Bow the Knee Meaningful Worship

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Bow the KneeMeaningful Worship

• When Worship Works
• Revelation 411

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Introduction (2Chronicles 714)

• What does it mean, seek my face?
• We were created to worship God, to bring Him
  pleasure (Revelation 411)
• But do we? Especially in our worship?
• Meaningful worship worries about whether GOD gets
  anything out of our lives Out of our time at
  Church!
• I so want us to WANT to bless the Lord
• But how? What has to be changed in you and me?
  What different way should we see our worship,
  that will help us to bless our precious Lord?

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My Saviour Pleases God (2Peter 117)

• Just His very Person impresses God (John 829)!
• His Punishment on the cross blessed God (Isaiah
  534-6,10)
• His Relations please God (Hebrews 211) thats
  every born again child of God folks! Hes not
  ashamed of his family, IF you are in it!!!
• You had better KNOW Him, not just know ABOUT Him!
• Are you in His family? Are you His child? Is He
  your Saviour, or is He just an icon, a picture,
  an image on a wall?

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My Position Pleases God (Luke 189-14)

• Humbled at the bottom no demands
• It is more than reverence (Psalm 14710,11)
• It is good to know that ALL of us are on the
  same level before God Even if you are a king
  (1Kings 310)
• The BOTTOM is the only place that God blesses!
• God is not talking about being pitiful, and
  wimpy, and a push-over! No, no, NO!
• Humility is being passionate about others, and
  not worrying about yourself at all!!!
• Folks, at the root of all problems, and
  contentions, whether in your home, at this
  church, in your heart is what? Pride! (Pr 1310)

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My Panting Pleases God (Psalm 421,2 631,2)

• Worship comes from an intense desire for God,
  instead of for things!
• A hunger, desire, thirst, dependence just on God
• No other gods the first commandment demands!
  NONE!
• There is something pleasant when we desire to
  please Him only to do the things that make HIM
  happy, that bless Gods heart!
• Oh that men would desire to find ALL their help
  in Him alone not as the last one you finally
  call on when everything else has failed! What
  hypocrisy!

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My Purity Pleases God (Psalm 292 Titus 214)

• Worship occurs only when I am seeking my life to
  be clean, and holy.
• Every person in the Bible who came and worshipped
  the Lord, KNEW their lives were a mess
• But they came with the desire to be washed, and
  cleansed, and pure, and made whole
• Worship does not come from perfection, but from
  yieldedness to His work in your life
• You CANNOT worship God with a heart full of sin
  (especially hidden sins), but you most certainly
  CAN worship God with a heart that is seeking to
  be cleansed!
• Some Examples

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My Patience Pleases God(Luke 811-15)

• Our patience with God proves DEPTH to our
  relationship with Him
• God promises that He is working, and will finish
  His work, and make all things beautiful, but
  only IN HIS TIME
• What we have is a very impatient generation.

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The Lord has a lot to say about our need for
patience

• For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have
  done the will of God, ye might receive the
  promise. (Hebrews 1036)
• Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with
  so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
  every weight, and the sin which doth so easily
  beset us, and let us run with patience the race
  that is set before us. (Hebrews 121)
• Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him.
  (Psalms 377)

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The Lord has a lot to say about our need for
patience

• I waited patiently for the LORD and he inclined
  unto me, and heard my cry. (Psalms 401)
• Better is the end of a thing than the beginning
  thereof and the patient in spirit is better than
  the proud in spirit. (Ecclesiastes 78)
• But we glory in tribulations also knowing that
  tribulation worketh patience And patience,
  experience and experience, hope. (Romans 53,4)
  
• Rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation
  continuing instant in prayer (Romans 1212)

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The Lord has a lot to say about our need for
patience

• For whatsoever things were written aforetime were
  written for our learning, that we through
  patience and comfort of the scriptures might have
  hope. (Romans 154)
• Now the God of patience and consolation grant you
  to be likeminded one toward another according to
  Christ Jesus (Romans 155)
• Strengthened with all might, according to his
  glorious power, unto all patience and
  longsuffering with joyfulness (Colossians 111)

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The Lord has a lot to say about our need for
patience

• And the servant of the Lord must not strive but
  be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient. (2
  Timothy 224)
• That ye be not slothful, but followers of them
  who through faith AND PATIENCE inherit the
  promises. (Hebrews 612)
• Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed.
  (Psalm 253)

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My Place of Service Pleases God (1Corinthians
1213-18)

• Being Part of a Body (assembled)
• Our place will be a place of
• Contentment wherever God has placed me
• Concern - about OTHERS and their needs instead of
  myself
• Consistency reliability - not undependable, but
  always there for others, like your leg is there
  for you! Arent you glad your lips dont fall out
  with your nose and fall off and run away until
  they feel better?

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Conclusion (Revelation 411)
Six key areas that need to be nurtured in our
lives if our worship is to be meaningful to the
One we are worshipping!!!

• Personal Relationship
• Position Low
• Panting
• Purity
• Patience
• Place of Service