Psalm 150

I. Worship with our regenerated spirit.

II. Worship with our renewed mind.

III. Worship with our revived emotions.

IV. Worship with our rededicated body.

V. His power is displayed.

VI. The conviction of sin is experienced.

VII. His purposes are revealed.

VIII. His enemies are scattered.

Psalm 100

Worship defined: Worship in truth and spirit is experiencing/encountering God.

1. Serve God (with praise)

Worship is seeing what God is worth and giving him what he’s worth.
Tim Keller

I’ve experienced God’s presence most powerfully in worship, often during the singing, I suppose because when we sing to him, we are looking hard in his direction.
J.I. Packer

Christian worship is the most momentous, the most urgent, the most glorious action that can take palace in human life.
Karl Barth

The world can be saved by one thing and that is worship. For to worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
Archbishop William Temple

2. Serve people (with His sufficiency)

In His presence is fullness of joy.
Psalm 16:11

John 4:20-24

I. Worship is fundamentally relational .

II. We are to worship in spirit and truth.

III. Worship in truth and spirit is experiencing God.

Psalm 23:1-6

1. The Good Shepherd Provides for His Sheep

2. The Good Shepherd Protects His Sheep

3. The Good Shepherd Plans for His Sheep

All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
Isaiah 53:6

I Corinthians 11:7-8

I. Lead courageously. Accept responsibility.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
Ephesians 5:25-27

II. Practice listening.

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry…
James 1:19

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
Romans 10:17

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
I John 5:14-15

III. Offer affirmation

IV. Remember you have clay feet.

Sometimes, the only way to get through to your child is by getting real, getting raw, confessing your sins, revealing your broken places, your weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.
John 20:20

I Samuel 17:33-39, 45-46

An addiction is anything we can’t live without.

I. Find your God.

II. Find your purpose.

III. Find your friends.

To keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
II Corinthians 12:7-10

Everyone who has ever done something great for God had some sort of weakness.

I Samuel 17:45-46

I Samuel 17:28-33, 41-44

The only thing that will help us move past the giant of rejection is to immerse ourselves in the acceptance of Christ.

I. Understand the miracle of your creation.


Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Psalm 139:14-16

II. Revel in the mystery that Jesus chose you.

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will – to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.”
Ephesians 1:4-6

III. Grasp how costly it was for Jesus to rescue you. In [Christ] we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us.
Ephesians 1:7-8

What is your real value? You are worth Jesus to God.

IV. Live from acceptance, not for it.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
Psalm 8:3-4

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psalm 8:9

I Samuel 17:4-11

1. Fear comes from our conditioning.

What the wicked dread will overtake them…
Proverbs 10:24

2. Fear comes from concealing.

3. Fear comes from controlling.

1. We remind ourselves that God is able.

Why do you worry about what you’ll eat? Why do you worry about what you’ll wear? Why do you worry about your clothes? Don’t you know that your father in heaven knows what you need? He’s clothed the lilies of the field in all their beauty. Not a bird falls from the sky without his knowledge. He gives to everything on this earth what they have. Surely he, your father, will give you what you need. For who of you by worrying can add one inch of comfort to your life? Your father will give you what you need because he is able.
Matthew 6:25-34

2. We set the Lord always before us.

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
Psalm 16:8

3. We name what’s keeping us up at night.

O Lord, how many are my foes!
Many are rising against me;
Many are saying of my soul,
“There is no salvation for him in God.”
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,
my glory, and the lifter of my head.
I cried aloud to the Lord,
And he answered me from his holy hill.
I lay down and slept;
I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
Psalm 3:1-5

4. We fill our mouths with praise.

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure.
Psalm 16:9

I Samuel 17:1-16, 41-50

I. Identify your giant(s).

II. Not bigger than the name of Jesus.

All the changes God wants in our lives is more about trusting and less about trying.

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
2 Peter 1:3

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13