•DEVOTION is our focus this year and today we’ll be considering how our WORSHIP reflects our devotion

•Before we can worship God as God, we must know him. Personally. It’s not enough to know about God. This isn’t the kind of relationship he wants from us, as if merely an acquaintance.

•Psalm 37: 4

•1 Cor. 2: 11-15

•It’s hard to be “Christ like” if you don’t know who He is

•Emotion is not a sustainable fuel in our Christian walk

•Psalm 88

•You feel the weight of the writer’s sadness in this Psalm and yet he starts it by recognizing of who God is and his hope in that relationship with Him

•Psalm 63

•Despite the circumstances he found himself in David recognized that his greatest need was God. To be with Him. Longing for that relationship trumped even his most basic needs.

•Would you be content if all you had was God and nothing/nobody else?

•Acts 5: 41

•Worship ought to permeate throughout every aspect of our lives: work, play, art, relationship, etc

•This means these things (work, play, art) need to point toward God rather than ourselves which is often the case in how people live. Selfish work, selfish art, selfish relationship, selfish play

•Do you know who God is and how He ought to be treated?

QUESTIONS:

•HOW IS YOUR WORSHIP LIFE?

•DO YOU FIND YOURSELF WORSHIPING GOD AT ALL TIMES?

•ARE THERE THINGS IN YOUR LIFE THAT ARE DISCONNECTED FROM TRUE WORSHIP?