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Happy Sunday! Happy Church day! Happy Worship Day! Calling everyone to come and worship God together. Every Sunday, you have the opportunity to come to church and bring your family to worship God. It is an awesome way to begin your week, and it is an awesome example to your family that God really is a priority in your life and your world. It’s easy to turn on the TV and worship, or listen to a podcast, or even watch AGF online, but there is something really special about coming to the house of God to worship on a regular basis. We get the opportunity to worship together, and being together corporately is really wonderfully special. I’ve heard it say you can learn on your own, but you really grow together. If growing spiritually is our goal, I encourage you to come and worship at church. Make it a priority, and come to church to worship!

I am so thankful to be filled with the Spirit and on a track to grow spiritually day by day. One of the things Jesus said was that He wanted true worshippers who would worship Him in Spirit and in truth. Jesus was speaking to the woman at the well when He said this, and I think He was getting to the heart of worship. He wants our whole heart, and worshipping Him takes focus and commitment. It also is important that we know who we are worshipping. It’s not a building or an idea, or even the one leading worship, it is God who deserves our worship, in spirit and in truth. We have the opportunity to give the one true God our whole heart for our whole life! We aren’t subject to Old Testament rules for worship, we give God the best of our life fro the rest of our lives. As we do, we will continue on our path to growing spiritually. Let’s be the kind of worshippers that Jesus is looking for, those who worship Him in Spirit and in truth!

There is a lot of junk in the airways! I’m sure you have noticed! There are some music stations that you don’t want to subject your ears to. I am so glad for great ones that pump encouraging positive lyrics out 24/7.(Like KAGF!) Do you remember the little kids song that went like this…Oh be careful little ears what you hear, oh be careful little ears what you hear, for the Father up above is looking down in love, oh be careful little ears what you hear. The main message of this song is that we need to be aware of what we are listening to. And just like a computer, what goes is what comes out. We want to guard our heart and our ears, because, out of the abundance of your heart, your mouth will speak. The best kind of things we can let into our heart is things that encourage and bless our lives. And worship music is high on the list! Make your home and your car an oasis with music that brings you a little bit of heaven on earth. As we keep on growing spiritually, make worship and worship music an important priority in your life, and the life of your family.

As much as I love worshipping with others, to make time to worship on my own is one of the most encouraging, reenergizing things you can do. You can put on a worship cd, or you can sing your own tune, with your own melody and lyrics, or sit down at an instrument, and worship your heart out. Being a busy mom, with work, church and home responsibilities, finding time to worship God on my own, happens only intentionally. Sometimes it accidentally happens when there is a random slot of time that appears, but most of the time, personal worship happens because it is on my schedule and I give it a priority. As beautiful as it is to have time on your own, if you have little ones at home, or are a homeschool mom or dad, take time together with the kiddos and worship God every day. Turn off the TV, the computer and the phone, and worship God together. Sing fun silly songs, and then do some real worship songs together. You are modeling to them how to worship and that time will minister to you personally, and you can experience the presence of God at home with your kids. That is growing you spiritually, and training your kids at the same time. WIN!

One of the reasons Sunday is my favorite day of the week is because it is the day we get to worship together. We are called to worship, and coming together to worship each week, not only blesses God, but blesses us. As we worship together, God does amazing things in our midst. We minister to Him, and He ministers to us. He meets us right where we are. If we come in to the sanctuary hurting, with broken hearts or broken bodies, He wants us to leave whole, with mended hearts and healed bodies. If we come in discouraged, He wants our heart lifted and encouraged when we leave His house. If we come to church without hope, He wants us to leave with hope. All those things can happen when we worship together. Besides just the beauty of worshipping together, there is also a multiplied anointing that happens as we all join together to worship. God’s power is made manifest as we worship together, so get to church, worship with other believers, and see God do amazing things! Let’s keep on growing spiritually!

I love to see kids worshipping God. Seeing kids on their knees, with lifted hands, and tears running down their faces is one of the most beautiful sights on the earth. It feels like what we will experience in heaven. I have even seen tiny babies find a way to lift their little hands in worship. What it shows is that they have seen their parents or grandparents worshipping God, because they imitate what they see. What kind of worshipper are you? Do you fold your hands and sing softly? Do you open wide your mouth, but keep your hands in your pockets? Do you just stand there? Or do you unabashedly sing from the top of your lungs, and lift your hands high as you worship? Can we let the little children lead us? Let’s be like a child, go all out in worship, not caring about what anybody else thinks of us, but thinking only of giving God our best, because He is our audience of one. Let’s make it our goal to worship like a child and continue to grow spiritually. Let’s keep working it out.

Intro: Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. I hope you are becoming more and more spiritually fit as we continue this series on Working It Out. This week we will be talking about the beauty of worship as a spiritual discipline. Worship is an action as well as an attitude. Spiritually fit people are a cut above, and they strive for excellence, and are called as worshippers. They are people who are doers of the Word and not hearers only. Our hearts desire should be to become more spiritually fit day by day. This week, we as we talk about worship, my prayer is that you will make worship a lifestyle. Here is your dailyeword.

Worship is giving God back with your words and actions what He has given you. We have so much to be grateful for as God’s people and we offer our praise and worship back to Him, because He is worthy. Most people think that worshipping is music or singing, but worship really is a lifestyle. We can worship God everyday of the week, 24/7 7 days a week 52 weeks a year, not just on Sundays while we are at church. And we worship God with our lives, not just with our song. Don’t get me wrong, worshipping God puts a song in your heart whether or not you can actually sing. You don’t have to be a fantastic singer to worship God. He sees your heart, and your heart of worship warms His heart. We can worship God with our craft, with our talent, with our voice and with our instruments. There is no reason not to worship God in our everyday life! As we continue to make growing spiritually a priority, choose to make extravagant worship a part of your life.

This is the weekend when we celebrate romantic love. It’s it amazing that we use the word love in so many different ways. You can love chocolate ice cream, love running, love your Iphone or Ipad, love pizza and you love your spouse. We also use that same word when we talk about God. We love God. God loves us. God is Love (I John 4:16). You can see that not only is love a noun, it is also a verb. Because love can be a noun, it is something that we want to attain. But because love is a verb, it is an action word. That means that if you really love someone, you get to prove it by your actions. (That can definitely be taken the wrong way, but in the right context, it is totally godly.) If you love your wife, you will tell her, but you’ll also show her by how you act. The two go hand in hand, words and deeds. Like bread and butter, like flowers and springtime, like pieces of a puzzle love and deeds fit together. If you want to show love to your friends (phileo love is friendship love), you can be kind, and speak uplifting words to them, and make a choice to help and encourage them. If you love God, you will obey His commandments (I John 5:3). If you need a reminder of what God’s Commandment’s are, they are really simply summed up in two things and encompass all of life. Love God with all your heart, mind and strength, and love your neighbor (everybody else) as yourself. When we love God with all that we are, and love those around us through our words and actions, then there will be evidence that we are growing spiritually! Let’s be doers of the Word, and put a priority where God puts His priorities.

The love chapter in I Corinthians 13 is often read at weddings and we smile and say how sweet it is. We think that those who have fresh romantic love, they’ll do all those things, but us old married folks sometimes get a little cynical. Those same descriptions of love should be how we treat our mates on a daily basis. Here’s a reminder from I Cor 13:4-8 of the kind of ways we show love to them…..by operating in patience, by being kind, by not being proud, boastful or envious. By not being rude, self seeking (or selfish), by not being easily angered, and not keeping a list of wrongs. We are not happy when evil happens, but we rejoice when truth prevails. We protect, trust, hope and persevere for those we love. When we act that way, love will never fail. Love is not just something that we say, it really is something that we do.

A country singer, wrote a great song with that same title….Something That We Do…. Here are some of the lyrics. Love isn’t something that we find…it’s something that we do. It’s holding tight, and letting go, it’s flying high and laying low, let your strongest feelings show and your weakness too, it’s a little and a lot to ask, an endless and a welcome task, love isn’t something that we have, it’s something that we do. There’s so much to look back on now, still it feels brand new, we’re on a road that has no end, and each day we begin again, loves not just something that we’re in, it’s something that we do. We give ourselves, we give our all, love isn’t someplace that we fall, it’s something that we do. What a great truth, if you love Me (God), you will do something – (I John 3:18).Well, if love is in the air for you today, why don’t you do something about it! And then try to do something about it, every day of the year!

Anything worth doing is worth doing right. I’m not sure where that quote is from, but my Dad gets credit for saying it millions of times while I was growing up. Whether it was cleaning my room, arranging some flowers, or mowing a lawn, you do it right the first time, and do it with excellence, because Dad said so!

It is important for believers to realize that we represent Christ on the earth. We are his ambassadors, or representatives, and when the world (those who don’t know Christ yet) looks at us, they should see a good facsimile of who Jesus is. That kind of puts the pressure on – but in this case, it is good pressure! We should be much more than mediocre. We should be much more committed than average. We should be people of impeccable integrity and character. We should be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, not only when people are watching, but every moment of every day.

As big as I am on making things look good on the outside, that certainly isn’t the heart of the issue. The heart is the most important issue. We all know that just changing outward circumstances doesn’t make a change on the inside. Real, lasting, effective change happens from the inside out. That usually means making some adjustments, changing our thinking, controlling our thought life, and making the decision to live and serve others with excellence. What happens on the inside, will dramatically change what people see on the outside.