Calls To Worship
Dwelling Place
Adapted from Psalm 84
How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord Almighty!
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be the doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.
Submitted by Austin D. Hill
Adapted from Psalm 84: 1, 2, 4, 5
Leader: How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord Almighty!
People: My soul yearns, even faints,
for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and flesh cry out
for the living God.
Leader: Blessed are those who dwell in your house
They are ever praising you.
People: Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
Who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
Adapted from Psalm 84:1, 10-12 (ESV)
Pastor: How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!
All: For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Pastor: For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
All: O LORD of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!
Submitted by Dustin Ray (ESV, adapted for liturgical use)
Adapted from Psalm 90
Leader: “Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations. From everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”
People: But in comparison, the days of our life on this earth are but a moment.
Leader: “So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
People: Meet us here this morning, remind us of “Your loving kindness, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.”
Leader: Yes, let us thank and praise God for every minute.
(Ps 90:1, 12, 14, WEB, excerpted and adapted for liturgical use)
Adapted from Psalm 90
Lord, you have ben our dwelling place in all generations.
You turn us back to dust, and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”
For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it has past, or like a watching in the night.
So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.
Submitted by Austin D. Hill
Adapted from Psalm 90:1-4
Leader: Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
All: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Leader: You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”
All: For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
Submitted by Dustin Ray
Adapted from Ephesians 2:19-22
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,
Being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
In whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Submitted by Austin D. Hill (WEB, adapted for liturgical use)
Adapted from Revelation 21:3-6
Leader: Look! God’s dwelling is here with humankind. God dwells with us, and we are God’s people.
People: God will wipe away every tear from our eyes. Death will be no more.
There will be no more mourning, crying, or pain anymore.
Leader The One on the throne proclaims, “Look, I’m making all things new!”
People: Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
All: Let us worship God!
Submitted by Chip Hardwick
Adapted from Revelation 21:1-4
Pastor: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
All: And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Pastor: And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
All: He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Submitted by Dustin Ray