Wednesday Night December 12, 2012
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Notes
Notes on worship
Make sure that you know that God is always watching and that you should consistently give worship to Him. In worship there should always be full effort. Praise God with meaning, every time.
You want your praise to attract people to God not distracting people by your lack of effort.
The book of Psalms never asked the people to worship God if they feel like it. It said worship and bow down.
Sermon
Proverbs 20:20-22
How you respond to issues says how you are.
The response for encouraging people not to recompense evil is to all who know the word.
You don’t want to give ear to that kind of talk without giving a god-based response.
The standard is to bless them that curse you and curse not. If we cannot forgive others, we cannot be forgiven.
This displays whether you are Christian or are just typical.
When you get saved, so do your emotions – your soul and psychology.
If you are not a Christian in your relationships, then you are not a Christian.
vs 23 God wants you to be true, not cheating anyone.
Be true and exemplary in all your dealings.
Colossians 3:5-9
Kill the old ways that are not of God. Not jus the mean, evil bitter talk, but also the lying.
Don’t lie to each other. Receive the help instead of trying to hide from the truth.
Revelation 21:7-8
If you are a liar, you will partake in punishment.
There is not an excuse that justifies the lie.
Proverbs 20:24
Your main question in life is not “What do I want?” Some of our choices are decisions that are to test and show who you are and who you are going to choose.
Some who get what they want are still never satisfied.
We should ask “What is going to make God happy?”
God made our lives for Him.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God.
When you are seeking what you want, you may be double-souled. You may be making false promises to God.
For God, people sacrificed. Moses chose to suffer than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
God says that He is jealous and will not be happy in second or third place in your heart.
Jeremiah 2:11-13,19
You leave God, the source, to find your own way – which will empty out, never satisfying.
There are some people who have left God.
It is evil to forsake God.
God does care about your goings.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
Can you say that you are waiting on the Lord for some things and that your hope is in the Lord?
Your heart can deceive you. It can lead you to think that seeking for what you want is more important that seeking for God.
Ask yourself what is motivating me? Is it for pleasing God?
God searches the heart and knows what our true motivations are.
If I cannot answer how do I seek first, then I probably am not.
Proverbs 20:25
It is bad to vow something to God and then take it back. Do not play with God. Be true to your word with Him.
If you have made commitments to God that you haven’t kept, He has not forgotten.
Don’t have buyer’s remorse over your Christian commitment.
You don’t try to bargain with God. We need Him. Anything that we try to negotiate with Him is already something He gave and we are overdue.
Have you been trying to barter or manipulate God lately? “If you give me…. (my will), then
secondly I’ll do… (Your will)” We all already owe Him.
How dare we try to test Him to see if He’s good enough for us to serve.
Habakkuk 3:17-19
If everything goes wrong, none of my labors bring fruit, I will still rejoice in God.
There is no need to worry, having sure footing in God.
Some people who consider themselves Christian are too stress under duress because they are worried about pleasing themselves instead of trusting God’s power to keep them.
Proverbs 20:26-27
God has given you a conscience that can know what is going on in you. What are you really trying to do with your life?
We have to ask, “What does God want from me?”