SERMON: Fear, As The Foundation Of Worship

Thank you for subscribing to the Shepherds Church podcast. This is our Lord's Day sermon We pray that as we declare the

Word of God that you would be encouraged Strengthened in your faith and that you would catch a greater vision of who

Christ is May you be blessed in the hearing of God's Word and may the Lord be with you as you know before Christmas and Advent and before three

Feast back to back to back the feast of Thanksgiving and Christmas and Epiphany well before all of that we were in the book of Proverbs a book that is entirely devoted to wisdom and By that we don't mean worldly wisdom as the worldly wise men and John Bunyan's pilgrims progress shameless plug for the small group

If you want to come but wisdom as a covenantal gift from God something you cannot earn

Something that cannot be taught to you something that cannot like the matrix be downloaded into you something that is

God given to you so that you would namely fear him know his will and obey him and From the beginning the book of Proverbs has insisted that wisdom does not

Originate in human effort, but in the fear of the Lord Proverbs 1 7 begins the book with this way

It's received wisdom is before it is exercised It's rooted in worship before it expresses itself in action

And when you see that permeating through the pages of chapters 1 through 9 of Proverbs Then you begin to see what wisdom is all about in those chapters

We saw that wisdom is formed through worshipful submission to Yahweh We saw how this book is a father's guide to a son

Preparing him not only to be the father of his household, but to be the father of Israel as the king

This was Solomon writing to Rehoboam who would take over the Empire That was started by David Now we've also seen that wisdom has been typified in this book by two women lady folly and lady wisdom

Who are both of them are standing before us calling out to us offering a house to us giving us a table inviting us to eat and giving us a

Some form of a promise of a future and yet we've seen from both of these women that they represent wildly different outcomes

Lady wisdom leads to life lady folly leads to death lady wisdom leads to blessings lady folly leads to cursings

Lady wisdom leads to a legacy that will endure Whereas lady folly only leads to collapse and ruin and this only scratches the surface of what we've covered in Chapters 1 through 9 those sermons are available to you if you would like to revisit them

But today we're moving to a new section of the book called proverb was Proverbs 10 31 10 through 31

Where the book shifts genre entirely For what we've done in Proverbs 1 through 9 has been extended prose

It's been a father writing these things out for his son and we could preach those passages verse by verse

But now in Proverbs 10 through 31, we are given hundreds of concise

Statements one statement after another that don't necessarily connect to one another about wisdom about the wise life

These are sentences that Solomon has written himself or collected for his son and there's over 800 of these statements, so If you're doing the math because I can't preach one proverb and then go to the next and it'd be a completely different proverb and preach that in the same

Sermon because then the sermon would be incoherent and I can't do that I don't know if you'd want to listen to that. So if you're doing the math 800 sermons ends up around 16 years

So for the man who is addicted to a kind of atomistic preaching Who is very myopic in his thinking

I can be accused of this That would be a long time and I don't think that we want to be in the book of Proverbs for 16 years as glory

Says it is because there's other parts of scripture. We want to get to I want next I don't know which one after this this will be not even in anytime soon

So don't worry, but I want to do an epistle of Paul next But we're not there so in order to get there and it not be 16 years

How do we do how do we preach the book of Proverbs? well, what I've done is in spare moments of time

I've taken all 800 of these passages and I've put them into buckets and I've come up with 12 categories or 12 themes that these verses fall into like worship or Marriage I'll talk about the the 12 ones in a minute and where I've arranged those in a mini -series now

What I've done is is I've arranged them into individual sermons And then

I've tried to condense that to where we can get to five to eight sermons

You can hold me accountable members Five to eight sermons on each theme or each topic so we've got 12 mini -series five to eight sermons on each one of these topics and that will

Give us at least 50 to 75 sermons in and of itself to finish out the book of Proverbs And I think that is us flying in a motorboat

For the way that we normally go. So our mini -series are going to be this today We're going to begin our mini -series in what is

Christian worship? After that, we're going to go into what is Christian education and the formation of children

Then it's going to be the pursuit of knowledge. What does it mean to have wisdom in the pursuit of knowledge? What does it mean to have wisdom in our speech and our communication?

This is something we do all the time and speaking to people and communicating. So how do we have wisdom in that? How do we have wisdom in marriage and family?

How do we have emotion? How do we have wisdom in our emotions because sometimes our emotions can get wonky and janky and a little bit unbridled

So how do we have wisdom in that? How do we have wisdom in building friendships and relationships that that are godly and and helpful?

How do we have wisdom in our work our vocation and our reputation? How do we have wisdom in generosity and the stewardship of wealth how do we have wisdom in our civic life as citizens of a

Country and how do we have wisdom in the building of a godly legacy that will outlast our lives?

12 mini -series back to back to back 5 to 8 sermons apiece will take breaks for Holy Week We'll take breaks for Christmas.

That's the roadmap That's so we don't preach this book 16 years So with that this week we're gonna in our first mini -series and it's gonna be on worship and it's fitting and it's even necessary That we begin with worship because worship is not just one

Among the themes in this book worship is a central foundational theme that Undergirds all of this book and all of the scriptures how you worship determines how you think how you love how you work how you speak how you raise your children how you use your money how you rule the world and if you worship if your worship is disoriented then

Everything in your life is downstream of that and it will be disordered as well. And if your worship is rightly ordered then wisdom

Will take root in your life and you will have a life that is filled with the blessings of God I don't mean materialism.

I mean God's blessings not just stuff So today we'll begin where Proverbs 10 through 31 begins with the topic of worship we'll be doing a very foundational message to begin this mini -series on worship and If you will join me as I read a few passages for you this morning

And we're gonna be doing that through mostly Proverbs 15 But there's gonna be one passage in Proverbs 10 one passage in Proverbs 14 since I'm gonna be all over the place.

Just listen You don't have to frantically flip through your Bible Here's the passages.

We're gonna be talking about this morning Proverbs 15 3 and Proverbs 15 11 The eyes of the

Lord are in every place watching the evil and the good She'll and Abaddon lie open before the

Lord how much more the hearts of men? We're also gonna be looking at Proverbs 10 27 and Proverbs 14 26 through 27 the fear of the

Lord prolongs life the fear of the Lord There is strong confidence and his children will have a refuge and the fear of the

Lord is a fountain of life We'll also be looking at 6 verse 16 of chapter 15 and verse 33

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure in turmoil without or with it

And then Proverbs 15 33 the fear of the Lord is the instruction for wisdom and before honor comes humility

So with that, let's dive in and let's talk about what worship is Let's pray

Lord we thank you so much that we can talk about so glorious a topic as worship worship is

What really binds our lives together the way that we approach you? man's chief end is to glorify

God and enjoy him forever, which is just a Longer form version of worship glorifying

God and enjoying him Lord help us to understand What worship is help us to understand what it means that we that we actually do worship before the face of God and Lord help us to understand that worship is not just an action.

It is a posture of our hearts in Submission to you and Lord. I pray that we would see it and we would rejoice in it.

It's in Jesus name. We pray. Amen Now the first thing I want us to go and look at is that we worship before an omniscient

God God is the all -seeing Lord Proverbs 15 3 and Proverbs 15 11 speak of this the eyes of the

Lord are in every place watching the evil and the good She'll and Abaddon lie open before the

Lord how much more the hearts of men So what we begin with this morning in a very foundational view of what worship is is that worship is before the face of God?

Worship is before the omniscient God Proverbs does not begin with how we feel or by what we do or by what?

Instruments we play or by what station we listen to on our way to work or whatever It begins by declaring what is true that before you can worship

There must be fear of God and before there is wisdom before there is obedience

Scripture lifts the veil on reality and confronts us with this God and who he is

And it says that the eyes of the Lord are in every place, which is a scary verse That sentence alone dismantles every kind of small and manageable domesticated notion of who

God is The God that we might have entertained in our minds and in our fancies the

Lord of The book of Proverbs in all of Scripture is not localized to this sanctuary

He is not summoned to us He is not confined to sacred moments or religious spaces

He does not arrive when worship begins He does not even enter when we invite him.

I laugh when I hear those songs. Holy Spirit. You are welcome here What? Oh, thank you.

I'm really glad you told me Really the eyes of the

Lord are everywhere. We don't welcome in God We should be pleased that he welcomes us

His gaze fills the universe the way that light fills the sky at dawn without Effort without interruption without resistance.

There is no place where his vision thins No moment where his attention wanders no corner of existence where his awareness fades reality itself unfolds before his eyes

Everything you've ever done thought said or been has been before the face of God Every sin we've ever committed has been done in his presence and history does not run independently and report back to him later

It happens before him before his face time does not slip past him unnoticed It moves under his vision

Kings rise and fall under the vision of God nations boast and they collapse under the vision of God Generations come and go under the eyesight of God all of it takes place in the full view of the

Lord Almighty who never blinks nor slumbers nor forgets and Solomon presses this truth deeper by saying even

Sheol and Abaddon Lie open before the Lord we talked about this yesterday in the members class and I'll talk to you more about it later if you're interested

Everyone has always told me growing up That there's one place that the Lord is not and that's in hell hell is the absence of God Hell is where the presence of God is removed.

That's why it's so terrible. Not at all Our God is everywhere. His eyes are everywhere.

Sheol lies open to him The reason that hell is so bad is because you're in the presence of a holy

God without a mediator You're in the presence of this angry

God Without the blood of Jesus Christ to cover to cover you. That's what makes hell so Ferociously terrible is that you're in his presence without holiness

Because Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord The deepest regions of existence the unseen places your thought life

The final places the places where human knowledge ends all of it stands uncovered before him even death

Itself is not opaque to God. I Think about this sometimes Just to blow my mind

God is present in every single nano Millimeter whatever nanometer of space in every conceivable point of reality in this second and also the last second and also the last year and also the last hundred years and also the last thousand years and also all the way to The very beginning of time and space and even beyond that There's never a moment in all conceivable reality where God and his vision has not been

And that mind -blowing You go to those planetarium shows and you see the size of the universe, you know

And I don't know if that's right or not. We live on a little a little planet and we have telescopes

I don't know if those things are real But they're trying to mystify you and they're trying to make you like open up your eyes and say wow

The universe is really big how much bigger is this God whose eyesight sees?

Everything that's ever been ever will be and ever could be now.

This is not meant to frighten us. Although it is frightening Because like we like to think that we sin privately

We like to think that we sin in our heads or or maybe our family sees it

But in the world doesn't see when we come out in public We put on our pretty faces and we put on our little cloak and we say oh, hey

How are you when you were just in the car saying I don't want to see these people. You've done it

I've done it and We think they don't know and they smile at us and we smile at them and you know, what's true

Here's what you haven't considered. They did the same thing about you before they got to see you They said gosh,

I really don't want to see Kendall today We act like nobody sees that we act like that's never uncovered we act like we got away with it

But we do not get away with it before the face of God He sees everything but it's not meant to frighten you ultimately

It is frightening, but it's not meant to frighten you. Ultimately. It's actually meant to lift up your Comprehension to awe and wonder

It's meant to lift your mind up to see that this great. God is incomprehensible Therefore I must worship him

Have you ever been in a place where you felt utterly small? My favorite place that I've ever been in my entire life is that this place called inspiration point in Utah and Bryce Canyon Bryce Canyon is a way better Canyon than the

Grand Canyon The Grand Canyon is just a big hole forgive me for saying that Bryce Canyon is better It's not as big but it's glorious the

Sun rises in the morning you have to be there before 5 o 'clock a .m Me and my 80 year old grandpa slept in a very overly small car

Just to make sure that we were there on time and we got up to inspiration point we stood at the railing we watched the

Sun rise over this massive plane and I think it's still like mites the ones that go from the ground up right not still like tight.

Okay. Yeah So these it was these stalagmites golden and orange and red

Stalagmites that were standing like soldiers in formation ready to hear from their general The Sun was rising up it just early in the morning and I looked at it.

I couldn't speak. I Was like I am so small God himself planted this army of soldiers right here and the

Sun is perfectly in the middle rising between two canyons and is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen and That is the feeling that we are supposed to have when it comes to being in the presence of this

God Mystified and in wonder of his beauty and his glory The fear of the

Lord is not for us the terror of the Lord The fear of the

Lord for the Christian is the awe and the wonder of this God it's that moment where you look at your father and You realize how good he's been to you over the years and you have admiration and love for him that makes you want to Just say thank you for everything.

You've ever done for me Even if you haven't had a perfect father there many of us have had that moment

It's that kind of fear. It's that kind of odds that kind of reverence that drives us to God to say

Thank you. I love you Your beauty is incomprehensible Not for the unbeliever.

The fear of God is terrifying but for the believer because we're covered in the robes of Jesus Christ, the fear of God is different it is glorious awe -inspiring beautiful when man realizes that he lives in a universe is saturated with divine knowledge and Vision and where nothing is trivial where nothing is unnoticed where nothing is weightless

Nothing is meaningless then his soul begins to wake up to the glorious Reality that this

God is worthy of our worship. That's the heart of worship that's the fuel of worship is when you recognize the smallness and the finitude of you and the in the presence of this infinite

God and all you can do is say I Worship you that's the heart.

That's the foundation underneath worship now from this vision of God Flows the death of one of the most persistent lies in The modern church the lie of neutral space and neutral spaces

We imagine that there are moments of our life that don't count moments where worship is off moments where moral weightlessness spiritual irrelevancy safety is

Somehow carved out for us outside of the glance of God if the eyes of the Lord are in every place

There is no neutral spaces as we said before there's no habit that you have. That's that's neutral There's no plan that you've made that is neutral.

There's no word that you've ever spoken, which is neutral Everything is done in what we say in Latin quorum

Deo before the face of God which means that the drive home today is done before the face of God the ambition that you have for your vocation is done before the face of God the resentment that you've been rehearsing over this person is done before the face of God the

Obedience that you've been delaying because you're not sure you're ready to give all that up to the Lord is done before the face of God Nothing is done in a vacuum

Nothing happens offstage. All of it takes place beneath the all -seeing gaze of God and while that feels

Like a burden it actually is liberating Because a

God who sees everything He's seen your sin, yes, but a God who sees everything and Understands everything and knows everything is a

God who's not confused about anything Which means he's a God that we can trust to lead us in everything

He's not reactive. He's not improvising. I remember there was this time. I think I've told you the story the dumbest thing

I ever did I've done a lot of dumb things. It's it's definitely on the top 20. I Years old in this well undersized car on this service road in Some state in the

Sierra Nevada mountains. I don't even remember where we were and by the time we got to the place where there was no guardrail and there was no space for anything, but this

Chevy Volt and the potholes were deeper than Jackson's height and I thought to myself we're dead.

I There's not even a way to do like a 75 -point turn because there's no space. I Said I am literally

I'm dead my grandpa. I've been the reason my grandpa died My mom will be angry at me for the rest of her life because I killed her dad

That's what I was thinking so in that sense I had a good idea let's go on the service road and I had no idea all of the different dangers that were

Lurking and only by God's grace. Did we find an opening to turn around and we left swiftly

But God doesn't have those moments. He does not stand with you and say I think that's a good idea

And then later they're potholes the size of Jackson God doesn't do that. He knows everything.

He not only knows your moment He knows the next moment the next moment the next one which means that you can trust God with Everything that he's ever given to you everything that he's ever promised you because he knows the end from the beginning

Which means that? God himself Can be worshipped

Where no one else can Because God can see and direct and care for you and lead you and as we've been learning in the book of Job There are times where God leads us in places that we're not comfortable

But at the end of the book of Job what we see is God says you don't know what I know

Job says I've spoken about things far too wonderful for me to understand. I repent

God So the foundation of worship is knowing that everything is done before the face of God which is increases increases increases our all and wonder and also everything is done before the

Omniscience of God meaning that we can trust him with every step that we take

That's the first thing the second thing I would like to share with you is that fear is actually the source of life and Instability with the right kind of fear

Proverbs 10 27 Proverbs 14 26 through 27 says this the fear of the Lord prolongs life

The fear of the Lord in the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence and his children will have a refuge the fear of The Lord is a fountain of life

When scripture speaks to the fear of the Lord It's not describing panic or dread or emotional collapse or anxiety attacks or any of that Proverbs Refuses to actually associate this kind of fear with fragility or paralysis instead

It binds our fear to clarity order and truth and is this settled recognition that God is real that he's present that he's authoritative and that he's not to be trifled with and That life is upheld by him at every moment

The universe is held together by the word of his power. It is that fear of our

Creator not of creature That actually orients our life and holds us together

That we don't have a kind of fear of God like a criminal who shrinks before an angry judge

We don't have the fear of God like a son who is under the rule of a tyrannical father.

We have the fear of A son who has a good father a daughter who is a good father

An infinitely perfect father and that fear it doesn't just strip us of our illusions

It doesn't just cure us of our fantasies It actually ends the exhausting attempt that you and I have constantly battled with for us to create and manage our own reality

When we have the fear of control When we feel like we're out of control we get anxious when we feel like I have nothing

I have no control here I I've got this massive theological exam coming up Or I've got this meeting coming up or I've got this job promotion coming over I've got this or that and we think how am

I gonna do this? How am I gonna be the kind of man or woman that I need to be to in order to navigate the situation?

We live in our head and we become anxious and nervous and frustrated. Why do we do that? It's because we think we have some kind of control

And the fear of God shows us that we have none But we are in the hands of the one who has perfect control

Part of what our faith is is releasing control so that we can be controlled by him

Controlled by his spirit led by him taking up our cross daily and following him

It is the instinct of control that is actually counterintuitive to your

Christian faith you aren't in control and When you embrace that it actually gives you freedom and life and when you cling to your control it actually gives you slavery and Fear and it's because of that that fear the right kind of fear produces life instead of paralysis the fear of the

Lord prolongs life Isn't that interesting in?

one sense it makes perfect sense because When you fear God you're less stressed

You can go through anything in the world and you have less stress Stress causes your heart to do things that it shouldn't do and that will cause you to have a heart attack or a stroke or Whatever else and then you will live shorter lives

So in some sense that actually is that it actually is really true in another sense in a more ultimate sense

The fear of God prolongs your life because the fear of God the gift from God Leads you into eternal life

So not only prolongs your days on earth and prolong and increases your experience of how you actually live in These days on earth remember

Paul sings in prison Remember John and James are praising God after they are beaten within an inch of their life

They had more joy than we do when we get our coffee order wrong And because of that our life is influenced by that but the fear of the

Lord not only increases and prolongs our days It increases our experience and our joy in those days even unto eternal days

Rightly order fear creates generational stability it builds up households that can bear the weight of pain and struggles who can endure the storms and the trials that come and shelter your children and your

Grandchildren in the fear of the Lord the fear of the Lord becomes a kind of moral gravity pulling our lives into order

Drawing our families into safety and and extending our strength far beyond a single lifetime

If you teach your children the fear of the Lord you are teaching them how to live a good

Life in the presence of God so that when you were dead and gone your grandchildren and your great -grandchildren will be blessed

Fear is not the enemy of joy. It is the source of it Fear is not the opposite of freedom.

It is its foundation Fear of God is not the absence of love It is love that is governed rightly by the truth and the beauty of Almighty God The man who fears the

Lord is not frantic when the day of trouble comes he's not paralyzed when the situation hits and he is anchored ever in God and Once your soul has been anchored

Once your life has that kind of weight and stability and refuge the heart must answer one final question

What then is truly better? Because fear doesn't merely stabilize your life.

It reorders your life. What is better true worship reorders your desires? Are you gonna go on clinging to your comforts in your control and your anxieties in your depressions?

I get it. We struggle with it. I struggle with it. But are you gonna cling to that? Are you gonna cling to Christ? Are you gonna cling to the fear of God or the fear of man?

Because true worship that is coming out of the fear of God reorders even our desires

Proverbs 15 16 says better is a little with the fear of the Lord then great treasure and turmoil without it

Worship redefines what we call better and best Once fear anchors the soul

Proverbs presses the question that no man can avoid what then is best

What is truly better because life is not governed by mere rules or mechanistic Processes but by loves and affections not by information but by inclination not by what we know but by what we want your life is not motivated by Data points your life is motivated by your affections

Every human being Lives and moves towards and run towards even what they think is best and what they think is good every heart moves in pursuit of what it believes is going to satisfy its deepest longings and worship at the deepest level is simply the reordering reordering of our desires around what is most treasurable and What will most satisfy?

Proverbs doesn't deny this feature. It assumes it and then with surgical precision Solomon says better is a little with the fear of the

Lord than great treasure and turmoil without it I think about men like Bill Gates. I was talking to the member new members class yesterday

I don't know Bill Gates, but I think he's an evil man. I don't want to bear false witness But he's done a lot of evil things

That man has every creature Lee comfort that he could ever have He's a bank account you and I could never imagine

He has more than we do and yet he has infinitely less Because it's better to have almost nothing

But have the fear of God and have Christ Then have all the treasures this world could provide Scripture does not condemn wealth outright.

I do want to be clear about that It's not a sin to have wealth sin for your wealth to have you it also scripture does not romanticize poverty

I used to think that I used to think that the less money I made the more holy I was and I never said it

That way if you asked me I would say I don't know if I believe that that's the way I lived It does not pretend that abundance somehow is meaningless.

It doesn't do any of those things, but it does compare value It does ask the question. What is better?

And what is best? This proverb is not about money. Ultimately It's about the measurement of our value system.

What is it? That is your chief affection? The fear of the

Lord causes us to have our chief affection be him if you could think about what is the thing that you want more than anything and It's something other than God then your affections are disordered and You need to repent of that because the fear of the

Lord actually gives you freedom Proverbs assumes that every man has a scale every inner scale that is there.

He weighs the outcome He evaluates the successes. He judges. What is a life worth living and That scale is never neutral Solomon here places a very little on one side and the greatest treasures on the other and the greatest treasures

Do not satisfy The issue is not with how much a man has it is what that man has and if he has that one thing

God He has everything and If he has everything else, but not God he has nothing

Your life may be full but it's fractured your life may be busy full of good things, but it's brittle

It could be prosperous and yet it could be constantly unsettled Proverbs is telling us that desire when it's untethered from the fear of God Becomes a tyrant that will whip you and beat you until you die

It demands more it promises peace. It delivers nothing but anxiety and unrest it multiplies your possessions while thinning out your joy

It fills your hands while it hollows out your soul. If your chief affection is not God You are being robbed of your joy your comfort your station your vitality your vigor and everything else fear teaches us to Order have our hearts ordered rightly fear trains our heart to call the right things good

It frees a man from the compulsion to prove himself or to chase After the latest thing in order to make sure that he's up with the

Joneses it delivers him from the endless ache of more and more and more and more and That little

The fear of God becomes his anchor becomes his strength. It purifies him and it anchors him

Because worship does not merely change our behavior. It changes what our heart wants

When God is rightly feared desire falls into rank and file

Love finds its proper place lesser goods are enjoyed without being absolutized Listen to this your family is a good thing, but it's not the ultimate thing

I've met many people who make their children their God. They don't even know that they're doing it I've met many people who've made their their spouse their

God. They don't even know that they're doing it They their happiness and their joy Exist on a continuum of whether my wife is happy or whether my wife is not their

God is their spouse instead of God Do you see how fear of God will actually anchor you and and cleanse you of the anxieties of your heart and anything else?

Will rob you what you worship. That's not God. You will eventually demonize and you will eventually criticize

It will rob you and steal from you and take from you. So the fear of the Lord Actually reorders our heart to be able to love the right thing so that we can love everything else rightly

You must love your spouse But she's not your God. He's not your God. You must love your children, but they're not the reason that you exist

You must love your work and your vocation You must do it with all your might do everything you do for the glory of God whether you eat or whether you drink or whatever

You do do it for him for him Because worship rightly rooted is knowing that we worship

God Because He is omniscient We worship

God because he's omnipotent. We worship God because he's omnipresent and we worship God because it is the only thing that will ever satisfy you and me as Men and women who have juggled our whole lives a litany of idols.

They will not make you happy they will not make you whole and This points us to the gospel of Jesus Christ, does it not?

Because Jesus himself came and he demonstrated to us what it looked like to actually have rightly ordered affections and loves

Jesus came and showed us what it looked like to actually have the fear of God instead of the fear of man instead of the fear of missing out instead of the fear of this or that and For his whole life

Jesus modeled for us what we could not do ourselves. Then he died. He Ascended the hill of Calvary died on our behalf was buried and was risen on the third day

Ascended into heaven and now sits at the right hand of God and you know what Christ has done for us He didn't just live in a way that we could not live in front of us

He died and ascended so that he could send the Spirit of God into us That's why the fear of God is a gift because you and I in Our flesh can only shuffle idols

Will repent of gluttony by becoming addicted to our image We do this will repent of this relationship by rebounding into another one

We trade idol for idol for idol because that's what we do It is not until the

Spirit of God comes inside of us that the gift of the fear of God Becomes real in us that we actually learn how to worship

So for us men and women who have the

Spirit of God Pray that the Lord would continue cultivating the fear of God in you. And as he cultivates the fear of God in you would he invigorate

Worship in you because everything you do is before the face of God and may you worship him in spirit and the truth

Everywhere you go. Let's pray Lord we thank you Even just for the foundation of what worship is the fear of God and What it means and how it reorders our desires help us

Lord To not think that we can do this on our own to not think that we can just give more effort that we can just That we can grind through it.

But Lord, I do pray that you would help us to remember always

That the fear of God is a gift May we thank you for that gift May we ask you to increase that gift and Downstream of that Lord.

Would you invigorate our worship so that whatever we do? Whether we eat whether we drink whether we go to work or whether we come home whether we get married and have children or whether We remain single whatever our station whatever our situation

Lord help the fear of God to be in us that produces an awe and a wonder in us that leads us to be

Worshipping people lights in a darkened world so that when the world would see us and see our worship and see our

Deeds that we do not because we are good but because you're good and you're working out your good in us