Where ability meets accountability, ambition becomes vision and talent is saturated with His anointing.
Our main focus is to always - without waiver - yield to the Holy Spirit. Being a vessel for God to use, and overflowing with His anointing is our main driver. We are all talented, passionate musicians and singers ready to give our “little†so God can become more, and more.
Knowing and understanding that bringing God our praise and worship is more that just a 30 minute time filler during a service.. it should come from a heart of intimate love and adoration towards a mighty, all sufficient and all knowing God who deserves that, and so much more! He expects us to glorify His Name, to lift His Name up in our praises, and to be adored and exalted with our songs of worship.
Psalm 150:1-6 - “Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!â€
Has there been any greater writer of songs (or psalms) of praise than David? I don’t believe so. The Psalms shows us that worshipping God in music is praising God. Notice that David includes various musical instruments in his worship music. David praises God in song for His creation (mighty heavens), for His mighty deeds, and His “excellent greatness†and this praise or worship music includes dancing! David really knew how to praise God. He included trumpets, tambourines, cymbals, harps, lutes, and we can assume more than this and a great chorus of voices, no doubt. So David believes, rightly so, that praise and worship of God includes music and yes, even dancing.
John 4:23 - “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.â€
Worship without truth does nothing for us and God rejects worship that is not done in truth. Truth without the Spirit is a manmade worship so true worship must be in the Spirit and in truth. God is seeking those who will worship Him in this manner. The hour has come and now is that time that we must worship God in spirit (or in the Holy Spirit) and in the truth (Jesus is the truth).
So, wherever you are in your development as a follower of Jesus, it is important to remember the central theme of worship. We love Him because He first loved us. Our service, our creativity, our passion is simply the response to the price that He paid when He died on the cross for our sins. We sing because we’ve been liberated from death and have been given a new life of hope and joy. So let us serve with gladness and thanksgiving the One who has redeemed us for Himself.
Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Psa 100:1-6 (NIV)
Our main focus is to always - without waiver - yield to the Holy Spirit. Being a vessel for God to use, and overflowing with His anointing is our main driver. We are all talented, passionate musicians and singers ready to give our “little†so God can become more, and more.
Knowing and understanding that bringing God our praise and worship is more that just a 30 minute time filler during a service.. it should come from a heart of intimate love and adoration towards a mighty, all sufficient and all knowing God who deserves that, and so much more! He expects us to glorify His Name, to lift His Name up in our praises, and to be adored and exalted with our songs of worship.
Has there been any greater writer of songs (or psalms) of praise than David? I don’t believe so. The Psalms shows us that worshipping God in music is praising God. Notice that David includes various musical instruments in his worship music. David praises God in song for His creation (mighty heavens), for His mighty deeds, and His “excellent greatness†and this praise or worship music includes dancing! David really knew how to praise God. He included trumpets, tambourines, cymbals, harps, lutes, and we can assume more than this and a great chorus of voices, no doubt. So David believes, rightly so, that praise and worship of God includes music and yes, even dancing.
John 4:23 - “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.â€
Worship without truth does nothing for us and God rejects worship that is not done in truth. Truth without the Spirit is a manmade worship so true worship must be in the Spirit and in truth. God is seeking those who will worship Him in this manner. The hour has come and now is that time that we must worship God in spirit (or in the Holy Spirit) and in the truth (Jesus is the truth).
So, wherever you are in your development as a follower of Jesus, it is important to remember the central theme of worship. We love Him because He first loved us. Our service, our creativity, our passion is simply the response to the price that He paid when He died on the cross for our sins. We sing because we’ve been liberated from death and have been given a new life of hope and joy. So let us serve with gladness and thanksgiving the One who has redeemed us for Himself.
Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Psa 100:1-6 (NIV)
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