Showing posts with label faithfulness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faithfulness. Show all posts

Sunday

Pondering the Psalms - Psalm 100

Each Sunday I am going to choose a Psalm and write down some brief thoughts on it.


Today I'm looking at Psalm 100 


This is a Psalm for the Thank Offering.






This Psalm falls into three parts:

V. 1-2
What?


V. 3
Who?


V. 4
When & How?


V. 5
Why?





What are we required to do for this thank offering?
Be joyful in our Praise unto the Lord and not just us but all the earth.
Serve the Lord not as a duty but gladly.
Enter His presence with a song on our lips.


Who is this thank offering for?
It is for the Lord and He is God.
He is our creator, we belong to Him and he is our Shepherd who cares for us.


How to give a thank offering to God


When is this thank offering to be given?
It is to be presented to the Lord when we are within the gates of His Holy presence.
Then also when we are even further into His presence. with all Praise and Blessing unto Him.


How is this thank offering to be given?
It is to be presented with all Praise and Blessing unto the Lord our God.


Why should we bring this thank offering?
Because the Lord is good, He loves us continually forever and ever and He is a faithful God.







Where is this thank offering to come from?

From our hearts because of the joy and gladness there.

From the knowledge in our minds of how Good the Lord is to us.

From the honour of being invited into His Holy presence.

From the understanding that there is no-one like our Lord.





Why We Worship 6




I am taking time each week to ask myself "Why we worship"




God has set us all a great example.

He has shown us the way we should be in all the relationships that we have.

He teaches us that we should be faithful in word and in deed.








So our focus today is on    1 Corinthians 1:9

always remembering to take verses we consider in the context they were written


I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, 
that you were enriched in everything by Him in all [b]utterance and all knowledge, 
even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed [c]in you, 
so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.






Not only has He shown us that a relationship must be built on faithfulness but He has also provided the relationship we all need.  


The relationship with our Saviour.



So let us worship today because







We will be singing "What a Faithful God have I " in church today.

Are you worshipping Him today?