How to Praise God with All Your Heart
The enemy wants our praise, and that comes in the form of dragging us away from our First Love and enticing us to worry, fear, and obsess.
The enemy wants our praise, and that comes in the form of dragging us away from our First Love and enticing us to worry, fear, and obsess.
What I was allowed to hear, I believe, was Heaven worshipping.
The Lord delights in your offerings to Him and desires to give you a secure place to minister before Him.
As we rush through life randomly selecting what to listen to and what to ignore, we need to listen for the fanfare God sends our way.
The Lord we serve makes sure it is the good we have done in His name that lives on after us, indeed, that lives forever.
It is when we truly experience His beauty that awe and wonder begin to manifest and open the door to His glory.
Remember where your springs are found—in the Kingdom of God!
God meets us at the altar of prayer when our hearts become the altar of prayer.
As soldiers of the Light, we must be sure that we do not unconsciously form any alliances with the Darkness.
When you learn to live life on two levels, you’re able to carry on a continual conversation with the Lord.
As you praise God, your faith will grow stronger, and peace will overwhelm you.
When the worship started, a miracle took place.
The Zeal of the Father’s House is a cleansing force, a purifying process of revolutionized thinking and corrected behavior.
We congregate because the Lord has called us together. The Bible is clear: “Do not stop congregating!”
When we take time to worship God, we are saying we value Him above our hobbies, entertainment, friends, spouses, children, etc.
Putting on praise when encountering a spirit of heaviness may be uncomfortable because it’s not something you are used to doing.
The music of worship must be filled with the truth of God and with the testimonies of God’s people.
His music took us and started our feet to move and our hearts to sway. Like a child in the sun, we were dancing again.
Today our musical, spiritual warriors stand idle, for we no longer call them to the battle.
Every emotion that emanates from the human heart is represented in the Book of Psalms.
The heart of the True Worshiper is a fiery heart burning with a passion for God and for His Kingdom.
There are those God is commissioning to go forth, clothed in the full armor of God, to dance and rejoice before the King!
Eternity won’t be long enough to praise God for all His goodness in our lives.
If we are not careful, we will spend more time applying scripture to contemporary living than we do telling the Gospel story.
God’s plan for one’s success does not come at the expense of another.
I watched and praised God for this young man who wasn’t afraid to worship Him.
“Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—The saints’ and angels’ song.”
Loving children minister to loving parents like no one else can.
As I cried, grieved, prayed, and journaled, the lightbulb went on!
Public worship can suffer if songs are used that do not do the work of worship.
The holy purpose is to minister to the Lord, giving Him “the glory due His name.
Music is the language of emotions and True Worship requires emotion.
We need to stop fighting the enemy on his own terms and his own turf.
We may not be aware of His presence but, just as we would miss air, we would be desperate if His omnipresence were suddenly taken from us.
We may not be aware of His presence but, just as we would miss air, we would be desperate if His omnipresence were suddenly taken from us.
Regardless of the musical language of a certain people in a particular place and a given time, the music God is listening for is full of truth, revelation, and mystery.
Jesus unites worshipers across any line Satan or man himself can draw.
We may not be aware of His presence but, just as we would miss air, we would be desperate if His omnipresence were suddenly taken from us.
The challenge of worshiping in the truth of the Kingdom while living in the culture of the world has faced every church in every land in every age of Christianity.
God is coming in answer to the praises and declarations of His Church!
While the Lord is dealing with each individual worshiper, He is also moving the congregation forward in faith.
In corporate settings, the unity of all the believers singing the same truth at the same time with the same emotion is a vital force in the life of the church.
Worship invokes the presence of God upon the circumstances and situations that seem to be way out of control.
There is too much at stake in today’s service to be coy with our praise and selfish with our worship.
We were created to co-labor with God to advance his kingdom.
We have put praise and worship on the clock and we have lost the sense of tarrying, of waiting on the Lord. No wonder our strength is not often renewed.
The rhythm of His heartbeat is getting louder.
The idea is simple enough: when we worship in Spirit and Truth, we provide the Lord with an earthly place to do His work.
When we enter the realm of the splendor of His majesty and sovereignty, miracles, signs, and wonders happen.
This book opens our eyes to the enduring relevance of songs that have been sung for hundreds of years.
How transforming it would be if our worship leaders and rank and file worshipers would see themselves as priests unto the Lord, a Kingdom of Priests.
I love my indwelling God who draws me toward thoughts of Him alone!
We see the passionate heart of David as he actively pursued the presence of God just as Jesus did the presence of His Father.
God is taking the Word of the Lord from the plowman and engraving it upon the hearts of His people with an intensified speed.
This was the glory of God, the weight of the significance of His Dwelling Place given to the Israelites as the sign of their Covenant with God.
True effectiveness as a believer in the Lord Jesus begins and is maintained in the Secret Place of prayer.
Signs and wonders, gifts and revelations, anointings, and deliverances don’t slide very easily into modernistic slots.
As we worship, that human spirit within connects with the Spirit of God and we cry “Abba, Father!”
Nowhere in the Bible does it say we only need to worship God when we feel like it.
If we want to effectively fight in this war that we’re in, the battlefields must change to match the warfare that we’re engaged in.
If there is no personal spiritual relationship between the pastor and music pastor, there is little hope for a public display of God’s power on the platform.
When the church has gathered to worship there are disciplines involved that do not exist in private prayer.
When the enemy begins to lie to you and tries to get you to agree with his ridiculous thinking, cut him off at the pass with the power of praise.
There is only One Path to You. You have paved the way with Your own blood. Who can comprehend it?
I will dance for You my God and my King. I will praise You all of my days in all of my ways.
I know it’s all part of the human condition, but we don’t ever want it to be part of OUR condition!
It’s amazing how much we can trust the Lord…
especially when we are put in the position where we have to totally depend on Him.
I have observed a downsizing movement. Large churches…once led by a host of singers and a well-chosen, well-prepared
instrumental ensemble are now being led in worship by a mere 5 or 6 people. Has the Tent of David fallen down?
When it comes down to it, God is more invested in writing than any of us are.
Do not shrink back from the Jesus Story. It is the power of God unto salvation for all who believe.
For all time, the test of our love for Jesus is our love for and care for His church—His sheep.
As they pulled for land, a figure waved to them from the beach. At that distance, they did not recognize the Lord.
Thomas fell at Jesus’ feet, clinging to Him in worship. “My Lord and my God!”
There was no singing, no mirth, only fear and faith doing an uncomfortable dance.
She rushed forward and fell at His feet embracing Him in complete submission and joy.
The tomb was empty but their hearts were not yet full.
Dead though He was, His words seemed still alive.
Heaven wept. Hell rejoiced.
There was no indication that these crucifixions would be memorable in any way.
Those who are in Covenant with Me are about to experience a realm of My Glory that they have never experienced before.
Once more Pilate tried to shift that duty to the Jews and once again they refused the honor.
At the word, “truth,” Pilate groaned, turned, and retreated into his residence.
Through the stone walls, Peter and John could hear the interrogation of Jesus by the Sanhedrin.
Jesus identified Himself with the most ancient name of God that could be uttered, “I am He.”
We must be a holy counter culture proclaiming Jesus, unified from the heart out.
Are you ready for the Great Wedding Day? Is your lamp filled with oil and lit? Are you watching for His soon return?
It was a simple process; He called them and they obeyed.
Jesus, the name above every other name, must be uttered in faith as we praise, worship, and pray.
God was at work in the earth, undoing the work of Satan.
They would abandon the One who had found them and desert the One who had brought them to the gates of heaven.
The ministry of the Holy Spirit is all about revealing Jesus to believers.
Just as the leaders of Israel opposed Jesus, they would likewise oppose His disciples.
They would have to learn to love those who hated them, just as they saw Jesus doing.
Obedience to the commands of Christ connects us to like-minded, like-hearted brothers and sisters.
Bearing fruit was both the point and the test.
Isn’t it wild how God can use such a simple word to bring revelation, identity, and freedom?
They weren’t quite at the point of rejoicing yet but hope was building in their hearts.
This system of competition, rivalry, and classification inevitably put us on ladders, where we rank everything from our gender to our attractiveness to our shoe choice.
Far from being helpless, the followers of Jesus—beginning with those eleven common men—would be mighty–divinely–assisted.
These simple men would do greater works than Jesus? How could such a thing be?