WORSHIP & PRAYER

1Praise! is our heart felt outpouring of genuine worship and adoration of our Heavenly Father

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Worship & Prayer 

1.   As we begin to see the beauty of the creator our natural response is worship of Him. In Thankfulness, we can lay down ourselves for His glory, in daily obedience.  

• Teaching the body how God wants to be worshipped
• Knowing that worship is birthed from the understanding of our relationship with our Creator (“He must become greater; I must become less.”-John‬ ‭3:30‬ ‭NIV‬‬)
• Culturing our hearts, so we can be positioned to live a worshipful life
• Teaching us how to pray and how it is part of worship
• Understanding our expression of worship through surrender
• Seeking to know worship is birthed out of our brokenness (the Psalms)
• Understanding how our giving is connected with worship

My heart is steadfast, O God;
I will sing, I will sing praises, even with my soul.
2 Awake, harp and lyre;
I will awaken the dawn!
3 I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples,
And I will sing praises to You among the nations.

-Psalms‬ ‭108:1-3‬ NASB

• 1Praise (Worship & Prayer Pastor)

Focus: Worship (Relationship of laying down ourselves and glorifying the Father):

Learning together...

1. How "worship" isn't the 3-4 songs sung before a church service, but a way of life, lived out daily.

2. How we bring our offering of worship through our thankfulness, brokenness, obedience, and Love.  

3. How God provides the understanding of how He longs for us to worship Him through The Word, when we simply listen. 

4. How our giving (not just our tithes & offerings, but our whole lives for His glory) is our true and proper worship

5. How our prayer is a form of worship, before the Father.

6. The importance of unifying as one family, through worship, as the Lord dwells amongst us, receiving the freedom and healing that He desires for His "body".

• Worship causes us to consider and appreciate the beauty of God's character
• Worship lifts our perspective from earthly to heavenly
• Worship takes our mind off our problems, and focuses it on God
• Worship leads us from individual reflection to corporate response

5 characteristics of Godly Worship:

Jubilant-  Feeling or celebration expressing great happiness and triumph in His sacrifice and His accomplishments (a heart of victory)

Undivided- complete focus on God. Not ourselves or what we are doing, for Him. (A heart of focus)

Desperate- Having a great need or desire for Him. (a heart of dependence)

Authentic-  Not false or copied; genuine; real (a heart of transparency)

Humble-  Having or showing a modest or lower estimate of one's own importance ( a heart humility )

*Connecting the dots: A heart seeking true identity, in Christ , discovers how laying oneself down for worship of the Father, produces the desire, in us, for an encouraging, healthy community, as to grow together towards who God has called us to be.