Surrendering Your Life for God’s Pleasure
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Session #1 Becoming a Worshiper
Session #2 How Big Is Your God?
Session #3 Surrendering Your Past
Session #4 Surrendering Your Substitutes
Session #5 The Crown of Life
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When have you had a great worship
experience? What made it great?
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Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view ofGods mercy, to offer your bodies as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing toGod this is your spiritual act of worship.Do not conform any longer to thepattern of this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind. Then youwill be able to test and approve whatGods will is his good, pleasing andperfect will.
Session #1 Becoming a Worshiper
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Worship is motivated by an awareness of
Gods mercy (verse1). What is mercy?
How has God shown you mercy?
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GRACE = favor bestowed or privilege
conferred
MERCY = Undeserved Grace
The more aware we are that God is mercifulto rescue us from our sins, the more
motivated we will be to offer our lives to Him
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Worship begins as you offer your bodies
as living sacrifices. What picture comes
to mind when you imagine offering yourbody in this way?
What does your body have to do with it?Why doesnt Paul say, Offer your
heart?
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Worship is not merely inward/mystical.
Worship is not just about the soul.
Worship IS using your mouth
Worship IS using your hands
Worship IS using your eyes, ears, brains,feet, desires, ambitions, health,
appearance..etc
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Worship comes to fulfillment as you do
what Paul describes in verse 2. What
does it look like when someone conformsto the pattern of this world?
What are the signs that you are beingtransformed by the renewing of your
mind?
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Conforms
To follow the world culture
To care about what others think, than whatGod thinks
To reflect current signs of time
Transforms
To fit into Jesus Christ mould
To allow Gods world to renew our minds
RESIDENT ALIENS!
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What is one area of pleasing God that
would be a new act of worship for you?
What is the connection between thekind of worship youve been discussing
and the kind of that goes on in a churchbuilding?
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Worship is not just about singing,
celebrating, it is to train our hearts for
ALL DAY SURRENDER, to thank God allday because of his MERCY
Praise acknowledging good quality insomething. Worship goes beyond praise.
It is acknowledging someone or
something as ultimate source of good, of
life itself
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Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view ofGods mercy, to offer your bodies as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing toGod this is your spiritual act of worship.Do not conform any longer to thepattern of this world, but be transformed
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Day 1 Psalm 29
Day 2 Psalm 96:1-9
Day 3 Psalm 95
Day 4 Isaiah 29:13-14
Day 5 Matthew 15:8-9
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Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us
shout aloud to the rock of our salvation
Let us come before him withthanksgiving and extol him with music
and song.
For the Lord is the great God, the greatKing above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
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The sea is his, for he made it, and his
hands formed the dry land
Come, let us bow down in worship, let uskneel before the Lord our Maker;
For he is our God and we are the people
of his pasture, the flock under his care