Title: Why Your Walk Matters
Text:
Psalm 84:10-12 (NKJV)
10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly. 12 O Lord of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!
Observation:
There is nothing more wonderful that being in the presence of God in worship with God's people. If I had to name the top worship experience of my life I would say that it occurred in July 1986 in Amsterdam. I was attending the Billy Graham International Itinerate Evangelist Conference.
The service that made an indelible impression upon me was the opening service. There were about 12,000 people assembled for worship. It was a powerful and Spirit filled worship experience. There were more countries represented than members of the United Nations at that time. The presenting of the flags of these countries, and the congregation of 12,000 singing, "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name" was a joyous experience. The words of the song, "Let every kindred every tribe" was so real.
That experience then gives me an appreciation of how the Psalmist felt being in Jerusalem to worship in the temple.
Psalm 84:10 (ESV)
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
That's the mountain top experience. However, I'm so glad that God is also present in the valley, and that is where we live most of our lives. Look at His provisions.
Psalm 84:11 (NKJV)
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.
Notice that grace comes before glory. God loves you too much to leave you where you are when you professed faith in Him. Notice that He gives you grace that will enable you walk uprightly before Him. This is the part I so appreciate.
Psalm 84:12 (NKJV)
O Lord of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!
Prayer:
Father God, my dear Father, I am so thankful that You give Your people sufficient grace, the faith to trust You, and the power to walk uprightly in the world. Lord, I thank You for being our provider and protector. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Singing His Praises:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Vk59SHSWs
"Let every kindred, every tribe
on this terrestrial ball,
to Him all majesty ascribe,
and crown Him Lord of all.
To Him all majesty ascribe,
and crown Him Lord of all."
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Matthew 4:4 (HCSB)
4 But He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
8 Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.
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