The parallel is that the stinky stuff in life helps us grow. It happens without much effort. I think what amazed me during this formative time in my life was how passionate people were about the style of worship they would participate in instead of who they would worship. Habakkuk is known as the weeping prophet because he served the Southern Kingdom of Judah in the lowest, darkest point of their history. My daughter Olivia had just turned six and we had another one on the way. All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. Meditation: I turned 50 last summer. David loved the Lord. It was quite a smell. Meditation: I remember getting my first new car. Spend some time confessing that to God. The Spirit of God drives speech that is marked by "psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. "
May your answer to God always be, Here I am Lord. Scripture: Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! Once I take a closer look, I realize, anything I have is because of and for God. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You walk around today with a song being sung over you. Over time they turned their hearts from God, and the result was bitterness towards God. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him. However, when you decide to let it go then you can get to the last stage of surrender and the significance of Isaiah 6:8. The whole earth is full of his glory! All 40 Days are available so keep scrolling as you enter a new week. David, the greatest worship leader that ever lived, urged his fellow worshippers to bless or speak well of the Lord because of his great generosity. God's Son, Jesus Christ, rules God's kingdom.
Worship Practice: Find a quiet place and on some paper write down praises to God. I want to focus your attention to three key parts of this encounter which I believe will help you make sense of this experience. The word comfort is a strong biblical word that means "come alongside and help. " He was as comfortable writing worship songs as we was fighting God's enemies. Worship Practice: Do you see any other attributes that describe God from this passage? Photo credit: © SparrowStock. Then allow God to hear your voice as you pray. Give praise to the Lord! Meditation: As a youth pastor for several decades, I've seen my share of students turn their hearts away from the Lord. We are worshippers for more than just an hour on Sunday, but seven days a week. Meditation: In the early to mid-'80s, the worship wars had begun. A drift towards our own devices, or thoughts and plans, and away from the God we seek to know. He said God's paths are beyond tracing out. My bank account, my job, my relationships, and my stuff.
Don't allow yourself to be distracted by things that ultimately, don't matter. More than life itself? Isaiah could only be useful once he saw how useless he was until God cleansed his heart. But the Lord's strategy was to put the most well equipped worshippers at the head of the army, praising him for his holiness and thanking him for his faithful love. Scripture: And the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah—said: "Stand up and praise the Lord your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting. " But everyone is concerned about credit. The relational distance will be conquered by the mighty power of God. What did He say to you? How often do we come to worship as the initiator? Allow God's Spirit to root new speech in your heart and on your lips. I never stole again. The wall had been rebuilt, and there was reason to celebrate and still people had been wandering away from God.
As King of Israel, I'm sure David was able to gaze on a lot of beautiful things. It may seem passive, but it's our declaration that God's will always prevails. Worship Practice: Take your phone or computer and open to your calendar. He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of the wicked. If you continue to read the passage, you find Jeremiah's doubts on full display. The challenge will be to spend 15 minutes a day in personal worship.
To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. How big is your God? Furthermore, there's nothing we could give to God that he doesn't already own or have in abundance. Worship Practice: Practice the art of training your attention. David wrote a song for them to sing together. She and I were cleaning up Christmas, and in the blink of an eye, she passed out and was gone.
Looking at my car now, beat up by the road, well lived in by a family in the busiest season of life, it seems foolish for me to have spent so much time valuing something that is so unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Her husband was feeling neglected. So when Habakkuk wrote these verses, He saw that God must do His work and that God will bring him through it.