Do you want to FEEL the presence of God?  Do you need a little touch from the Comforter?  If you will only take some of your time and spend it in worship, you will RECEIVE!

Here is a series of songs that should bring you into a place of worship with the King of Kings.  Try to follow in order as they kind of flow from one to another.  There are a couple that do not have lyrics with them, but most do.  Be sure to sing songs to Jesus, pay attention to the words, it is all about the words not the music or backgrounds. 

This music varies in style and age, some are more modern and some have been around for more than a century, give the a try.  Put your heart into singing them as a prayer to God and you will be touched by God!

Keep track of the songs that you can get into the worship.  You can buy most of them at Amazon or other MP3 music sites and burn them to a CD or put them on an MP3 player so you can have them anywhere.  You can also save the links to the videos and put them on a folder on your desktop (computer desktop that is) and bring them up and listen to them when you want.  The point is to find music you can tenderly worship Jesus with and do so often!  Let the songs be in your mind all day, every day.  Remember the Scriptures:

Col 3:16  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Eph 5:17-18  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.  And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

How?  He says How to be filled with the Spirit if you continue:

Eph 5:19-21  Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;  Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of Go

The first few are just get our minds upon Him and open the door, but the rest are to take us in to that place.  Let’s enter in:

Look what the Lord has done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GHNKF9i8tU

Trading my sorrows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KsfwvpcQhY&feature=related

Went to the enemy's camp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYa6SGWRAW0&feature=related

Paul Wilbur - Days of Elijah (lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3kPjbsp4yQ

Strong Tower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqL_zcig9Is&feature=related

Come Now is the Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CWdTv997M&feature=related

Mighty to Save
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syn_0c39TOM&feature=related

Shout to the Lord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I71XhjqoHvs&feature=related

Take me in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vG9Cx767mc

Lord I lift your name on high
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COQ6cni_TG8&feature=related

Carman - Bless God - No Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQSpSSBLgBE

Jesus Paid it all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3o3DiMVdOI&feature=related

Hillsong - At the Cross (not the hymn version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOY0mjjmx8Y

You are my all in all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC617kE1maU&feature=related

Open the eyes of our heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Fz1rviXFU&feature=related

You are my all in all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC617kE1maU&feature=related

Here I am to Worship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5hN_m55uoM&feature=related

I will bless your name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVyI-H2f2eg

There is a fountain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-cY5vO0W0M

Turn your eyes upon Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfr5rOfimnU

How Great Thou Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQeAJYC-1Sk

Here is a great spiritual resource I found on the internet. It contains many sermons of and several books about Smith Wigglesworth.  If you do not know him, you need to read about him. Throughout the ministry God gave him, there were the confirmed account of 14 people raised from the dead and thousands saved and healed by Jesus through him.  Wigglesworth died at an old age in 1947 but the message of faith he preached continues and is foundational for many teachings today.  His teachings should be required reading for all new believers!

The link below takes you to chapter one of “Smith Wigglesworth: Apostle of Faith 1949 -First the blade.."  You will find other chapters of the book, to continue his story, on for down on the left side of the page under the heading  “Smith Wigglesworth: Apostle of Faith 1949, "First the blade..", "An helpmeet for him", "Then the ear...", etc.

http://smithwigglesworth.blogspot.com/2008/11/first-blade.html

Let me ask you this my fellow Christians, are you ready for the work?  Are you ready to stand firm and not have church as normal again?  It is time for the Body of the Christ to rise from its slumber and take on this world at large and bring the harvest into the Kingdom. We are not weak without hope, we are the Sons of God!

Do you know God?  Are you saved?  What is the message of the cross?

Are you prepared to give a reason for the hope that is within you?

Paul Washer points out clearly that Salvation is enough:

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It is official, Benjamin Netanyahu has been tapped as the new prime minster in Israel.  Now he has 40 days to put together his government.  This should not be a big problem for him since he can have a hard-line government with support from Avigdor Lieberman which came in yesterday.

The days of throwing away Israel seems to be coming to an end, at least for a while.  Netanyahu is not a “land for peace” leader like Livni.  He also has a strong hard-line on Iran.

Will be an interesting year to say the least.  We need to be praying for Israel and Netanyahu as he will face a storm of resistance, even coming from Obama.  Israel needs to know, more now than ever, that the “People” of the USA are supporting them!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-02-20-israel_N.htm

Announcements say that early finds of a huge natural gas resource 50 miles off the coast of Northern Israel.  One report says it could be large enough of a find to supply Israel for 15 years.

It could be the largest find in history:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=18030

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssEnergyNews/idUSLI20969520090118

This documentary film is about an hour long and tells the true story of five different families and how their life was touched by Prayer.  The different stories have different themes where prayer changed things.  There are two stories on documented physical healing, one on daily needs, one on supernatural forgiveness and another on handling devastating loss of a young daughter.

It is a touching film, but my favorite is the first story about a man who experiences an infection in his throat which damages his nerves to the point doctors say it is only a short time before he will not be able to speak at all.  This can be a bad situation for some, but the man in the story is a Pastor which means he would no longer be able to preach.  VERY touching story and his healing is recorded on audio tape so that you can experience the moment he is healed!!

If you are a Netflix’er, this is also available on their “Watch Instantly” delivery as well as DVD.

Everyone needs to see this film of true stories of prayer working!

Here is something pretty cool! This is a MUST view!  There are many versions on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=father%27s+love+letter&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=

This is one of many:

The source to the Father’s Love Letter is:

http://www.fathersloveletter.com/flltextenglish.html

Be sure to check out their steaming media center!

They even have a song version:

http://fathersloveletter.com/song.html

I found it today at Gary Kirkham’s blog:

http://bgkirkham.blogspot.com/2008/07/fathers-love-letter.html

It surprised me to see that he found this on a site that was bashing this, see what they meant for evil, God used for good ;)

Be sure to tell others, email them, point them to YouTube video or to the original site (FathersLoveLetter.com)!

You might check out this article.  It is basically encouraging us to seriously consider our beliefs and take action on those beliefs:

www.TheAwakening.com/Articles/Personal_Awakening.aspx

While searching around YouTube the other day for a song, I ran into a work by John Waller that caught my attention and quickly was added to my wall of favorite songs. 

If you are not one to enjoy this style of music, here are the lyrics to read:

http://www.onlylyrics.com/hits.php?grid=11&id=1013371

The passion in this song, the hunger for more of God stirs my soul.  There are a few songs like this that really help draw me into the presence of God.  Much like the song I wrote about recently, “Sculpture of my heart” by Craig Smith.

Another song is “We Bow Down”.  The person that threw the images together for this one did a great job:

Then I move it along a bit with Paul Wilbur – Days of Elijah:

Back a week or two ago, I was looking for a good performance of one of my top five songs of all time, “How Great Thou Art”.  Digging around YouTube, I found it sung by Newsong.  It is hard to imagine I missed this one for these years.  Their performance is the best one I have every heard for this wonderful song and made me chase down many of the albums and now have a good collection of their music and truly enjoy them.  This song though is their best :)

Another one of their songs I really could feel the passion in is “Rescue”:

The words in this song really show a hunger. 

Music / Worship is a tool by which we prepare our hearts to come into the presence of God, by which we allow the Holy Spirit to invade our entire being.  Remember the passages in the Bible:

Col 3:16 ~ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Many people quote the first part of the passage “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”, but most of the time do not include the rest which tells us HOW to be filled with the Spirit:

Eph 5:18-21 ~  And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

If you are a believe, Music of God should be a HUGE part of your walk.  Simply get by yourself, play the music and sing along, from deep within your heart not just singing words, but direct those words to God you would pray to Him.  As the title of this post, He, The Lord God Almighty will send you a Flood with streams of Living Water flowing from deep within you!