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Fervency in worship

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I used the following quote as our call to worship last Sunday.
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“The attributes of God call for fervency in worship. God is a great and glorious God, and when we approach His presence it becomes us to come with our affectins in the best array. Are yawning prayers fit for such a great God? Should we speak to such a majesty before we are well awake? He that does not offer up his best, robs God of His due, for He is a great God. He is also a living God. Is a dead-hearted prayer a suitable sacrifice for a living God? How can God, who is all life, enjoy our lazy, listless devotions?

Fervency is to prayer what fire is to incense….

Fervency unites the soul and directs the thoughts to the work at hand….

Doe not the living God and loving Father deserve all our zeal? O the shame of it! Let us not be cold in His worship, lagging behind the world’s zeal in pursuit of earthly mammon.”

— Puritan William Gurnall,
commenting on JAMES 5:16
(taken from Voices from the Past: Puritan Devotional Readings (Banner of Truth), edited by Richard Rushing

A Trinitarian prayer

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Praise and thanksgiving be unto you, O God,
who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ
and set him at your right hand in the kingdom of glory.

Praise and thanksgiving be unto you, O Lord Jesus Christ, you Lamb of God who has redeemed us by your blood, you heavenly Priest who ever lives to make intercession for us, you eternal King who comes again to make all things new.

Praise and thanksgiving be unto you, O Holy Spirit, who has shed abroad the love of God, who quickens us together with Christ, and makes us to sit with him in heavenly places, and to taste the good Word of God and the powers of the age to come.

Blessing and glory, and wisdom and thanksgiving, and honour and power and might, be unto you our God for ever and ever.
Amen

– Thomas F. Torrance.

(posted by Trevan Wax)