Worship Diary

We weren’t expecting anyone for our weekly worship service because the regulars knew that there was sickness in the family. So I was very surprised to hear a car coming up the driveway. I went to a window and had a look. John, who my husband had invited weeks ago, had arrived. The children were in a bedroom listening as one of them read inspirational stories aloud. I called them to our worship room. We welcomed John in and after asking him to choose a hymn, commenced singing. There is something special about it when we all sing together. Each one of the children enjoys our singing. We don’t often choose 6 hymns as we did this morning either.

We prayed, asking for God’s presence.

On rising from our knees we took turns sharing a favourite passage of Scripture. A recurring theme was that because of God we have nothing to fear. Psalm 27:1 and Psalm 23:4-6 were among those chosen.

Following this, we passed around Enrich Your Prayer Life and turning to page 42, commenced reading the section, How to Become A Child of God. We frequently stopped to comment on what was being read. We continued on to read the last story in the book about the man that kept putting off accepting Christ, until when on his deathbed, he was unable to because his heart had grown too hard.

We concluded our worship with some more singing and prayer.

~ Lina writes from QLD, Australia November 11, 2006