GREENE STREET LETTERS: Worship---Don't Leave Home Without it

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Worship---Don't Leave Home Without it

Psalm 150:6
Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD!

Worship----
The highest calling mankind has.
To worship His creator.
Worship with his entire being. Voice, heart, soul, spirit, body, mind, hands, feet, eyes....the complete package.
Worship is a verb, not an adjective.
Worship doesn't describe what service you are having. "We went to Worship service this morning."
Worship is action...
Worship is movement...
Worship is life.
Everyday I worship as I move through the hours.
At my job....
While I'm cutting the grass.
While I'm sitting in my backyard drinking iced tea.
Everything I do, I do as worship unto Jesus.

Worship is a continual outpouring of gratitude to God.
Gratitude for my salvation.
Gratitude for my new life.
Gratitude for the grace, mercy and love He gives to me and my family.
The devil hates worship.
He hates anything that directs the hearts attention to God.
There in that beautiful garden, he uttered those insidious words to the woman....
"Has God really said?"
The seed of doubt that brought forth the fruit of sin.
The devil hates worship, especially when it is done corporately.
A group whose hearts are one, whose attention is squarely on the one true living God.

I guess the one thing I am indebted to the Vineyard for is their view of worship and how important it is.
Songs such as "Now Is The Time To Worship" and "Holy And Anointed One" stir my spirit and take me into the presence of God.
Danny Daniels "Never Cease To Praise" and Dave Markee's "Wonderful Lord" are part of my history of worship. Songs that reflect and draw us to see the Father, love the Son and allow the Holy Spirit to work in us.

This is one of the things that I believe God wants to be a part of our Saturday night service.
To teach and help others understand exactly what worship is and how to worship.
Oh, don't get me wrong, there isn't a "12 Step Guide to Worship", but I do believe we can spend some time telling others what worship is all about.
If you're free next Saturday, April 13, then come and join us for the first gathering of Vineyard Recovery Fellowship. 7 p.m.- 419 Broad Street, downtown Gadsden.

God on you....
mb

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Worship---Don't Leave Home Without it

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD