I haven’t posted anything bicycling for a long time. So when I saw this I had to post it.
I don’t know who this guy is but WOW!
I don’t know if I wish I could do this or not.
enjoy it’s worth the five minutes.
3. Preparation
5. Excellence
6. A Lifestyle of Personal Worship
Todays Key:
Humility is one of the words we have completely mis-defined in the church. Humility is an understanding of my complete reliance on God. John Bevere says real humility is often confused as arrogance. Because real humility is complete confidence in God.
A friend of mine forwarded a quote she heard on the radio. “If your disapointed in yourself it means you were relying on yourself”. We’ve already talked about excellence and preparation. If you have done those things then walking in true humility is easier.
What are your thoughts?
Number eight is here.
Holy is The Lord (Chris Tomlin)
Holy (Brenton Brown)
Mighty to Save (Hillsong)
This is Our God (Chris Tomlin)
How Great is Our God (Chris Tomlin)
I just realized 3 of the 5 songs are Chris Tomlin songs. Oh well too late to change and not sure I would have changed my mind anyway 🙂
Have a great day in the house of God worshiping with His people.
3. Preparation
5. Excellence
Todays Key:
Your personal worship time is where it all begins. It is in these times God brings you into the fullness of your calling and speaks to you things too wonderful which you do not know.
Only when we go to the mountain do we have anything of real value to give to the congregation. We cannot take people to a place we have not been.
There are times when I have known exactly what God wants to say to His people. There are other times when He is silent and I have learned when this happens often He is saying “what do you have to offer me this wee”. Either way He is faithful and will meet me where I am and at the same time meet with His people. I am constantly amazed by Him.
Don’t ever allow busyness to take the place of personal worship.
Number seven is here.
In the midst of our 10 Keys for effective worship leaders I found this great post from Russ Hutto, Check it out.
As a worship leader it’s good to know WHO you’re creating worship spaces for. You have to view your “worship leading” as an act of worship through serving. You’re not up there to get famous or to worship mindlessly in front of a crowd. You are there to GIVE. Not to take, not to consume, but to give.
Be sure to click through and read the whole thing.
Know Your Music Culture (RussHutto.com)
Dear Friends,
We are praising the Lord for the extension granted to Frontier School of the Bible.
This has given time to consider and pursue different options. The new and final deadline
is April 30th. An invitation was given by the Department of Education to
meet at their office on April 22nd to discuss the situation. Please pray
that a solution can be agreed upon in that meeting. Another praise is that
the Alliance Defense Fund has agreed to represent us in this matter.
Thank you for your prayers.
3. Preparation
Todays Key:
This is a big one.
I often hear people saying things like “that’s good enough” or “It doesn’t have to be perfect”. We have to be very careful with that attitude. We must always remember we are representing the Kingdom and God always gives us His best. We should offer Him no less than our best.
Excellence does not mean perfection and means something different in every context. What is excellent for your church could be completely different at the church down the road.
It means representing the Kingdom as well as possible with what you have. Offering our best is an act of worship in itself. Everything we do should be well thought out, well prepared, so we will represent the God we serve in the best possible way.
This could go several different ways. I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences with this idea.
More reading here.
Number six is here.
3. Preparation
Todays Key:
What I’m talking about is obedience to God and His word.
In John 14:15 Jesus says if you love me you will keep my commandments. It’s a comment about fruit similar to saying if your healthy you will have a temperature of 98.6 degrees. John 14:15 is talking about obeying the the Word. those things that are known, written down.
In John 15:14 Jesus says you are my friends if you do whatever I command you. He is referring to hearing His voice. Do what I tell you to do.
If we are going to be effective in ministry of any kind we must have a lifestyle of obedience both to His Word and to His voice.
Blessings,
Number five is here.
Michael J. Fox is left speachless by Oprah’s Dr.
You can watch the whole clip here on Oprah’s web site.
The money quote’s come at 2:07 and 2:27. It’s only 3:43 check it out.
Todays key:
In almost 25 years of leading worship the complaint I hear most is “I hate it when I come to rehearsal and the leader isn’t ready!”.
What they are talking about is being prepared administratively which is huge but not the only preparation I’m talking about.
First administrative.
When our team arrives at rehearsal everything shoul be ready to go. Charts prepared, recordings available, what ever you need to rehearse. We should have already worked through the set and know where were going. What the transitions are who is starting each song, what happens in the song etc. etc.
Second spiritual.
When I started in sales I was told:
Sales is 90% people skills and 10% product knowledge and you have to know 100% of the 10%
The same is true with spiritual preparation It’s 90% spiritual and 10% practical and you have to know 100% of the 10%. Make sure you are prayed up, that you have heard from God about what He wants to do in the service. Pray for your team, the music, the transitions, the scripture, what you should say. Pray for the congregation, the pastor, the MC, MD, don’t leave anything to chance.
If you only have time to do one of these two things prepare spiritually but don’t make it a habit of only leaving time for number two.
Blessings,
Number four is here.
