Day 2
Thought: God does not answer prayer based on who you are, He answers prayer based upon who He is. That’s why it’s always great to start with praise worship.
Today’s theme: Return To Me.
Joel 2:12 (NIV)
“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
Where is your faith with Jesus today?
Let’s return to Him with all of our heart
Joel 2:25 (NIV)
25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten— the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm[b]—my great army that I sent among you.
26 You will have plenty to eat, until you are full, and you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you; never again will my people be shamed.
John 4:23 (NLT)
23 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.
I love this because it says the “Father is looking.” God is looking for those who would be worshippers of Him.
He’s also looking for worship in a certain way. (it may not be the way we like to worship. He has a certain way).
Mark 12:28-30 (NIV)
28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[b]
He wants our heart and soul. Our physical expressions and affections to God.
1. I worship by expressing my affection to God.
He wants our mind as well. That is my attention on God.
2. I worship by focusing my attention on God.
What is on my mind that doesn’t need to be on my mind.
Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV)
You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.
Protecting my mind and having it on Him for His perfect peace.
With all our strength.
3. I worship by using my abilities for God.
Lord, what would you have me do to show my love for you.
God may be asking you to get out of the stands and get into the game.
Hebrews 13:16 (NIV)
And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Your work for God is pleasing to Him.
