You Were Planned For Gods Pleasure

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You Were Planned For Gods Pleasure

• Matthew 22 37-38
• Sunday 16th March
• 2003

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The First Purpose In Life

• Revelation 411b
• For You created all things and by Your will they
  were created and have their being (NIV)
• Zephaniah 317b
• He will take GREAT DELIGHT in youHe will
  rejoice over you with singing. (NIV)
• Matthew 2237-38
• Love the Lord Your God This is the FIRST and
  GREATEST commandment (NIV)
• Romans 12 1
• BECAUSE of Gods mercy to usOFFER yourselves as
  a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to His
  service and PLEASING to Him. This is the TRUE
  WORSHIP that you should OFFER. (TEV)

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The First Purpose In Life

• My Worship is ALWAYS a response to Him
• My Worship is an OFFERING to God
• Mark 1230
• Love the Lord your God with all your HEART and
  with all your SOUL and with all your MIND and
  with all your STRENGTH. (NIV)

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How Should We Love God?

• Thoughtfully with all your MIND
• Passionately with your HEART and SOUL
• Practically with your STRENGTH
• 3 things God DOESNT have unless we OFFER them
  back to HIM
• My Attention Loving Him with my MIND
• My Affection Loving with HEART and SOUL
• My Abilities Loving Him with my STRENGTH

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Worship Is - Giving God My Attention

• Psalm 1391-3
• O Lord You have searched me and You know me. You
  know when I sit and when I rise. You perceive my
  thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and
  my lying down. You are familiar with all my
  ways. (NIV)
• God is TOTALLY Focussed on YOU
• NEVER takes His eyes off you
• Never stops THINKING about YOU
• He never shifts His attention FROM YOU

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Worship Is - Giving God My Attention

• How can I Give God my ATTENTION?
• Recognise The Problem
• Romans 12 2a
• Dont become so well adjusted to your culture
  that you fit into it without even thinking.
  Instead, fix your attention on God. (The
  Message)
• Make Time For God On Your Own
• Matt 66
• Find a quiet secluded place so you wont be
  tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as
  SIMPLY and HONESTLY as you can manage. The focus
  will shift from you to God and you will begin to
  sense His grace (The Message)

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Worship Is - Giving God My Attention

• Establish Constant Communication
• Psalm 10514
• Seek His Face ALWAYS (NIV)
• The Result?
• Isaiah 263
• You will keep him in PERFECT PEACE whose mind is
  STAYED on You, because he trusts in You. (NKJV)

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Worship Is Expressing My Affection To God

• God is ALWAYS telling us He loves us
• 1 John 419
• We love Him because He first loved us (NKJV)
• God wants us to love Him back
• Isaiah 2913
• The Lord says These people come near me with
  their mouth and honour me with their lips but
  their HEARTS are far from me (NIV)
• But Why?
• Exodus 3414b
• for the Lord whose name is Jealous is a Jealous
  God (NKJV)

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Worship Is Expressing My Affection To God

• What Stops Us?
• Fear
• I may get too emotional, fanatical
• The REAL Problem
• We dont realise how much HE loves US
• Ephesians 525
• Husbands love your wives as Christ LOVED the
  church and GAVE HIMSELF UP for her. (NIV)

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Worship Is Using My Abilities For God

• Colossians 323
• Whatever you do, work at it WITH ALL YOUR HEART
  as working FOR THE LORD not for men (NIV)
• Its Not What You Do Its who you do it for!
• Romans 121 again
• Take your everyday ordinary life your
  sleeping, eating, going to work and walking
  around life, - and place it before God as an
  offering (The Message)

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Conclusion

• Worship is
• Living My Life To Bring Pleasure To God
• Giving my Attention to God
• Expressing my Affection to God
• Using my Abilities for God
• 2 Corinthians 59
• So we make it our GOAL to please Him (NIV)