I once heard someone say that “during our life on earth, we are walking each other home into an eternal life and the presence of God.”
During our earthly life and journeys together, may we enter into times of worship which will act as a prelude to a heavenly time of praise and worship, 24/7, that will be pure and majestic.
Psalm 95 reads:
“Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.”
In this website as we have meditated around some devotionals, questions, answers and insights it will be good to take time to worship the Lord in listening to two or three worship songs or hymns around the start and middle of each month.
Consider Two Definitions of Worship
“Where God is at the centre of things, worship inevitably follows. Where there is no spirit of worship, there God has been dethroned and displaced.” Sinclair B Ferguson
William Barclay, a theologian, says:
“The true, the genuine worship is when man (and woman), through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man (and woman), speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.”
Ecclesiastical and Classical Worship
In times of change and uncertainty the old hymns remind us that nothing is new under the Sun.
In my latest Question and Answer we think about how the perfect garden of Eden changed for Adam and Eve. Then we think about how the Devil tempted Jesus. Finally some very helpful words from the Apostle Paul that through one man Adam we died yet through one man Jesus we can all live.
Enjoy this beautiful hymn that proclaims the love and majesty of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. To God be the Glory at the Royal Albert Hall London.
Contemporary
Enjoy this beautiful song that reminds us of the fall of Adam and Eve and the amazing love and saving grace of God to give us all a restored and new life in Christ. Genesis 3 song by Faithful Melodies
Modern
There are 150 Psalms in the Old Testament which allow us to Lament and Praise the Lord in all life circumstances. Enjoy this lovely song based on Psalm 37 by Karl Kohlhase
“The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”
Also listen to John Rutter’s and the Cambridge Singers’ beautiful rendition of it.
MOTIVATIONAL MOMENTS FROM CAROL HATTON
1. Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help and brave enough to ask for it – The Spiritual Abode.
2. Train your mind to see the good in everything – positivity is a choice! The happiness in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts – Carlo Goedschalk.
3. Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength – carrying two days at once. Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow – it empties today of its enjoyment – Corrie ten Boom.
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