Harvest Church

We are made to worship. The question is, what are we worshiping? Listen this week as Ps. Shawn breaks down some of the benefits of musical worship, as well as that of a lifestyle of worship and what that looks like in a believer's life.

At its core, biblical worship involves the heart. It is the laying down of our lives in adoration. Then from the heart connected place of adoration, we serve Him. As believers, we are called to a lifestyle of worship, and that looks like more than a song sung on Sundays. It's a wholistic shift to make Jesus the center of our lives, where, because we adore Him, we seek to please Him with every aspect of our lives.

Did you know that God designed worship? It's not because He needs it or because it somehow makes Him feel more secure in His leadership, however. Worship is something that we get to do. In fact, it can be an involuntary response when we are invested at the level that God's goodness demands.

There is fullness of joy (happiness) in God's presence, and God gives us explicit instructions on how to come into His presence.

The corporate presence of God comes when we as a body are living consecrated lives before the Lord.  We must shed "mixture" and "compromise", and stop avoiding and neglecting our pursuit of holiness, particularly as it relates to specific struggles we have.  As priests we are called to be set apart so that we can serve God and truly love man as we have been called.  

We know that God is omnipresent, which means that He is literally everywhere at once. But did you know that you can walk with God in such a way as to regularly experience His manifest presence? We were designed by God to abide in Him and that is something that goes beyond our natural intellect. We have to begin to sharpen our spirits to lead and discern His presence and His moving.

What do we mean by transparency and vulnerability?  What does that look like in a church environment?  Join us this week as Ps. Misty takes us a little deeper into this core value, explaining the difference between transparency and vulnerability, and showing how they are put on display as we relate with others.  

The core value of vulnerability can be broken down into three simply categories: 1. Humility 2. Teachability 3. Communication We have to get to a place where we allow the reality that none of us are ever 100% right, 100% of the time to impact the way we relate to others, particularly in conflict.

What should the local church look like? What are we to become? Join us this week as Ps. Shawn shares vision for 2023 by teaching on the biblical model for church found in Ephesians 4.

Imagine what it must have been like for Elizabeth, having waiting her entire life to become pregnant, to have to share the limelight with, and even be trumped by, Mary who was now carrying the Savior through some supernatural experience. Elizabeth ends up being a considerable resource to Mary as she processes the gravity of what was now happening. Imagine if Elizabeth hadn't walked in that level of humility?  What would you have done if you had been in her shoes?