I have found myself approaching Sunday with a certain amount of apprehension. The cause of this apprehension is due to the fact that I am leading worship. This feeling is normal for me. As I start to pray and choose songs I realise that all I have in front of me is a list of songs. As songs, I like some more than others but always come to the conclusion that there is incredible potential there in front of me.

It seems that when we approach corporate worship we have an opportunity to bring to God so many things. Our corporate prayers, our thanks, our desires, our dreams, our hurts and praise.

So this coming Sunday, what will you bring? How can we encourage each other? What will our praise to God be?

Some quotes on worship to provoke you…..

Marianne H. Micks
“When we worship together as a community of living Christians, we do not worship
alone, we worship ‘with all the company of heaven.’”

Charles H. Spurgeon
“God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy
exultation.”

Max Lucado
“Worship is the thank you that can’t be silenced”

Michael Catt
“If we are going to worship in Spirit, we must develop a spirit of worship.”

Graham Kendrick
“Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to
discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our
richest and most wholesome experience in life.”

Every so often i get a real feeling that something needs to happen during the time at the beginning of the service that is usually taken up with corporate singing. This Sunday is one of those days! This coming Sunday i am giving some time over to prayer, and i hope in no small measure.

There are two areas where i would like us to focus:
first is simply giving thanks and praise to God,
second to to pray for us to be moving in perfect step with God. Not just in a Sunday morning but a wider and bigger view than that. This will probably be different things to different people; an obvious move of God’s power (again this will mean different things to different people), healing, salvation, our involvement within our community or a building for RCC to dedicate to Rochford.

Whatever this may me be, the goal is for us to seek God, to see Him moving in his Kingdom and for us to be in step with Him.

The challenge therefore is for you to bring somthing on Sunday. This could be prayer or bible verse that can help focus our prayers. Ultimatly though I am excited about the possiblility of our worship being transformed and our focus on God being firm.