God is Active

An Inspiring Worship Service is one where we know we have met with God. One of the ways we can prepare for this is by looking at God at work in our lives during the week. In their book "Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God", Henry T. Blackaby & Claude V. King say:

Experiencing God means assuming that God is always active in and around your life.

Jesus included a method of knowing God's will that is not often found in books on guidance. John.5:17, 19-20 show us that He accepted that God the Father was always active, and that because the Father loved him he showed him what he was doing. Then Jesus joined in. This may sound quite simplistic, but one of the fundamental ways that Jesus knew what to do was by discerning God's activity, and then joining in with it. For us this means that one of the most fundamental ways to experience God is to watch and see where He is working and then join in.

What can you see God doing in the lives of people around you, your family, work mates, neighbours? God loves them much more than we do and He is working for their salvation.

Will God show us what we should do each day? John 5: 17, 19,20 says:

But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working." ... Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel."

Does this apply to us? In Desire of Ages

... the Son of God was surrendered to the Father's will, and dependent upon His power. So utterly was Christ emptied of self that He made no plans for Himself. He accepted God's plans for Him, and day by day the Father unfolded His plans. So should we depend upon God, that our lives may be the simple outworking of His will. p208

...Whatever our position, we are dependent upon God, who holds all destinies in His hands. He has appointed us our work, and has endowed us with faculties and means for that work. So long as we surrender the will to God, and trust in His strength and wisdom, we shall be guided in safe paths, to fulfill our appointed part in His great plan. But the one who depends upon his own wisdom and power is separating himself from God. Instead of working in unison with Christ, he is fulfilling the purpose of the enemy of God and man. p209

Start looking for God's activity...and prepare for Inspiring Worship.