Hello, Christ's Church Family,
Here are the scripture passages I used in my message yesterday on Worship - Practice for Eternity. I pray as you mediate on them, that the Holy Spirit takes you deeper.
Psalm 95
Come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.2 Let us come to him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to him.3 For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods.4 He holds in his hands the depths of the earth and the mightiest mountains.5 The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too.
6 Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,7 for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care.
If only you would listen to his voice today!8 The Lord says, "Don't harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness.9 For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did.10 For forty years I was angry with them, and I said, 'They are a people whose hearts turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.'11 So in my anger I took an oath: 'They will never enter my place of rest.'"
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Psalms 100:1
Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth!
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Psalm 100:1
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
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Revelation 4:8
8 Each of these living beings had six wings, and their wings were covered all over with eyes, inside and out. Day after day and night after night they keep on saying,
"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty—
the one who always was, who is, and who is still to come."
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Revelation 4:11
11 "You are worthy, O Lord our God,
to receive glory and honor and power.
For you created all things,
and they exist because you created what you pleased."
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Revelation 5:9
9 And they sang a new song with these words:
"You are worthy to take the scroll
and break its seals and open it.
For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation.
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Mark 12:30
30 And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.' NLT
12 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. NLT
Psalms 95:6-7
6 Come, let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,
7 for he is our God.
We are the people he watches over,
the flock under his care.
If only you would listen to his voice today!
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Believing for Greater,
Pastor Bob