What The Bible Says About Reverence

 Tonight we're going to look at what the Bible says about Reverence

I want to say that before we go into scriptures, that this was one topic I felt God laid on my heart to talk about for one of my December studies, but the more I thought about what I wanted to be able to talk to all of you about for tonight, I felt like God wanted me to share it on here, instead of waiting to share about it later.

The scriptures we're going to be looking at tonight is, Psalm 111 verse 10, 1 Samuel 12 verse 24, Acts 17 verse 10-11, Hebrews 12 verse 28-29, Proverbs 9 verse 10, Ephesians 5 verse 21, Leviticus 19 verse 30, Exdous 3 verse 5, Hebrews 5 verse 7, Matthew 4 verse 9- 10, and the last scripture we are going to look at is Phillipians 2 verse 12.

In the scriptures we see how God throughout all the different books and chapters and verses we read, that not only do we seek Wisdom and knowledge from God, in having Him help us know what we should do but we also seek Reverence. Now, before I go into sharing more on what God's Word tells us about it, I want to share a song.

The song is called Speak O Lord. The lyrics say this: Speak, O Lord, as we come to You, To receive the food of Your Holy Word

Take Your truth, plant it deep in us

Shape and fashion us in Your likeness

That the light of Christ might be seen today

In our acts of love and our deeds of faith

Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us

All Your purposes for Your glory

Teach us Lord, full obedience

Holy reverence, true humility

Test our thoughts and our attitudes

In the radiance of Your purity

I now like to share something I found on google from a website called christianity.com and the article headline that said: What does it mean to have Reverence for God?

22 Ways to Develop A Spirit of Reverence for God

“So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” 1 Corinthians 10:31

Developing a reverence for the Lord is a practice that creates awareness of God in our lives. God’s Words show us that reverence for God is doing everything in word and deed out of love and awe for God. Revering the Lord is like having a light illuminating our path in the dark.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength remembering that Jesus says that those who love Him will obey Him.

Recognize that God’s wisdom is infinitely greater than any human wisdom. Trust Him more than self.

Delight yourself in the Lord and trust Him to use all things, the good and the bad for your good and His ultimate glory.

Desire to know Him. In prayer, ask Him to have a desire and thirst for His Word.

Meditate on His Word. Memorize it.

There is more to this but I wanted us to be able to see how when we put our Faith, our Hope, our Love for God in Him and we trust in His ways, then we can start to build our Relationship with Him further, we can go deeper in our Faith walks with Him, and really go into more of how we can show the Reverence for God that God wants us to see. We see how with God all things are possible, and nothing is impossible for Him.

I want to share some quotes with all of you.

Do everything with gentleness, with kindness, with reverence. That is how grace moves; That is how love dances. 

A simple childlike faith in a divine friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self  and humbling delusions.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

Here are the last few things I would like to share with all of you and leave all of you with tonight. 

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word Of God. 

Friendship with God is reserved for those who reverence Him. With them alone He shares the secrets of His promises. Psalm 25 verse 14. 

To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men. 

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.  2 Timothy 1:7.