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Preparing Your Heart for Worship - February 5, 2017

This week's music playlist is now on Spotify! Here's the link. 

What would you do if you found out you could take a peek into the Throne Room of heaven right now? Would you want to see what is happening there even as you read this? Well you can! We began a two week study of Revelation 4 & 5 last week and it is truly awesome to see the intense, focused exaltation of God revealed to us in Scripture. 

We’ll continue looking at the Throne Room this week. If you missed last week’s message, be sure and watch it before this Sunday as these two messages dovetail into each other to help paint a picture of worship in Heaven so that we can better worship Him here each Sunday that we gather. Here’s the link: http://fellowshipjoplin.org/resources/media?id=235011 

As you prepare for our time together, read through these thoughts and listen to the songs (especially the first one - it’s new, but it’s a great song!) so that you can make the most of our time together this Sunday.

May the Peoples Praise You

Our choir introduced this song to us last week. As we’re in the middle of a study on worship and striving to be more intense and focused in our exaltation of God, this song is such a great expression of our privilege and joy to praise our glorious God! Listen to this song several times 

When singing about our coming together to praise God, what better hymn to continue thinking about gathering for the purpose of worship than the hymn

O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing

This tune is just a little different than we usually sing it, and it includes a new verse, but it’s still a great version of the song that should help prepare you to joyfully sing when we gather together this Sunday. 

Alleluia! Glory, Honor, & Majesty

It’s always great to hear the collective voices of our choir extolling the majesty of who God is.  

Come People of the Risen King

As we continue to think about the throne room of heaven, and our worship, this song will help us, as the lyrics say, “tune our hearts to sing to the Morning Star of grace”

The refrain says “Rejoice, Rejoice! Let every tongue rejoice! One heart, one voice; O Church of Christ, rejoice!”  I can’t wait to sing this song with everyone on Sunday!

Revelation Song

We’ll be studying Revelation 5 this week, looking in to the Throne Room of Heaven. What better way to usher us into this time of studying God’s Word than to sing of the Lamb who was slain for our sins? I always love singing this song, and as we’ve been looking at “Holy, Holy, Holy” before the throne, I can’t think of a better way to prepare us to dig into this passage of Scripture. 

Be sure and take some time this week to read through Revelation 4 and 5. Last week, we saw such an amazing picture of the worship that’s going on in heaven right now. This week, in Revelation 5, we’ll see the Lamb, the Worthy One, who is also unique and is to be exalted in all of creation. This is a breathtaking passage. 

Before the Throne of God Above

If it were not for the Lamb of God who was slain from before the foundation of the world and sits at the right hand of the Father, who reigns on His throne, I would have no hope. My hope, my confidence, my perfect plea, is in what Christ did on my behalf. This hymn, written only 10 years ago, contains some amazingly rich truth in it! 

Sunday Nights @ Fellowship - Tonight, we’re looking at the Gospel of John. 

We start at 5:00 and are done by 6:00 p.m.,

We’ll be singing Wonderful, Merciful Savior and Redeemed, How I Love to Proclaim It!  as well as praying together.  

As soon as we’re done (no later than 6:00 p.m.), we’ll be turning on “The Game” (I’m not exactly sure what this means, but the sports people tell me it’s a football game that draws the interest of quite a few people, so 

As you spend time in prayer this week, pray for:

• Rex and all those who lead the music in our time together

• Those who will be praying and reading Scripture

• Pray for yourself that God prepares your heart for what He wants to teach you through His Word.

• Pray for the Body that God places in each of us a deep desire to worship Him.

• Pray for me as I prepare to preach from Revelation 5 this week.

Sundays really are the “icing on the cake!” Can’t wait to join with you all as we exalt our great God!

Rob