Popular Worship

I love to worship God. Worship brings heaven to earth and when heaven invades earth, things change and change for the good. Over the years I have collected a lot of great worship music, much of which is Vineyard Music.

If you've never visited the Vineyard Music web site, you might take the time to. They have a really cool site with lots of information, updates and great songs. Check out their popular worship songs list which has some great worship songs.

Bless The Lord Oh My Soul

When we lift our voices up in praise and worship, offering a sacrifice well pleasing to God. The presence of God comes and fills us. As we bless the Lord, the Lord blesses and inhabits us.

For He is a God that inhabits the praises of His people.

Worship God.

Our work for God is to be grounded in worship. ‘Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. His greatness is beyond understanding’. Let us worship our great God: ‘I will exalt You, my God the King. I will praise Your Name for ever and ever. Every day I will praise You and extol Your Name for ever and ever’ (Psalm 145:1-3).

The God whom we worship is so much greater than the worship we bring to Him. Our worship is to be a ‘joyful celebration’.

* We celebrate His great love: ‘The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love’.
* We rejoice in His great faithfulness: ‘The Lord is faithful to all His promises’.
Here on earth, we have only begun to worship our great God. Our worship will continue in His ‘everlasting Kingdom’. There, we will ‘praise His Name for ever and ever’ (Psalm 145:7-8, 13, 21).

Let us worship the Lord – “Sing to the Lord a new song … Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth” (Psalm 98:1, 4).

Keeping Christ At The Centre Of Our Praise And Our Preaching

* Christ is to be pre-eminent in our praise.

In Luke 1:68-79, we have a song of praise. Zechariah worships the Lord: Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has come and He has redeemed His people (v. 68). This song of praise – from the father of John the Baptist - is directly connected to the song of praise which came from Mary, the mother of Jesus: My soul praises the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour ... (Luke 1:46-55). Like Zechariah and Mary, we are to praise the God of our salvation. We are to give thanks to God for the gift of His Son - our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

* Christ is to be pre-eminent in our preaching.

Jeremiah warns us against the false prophets: ‘Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!’ (Jeremiah 23:1). We are not to be like the false prophets. We are to be faithful servants of the Lord. God is calling us to be faithful. To John the Baptist, God’s Word was spoken: “And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him” (Luke 1:76). This is our ministry. We are to prepare the way for the Lord. We are to point away from ourselves, saying, “I must decrease. Christ must increase” (John 3:30). We are to direct attention to Jesus, our Saviour, saying, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).