SPEAKER_00: Hi everyone, it's Nancy with your Wednesday edition of our daily walk.
SPEAKER_00: As we take these five weeks to meet together and look at our church's mission and vision, Pastor Aaron is focusing in our worship time on our core values.
SPEAKER_00: Our elder team sought the Lord's leading together as they crafted our mission and vision workbook that provides a framework through which we can strive to be more like Christ as we walk daily with the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Those core values glorify God, abide in Christ, connect in community, and multiply disciples, represent a basic truth of what God expects from us as we deepen our faith.
SPEAKER_00: The first core value we looked at this past Sunday is to glorify God.
SPEAKER_00: And we looked at how we can do that as we praise Him.
SPEAKER_00: As Pastor Aaron said, we are made for praise.
SPEAKER_00: Think about the impact that has when we begin our day praising God, when we begin our prayer time doing, though.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus modeled that when he taught the disciples how to pray.
SPEAKER_00: He began saying, Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: So let's take time right now to do that.
SPEAKER_00: And the best praise guide for us comes from God Himself in His Word.
SPEAKER_00: There are many passages that speak of the glory of God and our call to praise him.
SPEAKER_00: Today I'll take us to Psalm 96 as we praise him together.
SPEAKER_00: And God's word says, Oh, sing to the Lord a new song.
SPEAKER_00: Sing to the Lord all the earth.
SPEAKER_00: Sing to the Lord, bless his name, tell of his salvation from day to day.
SPEAKER_00: Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples, for great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.
SPEAKER_00: He is to be feared above all gods, for all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols.
SPEAKER_00: But the Lord made the heavens.
SPEAKER_00: Splendor and majesty are before him.
SPEAKER_00: Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
SPEAKER_00: Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
SPEAKER_00: Ascribe to the Lord the glory, do his name.
SPEAKER_00: Bring an offering.
SPEAKER_00: Come into his courts.
SPEAKER_00: Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.
SPEAKER_00: Tremble before him, all the earth.
SPEAKER_00: Say among the nations, the Lord reigns.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, the world is established, it shall never be moved.
SPEAKER_00: He will judge the peoples with equity.
SPEAKER_00: Let the heavens be glad, let the earth rejoice, let the seas roar and all that fills it, let the field exult and everything in it.
SPEAKER_00: Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth.
SPEAKER_00: He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.
SPEAKER_00: Amen