WorshipTheLord | Kristi's Morning Devotional

This morning before the sun is even up, I am reminded of the Lord’s majesty and His power.

As I sat having my coffee and prayer time the elk began to bugle in the meadow just across the drive. I look forward to hearing them calling for a mate this time of year. Yesterday, we were traveling home along a dirt road when we saw a bull elk and his harem in the open meadow. There were five cows and their calves and this bull.

I didn’t have my good camera with me and the pictures I took on my phone didn’t do them justice, so I have no images to share with you. But when I heard his bugling again this morning my thought was “what a majestic animal he is”.

Majestic!

How silly to consider an animal majestic.

And then there were the thoughts of the pomp and circumstance we just viewed as the world honored Queen Elizabeth. What a great woman! She ruled with class and dignity, she ruled with godliness. The tribute paid to her life was truly majestic.

Majestic: having or showing impressive beauty or dignity.

Years ago a song was written by two wonderful Christians, Reba Rambo and Dony McGuire, it was titled “A Perfect Heart”. Here are just a few lines of the chorus:

“Bless the Lord who reigns in beauty;
Bless the Lord who reigns with wisdom and with power.
Bless the Lord who fills my life with so much love,
He can make a perfect heart.”

There is really only One who can wear the title of “His Majesty”, only one who is truly majestic.

“Our Lord, you are King!
Majesty and power
    are your royal robes.
You put the world in place,
    and it will never be moved.
²You have always ruled,
    and you are eternal.

³The ocean is roaring, Lord!
    The sea is pounding hard.
⁴Its mighty waves are majestic,
but you are even more majestic,
    and you rule over all.
⁵Your decisions are firm,
and your temple will always
    be beautiful and holy.” Psalm 93 CEV

This morning I ask you to take time to honor and worship the One who is “even more majestic, the One who rules over all”.

He is not only the One who rules over all but He is our loving heavenly Father and this morning, like all mornings, He deserves our praise and admiration, our love and our heart’s devotion.

Let’s worship Him with a perfect heart!

Sunday morning and people every where are getting ready for church but don’t limit your worship of the Father to a particular building or location.

Worship is truly a heart issue; a grateful heart will make time to worship whenever and wherever it is touched by God’s goodness, beauty, grace and forgiveness. For years we lead working cowboys and their families in times of praising and thanking the Father for His wonderful love and many blessings.

Now, I take time every morning to thank Him for where He’s brought me and what He teaches me each day while we are here on this mountain, which is like a great cathedral.

“Jesus said, ‘Believe me, woman! The time is coming when you will not have to be in Jerusalem or on this mountain to worship the Father. 22 You Samaritans worship something you don’t understand. We Jews understand what we worship, since salvation comes from the Jews. 23 But the time is coming when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. In fact, that time is now here. And these are the kind of people the Father wants to be his worshipers. 24 God is spirit. So the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.’” John 4:21-24 ERV

This was the instruction that the Lord gave the woman at the well in Samaria. Worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth. She was so touched by her encounter with Jesus that she dropped everything and went to tell her family and friends about the Messiah.

“Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told the people there, 29 ‘A man told me everything I have ever done. Come see him. Maybe he is the Messiah.’ 30 So the people left the town and went to see Jesus.” John 4:28-30 ERV

When was the last time we literally dropped everything to tell someone about Jesus? This woman wasn’t concerned that she would be welcomed by her friends and neighbors or that the message she was bringing was politically correct, she just had to share that she had found the Messiah.

Whatever she said, however she said it, she was convincing. Folks came out to see Jesus. This woman was of low reputation in town, also understand that the Jews and the Samaritans had been opposed to one another for generations but still they came.

“Many of the Samaritan people in that town believed in Jesus. They believed because of what the woman had told them about him. She had told them, ‘He told me everything I have ever done.’ 40 The Samaritans went to Jesus. They begged him to stay with them. So he stayed there two days. 41 Many more people became believers because of the things he said.

42 The people said to the woman, ‘First we believed in Jesus because of what you told us. But now we believe because we heard him ourselves. We know now that he really is the one who will save the world.’” John 4:39-42 ERV

The Lord will use our testimony to bring people to Christ. We must be willing to share what God has done in our lives and then He can work in the lives of those who know our story.

Make time to worship the Father for Who He is – He is the Almighty God, our everlasting Father!

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