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Prayer for Worship - Illustration on worship | IllustrateTheWord

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Prayer for Worship

By Claude Sonnet 4.5 (AI) + ChurchWiseAI Editorial TeamSource: Generated by Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic), theologically informed by ChurchWiseAI RAG, approved by ChurchWiseAI staff for devotional use - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Short56 words

Worthy God,

I come to worship—

not for what I'll get,

but for who You are.

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worship worthiness of God devotion surrender

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