WE WERE PLANNED FOR GOD’S PLEASURE
Pastor Bill Stevenson & Brother Justin Mosher
February 20, 2022
"You (God) created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created." Revelation 4:11b (NLT)
“Love the Lord your God... This is the first and greatest commandment.” Matthew 22:37-38 (NIV)
MY 1st purpose is to ____________________________.
“Because of God’s great mercy to us... Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to His service and pleasing to Him. This is the true worship that you should offer.” Romans 12:1 (TEV)
- WORSHIP is ___________________________ to God’s love.
- WORSHIP is ___________________________ to God.
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul,
all your mind, and all your strength.” Mark 12: 30 (NCV)
GOD WANTS ME TO LOVE HIM...
_________________ “with my mind”
_________________ “with my heart and soul”
_________________ “with my strength”
1. WORSHIP IS FOCUSING MY __________________ ON GOD.
“You have looked deep into my heart, Lord, and you know all about me. You know when I am resting or when I am working...You notice everything I do and everywhere I go.” Psalms 139:1-3 (CEV)
“For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.” Romans 8:7 (NLT)
“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” Romans 12:2 (NLT)
“But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.” Matthew 6:6 (NLT)
“Worship Him continually.” Psalms 105:4 (TEV)
“You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, whose thoughts are fixed on You!” Isaiah 26:3 (NLT)
- WORSHIP IS EXPRESSING MY ______________________TO GOD.
“We love Him, because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 (KJV)
“I don't want your sacrifices -- I want your love! I don't want your offerings --I want you to know Me!” Hosea 6:6 (LB)
“He is a God who is passionate about His relationship with you.”
Exodus. 34:14b (NLT)
“Give yourselves completely to God since you have been given new life.” Romans 6:13 (NLT)
3. WORSHIP IS USING MY ________________________ FOR GOD.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as though
you were working for the Lord and not for people.” Colossians 3:23(TEV)
“Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering.” Romans 12:1a (Msg)
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