Ready To Worship

Ready to Worship Season 5, Episode 10 for Friday, March 31, 2017 David wrote, “I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry” (Psa. 40:1). Inclined comes from a Hebrew word (natah) that means “to bend down” or to “bow” (1352). I think that this word presents an interesting thought. […]

Ready to Worship Season 5, Episode 9 for Friday, March 24, 2017 Have you ever imagined what it would have been like to have entered into the courts of a powerful king? A few men and women in the Bible knew that honor – Joseph, Moses, David, Nehemiah, Esther, Daniel, and Paul, to name a few. […]

Ready to Worship Season 5, Episode 8 for Friday, March 17, 2017 God is a God of remembrance. He remembers man and He wants man to remember Him. Worship is a special time of remembrance for man. It is a time when we bring certain things about God to our remembrance. For several individuals in the […]

Ready to Worship Season 5, Episode 7 for Friday, March 10, 2017 God is a purposeful Creator. He operates with great purpose and thought. He is not haphazard in his actions. He has an end in mind when He does things. When God made man in creation and re-made him in redemption, He had a purpose […]

Ready to Worship Season 5, Episode 6 for Friday, March 3, 2017 In the sixty-ninth psalm David wrote, “I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving” (Psa. 69:30). In the thirty-fourth psalm, David invited others to come and to magnify God with him. We read, “O magnify the […]

Ready to Worship Season 5, Episode 5 for Friday, February 24, 2017 Usually, the word boasting carries a negative connotation with it. Much of the boasting that is done is prideful and presumptuous however, there is one kind of boasting that is good. It is boasting in praise of God. The psalmist equating this kind of […]

Ready to Worship Season 5, Episode 4 for Friday, February 17, 2017 Jesus informed the Samaritan woman that those who worship God must worship Him in spirit and truth (John 4:24). Although there are some key differences between worship in the Old Testament and worship today, there is one key thing that they have in common. Under […]

Ready to Worship Season 5, Episode 3 for Friday, February 10, 2017 Likely, before we prepare or consume food, we wash our hands. Our minds are trained to connect these activities with washing. In the Old Testament, washing hands was connected with worship. The priests stopped at the laver and washed their hands before entering the […]

Ready to Worship Season 5, Episode 2 for Friday, February 3, 2017 Recently, in reading through the book of Psalms again, I was impressed with how often the psalmist emphasizes corporate worship (Psalms 22:22, 25; 35:18( 40:9; 107:32; 111:1; 149:1). Clearly, the psalmist understood the importance of God’s people coming together for worship. In a day […]

Ready to Worship Season 5, Episode 1 for Friday, January 20, 2017 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple (Psa. 5:7).  I love the first four words of this passage – “But as for me.” Regardless of what […]

Ready to Worship Season 4, Episode 13 for Friday, December 16, 2016 Often, when we think of worship, we think of hushed silence. Certainly, there is a time and place for this. The prophet Habakkuk declared, “But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him” (Hab. 2:20). However, there […]

Ready to Worship Season 4, Episode 12 for Friday, December 2, 2016 Our nation just observed another Day of Thanksgiving. It was likely a day of family, food, and football. Three wonderful things. No doubt, we were thankful for these things in descending order, with a huge gap of importance between the first and the […]

Ready to Worship Season 4, Episode 11 for Friday, November 18, 2016 The priests in the Old Testament stood daily at the altar offering sacrifices. It was necessary for them to do so. After all, it wasn’t possible for the blood of bulls and goats to permanently take away sins (Heb. 10:1-4). As you know, things are […]

Ready to Worship Season 4, Episode 10 for Friday, November 11, 2016 It is common to think about bowing in connection with worship. We know that those in Biblical times physically bowed down. The psalmist wrote, “O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker” (Psa. 95:6). Although it is […]

Ready to Worship Season 4, Episode 9 for Friday, November 4, 2016 The trials of life can leave us battered, bruised, and bewildered. Evidently, this is what happened to the Jews who were taken away as captives to Babylon. In the one hundredth and thirty-seventh psalm, we read, “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat […]

Ready to Worship Season 4, Episode 8 for Friday, October 28, 2016 When it comes to worship, I don’t want to worship a God that I have to carry. I want to worship a God that can and will carry me. Isaiah addressed this very matter in the forty-sixth chapter of the book that bears his […]

Ready to Worship Season 4, Episode 7 for Friday, October 21, 2016 As Paul tarried in Athens waiting for his co-workers, his spirit was stirred within him (Acts 17:16). He was upset because the city was “wholly” given to idolatry. In fact, they were so superstitious that they had erected an altar to the unknown God. […]

Ready to Worship Season 4, Episode 6 for Friday, September 30, 2016 God looks on the heart (1 Sam. 16:7). In order for worship to be acceptable, it must come from the proper heart. At least fifteen times in the thirty-fifth and thirty sixth chapters of Exodus the heart or the spirit of man is mentioned. […]

Ready to Worship Season 4, Episode 5 for Friday, September 23, 2016 Likely, we are all very familiar with the miraculous healing of the ten lepers (Luke 17:11-19). All ten of the lepers passed the test of faith. They left Jesus as lepers with the firm faith that they would be healed as they made their way […]

Ready to Worship Season 4, Episode 4 for Friday, September 16, 2016 In the fifth chapter of Matthew, Jesus corrected misunderstandings regarding alms, anger, adultery, and many other things. The discussion of each of these things begins with the words, “Ye have heard…” and continues with the words, “But I say…” In His discussion of anger, […]