June 7, 2009

• In your busy life do you think God has failed you in your efforts to know Him or even to worship Him ?

   What did you bring with you to Worship?  Have you ever gone to church and got through the service then went home not remembering what was preached or sung or prayed about ? Did you come away even more empty than when you went ? Do you go not finding His presence and your prayers not answered ? Are you always busy looking around or talking , listing to an ipod or sending others messages on your phone or reading something else maybe even playing or watching someone playing games in church?

   Do you prepare your heart with prayer before you go to church to worship the Lord?  Have you prayed for the lost before you go?  How about praying that God gives the pastor a special message to reach the very heart of the church including you?  Do you pray for the lost in your family and in your community then ask them to let you pick them up to go with you to church?  Do you pray for His love to fill your heart through out the week and that with this love He will bless you with His wisdom?  Do you ask for His thoughts to be your thoughts?  Do you ask for Him to direct your every step and submit your will completely to His as you seek to please Him by obedient faith?  Have you let Him answer you as you read His holy word often through out each day and ask Him to make you Holy as He is Holy?

   Do you come empty and leave empty or do you bring a heart set apart willing to love and serve a living God and leave abiding in Christ even fuller than when you went? I’m not talking about going empty then get a good feeling as you leave.  I’m talking going to worship in Spirit and Truth and leave the same but even stronger than when you went.

  What is real, holy and pure and who do not get it and who comes away thinking all they listen to was foolish ?

  
  “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.”Matthew 7:6

  and

  “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”1 Corinthians 1:18

  How many that set next to you are truly saved and abiding in Christ and how many are dogs and swine tearing up the church making the worship dirty and unfit for the Spirit of God to take pleasure in the worship and bless those who join in with His abiding work in their hearts. How dry and dead are many churches that “are in the world ” today and the worldly are in them !

   “22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”2 Peter 2

  Have a blessed worship day each and every day He brings you!

  Barry
  

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