Worship Encounter

Worship EncounterSunday October 28, 2018Never forget how much God loves us. God has never taken His eyes off us – not for a millisecond! Even while we were being formed in our mother’s womb, He kept His eye on us. He is always near us. He loves to hear our heartbeat. We are invited to come in...to the very presence of God Himself…He desires to hear our prayers, and He promises to inhabit our praises.“I need to worship God”… The question is this… What do we do when confronted with such great love? Give Him standing ovations all day long with your voice…your life and your gifts.Exodus 32:1-9… “Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us [a]gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”2 And Aaron said to them, “Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4 And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!”5 So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.” 6 Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. And the Lord said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ”New things eventually become old things…Worshiping God  keeps us focused on the eternal...The more we remove God from our lives, the more pressure we put on things around us to carry what only a connection to a Divine Creator can do! Our desire to worship gets shifted from God to a relationship, family, favorite team, possessions, kids, a favorite team. Our faith is placed on the temporal rather than eternal!Israel was willing to give up the things of value in their lives to make an “Idol God” It’s in the delays and times of feeling disconnected that we’re tempted to go back...I’m not going back to Egypt… in my heart and mind and in my worship.As for me and my house…we shall serve the Lord…Then the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Reproach means shame... disgrace... any residue of the past...Egypt is a place of confinement ... bondage... limitation...a place of duality.... God is saying any place of contamination to your spirit... your body... your mind...your finances... your relationships...is broken…severed…defeated…don’t go back…We are a born choosers. God gives us the ability to choose.Check out our app, Life Church Live:Available on Google Play & App StoresGiving: life-church.org/givingBaptism: https://www.life-church.org/ihavedecidedYouTube ChannelMobile Campus FacebookHurley Campus FacebookInstagram