01-02-2019, 06:20 PM
THE LIVING WATER
DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
WORSHIP: AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE TO GOD
Read: Psalm 42:1-4
MEMORISE: We love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).
EXPOSITION
Man was created and designed to have passion for worship. In fact, all human beings are instinctively worshipping creatures. If another fails to worship God as his Creator, the person will find another creature to worship. Whatever you love, you worship. The degree to which you love something is the degree to which you will ascribe worth to it. The Scripture says, ‘’No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon” (Matt. 6:24). If you sincerely love God, you cannot hide it and you will be longing for Him every moment.
Worship is not appeasing God, thinking that He really angry with us. This fallacy has gripped our thoughts and robbed us of the true biblical views of God and how He really feels about us. We need to understand that God loves us and His love towards us is unconditional, regardless of all our faults and failures (1 John 3:1; 4:10).
We simply go to Him with a thankful heart and begin to love Him back. Loving God is what true worship is all about (Luke 7:36:50). It is also a wrong motive to worship God because of what you want to get from Him. God sees into our deepest motives and is disappointed when we worship Him, only in order to get things from Him. A true worshipper who loves God will remain faithful to God, even if He does not bless him or her. Remember the three Hebrew boys in the Bible (Dan. 3:16-25).
Worship is having extravagant love for God. Our extravagant love and extreme submission to God flow out of the reality that God loved us first. Worship is expressing your love for God in various ways. Therefore, whatever you love more than God, has taken the place of God in your life. If you love God you will not be ashamed of Him. If you love God you will always like to be in His presence with genuine heart of worship (Ps. 119:164). If you love God, you cannot help but keep your daily appointment with Him in your prayer and reading of the Word. If you truly love God, you will completely offer your whole life to Him as a living sacrifice (Rom. 12:1).
PRAYER POINTS
1. My father, give me the capacity to love you more with all my heart, soul, mind and strength.
2. Create in me, Oh Lord, a new heart to give you reasonable worship.
3. Lord, let there be revival of true worship in all our local assemblies as of old.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Genesis 3:9 – 5:22; Matthew 1:23 – 2:19
GOOD MORNING, AND DO HAVE A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK VERY SOON, BE READY
DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
WORSHIP: AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE TO GOD
Read: Psalm 42:1-4
MEMORISE: We love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).
EXPOSITION
Man was created and designed to have passion for worship. In fact, all human beings are instinctively worshipping creatures. If another fails to worship God as his Creator, the person will find another creature to worship. Whatever you love, you worship. The degree to which you love something is the degree to which you will ascribe worth to it. The Scripture says, ‘’No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon” (Matt. 6:24). If you sincerely love God, you cannot hide it and you will be longing for Him every moment.
Worship is not appeasing God, thinking that He really angry with us. This fallacy has gripped our thoughts and robbed us of the true biblical views of God and how He really feels about us. We need to understand that God loves us and His love towards us is unconditional, regardless of all our faults and failures (1 John 3:1; 4:10).
We simply go to Him with a thankful heart and begin to love Him back. Loving God is what true worship is all about (Luke 7:36:50). It is also a wrong motive to worship God because of what you want to get from Him. God sees into our deepest motives and is disappointed when we worship Him, only in order to get things from Him. A true worshipper who loves God will remain faithful to God, even if He does not bless him or her. Remember the three Hebrew boys in the Bible (Dan. 3:16-25).
Worship is having extravagant love for God. Our extravagant love and extreme submission to God flow out of the reality that God loved us first. Worship is expressing your love for God in various ways. Therefore, whatever you love more than God, has taken the place of God in your life. If you love God you will not be ashamed of Him. If you love God you will always like to be in His presence with genuine heart of worship (Ps. 119:164). If you love God, you cannot help but keep your daily appointment with Him in your prayer and reading of the Word. If you truly love God, you will completely offer your whole life to Him as a living sacrifice (Rom. 12:1).
PRAYER POINTS
1. My father, give me the capacity to love you more with all my heart, soul, mind and strength.
2. Create in me, Oh Lord, a new heart to give you reasonable worship.
3. Lord, let there be revival of true worship in all our local assemblies as of old.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Genesis 3:9 – 5:22; Matthew 1:23 – 2:19
GOOD MORNING, AND DO HAVE A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK VERY SOON, BE READY