Leaders, Worship Leading, Worship Planning
What Is Your Heart Telling You? (Show #80)
#Multiplied (Video Below)
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Song or Message?The message of the song has more impact than you realize. It less to do with you and more about God and His people.You may think that song didn’t have that certain factor you were looking for, but it may have been everything God needed to make a lasting impact and to give Him glory.After the service, do you feel like you could’ve done better in that moment – maybe there was another song, or that one tune didn’t go so well?#Psalm28.7 says: “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.
My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.”Choose songs that speak most to your church, and pick songs that your church can easily sing back. Keep them simple and you keep the worship simple and focused.
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Worship is simple. Childlike, not complicated. Sometimes I still get sidetracked. I wonder if the words came across well, if what I said was from the heart, if what I played was really natural. Was the moment real? You can enter a moment of worship, but you can’t impose one.Like you, I’ve seen many worship leaders and teams kick themselves after the service. It’s not about what you do, but it’s about God doing it through you. Otherwise, the worship had all of our fingerprints on the moment, when the moment originally belongs to God.Worship is for God. It’s not for us to complain or question.
How are you choosing the right songs?
When we do truly step outside the picture and let God seize the moment, incredible things happen. There’s no forcing, and there’s no pulling. There’s no ego, drama or misunderstanding. When we dismiss these unwanted items from the platform, we invite God to take center stage.Learn to choose the right songs by knowing rightly the relationships around you. When we know the life of the church, we begin to hear and know the songs of the heart.Also, when you pick those songs, are you praying over the people or to concerned about the band getting it right?Songs are important from the heart because they are sung prayers of the soul.
The words mean something to people. They mean something to God.If this is true, then I am to be less concerned with how I lead and more concerned about the words I sing. More importantly, am I singing them?Worship is for God, it’s His way.From a leading standpoint, when the service is in motion, you may not realize how effective God is using those words.
At the same time, worship is not forced, it’s not impatient and it doesn’t look at its watch.The Lord calls you and I to be in deep fellowship with Him, as we sing the songs of the Church.
Better to be in the moment with God, than trying to force a moment from God. The service rolls better and we walk away better. Don’t get hung up on the details before, during or after the service.Think about the people God called you to minister. What about their impact during the service: what God said to them, how he moved through their hearts, the messages of songs He was singing.”Is anyone among you in trouble?
Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise.” #James1.5 There is more going on in the service than just the music #Multiplied
Be in every moment lean into what God is doing and watch those moments become the most worshipful that you’ve ever imagined. His song is always with us, we are never without His presence.“He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in Him.” #Psalm40.3Before you begin the next service: Are you able to truly walk away from the service securely, knowing that you can be in the moment? God calls us to lead the service well by songs from the heart, as we let the worship begin with Him.What is your heart really telling you?
Recap:
It’s not your heart alone that’s telling you, it’s the Lord singing into your heart.Choose songs that speak most to your church, and pick songs that your church can easily sing back. Keep them simple and you keep the worship simple and focused. Do you hear His song; how are you singing it back to Him? #Multiplied
Reflection:
As a worship leader, think back on the last service you led. Did you start well? Did you end well? Had you adequately prepared – musically and spiritually? What can you do differently in preparation for the next time you lead?“May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.” #Psalm19.14@BranonDempsey @worshiptt
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