The Value of Worship

You can't be developed if you're always delighted.
If you always get what you want, then there is no room for growth. Honestly, there is a reason God says no sometimes.
Worship isn't a set list, It's a lifestyle!
Worship isn't what I sing, it's what I surrender.
Worship is not only:
   -A Celebration of what God has done
   -An Expectation of what God will do
   -Worship is also a Realization of Who God Is.

Genesis 22: 1-5

Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.

2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”


Do You worship God's gift more than you worship God?
Abraham wanted a son for so long, then when God finally gave him one, God asked him to sacrifice him. Abraham obeyed God, Immediately and traveled to the region of Moriah, to kill his son.

A Faith that cannot be tested is a faith that cannot be trusted.
Delayed obedience is disobedience.

Genesis 22 13-18

13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring[b] all nations on earth will be blessed,[c] because you have obeyed me.”

Because Abraham obeyed God, he was blessed. He did not ask questions, he just simply did it.

We are on a need to know basis with God and sometimes, we don't need to know.

Sometimes God speaks to us in Regions
   -Just go in the general direction and He will lead the way
Worship is doing what you don't want to do because God told you to.
Don't try to fast forward God's provision

In Order to Worship:
1. Trust when you are tested
2. Continue when you are confused.
3. Surrender when you're selfish.

You need to give up to grow up.
If you own the results it's worry, if you realize the results are up to God, it's worship.

God will never expect from you what he wouldn't give for you. 

Worship.