1. Part V Wisdom for Worship Ecclesiastes 5:1-7

2. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 1.Guard Your Worship a)Worship Matters  Revelations 4:8  Psalm 19:1  Guard your worship because it matters to God.

3. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 1.Guard Your Worship b)A Familiar Place  Why are you here?

4. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 1.Guard Your Worship b)A Familiar Place  “Reverence and awe have often been replaced by a yawn of familiarity. The consuming fire has been domesticated into a candle flame, adding a bit of religious atmosphere, perhaps, but no heat, no blinding light, no power for purification.” – Donald McCullough

5. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 1.Guard Your Worship b)A Familiar Place  Guard your worship so that it doesn’t become a familiar place.

6. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 1.Guard Your Worship c)Know who you are worshipping  We are all amazing worshipers  Psalm 135:1  Psalm 66:1  Psalm 100:1-3  Psalm 150  Our focus and attention need to be on the One and True God.

7. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 1.Guard Your Worship c)Know who you are worshipping  Be careful that we don’t conform God to who we want Him to be, rather than who He really is.  The deeper our understanding in the truth of who God is, the deeper our worship is.  Don’t waste your worship on imitations.

8. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 1.Guard Your Worship c)Know who you are worshipping  Guard your worship that you know who you are worshipping

9. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 2.What's God saying? “Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools” a)Are you Listening?  Psalm 46:10  How difficult is it for you to sit in silence?  Listen to His Spirit.  Listen to His Word.  Expect to hear.  Draw near to listen.

10. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 2.What's God saying? “Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools” b)To listen means to obey.  1 Samuel 15:18-22  James 1:22-24  Worship is something you do.  Shout to the Lord. - Psalm 98  Sing a new song. - Psalm 33, 96  Dance before Him. - Psalm 149, 150

11. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 2.What's God saying? “Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools” b)To listen means to obey.  Clap your hands. – Psalm 47  Bow down. – Psalm 95, 138  Lift your heads. – Psalm 24  Tell of His might. – Psalm 145  Stand in awe. – Psalm 4, 33  Meditate on His truth. – Psalm 1, 119

12. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 2.What's God saying? “Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools” b)To listen means to obey.  Walk in His ways. – Psalm 128  Still your heart. – Psalm 46  Run to Him. - Psalm 31  Make a loud noise. – Psalm 98  Lift your hands. – Psalm 63, 134  Strike up a band. – Psalm 149

13. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 2.What's God saying? “Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools” b)To listen means to obey.  Praise Him with trumpets. - Psalm 150  Seek His face. – Psalm 27, 105  Tell the nations. – Psalm 96, 105

14. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 2.What's God saying? “Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools” b)To listen means to obey.  Worship is our response, both personally and corporately to God--for who He is and what He has done, expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.  John 14:21  Romans 12:1

15. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 3.What are you saying?  Ecclesiastes 5:2-7  Luke 18:9-14  “In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart”. - John Bunyan  Matthew 6:7-9

16. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 3.What are you saying?  Ask yourself:  Am I speaking from the heart?  Am I saying the words because I mean them?  Am I using words to flatter or impress others?  Do I really believe what I am saying?

17. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Option Explicit Sub setTextDetails() With ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange.Font.Name = "Lucida Sans".Bold = msoTrue.Italic = msoFalse.Underline = msoFalse.Shadow = True.Emboss = msoFalse.Color = RGB(255, 255, 0) End With End Sub Wisdom for Worship 3.What are you saying?  Ask yourself:  Am I really going to do what I am saying?  Hebrews 13:15

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19. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. 2 Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few. 3 As a dream comes when there are many cares, so the speech of a fool when there are many words. 4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.

20. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 5 It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it. 6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the [temple] messenger, "My vow was a mistake." Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands? 7 Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore stand in awe of God.

21. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Revelations 4:8 8 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.

22. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Psalm 19:1 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

23. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Psalm 135:1 1 Praise the LORD. Praise the name of the LORD; praise him

24. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Psalm 66:1 1 Shout with joy to God, all the earth!

25. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Psalm 100:1-3 1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. 2 Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3 Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his;,

26. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Psalm 150 1 Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens. 2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness. 3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, 4 praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute, 5 praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals. 6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.

27. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Psalm 46:10 10 Be still, and know that I am God.

28. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 1 Samuel 15:18-22 18 And God sent you (Saul) on a mission, saying, 'Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; make war on them until you have wiped them out.' 19 Why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the LORD?" 20 "But I did obey the LORD," Saul said. "I went on the mission the LORD assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king.

29. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 1 Samuel 15:18-22 21 The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.“ 22 But Samuel replied: "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams…. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.”

30. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 James 1:22-24 22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

31. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 John 14:21 21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me…

32. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Romans 12:1 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.

33. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ecclesiastes 5:2-7 2 Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few. 3 As a dream comes when there are many cares, so the speech of a fool when there are many words. 4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow. 5 It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.

34. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Ecclesiastes 5:2-7 6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the [temple] messenger, "My vow was a mistake." Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands? 7 Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore stand in awe of God.

35. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Luke 18:9-14 Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ’God, I thank you that I am not like other men - robbers, evildoers, adulterers - or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ’God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

36. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Luke 18:9-14 I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

37. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Matthew 6:7-9, the Message 7 The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They're full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. 8 Don't fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. 9 With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply.

38. Box Size Height: 2.6 Width: 4.43 Position Horizontal: 5.33 Vertical: 4.67 Hebrews 13:15 15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.