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"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heaven out of Hell, and a Hell out of Heaven." - John Milton

4 PRINCIPLES OF WORSHIP AS IT RELATES TO FOCUS

PRINCIPLE #1: WORSHIP BEGINS WITH A PRE-DECISION
- Acts 16.22, 25
- Matthew 5.11-12, 45

PRINCIPLE #2: WORSHIP FOCUSES ON THE BIG PICTURE

"ZOOM OUT"
a) Worship takes our eyes off of our external circumstances by focusing on God
b) Worship is based on the character of God
- Hebrews 13.5-8

"Simplicity on the near-side of complexity and simplicity on the far-side of complexity." - Oliver Wendel Holmes on '2 Kinds of Simplicity'

Applied to Worship: Worship on the far-side of suffering has a greater density and purity. It is rising above your circumstances.

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernhard Shaw

PRINCIPLE #3: WORSHIP IS RE-FRAMING OUR CIRCUMSTANCES

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms... to choose one's attitude in any given circumstances." - Victor Frankl, Holocaust Survivor

PRINCIPLE #4: WORSHIP SETS THE STAGE FOR MIRACLES
- Acts 16.25-26
- Philippians 4.8

"You can't solve a problem on the level it was created." - Albert Einstein

Applied to Worship: Problems created on a human plane are solved on a supernatural level.

"Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." - Napoleon Hill

Applied to Worship: Worship is the way we stay positive in negative circumstances.

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"A premeditated, cognitive commitment, based on ultimate reality." - Mark Batterson on what Worship is.

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