Preparing for worship on Sunday April 26 2015 - Get ready for an encounter with God!

Tomorrow at NRN is going to be an awesome day!   I am so psyched about preaching from Acts Chapter 4 as Peter and John display for us When to take a stand!    I hope you are making every effort to be with us for church tomorrow and have made the call to invite a friend - neighbor - work associate to join you.

Let's prepare our heart now - for a time of worship!

 

 

 

 

At the close of a five minute countdown - the worship team begins to play and we join in lifting our voices in adoration to our Great God!

We then greet one another as we welcome every person who have gathered in our worship center to meet with God.  We especially welcome our first time guest.  I look forward to extending a welcome and invitation for us to sing and offer our loud praise to God.  It is time for us to be His witnesses - and proclaim the message of Jesus - the Nazarene!

We cry out to God for His presence and to show Himself faithful as we worship Him in Spirit and Truth.  God is good and inclines His ear to hear the prayers of His people.



We continue in our songs of worship to God:




We pause to hear about the opportunities to gather in service to our King!
You are invited to consider moving from spectator to participant in the worship of our God! 

The purpose of tithing is to teach us to always put God first in our lives. God doesn't need our money. He wants what it represents: our gratitude, our priorities and our faith.

Now look at these verses in Proverbs 3. Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest; then your barns will be completely filled, and your vats will overflow with new wine. (Proverbs 3:9-10 HCSB)

Do you see where it says, “Honor the Lord by giving him the leftovers of all your income”? You can see that’s NOT what it says at all.

It says, “Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest ….” We give to God first, before anyone else, right off the top of our income.
And here is the promise: “Then your barns will be completely filled, and your vats will overflow with new wine.”
You and I are called to give back to God in gratitude, but also as a demonstration of our priorities. And it is a demonstration of our faith in his promises.

In Malachi 3:10, God says, “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse ….”That means the place where you worship. Then God says, “Put me to the test!” In a sense, he says, “Test me and see how I will bless you for your obedience.”

God says he will provide all that you need. He doesn’t say he’ll provide all that we greed, but all that we need.

As we give back to God a portion that He has entrusted to us - we sing....




Now it is time for the message: