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*WHAT MAKES GOD SMILE?*
*from Reconnecting With God Part 2 of 4*
*18 March 2007*
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* */“You (God) created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created!"/ Rev.
4:11b (NLT)
*WORSHIP*: Living a life ________________________
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/ “Because of God's great mercy... Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him.
This is the true worship that you should offer.”
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/ /Rom.
12:1 (GN)
/ /WE GIVE GOD PLEASURE...
!!! 1. WHEN WE _____________________________________
/ "I don't want your sacrifices-- I want your love!
I don't want your offerings--I want you to know me!” /Hosea 6:6 (LB)
!!! 2. WHEN WE _____________________________________
/“The Lord takes pleasure in those who honor him and trust in his constant love.”
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Ps.
147:11 (GN)
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/“We please God by what we do and not only by what we believe.”/
James 2:24 (CEV)
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/“The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who are wise, /
/ who want to please God.” /Ps.
14:2 (LB)
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\\ !! WHAT MAKES GOD SMILE?
*Based on ‘Reconnecting With God’ Part 2 of 4*
* *1649 words
The most fundamental question you can ask in life is, Why am I here?
What is my purpose in life?
The Bible is very, very clear about this.
It tells us in Revelation 4:11 why God made us.
/“God created everything, and it is for God’s pleasure that they exist and were created!"/
You were made God’s pleasure.
You were created to bring God pleasure.
If you want to know why you’re here on this earth, if you want to know why you’re alive, if you want to know why you take the next breath that you take it’s because God made you to enjoy you.
Not for your benefit – for His benefit.
You were made to bring pleasure to God. That’s why you’re here.
Until you understand that, you don’t understand life.
Those of you who are parents, when you watch your children do you ever get pleasure by watching them.
And the same is true of your heavenly Father.
When you’re doing the right things He takes pleasure in watching you.
God says, I made them and I enjoy them.
You were made to bring pleasure to God.
That is your number one purpose in life – to get God's smile.
He created you for His own benefit.
There’s a word that God uses that describes when we bring pleasure to God.
That word is one of the most misunderstood and misused words in the human vocabulary.
In fact, I guarantee you, everyone including me, has misused this word.
It is the word “worship”.
When we bring pleasure to God, we worship God.
Again, people don’t understand this word.
If I were to go out on the street what do you think most people would say worship is?
If I were to take an opinion poll and said, Tell me what is your definition of “worship”?
What do you think of when I say “worship”?”
What do you think most people would say?
Maybe some words like church, choir, music, mass, ritual, ceremony, prayer, maybe communion.
Let me give you a definition of worship.
*Worship is living a life pleasing to God.*
I’ve often heard people say, “I loved the worship today.
I got a lot out of it.”
I hate to tell you this but worship isn’t for your benefit.
It’s not for you anyway.
It’s for God.
When we worship we’re bringing pleasure to God not bringing pleasure to ourselves.
So if you came this morning and you leave saying, “I didn’t get anything out of worship today,” you came for the wrong reason in the first place.
Worship isn’t for you.
We do it for God to bring Him pleasure.
Everything that is done in this service is designed to bring God pleasure.
What brings pleasure to God? What makes God smile?
If my purpose is to bring pleasure to God, how do I do that?
How do I make God smile on my life?
Can I suggest that there are four ways you can make God smile:
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We bring pleasure to God when we love Him above everything else.*
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When we love Him above everything else, when we love Him supremely, that brings God pleasure.
This is very clear in the Bible.
Hosea 6:6 says this: /“I don’t want your sacrifice.
I want your love.
I don’t want your offerings.
I want you to know Me.”/
He wants you to know Him and He wants you to love Him.
If you miss that you miss the point of life.
God wants a relationship with you.
I know that’s amazing but it is true.
That out of all the universe and all the people God could have made He made you and He made you to be loved by Him and to love Him back.
The Bible says that you were made in God's image.
That makes you different from animals.
The animals are not made in God's image but human beings are.
That means God has given you a capacity He has not given animals.
That is the capacity to know God and to love Him.
Animals can’t do that.
You’ll never see a dog or cat or a cow or a horse praying.
They were not given that capacity.
You, though, were made in God's image so you could commune, communicate, have a relationship with God.
If you don’t ever develop that in your life you have missed the purpose of being a human.
You have wasted your life.
Because to be a human means to be made in God's image which means I have the ability and capacity to get to know God on personal basis.
When you come to God and say, “God, I’m not coming to You because I’m in a crisis and I need You to bail me out.
I’m not coming to You because I’ve got this big request or I want You to make me a millionaire or super successful.
I’m just coming to You because You made me.
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