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What is worship?

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http://partners.kingdomfaith.com Chad Marriott Posted on: Thursday 15 December 2011 As musical directors at Kingdom Faith Church, Chad Marriott and Pete Norman are passionate about seeing people meet with God through worship and work tirelessly to train up and release others in their musical gifting. This is a transcript of a recent interview with them on the subject of “What is worship?” What is worship? Chad : I would say that worship is what you give out or your heart. It’s your heart expression towards God and that expression is expressed through your lifestyle and basically your relationship with God. And of course we know that people tend to think that worship is just the music side of things, but that is just one of many expressions. So if I was to put it down to one thing I would say worship is your own heart expression towards God. Pete: I would second that and say worship is your lifestyle. Worship is a lifestyle that honours God, in one part, a
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Good Day   Worshippers  A Worship Pastor once said this story at a worship seminar we did. A 6year old boy first week in primary school brought home a picture he drew in art class and walked up to the father and said “Daddy look at what I drew and he handed him a piece of paper with a picture drawn on it like this The father was so excited and happy and he asked “did you draw this” the son with a great smile and happiness replied it is me and this is my first in school. The father took the drawing was proud of the son and was happy though this wasn’t a good drawing but he was proud and happy for his son and he took the drawing and placed it on the fridge. Everyone who came into their house was shown the picture by the father and he continually boasted of his son. “ But we are all as an unclean  thing,  and all our righteousnesses  are  as filthy rags”, Isaiah  64:6 and I also read a book one of the paragraph headings was our worship is like filthy rag

The Priesthood of A Worshipper Part 2

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Caution! The words in this article may offend some people, please take no offence it’s what the bible says and we are just interpreters. Looking at the lives of Old Testament who were sold out, lived their whole lives separated and living their live for the call of God. As you read this, God called you a priest whether you are a worship leader, singer or you don’t have the ability to sing but you are good at SMI (shower ministries international) or may term yourself an ordinary Christian. We are all called to worship, so we are all Priests after the order of the Lion of Judah . “Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads” Ezekiel 44:20 As you read this verse many will tell you that “God looks at the heart”, but reading these chapters of Ezekiel 44, worship is more than just having the  heart. The heart matters a lot in addition to the heart there is also presentation, there is dressing, consecration, our daily

The Priesthood of A Worshipper

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L ooking at the lives of Old Testament who were sold out, lived their whole lives separated and living their live for the call of God. As you read this, God called you a priest whether you are a worship leader, singer or you don’t have the ability to sing but you are good at SMI (shower ministries international) or may term yourself an ordinary Christian. We are all called to worship, so we are all Priests after the order of the Lion of Judah . Caution! The topics and views in this article may offend some people, please take no offence it’s what the bible says and we are just interpreters. Email me what you think about some of these topics. So we are going to be looking at how priest lived their lives, what stipulations did they have to lie by, also their workings and this would give us place for us to understand what God wants our lives to be lived as. We are looking in the book of Ezekiel 44 were God is restoring the priestly order of its position as thy are coming from exi

All Night of Worship

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Good Day Worshippers  All Invited to an All Night of Worship Come and Worship With Us on the 11. 11. 2011 a strong day that we need to Lift Up God on such a day that will never come again these next 100yrs. Venue is His Presence Ministries Harare Zimbabwe  Worship Him in The Beauty of His Holiness 

7 Reasons Why We Should Worship God

Good Day Worshippers We have spoken about the reasons why we shouldn’t worship now lets focus on the thousand reasons why we should worship God. We were created to worship and bless the name of the Lord. All of us we worship God for different reasons, think about all the reasons why your family, church, organization or yourself the reason why you worship God. Looking into the manual of life, the bible what are some of the reasons the bible says we should worship God.   1.       Worship God because He is God   “ Thou shalt have no other gods before me” Exodus 20:3. The I AM THAT I AM, can’t we just worship Him for no reason. Do we have a reason to love our parents but the fact that they are our parents, they may be rich as Bill Gates or poor as a church mouse but we love them inspite of anything they are our parents. So can’t we just worship and love God for the simple fact that He is God. 2.       He created us Isaiah 43:21

7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Worship

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Good Day Worshippers  Our lives we were created to worship and we have learnt for some people to worship automatically, some to be cranked up some have to be asked to worship otherwise we wouldn’t even think of lifting up out lives for worship. I have said the simplest definition of worship is giving God glory and nowadays people worship because of crazy reasons. Ask this question as see the reasons why they worship and you will see how people hearts have been conditioned either to the good or bad. The first mention of the worship in Genesis 22 its meaning was not a song or anything but spoke of OBEDIENCE, SUBMISSION AND FAITH. Think upon this as we go through this article. So let’s talk of the 7 Reasons why we should worship and remember it’s not just the heart but the attitude and why we are doing it hey Breakthrough, lots of people worship because they are looking for breakthrough. Their reason is let me worship so that God may get me that breakthro

Reason Why We Worship

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People never think of this Why was I created? We don’t know and we do not care to understand why. The bible tells us the reasons why we were created and how we were created by God. Genesis tells us that we “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion”. Gen 1:28 but in the bible do we not find any other purpose than worship which is a command from God wished it had been made part of the 10 Commandments. “The people which I formed (to form, fashioned, framed) for myself, that they might set forth (to count, recount, relate, show forth, declare, herald) my praise”, Isaiah 43:21. We were created to praise the Lord, God fashioned and made mankind to worship not because He is self seeking, self conceited or egotistic God who has a low self esteem. Think of it then and ask yourself why does God require our worship? When Lucifer was cast down from heaven he was the chief worship leader in hea

What Worship Is and Isn’t

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This week’s post is based on a song sung by Travis Greene on his album “Stretching Out” called “All the Glory” for days I listened to no other song only this specific song. I know it the song and also the lyrics they explained a lot of things about worship and I know it will reveal a lot to you as well, study them and I know you will get learn truth about Worship as well. Verse 1 These hands were made to stretch for you This heart you gave me is in love with you My mouth was made to sing for you So I am going to sing to you a new song These feet were made to chase after you This mind you gave me is in awe in you My life was made to live for you So I will live for you Vamp My worship is pure it belongs to you Lord You are the One I adore Your love is to die for So I will worship Chorus With my hands lifted Eye to the sky And my mouth shouting loud Open up wide Verse 2 These ears were made to hear yr voice Freewill you gave me but

Prepared to Meet Him, Be Prepared to Worship

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Prepared to Meet Him, Be Prepared to Worship “Success is when opportunity meets preparedness”, I have realized this is true for worship as well, those that meet with God are the prepared ones. During the time of the exodus of the Israelites in wilderness every time they were told by Moses that God was coming to meet with them, they prepared themselves in Exodus 19:10-11 “And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments , and be ready against the third day; for the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai”. The bible uses the word “sanctify” which means appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, holy keep, prepare, proclaim and purify. Those that meet the Maker are the prepared or sanctified ones, some will also say there is grace but when you think about it, when we live our lives in sin and we then expect grace to kick in the last minute because

An Old Story About Worship

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There was a child in a certain country and he got born again and with time God’s call grew so strong upon this now 14 year old about worship. He had an encounter with Jesus and the words that Jesus kept repeating to this young man were about worship, worship me’ Jesus said His words to the young man were all about worship. In the morning he started the biggest search of his life, he started with his school teacher, school dean, parents and even scheduled a meeting with the pastor on the weekend. At the end of it all he was not satisfied and one day sitting in the library he found an old brown tattered book at the back of the shelf and he started too read the book which started on page 14 and started to talk about words that are used in worship such a hallelujah, amen, maranatha, hosanna. When I found the story I just knew I had to share what that book spoke about and here it goes, it explained it word in detail and its origins. Hallelujah Is a worship expression which means “P