Sabbath Preparation

Scripture
My heart has heard You say, “Come, and talk with me.” And my heart responds, “Lord I am coming.” Psalm 27:8

Prayer
Abba Father, upon Your Holy Name I call. Father I am calling for a heart cleansing. Clean my heart of this weeks worries, doubts, loses, focuses, renew in me a clean heart. Cleanse my Spirit of the world’s way, of all my errors. Calm me down O Lord and bring me to a place of quietness, thankfulness and reflection upon Your Grace. Prepare me Lord for Worship with the assembly gathered to minister unto You.

Thoughts
Tomorrow we who trust in the Lord and believe He gave His only begotten Son for our Salvation will enter His courts for inspiration, motivation and words to carry us through to Wednesday or the next Sunday. Yes the Lord created the Sabbath for man, a day to rest and reconnect with Him. This is our time to drop off the cares of the past week and refresh to start over again on Monday. I challenge you to make this not your primary reason to attend Church tomorrow, but make your primary reason to minister to the Lord; to make Him smile and rejoice because you came and delivered a heart of worship. Worship is about God, all about Him. Worship is not about us, it is not about us getting our personal agenda before God, but about getting God’s agenda before Him. It is about letting God we know Him and because we know Him we adore and love Him. On the Sabbath we demonstrate that adoration and love through worship. To enter His courts for worship we must do some heart preparation, which should have been going on all the week, but the reality of our world is we are so busy living we don’t think about the shape of our heart, mine and spirit until Sunday morning as we get ready for church and sometimes not even then. God is calling us today to prepare our hearts for the Sabbath tomorrow. How do we do that?

Reflection Steps
1-Cleanse your heart, spend time talking with God about any un-confessed sins. Confess and ask for forgiveness.
2- Ask God to help you see changes He would have you make to be able to bear lasting fruit and fulfill His purpose for you.
3- Mediate on all the goodness God has shown you this week.
4- Move into a period of praise. Enter His gates with praise. Don’t wait for tomorrow but praise God today; give thanks for His Presence in your life this past week. Stay in this place from this time on; tomorrow enter His gates with an attitude of Worship.

Reflection of Praise
Additional things you can praise God for:
His Unfailing love
His Mercy
His Goodness
His Love
His Faithfulness
His Compassion
His Word
His Care
His peace
Because He is your Rock, Shield, Refuge, Healer
Because He heard your cries
Because He answered your prayers
Because He gave you strength
His Holy Spirit abiding in you
His Son, who daily advocates for you


Keep your heart reflective and in prayer. Tomorrow say Lord “I’m coming and I can’t wait to worship you.

Sabbath Preparation

Tomorrow is the day for corporate worship for Christian believers. Preparation to enter the courts of God should be done prior to the Sabbath. Today we begin to set our hearts right, we cleanse ourselves of those things which are not of God. Busy hearts and minds should begin to rest and focus on God. The first step of preparation is the cleansing of sin. Offer God the sacrifice of repentance.
Search your heart and ask the Holy Spirit to bring to mine all that hinders your relationship with God. Reflect over your week what sins have you ignored, failed to confess to God. As you confess ask God to keep you from sin as you walk through the remainder of your day.
Ps 51:2 -Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin.
Psalm 51:17 -The sacrifice you want is a broken spirit. A broken and repentant heart, O God, you will not despise.

Begin to focus on the things God has done for you this week. Develop a list of those things for which you are grateful. Truly focus on how God intervene in your life this week. Begin to thank Him, let His goodness, kindness, mercy and grace flood your heart. Spend time here loving God with your grateful heart that tomorrow you will be run to His gates with songs and prayers of praise.



Psalm 100:4
Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him and bless his name.


Mediate on God’s characteristics. List in your heart every attribute which comes to mind. Consider how God showed you these characteristics this pass week. Let all which comes to mind soak into your spirit. Offer praise to God for all He has shown you this week. Thank God in prayer, name each characteristic, calling them before the Lord. Let God know you have seen Him at work in your life this week.

Psalm 110:5 -The Lord stands at your right hand to protect you.

Job 33:4 -For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Psalm 51:1- Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.

Job 12:13 "True wisdom and real power belong to God; from him we learn how to live,

Spend time is the one of the gospels; focus on the work of Christ. Fill your heart with Christ knowledge.

John 1:1-5
1 In the beginning the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn't make. 4 Life itself was in him, and this life gives light to everyone. 5 The light shines through the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it

John 9:6-7
Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and smoothed the mud over the He told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing!

John 13:10-13
One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, he saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit. She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, "Woman, you are healed of your sickness!" Then he touched her, and instantly she could stand straight. How she praised and thanked God!

Be Quiet, set still and let God minister to you, let the Holy Spirit prepare you for worship.

Prayer
Father God, may I enter into your mighty Presence? Lord I need you to prepare me for worship, help me to worship you right now, Lord prepare my heart, mind, spirit and attitude to worship You in Your Holy tabernacle on the Sabbath Day. Let me rejoice in Your goodness that I may enter Your courts with praise and thanksgiving.
Father soak me with Your word and let me see you. Guide me Holy Spirit to bring to the Father offerings of love, praise, thanksgiving, and worship. Prepare me Lord, make me bold, let me care not what others think as I lift holy hands to you, as I shout praises and thanksgiving to you for all your blessings poured on me this week my God. Let me come not to just receive Lord but let me come to give to You in ways pleasing to You. Fill me Holy Spirit with thy self and let me magnify the Lord, my Savior and bring glory to God, my Father. In Jesus Name Amen

Ps 51:7 -
Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow