Order, Words, & Voices
05.19.24, All You Need, I Samuel 10:1-9
Order
Pre Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Songs Amazing Love (You Are My King) Billy/Team
Father of Love
Participatory Reading and Prayer Mitch
Songs Faithful One Billy/Team
Your Love is Deep
Passage/Intro I Samuel 10:1-9 Renee
Message All I Need Rick
Music Faithful One Billy/Team
Community/Benediction Rick
Closing Peace Rick
Closing Music Who You Say I Am Billy/Team
Post Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Music (Slides) Billy/Team
Amazing Love CCLI Song # 2456623
Verse
I’m forgiven
Because You were forsaken
I’m accepted
You were condemned
I’m alive and well
Your Spirit is within me
Because You died
And rose again
Chorus
Amazing love
How can it be
That You my King
Would die for me
Amazing love
I know it’s true
It’s my joy to honor You
In all I do I honor You
Ending
You are my King
You are my King
Jesus You are my King
Jesus You are my King
Your Loving Kindness Song # 818174
Chorus
Your lovingkindness
Is good to all
Your wings of mercy
Lift me when I fall
Your lovingkindness
Meets my ev’ry need
You cleanse me from unrighteousness
And You give new life to me
Verse
Father of love
Lord of all creation
I will bless Your name
Forever and ever
I will declare
Your grace and Your mercy
And tell of Your unfailing love
Response (Slides) Mitch
Leader: We are called to a challenging path.
Response: To love God and love others.
Leader: We are given the tools to love.
Response: God does not leave us unprepared.
Leader: We trust in God as we step into our calling.
Response: We do not always know what is ahead or where the Spirit will leave.
Leader: We trust in God because we know that God is trustworthy.
Response: We trust because we know God will supply our needs to follow the call.
Leader: Faith is not in what we have done, nor is it in what we have achieved.
Response: Faith in self is frail and fragile, faith in God is proven and credible.
Leader: Hope is the anchor we hold to in our present, and future, uncertainties.
Response: Hope is remembered as we sit at the table, as we contemplate the empty grave.
Leader: Love is our labor, love is our sustenance, love is our calling.
Response: Love is from God for God is love.
Leader: Join me in the prayer of Jesus,
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Forgive us our trespasses, while we forgive those who trespass against us.
And, lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Music (Slides) Billy/Team
Faithful One CCLI Song # 465840
Verse
Faithful One so unchanging
Ageless One You’re my Rock of peace
Lord of all I depend on You
I call out to You again and again
I call out to You again and again
Chorus
You are my Rock in times of trouble
You lift me up when I fall down
All through the storm
Your love is the anchor
My hope is in You alone
Ending
My hope is in You
My hope is in You
Our hope is in You alone
Your Love Is Deep Song # 3422986
Verse
Your love is deep Your love is high
Your love is long Your love is wide
Your love is deep Your love is high
Your love is long Your love is wide
Chorus
Your love is deeper than my view of grace
Higher than this worldly place
Longer than this road I travel
Wider than the gap You filled
Deeper than my view of grace
Higher than this worldly place
Longer than this road I travel
Wider than the gap You filled
Bridge
So who shall separate us
Who shall separate us from Your love
Nothing can separate us
Nothing can separate us from Your love
Ending
Your love is deep
Passage (Slides) Renee
Samuel poured olive oil on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “The Lord has anointed you ruler. You will meet two men near Rachel’s tomb when you leave me today. They will say to you, ‘Your donkeys have been found. Your father is now worried about you.”’
“Then you will travel to the great tree of Tabor where three men going up to worship God at Bethel will meet you. One carrying three young goats, another three loaves of bread, and another a skin of wine. They will greet you and offer you two loaves of bread, which you will accept.”
“Next you will go to the Philistine outpost at Gibeah of God. As you approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place with lyres, timbrels, pipes and harps being played before them, and they will be prophesying.”
“The Spirit of the Lord will come powerfully upon you, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person.”
“Once these signs are fulfilled, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.”
“Go ahead of me to Gilgal. I will come down to you to sacrifice burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, then, you must wait seven days until I come to you and tell you what to do.”
As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all these signs were fulfilled that day.
I Samuel 10:1-9
Message Rick (Slides)
- Harold fixing disposal
- Simplicity of today’s passage, profound truth to our walk
- [Slide – leave each slide up until the next slide then stop screen share when noted] Saul hiding behind Luggage
Why did the Israelites desire for a King/Royalty
- [Slide] The late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote, “At the end of his life, Moses recognized one great failure of his leadership. He had taken the Israelites out of Egypt, but he had not taken Egypt out of the Israelites. He had changed his people’s fate, but he had not changed their character… So long as there is a Moses performing miracles, the people do not have to accept responsibility for themselves…”
Selection of Saul
- [Slide] Saul was everything the Israelites thought they wanted
- [Slide] Saul would be given everything needed to be good King
- Transformation (God transforms Saul into the man he must be to co-lead with God – as opposed to being a totally secular leader)
- [Slide] Truth – Frenzy
- [Slide] New Person
- [Slide] New Heart
From here on, the choice to remain in his prophetic and transformed state is Saul’s choice. It was his choice to make, or not make, God the core of his very being and governing.
Remember the context – God’s Promise of Provision, God transformed, and made Saul a new person, and then gave him a promise…“Do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.” (I Samuel 10:7)
Lesson learned about God
- [Slide] God is not petty and spiteful because God is love (could have given them ruler they wanted without giving the skills to rule)
- [Slide] God does not abandon us because God is love (God would have been justified to walk away from Israelites because of their rejection of God.)
- [Slide] God gives us all we need to follow God’s calling on us because God is love
- [Slide] God calls us to love because God is love.
[Slide] Hiding behind our baggage – I can’t/I don’t
Israels’ Leaders, all humanity, History of ‘I don’t/can’t…’ people, the more ‘I don’t…’s you have the quicker it becomes a ‘we don’t’ and you are turning away from the promised land. We are called to be ‘I will’ people
Saul hid behind his baggage – Humanity hides behind our ‘I can’ts’ and our ‘I don’ts’. Instead of hiding we are called to trust the tools God puts in our hands and with those to struts the path. God calls us when he needs us not when we think we are ready. God calls us and then gets us ready.
[End Screen Sharing]
Constant Call for all Believefs – Love God, Love Others.
Back to Harold – tool to fix disposal – maybe start with Isaiah and Semicolons – then to tool under sink for decades.
While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8)
God does not judge and condemn us on what we are or have been – God considers the possibilities of each of us, God considers what will we be if we choose to trust God instead of focusing on our ‘I Don’ts’ and our ‘Our Cant’s’. Many in world who are suffering because of the church’s ‘I Won’ts’
We all can love
Music (Slide) Billy/Team
Faithful One CCLI Song # 465840
Verse
Faithful One so unchanging
Ageless One You’re my Rock of peace
Lord of all I depend on You
I call out to You again and again
I call out to You again and again
Chorus
You are my Rock in times of trouble
You lift me up when I fall down
All through the storm
Your love is the anchor
My hope is in You alone
Ending
My hope is in You
My hope is in You
Our hope is in You alone
Community (Slides) Rick
- Faces Of Our Faith, Summer Series, will begin next Sunday. Go to ‘Sunday Passages’ on web page home page to be sent to the passages for series
- Next Sunday, 05.26.24, Faces of Our Faith – Adam and Eve, Genesis 2
- Dinner and Games night This Thursday, May 23, 6:00pm
Closing Benediction (Slides) Rick
As we go, we step on the path set before us. A path that is not laid out by a God who is not petty and nor is God spiteful – for, Our God is love.
Ours is a path set before us by a God who does not, and will not, abandon us – for, Our God is love.
A path on which our feet, our mind, our hands, our strength, and our hearts are already prepared to journey – for, Our God is love.
A path on which call on us to love – for, Our God is love.
Closing Peace (Slides) Rick
[Slide] Leader: May the peace of the Lord go with you.
[Slide] Response: And also with you.
Closing Music Billy/Team
Who You Say I Am Song # 7102401
Verse 1
Who am I that the highest King
Would welcome me
I was lost but He brought me in
Oh His love for me
Oh His love for me
Chorus 1
Who the Son sets free
Oh is free indeedI’m a child of God
Yes I am
Chorus 2
In my Father’s house
There’s a place for me
I’m a child of God, Yes I am
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