Saturday, June 22, 2024

June 22, 2024 … A Life of Worship …

June 22, 2024 … A Life of Worship        


Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in thisong with lyrics from Bethel Music, featuring Jenn Johnson and Michaela Gentile singing Let My Life Be Worship … poignantly singing of how our Lord calls us, as chosen people to live lives of worship to our worthy God. 


Our Lives Are Our Worship ... 


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Highlight Passage: … Exodus 26:30  [NLT] … 

30 “Set up this Tabernacle according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain..          

  God calls on His people to honor and worship Him with their lives, … setting up the Tabernacle as He specified to show the cost and sacrifice necessary to worship the Lord, our God.                                                                                             


Highlight Passage (in context)  … Exodus 26:36-27:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK  

… God calls for His Tabernacle of worship to be set up to illustrate the Lord’s worthiness to worship Him with our lives.                                                                                               

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<b><u>Reference Passage:</u> … Isaiah 25:1 [NLT] … </b> 

<i>   O Lord, I will honor and praise Your name, for You are my God.  You do such wonderful things!  You planned them long ago, and now You have accomplished them.   </i>

… God, thru Isaiah, calls on His people to worship Him for the wonderful things He has done for His chosen people (that’s us, too).  


Reference Passage: … John 4:23-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

  Jesus became God’s fulfillment of His Tabernacle on earth and we are to worship Him in Spirit and in truth.  


Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b> 

… The Apostle Paul exhorts and calls on fellow Christians to become living sacrifices and servants of God, avoiding the influences of the world as they (we) worship the Lord in what they (we) think, say, and do.


Reference Passage:  … Colossians 3:16 [NLT] … 

16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom He gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.   

… Paull also calls on His chosen to surrender and worship the Lord with thankful hearts in the way we live for Him.        


Reference Passage: … Hebrews 13:15 [NLT] … 

15 Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name..   

… God, thru the Author of Hebrews, calls on His people to offer up our lives as a sacrifice of praise and worship for Him.          .   


My Devotional JournalToday’s Our Daily Bread Author, Mike Wittmer -  AT THIS LINK  relates how detailed Winston Churchill instructed the House of Commons be rebuilt after it was bombed and destroyed in WW2, declaring, … “We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.


And the ODB entry today was also compared in the Old Testament to the detailed instructions God gave thru Moses on how to worship God by the way His people constructed the Tabernacle to worship their (our) Almighty God.  And if my readers have taken in the linked song and mediated on the Scriptures shared above, I’m praying that that you all are feeling convicted - as am I - to shore up our hearts as God’s tabernacle in our lives; … because our hearts are most definitely the Temple of our lives, .. THE place we worship our Lord with all we think, say, and do. 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to become Your Temple of worship today.     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying today that those who read with me here will join me to build or rebuild our lives to worship You, Lord..       … Amen


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