Foundations of Faith: Worship

This is God's Word for my life in this place and at this time. Today, I am a new creation in Christ, I am God's very own, and I believe He has a purpose for my life.

Matthew 7:24-29 (NIV) Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

Why Worship?

Inspiring (v.) – to breathe in, to exert an animating, enlivening, or exalting influence on, MOTIVATE, STIR

♦  Worship is LIFE

Wisemen build...                    Fools build... How you see life defines life.

♦ Worship is about  growing & building Learn from the Past Celebrate the Present Look to the Future

♦ Worship is  WORK "and puts them into practice." v 24

Without action, every confession is a grand delusion.

Worship provide a Plan

• What in my life needs to be changed?    [Reflection]
• What am I willing to commit to change?    [Confession]
• What am I going to specifically do to change?    [Repentance

 Wow, Lord, we worship you. We thank you. We exalt you. We give you praise and honor and glory and even as these words leave my mouth Lord, I am amazed that they just feel feeble. And yet Lord you are mindful that we are but dust. You know what it is like Jesus to walk around in these fleshly shells and how distracted we are, how short term our attention span is and yet you receive gladly our praise, and that just causes me to want to praise you more, and it is this wonderful, holy, viscous cycle. Lord, teach us this week, help us through your spirit to worship you with our lives, to be pleasing aromas to you. That we may learn what it means to live at the center of our bulls eye, that worship really is an end of itself because you are at the center of it and again Jesus, thank you for who you are, that in the flesh you are God explained and we worship you. And it's in your name we pray. Amen.