WORSHIP GUIDE
February 23, 2025
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February 23, 2025
The Book of John - Believe
Ask the Lord to use this sermon series to increase your faith and bring people to believe in Jesus as the Savior.
The purpose of this book is to lead us to belief. If there is one thing we will focus on through this study, it is believing in Jesus. We all know John 3:16. The key operative part of that verse is belief. The entire book was written for this purpose.
Title: Zeal for Worship
Mike Powers, Vision & Preaching Pastor
Scripture Passage: John 2:13-22
13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” 18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Main Idea: Jesus calls us to true worship and belief.
- Unobstructed Worship
- True Signs
- Scriptural Belief
Weekly Prayer Prompts:
Praying Scripture will help build a more focused and creative prayer life. Read the Scripture text slowly and carefully. As you read, pray as the Lord brings prayers to your mind, and you can use these prompts if you get stuck or need more ideas. The point is to practice prayer, so even if you don’t pray through the whole list, just doing it is a success!
[Prayer prompts by Candi Powers]
John 2:13-22
- Ask God to show you if you’ve focused more on money than worship.
- Confess when you have worshiped something other than God.
- Pray that the Lord will reveal your true motives when you get upset.
- Entreat the Lord to give you strength to stand up for what’s right in the right way at the right time.
- Pray for self-control over anger.
- Praise Jesus that He always has pure motives and self control.
- Praise God for being perfect in His judgments.
- Thank God that His main focus isn’t on money.
- Ask the Lord to reveal if you’ve made the church into something that it shouldn’t be.
- Pray that our church would be a place focused on worship.
- Pray that zeal for God would consume you.
- Ask the Lord to show you areas where zeal for him has been limited in your life because of idolatry.
- Praise Jesus for having perfect zeal for only the right things.
- Praise God for knowing everything.
- Praise God that He gave us reasons to believe in Him.
- Thank God for clearly telling us the truth about salvation in the Bible.
- Praise God for speaking and then fulfilling prophecy so that we would believe.
MINISTRY REPORT
February 16, 2024
Sunday Worship Count - 9:00 and 10:30 am: 1283
Total General Fund Contributions and Preschool at The Creek Income
Week of February 10-16, 2025: $54,992
Year to Date: $587,770
Food Pantry Update:
Our next Community Food Pantry - Saturday, March 8 and 22 (9-11 am)
** IMMEDIATE NEED FOR NON-PERISHABLE ITEMS **
Click Here for a List of Needed Food Items
Our Community Food Pantry events are held twice a month on the second and fourth Saturdays. Please contribute as you are able to assist us in helping families facing hunger. Items may be dropped off in the collection barrels both inside and outside the church near the office entrance. Thank you for your donations and compassion.
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