{"id":4683,"date":"2020-05-04T18:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:20:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T09:20:12","slug":"worship-reading-plan-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/2020\/05\/04\/worship-reading-plan-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship Reading Plan: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;Shout with joy to the\u00a0Lord, all the earth!<br>Worship the\u00a0Lord\u00a0with gladness.<\/p><p>Come before him, singing with joy.<br>Acknowledge that the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is God!<\/p><p>He made us, and we are his.<br>We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.<\/p><p>Enter his gates with thanksgiving;<br>go into his courts with praise.<\/p><p>Give thanks to him and praise his name.<br>For the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is good.<\/p><p>His unfailing love continues forever,<br>and his faithfulness continues to each generation.&#8221; <br><br>Psalm 100, NLT<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes from the <em>HelpFinder Bible<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-24-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4686\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-24-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-24-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-24-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-24-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-24.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We do not think of ourselves as a worshiping culture, let alone an idolatrous culture, but our behavior suggests otherwise. Consider our weekly gatherings of up to one hundred thousand frenzied fans observing a ceremony of men dressed in strange garb acting out a violent drama of conquest. Others stay at home and join in by way of a small glowing shrine set up in the family room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fans of professional football are probably not even aware that their behavior could be described as worship. Or consider the way thousands of young people scream and throw themselves at the stage where their rock-star idols are performing. Human beings were created to worship. To worship is to ascribe ultimate value to an object, person, or God\u2014and then to revere, adore, pay homage to, and obey by ordering the priorities of our lives around that which we worship. The Bible teaches that God alone is worthy of our worship. Worship, more than anything else, will connect us with God, our only source of lasting hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-25-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4687\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-25-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-25-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-25-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-25-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-25.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the ultimate purpose of my worship?<\/strong><br> \u2022 1 CHRONICLES 17:16-18 | \u201cWho am I, O Lord God . . . that you have brought me this far?. . . You know what your servant is really like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 1 CHRONICLES 29:10-13 | Then David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly: \u201cO Lord, the God of our ancestor Israel, may you be praised forever and ever! Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O Lord. . . . We adore you as the one who is over all things. Wealth and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand, and at your discretion people are made great and given strength. O our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 ISAIAH 6:3 | They were calling out to each other, \u201cHoly, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven\u2019s Armies! The whole earth is filled with his glory!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/alex-woods-30834-unsplash-sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4660\" width=\"296\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/alex-woods-30834-unsplash-sized.jpg 630w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/alex-woods-30834-unsplash-sized-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 LEVITICUS 15:31 | \u201cThis is how you will guard the people of Israel from ceremonial uncleanness. Otherwise they would die, for their impurity would defile my Tabernacle that stands among them.\u201d <br><em>Worship is the recognition of who God is and of who you are in relation to him. Ultimately, everything we do should be based on what we think of and how we worship the almighty God. If our actions don\u2019t pay ultimate honor to him, then we are paying ultimate honor to someone or something else.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 PROVERBS 3:9 | Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 EXODUS 23:19 | \u201cAs you harvest your crops, bring the very best of the first harvest to the house of the Lord your God.\u201d<br><em>Giving the firstfruits of your income to God honors him as your number one priority. Your offerings demonstrate that your work is for God and that his work is most important.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-26-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4688\" width=\"313\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-26-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-26-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-26-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-26-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/05\/Untitled-design-26.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 REVELATION 4:9-11 | Whenever the living beings give glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever), the twenty-four elders fall down and worship the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever). And they lay their crowns before the throne and say, \u201cYou are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and they exist because you created what you pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 REVELATION 5:11-12 | Then I looked again, and I heard the voices of thousands and millions of angels around the throne and of the living beings and the elders. And they sang in a mighty chorus: \u201cWorthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered\u2014to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.\u201d<br><em>Your worship of God is a foretaste of heaven.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-22-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4404\" width=\"321\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-22-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-22-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-22-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-22-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-22.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 GENESIS 4:3-4 | When it was time for the harvest, Cain presented some of his crops as a gift to the Lord. Abel also brought a gift\u2014the best portions of the firstborn lambs from his flock. <br><em>In the gifts of Abel and Cain we see that, from the very beginning, humans have an instinct for worship. We desire to offer thanks and honor to God by expressing our praise and bringing offerings from our work to God. Even if we fall short of the mark, as Cain did, the instinct is still there.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tyndale.com\/sites\/helpfinder\/\">Learn more about the <em>HelpFinder Bible <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shout with joy to the\u00a0Lord, all the earth!Worship the\u00a0Lord\u00a0with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy.Acknowledge that the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is God! He made us, and we are his.We are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving;go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name.For the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is good. 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