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What’s Your Plan? (Show #2)
Planning Songs or Planning Worship? #WhatsYourPlan (Video Below)
#WorshipDevotional When it comes to your worship services, how do you begin the planning process? Do you go by a list of songs, or find your self playing musical chairs in rotating the same sets? It’s one thing to plan for a service, it’s another thing to have your planning inspired by the Word of God and the expectation of giving Him worship. If we are to worship in Spirit and in truth, we must be in the Spirit of Christ as we meditate on His Word of truth.
This is critical in the planning of worship services by songs, art, element, prayers and spoken word. Even more so, I have found that the true planning of worship is receiving the breath and work of the Holy Spirit in what God is doing through your church.
Are you just planning songs, or planning worship? [ctt template=”10″ link=”4eyg4″ via=”no” ]Knowing what to plan, begins by learning His plan – the Holy plan of His Word.[/ctt] “study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.” – John Knox Study God’s word and show yourself approved (2Tim 2.15). Does this mean we go and get a seminary degree?
Become a Biblical scholar? Memorize a bunch of Hebrew and Greek terms? These are all great tools for learning and guidance, but what you need is found as close as your finger tips. It is the Bible, are you first spending time in your word before anything else? We are surrounded by uncountable streams of teaching.
Even in the Church, doctrines and traditions of men have been a problem since the writing of the New Testament. We find confusing terms and questionable theology even in the songs we sing, the words we read and the speech we hear. How are we to discern inherent and sound Biblical teaching?
The apostle Paul encourages Timothy and Titus to oppose false teaching and teachers, by revealing the truth of God’s Word. It can be confusing: what you heard that was either loosely memorized by men, or sincerely spoken straight from Scripture.
When was the last time you heard or experienced something and sought God’s Word for the real answer? Paul reminds us to hold on to what we have learned and keep it “as the pattern of sound teaching,” (2 Tim. 2.13). We keep a good pattern of teaching by continually resorting to the Scriptures. Just follow the voice of 2 Tim. 3.15, God says that His Word is able to “make us wise for salvation through faith in Jesus Christ” as it also helps us to become “thoroughly equipped for every good work,” (2 Tim. 3.15,17).
All Scripture is God-breathed and useful for every good work, especially in the training of righteousness. The key of knowing Scripture and rightly dividing it for every good work in our ministries is to discover the display of God’s nature. As we rightly learn what the Bible is saying, we can see the great work God is doing among us.
Applying Scripture to our experiences and allowing His word to speak into our hearts as we minister to people. Isn’t this one of the roles as a worshiper? By understanding His nature is to know His character: the love of God and to exalt His worth.
To know His worth is to explore, discern and worship the Triune God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). This knowledge, which only comes from God, frees us from redundant worship. Our vision is then lifted beyond our experiences as we fix our eyes on the One who desires us to know Him intimately.
As you worship according to the Word, you dispel lukewarm, shallow and vain traditions taught by men. The worship of the Scriptures truly sets the prisoner of falsehood free. For God is not the Author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33). [ctt template=”10″ link=”2WJD7″ via=”no” ]Pray to plan songs, plan to pray worship.[/ctt]
Allow the Lord to have your plans (Prov 19.21), let them be His. The worship He desires is not man made, it is man given. His plans are for our good and for His glory, to give you and others a hope and a future (Jer 29.11). Lead worship that starts with His plans.
Reflection: What difference and benefit would the study of the Scriptures make in your planning of worship, versus the study of your recent set-list and song history? Are you challenging your church and worship team to “make wise” the knowledge of the Bible? What tangible steps can you take to allow the Scriptures to unlock and free your worship to God.
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