{"id":698,"date":"2017-11-21T06:35:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2017-11-21T06:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:39:35","slug":"698","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Revelation 4:9-11 The Song In Our Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revelation 4:9-11\u00a0<\/b>–\u00a09\u00a0Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne\u00a0and who lives for ever and ever,\u00a010\u00a0the twenty-four elders\u00a0fall down before him\u00a0who sits on the throne\u00a0and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say: 11\u00a0\u201cYou are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c9\u00a0Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne\u00a0and who lives for ever and ever,\u00a010\u00a0the twenty-four elders\u00a0fall down before him\u00a0who sits on the throne\u00a0and worship him who lives for ever and ever.\u201d Today, right now, the angelic beings in heaven are worshiping God.\u00a0 God did not make them robots, but with a free will, for they had their opportunity to choose to follow the devil rather than God. Their choice to love and serve God was a conscious one.\u00a0 It was a choice to continue to do what they had been doing.\u00a0 Family, it is impossible to know God, to experience God, and to not love and serve Him.\u00a0 All who truly love Him understand this.\u00a0 Of course this knowledge, these innate urges, are grown as we become further away from living for the flesh and continually transition to living for God.\u00a0 The more important the Word of God being revealed by the Holy Spirit becomes to us, the more dearly we love God and seek to obey and serve Him.<\/p>\n

\u00a0John sees angels, who in awe and adoration attest to the singular attributes of God that cause them to sing \u201cHoly, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.<\/span>\u201d (V8<\/b>).\u00a0 These sing not because they are handed a hymnbook, or because songs are put up on giant screens, but because the only reaction of those who love God being in the presence of God is adoration and praise.\u00a0 The closer we are to God, the more we want to praise Him.\u00a0 If we find ourselves not being to get into the praise and worship times at church, we will likely find that we did not start the day, and did not enter the church service, with God already the focus in our minds and hearts.\u00a0 We must, must, must start our days in praise, thankfulness and worship of God.\u00a0 It is the only way a saint should start their day.\u00a0 Victory for the day begins with humbled hearts and minds focused on God in the morning.\u00a0 Want to be \u201cinto\u201d praise and worship at church?\u00a0 Want to receive deeply from the preached Word of God!\u00a0 Then enter into church with worshipping hearts.\u00a0 Let the love of God be the cloud you are walking on.\u00a0 Then we are ready to receive of God.\u00a0\u00a0 Then we know our focus is on Him.<\/p>\n

\u00a0We simply cannot be loving God and walking in His presence without the overflowing desire to please and serve Him.\u00a0 So, the twenty-four elders being in the very presence of God, cannot help but sing praise and glory to God!\u00a0 Though the song of the twenty-four elders is also a song of worshiping who God is, though they are in complete agreement with the angels, their song is their own praise to the glory, honor, and majesty of Him who sits on the throne. They praise the creator of all things.\u00a0 The angels praise God Almighty for who He is.\u00a0 The twenty-four elders praise God for who He is and also for what He has done, for them, for us, and for all of creation.\u00a0 The twenty-four elders do not need to pick up an angelic hymnbook.\u00a0 Their song comes from the witness of God in their lives.\u00a0 It is their very own heart song.\u00a0 We all have songs of testimony and praise for what God has done for us, and for who He is.\u00a0 These songs burst forth from us as we are in His presence.\u00a0 We must stay in His presence.<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0– But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revelation 4:9-11\u00a0–\u00a09\u00a0Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne\u00a0and who lives for ever and ever,\u00a010\u00a0the twenty-four elders\u00a0fall down before him\u00a0who sits on the throne\u00a0and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say: 11\u00a0\u201cYou are worthy, our Lord and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[94,17,711],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-micah","tag-psalm","tag-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}