A heart of worship

Even as this Week Of Worship(wow), WorsHip Emphasis Week(whew), or whatever you choose to call it comes to a close.
Just some sharing of my thoughts about worship

As you might remember I was sort of leading the sharing and worship for tuesday. Anyway one of the songs that i picked was Hosanna somehow i had a sort of conviction of sort teach and sing it..

Interestingly enough, I never exactly heard the song much, (I haven't bought any Hillsong Cds this year, due to a certain lack of discipline to save money to buy them, The italian food is too tempting) except for twice in church...

I didn't really take note of the lyrics or anything much, however the 2 lines that really struck me

"I see a near revival, coming as we pray and seek"

"Break my heart for what breaks Yours"
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so while preparing, "What is worship that pleases God?"

The sacrifices of the Lord are a broken and contrite heart, Lord you will not dispise

I guess the words, sort of fitted in of sort, as in Worship that God desires is for us to humble ourselves before Him, its not about us, but it is all about Him

Most of you would know Matt Redman's "Heart of Worship"

I'm coming back to the heart of worship
when its all about You, its all about You Jesus
I'm sorry Lord for the thing i made it
when its all about You, its all about You Jesus

I must confess, when ever I lead worship there has always been a tendency of me to sometimes get distracted by certain things, by the way the people respond, by whether it sounds good etc.
But there is one thing that is most important, is that worship is all about Jesus, its not about us, of of anybody else.

That simple song by Matt Redman was a song brought me to my knees, crying in church a few months ago ...

Worship itself is an offering of ourselfves to Him, yet any offering we bring is never enough to repay what He has done for us

King of endless worth
No one could express
How much You deserve
Though I'm weak and poor
All I have is Yours
Every single breathe

I guess i didnt exactly have much time to prepare for tueday, in the sense that I had some IOP thingy to worry about(except after I had finished it, I realised to my utter irritation that my teacher had postponed it), that maybe the sharing was a bit short, but this was the gist of it taken mostly from Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life :

We were made to Worship God
Worship is more than music, God looks at the heart
Worship is abiding in Jesus, it is falling in love with Jesus
God wants us to love Him
Worship is a heart of surrender before Him

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In His love,
Emil