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       Baptist Church in Warren

January 25, 2009                                                                                                                  10:00 am                                                                                    

Rev.

Esther Irish, Minister

~*Let those who are able, please stand

 Ushers will collect Prayer cards during the first hymn.

*Prelude ~/Chiming of the Hour*

* Welcome*

*Call to Worship*

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*~*Adoration of God*                                                                                                            #

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            *~*Invocation (Disciples’ Prayer) *

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever.

Amen

*~*Psalm for Today*                                                                        Psalm 139: 1 – 6, 13 - 18 /(NLT)/

/O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me./

*You know when I sit down or stand up.

You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.*

/You see me when I travel and when I rest at home.

You know everything I do./

*You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord.*

/You go before me and follow me.

You place your hand of blessing on my head./

/Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!/

/You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb./

*Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!

Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.*

/You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb/*.*

*You saw me before I was born.

Every day of my life was recorded in your book.

Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.*

/How/* */precious are your thoughts about me, O God.

They cannot be numbered!/

*I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!*

*/And when I wake up, you are still with me!/*

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*Our Offering To GOD*

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*~*Doxology*                                                                                                                                  #  572

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; 

Praise him all creatures here below:

Praise him above ye heavn’ ly host:

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Amen.

*~*Prayer of Dedication*                          

*Announcements*

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*Scripture Reading**                                                                     *1 Samuel 3:1 - 10, 11 - 20/ (NLT)/

Meanwhile, the boy Samuel served the Lord by assisting Eli.

Now in those days messages from the Lord were very rare, and visions were quite uncommon.

2 One night Eli, who was almost blind by now, had gone to bed. 3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was sleeping in the Tabernacle near the Ark of God. 4 Suddenly the Lord called out, “Samuel!”

“Yes?” Samuel replied.

“What is it?”

5 He got up and ran to Eli. “Here I am.

Did you call me?”

“I didn’t call you,” Eli replied.

“Go back to bed.”

So he did.

6 Then the Lord called out again, “Samuel!”

Again Samuel got up and went to Eli. “Here I am.

Did you call me?”

“I didn’t call you, my son,” Eli said.

“Go back to bed.”

7 Samuel did not yet know the Lord because he had never had a message from the Lord before.

8 So the Lord called a third time, and once more Samuel got up and went to Eli. “Here I am.

Did you call me?”

Then Eli realized it was the Lord who was calling the boy.

9 So he said to Samuel, “Go and lie down again, and if someone calls again, say, ‘Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.’

” So Samuel went back to bed.

10 And the Lord came and called as before, “Samuel!

Samuel!”

And Samuel replied, “Speak, your servant is listening.”

11 Then the Lord said to Samuel, “I am about to do a shocking thing in Israel.

12 I am going to carry out all my threats against Eli and his family, from beginning to end. 13 I have warned him that judgment is coming upon his family forever, because his sons are blaspheming God and he hasn’t disciplined them.

14 So I have vowed that the sins of Eli and his sons will never be forgiven by sacrifices or offerings.”

/Samuel Speaks for the Lord/

15 Samuel stayed in bed until morning, then got up and opened the doors of the Tabernacle as usual.

He was afraid to tell Eli what the Lord had said to him.

16 But Eli called out to him, “Samuel, my son.”

“Here I am,” Samuel replied.

17 “What did the Lord say to you? Tell me everything.

And may God strike you and even kill you if you hide anything from me!” 18 So Samuel told Eli everything; he didn’t hold anything back.

“It is the Lord’s will,” Eli replied.

“Let him do what he thinks best.”

19 As Samuel grew up, the Lord was with him, and everything Samuel said proved to be reliable.

20 And all Israel, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the Lord.

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*~*Hymn of  Worship**               **                                                                                                                *#

“Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”

*Pastoral Prayer*

*~*Hymn of Petition*                                                                                                               #                 

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*Scripture Text*                                                                                                  Romans 8: 24 – 39 (NLT)

18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.

19 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.

20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse.

But with eager hope, 21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.

22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering.

We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us.

24 We were given this hope when we were saved.

(If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it.