Up a Notch

Efficiency in our service for the Kingdom of God starts with purity in worship. Yesterday's sermon incuded the following information starting with John 4:23-24:

"But the time is coming-- indeed it's here now-- when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth."

It was refereshing to see good altar response at the service yesterday as people really do want to raise their level of efficiency in worship.

To Worship rightly with our mind and our heart. To worship the one true God and to know who and why He is. We need an accurate understanding of Who God is.

In efficient worship we are agreeing with God about :

Who He is
What He can do ( and has done )
What is He asking of us?


His nature, His Character, His plans, His purposes.

Colossians 3:16 "Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts."

It does not require outward expression of emotion but it can be emotional. I choose to let God have my emotions in my worship time.

Greg Laurie wrote: "God has put in us the sense, the awareness, that there is more to this world than we can see, feel, taste or even imagine."

Isaiah 26:3 3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!

Great work must be created out of the inner peace of the artist.
In our lives, as in art, without tranquility there can be nothing great.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: “The troubled mind is a troublemaker.”

St. Augustine: “Our hearts are restless until they find rest in God.”

“a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God.”
- Isaiah 30:15