 it's time it's time to enter his gates praise it's time to lift our hands and bless the world it's time it's time to praise your soul good to worship with you radiant this morning i'm gonna have us just lift our hands and praise just to begin as we welcome his presence father we love you we bless you we're here to exalt you what an honor to gather as your people and sing to you to bless your heart we just ask for your presence to fill this house lord i just ask for the praise of god to be in our mouth and for it to break every heavy yoke of the enemy in jesus name amen let's worship together hope our hearts been laid rest inside our souls and inside of the only song to sing these ingrowns you drove the males in place were the first that you forgave allow this humble king only god can raise the dead this was accomplished crosses foolishness to the perishing world but to those who are being saved it is the very powers of the cross this morning the stumbling block it is to the world but to us the cross is freedom to us the cross is liberty to us the cross is healing to the world the cross is defeat but to us the cross is victory precious then for the people of israel i'm sure everyone the largest terrorist attack on israel they've had in over 30 years with the brutal murder of women children elderly innocent and this was this is not a this is not a political battle what's happening this is a spiritual one of an ancient and demonic hatred of a city and a place where god said i've chosen Jerusalem for my glory to dwell that is the place where he is going to come back and rule and reign and psalm 22 commands and says pray for the peace of Jerusalem it's actually a biblical command to pray for that city and so i want to invite everyone to lift their hands right now in this moment and we're going to take a moment and pray we're going to even sing some choruses around and we're going to lift up this city and this nation so god we lift before you the apple of your eye we lift before you the people of israel lord and we just ask right now for comfort lord in the midst of brutal images of daughters and mothers and sons and grandpas that have been brutally murdered lord in an act of terrorism lord we just asked that you would bring comfort to their hearts lord where there is such great fear because the nations that are surrounding them are are wishing for their death and their demise lord we just ask that they would feel the strength of the lord come around them in the name of jesus and lord we lift up these hundreds of hostages right now lord and we just ask lord that your light would shine lord that you would help lord authorities lord you would help the military lord that you would expose lord where these these people are hiding lord these sons and these daughters lord that you would save their lives in the name of jesus lord and we do ask for peace would you said to pray for the peace of jerusalem and so we pray for peace lord for the demonic hatred lord and that would try to bring death and destruction for israel lord that you would bring a cease to that in the name of jesus lord that you would raise up those who would love them lord i ask for those that are professing believers lord both in israel and in palestine lord in this intense moment of time lord i asked that they would be salt and they would be light lord we asked that you would expose lord the roots of this demonic assault lord that this would not go into full-scale war lord we would not see a massive war but lord you would do a miracle in a moment that you would release peace to this nation and to this people in the name of jesus first this is our prayer i want to encourage us to not have a political spirit and by that i mean this is kind of a moment in this hour to be prayerful as the church and right now that the enemy would love to make it a political issue this is not a political issue this is a spiritual battle of ancient hatred and right now we want to be a prayerful people first before we have opinions on social media before we talk about the political side of it to to weep with those who are weeping and to have a to have a heart that prays and intercedes and contends and so let's be that right now let's be that prayerful people first amen amen awesome well amazing to worship and pray with you this morning we're gonna take a moment before we continue on the service and let you say hi to those who you've been worshiping around you so just turn around and greet somebody and say hi hey would you do me a favor would you put your hand on your heart would you close your eyes i feel like it'll be so easy for me to just jump into you know regular schedule programming but just close your eyes and bow your head and just in your own way as pastor calip just said would you pray that god will really prepare your heart as we begin to talk about things especially next week with pastor lee bringing a message it'd be so easy for myself to get caught up in my own biases in my own opinion and let's just pray a prayer together as a church family father would you really protect our hearts god even do more than that creating us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us make it personal just say jesus start with me just start with me we do pray for our brothers and sisters who are just under the attack of the evil one we ask that you would keep them safe and we pray for the bride of christ that's there your church god that you would make her dangerous against the kingdom of darkness even in this time in jesus name everyone said hey thank you so much for being here this morning whether you're here weekend and week out and you're part of the radiant family or maybe this is your first time with us we want to say thank you for coming and being a part of this house of prayer for the nations if you will be so kind if this is your first time or maybe you're just a returning guest in the seatback pocket in front of you you'll find this communication card and i would love you to take a moment during the service fill out some basic information hold on to that and at the end of the service make your way to radiant central and we have some amazing people that are there to greet you to say hello to you and also give you a gift to show you that we appreciate you being with us today another thing about this communication card just to let you know when you fill this out our pastoral team gets to see this and one thing i love right here even if you're a member of the church they have a little space here for prayer requests if there's something that we could be praying for you about or maybe someone you know and love please take your time and fill it out now listen take your time and fill it out because some of y'all you're writing who you know right so we want to take your time you fill it out so i can read it all right and our prayer team actually prays over these every single week so you just want to let you know you're not just filling this out turning it in or throwing it in a bucket as it comes by we have prayer teams our pastoral teams intercessors who would love to be praying for you let us know what your needs are and we believe that the lord is our shepherd and in him we lack nothing amen amen at this time i want to invite the ushers to make their way for it as we receive our tithes and our offerings quick reminder two ways to give you can give us the buckets come by you can also set up your giving at radiant dot church slash give in that verse just psalm 231 is just welling up in my heart the lord is my shepherd right in him i lack nothing i shall not want i shall not like we give knowing that we cannot out give god that he's going to take care of us and that he loves us and so he's been so generous to us that giving is a way to worship him to say thank you back to him and that's we're going to continue to do let's pray father thank you again for how generous you have been we have sung of your love and your generosity that we have seen beautifully in the face of jesus christ jesus we again thank you for your cross we thank you for your blood god we thank you that you've given us your spirit holy spirit thank you for comforting us for empowering us to be who you created us to be and so now for the rest of the service we say it's all yours it's still worship unto you may you open up our ears to hear your word for we are your people god use was taken in this offering lord to advance your kingdom so that you may be glorified in all of the earth in jesus name we pray and everyone said amen we're so glad that you're here whether you're joining us in person or online here are a few things you need to know to stay up to date on everything happening here at radiant head over to our website and follow us on social media do you have a story that you feel could be an encouragement to others there is power in your testimony and god has the potential to use your words to impact someone's 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full of growing families and we believe that children are a blessing in child dedications parents celebrate and dedicate their children to christ while concentrating themselves to the lord as parents our next round of child dedications will take place across all of our weekend services on sunday october 29th you can sign up your family today at radiant dot church slash weekend hey good morning radiant pastor lee asked me this weekend to introduce our speaker and many y'all know my wife and i've been here at radiant it'll be seven years coming up in november yeah it's been absolutely incredible and pastor lee and jane have just been mothers and fathers to to rachel and i and and rachel somebody she's you know really grown up in this house this last seven years and you know her as a worship leader prophetic singer author of a book but she's also an avid student of the word has such a teaching gifting and ability and we we're honored and excited to have rachel be asked to speak and so rachel asked me to not say anything sweets as to not make her cry so i'm going to do that but i i i do want uh us as radiant church uh when she comes up here just to stand to our feet both portage downtown and here and welcome rachel calver amen okay let's open our bibles to matthew 26 and as you do i do want to say thank you for that warm welcome standing ovation i am absolutely honored to be here honored by pastor lee and jane in uh inviting me to speak this morning on a topic that is near and dear to my heart so church how often have you cried out to god and said something like this god if you would only tell me what you want i would do it would you speak and just tell me what you want from me i want to do it i want to bless your heart i i want to participate in in what you're doing god if you would just command me to do something right i would do it i would do it i know i've said that before maybe you have to and in scripture god invites his people he commands his people to do different things we just kind of see it throughout scripture right um and sometimes he says to do something twice and that's when we know to pay attention i think of the story of jesus and peter right before jesus is resurrected he says peter do you love me more than these feed my sheep feed my lambs peter do you love me more than these feed my sheep feed the lambs three times peter do you love me more than these feed my sheep right and how many of you know peter was paying attention and he obeyed he started the church he was the one who started the church he obeyed and so what if i told you this morning that god has commanded us to do something and he's actually asked us to do it over 200 times in scripture and if that's true would you do it so we've been talking about a praying and worshiping church here we're right in the middle of a series on the praying and worshiping church last week if you remember pastor lee preached an incredible message on prayer being joyful in the house of prayer and so being a worshiping in a praying church this is part of our identity this is who we are this is what we are going after as a church and to be a worshiping in a praying church we must be a church that is filled with individuals who pray individuals who worship families who pray and families who worship and so pastor lee and jane have asked me to speak this morning as part of this series on the topic of worship worship is something that i'm really really passionate about i had to do some math in the past couple of weeks and discovered that i have had the honor to lead worship for the body of christ for over 25 years now and stop doing math everyone who started doing math don't do math don't try to figure it out don't try to figure it out so like kaleb said we are coming up on seven years being a part of this church family at radiant you all really are our family and so we have just been so blessed and honored to be a part of this house and what god is doing in this city and so i've been leading worship here for seven years i just care so deeply about worship and having the body of christ and that fullest expression of worship and so today i would like to zoom in on worship and i want to ask you a question in a room full of people god is looking for worshipers will he find you since we're going to be talking about worship a lot this morning i want to give you a definition of worship and honestly i struggled a little bit to come up with a succinct definition i love things to be simple succinct i like to say things clearly one time and when i i sat down to kind of k worship okay what is worship i there are so many ramifications and and meanings here and so i struggled so what did i do i turned to kind of the godfather for worship leaders i turned to bob sorgi he wrote a book years ago called exploring worship it's an incredible book and i i still his definition so here we go this is what he says the dynamics and dimensions of worship are so many and so varied that not one definition of worship could possibly include all of its ramifications and meanings and i read that and i went phew that's what i felt too okay good but then this is what he says what is the absolute essence the common denominator in all of worship here it is in the midst of the most life shattering of circumstances regardless of the season that you find yourself in if you're in complete emotional turmoil this is worship i bow my heart and my life before god almighty acknowledging his supreme lordship it's a good definition john 423 says but the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the lord in spirit and in truth for the father is seeking such people to worship him so in a room full of people in a sanctuary in richland in a sanctuary in portage in downtown god is looking for people who will worship will he find you like i said at the beginning our text this morning is going to be matthew 26 hopefully you had a chance to turn there we're going to start in verse 6 this morning Matthew 26 verse 6 it says now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of simon the leper a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment and she poured it out on his head as he reclined at the table and when the disciples saw it they were indignant saying why this waste we've heard this story maybe before about a month ago my husband pastor kaleb preached out of it so you've heard it before mary of bethany she came to jesus with her bottle of perfume this was a representation of her past her present her future all that she has kind of wrapped up in this one object right here and what an expression of worship to break it open at the feet of jesus and this was kind of at an interesting time they're kind of you know seated around a a dining room table there's other people in the room right and she breaks open her adoration and this morning church i want to present to you this was a corporate worship service the king of kings was in the room and mary began to worship and we know there were some others in the room and they're they're watching her and they could have joined in right they see kind of this public display of worship and they're there in the room and and here's the crazy thing the disciples they're in there they know who jesus is because the timing of this story this is actually the very beginning of passion week and so we only have a few days left until jesus goes to the cross and so all of the sermons that that the disciples have heard up until this point from jesus they've heard most of them they know jesus is the messiah jesus is god and so they know and and i want to pay attention to to what happens we read in the text and we see not one person joined in so there were three kinds of people in this room with jesus number one that i want to highlight this morning is spectators the spectators they never engaged right beyond just watching the display of worship and and we know there were anywhere between half a dozen to maybe 20 crammed into this room 12 disciples maybe some of them were there some of them were missing we don't know in a parallel passage in john we know that martha is there lazarus is there there's there's people who really love jesus in this room there are people who know who he is in this room but they didn't know what to do in that moment of worship the spectators are listening to what's going on they're watching right maybe they're thinking about jesus as they watch mary bow her heart and her life before the lord maybe they were thinking about their own comfort maybe had their hands and their pockets and and kind of just concerned about trying to be comfortable in this moment but here's the key they were there to watch and not to give here at radiant church maybe you find yourself during worship just trying to figure out how to get comfortable right listening maybe you're listening maybe you're paying attention to god um hands in your pockets maybe our hands are crossed even and we're just kind of trying to like survive the moment but we are invited not to watch but to participate as others worshipers because we know spectators are merely spectators right and in sports we understand this concept and ladies i am sorry this was our chance to have a sermon illustration about beauty products and fashion and hair care but here we are i'm going to do a sports illustration i apologize but here we go in sports we understand the concept of spectators right we were in the stands we weren't in the field even though maybe we dressed the part we put on the jersey the team jersey but we know we were only spectators because in sports being in the arena does not mean you played the game likewise church in our worship services being in the room doesn't mean that you worshiped and how about this in western celebrity culture right in our culture we've actually been trained by culture what to do with music we've been trained to watch and listen to professionals sing and play music right we've got whole tv shows designed to allow us to ooh and ah over beautiful music beautiful singing we pay exorbitant amounts of money to cram into music halls and arenas and concert halls to hear beautiful sounds and singing of professionals this is what culture has actually trained us to do it's to be spectators of singing spectators of music but do not be deceived if you operate like that in here then we are only spectators of worship and not worshipers the second type of person that we see in this story with jesus in this room we've got spectators and then we have the critic in this story the critic takes it a step further right instead of joining in and worshiping or being like the spectator who right stands on the sidelines the critic isn't indifferent and and the critic isn't even just like moved positively no these are ones who will judge another person's worship or worship in general maybe it's too it's a little too much right or maybe it's too little it's not enough it's it's a little weird or excessive right and so forth and here at radium you know maybe maybe it's the songs are all too fast or how about this it's too loud too slow they don't play my favorite song here i don't like that right the the criticism that this person had in the bible was why this waste so we have to ask ourselves is worship a waste or is he worth it is jesus worth every ounce of our attention of our focus of our adoration is he worship is worship really about him or is it about us and what we want in our own preferences church he is worthy of our worship it is not a waste when we come before him in this corporate context and we give him our focus he is worth it he is good in a room full of people god is looking for those who will be like mary who will look at him and bow their life in their heart before the feet of jesus acknowledging that he is god almighty and that he is lord are you a spectator are you a critic or are you a worshiper i want to go back to that biblical command that i talked about right at the beginning remember i said over 200 times god has commanded us to do something and that something is actually to sing there is a reason that god cares so much about you and i singing let me tell you some of these things here singing aligns our heart with truth we receive clear perspective we are personally uplifted and encouraged right ushered into places of joy and peace and hope when we begin to sing singing and worship brings corporate unity singing and worship is not cute it is powerful it is a weapon and there is power when we lift our voices and sing to god and our worship it displaces darkness and principalities amen did you know that when we lift our weak little voices heaven moves the earth shakes and demons flee our praise it shifts the spiritual atmosphere when we lift up corporate singing to the lord our city is affected church our song your song my song our corporate sound it is greatly desired by god amen so why don't we do it if we know that this is what singing this is what worship does in the spiritual atmosphere over our homes over our cities over our own hearts right singing our way into truth why do we become spectators sometimes why do we begin to judge and criticize why do we choose the sidelines instead of playing in the field i want to break it down i want to give some reasons why number one why we don't sing and worship number one we lack some skill and confidence and we think it matters right so in our own heads in our own minds we've kind of decided to sing and worship out loud in public i gotta be here right and i'm here or i'm here right we've we've decided that there's some measured amount of skill or confidence and because we don't measure up i better i better just kind of be quiet and be chill but let me tell you something church Psalm 100 this is what it says it says make a joyful noise unto the Lord all the earth we don't get to have an excuse for this one this is what the scripture does not say those of you who have decided that you sound good those of you who have beautiful singing voices those of you who are in choir in high school you guys should sing uh-uh everyone make a joyful noise a screech to the Lord make the sound this is what God desires and if it's what he desires we will give it we will offer it to him how about Psalm 150 it says everything that has breath praise the Lord i woke up this morning i've got breath in my lungs how about you praise the Lord everything that has breath praise the Lord amen and and maybe maybe you had a moment in your life where maybe someone told you hey maybe maybe don't sing so loud right i don't know maybe you had that kind of moment right um or you you're you're singing or or your worship or or maybe even your musicianship right was judged or criticized maybe you're playing an instrument in high school and it was kind of like i don't think music is your thing and but let me tell you something the enemy might have used that moment because the enemy wants to silence your voice he wants to silence your sound and your worship we can't let that happen church i actually want to tell you one of my own stories i uh i was in fourth grade so nine years old eight years old something like that and i was in pioneer clubs and if you don't know what pioneer clubs is it was kind of this christian girl scout group and so we're there and we're we meet every once in a while and just like girl scouts we're we're winning and earning badges for doing various things and so this one particular event we were going to the leader's house there's 10 of us girls and we're gonna make candles and we're gonna win a badge for making a candle it's very exciting and so we're there and we're making candles and dipping wax and i don't know wicks and stuff and 10 minutes later we made our candles and the leaders i can tell they're kind of like looking around like we've got another hour to kill what we do with all these girls and so they kind of put us in this room here they found a karaoke microphone and here you go girls sing and we'll get you another badge and so uh we we kind of all be it's so fun and we're laughing and passing the microphone back and forth singing little songs and and then my turn comes up and i get the microphone and i just sing my song and i finish and then the most beautiful popular girl in fifth grade she's a year older than me and she is so popular and everyone loves her and she just kind of looks at me she snatches the microphone and she goes you better give me that microphone because you're gonna hurt our ears it hurt it hurt and you know what i did as a nine year old little girl i made some intervals and i said she must be telling the truth she's popular everyone likes her no one stood up to her i didn't know i probably should be quiet i probably shouldn't sing i probably should just and i made some intervals i'm not going to sing in public ever again i don't want to be humiliated i don't want to be embarrassed and you know the enemy use that to silence my voice to silence my sound to silence my worship because god desires are singing as simple as that is this is that biblical command to sing so that's number one number two we don't feel like it how many of you have walked into church one sunday morning you walk in you just don't feel like it i'm too angry right it's that quintessence let's we just gotten the car everyone's yelling at each other i'm angry i sit and all of a sudden i've got to like sing i actually am angry and i want to stew in my angry feelings for a little bit i want to feel them right not me um maybe maybe it came in sad you had a really hard week there's some pain and you didn't just didn't feel like it right and we we need this reminder how about this one i'll i'm not in the mood i know i've said that i'm just not in the mood just want to be in my feelings and i as a mother i'm going to say this as motherly as i can we need to get out of our feelings sometimes and just praise the lord better yet we need to bring our feelings all those things that we're feeling and offer them up to jesus and say here god here's how i'm feeling take it and i'm going to worship i'm going to surrender my feelings here they are i'm not going to wait until i feel great and then worship i'm actually going to come right in the midst of all that i'm feeling and this is when worship really begins when we bow our heart and our life in the midst of difficult circumstances and we say jesus i bow my heart and my life you are god i am not you are lord this is worship right psalm 43 verse 5 says why so downcast oh my soul put your hope in god i will yet praise him right we we start a lot of worship sets singing songs like awake my soul and sing right awake wake up soul it is time to praise the lord we have to command our soul and say hey i know you got a lot going on right now soul but it is time to praise the lord this is what we're doing right now right we command our soul it's time to praise mind will emotions feelings hey submit to the lordship of jesus christ and we're going to praise right now we actually get to tell our souls to do that right why so downcast put your hope in god and it's time to praise number number three we we don't believe god really wants or likes our offering of worship right my worship is weak this is weak or my worship isn't valuable maybe my recent mistakes make me feel disqualified from worship i had a bad week i really messed up god i i don't think i should participate this week i just i'm disqualified right but john 423 says the father is looking for those who will worship him this is what he wants right and number four we don't believe god is worthy of our worship maybe maybe we're indifferent to god or we consider ourselves more of our own god and instead of him or what about this our personal disappointment has caused us to question his worthiness right going through something i'm struggling and i show up to worship and i just is he worthy i don't know i'm really having a hard time but i want to read revelation four verses one that talks about the worthiness of jesus it says you are worthy oh lord to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things and by your will they exist and were created how about revelation five verse 20 it says worthy is the lamb worthy is jesus who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing church he is worthy he is worthy of our worship and singing this idea of singing it's actually one of seven words that the hebrew language has for praise i want to share these seven with you but the first one is sing the biblical command to sing when when we say praise and we mean sing the hebrew language says tequila it means to sing how about this one shout the hebrew word for that is shabak so you know sometimes at the end of a worship song we say okay let's lift a shout of praise to the lord and we invite the room to shout we're not just doing that because we think it would be cool let's all shout now actually this is a biblical command it is part of praise it's one of the expressions that we have it's actually to shout and how many of you know when we shout to the lord things begin to happen the spiritual atmosphere it really does shift and so we can shout to the lord not just as a cool way to end a song but it is an expression of worship how about this bow to bow down the hebrew word is barack to get low to bow before jesus right i bow my heart and my life this is that sign of surrender that sign of worship again not just a cool thing to do this is that praise offering to the lord the next one is to play an instrument zamar is the hebrew word for that so when our when our musicians are playing up here they're not just you know a background kind of oh look at them playing the guitar isn't that cute no that's praise that counts as praise to the lord and so maybe you know you got your piano at home or or an instrument you pull out there is an opportunity for you to praise the lord through instruments next this word is yadda in the hebrew and it means to extend the hands in praise oftentimes you know why do i why do why should i do this right now this is praise this is this is a way to actually express and to respond right so much of praises responding to who god is and what he has done and so we can lift up our hands and surrender and say you are worthy you are good you are god and we this this is that expression to lift the hands and worship the next one is to da and this one is very similar but i want you to catch this one this is also lifting the hands lifting the hands and worship but it's lifting your hands even when you're not getting what you want lifting your hands and worship surrendering and praising before the breakthrough comes thanking god for the breakthrough that is yet to come this is actually praise right here god i'm going to worship before the breakthrough comes i'm going to sing this song i'm going to lift my hands and i'm going to thank you because you are going to be faithful this is praise unto the lord and then the last the last one is hello to celebrate to dance exuberantly to get a little crazy to get a little while to actually express your heart for all that god has done we have an opportunity to really show and demonstrate our worship to jesus it's through this word hello and so we might see people every once in a while right i i'm not a very good dancer so i'm usually just jumping up and down but this is the expression of my heart in the moment god i give you praise i'm gonna dance i'm gonna i'm gonna look a little crazy because i love you and i recognize that you are worthy of everything that i have to give in my my weak body doesn't really know how to express and so i lift my hands i bow i i just give you all of the praise and so praise is expressive it's declarative it is saying who god is what he's done and responding to who god is and all that he has done for you we truly have a reason to praise we have a reason to lift our voice he's good he's so good and i want to take every opportunity i have to express and to respond back to him god if this is really what you want if you want me to sing if you want me to bow and worship if you want my song if you want me to say that you are god and i am not and you have lordship i will do it i will do it i want to move your heart i want to bless your heart i don't want my life to be about me i want it to be about you so i look up and i give you my worship i want to come back to this definition of worship that i gave you at the beginning in the midst of the most life shattering of circumstances regardless of the season that you are in if you're in complete emotional turmoil i bow my heart and my life before god almighty acknowledging his supreme lordship and i had an opportunity to do that i know kaleb has shared months ago but about four years ago i walked through a really really hard season i my two-year-old son at the time received an autism diagnosis and it shook our family a couple months later i got my own diagnosis depression didn't know how to get out of that pit and i vividly remember one sunday morning coming into radiant church i wasn't scheduled to lead worship and i sat right over here on the front row i love sitting in the front row i sat there and i had a choice could i and would i in the midst of the hardest season of my life would i worship would i get on my knees and bow before god almighty and give him my life and my heart afresh acknowledging his lordship acknowledging his goodness could i do it would i do it and church we have the opportunity today every day to acknowledge the lordship of jesus christ and to get low and to bow before god almighty and say you are lord we can do it in these corporate worship contexts but we can also do this at home it doesn't actually require music to worship praise is connected to to to music worship is a is a posture of surrender i bow my heart and my life before god almighty and so this morning i want to give us a window of opportunity again to worship to have this posture in our hearts god i bow i'm going through something really difficult right now but i'm going to acknowledge who you are i'm going to get low before you and i'm going to give you my life i'm going to say this is not a waste you are worth it jesus you are worth every ounce of my affection you are worth every ounce of my adoration all that i have to give all that i don't have you are worthy of it all jesus you are worthy of it all and so this morning in a moment our team is going to lead us in a song of worship to jesus and we're gonna we're gonna stand in a moment and i want to invite you to get low before the lord to offer a song to sing to maybe lift your hands if you want to bow if you want to express and respond to who god is and what he has done in your life i want to give you the opportunity opportunity to do that this morning so church would you stand we're gonna go into a time of worship offering jesus our love offering jesus our praise our love and our affection invite our prayer team to make their way forward pastor rachel we thank you that you didn't allow the enemy to use what a fifth grader said that many years ago and you're here as the daughter of this house we love you we honor you for leading us in worship thank you i don't know your story but like mr. rachel like pastor rachel said we've been created by god to worship him we've been created by him to bow our hearts in our lives to show him his worth his beauty and this morning if there's an area in your life that has not been bowed down that has not gone low that you have not surrendered to him to show him his worth and his beauty i want to invite you to make your way to have one of our prayer partners pray with you to lead you into being the worshipper that god has created you to be and maybe that's you for the very first time that is salvation coming under the lordship of jesus saying that you are worthy then i am yours and if that's you we want to invite you to make your way we're gonna pray for you and even if you are part of the church you just saying god and as she went through the different ways of worshiping god i just challenge you if you've never shouted before let's shout if you've never danced before you could do that little thing right like whichever way you may find yourself struggling in worship i want to challenge you this week to say lord show me show me your worth reveal to me your beauty and may you empower by your spirit my response to you amen let me pray for us so father we we do worship you god we do love you can you lift your voice and say god we love you say god i love you god i love you god we worship you god we praise you you are worthy of our worship you're worthy of our love you're worthy of our affection god we lift our eyes to you we set our attention and our affection on things above where you are lord jesus and we ask you that you would empower us to give you what you want god to give you what you deserve and that is all of our hearts that's all of our lives that's all of our worship so father today we thank you for moments like these god we thank you again for pastor rachel god we thank you for what you're doing in her life and i ask you holy spirit that you will continue to fill her and empower her to not just lead this church in worship but to lead the body of christ all over the globe into seeing the beauty of jesus we love you we thank you in jesus name amen hey let's practice this let's give a shout unto the lord right we might as well practice it come on church let's give a shout out to the lord come on shout out to the lord hallelujah hallelujah go and worship the lord in spirit and in truth we love you see you next week