A Prayer to Set Priorities for Worship in Your Busy Life
By Jessica Van Roekel
Bible Studying
“Subsequently, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to supply your our bodies as a residing sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—that is your true and correct worship.” – Romans 12:1, NIV
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I’m working on the church surrounded by a long time of recollections. We have fun fifty years this yr, and one factor has remained fixed, and that’s the want to like God, love folks, and make a distinction. These are the parameters that information our choices. It sounds simple, sure? However, like with all priorities, issues can get in the way in which. Typically, we wrestle by opinions and preferences. Different occasions, discouragement about hoped-for outcomes leads us to hesitate to make a distinction or to like folks. And typically, the busyness of church enterprise pushes our imaginative and prescient apart.
Not solely does God name us to a group of believers within the native church, however he calls us to domesticate a person relationship with him. He needs our hearts, our lives, and our worship. We’re fallacious to suppose worship is merely the twenty to forty minutes of music throughout a church service when it’s actually a lifestyle. Worship comes from an outdated English phrase, worthship, which describes the actions and attitudes that extremely favor and honor worthiness. Throughout the biblical context, it expresses awe and adoration to God. True worship is God-centered, with our hearts and minds centered on God’s attributes reasonably than on ourselves.
After we worship God, we expertise a heartfelt interplay between our spirit and God’s Spirit. We will do that by actions, phrases, and songs. In Hebrews 13:15, we learn, “By Jesus, subsequently, allow us to regularly supply to God a sacrifice of reward—the fruit of lips that overtly profess his title.” Worship includes celebrating Jesus’ once-for-all sacrifice, and we specific this by prayer, confession of sin, preaching and studying God’s Phrase, tithing, experiencing the presents of the Holy Spirit, sharing the Lord’s Supper, and water baptism. We will worship God corporately and individually.
However life will get busy. Trials push hope apart. We rush from one occasion to a different. We serve within the church and our communities, however will we do all this busyness from a coronary heart of worship? We will develop so centered on motion and what to do subsequent that we overlook to exalt God. True worship is misplaced after we scale back it to mere phrases and formalities. We will additionally hinder a every day coronary heart of worship after we reside a lifetime of non secular compromise.
We will select to reside our lives from a posture of worship although. In Romans 12:1, the Apostle Paul appeals to our will as a result of God provides us a selection. Paul urges us to recollect the mercies of God. This makes it potential to be residing sacrifice. God’s mercies eliminated the not possible barrier between us so we may be in God’s presence every single day, it doesn’t matter what we face.
The Lord calls us his personal and showers us with grace. He provides us the Holy Spirit to assist us and brings assurance to our hearts of a future eternity with him. After we dwell on his mercies, it’s simpler to reside as a residing sacrifice—not merely working for him however being with him. God needs you, not simply what you do. Worship turns into a real sacrifice after we reside in a means that honors, exalts, and brings constructive consideration to God exterior our church partitions. Setting our priorities to make residing a lifetime of worship in our busy lives is price it.
Let’s Pray:
Holy God,
You might be holy and righteous, and also you name me your individual. Thanks, Father, on your love and assurance. I need to make worshiping you a precedence in my life. Assist me flip to you in prayer extra usually, and assist me to decide on music that jogs my memory to worship you. I need to take into consideration your mercy extra. Please remind me of Jesus’ once-for-all sacrifice. I need to reside my life in a means that honors you, exalts you, and divulges your goodness to these round me. Worshiping you every single day means I’ll discover my consolation, power, and encouragement in you reasonably than in different issues. After I worship you, I’m reminded of your presence in my life, and I would like you every single day. Assist me make you a precedence. I need to take into consideration you and be stuffed with peace and pleasure, which comes once I worship you. Assist me do not forget that my life is just not too busy for you.
In Jesus’ title, Amen
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