Prayer Guide – A Right View Of God – December 10, 2008
“God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24, NIV). Thursday, December 11 – Implore the Lord to grant a reviving encounter with Him that would change the way we think about Him and bring back a fear, awe, and reverence for who He is. | “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our ‘God is a consuming fire’" (Heb. 12:28-29, NIV). | Friday, December 12 – Seek grace to repent of re-imaging God, making Him look less severe and distorting what He is like to make us more comfortable in our sin.Ask God to restore biblical worship in our lives. Beg Him to revive us to form and project a correct image of God to one another and to the world. | "You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know . . . The true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers” (John 4:22-23, NASB). | Saturday, December 13 – Implore God to grant us a willingness to repent of offering Him worship while we overlook questionable things taking place in our midst that do not follow the scriptures. Beg God to enable us through His Spirit’s guidance to make the changes needed to spend more time getting to know Him through His word. Ask Him to bring us through a repentance that captivates us with His glory. | “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me [unless they are the offering of the heart]? says the Lord. I have had enough of the burnt offerings . . . [without obedience] . . . Bring no more offerings of vanity (emptiness, falsity, vain glory, and futility) . . . I cannot endure--[it is] iniquity and profanation, even the solemn meeting . . . I am weary of bearing them” (Isa. 1:11-14, AMP). | Sunday, December 14 – Plead with the Lord to help us return to the scriptural definition and practice of worship. Ask Him to restore worship that causes us to compare what we do with the scriptures and cleanses us of comparing ourselves with one another. Beg the Lord to empower prophets who will declare to us what God is like from the scriptures. | “. . . Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Rom. 12:1-2, KJV). | Monday, December 15 – Beg God to help us understand that when Israel profaned His name and gave the world an unbiblical view of Him that He brought severe discipline upon them in front of the nations. | “I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned . . . ‘when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight’” (Ezek. 36:22-23, NASB). | Tuesday, December 16 – Make haste to beseech the Lord to forgive us for profaning His name by prayer, preaching, and singing that re-images Him. | “Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship” (Ex. 34:8, NASB). | Wednesday, December 17 – Ask God to bring us back to God-centered, God glorifying worship based on truth, not trends, which produce reverence and awe in us. | “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24, NIV). |
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