Perpetual Incense – WORSHIP!

A perpetual incense before the LORD
Thinking about one of my favorite worship songs this morning, one I love to sing to the Lord, maybe He will actually give me a voice that is ‘sweet sweet sound unto your ear’. LOL!

Check out this verse:

Ex 30: 7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.

Was thinking about how our lives, as we walk with Him, and cry out to him, become a living alter, our prayers the incense that rises from it….

Re 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

Re 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Re 8:4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.

I know there are people who can really sing unto the Lord, with beautiful voices, like angels, but God looks upon the heart. Hey, we are supposed to be a living sacrifice before Him. In the Old Testament, God required a burnt offering before His throne, and that had to stink! Lift up your voice to Him this morning – let’s praise and worship our King!

Let’s sing:
“I love you Lord, and I lift my voice, to worship you. I love you Lord, and I lift my voice, O my soul, rejoice. Take joy my King, in what you hear, Let it be a sweet, sweet sound, in Your ear….

The Power of a Song….

The Power of a song…

Deut 31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
22 ¶ Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

Interesting story here, how God commanded Moses, to put His commandments to music, and to write a song, proclaiming them. An all powerful, eternal song, that would be easy to remember, designed to keep people in the fear of the Lord, and to be sung to each generation. A song of blessing, to keep them in rememberance of the goodness of the Lord, yet a witness, a testimony of that very goodness, and God’s holiness, that would remind them to turn back to Him, when they had departed from Him, and were doing wickedness.

What song are you singing? Is it good enough to teach to your children?

Let’s Pray:

‘Father, teach us the songs You would like sung, help us to teach them to our children, and may these very songs be rooted and grounded in Your Word and Your heart, that we might forever sing of Your goodness. I ask this, knowing I am heard and answered, for I ask in Your name Lord Jesus, Amen’

Singing Their Sermon – What are you listening to?

Singing their sermon – The Power of Words

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof

Thinking about one of the ‘boom chucka boom ‘ cars that drove by me one day, pumping violent murderous rap music into the airwaves, with about every imaginable cuss word being loudly inserted for effect.

I know the power of words, that lead to thoughts, that will eventually lead to deeds…for it is written:

Proverbs 23:7 [Full Chapter]

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:

I believe you could take anyone, and pump their minds full of that murder, hate, profanity, perversion, and adrenaline and produce a criminal…

Spoke with a young man one day about it, and he said: ‘Don’t mess with my music! It’s just songs…’

Sometime later, I was speaking with a medical doctor that volunteered in a facility for troubled teens.

I asked him how best to relate to some of these troubled young people, and what he thought about this ‘gangster rap’ kind of music.

His response was enlightening:

He simply asks them how much the artist pays them to ‘sing their sermon.’ He then explains to them that every song is a sermon, a message to the world. When an artist is producing lyrics to songs that are not edifying, every time we sing their song, we are advertising for the artist, and not getting paid for it.

If their lyrics line up with Scriptural truths, then we glorify God in music, no matter what style of music is used. If they lyrics portray violence, sexual depravity, hatred, and profanity, then we feed those things in our lives, and eventually open the door to performing that which we listen to.

“Trust me, that artist ain’t going to take your rap, or do time for the crimes you commit’

Our mind is a precious gift, a garden to be guarded, guided, grown, and transformed into the mind of Christ.

We can’t plant weeds in the garden and expect good fruit…

Be a true superhero, today – it begins in your mind…

Let’s pray:

‘Father, show us what we are putting into our minds each day. Help us to put in what is good, clean, passionate, and pure, and to intentionally remove movies, music, and messages, that are contrary to You and Your love. In Your name I pray Lord Jesus, Amen’

Here is another article I wrote you might like:https://chrisaomministries.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/discussing-cussing/

Thomas Daniel – Help him with His albums!

Hi all,

I admire faith. I live by it, trusting Jesus every minute of every day for food, and whatever other finances or resources are needed that day for me and my family.

Then I was contacted by Thomas, who I have never met, as part of our on-line community.

I looked at his walk of faith, as he has moved to Nashville, worked part-time so that he can follow his God given dream, of professionally producing two albums for music he has written.

I listened to his video, and music, and then watched it again with my 10 year musician son Jedidiah, and I am impressed with what he is doing.

He is half-way there in his fund-raising goal.

I am asking that you do two things:

1. Pray for him, and consider adding him to your daily prayer list.

2. Donate to his cause, and help make his dream, reality.

Here’s his video, check him out!

 

 

Keep Smiling!

 

Jesus is Lord!

 

Chris Walsh