For all the years that I have been involved in worship music, I have to confess that too often, not always but way too often, I was disconnected from Gods Spirit when I played on Sundays. What a shame.
Worship leaders and worship bands have a huge responsibility! Huge! When music is brought into the sanctuary by those who have prepared themselves for worship, God inhabits their music! Music opens the soul to the message. Lives change because the barriers have been broken allowing the Holy Spirit to enter a persons life. Combine prayer with music and stand back! God is going to enter the house!
Colossians 3:16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
It starts with each individual who has volunteered to stand up before a congregation to bring the Spirit of God through music to the congregation. That is why preparation is so important!
Jim Cymbala tells a story of a Sunday when a man came to his church with a loaded gun. He came to hurt or kill someone and then the Brooklyn Tabernacle choir started the worship service. Their praises and songs contained the Spirit of God because they were worshipping in Spirit and in Truth. The man who came with hate in his heart was broken and brought the gun to the alter and threw it down. He came with hate and left changed with hope!
Unfortunately true worship has all but disappeared from many churches today. No wonder people can easily find 1000 excuses why not to attend church.
When the Holy Spirit is released by true worship and God comes into the sanctuary and you experience the living God, there is nothing that could keep you from getting to church on Sunday no matter when the service is held. Let me tell all of you who follow this blog, I'm getting charged up! Lifted up! Energized! Refreshed! And you can too. Let true worship begin now!
Keep lifting your special person in prayer! Ask God to fill your life with His wisdom and Spirit!
See you soon! Love, pastor kent
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