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Philippians 4:4–9 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

MY SHEPHERD WILL SUPPLY MY NEED PSALM 23

MEN ONLY: My Shepherd will supply my need; Jehovah is His Name; In pastures fresh He makes me feed Beside the living stream. He brings my wand’ring spirit back When I forsake His ways, And leads me, for His mercy’s sake, In paths of truth and grace. WOMEN ONLY: When I walk through the shades of death, Thy presence is my stay; A word of Thy supporting breath Drives all my fears away. Thy hand, in sight of all my foes, Doth still my table spread; My cup with blessings overflows; Thine oil anoints my head. ALL SING: The sure provisions of my God Attend me all my days; O may Thy house be mine abode, And all my work be praise! There would I find a settled rest (While others go and come), No more a stranger or a guest, But like a child at home.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, PHILIPPIANS 2:6-11 if there is any excellence, if there is LEADER:  How did Jesus humble himself? anything worthy of praise, think about CONGREGATION: Though he was in the form of God, [he] did not count these things. equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing,

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What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

GLORIOUS AND MIGHTY SOVEREIGN GRACE MUSIC

Majesty, Your glory is shining Brighter than the moon and the stars Marveling, we honor and fear You Above all gods Glorious and mighty, You’re awesome In beauty Joyful songs we raise Glorious and mighty, You’re awesome in beauty Greatly to be praised Majesty, You fashioned the heavens Your decrees can never be changed Over all the plans of the nations Your judgments reign Majesty, we’ll sing with creation When You come again in the clouds Every knee will bow down and worship The one true God

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WORSHIP: OUR RESPONSE TO HIS GREATNESS RICK MELSON

A number of years ago, I had the privilege of studying worship with Bruce Leafblad. He offered the following working definition of worship, and since that time it has been foundational to both my theology and practice: Worship is communion with God in which believers, by grace, center their minds’ attention and hearts’ affection on the Lord, humbly glorifying God in response to his greatness and his word. In particular, the phrase “center their minds’ attention and hearts’ affection on the Lord” has influenced my thinking around both corporate worship and worship as all of life. Almost everything in our society works against focus. We are inundated with a constant stream of distractions vying for our minds’ attention and hearts’ affections. The idea of centering or focusing our mind and heart on anything for more than a few minutes is an ongoing challenge for most of us in our diversion-oriented society. As worshipers, we increasingly need to develop spiritual disciplines to prepare ourselves to focus, disciplines to be attentive with our mind, and disciplines to awaken the affections of our hearts and have them focused on God. We need a form of aggressive resolve to set aside every distraction, and set our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). O, how we need God’s help to do this. We would love to do this on our own, to just sit down and focus, but the reality is, we need God’s help. And to do this focusing, we must begin with prayer — asking for God’s help. But such prayer doesn’t begin when we enter into the corporate gathering for worship; it is an overflow of the prayers we have been praying throughout the week. In fact, corporate worship is an overflow of our worship as all of life (Romans 12:1–2). Yet we need to stop and recognize that corporate worship is bound by time and place, so the gathered people need to focus together, to pray together, to sing together, to listen to God’s voice together in his word, and to respond together. The beauty of this phrase “minds’ attention and hearts’ affection” is that it clearly articulates that right worship is not an either-or proposition of a cognitive experience or an emotive experience; it is a both-and experience. The elements of our worship service should aim at kindling and carrying deep, strong, real emotions toward God, especially joy, but should not manipulate people’s emotions by failing to appeal to clear thinking about spiritual things based on shareable evidences outside ourselves. So while right thinking about who God is and who we are is imperative, right worship is also about right feeling and right emotions and right delighting in God. We are called to worship in spirit and in truth (John 4:23–24), and our right worship must include both head and heart. John Piper expresses it this way in God’s Passion for His Glory: “Mind corresponds to the understanding of the truth of God’s perfections. Love corresponds to the delight in the worth and beauty of those perfections. God is glorified both by being understood and being delighted in.” So as you gather together in corporate worship [each Sunday], and as you prepare your head and your heart for worship, begin now by praying that God would center your “minds’ attention and hearts’ affection on the Lord” — for his glory and your exceeding joy.

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O GOD BEYOND ALL PRAISING

The Church in Corporate Worship Please use the following prayer to prepare your hearts for worship: OUR GREAT GOD AND KING you gave your Son, Jesus Christ, to be the light of the world. We praise and magnify your holy name that in him you have revealed the wonder of your saving love to all people. With those of old who brought their tribute to his feet, confessing him as King of heaven and earth, we now present the worship of our grateful hearts, asking you to give us grace from your hand as we rejoice in you, our eternal, immortal, everlasting King. Amen.

COVER IMAGE The cover image on today’s Worship Guide represents how needy we truly are. Though we have many “things” we need what only God can give. So with outstretched hands we ask the Lord to meet our need of Him first and foremost.

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We gather to worship this day the God who is beyond all praising. We come before Him as needy children, longing for His presence, and offering Him joyful praise with hearts and voices ready to sing! SING PRAISE TO GOD WHO REIGNS ABOVE! TO GOD ALL PRAISE AND GLORY!

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THOUGHTS FOR WORSHIP PREPARATION NEED OF JESUS A Puritan Prayer for The Valley of Vision

LORD JESUS,

I am blind, be thou my light, ignorant, be thou my wisdom, self-willed, be thou my mind. Open my ear to grasp quickly thy Spirit’s voice, and delightfully run after his beckoning hand; Melt my conscience that no hardness remain, make it alive to evil’s slightest touch; When Satan approaches may I flee to thy wounds, and there cease to tremble at all alarms. Be my good shepherd to lead me into the green pastures of thy Word, and cause me to lie down beside the rivers of its comforts. Fill me with peace, that no disquieting worldly gales may ruffle the calm surface of my soul. Thy cross was upraised to be my refuge, Thy blood streamed forth to wash me clean, Thy death occurred to give me a surety, Thy name is my property to save me, By thee all heaven is poured into my heart, but it is too narrow to comprehend thy love. I was a stranger, an outcast, a slave, a rebel, but thy cross has brought me near, has softened my heart, has made me thy Father’s child, has admitted me to thy family, has made me joint-heir with thyself. O that I may love thee as thou lovest me, that I may walk worthy of thee, my Lord, that I may reflect the image of heaven’s first-born. May I always see thy beauty with the clear eye of faith, and feel the power of thy Spirit in my heart, for unless he move mightily in me no inward fire will be kindled.

“O God beyond all praising” was written specifically for the melody THAXTED in 1982, a composition by the early 20th-century British composer Gustav Holst (18741934). This tune is normally associated in the U.K. with a more patriotic text. Michael Perry composed the text, he said, “in response to a call for alternative words that would be more appropriate for Christian worship.” The melody THAXTED, named for a small town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, comes from the middle section of the “Jupiter” movement in Holst’s orchestral suite, The Planets (1914-1916). In 1921, Holst adapted the theme to fit Cecil Spring-Rice’s patriotic poem “I vow to thee my country” (1908). It is hard to underestimate the fervor that this text/ tune combination inspires in the British homeland. It is often sung at Remembrance Day services. Perry faced a formidable challenge in composing a text to such a stately theme, especially one that bears an association with a text that combines patriotic and religious fervor. To meet this challenge, he created a majestic hymn of praise that is biblically rooted. For example, the final line of the second stanza, “our sacrifice of praise,” come directly from Psalm 116:17 and Hebrews 13:15. In stanza one, the phrase, “wait upon your word,” echoes Psalm 130:5. Another phrase from stanza one, “for we can only wonder at every gift you send,” resounds in the spirit of James 1:17.

PRELUDE PRAISE ELENA CRUDGE

MORNING WELCOME AND SERVICE PREPARATION

MORNING PRAYER OF PRAISE

WORSHIP PREPARATION

GOD OF GRACE AND GOD OF GLORY • ECBC HANDBELLS As the Handbells lead us in a time of meditation and preparation, please read through the Puritan Prayer printed in this Worship Guide as we prepare our hearts for a morning of worship and seeking the God who can meet all our needs.

O GOD BEYOND ALL PRAISING THAXTED

A REASON TO SING PRAISE TO GOD, WHO REIGNS ABOVE

SING PRAISE TO GOD, WHO REIGNS ABOVE MIT FREUDEN ZART

If life be long, I will be glad, That I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad to welcome endless day? Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before; He that unto God’s kingdom comes must enter by this door. Come, Lord, when grace hath made me meet Thy blessed face to see; For if Thy work on earth be sweet what will Thy glory be! Then I shall end my sad complaints and weary sinful days, and join with the triumphant saints that sing my Savior’s praise. My knowledge of that life is small, the eye of faith is dim; but ’tis enough that Christ knows all, and I shall be with Him. -- Richard Baxter (1615 - 1691)

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER TIME PRAYING WITH AND FOR ONE ANOTHER

Please turn to the person sitting next to you (or groups of 2 or 3) and pray with and for each other. Please share one specific need you have in your life and let them pray for that need/request for you this morning. If you need some guidance, you can speak the following prayer, inserting their name and request in the blanks:

King Jesus, we come before You this morning as needy people. I lift ___________(Name)________________ to You in prayer, asking You to hear our request for their ________(Need)__________. Thank You, Lord, that “my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.” (Philippians 4:19–20)

PRAYER RESPONSE IN NEED • ECBC CHOIR

In need of grace. In need of love. In need of mercy raining down from high above. In need of strength. In need of peace. In need of things that only You can give to me. In need of Christ, the Perfect Lamb; My refuge strong, the great I AM. This is my song, my humble plea; I am Your child, I am in need.