Preparing for Worship
January 12, 2025
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WHAT TO PRAY THIS WEEK
Speaker: Patrick Belshe

Pray for those who will lead in worship:
Garold Syring-the Worship Ministry team
Patrick Belshe
Erin Toole
Pray that the Holy Spirit will move in our corporate gatherings, leading us to exalt Jesus Christ.
Pray that CCC will grow in Christ-exalting, Kingdom advancing ministry in 2025.
Pray that God will move on us to be more evangelistic and, through our obedience in sharing the Gospel, will save many.
Pray that we will become a house of prayer.
 
This Sunday Patrick will be using 1 Timothy 5:1-7 as his text for his sermon entitled “Words od Wisdom”.
 
5 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
3 Honor widows who are truly widows. 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. 5 She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, 6 but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives. 7 Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach.
 
HIS HAND, HIS FLOCK
 
“For he is our God,
    and we are the people of his pasture,
    and the sheep of his hand.”      (Psalm 96:7a-b)
Imagine what it really is to be a part of the people of God! Think on it.
 
We are the people of His pasture!
We are the very flock of His Hand!
 How can we not respond I reverent adoration, bowing heads, bending knees, prostrating our being before God?

SONGS OF WORSHIP
This Sunday's Music As we prepare for corporate worship, meditate on the lyrics from some of our songs of worship. Listen to them below. 

 Pre-worship
‘God So Loved’
‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus’
‘Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine’
‘Living Hope’
Listen to the songs below.

God so LovedCome, all you weary, come, all you thirsty,
Come to the well that never runs dry.
Drink of the water, come, and thirst no more.
 
Come, all you sinners, come find His mercy.
Come to the table; He will satisfy.
Taste of His goodness, find what you’re looking for.
 
For God so loved the world that He gave us
His one and only Son to save us.
Whoever believes in him will live forever.
 
Bring all your failures, bring you addictions.
Come, lay them down at the foot of the cross.
Jesus is waiting there with open arms.
 
For God so loved the world that He gave us His one and only Son to save us.
Whoever believes in Him will live forever.
 
The power for hell forever defeated.
Now it is well, I’m walking in freedom.
For God so loved, God so love the world.
 
Praise God, praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise Him, praise Him for the wonders of His love.
Praise God, praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise Him, praise Him for the wonders of His love.
 
For God so loved the world that He gave us His one and only Son to save.
For God so loved the world that He gave us His one and only Son to save us.
Whoever believes in Him will live forever.
 
The power of hell forever defeated.
Now it is well, I’m walking in freedom.
For God so love, God so loved the world.
 
Bring all your failures, bring your addiction.
Come, lay them down at the foot of the cross.
Jesus is waiting. God so loved the world.
 
“God So Loved” Words and music by ANDREW BERGTHOLD, ED CASH, FRANNI CASH, MARTIN CASH and SCOTT CASH © Copyright 2019 We The Kingdom Music (BMI) Andrew Bergthold Designee (ASCAP) We The Kingdom ASCAP Designee (ASCAP) Capitol CMG Genesis (ASCAP) Capitol CMG Paragon (BMI) (adm. At CapitolCMGPublishing.com) All rights reserved. Used by permission. CCLI License # 2473598
 
 
'Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus
Verse 1
'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus
Just to take Him at His word
Just to rest upon His promise
Just to know thus saith the Lord
Chorus
Jesus Jesus how I trust Him
How I've proved Him o'er and o'er
Jesus Jesus precious Jesus
O for grace to trust Him more
Verse 2
O how sweet to trust in Jesus
Just to trust His cleansing blood
Just in simple faith to plunge me
'Neath the healing cleansing flood
Verse 3
Yes 'tis sweet to trust in Jesus
Just from sin and self to cease
Just from Jesus simply taking
Life and rest and joy and peace
Verse 4
I'm so glad I learned to trust Thee
Precious Jesus Savior Friend
And I know that Thou art with me
Wilt be with me to the end

CCLI Song # 22609 Louisa M. R. Stead | William James Kirkpatrick © Words: Public Domain; Music: Public Domain For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com CCLI License # 2473598
 
Blessed Assurance
Verse 1
Blessed assurance Jesus is mine
O what a foretaste of glory divine
Heir of salvation purchase of God
Born of His Spirit washed in His blood
Chorus
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
Verse 2
Perfect submission perfect delight
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight
Angels descending bring from above
Echoes of mercy whispers of love
Verse 3
Perfect submission all is at rest
I in my Savior am happy and blest
Watching and waiting looking above
Filled with His goodness lost in His love

CCLI Song # 22324 Fanny Jane Crosby | Phoebe Palmer Knapp © Words: Public Domain; Music: Public Domain For use solely with the SongSelect® Terms of Use. All rights reserved. www.ccli.com CCLI License # 2473598
 
Living Hope
How great the chasm that lay between us.
How high the mountain I could not climb.
In desperation I turned to heaven, and spoke Your name into the night.
Then through the darkness, Your loving kindness
tore through the shadows of my soul.
The work is finished, the end is written.
Jesus Christ, my living hope.
 
Who could imagine so great a mercy?
What heart could fathom such boundless grace?
The God of ages stepped down from glory to wear my sin and bear my shame.
The cross has spoken, “I am forgiven.”
The King of kings calls me His own.
Beautiful Savior, I’m Yours forever.
Jesus Christ, my living hope.
 
Hallelujah, praise the One who set me free!
Hallelujah, death has lost its grip on me!
You have broken every chain,
There’s salvation in Your name.
Jesus Christ, my living hope!
Hallelujah, praise the One who set me free!
Hallelujah, death has lost its grip on me!
You have broken every chain,
There’s salvation in Your name.
Jesus Christ, my living hope!
 
Then came the morning that sealed the promise,
Your buried body began to breathe.
Out of the silence, the roaring Lion
declared the grave has no claim on me.
Then came the morning that sealed the promise,
Your buried body began to breathe.
Out of the silence, the roaring Lion
declared the grave has no claim on me.
Jesus, Yours is the victory!
 
Hallelujah, praise the One who set me free!
Hallelujah, death has lost its grip on me!
You have broken every chain,
There’s salvation in Your name.
Jesus Christ, my living hope!
Hallelujah, praise the One who set me free!
Hallelujah, death has lost its grip on me!
You have broken every chain,
There’s salvation in Your name.
Jesus Christ, my living hope!
Jesus Christ, my living hope!
God, You are my living hope!
 
“Living Hope” Words and music by PHIL WICKHAM and BRIAN JOHHSON ©copyright 2018 Phil Wickham Music (BMI) Simply Global Songs (BMI) Sin My Songs (BMI) (admin at EssentialMusicPublishing.com)/Bethel Music Publishing (ASCAP) (admin by Bethel Music Publishing). All rights reserved. Used by permission. CCLI License # 2473598