{"id":40395,"date":"2026-05-19T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40395"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:12:28","slug":"26-0520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0520\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepare for Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Do you prepare for church worship?\u00a0 We\u2019re sadly casual when it comes to meeting God. Suppose you were invited to a Sunday morning breakfast at the White House?\u00a0 How would you spend Saturday night?\u00a0 Would you think about your questions and requests?\u00a0 Should we prepare any less for an encounter with the Holy God?<\/p>\n

Come to worship prepared to worship.\u00a0 Pray and read the Word of God before you come, and come expecting God to speak. Then you\u2019ll discover the purpose of worship\u2014to change the face of the worshiper.<\/p>\n

Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 3:18, \u201cOur faces, then, are not covered.\u00a0 We all show The Lord\u2019s glory, and we are being changed to be like Him\u201d (EXB). \u00a0God wipes away our tears, softens our furrowed brows and touches our cheeks. He changes our faces as we worship.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Just Like Jesus<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Do you prepare for church worship? We\u2019re sadly casual when it comes to meeting God. Suppose you were invited to a Sunday morning breakfast at the White House? How would you spend Saturday night? Would you think about your questions and requests? Should we prepare any less for an encounter with the Holy God?<\/p>\n

Come to worship prepared to worship. Pray and read the Word of God before you come, and come expecting God to speak. Then you\u2019ll discover the purpose of worship\u2014to change the face of the worshiper.<\/p>\n

Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 3:18, \u201cOur faces, then, are not covered. We all show The Lord\u2019s glory, and we are being changed to be like Him\u201d (EXB). God wipes away our tears, softens our furrowed brows and touches our cheeks. He changes our faces as we worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40398,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40395\/revisions\/40398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}