Worship Today

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Good morning, Lord

Father in Heaven, I seek You first-the knowledge of Your kingdom and Your righteousness. Fill my consciousness constantly as I take up my cross and follow...In Jesus' name…

Memory verse: Ephesians 2:6 “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.”

Verse of the day: Psalm 139:13-14

13 “For you formed my inward parts;    you knitted me together in my mother's womb.14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.Wonderful are your works;    my soul knows it very well.”

Daily Reading: 2 Kings 19-21 John 4:1-30 

Worship This Day

Hebrews 10:25, “...not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”

Encouraging each other with what? Our individual lives of worship bring to church, corporate worship, our exhibition of our inner satisfaction with and our awe of God. If someone’s daily life’s worship is lacking, they can be encouraged in corporate worship by those who worship God in His freedom.

Now, worship is not about the ‘order of worship’ or ‘liturgy’ as much as we see such things. It is not about our surroundings. Jesus preached His ‘sermon on the mount’ outside. Worship never has depended on the decor of the inside of a worship center or the outside-what the worship leaders wear or their age or color or voice.

Worship has to do with truth, Spirit, and sincerity. Truth and sincerity are the same in worship but I feel I must emphasize being sincere in this culture.

We cannot be sincere outside of our reality. This is our point today.

What is your reality? Do you feel really comfortable and encouraged by a person worshiping freely next to you? If this makes you feel ‘weird’, then you-not anyone else-must go to God with your feelings. Are you completely satisfied with God? Is God the most important thing in life?

Our daily worship will define our feelings of freedom in corporate worship.

John Piper says, “Worship means consciously knowing and treasuring and showing the supreme worth and beauty of God.”

Consciously-knowing-treasuring-showing-being conscious of God as we walk this life-how good and merciful and mighty.

Our worship today will be our freedom-or not- to worship together with God’s family.

In Spirit and truth(John 4:24) is the only way we can live. Anything short of this is sin.

Tell God how you feel and how you want to feel in worship.

...because He loves us...He will do it…

Father in Heaven,

My feelings fall short of really hallowing Your name. Forgive me. I want to worship freely in Your kingdom. Give me courage today to let go of my control and embrace Yours.

Mighty and great God of all creation,

In the name of Christ Jesus,

Amen