What is your response to God in worship? Have you ever considered God as the one who is seeking you to be found in Him?

If you help facilitate praise, how determined are you to influence the “people in the pews“ to worship? Are you content just standing there singing or playing? Do you feel it’s “their problem” if they don’t take notice and follow in praise to the Most High? Or do you sense a responsibility to help them want to follow?

I’ve been leading out in worship for a long time now. Having just turned 49 years old, I have often taken time to ponder what the next phase of my life is. Will I ride off into the sunset? Will others see me as too old to be effective? Will my hands and voice and body wear out before I’m ready? Will I be deemed too old and irrelevant for ministry? Will I be forgotten? Those are good questions I guess – but they are not even the best questions to ask at this stage of the game. Those are the questions of insecurity and unbelief and are not the questions of a confident man of God that reflect his faith, trust, and hope in the Lord.

What is our frame of mind when we gather as the church to worship? Thinking about who is initiating our gathering shapes everything that happens when the church comes together. Revelation 4:1 aids our understanding of how this meeting of the Creator with His creation happens and who the host truly is.

Do you really want to connect with God? Learn how through Jesus Christ, the Ultimate ISP! In this article, worship teacher John Chisum shares with you important insights for your personal worship and corporate leadership ministry.