March 28, 2011 - Prayer is Worship - Nehemiah 9
Check out this chapter. Nehemiah 9:1
It isn't asking for anything, but confessing and remembering. How often are our prayers requests compared to confession and thanksgiving?
...Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
“You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you…
Read the whole chapter. It is a worship chapter.
The prayer is a timeline of God and the Israelites. Both God and Israel’s character is revealed in this series of verses. And is is so this very day…God’s character and our character remains the same.
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Hebrews 13:15 (ESV)
The thing I love most about my job is getting to do art with kids. Below are some things I created while exposing them to different art forms.
This is a watercolor of a great friggate bird or iwa.
This is a collage – watercolor, tempera resist, oil pastel and gel pen.