Church music ministry offers people with musical talent and interest in religion an interesting and fulfilling occupation. In today’s world, sacred music encompasses far more than pipe organ and choirs, with musical styles ranging from Bach to Rock.
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Consider just what abilities and interests you have. Are you a keyboard player? Can you play the guitar? Can you sing…and teach others how to sing? Today’s church musician just might be called upon to do all those things and more.
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Get training. Church musicians need to know music ranging from Gregorian Chant to Gospel, depending on the denomination. Some colleges and universities offer courses. Training is also available through private music lessons often held in private homes and music shops.
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Get experience. Most successful music ministers got their start as choir members. Try to find a group led by a master; observe and imitate. Also, try to get a position covering other musicians for vacations in order to gain experience.
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If you play the keyboard, take some organ lessons. To lead a congregation you’ll need to play the pedals, and that takes at least some instruction – and loads of practice.
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Get a police check. Nowadays churches are extremely sensitive to the threat of sexual predation by clergy and church workers. You’ll likely need a police check for every locale you’ve lived in, dated within 3-4 months of your applications. Most Catholic dioceses will perform their own criminal record check prior to hiring.
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Determine your goals. Are you intending this to be your career or just a sideline or hobby? Full-time or part-time? Get to know the going salaries of church musicians who have positions similar to what you desire. The National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NAPM), the Organists Guild and other organizations have published guidelines for music ministers’ salaries and working conditions.
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Look for a church position whose needs match your abilities and interests. If your background is Baptist, chances are you’ll be (and feel) out of place in a Catholic cathedral.
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Be prepared to audition and show the search committee what you can do, specifically by playing the organ or piano, and by leading a choir.
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If you land a job, rejoice. Music ministry gives unequaled opportunities to use your talent, satisfying and enriching both you and hopefully all those who hear and participate in your music.
- Music ministers must note all this things
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Recently we had some friends over for dinner and they announced they were expecting their fifth child. We were thrilled. I laughed looking into our backyard and seeing our own eight children running around in circles, creating a mini-circus. Our neighbors must have thought we were having a birthday party.
As we rejoiced with them over the exciting news, my friend made an interesting comment, “You know, early on in our marriage we talked about how we might change the world by writing a book or getting on the cover of Time, but now we’re realizing our best shot at changing the world is through raising the kids God has given us.”
A Call to (Tiny) Arms
What if more Christians had this view of family? What if more of us didn’t see children as a burden, but as a blessing, and as an opportunity to raise up a small army who could change the world?
At what other point in life do we have such a convenient opportunity to teach, model, rebuke, and encourage the characteristics we desire to see in another person? We have tiny disciples living right under our roof. We so often talk about the ministry we’re doing with others — discipleship over coffee or another Bible study — but what about at our own breakfast table?
If we want to impact our world for Christ, many of us should be involved in raising up a new generation of Jesus followers. I realize not everyone is called to marriage, and some married believers suffer from infertility. But for those of us who are blessed with kids living within our walls, here are a few ways to raise little world-changers. Shape their minds and hearts with these five passions and habits while they’re still living in your home.
1. A Hungry Passion to Meet God in His Word
Everyday our kids see how we choose to use our time. Do they know that spending time in God’s Word is a priority for you? Talk at the dinner table about what you’re studying in Scripture. Ask them what they learned from the sermon or their Sunday school lesson. Our passion, or lack of passion, for the Bible will be easily absorbed by the ones who spend every day watching us. Help them realize the Bible is the most amazing book we have on this earth!
2. A Prayerful Dependence on God in Everything
Do your kids know you pray for them? A routine question we ask our kids when putting them to bed is, “How can I pray for you tonight?” It’s amazing to me how just those few words can help them open their heart to us and share what’s troubling them.
When we see world tragedies on the news or an accident happen on the highway in front of us, our kids should see that our knee jerk reaction is to pray for those involved. God hears and cares and desires to answer the prayers of his saints. There is nothing too big or too small to pray about.
3. A Contagious Gratitude to God for Everything
“Every good and perfect gift is from above” (James 1:17). Thankful people are happy people. And realizing that all our good gifts are given from our Heavenly Father should spur us on to give thanks — both to him and to others. Each day I have opportunities to model thankfulness in my family, whether it’s for the food we’re about to eat, or for my daughter unloading the dishwasher.
Point out to your kids the goodness of God shown to you through the beautiful sunset or your new refrigerator, and be thankful! The joy spread through more and more grateful people living in a society will eventually change that society — or family, or church, or neighborhood.
4. A Happy Faithfulness to Your Local Church Family
Our church body is a precious gift. They are our family away from family. I want our kids to know that being with this body of believers is a high priority in life. Attending corporate worship trumps Sunday morning sports. Being involved in fellowship, through hospitality to small group Bible studies to playdates, is a staple part of our life.
As our kids grow, we want them to see and understand the seriousness of church membership and know that church isn’t just meant to be a Sunday morning thing. These are the precious people God has given us to walk through life with and we should make it a priority to be with them.
5. A Compassionate Heart for World Missions
My husband and I dream about one day being able to take all our kids on a mission trip with us. But for now, as we change the diapers of our 2-year-old and carpool to school, we still have opportunities to give our kids a vision for missions.
Read missionary biographies and talk about their impact for the kingdom. Invite missionaries into your home, and let your kids hear them share about their lives over dinner. Pray as a family for the needs of the missionaries you support. Look for ways to serve your own community, from hosting a neighborhood ice cream social to serving at a soup kitchen in your own city.
If God has blessed you with children, consider what legacy you’re leaving them that will impact our world. Even though the American dream teaches us to limit the number of our children to ensure a more comfortable, undistracted lifestyle, consider doing something radical to make a difference for Christ: Have and raise kids!
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! (Psalm 127:3–5)
World’s first hand-woven Car, Nigeria: Artisan Ojo Obaniyi, who has made this car is a 40 year old man. His workshop is in Ibadan in southwest Nigeria. Don’t think this car doesn’t use fuel.
It works like any other car. Nigerians use this fiber to make mats, baskets and other useful products.
THE POWER OF RELATIONSHIP (4)
Dear Reader,
You are welcome to the last edition of this teaching on your regular column, Family Life. God has been faithful and has really opened our eyes over the past weeks to so many things we didn’t know before, about relationship. I believe you have been blessed.
Since this month began, we have been exploring the subject, ‘The Power of Relationship.’ Under this title, we have examined: what relationship is all about and the factors that can help you nurture and grow your relationships. The factors explored in the course of this teaching include: “commitment”, “Putting your home in order”, and last week, we discussed “Be the man of her dream”. I am sure the married men have been able to take advantage of that teaching in particular. When you, as a man, put them to use, it will help you to win your wife without stress. Today, we shall be looking at another interesting factor that can help you as a married woman to nurture and grow your relationships. You want to know this factor? Then, also Be the Woman of His dreams!
Just as every woman has expectations about the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with, woman, know that every man (your husband) also has some basic expectations of the woman he wants to marry. Every man would require his wife to:
Be a Help
Obviously, God instituted marriage to get a suitable help for man; that is why He made the woman. The woman is therefore an ordained help for her husband. What are you to help your husband with? As a wife, God expects you to help your husband bear the load of responsibilities he carries. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him (Genesis 2:18).
Your ‘ministry’ is to ensure that the man does not fail in his duties and that the family system does not break down. In other words, you are there in the family to help lift the weight not add to it. In other words, you are there to be a helper not a destroyer, castigator or betrayer.
Be a Home Maker
Every home is like a garden, and just as God gave Adam an instruction to dress and keep it, every home must be dressed to be kept. No matter how colourful your garden, if it is left unkempt, it is open to the attack of all kinds of insects that will eat up all your good fruits. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it (Genesis 2:15).
A woman is to keep her house spiritually by prayer and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, but she also keeps it practically by cleaning up and beautifying it. “Cleanliness is next to godliness,” they say. Therefore, let the environment be conducive for the Holy Spirit. The Bible says: That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed (Titus 2:4-5)
Feed Him Well
There is a popular adage that says, “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” Woman, your family is what they eat. If they are healthy, it can be practically traced to their eating habits.
It is not enough to feed them with sumptuous food; you need to feed them right. Are the foods they eat nutritious? Or do you give them just anything? Don’t forget, wisdom is profitable to direct (Ecclesiastes 10:10).
In this day and age of processed foods and snacks (fast food), please secure the health of your family by feeding them with good food. Remember, “Garbage in, garbage out.”
Eve fed her husband; unfortunately, she fed him with poison instead of life. Woman, what are you feeding your “dream man”? Genesis 3:6 says: And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Be Financially Accountable
Financial rest does not only come when you are a millionaire; it comes by being a good money manager. You must have a financial plan or else you are creating room for financial pain. A wise man once said, “Pain is a sign of disorder.” It follows that to experience financial pain is a sign of disorder in your spending.
You can prioritize your spending and maximize your income. Why must you put yourself into such pain by getting into debt? Spend within your means and be content with your income size for now. Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase (Job 8:7).
Complement Your Spouse
One other way to nurture your relationship is by an often neglected key, and that is complements. Every human being loves to be praised either for what he has done or simply for who he is.
The key is to locate the good qualities in your spouse and focus on it. Also, express your appreciation for those good qualities by the words of your mouth. Learn to show appreciation for both small and great acts of kindness. You can also show appreciation by giving little gifts.
Make room for praise in your home. Praise God always and complement your husband or wife, and your relationship will be a heaven on earth experience!
However, for you to be able to possess good qualities that will make your relationship to last, you need a good relationship with Christ. Would you like to be born again? If yes, say this prayer of faith:
“Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I come to You today. I am a sinner. Forgive me of my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood. Deliver me from sin and satan to serve the living God. I accept You as my Lord and Saviour. Make me a child of God today. Thank You for accepting me into Your Kingdom.”
If you prayed this simple prayer, you are now a child of God. He loves you and will never leave you. Read your Bible daily, obey God’s Word and seek Christian fellowship (John 14:21).
Congratulations! You are now born again! All-round rest and peace are guaranteed you, in Jesus’ Name. Call or write, and share your testimonies with me through contact@faithoyedepo.org; OR 07026385437 and 08141320204.
For more insight, these books authored by me are available at the Dominion Bookstores in all Living Faith Churches and other leading Christian bookstores:
- Marriage Covenant
- Making Marriage Work
- Building A Successful Home
- Success in Marriage (Co-Authored).
One of the hardest things for me about suffering is loneliness.
Inevitably I feel isolated. Though my friends can help, they cannot share my sorrow. It is too deep a well.
When loss is fresh, people are all around. They call, offer help, send cards, and bring meals. Their care helps ease the razor-sharp pain. For a while.
But then they stop. There are no more meals. The phone is strangely silent. And the mailbox is empty.
No one knows what to say. They aren’t sure what to ask. So mostly they say nothing.
Sometimes that’s fine. It’s hard to talk about pain. And I never want pity, with the mournful look, the squeeze on the arm, and the hushed question, “So how are you?”
I don’t know how to answer that; I don’t know how I am. Part of me is crushed. I will never be the same again. My life is radically altered.
But another part of me craves normalcy. A return to the familiar. To blend into the crowd.
I Don’t Know What I Want
I want to be grateful for my friends’ support. And on the best of days, I can see and appreciate all of their efforts. But on the worst of days, I feel frustrated and angry. I wonder why people aren’t meeting my needs. Don’t they know what I want? Can’t they read the signs? Why can’t they figure out what would make me feel better?
They can’t figure it out because I don’t know myself.
This is the crazy part of grief for me. I don’t know what I want. I have no idea what will satisfy me. And somehow, whatever others do cannot meet my expectations. Expectations that are fickle. And one-sided. And reflect my self-absorption.
Intense pain, physical or emotional, has a way of doing that. I become fixated on myself — my needs, my pain, my life. Somehow I forget that other people have their own pain and their own lives. They want to help, but they can only do so much.
Alone with God
While I am frustrated that others aren’t easing my pain, I need to remember that there is a part of suffering that I must bear myself.
Paul addresses that very tension. InGalatians 6:2, he says, “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” And then, three verses later, he reminds them, “For each of you will have to bear his own load” (Galatians 6:5).
The word Paul uses for burden implies burdens that exceed our strength. In Paul’s day, travelers often had heavy loads to transport. Others would relieve them by carrying their burdens for a while. Without help, their loads could be crushing. This could be likened to the tangible help we can offer — our acts of service, our continual prayers, our physical presence.
His word for load is something proportioned to our individual strength. It could be a pack carried by a marching soldier. That could be the ongoing work of processing our grief. The parts of our suffering that no one else can carry for us. The burdens we must shoulder ourselves.
Even the closest, most caring friends cannot be with us in our deepest pain. They may weep with us, but ultimately, they cannot walk with us.
Jesus understands that. In his moments of greatest need, his friends deserted him. Friends who said they would die for him could not even stay awake and pray with him.
So in the garden, Jesus found himself alone. With God.
Just like we are. In the end, we are all left alone with God.
Where Do I Go?
So what do we do when we feel drained and empty? When no one understands our suffering and no one seems to care? When we feel discouraged and tired and unbearably lonely?
Read the Bible and pray.
Read the Bible even when it feels like eating cardboard. And pray even when it feels like talking to a wall.
Does it sound simple? It is.
Does it also sound exceedingly hard? It is that as well.
But reading the Bible and praying is the only way I have ever found out of my grief.
There are no shortcuts to healing. Often I wish there were because I’d like to move on from the pain. But in many ways, I am thankful for the transformative process I undergo.
A process that requires I read the Bible and pray.
Not Just Reading
When I read, I don’t mean just reading words for a specific amount of time. I mean meditating on them. Writing down what God is saying to me. Asking God to reveal himself to me. Believing God uses Scripture to teach and to comfort me. To teach me wonderful things in his law (Psalm 119:18). To comfort me with his promises (Psalm 119:76).
Reading this way changes cardboard into manna. I echo Jeremiah who said, “Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart” (Jeremiah 15:16).
Not Just Praying
And when I pray, I don’t mean a rote recitation of requests and mindless words. I mean really praying. Speaking to God as honestly as I would a friend. Praying through a Psalm. Desperately crying out to him. Asking him for specific help. Expecting him to answer.
What transforms me is spending time with Jesus, sitting with him, lamenting to him, talking to him, and listening to him.
As much as I would like friends to comfort me, no one has ever met me the way God has. No one’s words have ever changed me the way Scripture has. And no one’s presence has ever encouraged me the way the Holy Spirit has.
My friends may help me, but they cannot heal me.
It is only the living God, and his living Word, who can do that.
This path of suffering, of heartache, of loneliness takes me directly to my Savior. Which is the lone path worth taking.
For only Jesus can heal me.
The greatest revelation of God’s word comes in many dimension. “The four walls of heaven’s” …
The spirit of God showed me the great dimension of the heavenlies and the majesty of our God… Genesis 1vs 1 “ in the beginning of the world God created the Heaven and Earth” Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
In every Architectural diagram of every building there must be walls to know how the building will look like.
John the beloved an Apostle of Jesus Christ was revealed to in a revelation how the walls of heaven’s look like “Revelation 21vs 1-23. In his revelation the angel of the Lord took him round the heavens and the description is like, the walls of heaven houses the glory of God.
“Revelation 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;”
How does the four walls of heaven look like:
(1) The wall of Heaven houses the glory of our Lord.… The glory of the Lord is the beauty of the Lord. Rev 21vs11 states how beautiful the glory of God is, and how he discribed the glory of God as a shining light showing the majesty of God, as a precious stone beautiful as a refined shining gold, as a jasper and as a clear Crystal. How beautiful the glory of God is, John the beloved can only explain it with this words.
The glory of God as a light that shines in the darkness and darkness flee. John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
John’s Description of the walls
Revelation 21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 21:13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof…..
Revelation 21:18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 21:19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 21:20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
(2)The major emphasis is that in the walls of heaven’s there is purity.
God is pure and holy , holiness is one of the major attribute of God the father and for this reason He sent is beloved son to purify the world from sin. To enter into the walls of heaven no sinner can be allowed, is like a gate closed fully tight and secure with soldiers. Sin can be a greatest deniance to enter into the gates.
As the walls of Heaven has twelve gates give entrance to dine with the King in the palace, there is a door closed to SIN. Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
None of this can have entrance into the walls of Heaven … Jesus said be thou holy as my father is Holy.
To enjoy the majesty of God we need to say no to SIN.
Revelation 21: 1-3
Verse 3″And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.”
The tabernacle of God is with man!! In as much we live on earth refined of God… We have the walls of Heaven around us, that is we live in the Heavens as in the earth.(Heaven on Earth)
Note: There is no disaster in the heaven’s, no pain in the heaven’s, no shame in the heaven’s and no lack in the heaven’s. A miss quote is that the dead lives in the heaven” No! No! and No!” We read it that the tabernacle of God is with man… That we can make things work for us as it works in the heaven’s.
I believe this word will bless you today…
“The four walls of heaven “
Volume 2 ..… To be continued
In less than three minutes, Conrad Mbewe explains the importance of the gospel in the life of the Christian.
KEEP TOUCHING LIVES
Today: 2015-10-19
Never care for accolades.
Never seek for rewards.
Never be bothered about who appreciate or do not appreciate you or your works.
Just keep reaching out and touching lives. Your reward is sure to come.
The lives you touch are the ones that will keep spreading the values of your life and ministry.
Where do you run to when the doors close off?
And who do you call on when it all goes wrong?
The devil is telling me to feed my fears.
“Why don’t you pack your bags and disappear?”
I’d rather give it to God.
I lost my dad in a car crash when I was a teenager. He was a family man, a businessman, and most importantly a disciple of Christ. In an instant, my mother lost her husband, and my sisters and I lost our father.
Suicidal thoughts ran through my mind on a daily basis. Killing myself seemed like the easiest option to deal with the pain. My father and I had planned a number of things — from music business to family security — but it seemed at the time that these things were no longer a possibility. To date, this is the hardest thing I’ve had to deal with — and I’ve dealt with a lot.
At this point in my life, I thought giving God everything meant going to church, reading my Bible, and praying. But when faced with the reality that God wants more than twenty minutes of my day or a day of the week, the foundation I stood on was shaken.
Since I had placed God in a box, I didn’t have a category for him in my pain and suffering. School, love, family, friendships, food, and even pain were my responsibility. I knew that he was supposed to comfort those who were suffering, but when I was confronted with misery, I thought that it was my job to deal with it.
Believing the Lie
What do you do when you have wept and cannot weep anymore? What do you do when everything crumbles and falls right in front of you? If we are honest, our initial response is not to pray, nor is it to run to God. We are not quick to say, “Though he slay me, I will hope in him” (Job 13:15).
I knew the Scriptures. I knew that God is the “Father to fatherless and defender of widows” (Psalms 68:5). But I wrestled with that reality in the moment. Instead of listening to God, I listened to myself. I believed Satan’s lies and wallowed in my fears and depressive thoughts. I didn’t know that I didn’t have to carry this burden alone.
But one day I opened the Scriptures: “You shall love the LORD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Matthew 22:37). Eventually I understood that loving God meant that I was to love him with everything that was in me. God doesn’t simply want a day or even an act — God wants to be cherished and glorified in everything I do.
He wants me to lay everything at his feet, including my pain. In order to love God at all, I must give him my all. I could no longer simply include God in what I knew belonged to him. Just as he declares that every square inch of this universe exists under his sovereignty, so does every aspect of my life — including my pain.
God Wants Your Pain
Along with everything else in my life, God wanted me to trust him with my pain. He wanted me to be vulnerable with him and trust that he would deliver me out of my despair. He pursued my hard heart. He wanted me to rest in his sovereignty. He wanted me to rest in his fatherhood. He began to display what it truly meant for him to be a “father to the fatherless.”
We pray “our Father in heaven” but often struggle to believe he’s truly good. We wrestle to see God as warm, gracious, kind, patient, and loving. We envision God as a tyrant, with a big stick in heaven, beating us on the head when we do wrong.
Jesus, the God-man, corrects our damaged understanding of the Father. He says, “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him” (Matthew 7:11). God is so good that when humans are comparatively mentioned in the same sentence, we have to be referred to as evil. He’s that good.
Give It to God in Prayer
This is why Jesus, in the previous chapter, teaches, “This is how you should pray” (Matthew 6:9). He teaches us to run to our Father. The fatherhood of God reminded me that though my earthly father had passed, my heavenly Father loved me dearly, and I could cast my burdens and sorrows upon him.
I finally learned to give my problems and pain to God. We live in a fallen world — a world that groans for the return of the Savior. Pain will exist from the cradle to the grave, but even in this, God invites us to know him and be comforted through prayer. There is a peace that surpasses all understanding that is readily available for those who make everything known to God in prayer (Philippians 4:6–8). Through prayer, intimacy with Christ is readily available for the weary and heavy-laden (Matthew 11:28).
Weekend Delight : WHY PRAISE by Bro Yomi Oladejo. 17/10/2015
Praise is the very essence of our living and when God created man at creation it was for His Praise. It is important for us has a Christian to know why we must praise God. And also what praise brings on the table for every faithful Praise star of God. Praise is the unfailing access to God. it is the proclamation of God’s representation and glory in our lives Psalms 22:3 & psalms 92:1-2 Praise can also be define simply has the food of God i.e. food is good to our body and praise is God’s food to see God’s Glory Isaiah 42:8.
The subject of praise is so important to God and we must know that praise is a spiritual medium through which God enforces what is written concerning you and removes what is not of him in your life
WHY PRAISE
Praise is a key to receiving help from God 2 chronicles 20:2-13 i.e. Praise is a defense in battle
God Always Show up in Praise 2 chronicles 20:15. when you praise God expect to see God coming down on your behalf bodily
God take the lead when you praise i.e. Praise guarantees divine direction in all situation of life
2 chronicles 20:16-20
Praise is a weapon to defeat your enemy 2 chronicles 20:21-24
Praising God will enrich you 2 chronicles 20:25
Praise is an addition and while you continue in it..it simply turns into multiplication of songs, blessings and divine presence of God
Praise makes the enemies fear you and stay clear off you 2 chronicles 20:29
Praise is all round rest 2 chronicles 20:30
The story of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah against the children of Moab and Ammon when they came against him in battle. Three things I learn from this scripture is that Jehoshaphat
- He seek first the lord in Praise by acknowledging who He is and Given Glory and honor to God..
- He also seek the counsel of the prophet of God and abide by the instruction and direction believing the prophet of God and counsel of God’s messenger
- Jehoshaphat is a man of faith. he was stupid enough to believe God and appoint singers to praise the Lord even at the battle field..
I don’t know what it is you are going through today in your life and what you seeking God for direction and help for..but today in the name of Jesus Christ has you begin to praise in faith this heavenly mystery your heaven will open and your testimony shall be established in Jesus Name…
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1Consider just what abilities and interests you have. Are you a keyboard player? Can you play the guitar? Can you sing…and teach others how to sing? Today’s church musician just might be called upon to do all those things and more.
2Get training. Church musicians need to know music ranging from Gregorian Chant to Gospel, depending on the denomination. Some colleges and universities offer courses. Training is also available through private music lessons often held in private homes and music shops.
3Get experience. Most successful music ministers got their start as choir members. Try to find a group led by a master; observe and imitate. Also, try to get a position covering other musicians for vacations in order to gain experience.
4If you play the keyboard, take some organ lessons. To lead a congregation you’ll need to play the pedals, and that takes at least some instruction – and loads of practice.
5Get a police check. Nowadays churches are extremely sensitive to the threat of sexual predation by clergy and church workers. You’ll likely need a police check for every locale you’ve lived in, dated within 3-4 months of your applications. Most Catholic dioceses will perform their own criminal record check prior to hiring.
6Determine your goals. Are you intending this to be your career or just a sideline or hobby? Full-time or part-time? Get to know the going salaries of church musicians who have positions similar to what you desire. The National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NAPM), the Organists Guild and other organizations have published guidelines for music ministers’ salaries and working conditions.
7Look for a church position whose needs match your abilities and interests. If your background is Baptist, chances are you’ll be (and feel) out of place in a Catholic cathedral.
8Be prepared to audition and show the search committee what you can do, specifically by playing the organ or piano, and by leading a choir.
9If you land a job, rejoice. Music ministry gives unequaled opportunities to use your talent, satisfying and enriching both you and hopefully all those who hear and participate in your music.
