Humble Community

We are unified through the spirit, and in then humility of Christ we become equal.
Today’s prayer as I prepare my heart is that we can lay our pride aside and the things that we hold dear, in order to unify and submit to God’s sovereign will for us as a church. We can always find common ground in the cross.

Songs and Prayers...

“O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing”
Grace has triumphed, and we can join together and sing.
We can all join and sing of this great love.

“Holy is the Lord”
Unified in our understanding that He is a great God and we humbly proclaim that He is set apart.
In Isaiah 6, we find a great principle of what worship is...
The angels sing
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” (Isaiah 6:3)
and Isaiah is humbled.

“Surrender”
We would be able to give up all that we hold dear.
As we approach memorial day, the word surrender can have negative connotations.
In light of the victory at the cross, Surrender does not mean defeated. Instead it means that we put are trust in the Lordship of Christ, and we attribute to him the victory of Christ.

“Hungry”
Falling on our knees is a symbol of our place of humility and as a church our need for redemption.

The Love of a Forever God

HAPPY DAY


One of the reasons to sing is to gain strength, and to remind ourselves that God is a forever God, and to turn our hearts to him
Everlasting God
Isa. 40
28Do you not know?
      Have you not heard?
      The Lord is the everlasting God,
      the Creator of the ends of the earth.
      He will not grow tired or weary,
      and his understanding no one can fathom.
       29He gives strength to the weary
      and increases the power of the weak.
       30Even youths grow tired and weary,
      and young men stumble and fall;
       31but those who hope in the Lord
      will renew their strength.
      They will soar on wings like eagles;
      they will run and not grow weary,
      they will walk and not be faint.

Forever
One way that the people of Israel worship God when they got together was to have call and response. Psalms 136 is this type of Psalm, it was a way for them to remember God and pass this on to future generations. Let’s try this together, I will call out attributes and thanks and you will respond with the truth that...“His love endures forever”

Ps 136
1Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
      His love endures forever.
       2Give thanks to the God of gods.
      His love endures forever.
       3Give thanks to the Lord of lords:
      His love endures forever.
       4to him who alone does great wonders,
      His love endures forever.
       5who by his understanding made the heavens,
      His love endures forever.
       6who spread out the earth upon the waters,
      His love endures forever.
       7who made the great lights—
      His love endures forever.
      

23He remembered us in our low estate
      His love endures forever.
       24and freed us from our enemies.
      His love endures forever.
       25He gives food to every creature.
      His love endures forever.
       26Give thanks to the God of heaven.
      His love endures forever.