Title: Is Your Worship Pleasing to the Lord?
Text:
Isaiah 29:13 (HCSB)
The Lord said: Because these people approach Me with their mouths to honor Me with lip-service— yet their hearts are far from Me, and their worship [consists of] man-made rules learned [by rote]—
Observation:
As I think about this topic the first thing that popped into my mind was this scripture. I am always interested in what the Bible says about a topic.
John 4:23-24 (HCSB)
23 But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
What got me thinking about this topic was when I read this verse in one of my daily bible reading plans; it spoke into my heart.
Genesis 12:8 (HCSB)
From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there, and he called on the name of Yahweh.
One of the things I never want to be guilty of is this.
Matthew 15:9 (HCSB)
They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commands of men."
I want to number with those who pitch their tents where Abraham pitched his tent; between Bethel and Ai; between God and the world. God is looking for true worshippers.
John 4:23 (HCSB)
But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.
Prayer:
Father God, I thank You for bringing this subject to my mind this morning; I was trying to go another way, but You spoke to me by bringing this document up when I was trying to locate my template.
However, Father God, You know the thoughts that are burning deep within my heart. I awaken this morning with a text message from a friend on the East Coast; he was responding to a picture of a Maui Sunset I sent to him last night. He said the sun looks great, but I know another Son who looks and is greater.
Father God, it is Jesus that I want to exalt today and every day above every other name; Lord, I am reminded of another message that a friend and brother posted yesterday that the name of Jesus would be exalted and made famous in our day as He was in the first century.
Father God, O how I pray for a mighty Holy Spirit revival to begin in Your Church, and Lord, that it would begin in me. Lord, I pray that you would heal our bodies and our souls; so that the whole world would know that Jesus is a healer and deliverer in a class of one. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, and let the Church say, Amen.
Matthew 4:24King James Version (KJV)
24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
2 Chronicles 7:14King James Version (KJV)
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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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