In today’s Episode we discuss:

Punchline Worship Moves

- Punchline church service moves are moves that emotionally charge the actions of people through singing , preaching, and what’s played on the instruments

- Preaching Calvary in the middle of your message, when I think of the goodness of Jesus

- Doing runs in the middle of the message.

- “When I think of the goodness of Jesus”

- “You can sit there if you want to” “You can sit there and look cute if you want but I care to praise him”

- What’s the intent behind what you say or play during church services?

- Are we looking to people for approval rather than God?

- Repetitive motion can lead you to new levels. The same progressions or same line or verse of a song can take you places that changing songs and making frequent moves won’t ever take you.

- Waiting on the Lord is the most valuable worship tool!!

Today’s episode is Part 3 of the Worship Conversations featuring Lauren Waites & Gaines Owen. In this episode we have Gaines grab the guitar as Lauren leads us into free worship. We invite you to take a 8 minute stillness moment with the Lord as we invite him to speak to us. Visit our FB or Insta page For the uncut video version including prayer for our city, state, and nation!

In today’s episode, hear Part 2 of Lauren’s passion for life with Jesus. She believes that “everything is sacred”! I was super inspired and refreshed by Lauren’s heart and love for Jesus and his holiness. Listen up! You will definitely be inspired to go after Jesus more!

In today’s episode we talk with Worship Leaders Lauren Waites and Gaines Owen about their love for music and passion for worship. In Part 1 of today’s episode, you will hear Lauren’s passion for spending time with Jesus off the stage and how everything in life is counted as sacred in her eyes. You will hear Gaines’ heart as Worship Leader in the L-Block Projects and how he’s chosen a life long journey of worshipping Jesus outside of the four walls of the church building!

It’s in the nature of musicians to prophecy into atmospheres. It’s when we allow ourselves to get stuck in only being copies, by playing what we’ve learned from someone else or heard from someone else that we miss out on our heavenly call to release new sounds and songs from Heaven! If we are to worship as it is in Heaven we must come to the end of what we know and surrender to all that Heaven knows. Check out this episode to learn how you can begin to enter the prophetic place of worship!

Stillness brings us to a clear place. And whatever we do after we have gotten control of all of the inner chaos, we will be sure to be both efficient and effective! This is a very important discipline for worship leaders! If we want to be accurate in alignment with heaven, and hearing the sounds of heaven as we worship in earth, stillness is a necessity to worship preparation. Here are a few points from today’s show:

- Join the challenge: be still for 20 minutes a day for one week

- Don’t be quick to count your first try as a loss. Every step counts as long as you keep going.

- Silencing the inside first will lead to more effective worship and prayer

- Stillness will free you and make room for the Lord.

- You can spend hours on stage or in church singing and shouting and praying but God is no where near.

- God asked Adam, Where are you? Is God asking you that same question during worship, prayer, and church service because your body is present but your inside is somewhere else?

- Read and pray Job 37:14 as well as Psalm 23:2 and allow The Father to draw into a new place with him.

- Kanye has said Jesus on tv more than other Christians who’ve been on Tv and have been Christian for years. - Christians want to be like the world but the world really wants to be a Christian but they keep getting confused.

- Kanye quote “We’re no longer here for entertainment” his service is unto God to spread the gospel and what Jesus has done for him.

Episode 5: Ministry Burnout!!

Ministry burnout is very real to a lot of people. But in this episode we actually take a controversial viewpoint of ministry burnout because we believe that there is a method to the madness!

Here are a few points from today’s Episode:

- What is ministry burnout?

- If you feel burnout, somewhere along the way it stopped being Ministry

- Serving in ministry on Autopilot - “Like a job you don’t look forward to going to each day”

- Ministry versus Entertainment - do people who sing for ministry actually know the difference between ministering and entertaining

- Worn out by performing a form or look of ministry

- My cup runneth over. We must minister out of the overflow.

Smaller ministries don’t have the luxury of filling their volunteer slots with perfect singers and musicians. The pressure we experience from the black culture to bring a certain wow factor often competes with God’s divine purpose for why he chose us in the first place. (This episode does not intend to eliminate the need for excellence and serving in your appropriate calling)

Here are a few points from this episode:

* Black Church Pressure to do everything perfect musically

* We didn’t get trained for this!!

* Pressure to be perfect for the audience versus being perfect in the sight of God to fulfill his purpose

* The Wow Factor sucks us into a hunger for fleshly accolades

* Our one desire should be to please God and offer up what we have with a heart that pleases him

* Our hearts must not be after what we can gain in music but after what we can add to the kingdom because of what the kingdom of God gave to us

* Teaching aspiring singers and musicians how to find, recognize, and follow God in the word and prayer will allow the Holy Spirit to fill them in such a way that closes the gaps in harmonizing, a unified sound, and being able to truly get into the music with passion

A true heart of worship aligns your heart to Gods heart. So we have to develop full alignment of worship in our heart, mind, body, and soul. “This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭15:8‬ ‭KJV‬‬. Our top 7 Churchy sayings people don’t really mean

1. I give honor to God who is the head of my life

2. Look at God

3. Not today Satan

4. Blessed and highly favored

5. The devil is busy or the devil thought he had me

6. I’m praying for you/I’ll keep you in my prayers

7. I’m waiting on God