GREENE STREET LETTERS: The Skinny On Worship

Friday, March 18, 2016

The Skinny On Worship

Psalm 150:6
Let everything that breathes sing praises to the Lord....Praise the Lord!

Strange verse....
Last verse in the book of Psalm.
Last entry in the Hymn / Poetry book written by King David and few other of his contemporaries. Moses, Solomon, Asaph....
They were a creative bunch that used their talent to put down the inner thoughts and leading of God's Spirit. In other words, what we have in the Psalm is a very clear picture of the human heart and the will of God coming in contact with each other.

Here in this last verse of Psalm we see an incredible picture of how our response to God should be.
Sing praises...
Let your mouth open up.....
Let the air from your lungs rush across your vocal chords...
And let the sound that comes from this process proclaim the greatness and the goodness of our God.
Worship!

We were born to worship...
Our very lives are worship, or at least they should be.
And the weird part in this whole Psalm/worship thing is that everyone should participate in it. We need times of corporate worship where we join with others and just sing what's in our heart to God.
It dawned on me some time back that no where in the Psalm 150:6 verse does it say that only those in relationship with Christ should praise the Lord.
The verse says "Let everything that has breath"....in other words God IS worthy. God deserves our worship. Not because He has an ego that needs to be stroked, but simply because He is God.

I've posted a short video of John Wimber teaching on Worship in today's Greene Street Letters. Please take a few moments and watch it.
Then go out and praise the Lord....all day, every day, by the way you live.

God on you....
mbb

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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.

Friday, March 18, 2016

The Skinny On Worship

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD