INFLUENCE PHASE Session 2 Last Weeks Assignments Meditate

INFLUENCE PHASE Session 2

Last Week’s Assignments Meditate on one of the following passages: Psalm 1, Joshua 1: 1 -9, or Psalm 103 � Get started reading a book from our book list. � Schedule a phone or video conversation with Dwayne regarding your Personal Growth Plan. �

KINGDOM-MINDED MINISTERS • A Kingdom-minded minister is successful. • A Kingdom-minded minister is called. • A Kingdom-minded minister is prayerful. – Enlarged by prayer – Encouraged by prayer – Enabled by prayer

Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7: 7 NLT

Toward a Better Understanding of Biblical Worship

Toward a Better Understanding of Biblical Worship What is worship? II. What's required to worship? III. How can we know if we’ve worshiped? I.

What Is worship? Worship is. .

What Is worship? Worship: � from the old English weorthscipe or worthship � “to ascribe, assign, attribute, declare worth”

Toward a Better Understanding of Biblical Worship Which is more true? Worship is something we do. OR Worshipers are who we are.

What Is worship? 3 directions (aspects) of worship: 1. Inward 2. Upward 3. Outward

What Is worship? “Authentic worship is a response to an authentic encounter with the living God. ” –Buddy Owens, The Way of a Worshiper

What Is worship? "Worship is to feel in the heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe. ” —A. W. Tozer, The Purpose of Man

What Is worship? “Bringing pleasure to God is called ‘worship’. ” —Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life

What Is worship? “Worship is public observance in the house of God, and private adoration, when we are ‘shut in with God. ’ But it is also those acts of service that we perform because Jesus did, and we love Him. ” —Dr. Vernon Whaley, Called to Worship

Colossians 3: 23 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. ”

Romans 12: 1 (MSG) "Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking -around life—and place it before God as an offering. "

Romans 12: 1 (MSG) "Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking -around life—and place it before God as an offering. "

What's Required to Worship?

What's Required to Worship? 1. Gotta get the offering right. 2. Gotta get the order right.

What's Required to Worship? 1. Gotta get the offering right.

Old Testament Sacrifices What they had in common: 1. Best

Old Testament Sacrifices What they had in common: 1. Best 2. Valuable

Old Testament Sacrifices What they had in common: 1. Best 2. Valuable 3. Regular

What's Required to Worship? 1. Gotta get the offering right. 2. Gotta get the order right.

Old Testament Sacrifices Their (usual) sequence:

Old Testament Sacrifices Their (usual) sequence: 1. Sin offering or trespass offering

Old Testament Sacrifices Their (usual) sequence: 1. Sin offering or trespass offering 2. Burnt offering

Old Testament Sacrifices Their (usual) sequence: 1. Sin offering or trespass offering 2. Burnt offering 3. Peace offering and grain offering (along with a drink offering)

What's Required to Worship? Order to worship:

What's Required to Worship? Order to worship: 1. Confess sins first (sin offering).

What's Required to Worship? Order to worship: 1. Confess sins first (sin offering). 2. Commit to God fully (burnt offering).

What's Required to Worship? Order to worship: 1. Confess sins first (sin offering). 2. Commit to God fully (burnt offering). 3. Commune with God freely (peace offering).

How can we Know If We've Worshiped? “It is possible to go though the motions of worship and not worship right. 'They worshiped they know not what, ' said Jesus of a certain group. It is possible to have elements of worship: adoration, selfabasement, surrender and man still not be redeemed at all…

How can we Know If We've Worshiped? “It is entirely possible to have a religious experience without God, and even reject the God of the Bible. It is possible to have an experience of worship, but not according to the will of God and, consequently, unacceptable with God, because God hates idolatry. " —AW Tozer, The Purpose of Man

Man—a house of 3 rooms 3 Parts to the OT Temple: 1. Outer Court 2. Holy Place 3. Holy of Holies

Man—a house of 3 rooms 3 Parts to a Person: 1. Body (Outer Court) 2. Soul (Holy Place) 3. Spirit (Holy of Holies)

1 Thessalonians 5: 23 "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ”

Genesis 2: 7 " The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. ”

How can we Know If We've Worshiped?

John 4: 21 -24 (NLT) " Jesus replied, ‘Believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews.

John 4: 21 -24 (NLT) But the time is coming--indeed it's here now--when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. ’"

How can we Know If We've Worshiped? “For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth" (italics added).

Authentic Worship Experiences

Authentic Worship Experiences 1. Initiated and led by the Spirit.

Authentic Worship Experiences Initiated and led by the Spirit. 2. Motivated and supported by the truth of God’s Word. 1.

“For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. ”

Authentic Worship Experiences Initiated and led by the Spirit. 2. Motivated and supported by the truth of God’s Word. 3. Humbly & deliberately allowed by the individual. 1.

How I Know When I've Stopped Worshiping

How I Know When I've Stopped Worshiping 1. No breath prayers

How I Know When I've Stopped Worshiping No breath prayers 2. No burden for the lost 1.

How I Know When I've Stopped Worshiping No breath prayers 2. No burden for the lost 3. No bubbly joy 1.

Genesis 2: 7 " My heart overflows with a good theme; I address my verses to the King…”

How I Know When I've Stopped Worshiping No breath prayers 2. No burden for the lost 3. No bubbly joy 4. No blessings 1.

How I Know When I've Stopped Worshiping No breath prayers 2. No burden for the lost 3. No bubbly joy 4. No blessings 1.

Prayer Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. ~Psalm 19: 14

Assignments • Read and prepare a book review on The Ultimate Priority (or an alternate book). • Internalize one of the following passages: Psalm 34, Psalm 63, or Psalm 96

Assignments • Start the Life Conditioning Plan (will email to you).

Assignments • Start the Life Conditioning Plan (will email to you). • Schedule the PGP convo with Dwayne (if you haven't already).

Next Week • Session 3 is Tuesday/Wednesday, January 28/29 at the same time • Topic: Needed Leadership Qualities for WLs

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