Sunday Nov. 17, 2024
Always With me
Verse 1
I can make it through the day
When You're with me on the way
In my heart and mind You'll stay
I can make it through the night
When I'm clinging to Your light
You will make the darkness bright
Chorus
For You are always, always with me
For You are always, always with me
Verse 2
In the calm and in the storm
When it seems I'm all alone
It's Your hand I find to hold
In each hour of unrest
When it seems I've nothing left
You speak peace in every breath
Chorus
For You are always, always with me
For You are always, always with me
Bridge
In the morning, in the evening
When I'm waking, when I'm sleeping
When I'm arriving, when I'm leaving
You will have me in Your keeping
Verse 3
Even from my mother's womb
Never hidden from Your view
I was always known to You
When I fade away in death
You will catch my final breath
You will take me to my rest
Call To Worship:
Joel 2:28-29,
“Then afterward I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. 29 Even on the male and female slaves, in those days I will pour out my spirit.”
Acts 2:32-33,
“This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses. 33 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you see and hear.”
Songs
Greatest Commandment
Chorus 1
Love the Lord your God
With all your heart and soul and mind
And love your neighbor as yourself
Verse 1
Let us be known let us be known
By the way we love
(Bridge)
Love love love the greatest commandment is
Love love love the greatest commandment is
Love love love the greatest commandment is (love)
He is Among us
[Verse 1]
You'll find Me with the broken and the weak
In the spaces in between
You'll hear My voice cry out with those who weep
Only if you're listening
[Chorus]
Whatever you do for the least of these
You do it unto Me
[Verse 2]
You'll find Me with the ones without a voice
The forgotten and ignored
My blessing is on those who love the poor
'Til you open up the door
[Chorus]
Whatever you do for the least of these
You do it unto Me
Whatever you do for the least of these
You do it unto Me
[Bridge]
Hallelujah, hallelujah
He is among us, He is among us
Hallelujah, hallelujah
He is among us, He is among us
Hallelujah, hallelujah
He is among us, He is among us
Hallelujah, hallelujah
He is among us, He is among us
[Outro]
By this the world will know the Father's love
We will know the Father's love
Liturgical Reading
Into the warmth of your presence we come, Lord God
It is good to be here, Lord; good to be in fellowship with each other; good to know the presence of your Spirit in this place; good to know that you are here with us, listening, prompting, touching lives, healing, renewing, making us whole.
I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations;
For great is your love, higher than the heavens
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens
And now we stand before you, your children; brothers and sisters of a heavenly Father, in a relationship made right again through the sacrificial love of your dear Son upon a cross and his glorious Resurrection.
For love, freely given to all,
For wholeness, the healing touch for broken lives,
For Salvation, for being made right again with God,
And now with the angels in heaven we declare
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be praise and glory and honor and power, for ever and ever. Amen”
Peace Like A River
I’ve got peace like a river
I’ve got peace like a river
I’ve got peace like a river
In my soul
I’ve got peace like a river
I’ve got peace like a river
I’ve got peace like a river
In my soul
I’ve got joy like a fountain
I’ve got joy like a fountain
I’ve got joy like a fountain
In my soul
I’ve got joy like a fountain
I’ve got joy like a fountain
I’ve got joy like a fountain
In my soul
Singing Oh Lord
I’ve got love for my Savior
I’ve got love for my Savior
I’ve got love for my Savior
In my soul
I’ve got love for my Savior
I’ve got love for my Savior
I’ve got love for my Savior
In my soul
I’ve got peace like a river
I’ve got peace like a river
I’ve got peace like a river
In my soul
I’ve got peace like a river
I’ve got peace like a river
I’ve got peace like a river
In my soul
Singing’ O Lord
Teaching: Holy Spirit Takeaways
Ephesians 2:19-22,
“19 So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, 20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone; 21 in him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.”
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.18 And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
“If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Liturgical Prayer:
Into your presence we come. Into fellowship with Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Glorious Trinity. You breathed this world into being. Your creative Spirit is still visible within our everyday lives; through the changing seasons, the colors and sounds of nature, the rhythm of day and night, sunrise and sunset, tide and wind, rain and shine. Your Spirit, present in the birth pangs of this world empowered the Prophets of old, ordinary people called to live extraordinary lives. Your Spirit was so visible through the life of your Son, from the moment of conception to his death and glorious resurrection. Your Spirit was the parting gift of Jesus to the world. As he said, 'You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses… to the ends of the earth'
Father, you have gifted us with the power to perform Christlikeness to the world, to be your witnesses here and to the ends of the earth. Yet we stand so often with feelings of inadequacy, fearful of our own failings and sin. Forgive us when we try and limit your power and underestimate our own capabilities. Forgive us when we fail to open our hearts fully to the working of your Spirit, when we choose to limit your work in our lives.
Empower us as you did the Prophets of old; embolden us in our witness to our family, our neighbors and all whom we meet.
Fill us with your Spirit
Amen
Communion:
Head up to the front to take communion.
Return to your seat and reflect on the following questions:
What are your takeaways about the Spirit?
How have you grown in your experience of the Spirit this year?
Trinity Song
Holy Father, Son, and Spirit
Holy communion, Three in One
Holy Father, Son, and Spirit
Holy communion, Three in One
Come with Your peace, with Your invitation
Bind us together in holy love
Come with Your peace, with Your invitation
Bind us together in holy love
Holy Father, Son, and Spirit
Holy communion, Three in One
Holy Father, Son, and Spirit
Holy communion, Three in One
Three in One
Three in One
Three in One
Three in One
Benediction:
Move among us, Spirit,
and gather us together with you.
Take our many selves—
our lives, our loves, our ideas,
our questions, our speech, our silence—
and unite us as your people.
Give us the gifts of presence, transformation and guidance,
so that even as we dream your dreams and see your visions,
we may be able to witness to your presence
in our common life.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.—(2 Corinthians 13:14)
Amen.