Jesus Culture - One Thing Remains

forever JONES - Time To Believe

"Eyes On The Prize" Story Behind The Song

Sara Groves performs "Eyes On The Prize"

Jaqueline Adorando - YouTube.mp4

Lavish Praise

Revelation 7:12 ...Amen! Praise and Glory and Wisdom and Thanks and Honor and Power and Strength be to our God for ever and ever Amen!

The closer we draw to God's throne in our worship, the more we will begin to see that everything belongs to Jesus. There are days when we see only a little of Jesus because we are giving him only a measured portion in our worship. We think of the time in His presence as being a large slice of our day, while the rest is reserved for us.  But when we give Jesus all, we will step into His almighty presence and begin to see more of who He really is and what He has done. Jesus is so amazing!
Mary may have never thought about the cost of the perfume in her alabaster jar as she poured it out, but Judas knew the price exactly, and thought it was too much. All our praise, all our life, all our strength, all our plans, all our rewards,and all our hopes are not enough to lavish on Him. When we come to Jesus we can decide to give him his portion or we can decide to give him all. We can measure out a bit of the alabaster jar's perfume, or we can lavish all our praise on Him. Let's pass from earth into heaven with nothing left in our alabaster jars. He is so worthy of it all!!

♫ "Surrender" - Vineyard Music ♫

He Wants It All by Forever Jones

Beyond the veil...Worship without masks

John 4:23  The time is coming and already is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth...

There were many times in Jesus' ministry when he called out religious leaders as hypocrites. That word in the original language described someone who was like an actor. The actors of Jesus' day would use a large mask to cover their face during the play. Not only would the mask make it impossible for people to know who they were, but it also meant they were pretending to be someone they were not! When we go into God's presence in worship with a mask, we are pretending to be someone we know that we are not. This is not the truth...it is a lie! How can we worship the God of truth by pretending? Pretense is really a lie.  All the resources of heaven, the blood of Jesus, the light of His Word, the promises of God and the gift of the Holy Spirit become unusable to us when we are living in a make believe world. God is seeking worshipers who worship in truth. To enter in we must not only take off our masks, we must leave them behind forever. In the moment of truth when God's light shines on our true face He will take away our fear and receive us into His arms. What a wonderful Father we worship. What a gift Jesus has given us through the the cross. It is the gift of being accepted as who we really are.

Lincoln Brewster - Power Of Your Name (with Darlene Zschech)

Jesus Culture - Freedom Reigns

Shoeshine Pastor Story - Compassion Korea

Kleber Lucas - Tempo De Crescer ( DVD Comunhão - Para Aqueles Que Te Amam )

The unveiled face of worship

2 Corinthians 3:18  But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

When Moses came out of God's presence his face shone so much that the people around him asked him to put a veil over His face. They were afraid to even look at the reflection on his face of what He had seen in the Holy place with God. But when Moses went back into God's presence to worship and spend time with God, he took the veil off, so he could see God clearly and so God could see him. When we go into our secret place of worship with Jesus, whether we are alone or whether we are in the middle of a crowd, we also need to do what Moses did. Because we are afraid of what he will see sometimes what we put the veil on in God's presence (but He sees it all anyway!) Or, maybe we are afraid of what we will see when we look directly into the heart of Jesus. But we do not need to be afraid. We do not need to let our heart trick us into missing the deepest blessings which God has kept for us. In His secret place, where He is waiting is an intimacy of fellowship with Him without fear or pretense. It is in the throne room of our Father, where all our veils are to be put aside. There we can look into His face and he will change our hearts, our thoughts, and our souls to be more and more like His.

Sara Groves - Hello Lord

The Word - Sara Groves

He Is-William McDowell

A Day of Eternal Value

Hebrews 12:28 Since we are receiving a kingdom that is unshakable let us be thankful and please God by worshiping Him with Holy fear and awe. 


Have you ever felt that your days are just spinning by, filled with motion and color, but somehow strangely out of focus? Worshiping God without a thankful spirit is like that. It is like an out of focus camera. We may still be singing all the words, but the pure abandon of His joy is absent. Maybe we have come to Him today with such a busy heart, or with bitterness and frustration nipping at our heels. Whatever the reason, we have forgotten His love is a gift that is far beyond anything we could ever deserve. Jesus' focus has not changed, but ours has.



We have forgotten Him, but He has not forgotten us. Unthankful hearts are hearts that have stopped seeing Jesus. Our needs, our hurts and our goals are all we can see. Jesus has remained somewhere outside our own little struggling universe. How we need for His spirit to awaken us and to draw us to Him again with overflowing praise. We need to become like the leper, who stopped running to obey and began falling at Jesus feet to worship with a grateful heart. As we realize all Jesus has done for us and how he cared for us even when we were at our worst and most selfish  moments; then He comes into focus again. He is the one who we will still be thanking in all the eternity of heaven. To have a day of eternal value today, we have to enter into His eternal presence with thankful hearts and Holy fear for His amazing love, and for all He is!!

Kari Jobe - O The Blood - HQ -GATEWAY WORSHIP.m4v

It's Your Season - Norman Hutchins

Zacchaeus Worship

Luke 19:3 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the road for Jesus was going to pass by. When Jesus passed by he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name...

When we come to church longing to see Jesus more than anything else, we will be like Zacchaeus. There were so many things going on that day and such a lot of confusion, yet he put his focus 100 percent on Jesus. He was focused on Jesus even before he could see him! Did you know that when you make Jesus your focus it will help others to focus on Him also. How often I am easily distracted when I really should be worshiping God. I hear someone talking, my mind begins to wander, and suddenly my focus is off of Jesus. But then there are those worshiping like Zacchaeus. They are not at all concerned with what anyone thinks about them. They only came to see Jesus. As they are looking down the road I am also drawn to look to see Him. Jesus was so excited when he saw Zacchaeus. He stopped everything else and looked up and called Him by name. Wow what an awesome opportunity Zacchaeus had. All he had hoped for was just to see Jesus, but now Jesus was also seeing him. If our thoughts and our hearts become completely focused on Jesus, He will stop, look up at us, and call our name. How precious is that moment! What a treasure it is to be face to face with Jesus!! It is a moment worth more than any other for all time...

Lakewood Sunday - "Falling In Love With Jesus"

I am Willing Lord - Joni Eareckson Tada

Unity and God's Blessing in Praise

Psalm 133:3  Harmony is as refreshing as the dew from Mount Hermon that falls on the mountains of Zion. And there the Lord has pronounced the blessing, even life everlasting.

Unity is not just about singing together in church, but about living together as brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. How we live through the week is exactly what we bring into the family celebration of praise on Sunday. God knows and sees everything in us. When God sees stressed out people, and the battling of our egos, how can he pour out his blessing? When our hearts are the occupied territory of the things of this world, how can the Holy Spirit come and fill us? But when the Lord Jesus has been our focus and His Spirit has been our guide, we will draw close not only to Him, but also to each other. When we are really living in harmony, that is when God's presence simply falls silently like the dew. We may be struggling through a dark night but God is waiting to give us His blessing. When we begin to really love one another and wait quietly together for Him, the Dew of His blessing will fall just as morning comes. His dew is His blessing... Life Everlasting with Him. That will be worth it all!

Sara Groves - I Saw What I Saw

"Faithful God", Gateway Worship, Song led by Zach Neese

Desperation Band - "God Be Praised" Song Story

God Be Praised Our God Reigns New Life worship

Comments on New Format?

Thanks for stopping in. It has been such a blessing to share with friends around the world on our worship blog. Today I have tried experimenting with the format to make it quicker to load and easier to see posts from the previous months. Anyone like, dislike or have anything to say on this let us know. I did like the look of the old page, but quick and uncomplicated works for me.We will continue to share worship songs and insights and it is our prayer these will be a blessing and encouragement as we all press in to know Jesus more and more!

Pure Hearts See God

Matthew 5:8  Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God


      Worship is what happens when we see God. We are struck down in amazement when He comes just like the shepherds in the fields, Peter in a boat filled with fish  or Moses at the burning bush. None of these were doing anything remotely religious, yet God came and showed himself to them. But then we need to ask, 'what is a pure heart?'
Since the word pure means unmixed I want to tell a story of when I was a teenager, going out early in the morning to milk our cow. By the light of a candle I slowly worked to fill the pail with fresh milk. It would look clean and foamy but it was not really pure. There were always small things in the milk from the cow or from the dust in the barn. When I returned to the house we would always pour the milk through a piece of cloth first before it was put away in the refrigerator. That cloth would take out all the tiny things that had gotten mixed into the milk so that what we had was 'pure milk'.  
God also wants our hearts to pass through His cloth. That is His working daily in our lives. Others may look and think , 'oh what a pure heart they have', but God knows all of the tiny details. He loves us too much to let us stay mixed with things that dirty our hearts. Every day we must allow His strong hands to pour us through the cloth. He never does this to harm us but so that each day we can look up again and see Him.
Doing the religious thing is often just us running away from the hands of God. Sometimes we do not want to be separated from the things that have been mixed into our hearts. Becoming clean means to stop running from our Father.  Let Him to pick us up and pour us through the cloth today. Then we will see Him. Then our worship will be pure and fresh and like a child again!

Create in me a pure heart and renew a steadfast spirit within me.. Psalm 51:10

New Covenant Worship

Did Christ come to die for us only to give us another chance to obey the law? The answer to that question is the central issue of worship and of the church of Christ. Here are the words of Jesus:


John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me"


Both our daily life and our worship is coming to the Father. 


We are only able to live because His life is in us. Obeying on the outside without life on the inside is not at all what God has planned for us.When the Holy Spirit comes and rests in our lives, the light of Jesus comes into all the dark places of our heart. He enters into the inner rooms, throws up the shades and opens the windows to the life of God. When we worship with the Spirit it is because He is stirring in our souls. It is more than just doing on the outside the religious thing. In our spirit Jesus comes and washes and fills us so we can serve Him. He really is the way, the truth and the life both today in our fellowship and worship and also in eternity. No one comes to the Father except through Him.

John 14:15-16  If you love me keep my commands, and I will ask the Father and He will give you another advocate, to help you - and be with you forever...

christ for the nations - when i speak your name