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- Joab Perdue
- May 27, 2009
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3 things we must do to be producers rather than consumers on the sidelines.
1. We must realize worship is a lifestyle
We have to live for God with everything we have. If you are constantly sticking your big toe in the water and then saying oh it’s too cold the music style is not good, the guitar player is too loud, the preacher is too mean.. then you are not all in.
Matthew 4:10 (The Message) says- 10Jesus' refusal was curt: "Beat it, Satan!" He backed his rebuke with a third quotation from Deuteronomy: "Worship the Lord your God, and only him. Serve him with absolute single-heartedness."
I love that. True worship is not about lifting your hands a certain way or clapping although that is important. To truly worship God it is a lifestyle. You can worship your God mom as you raise your kids, at your job, as you help someone in need. Don’t get caught in the mind set that we only worship at church while the music is playing.
4 types of worship settings. 1. Personal 2.cell 3. Congregational 4. Celebration.
Worship must be done out of a revelation of who he is not what he has done.
You will become what you worship.
2. Obey God.
Deuteronomy 4:39-40 (The Message) - Know this well, then. Take it to heart right now: GOD is in Heaven above; GOD is on Earth below. He's the only God there is. Obediently live by his rules and commands which I'm giving you today so that you'll live well and your children after you—oh, you'll live a long time in the land that GOD, your God, is giving you.
3. Listen to God.
Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own.
Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he's the one who will keep you on track.
Don't assume that you know it all. Run to God! Run from evil!
In listening to God you have to learn to cultivate a quiet heart and allow him to correct you and guide you - Psalm 131:2 (The Message) says I've kept my feet on the ground; I've cultivated a quiet heart.
Psalm 139:23-24 (The Message) Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about; See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong—then guide me on the road to eternal life.
God is a big God, when we focus on him, we get smaller and somehow God gets bigger. Our problems become smaller and we are able to look outside ourselves and see other people in need. Psalm 8 helps us see how big God is and realize we can do anything if we will just give him our all and allow our selves to be producers rather than watching life past us by because we don’t want to get wet.
Psalm 8
A David Psalm
1 GOD, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.
2 Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs That drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble.
3-4 I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
5-8 Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light. You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge, Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild, Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps.
9 GOD, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.