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How Great Is Our God — Judith Christie McAllister

Great Are You Lord — Eddie James

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus — Hillsong Worship

Christ Is Lower Still — The Porter's Gate

Raise Up Your Head — The Gospel Coalition

Psalm 23 (I Am Not Alone) — People & Songs

God Alone — Sojourn Music

Liturgy & Sermon

Call to Worship

We worship you, Lord of heaven, with our voices.

With your speech you made all of creation.

Holy Trinity, you live in perfect serenity, always possessing all you need.

And yet you beckoned creation into being with your powerful Word.

You created the staggering display of stars.

You formed everything, from the greatest galaxies to the minuscule molecules that hold it all together.

You wove threads of grace and blessing into the fabric of the universe.

Your love fills the spaces between us.

Your breath fills our lungs.

And so with every breath, we praise you, Lord our God, Maker of all.

To whom could we compare our God?

Who in all creation is equal to Him?

He alone is Yahweh! There is no one like him!

He declares the end from the beginning.

All his plans come to pass,

All he speaks will be accomplished.

–based on Isaiah 46:5, 9-11

Confession

Father, we acknowledge our shortcomings and confess that

we have strayed from your perfect love.

In our brokenness, we turn to You.

We seek the forgiveness that only Your mercy can provide.

For the times we have resisted Your lordship—

choosing control over surrender, our way over Yours—

Lord, have mercy. Help us to submit to Your will.

For the times we were impatient and did not consult you in our decisions,

Please forgive us and help us to seek your wisdom in all of our lives,

We look to you for the strength to walk in total obedience.

May the grace of your Spirit transform us into the likeness of Your Son, Jesus Christ.

In his name we pray, Amen.

Assurance

Help us to hold fast to your word and to these glorious truths:

When I am brokenhearted, the Lord is near; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.

When my closest friends betray or abandon me:

I will not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord is with me; he will not fail me or abandon me.

When I am too weak to withstand the trial, I will remember these words:

Jesus says, “I have told you these things so that you will have peace.

Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows.

But take heart, I have overcome the world.”

When my own failures loom large in my mind, I will remember these truths:

I was dead because of my sins and my sinful nature.

Then God made me alive with Christ and forgave all my sins.

He canceled the record of the charges against me and nailed it to the cross.

–adapted from Psalm 34:18; Deuteronomy 31:8; John 16:33; Colossians 2:13-14

Scripture Reading & Sermon

Stay on the Tower
Pastor Jamaal Williams

12 Are you not from eternity, LORD my God?
My Holy One, you will not die.
LORD, you appointed them to execute judgment;
my Rock, you destined them to punish us.
13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,
and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
So why do you tolerate those who are treacherous?
Why are you silent
while one who is wicked swallows up
one who is more righteous than himself?
14 You have made mankind
like the fish of the sea,
like marine creatures that have no ruler.
15 The Chaldeans pull them all up with a hook,
catch them in their dragnet,
and gather them in their fishing net;
that is why they are glad and rejoice.
16 That is why they sacrifice to their dragnet
and burn incense to their fishing net,
for by these things their portion is rich
and their food plentiful.
17 Will they therefore empty their net
and continually slaughter nations without mercy?

2:1 I will stand at my guard post
and station myself on the lookout tower.
I will watch to see what he will say to me
and what I should reply about my complaint.