What and who are you desiring as you worship?  Whether what we do actually IS worship is up to us.. for it is about the heart, its agenda and passions.

My personal commitment to worship seems to be increasing by the moment...as I’m more and more aware that without serving Christ in a worshipful posture with ALL we do…it’s just impossible.  Read more from Darlene here.

Hey lovely people! February has been amazing and very intense… preparing for the new year, working on the Hope Unlimited Church team to see it up and running, seeing Michelle Shaw from our Hope Rwanda team embark with her husband Dave on our most successful trip thus far with such miraculous results… and like you all, we’ve just been asking God to truly meet with us, to change our hearts in His Presence, that we may be all He desires More

Psalm 46 Today's NIV Version For the director of music. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song.   1.God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2.Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth gives way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, 3.though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. 4.There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place More

And so the legacy of the undone begins in your bloodline... My own grandparents are devoted, passionate Christians, who in their late nineties are still dreaming, still living independently, still driving (aaahhhhh!!) and still encour- aging all their kids and grandkids and great grandkids in the ways of God. They stand on the doors in their home church each weekend and help look after the ‘old people’, they still send us all gifts at More

Generosity is also another stance you should adopt as again, the encouragement received from a simple act of generosity is far-reaching and definitely stirs greatness in a spiritual realm. I was recently admiring one of the young musician’s new guitar, it was incredible, and very expensive I might add. He was treating it like it was his own child, and it obviously meant a lot to him. I made a comment to him that he must have worked and saved More

There are so many great, small but significant things you can do practically to encourage others. Just a simple thing like saying, ‘that was wonderful! well done!’ can take that moment of ‘I hope this was OK’ and turn it around to breathe a quiet assurance in the hearer’s heart. In my specific area of training up new leaders of worship or if there is a leader feeling particularly vulnerable at a certain time - just a More

Empowering others is the key here. And once you start to share the workload AND the responsibility, AND the credit, well, you light a fire deep on the inside of others, giving them experience and helping them to work out what on earth it is they are even good at. Encouragement is a truly powerful force and when it is done sincerely and often, the creative dynamic within the act of encouraging someone over a lifetime has the ability to see the seemingly More

EVERY SINGLE PERSON NEEDS TO KNOW THEY ARE VALUED AND COM- PLETELY VALUABLE. Psalm 45 is the Psalm that the Holy Spirit wrote across the fabric of my being for three whole days and nights when my Pastor asked me to take on the worship de- partment of our church. We took our little family off to the beach for a mini holiday to talk and pray about what this would mean. I was simply overwhelmed with allthe things I didn’t know about this new role, More

TIME GOES BY so very fast. I find it so hard to fathom that my own first born daughter is now a married wom- an, building her future with the man of her dreams... sometimes a week can fly by so quickly it takes you by surprise when you find yourself back at Sunday again!! But with this in mind, we must be continually aware of the urgency and value of preparing not just the next generation, but speaking life and potential into the third and fourth. More

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