Sunday Celebration 01/22/2023
Affirmation of Faith, Affirmation Chorus, Song Lyrics, and Today’s Scriptures are listed after the order of worship below:
WELCOME & INVOCATION
AFFIRMATION CHORUS: IN THIS PLACE
SING AND CELEBRATE:
1. SWEETER 2. THIRSTY 3. EVERYTHING
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE:
MATTHEW 6:25-33
LUKE 10:38-42
2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18
1 PETER 2:2-3
SPECIAL MUSIC
PRAISE AND PRAYER
SPECIAL MUSIC
TODAY’S SERMON: “SEEING WITH THE EYES OF THE HEART”
FINAL SONG
Our Affirmation of Faith
We believe in God the creator of us all, whose desire for
diversity is seen in the rainbow of humanity. With unrelenting
passion God Seeks to be in relationship with all of us.
We believe in Jesus the Christ, who is the embodiment of
God’s redeeming grace; And in the Holy Spirit through whom
that grace continues its restoring work.
We believe in the Church. It is the body of Christ on the earth
today. As ministers of this church, we are all called like Jesus,
to heal, to deliver, to teach, and to serve.
We believe that together we can change the world,
in our time and for all time Amen!
Affirmation Chorus: In This Place
In this place, There’s joy that I can’t explain
In this place, There’s healing for all my pain
There is love unlike I’ve ever known
Everybody here makes me feel at home
As we gather here, I know I’m not alone
I feel God’s presence, Moving in this place..
SWEETER
CHORUS: Every day with You Lord, Is sweeter than the day before
Every day with You Lord, Is sweeter than the day before
Every morning I will worship, Every evening I’ll adore,
Cause every day with You gets sweeter,
Sweeter than the day before. (REPEAT)
VERSE 1: What a privilege to know You, Like I know You
To be loved like You love me.
What an honor to worship truly worship
From this heart that You have freed.
From the rising of the sun, to the setting of the same.
VERSE 2: What a wonder to live life, Really live life,
Overcoming anything, What a reason to lift up,
Freely lift up, Every day my everything,
From the rising of the sun, to the setting of the same.
BRIDGE: SONG LEADER: Everyday, every day with You Lord
EVERYONE: Everyday, every day with You Lord
SONG LEADER: Every day is sweeter than the day before
EVERYONE: Every day is sweeter than the day before
THIRSTY
My soul is thirsty, My soul is thirsty for you
My soul is thirsty, My soul is thirsty for you
As the deer is thirsty for the water
So does my soul long for thee
My spirit… Needs… Refreshing
Father, I’m Thirsty, Thirsty For You (repeat all)
Darnell: Let me Drink from the fountain that never shall run dry
From the fountain of everlasting life
For if I drink of your water, I will never thirst again
Let me draw from your living well
My soul is thirsty, My soul is thirsty for you
My soul is thirsty, My soul is thirsty for you
As the deer is thirsty for the water
So does my soul long for thee
My spirit… Needs… Refreshing Father, I’m Thirsty,
Father, I’m Thirsty, Father, I’m Thirsty, Thirsty For You
EVERYTHING
Everything, Everything, Lord, You are everything to me.
Everything, Everything, Lord, You are everything to me. (Repeat)
My treasure, my priority, who can compare to You.
Great is the measure of your royalty
Oh, morning star You truly are everything
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you shall eat or drink: or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life
more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air;
they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father
feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying
can add a single hour to their life? And why do you worry about clothes? See
how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not
even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If this is how
God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown
into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not
worry, saying, ‘ What shall we eat? ‘ or ‘ What shall we drink? ‘ or ‘ What shall
we wear?’ For those who do not know God run after all these things, and your
heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
MATTHEW 6:25-33
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman
named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat
at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the
preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you
care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many
things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is
better, and it will not be taken away from her.” LUKE 10:38-42
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away,
yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary
troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is
temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in
your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. 1 PETER 2:2-3