Hello everyone and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

We are excited that you are with us today as we bring our powerful series,

how the church meets your deepest needs to a close. Together, we'll uncover the joy and strength

that comes from being a part of God's family.

So let's continue now with the final part of a message called how worshiping with others

changes you. Now, how do I worship? I want to give you some tips here. I want to talk about how do you tell God that you love

him? And I want to give you seven different very practical acts of worship. So write these down.

But not only we're just going to write them down, we're going to do them. And at each of these,

we're going to pause and usually ask you to actually do what I just

talked about. Now, the one we're starting with is what we're doing right now. The first way you

can worship, write this down, is by listening and responding to God's word. By listening and responding to God's Word, I'm teaching you from God's

word. What you're doing right now is an act of worship. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 31, verse 12,

in the New Century Version, it says, gather all the people together, men, women, children,

and the immigrants living in your towns. He's talking about visitors, people who are not

citizens here. Gather all the people together, men, women, children, and immigrants living in

your towns so that everyone can listen

and learn. So to respect the Lord and carefully obey everything in his word. Notice he says,

this is something we do together. We worship together. We're to gather together. We're to get up

and go to a place of worship. Are you doing that

every week? That's what God wants you to do. Psalm 85 verse 8 says this, I listen carefully to what God,

my Lord, is saying, for he speaks peace to his people and his faithful ones. Now, notice he says, I listen

carefully to what God says. How do you listen carefully? Well, one of the ways you do is what you're

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