a Good, Good Father
It's who You are
It's who You are
It's who You are
And I'm loved by You
It's who I am
It's who I am
It's who I am
The beauty of music is it gives us freedom to make that statement.
When we worship we give ourselves over to the truth of God based on what He has revealed to us.
The single most important thing to understand about worship is that the only worship that is acceptable to God is worship that proceeds from a heart that is trusting in God and God alone. RC Sproul
Jesus said it this way.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.”
We worship God in spirit and in truth.
Worship can is often costly.
Worship can is often costly.
“Take it, my lord the king, and use it as you wish,” Araunah said to David. “I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, and the threshing boards for wood to build a fire on the altar, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give it all to you.”
But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it for the full price. I will not take what is yours and give it to the Lord. I will not present burnt offerings that have cost me nothing!”
Our worship can be costly. It costs us something to worship. Maybe it is pride, maybe it is the thing that you hold on to, maybe it is your past, whatever it is, sometimes worship costs you something. Often the cost are things we hold on to that we should not be holding.
As we go into worship this morning, I am asking that if God asks you to lay something down this morning, please lay it down.
Firm Foundation
Firm Foundation
no interruption
It is well
It is well
Share the story behind the song.
Horatio Spafford lost a fortune in the great Chicago fire. Shortly afterwords his four year old son died. He decided to take a family vacation and sent his wife and four daughters ahead to England. The ship they were on sank. Only his wife survived. He set sail for England and when they came to the spot where the ship had sank the captain pointed it out.
As he sat and thought about it he found words of comfort and hope from God.
When peace like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll—
Whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to know
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Interrupt the Song
Interrupt the Song
We have this idea sometimes that worship is about praising when things are good. That worship is for when we have victory. That we shout when everything is good. But so often worship happens when we the chains are still on. We have to learn to worship while in chains. We have to learn to worship when its hard.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains came loose.
Where the spirit of the lord is there is freedom. Some chains are only broken when we worship
Yeshua
Yeshua
In Luke 7 it records the story of a woman who brought in an alabaster jar and broke it on the feet of Jesus and then wiped His feet with her tears and hair. He worship costs her something. There was a price attached to her worship.
Then one of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house. She brought an alabaster jar of perfume and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wash his feet with her tears. She wiped his feet with her hair, kissing them and anointing them with the perfume.
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him—she’s a sinner!”
Jesus replied to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”
He said, “Say it, teacher.”
“A creditor had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Since they could not pay it back, he graciously forgave them both. So, which of them will love him more?”
Simon answered, “I suppose the one he forgave more.”
“You have judged correctly,” he told him. Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she, with her tears, has washed my feet and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but she hasn’t stopped kissing my feet since I came in. You didn’t anoint my head with olive oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfume. Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little.” Then he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
Those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”
And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
In the song Alabaster Box by CC Winans it says,
So I've come to pour my praise on Him
Like oil from Mary's alabaster box (Mary's alabaster box)
So don't be angry if I wash His feet with my tears
And dry them with my hair
You weren't there the night Jesus found me
You did not feel what I felt
When He wrapped His loving arms around me and
You don't know the, you don't know,
You don't know the cost of the oil
In my alabaster box (oh)
We worship because Jesus is worthy and because He has set us free from the bondage of sin!
Go back into Yeshua
Go back into Yeshua
Holy Forever
Holy Forever
The prayer teams can come up.
And they sang a new song:
You are worthy to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
because you were slaughtered,
and you purchased people
for God by your blood
from every tribe and language
and people and nation.
You made them a kingdom
and priests to our God,
and they will reign on the earth.
I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them say,
Blessing and honor and glory and power
be to the one seated on the throne,
and to the Lamb, forever and ever!
He is worthy of praise. He is the Lamb that was slain!