Order of Worship for April 28th, 2024
Invitation // Psalm 22:25-28 (NIV)
Song // To Know You
Song // Eden (Isn’t It Just Like You?)
Confession // Corporate & silent prayer & confession
Assurance // John 15:9, 11 (NIV)
Song // Highlands (Song Of Ascent)
Sermon // James 4:1-7(NIV)
Communion
Offering
Song // Just As Good
Benediction
INVITATION
Psalm 22:25-28 (NIV)
25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;
before those who fear you I will fulfill my vows.
26 The poor will eat and be satisfied;
those who seek the Lord will praise him—
may your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,
28 for dominion belongs to the Lord
and he rules over the nations.
To Know You By Citizens
Chorus:
More than I can comprehend
More than I can understand
Yeah, you've given me the chance
To know you, to know you
Verse:
From the eyes of my heart
To the depths of my soul
I have witnessed a mystery
I can't put into words
When I try to explain you
It just doesn't describe
You're in every direction
Before our eyes
Chorus (2x’s)
Bridge (2x’s):
I want to know you
More than I know you
I want to know you
More than I know you now
Chorus (2x’s)
Tag:
To know you, to know you
To know you
Outro:
I want to know you more than I know you
More than I know you now
I want to know you more than i know you
I want to know you more than I know you now
Eden (Isn’t It Just Like YOu?) by Benjamin William Hastings
Verse 1:
Oh Eden's tree
The choice within their hands
As the serpent whispered from beneath
Where Your grace exceeds
The sum of all our lack
For I am Adam, I am Eve
Chorus:
Isn't it just like You
To turn it all around for good
Like only You could
Like only You would
You turn it all around for good
And when You do
You do it so it's done for good
Like only You could
Like only You would
You turn it all around for good
Verse 2:
Oh Calvary's tree
The nails within Your hands
And laughter swept the crowds beneath
Where Your grace exceeds
The sum of all our lack
For I'm a thief upon a tree
Chorus
Bridge:
Oh the vast extent of my regrets
And all my deepest fears
Were buried in a garden
Where you wept in blood and tears
For You climbed a hill not Yours to climb
They thought Your fate was sealed
For the serpent tried to take you down
But he only bruised Your heel
See the empty grave is overgrown
And the earth begins to heal
For the enemy is overthrown
And the darkness finally yields
So now I don't owe a thing to death
Should ever he appear
For death can only borrow breath
No longer can he steal
Chorus
Outro:
O tree of life
There's hope in every branch
And the serpent's nowhere to be seen
Where Your grace completes
The sum of all our lack
For I am Adam, I am Eve
And Eden's my eternity
Confession
Jesus,
You know us better than we know ourselves.
You know us better than our friends;
better than our enemies.
You know us more truly, and still you love us.
Help us to be known by your love.
We have been known by division, strife, and bitterness;
we have been known by greed and selfishness;
we have been known by our hatred for others;
we have been known by exclusion, indifference,
and violence.
We confess these things and ask that you restore to us
the joy of love,
that we might know the exuberant gladness
of your kingdom come.
By this may we be known.
Amen.
Assurance
John 15:9, 11 (NIV)
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
Highlands (Song of Ascent) by Hillsong Worship
Verse 1:
O how high would I climb mountains
If the mountains were where You hide
O how far I'd scale the valleys
If You graced the other side
Verse 2:
O how long have I chased rivers
From lowly seas to where they rise
Against the rush of grace descending
From the source of its supply
Pre-chorus 1:
'Cause in the highlands and the heartache
You're neither more or less inclined
I would search and stop at nothing
You're just not that hard to find
Chorus:
So I will praise You on the mountain
And I will praise You when the mountain's in my way
'Cause You're the summit where my feet are
So I will praise You in the valleys all the same
No less God within the shadows
No less faithful when the night leads me astray
You're the heaven where my heart is
In the highlands and the heartache all the same
Verse 3:
O how far beneath Your glory
Does Your kindness extend the path
From where Your feet rest on the sunrise
To where You sweep the sinner's past
Verse 4:
And O how fast would You come running
If just to shadow me through the night
Trace my steps through all my failure
And walk me out the other side
Pre-chorus 2:
For who could dare ascend that mountain
That valleyed hill called Calvary
But for the One I call Good Shepherd
Who like a lamb was slain for me
Chorus
Bridge (2x’s):
Whatever I walk through
Wherever I am
Your Name can move mountains
Wherever I stand
And if ever I walk through
The valley of death
I'll sing through the shadows
My song of ascent
Pre-chorus 3:
From the gravest of all valleys
Come the pastures we call grace
A mighty river flowing upwards
From a deep but empty grave
Tag Chorus
Scripture
James 4:1-7 (NIV)
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 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.
Offering
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Just As Good by Chris REnzema
Verse 1:
I've been here before, my heart feels so weak
Got this weight upon my chest and
I can't stop forgetting, my God
That You've never left, You're right here with me
Still I'm convinced You're hiding
Oh God, would You remind me?
Chorus:
You're still just as good as when I met You
You're still just as kind, don't let me forget that You're
Still the same God that led me through the fire
You're still the same God who separates the waters
Come do what only You can do
God, I need You
Verse 2:
You've done this before, will You do it again?
'Cause the waves are all around me
And it feels like I'm drowning, my God
Will You still reach down and give me Your hand?
'Cause even when I'm doubting
Your love, it still surrounds me, oh
Chorus
Bridge (2x’s):
And I will build an altar
And stack it stone by stone
'Cause every Ebenezer says I've never been alone
My faith will surely falter
But that don't change what You've done
'Cause every Ebenezer points to where my help comes from
And I will build an altar
And stack it stone by stone
'Cause every Ebenezer says I've never been alone
My faith will surely falter
But that don't change what You've done
'Cause every Ebenezer points to where my help comes from
Chorus
Tag Bridge