Here’s today’s set list of music at the Awakening Service at FCC. This will be linked to The Worship Community.com blog where other worship bloggers post their setlists.
Here’s what we did:
Song of Hope
Sing Alleluia
You Never Let Go
The Power of Your Name (New Song for us by Lincoln Brewster)
Message: Forgotten Virtues: Honor
The Power of Your Name (during communion)
Let God Arise
The hardest time to obey and follow God closely are not during times of crisis but in times of calm, when little problems nag and the attitude of gratitude is absent.
God, thank You for everything! Help me to remember that all I am and all I have is from You. Amen.
Christianity means that change is possible. It is possible to become tender-hearted when once you were callous and insensitive. God is the deciding factor in making us what we should be. This frees us from fatalism that tells us change is impossible. His commands always come with freeing, life-changing truths. See Ephesians 4:32-5:2.
The Band at FCC has this ready for Sunday. I love it. But one piece of trivia that Greg told me was that the “wah wah wah” sound that comes in at 0:46 is a recording of the fetal heart monitor of Lincoln Brewster’s daughter.
“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.” Ephesians 1:17
Know God better. That’s probably the greatest need in the Church today.
We can always know God better. “Knowing about God” and “knowing God” are not the same as “knowing God well.”
Knowing God well means knowing what God is really like–how He thinks, works, and feels about YOU. It means having the eyes for the WORLD that God has. It means sharing God’s JOYS and His PAIN.
The “Lord’s Prayer” is actually the “Disciples’ prayer” because Jesus did not need to pray for forgiveness.
It’s truly a “model” prayer because he says this is HOW you should pray, not this is WHAT you should pray.
It contains 6 petitions. The first 3 focus on God; last 3 on human beings.
That’s interesting and surprising because God wants us to pray about concerns that focus on Him that He is perfectly capable of doing without our asking Him to do so. But God chooses to operate in response to our prayers.
How often do I/you focus on anything BUT these 6?
The purpose of time spent with God is to build a deeper personal relationship with Him. As we spend time with the Lord, we grow in love for Him and are transformed more and more into the image of Christ.
The people I know who have the most vibrant faith have built their lives around a consistent time spent with God.
A disciplined daily devotional life is a MUST for a growing Christian. You don’t build a love relationship by staying away from the other person.
I have never met a person who regrets the time set aside for a daily meeting with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 5:17–”Pray continually.” Huh? How do we do that?
It does not mean we are to do nothing BUT pray. It means that we live all of our day so conscious of God that we are actually, at one level or another, keeping company with God always.
It means making it a habit to talk to God about our everyday EXPERIENCES.
It also means sharing our FEELINGS with God. Feelings are spontaneous inner reactions to things we are experiencing in life. God wants to be in our feelings.
Here’s today’s set list of music at the Awakening Service at FCC. This will be linked to The Worship Community.com blog where other worship bloggers post their setlists.
Here’s what we did:
O Praise Him
I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever (We went with 2 “older but goody” songs that we haven’t done in a long time)
Bell Choir (We have a new bell choir and they did Amazing Grace and Holy, Holy, Holy)
Message: FCC Values part 4 “Found People Find People”
God of the City
I Will Rise (during communion)
Happy Day
