Prayer for the new year
Here's a snippet from yesterday's services. It begins with a prayer from our pastor as we go into a favorite song of ours, "Bless The Lord". It was written by an old friend, Chad Jarnagin, from our days at The People's Church in Franklin Tennessee. This song has been an incredible blessing as we've grown into a body that is able to ackowledge His blessings & then turn that blessing around to bless the Lord. My only request is that you worship as you listen. You may even find yourself singing along.
Labels: Bless The Lord, Chad Jarnagin, Lord's Prayer, New Year, The People's Church
posted by Me at 10:29 AM
3 Comments:
That is so true that "we've grown into a body that is able to ackowledge His blessings & then turn that blessing around to bless the Lord."
We were such babes in worship when you came here. We are a totally different body now, and I'll always be unspeakably grateful to GOD for sending you here, and to YOU for obeying Him.
I am actually commenting about your Levitical Journey Post. I guess this falls along the same lines. I was reading about the very detailed process that takes place to make something clean or kosher. It was actually a health related article on the benefits of eating kosher meat, but it struck a chord for me spiritually. I couldn't help but notice how very much care went into an animal that would eventually be slaughtered. They are to pay attention to intricate details from exactly what the animal eats its whole life, to the very careful way the animal is treated even as its being led to slaughter, and then finally the gentle and merciful way it is slaughtered. And then we see how important the process is from there during the actual sacrifice. I always thought they just showed up with their fattest cow or goat or whatever because it happened to grow up to be their best. But it appears that they actually would have had to begin preparing a sacrifice long before the slaughter (from birth) and probably had poured a whole lot into the animal up to that point. Maybe that attributes to the sweet fragrance it carries to God. Just a thought.
It really is interesting once you go a little deeper into the old testament rituals. The challenge is to learn something from it that can be translated into our "new covenant" lives in Christ. That's the only reason I can presently think that God has me trudging through Leviticus. It's pretty amazing what God has taught me so far.
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