DEC 25

Psalm 46
Memorise Rev 4:1-11
“for thou hast created all things”

We also find the saints in heaven worshipping His Almighty (Revelation 4:8b). God is all-powerful, all glorious, all-majestic. He is sovereign and controls all things. When we worship, we must submit to His will. When we pray, we pray not according to our will, but according to His will. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. Do not pray the prayer of Jabez (1 Chronicles 4:9-10) in the way expounded by Bruce Wilkinson in his little book. In it he teaches that there is a secret code or formula in prayer - chant certain words repeatedly in a certain way and God must give what you asked for. Such arrogant and presumptuous prayers God will not hear, nor will He answer. James 4:2-3 says, “Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts”. Our almighty God says in Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God”. Ecclesiastes 5:2 says, “Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon the earth: therefore let thy words be few”. If God is almighty, then let us always pray, “Lord, no matter what, let Thy will be done”.

The Lord is also worshipped for His Preexistence (Revelation 4:8c) - “which was, and is, and is to come”. He is the I AM THAT I AM. He is the God of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and Kingdom to come - the Millennium. We ought to worship the Lord in light of His return, with a spiritual and heavenly mind and heart, and with eternity’s values in view. May we never worship Him falsely with a carnal, worldly, and earthy mind and heart concerned only for things of this world, for prosperity, health, and success in business. We should rather pray for God’s grace to be spiritually prepared when Christ returns.

Thought: “God cannot be rightly worshipped unless when He has His peculiar attributes acknowledged” (Calvin).

Prayer: O Lord God, thou “art a Spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth”.