May 3, 2025 • 31 mins
Have you ever stopped to consider what worship truly means beyond our religious traditions? Worship isn't simply singing songs or going through motions—it's giving everything you have (your body, mind, and spirit) to someone you consider greater than yourself. It's willingly surrendering your own rights to fulfill the desires of another.
When we examine the confrontation between Jesus and Satan in the wilderness, we discover something profound. Satan didn't merely want Jesus to perform religious activities; he wanted Jesus to give himself completely over in adoration. Jesus responded with clarity: worship belongs to God alone. Later, in his conversation with a Samaritan woman, Jesus revealed that true worshipers connect with God "in spirit and in truth"—not through empty ritual but through genuine devotion.
One of the most revolutionary insights about worship is that we honor God by enjoying what He's created. Whether that's delighting in relationships, appreciating nature, or receiving His gifts with gratitude, our enjoyment brings pleasure to God's heart. This perspective transforms worship from obligation into joyful connection. When we gather in authentic worship—whether four people or four thousand—the atmosphere changes as God's glory becomes manifest among us.
The culture of God's Kingdom is built on worship, and as believers, we're called to live as worshipers in every aspect of life. Our thoughts, words, and actions all express our devotion. Worship isn't something we do; it's who we are. Take time today to consider where your deepest devotion lies, and allow the Holy Spirit to realign your heart toward the only One truly worthy of worship.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
to worship someone or something.
Really, when you stop and breakit down, worship means
ascribing worth Worth.
Scribe is an old way of sayingit actually.
(00:24):
Worship is an old way of sayingit actually.
Worship, however, that has, yes, it's true, it's accurate, but
it really it's kind of almost itlacks some color.
And so I was thinking you knowwhat is worship?
(00:49):
I mean truly what really isworship?
And I have come to understandthat worship is really giving
everything that you have yourbody, your mind, your spirit,
(01:20):
your everything over to someonethat you ascribe greater worth
to than yourself, someone who'shigher above, someone you
consider to be higher above thanyou, greater than you, greater
(01:53):
than you, and you are alsowilling, you willingly give over
your own rights and you live tofulfill the desires and the
words of the one that youworship, worship or that which
you worship.
And so that really fills insome of the blanks the fact that
(02:15):
it's really an expression ofdeep devotion.
And, yes, it involves singing.
Yes, it involves dancing.
Yes, it involves singing.
Yes, it involves dancing.
Yes, it involves prostratingourselves face down.
It involves us raising our arms, our hands, lifting our voices,
(02:40):
shouting, being quiet, being inawe.
All of the above involvesworship, but really, really,
really, really really.
It involves you giving yourselfover completely to devote.
(03:02):
You're devoted, you'recompletely devoted to someone.
You're devoted, you'recompletely devoted to someone or
something else.
That's a really important point, man, because that means that
(03:24):
that other thing or person beinghas control over you.
You've given them the right tohave control, you've given over
your control and have taken uponyour role as one who fulfills
the desires of the other.
That's powerful Again, that's aman when it's devoted to the
(03:52):
right source.
But far too often we have foundourselves perhaps at various
times I know I have where I haveplaced my devotion, my
adoration, in the wrong area.
(04:19):
Sometimes it has been toward,literally toward things that
would produce a mind-alteringway of life for me, whether that
was alcohol, whether that wasdrugs, whether that would be
(04:46):
whatever, whatever activitymight be that would take place,
sometimes music, sometimes sex,right, I mean just whatever it
might be and it would ofteninvolve or it has involved I
couldn't say often, but when ithas involved that it's involved
(05:07):
it with regards to also otherpeople.
I've given over, I've given toomuch control over to other
people.
(05:29):
I find it interesting that oneof the places that we find in
Scripture.
Where worship comes up is whenJesus in the wilderness was
having a confrontation withSatan.
Satan and there were variousthings that took place as a
testing, as a temptation, as atrying of who Jesus was by Satan
(05:55):
and one of the key things thatSatan wanted.
I mean, he really played hishand when he said all the things
that are in this world, all thenations, all the majesty, all
(06:21):
the pompous circumstances, goalong with every culture around
the majesty, all the pompouscircumstances go along with
every culture around the world,because they're mine.
They are mine, they're under mycontrol and I can give that
over to whomever I will, and Iwould give that to you if you
(06:44):
would worship me.
I give that to you if you wouldworship me.
What in the world is worship?
Man, ready Right Again.
Worship, it's more than just areligious exercise of singing
songs or lighting a candle ordoing things that might be just
rote.
You just do them.
Lighting a candle or doingthings that might be just rote,
(07:06):
you just do them.
That's not what Satan wantedfrom Jesus for him to light a
candle and say a prayer and gothrough something that was just
him doing things by rote, byempty religious activity.
(07:32):
He wanted Jesus to give himselfto him, to adore him and to
place him above him.
You say that and that's theessence.
That's the essence of worship.
And Jesus said.
(07:55):
Jesus said, get away, becausewe are to worship God and him
only.
And at that point Satan left totry him at another time.
But he left.
(08:18):
And then later we pick up thisconversation that Jesus is
having with a woman, a woman.
In that culture, him talking toa woman was pretty out of order
.
But for him to talk with awoman that was culturally
(08:40):
unclean, a Samaritan, a personfrom the other, the wrong side
of the tracks, and for him to betalking with her alone, that
was like unheard of.
But they were having aconversation and it was a clean
one, it was a good one, good one.
(09:11):
And, funny thing, theirconversation, it started out by
him asking for her to, you know,get some, drop some water from
the well she had come to fill upher jars.
But it ended up them talkingabout worship.
And I'm just going to read it toyou In John, chapter 4, verse
24, this is from the AmplifiedVersion.
(09:32):
Actually, let me start at verse23.
Let me start at verse 23.
It goes.
A time will come, howeverindeed, it is already here where
the true, genuine worshiperswill worship the Father in
(09:52):
spirit and in truth or reality,for the Father is seeking just
such people as these as hisworshipers.
God is a spirit, a spiritualbeing, and those who worship him
must worship him in spirit andin truth or reality.
(10:18):
Worship, the topic of worshipNow granted in many of our
cultures, the topic of worshipisn't talked you talk about
around the office or maybe evenin your house, in your home.
But I guarantee you, in life,when things come to a place
(11:01):
where there is a major shift andyou are facing things that are
beyond you, something happens onthe inside and there is this
crying out, and that crying outis the place of reality that God
(11:31):
said when you're there, whenyou're really there, now we can
start.
Now we can start.
You're at the end of yourself.
Now we get down to the spirit,and when that happens, worship
(11:53):
worship is like breathing.
It becomes part of your life.
You become a worshipper.
There's something about wantingto worship and wanting to
worship God, literally findingout oh man, I've been giving
myself to the wrong things.
God, I repent, I'm sorry,please forgive me.
(12:16):
I turn from that, from thosethings, those people, and I give
that to you.
That's what worship is.
I worship I.
I I've wasted my time on thesethings when, all the while, I
could be worshiping you, becauseworship is powerful, it's a
(12:40):
powerful aspect of relationshipand it's meant to be the one and
only thing that we sharetogether with God Worship.
We love one another, but wedon't worship one another.
(13:06):
We don't worship angels, wedon't worship idols.
We worship God.
We give our everything to God.
We give our willingness to dowhatever he says.
You know, when you do that topeople, initially it could be
like, ah, I found someone who'sjust so great.
(13:26):
Finally, I can rest in the factthat, ah, I just hang on to
every word Until until,ultimately, they fall, because
it's a pedestal that's too highand it's only meant for God.
(13:47):
And eventually, whomever it isis going to fall, or whatever it
is, it's going to fall, it'sgoing to disappoint, it's not
going to come through.
And then what do you have?
Right?
You have a life that's full ofthat difficulty and heaviness
(14:09):
and sense of like.
I don't know what, I don't knowwhat to think, that, as opposed
to having a clear mind, havingthe very mind of Christ, focused
reality, really being able tothink, and that is a byproduct
(14:34):
of worshiping God Powerful.
We are called to worship.
That's our highest calling inlife is to worship God.
That's our highest calling inlife is to worship God.
That's our first calling inlife is to worship God, and him
only to worship.
And one of the ways and wetalked about some of the ways,
(15:00):
right, lifting our hands,singing, dancing, being prostate
, kneeling, right, all of those,man, those are powerful
expressions of what's going onon the inside.
When it's that way, right, whenthat's what's happening, and
you're doing it because that andin response to God's presence,
(15:23):
amen.
But there's something else, andI heard this years ago and I
(15:43):
really I embraced it, but ithadn't become a real reality
within my life until about twoyears ago or so, and I'm 66, so
go figure, and I've known theLord since I've been 13,.
So, man, right, I mean that's50 years, give or take, you know
(16:06):
, a couple years, you get whatI'm saying.
It's been a while and thestatement was this One of the
ways, one of the greatest wayswe can worship God is for us to
enjoy what he has created andwhat he's given to us, man, what
(16:30):
Say that again?
Say that again.
One of the greatest ways thatwe can worship, worship, give
our adoration to God, one of thegreatest ways we can worship
God is for us to enjoy what he'screated and what he's given to
(16:58):
us.
Wow, to enjoy.
And you know what that includes.
Now, that includes one another.
I can enjoy the people that Ihang with.
In fact, I can enjoy evendifficult people.
(17:25):
I don't necessarily like it allthe time, but I can enjoy it
because of what it's creatingwithin me.
But just the garden variety,things that we can let irritate
us about one another.
(17:46):
Man, I think it's better for usto really find ways in which we
can enjoy one another.
I can enjoy, enjoy, I enjoy thepeople in the fellowship that
(18:07):
I'm a part of in Jacksonville,florida.
Man, I love this fellowship.
Now, are there things thathappen that we can bump up
(18:31):
against each other and rub eachother wrong at times?
Sure, but that doesn't mean Ican't enjoy the other person.
That might mean we've got towork some stuff out, but let's
work it out, because we'recalled to enjoy one another, but
(18:51):
also the creation itself, to beable to go outside and enjoy.
When's the last time you wentoutside and just enjoyed
yourself and said God, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
you.
Now, if you created somethingand nobody said anything about
(19:13):
it, I mean you'd hope thatsomeone would enjoy it and say
something about it, because thenit's like ah well, well, I love
(19:34):
the fact that we can give Godpleasure, we can bring delight
to his heart, and we can bringdelight to his heart by enjoying
what he's created, because whathe's created is good.
He said so.
He said after he created it'sgood.
He gave us a commission asmankind to go from the Garden of
(20:04):
Eden and multiply and subduethe earth, because the earth
outside of Eden was in a roughcondition, still is, but what
God has created is good.
I'm not saying what otherpeople and other things have
(20:29):
created is good.
I'm not saying what otherpeople and other things have
created is good, but what Godhas created is good.
And to enjoy what he's createdand the fact that he's created
me and he's created you, hecreated us, he created others
(20:52):
For us to enjoy one another andget along with one another and
be joined together as one withone another in love, is an act
of worship to God.
And I know for a fact that thatis high on the priority list of
Holy Spirit in these days,because it was a very powerful
(21:18):
prayer that Jesus prayed andit's recorded in John, chapter
17.
And his prayer was that we, ashis people, would be one, even
as he and the Father are one,and that we would love one
(21:45):
another, and that we would loveone another and that we would be
one in that respect, togetherwith God.
Enjoying God, enjoying God Ienjoy God.
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I enjoy my time with him.
I enjoy what he has done.
I enjoy my time with him.
I enjoy what he has done.
I enjoy what he's doing.
I enjoy what he's about to do.
I enjoy my Father.
I enjoy the Lord Jesus.
I enjoy Holy Spirit.
I enjoy God.
It's a mystery, it's a wonder,it's a divine thing, and we are
(22:30):
part of it.
We're called to it and we'recalled to worship, praise God.
Worship is part of the cultureof the kingdom of God and it's
the culture that we're bornagain into when we place our
faith in Jesus Christ and hegives us his spirit, cleanses us
(22:55):
from our sins, so that webecome a place that's habitable
for Holy Spirit.
He can dwell within a placethat's been cleansed by blood,
purified, made holy.
Because he's holy, he's lookingto do that To us and through us
(23:17):
, more and more and more andmore, until we radiate his glory
Hallelujah, enjoying what Godhas created and what he's given
to us.
God's given us some reallyamazing things.
(23:38):
Not just one another.
That alone is amazing, but thefact that we have places to live
, we have food to eat, we haveclothes to wear, and then we
(24:05):
have the opportunity to subduethis earth and we have tools
provided for us to do that, goodtools as well as sweet sleep,
(24:31):
some good rest and being able toenjoy what God has given.
What God has given.
Sometimes we have things thatare just in abundance and God
(24:59):
wants us to enjoy what he'sgiven.
Worship, the giving of ourselvescompletely over, devoting
ourselves and expressing ourdevotion in a loving way to God
(25:20):
In our thought, in our thoughtlife, in our word life, meaning
the things that come out of ourmouth and the things that we do
with our hands and our feet,where we go, what we do, we
(25:42):
worship.
That's powerful.
And when it's done in song, man, when you're in an environment
where that's really happening, Idon't care if it's four people
or 400 people or 4,000 people,400,000 people Praise God.
(26:08):
When it's spirit of truth, man,the sky will crack.
You know what I mean Manifestglory of God in our midst, just
(26:35):
dwelling and absorbingeverything that we're expressing
.
No wonder Satan wanted that.
That's what he wanted.
He wanted that.
He's's what he wanted.
He wanted that.
He's the one who said I'm goingto place myself above God, and
so he wanted that worship,because that's what God was.
(26:58):
Getting even close to the placein which Satan could dwell, his
own personal pedestal camecrashing down and soon it's
(27:23):
going to be completely destroyedand the God of peace will crush
Satan under our feet shortly.
But worship belongs to God andit's powerful.
(27:44):
Let's not forget that worship isa powerful thing.
It's not just a religiousactivity that we do, because
it's what we do on a Saturday ora Sunday or a Wednesday or a
Thursday, whatever day it mightbe.
We just go through the motionschecklist, check that off and
(28:09):
done.
But it's alive, god's alive,hallelujah, let's pray, father,
thank you, we worship you.
You alone are worthy.
(28:31):
Lord Jesus, we worship you, holySpirit, we worship you, god.
We honor you, we give ourselvesto you.
Speak the word, Lord.
Your servant is listening.
Speak the word, lord, yourservants are listening.
(28:57):
We want to live out what comesout of your mouth and what has
already come out of your mouthand what has already come out of
your mouth, hallelujah.
So the Holy Spirit teaches,leads us, guides us to be like
(29:17):
Jesus and to worship like him,as he worships the Father.
As you, god, you have theunique ability of worshiping one
another In spirit and inreality.
Hallelujah.
(29:38):
We honor you and we pray thesethings as Jesus, praying them in
his name.
Amen, amen, amen, amen.
All right, folks, I love you.
(29:58):
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free to drop us a line atlifearoundthefire, at gmailcom,
or type in lifearoundthefire andlook us up on the web.
We would love to hear from youIn the meantime.
God bless you.
Adios amigos.
to worship someone or something.
Really, when you stop and breakit down, worship means
ascribing worth Worth.
Scribe is an old way of sayingit actually.
(00:24):
Worship is an old way of sayingit actually.
Worship, however, that has, yes, it's true, it's accurate, but
it really it's kind of almost itlacks some color.
And so I was thinking you knowwhat is worship?
(00:49):
I mean truly what really isworship?
And I have come to understandthat worship is really giving
everything that you have yourbody, your mind, your spirit,
(01:20):
your everything over to someonethat you ascribe greater worth
to than yourself, someone who'shigher above, someone you
consider to be higher above thanyou, greater than you, greater
(01:53):
than you, and you are alsowilling, you willingly give over
your own rights and you live tofulfill the desires and the
words of the one that youworship, worship or that which
you worship.
And so that really fills insome of the blanks the fact that
(02:15):
it's really an expression ofdeep devotion.
And, yes, it involves singing.
Yes, it involves dancing.
Yes, it involves singing.
Yes, it involves dancing.
Yes, it involves prostratingourselves face down.
It involves us raising our arms, our hands, lifting our voices,
(02:40):
shouting, being quiet, being inawe.
All of the above involvesworship, but really, really,
really, really really.
It involves you giving yourselfover completely to devote.
(03:02):
You're devoted, you'recompletely devoted to someone.
You're devoted, you'recompletely devoted to someone or
something else.
That's a really important point, man, because that means that
(03:24):
that other thing or person beinghas control over you.
You've given them the right tohave control, you've given over
your control and have taken uponyour role as one who fulfills
the desires of the other.
That's powerful Again, that's aman when it's devoted to the
(03:52):
right source.
But far too often we have foundourselves perhaps at various
times I know I have where I haveplaced my devotion, my
adoration, in the wrong area.
(04:19):
Sometimes it has been toward,literally toward things that
would produce a mind-alteringway of life for me, whether that
was alcohol, whether that wasdrugs, whether that would be
(04:46):
whatever, whatever activitymight be that would take place,
sometimes music, sometimes sex,right, I mean just whatever it
might be and it would ofteninvolve or it has involved I
couldn't say often, but when ithas involved that it's involved
(05:07):
it with regards to also otherpeople.
I've given over, I've given toomuch control over to other
people.
(05:29):
I find it interesting that oneof the places that we find in
Scripture.
Where worship comes up is whenJesus in the wilderness was
having a confrontation withSatan.
Satan and there were variousthings that took place as a
testing, as a temptation, as atrying of who Jesus was by Satan
(05:55):
and one of the key things thatSatan wanted.
I mean, he really played hishand when he said all the things
that are in this world, all thenations, all the majesty, all
(06:21):
the pompous circumstances, goalong with every culture around
the majesty, all the pompouscircumstances go along with
every culture around the world,because they're mine.
They are mine, they're under mycontrol and I can give that
over to whomever I will, and Iwould give that to you if you
(06:44):
would worship me.
I give that to you if you wouldworship me.
What in the world is worship?
Man, ready Right Again.
Worship, it's more than just areligious exercise of singing
songs or lighting a candle ordoing things that might be just
rote.
You just do them.
Lighting a candle or doingthings that might be just rote,
(07:06):
you just do them.
That's not what Satan wantedfrom Jesus for him to light a
candle and say a prayer and gothrough something that was just
him doing things by rote, byempty religious activity.
(07:32):
He wanted Jesus to give himselfto him, to adore him and to
place him above him.
You say that and that's theessence.
That's the essence of worship.
And Jesus said.
(07:55):
Jesus said, get away, becausewe are to worship God and him
only.
And at that point Satan left totry him at another time.
But he left.
(08:18):
And then later we pick up thisconversation that Jesus is
having with a woman, a woman.
In that culture, him talking toa woman was pretty out of order
.
But for him to talk with awoman that was culturally
(08:40):
unclean, a Samaritan, a personfrom the other, the wrong side
of the tracks, and for him to betalking with her alone, that
was like unheard of.
But they were having aconversation and it was a clean
one, it was a good one, good one.
(09:11):
And, funny thing, theirconversation, it started out by
him asking for her to, you know,get some, drop some water from
the well she had come to fill upher jars.
But it ended up them talkingabout worship.
And I'm just going to read it toyou In John, chapter 4, verse
24, this is from the AmplifiedVersion.
(09:32):
Actually, let me start at verse23.
Let me start at verse 23.
It goes.
A time will come, howeverindeed, it is already here where
the true, genuine worshiperswill worship the Father in
(09:52):
spirit and in truth or reality,for the Father is seeking just
such people as these as hisworshipers.
God is a spirit, a spiritualbeing, and those who worship him
must worship him in spirit andin truth or reality.
(10:18):
Worship, the topic of worshipNow granted in many of our
cultures, the topic of worshipisn't talked you talk about
around the office or maybe evenin your house, in your home.
But I guarantee you, in life,when things come to a place
(11:01):
where there is a major shift andyou are facing things that are
beyond you, something happens onthe inside and there is this
crying out, and that crying outis the place of reality that God
(11:31):
said when you're there, whenyou're really there, now we can
start.
Now we can start.
You're at the end of yourself.
Now we get down to the spirit,and when that happens, worship
(11:53):
worship is like breathing.
It becomes part of your life.
You become a worshipper.
There's something about wantingto worship and wanting to
worship God, literally findingout oh man, I've been giving
myself to the wrong things.
God, I repent, I'm sorry,please forgive me.
(12:16):
I turn from that, from thosethings, those people, and I give
that to you.
That's what worship is.
I worship I.
I I've wasted my time on thesethings when, all the while, I
could be worshiping you, becauseworship is powerful, it's a
(12:40):
powerful aspect of relationshipand it's meant to be the one and
only thing that we sharetogether with God Worship.
We love one another, but wedon't worship one another.
(13:06):
We don't worship angels, wedon't worship idols.
We worship God.
We give our everything to God.
We give our willingness to dowhatever he says.
You know, when you do that topeople, initially it could be
like, ah, I found someone who'sjust so great.
(13:26):
Finally, I can rest in the factthat, ah, I just hang on to
every word Until until,ultimately, they fall, because
it's a pedestal that's too highand it's only meant for God.
(13:47):
And eventually, whomever it isis going to fall, or whatever it
is, it's going to fall, it'sgoing to disappoint, it's not
going to come through.
And then what do you have?
Right?
You have a life that's full ofthat difficulty and heaviness
(14:09):
and sense of like.
I don't know what, I don't knowwhat to think, that, as opposed
to having a clear mind, havingthe very mind of Christ, focused
reality, really being able tothink, and that is a byproduct
(14:34):
of worshiping God Powerful.
We are called to worship.
That's our highest calling inlife is to worship God.
That's our highest calling inlife is to worship God.
That's our first calling inlife is to worship God, and him
only to worship.
And one of the ways and wetalked about some of the ways,
(15:00):
right, lifting our hands,singing, dancing, being prostate
, kneeling, right, all of those,man, those are powerful
expressions of what's going onon the inside.
When it's that way, right, whenthat's what's happening, and
you're doing it because that andin response to God's presence,
(15:23):
amen.
But there's something else, andI heard this years ago and I
(15:43):
really I embraced it, but ithadn't become a real reality
within my life until about twoyears ago or so, and I'm 66, so
go figure, and I've known theLord since I've been 13,.
So, man, right, I mean that's50 years, give or take, you know
(16:06):
, a couple years, you get whatI'm saying.
It's been a while and thestatement was this One of the
ways, one of the greatest wayswe can worship God is for us to
enjoy what he has created andwhat he's given to us, man, what
(16:30):
Say that again?
Say that again.
One of the greatest ways thatwe can worship, worship, give
our adoration to God, one of thegreatest ways we can worship
God is for us to enjoy what he'screated and what he's given to
(16:58):
us.
Wow, to enjoy.
And you know what that includes.
Now, that includes one another.
I can enjoy the people that Ihang with.
In fact, I can enjoy evendifficult people.
(17:25):
I don't necessarily like it allthe time, but I can enjoy it
because of what it's creatingwithin me.
But just the garden variety,things that we can let irritate
us about one another.
(17:46):
Man, I think it's better for usto really find ways in which we
can enjoy one another.
I can enjoy, enjoy, I enjoy thepeople in the fellowship that
(18:07):
I'm a part of in Jacksonville,florida.
Man, I love this fellowship.
Now, are there things thathappen that we can bump up
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against each other and rub eachother wrong at times?
Sure, but that doesn't mean Ican't enjoy the other person.
That might mean we've got towork some stuff out, but let's
work it out, because we'recalled to enjoy one another, but
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also the creation itself, to beable to go outside and enjoy.
When's the last time you wentoutside and just enjoyed
yourself and said God, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
you.
Now, if you created somethingand nobody said anything about
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it, I mean you'd hope thatsomeone would enjoy it and say
something about it, because thenit's like ah well, well, I love
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the fact that we can give Godpleasure, we can bring delight
to his heart, and we can bringdelight to his heart by enjoying
what he's created, because whathe's created is good.
He said so.
He said after he created it'sgood.
He gave us a commission asmankind to go from the Garden of
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Eden and multiply and subduethe earth, because the earth
outside of Eden was in a roughcondition, still is, but what
God has created is good.
I'm not saying what otherpeople and other things have
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created is good.
I'm not saying what otherpeople and other things have
created is good, but what Godhas created is good.
And to enjoy what he's createdand the fact that he's created
me and he's created you, hecreated us, he created others
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For us to enjoy one another andget along with one another and
be joined together as one withone another in love, is an act
of worship to God.
And I know for a fact that thatis high on the priority list of
Holy Spirit in these days,because it was a very powerful
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prayer that Jesus prayed andit's recorded in John, chapter
17.
And his prayer was that we, ashis people, would be one, even
as he and the Father are one,and that we would love one
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another, and that we would loveone another and that we would be
one in that respect, togetherwith God.
Enjoying God, enjoying God Ienjoy God.
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I enjoy my time with him.
I enjoy what he has done.
I enjoy my time with him.
I enjoy what he has done.
I enjoy what he's doing.
I enjoy what he's about to do.
I enjoy my Father.
I enjoy the Lord Jesus.
I enjoy Holy Spirit.
I enjoy God.
It's a mystery, it's a wonder,it's a divine thing, and we are
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part of it.
We're called to it and we'recalled to worship, praise God.
Worship is part of the cultureof the kingdom of God and it's
the culture that we're bornagain into when we place our
faith in Jesus Christ and hegives us his spirit, cleanses us
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from our sins, so that webecome a place that's habitable
for Holy Spirit.
He can dwell within a placethat's been cleansed by blood,
purified, made holy.
Because he's holy, he's lookingto do that To us and through us
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, more and more and more andmore, until we radiate his glory
Hallelujah, enjoying what Godhas created and what he's given
to us.
God's given us some reallyamazing things.
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Not just one another.
That alone is amazing, but thefact that we have places to live
, we have food to eat, we haveclothes to wear, and then we
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have the opportunity to subduethis earth and we have tools
provided for us to do that, goodtools as well as sweet sleep,
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some good rest and being able toenjoy what God has given.
What God has given.
Sometimes we have things thatare just in abundance and God
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wants us to enjoy what he'sgiven.
Worship, the giving of ourselvescompletely over, devoting
ourselves and expressing ourdevotion in a loving way to God
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In our thought, in our thoughtlife, in our word life, meaning
the things that come out of ourmouth and the things that we do
with our hands and our feet,where we go, what we do, we
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worship.
That's powerful.
And when it's done in song, man, when you're in an environment
where that's really happening, Idon't care if it's four people
or 400 people or 4,000 people,400,000 people Praise God.
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When it's spirit of truth, man,the sky will crack.
You know what I mean Manifestglory of God in our midst, just
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dwelling and absorbingeverything that we're expressing
.
No wonder Satan wanted that.
That's what he wanted.
He wanted that.
He's's what he wanted.
He wanted that.
He's the one who said I'm goingto place myself above God, and
so he wanted that worship,because that's what God was.
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Getting even close to the placein which Satan could dwell, his
own personal pedestal camecrashing down and soon it's
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going to be completely destroyedand the God of peace will crush
Satan under our feet shortly.
But worship belongs to God andit's powerful.
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Let's not forget that worship isa powerful thing.
It's not just a religiousactivity that we do, because
it's what we do on a Saturday ora Sunday or a Wednesday or a
Thursday, whatever day it mightbe.
We just go through the motionschecklist, check that off and
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done.
But it's alive, god's alive,hallelujah, let's pray, father,
thank you, we worship you.
You alone are worthy.
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Lord Jesus, we worship you, holySpirit, we worship you, god.
We honor you, we give ourselvesto you.
Speak the word, Lord.
Your servant is listening.
Speak the word, lord, yourservants are listening.
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We want to live out what comesout of your mouth and what has
already come out of your mouthand what has already come out of
your mouth, hallelujah.
So the Holy Spirit teaches,leads us, guides us to be like
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Jesus and to worship like him,as he worships the Father.
As you, god, you have theunique ability of worshiping one
another In spirit and inreality.
Hallelujah.
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We honor you and we pray thesethings as Jesus, praying them in
his name.
Amen, amen, amen, amen.
All right, folks, I love you.
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If you have any thoughts,questions, concerns, please feel
free to drop us a line atlifearoundthefire, at gmailcom,
or type in lifearoundthefire andlook us up on the web.
We would love to hear from youIn the meantime.
God bless you.
Adios amigos.
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