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Our Songs, With Joy, For Him

Posted in life, WONDER, tagged #corporateworship, #longingtosingtogether, #missingcongregationalsinging, #oursongswithjoyforhim, #worship on April 7, 2020| 2 Comments »

When COVID 19 is conquered …

Our

Our silence will end in song.
Our songs sung in unison.
Our songs sung to Him.

Songs

I want to sing songs.
I want to sing songs of praise.
I want to sing songs of worship.

With

I want to sing with people.
I want to sing songs with the people.
I want to sing songs with His people.

Joy

I want to sing songs of joy.
I want to sing songs with joy.
I want to sing songs of joy.

For

I want to sing songs for me.
I want to sing songs for us.
I want to sing songs to Him.

Him

Our songs, with joy, for Him …

when COVID 19 is conquered.

I love you, Lord
And I lift my voice
To worship You
Oh, my soul rejoice!
Take joy my King
In what You hear
Let it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear

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Want to go to Church?

Posted in Walking with God, WONDER, tagged #corporateworship, #sabbath, #thelordbewithyou, #wanttogotochurch, #worshipisrelationship on January 5, 2020| 1 Comment »

Sunday. Sabbath. Lord’s day. Day of rest.

Many words to indicate the traditional day of going to church, for the Christ-follower (of course not all participate in corporate worship on Sunday).

Each week the calendar rolls around to this day, this time to gather with others to pray, sing, share, give and receive the message that will encourage, challenge us, gird our loins, as it were, for the week to come. It is opportunity, freedom that is not available to all in our world. We are blessed to gather together to worship our Savior, our Redeemer.

“Do you feel like going to church tomorrow? today?”

We ask this of each other, of our loved ones and friends, of ourselves as we lay our heads down to sleep the eve of the Sabbath. The question can roll off our tongues like oil, not pausing in our cranial space for consideration, before shrugging and deciding, no, not this week … I’m too … tired, busy … peopled-out.

“Do you feel like going to church tomorrow? Peterson suggests that is the wrong question. “If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship … Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.” Eugene Peterson

Yes … yes I am going to church today … I am working on my side of my relationship with God … that is what I have control of today.

The Lord be with you …

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