The Biblical Basis for Personal Worship

In our message last Lord's Day, we dealt with the Vital Necessity of this Christian Duty, based on Proverbs 4:23 “Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.”

In this message, we will deal with the Biblical Basis for having and maintaining the practice of Personal Worship as set forth in:

Psalms 1
1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 And he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season,
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked will perish.

There is no substitute for having the blessing of God upon our lives.

We see in this Psalm that the man who is blessed must avoid certain things.

We must avoid those things that would draw our affection away from God.

We must give ourselves diligently to those things that will draw our affections to God.

Prayer and the reading of God's Word……the two basic elements of personal worship.