The call to come is a divine invitation from God Himself. It is an appeal to enter His presence with hearts full of gratitude and voices ready to praise. This summons is not based on our worthiness but on His greatness and His desire for relationship. We are invited to sing, to make a joyful noise, and to bow before the Rock of our salvation. This is the foundational call of the Kingdom. [01:13]
Oh come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Psalm 95:1-2 (KJV)
Reflection: What distractions or burdens are you carrying that make it difficult to wholeheartedly accept God's invitation to "come" into His presence with thanksgiving and praise?
Our first duty in God's presence is to offer thanks. This is not a mere suggestion but a command rooted in who He is. He is the source of every blessing, from the breath in our lungs to the salvation of our souls. A heart of thankfulness is the proper posture for approaching a great God. It shifts our focus from our circumstances to His unchanging character and goodness. [11:52]
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
Psalm 100:4 (KJV)
Reflection: As you reflect on your story, from where God brought you to where you are now, what specific act of His faithfulness are you most thankful for today?
God's greatness is beyond measure and without rival. He is the Creator and owner of all things, from the deepest seas to the highest mountains. There is no power, no entity, and no circumstance that can compare to His majesty and authority. Understanding His supreme greatness puts every challenge and fear in its proper perspective, under His sovereign control. [16:00]
For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Psalm 95:3-5 (KJV)
Reflection: When you consider a current challenge that feels overwhelming, how does the truth that "the sea is his, and he made it" change your perspective on His ability to handle it?
Countless voices compete for our attention, each with its own agenda. Yet, there is one voice that matters above all others: the voice of our Shepherd. He calls us to Himself, not to burden us, but to guide us into His rest and His ways. The warning is clear: we must not harden our hearts but actively choose to listen and respond to His call today. [26:00]
Today if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness.
Psalm 95:7b-8 (KJV)
Reflection: Among the many voices vying for your time and energy—from work to media to personal ambitions—what is one practical step you can take to better prioritize listening for God's voice this week?
The Christian life involves both a "come" and a "go." We are called to come to Him for worship, rest, and salvation. But we are also commanded to go into the world to tell others, to teach, and to harvest. It is a movement from a "me" mentality to a mission mindset. Obedience means responding to both sides of His call with a willing heart. [35:24]
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Matthew 28:19-20 (KJV)
Reflection: Where is one place in your everyday life—your neighborhood, workplace, or family—where God might be prompting you to "go and tell" about His goodness?
Psalm 95 issues a bold, simple summons: come, worship, and submit. The Psalm opens with an urgent call to sing and make a joyful noise to the rock of salvation, inviting immediate approach to God with thanksgiving. That call contains layers—an invitation to rest for the weary, a summons to repentance, and a communal pull toward worship in spirit and truth. The text stresses the must of thanksgiving when entering God’s presence: gratitude stands as the right posture before greatness.
The passage then asserts divine sovereignty in concrete terms. God owns the sea, formed the dry land, and holds the deep places of the earth; creation belongs to the Creator. That ownership reframes storms, trials, and seasons of feeling lost: even when surrounded by overwhelming waters, the claim remains that the storm and its elements answer to God’s authority. Hearing that truth reorients fear into trust and trembling into worship.
A sharp pastoral warning runs through the reading: hardening the heart during divine leading provokes grief and exclusion from rest. The wilderness rebellion of Israel offers a cautionary example—refusal to repent and stubborn insistence on one’s own way frustrate God’s promises. The call to come therefore pairs inseparably with a call to listen; hearing God’s voice demands obedient response.
The summons also includes movement outward: coming to God must lead to going for God. Worship that stays inward and self-focused misses the mandate to tell, teach, baptize, and harvest. The text insists on both dimensions—come and go—because true worship yields mission. Finally, the text presses for attention that cuts through agendas and distractions. Pure devotion requires submitted wills, open ears, and readiness to have personal plans interrupted by sovereign direction. The living word calls for thanksgiving, submission, obedience, and missional witness in a world that needs a visible, obedient people of God.
We have to come to him. But once we come to him, he's gonna tell us to go. Amen. The hardest thing for us to do is to go tell. It's hard. I know it is. It's easy to come to him. It's easy to hear that. Come here. Just hear my dad say that, come here. I can do that. There's both sides to the call both sides to the call. I'm telling us now, in these last days, god is calling us to hear his voice more than ever before. Amen. Should be easy to worship.
[00:35:22]
(58 seconds)
#GodIsSupreme
It it it it it drives me crazy when our when the world starts thinking that they they they own something when really nobody owns anything. It's all his. The earth is his and the fullness thereof. Now, I never I'd read this verse a million times probably but it never stuck in my brain because I'm my own I'm always thinking about the earth is his and the fullness thereof but verse five says, the sea is his. And he made it. It adds that to it. The sea is his and he made it. Amen. And and it says, and his hands formed the dry land.
[00:17:38]
(49 seconds)
#GiveGodThanks
You know, here here's the reason why. This this is not just this is not just a commandment to do something that we shouldn't already be doing anyway. It should be in your heart to give god thanks. There's not a person in this room he hadn't blessed. Matter of fact, I'll take it a step further. There's not a person in this room, and and this is rocket science right here, that he didn't wake up this morning and give you breath to breathe.
[00:11:53]
(33 seconds)
#HumbleToGod
Can I tell us there's so many parts I could be preaching in through all of this? Amen. There's gotta be there's gotta be something on the inside of his people that wants to worship and love and adore and magnify. Amen. But it goes deeper than that. There's gotta be something in us that wants to submit our way to his way and kneel down before him and and realize that we are nothing but he is everything. Be like John and say, I must decrease, but he must increase.
[00:18:33]
(33 seconds)
#FocusOnGod
There's so many voices vying for our attention. So many voices vying for for us to come to them. Everybody's got an agenda. Everybody's got an agenda. I'm not going to talk about em but everybody's got one. I can name stuff. I could name stuff. I I have been I have been in enough committee meetings to know that that everybody has an agenda.
[00:26:15]
(36 seconds)
#BeObedient
I've I've got one. I number one, I've got a mandate from god to win the world. Number two, I got a mandate from god to to to to feed the sheep. Amen. It's a constant thing, and and so we have this agenda, and everybody's vying for our attention. But can I tell you, there is no greater attention that you can put other than what's belongs to god? You gotta put your attention on the king of kings and the lord of lords and the one who owns the seeds and the one who owns the earth and the one who owns the fullness thereof. We gotta put our attention on him and realize he's in charge of it all. Amen.
[00:28:30]
(47 seconds)
#ItsAllHis
Lord, I'm I want to be what you want me to be. I want to desire the things that you desire, god. I want to do what you want me to do, god. I want to be obedient to that word more than I ever have been before. Lord, I feel that call in this room right now. There's some that are hesitant in this room to be obedient to what you're calling them to, lord. Lord, I pray that your spirit would push a little bit today.
[00:38:52]
(31 seconds)
#JesusIsWithYou
We've all been there. We've all had it happen in our lives to where it just seem like, man, I can't do anything that seems right. I can't get there. I can't get over that hump. Come on, somebody. I can't get to that place that I'm looking for, but I'm gonna tell you, even in the midst of troubles and trials, it belongs to God. Come on, somebody. It's all His.
[00:23:29]
(37 seconds)
#ThankfulInHisPresence
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