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How expensive is your worship?

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How expensive is your worship? When you talk about expensive perfumes in the market right now you might consider, Chanel no. 5 (one of my favorites), Hermes 24 Faubourg, Joy by Jean Patou, Clive Christian No. 1, amongst many more. Some perfumes are even as expensive as $1000, per ounce!!!! Mmmm......Expensive perfumes are to be used wisely and cherished at least for their worth and not used lavishly any how. In Mark 14:3-9, we read about the woman with the alabaster box who lavished her expensive perfume by pouring it on the head of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We read in that passage that some of those present were so angry and disturbed that this woman would waste perfume that is so costly. Jesus said "Leave her alone, she has done a beautiful thing to me...". Worship is a beautiful thing. Its defined as the feeling or expression of reverance and adoration for a deity; it is the act of showing reverence and adoration. John 12:3 tells this same story but tells us

Knowing God

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Ginosko Ginosko is a Greek word meaning: to know, to learn, to come to know or get a knowledge of, perceive, feel, to become known, to understand or to have knowledge of, or progressively know. It's also a Jewish idiom to connote intimacy. Ephesians 3:16-19 says "I pray that out of His glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power together with all the Lords holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. When you come into contact with someone for the first time and introduce yourself, you know who that person is by name, but you don't KNOW who that person is. So we can say therefore that knowing about God and knowing God are two different th