Yet you are enthroned as

the Holy One; you are

the one Israel praises.

the people I formed for

myself that they may

proclaim my praise.

Praise the Lord, all you

nations; extol him, all

you peoples.

God is spirit, and his

worshipers must

worship in the Spirit and

in truth.

illing to allow the Holy Spirit to have His way

bedience to His Will

everence to His manifest, presence or power

urrender and submit everything to God

onor the Lord with your wealth or substance

ntimacy or close relationship with God

repared and be Prayerful

6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;

call on him while he is near. 7 Let the

wicked forsake their ways and the

unrighteous their thoughts. Let them

turn to the Lord, and he will have

mercy on them, and to our God, for he

will freely pardon.

8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways,”

declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are

higher than the earth, so are my ways

higher than your ways and my thoughts

than your thoughts.

10 As the rain and the snow come

down from heaven, and do not return

to it without watering the earth and

making it bud and flourish, so that it

yields seed for the sower and bread

for the eater,

Through him we received grace and

apostleship to call all the Gentiles to

the obedience that comes

from faith for his name’s sake.

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a

kingdom that cannot be shaken, let

us be thankful, and so worship God

acceptably with reverence and

awe, 29 for our “God is a consuming

fire.”

5 Or do you think Scripture says without

reason that he jealously longs for the

spirit he has caused to dwell in us?6 But

he gives us more grace. That is why

Scripture says: “God opposes the proud

but shows favor to the humble.”

7 Submit yourselves, then, to God.

Resist the devil, and he will flee from

you.8 Come near to God and he will

come near to you. Wash your

hands, you sinners, and purify your

hearts, you double-minded.

Honor the LORD with your

wealth, with the first fruits of

all your crops;

1Therefore, I urge you, brothers and

sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to

offer your bodies as a living

sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—

this is your true and proper worship.

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this

world, but be transformed by the

renewing of your mind. Then you

will be able to test and approve what

God’s will is—his good, pleasing and

perfect will.

They will be life for you, an

ornament to grace your

neck.

1 After these things I heard a loud voice of a

great multitude in heaven, saying, “Alleluia!

Salvation and glory and honor and

power belong to the Lord our God! 2 For true and

righteous are His judgments, because He has

judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth

with her fornication; and He has avenged on

her the blood of His servants shed by her.”

3 Again they said, “Alleluia! Her

smoke rises up forever and ever!”