by Fielder Church
A podcast for the Worship & Tech Arts Volunteers at Fielder Church. We hope this devotional richly blesses your time in the Word of God and you never cease abiding in Him. ✨ Connect with Fielder Worship on Instagram - www.instagram.com/fielderworship/ 🙏 Learn More about Fielder Church at www.fielder.org 💻 For additional content like music videos & sermons, check out our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/fielderchurch
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October 12, 2024
<p>The Worship Team Devotional podcast with Erick Sostre is written and produced for the Worship & Tech Arts Team of Fielder Church. This is our space to refocus, recharge, and realign our hearts, minds, and bodies as we learn to follow God together and point people to Jesus week to week. You can connect with the Worship Team on social media @fielderworship and with the church @fielderchurch.</p><p>--</p><p><strong>Reflection Questions</strong></p><ul><li>Do you feel like you can truly be honest with God in prayer? Why or why not? </li><li>Have you ever walked through a circumstance similar to the author of Psalm 42? What brought you back to a place of hope? </li><li>Is there an unprocessed feeling or raw emotion you’re holding onto that you haven’t brought before the Lord? Take a moment now to start that conversation with Him. Be open to Him turning despair into hope. </li></ul><br/><p><strong>Prayer</strong></p><p>Father, I confess that I often struggle to see where You are in my life. In those moments, fear grips my heart and anxiety takes up residence in my body. My mind is filled with questions and doubts, and I don’t feel like I can bring those things to You. But, I trust that You want me to take all things to You—the difficult, the messy, the raw—so that You can meet me in that place. Please Lord, transform my despair into hope and my tears into joy. I will still praise You, my Savior and my God. Even when I can’t see where You are, even when I don’t understand what You’re doing, I choose to follow the way of Jesus, who cried out in despair but ultimately put His hope in You. Today, I choose to put my hope in the living God, the only One who can give dead things new life. I put my hope in the resurrected Jesus. It’s in His name I pray. Amen. </p>
September 12, 2024
<p>The Worship Team Devotional podcast with Erick Sostre is written and produced for the Worship & Tech Arts Team of Fielder Church. This is our space to refocus, recharge, and realign our hearts, minds, and bodies as we learn to follow God together and point people to Jesus week to week. You can connect with the Worship Team on social media @fielderworship and with the church @fielderchurch.</p><p>---</p><p><strong>Reflection Questions</strong></p><ul><li>Can you think of a time when you made a significant sacrifice in your worship of Jesus? What motivated you to do so, and how did it impact your faith and relationship with Him? </li><li>How do you practically express the value you place on Him in your daily life, and what does this look like in your actions and choices? </li><li>How do you maintain your internal belief and conviction in your worship of Jesus when others misunderstand or criticize your actions? What gives you the strength and assurance to continue your acts of worship despite opposition? </li></ul><br/><p><strong>Prayer</strong> </p><p>Father, I recognize that You sent Jesus to be the resurrection and the life, to be the One who raised me from the dead to new life with You. I know that no act of worship or devotion can begin to repay what You’ve done for me. But I see the devotion and love of Mary, and I want a heart like hers. I want to give myself in worship to You, not caring what others around me think, and knowing that nothing that I spend on You is a waste. Let my worship be pleasing to You. And I know that whatever it costs me in money or time or reputation, I have already received so much more from You than I can give, and I will receive even more in the life to come. I worship You, and I love You. In Jesus’ name, Amen. </p><p> </p>
August 12, 2024
<p>Worship is…. a complex thing. I wanted to start this devotional with something quick, witty, and memorable about worship. But I couldn’t. Not because I can’t boil down worship into a simple truth, but because the first time we see worship in the Scriptures is in the middle of a story, a difficult, radical, but hopeful story. </p><p>What I love about stories is that they can teach us truth in ways that we’re more likely to remember, ways that dig down deep into our souls and confront us with more than just a simple statement or a compact truth. What we find is something complex but not complicated, a lot of interconnected parts that in the end point to something central, something we can walk away with. In the stories of the Bible, we come face to face with a God who asks much of us but who also gives much to us. Let’s dive in. </p><p><strong>Read </strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+22:1-14&version=ESV" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Gen. 22:1-14</strong></a><strong>.</strong> </p><p>Our friend Abraham is being put in an impossible situation. As readers, we can see immediately that God is testing him, but let’s put ourselves in Abraham’s shoes for a moment. Imagine what he must have been feeling: the gut-wrenching fear and anxiety, the stomach-dropping heart-shattering wave of emotions accompanied by this task, the silent debates he must have been having within himself. This test was truly make or break for him, in more ways than one. </p><p>Quick background, Abraham’s son Isaac is the son that God promised him, the son that he waited 25 years for, the son who he had at the ripe old age of 100. Every promise that God gave to Abraham would be passed down to Isaac—that’s how important he is! Coming back to the story, it looks like all of this is now in jeopardy. Everything that Abraham had been promised, everything that he had waited for, was now on the line, and he would have to be the one to make the sacrifice, to take the knife and kill his own son. Woof. </p><p>In the midst of what we can only imagine is the most harrowing, difficult moment of his life, Abraham recognizes this act of obedience as worship to God. He takes his servants, takes his son, and sets out where God had asked him to go, all without hesitation, all without a plan B. From this, we can build out a sense of how Abraham understood worship. </p><ul><li>Abraham worshiped God <strong>through immediate obedience</strong>. </li><li>Abraham worshiped God by <strong>not withholding what was most precious to him</strong>. </li><li>Abraham worshiped God by <strong>completely relying on Him for the outcome</strong>. </li></ul><br/><p>All of Abraham’s hopes, all the promises God had made him, were wrapped up in the life of this young boy, the son of promise. But he (Abraham) had a history with God; time and time again God had come through, even when Abraham would go out on his own and make a mess of things. Now, at this critical moment, Abraham finally got it. He was “fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised,” even if it meant he had take the knife to his boy (Romans 4:21). He wouldn’t waver. He couldn’t; everything that he had came from God, and he knew God would provide, even if he didn’t know how. </p><p>We know how this story ends. God ultimately provides a substitute, a ram for sacrifice in place of Isaac. But what was God testing in Abraham? It’s revealed in the angel’s instructions in Genesis 22:12—“Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” </p><p>Abraham worshiped God in this way because he feared Him. He wasn’t afraid of Him, per se, but he recognized God’s rightful authority over his life. This is why we worship God too. We worship Him when we acknowledge He is the rightful King over our lives....
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A podcast for the Worship & Tech Arts Volunteers at Fielder Church. We hope this devotional richly blesses your time in the Word of God and you never cease abiding in Him.
✨ Connect with Fielder Worship on Instagram - www.instagram.com/fielderworship/ 🙏 Learn More about Fielder Church at www.fielder.org 💻 For additional content like music videos & sermons, check out our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/fielderchurch
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