Reverence

Showing all and respect will mean sacrifice, will mean following his ways. If we trust God for our salvation, our eternal life, then surely we should be prepared to trust him in how we live our lives. If we're prepared to trust him in that big thing, eternity, Why don't we always trust him with our lives where we are? [00:15:50] (37 seconds)  #TrustGodDaily

But let's treat this moment and dwell and just reflect on what it means for each one of us. Jesus, sinless, died for our sins. And on the cross, the wrath of God was poured out on him. And we can't even begin to imagine what that was like. We know the end of the story. We know that three days later, he rose from the dead. But let's not downplay what happened on the cross. [00:23:09] (40 seconds)  #RememberTheCross

We can't go to God and ask him to bless our finances and to sort them out if we're not prepared to give to God cheerfully and generously. I've lost track of how many Christians I've spoken to who are struggling financially, want God to help them, but even in the good times they're not generous to God. Now I'm not saying that we give to God to get. Don't hear me saying that, but I'm just using this as an example. [00:12:39] (35 seconds)  #GiveCheerfully

And I just wonder whether especially in the West, in the Western world, we have lost a little bit of awe and respect and reverence for God and how we treat him. God is worthy of our reverence and our respect. Just think about who God is. God is the creator of the universe. He sustains the universe through his son, Jesus. If that isn't enough for us to be respectful, what is? [00:09:16] (40 seconds)  #GodDeservesAwe

We need to respect God and we need to approach him more. And that doesn't mean that we have to be kind of, you know, sackcloth and ashes and fearful and, you know, that's not what it means. But I I I have a habit sometimes. I have many habits, many of which are not great. One of them is sometimes I will refer to God as the big man in the sky. [00:09:56] (29 seconds)  #RespectGodAlways

That's not reference, is it? I shouldn't do that. I've got to try and try and ditch that from my vocabulary. We need to have a reference for who God is. Because if we do that, if we come into and it's not about church being boring at all, but it's about having the right heart posture, the right positioning of ourselves. [00:10:25] (28 seconds)  #HeartPostureMatters

And we're not coming in with reverence at all. And please hear me clear, I don't want a church, I don't want a beige church. I love flag waving. I love kids running around. I love all of those things. But we need to come in with a bit of reverence and awe as well. [00:11:27] (22 seconds)  #ReverenceAndJoy

How many areas of our lives do we say, hey, God, I'm not going to do what you say in that area of my life. I was like that in my in my early womb. There are parts of my life that I wasn't willing to surrender to God. My finances, for example, were one of the last things in my life that ever got got surrendered to God. [00:14:12] (23 seconds)  #SurrenderEverything