Leaders, Ministry Leadership, Worship Leading
It Depends On God
#DependOnGod As a worship leader, are you letting the mistakes be your stop sign from moving forward? God is not interested in your mistakes. He is more interested in your dependance upon Him; in being your true Shepherd.
#WorshipBeginsWithGod Life as a Christian, worshiper and leader of a church, ministry, school, business or home is hard. Let’s face it, we are in the trenches, but we are not without our Shepherd. We don’t live on some mountain top, nor in a gated community on high. We live in the valleys, because this is where the real world lives.
Christ has called you and I to go and love them. Unfortunately, when we fall into trials our prayers turn into: “Why God?” But if we are to perform reverse engineering in our prayers by seeing the bigger picture and greater outcome first, our prayers will turn into “Now God!”
Great work is not without it’s great suffering. Paul reminds Timothy of this very same perspective in 2 Tim 1.11-12: “for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher. For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.”
The work of God is greater in you, instead of you trying to do it by yourself. No high-rise level living here, yet Paul does offer a grander view. This is why everything depends on God, and God desires are every dependance upon Him. Never, never give up. You are to know that He is not ashamed of you.
He formed you and made you for Himself – the likeness of Christ Psalm 139 Eph. 4.24. He knows our frame, he knows every thought and knows every weakness. Even in our times when things are slow, broken, fallen or missing, God is at work the most. Why? because He is forming you into his likeness. This is why we can entrust everything to God because he holds everything in His hands. He is truly our Shepherd.
The hardest part: patience. Patience and faith are the two sons of thunder. We hear, see and feel the rumble, but we also experience the power and persistency of God. The Holy Spirit comes along beside us to empower us to His Word. Proverbs 5.3 says “may our lips preserve knowledge.” Then if the Word of God is to be upon our lips, so is He residing and speaking to our hearts. Are we listening and doing? Doing is another hard part.
We want things to be easy with little effort, yet with great reward. But how can the Lord rightfully reward those who are half-haeartly seeking Him, or not seek Him at all? “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” Heb 11.16 Dependance on God means to have a heart that earnestly seeks Him. When we come before the Lord in worship, we need to first allow the Lord to begin His worship in us.
Once, my mentor said to me: “Don’t let the fear have power over you, you give it to God and you will have power over it!” “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” 2 Tim 1.7 This is why I’ve come to the conclusion for us as worship leaders and teams: Make worship joyful in everything you do.
Your craft, your art, your trade, your service. Don’t be a slave to your own mistakes; or comparing your mistakes to others. Be in the control of Christ. Walk in the humility of Christ. Keep your head down, working hard for the upward call in Christ. He is your true Shepherd to lead you. Let Mary worry about the other parts; be Mary, to choose the better part, which is found in Jesus (Luke10.42).
When we believe that God takes our struggles and weaknesses and turn them into His glory, we love, character and miracles of what our Shepherd can do. Be excellent in what you do and worship in the glory of God. Don’t be held back by the standards of man or yourself. Step forward into the dependency of God. Lead and make music in the joy of the Lord. If He is the one we truly and fully depend on as our Shepherd, we should have no other want. (Psalm 23.1) @branondempsey @worshiptt
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