Preaching Power
Worship is giving of your whole life, especially your ambition, so that you can serve others.
And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”
Luke 4:8
Getting all you can is seductive.
With more comes the promise of more authority, control…
Power
People listening to you need to hear, “God will provide, so you can trust him with all your life so you can worship him alone.”
Worship isn’t showing up for service.
Worship isn’t getting a good feeling while singing.
Worship is giving up our whole life.
If we lose our biological life for the sake of Jesus, he will give us a Life in our soul we could never get by obtaining all the kingdoms of the world.
But the kingdoms are seductive.
When Jesus is trusted with the ambition you have with your life, you can then serve others.
This is the difference between scarcity and growth mindsets.
Scarcity protects what you have.
Growth believes if you serve, you will receive more in return.
Your church needs to have people in it who give their whole life to worshipping God with their ambition. So then the people of your church can show the God who gave it all to others.
Lead through preaching by giving them a God who can be trusted with all of who they are so they can give all of who they are to others.