Hey, church family. Welcome to Wednesday Devo, or you might be watching it on Thursday morning,

but I want to talk to us about essential business. You've heard this phrase like crazy,

you know, determining what's essential,

like grocery stores and gas stations and what's not essential. I don't know that list.

Now, one of the things that doesn't have anything to do with what we're going to talk about today that I just want to encourage you on is that as 1122 or more importantly, as Christ's followers,

we want to make sure that we are leading the way

in being humble and supporting what our leaders are asking of us.

So let us do that.

But there are some things on the essential list that I don't know are,

like, you know, liquor stores and pot shops, but whatever.

Let me tell you one thing that is essential.

Worship.

Worship is essential to the life of the believer.

And the reason I want to bring this up is as our online services continue, you know, it's not exactly the same. God's doing an amazing

work in this time, reaching more people than we do normally, and people are getting saved and

baptized and glory to God for all of that. But one of the things I noticed in my own house as we are

doing church together in my home is that we've been a little bit lackluster on the praise and

worship portion of the services. And part of it is, you know, because we're watching it like on my

phone or my laptop and the speakers aren't really that loud. And so I can hear me sing too much

and I sing really loud and it's really kind of bad. So what I want to encourage you to do as we participate as a church by worshipping online

is you need some times in your week where you are seriously worshiping.

And I'm talking about singing out loud to God like he gave his life for you.

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