10: An Exciting Way to Get Involved – Singing with Inspiration
The title for the quarter’s lesson pamphlet immediately brings to mind
Hymn 499 – What A Friend We Have in Jesus.
The Memory Text tells us the harvest is ripening ready for Jesus to come, so the harvesters are to go forth:
Hymn 366 – O Where Are the Reapers?
Hymn 358 – Far and Near the Fields Are Teeming
Hymn 430 – Joy By and By.
Creation is our first topic on Sunday. We sing the praises of creation in
Hymn 1 – Praise to the Lord,
Hymn 20 – O Praise Ye the Lord and
Hymn 26 – Praise the Lord! You Heavens Adore Him. Completing the study on this day, the hymn that puts the Godhead together well is
Hymn 660 – Glory Be to the Father.
The small groups gather together to study the scriptures:
Hymn 8 – We Gather Together,
Hymn 59 – Great Our Joy as Now We Gather and
Hymn 60 – Blessed Jesus at Thy Word. Our gathering together gives us fellowship:
Hymn 469 – Leaning on the Everlasting Arms and
Hymn 350 – Blest Be the Tie That Binds. We must remember that
Jesus Calls Us – Hymn 285 and
Hymn 359 – Hark! The Voice of Jesus Calling.
In our small groups we are
Working, O Christ, With Thee – Hymn 582. It is then that the Holy Spirt will continue to be poured out on everyone:
Hymn 268 – Holy Spirit, Light Divine and
Hymn 269 – Come, Holy Spirit.
As we open our homes for small groups, there are blessings to be given by God:
Hymn 655 – Happy the Home.
On Thursday, once again Jesus asks
O Where Are the Reapers? – Hymn 366. Let us join together in reaping the harvest so we may go to our Heavenly home very soon.
For You I Am Praying – Hymn 284 because
The Savior Is Waiting– Hymn 289 is exactly what we are able to tell each person with whom we come in contact each day.
If you do not know any of the hymns listed above, you will find the music for these at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/
2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
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Jesus wept.
Sowing in the morning.
How cheering is the Christians hope.
O where are the reaper that garner in.
Hi Corinne - it must be wonderful to be involved in the 'Praise and Worship' part of the ministry to God! When I read the title 'Singing with Inspiration', I thought in my mind to also read 'Singing IS Inspiration'! The Holy Spirit is using this time of closeness with the Father to express Himself and rejoyce with us in His Spirit. Thank you for your involvement to help bring hearts closer to our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ!
Thoughts about personalized Praise came to me quite some time ago when I started to make up my own songs and melody directing them to my Heavenly Father at the moment of 'inspiration'/need.
When the Spirit prompts my heart to come to the Father in Song, then it is when I feel the most joy, peace and closeness with Him - expressing my thoughts in melody directly to Him!
During church service, most of our songs are ABOUT God and His Goodness, but do not address Him directly to worship Him for His marvelous Goodness and Grace.
I want to encourage you to find all the songs addressed directly to Him and make them the first choice during Song service time or any time. When singing from the Hymnbook, I personalize the songs 'about' God to using words addressing Him directly. You might want to consider re-writing these and give them to the congregation to sing them in this new format; you might be surprised to find how easy this is.
My vision is to make Praise and Worship the main focus of our communal Sabbath Worship time. Psalm 33
Hi Brigitte
Thank you for you positive thoughts. I do love the point that 'Singing IS Inspiration'.
It was interesting in the lesson study a few weeks ago that learning scripture by singing it, helps one to remember the words much more efficiently. There is no doubt that singing will be in Heaven, and it is something impossible to even think how beautiful it will be. I can't wait.
There are many songs that come to mind when preparing 'Singing with Inspiration' but our SDA Hymnal doesn't have some of them, sadly. I love that the SDA Hymnal has a website and one can type in a word, and all the hymns with that word are then displayed. It can be helpful when sitting here singing and trying to put ones finger on the exact hymn.
Blessings to you in your music writing and singing to our Lord. Can't wait to meet you in Heaven and sing in that glorious choir there with you, to sing our praises to our amazing God.
How nice to receive your reply, Corinne! Just a quick note to clarify my comments about 'making up my own songs'. These are words set to simple melodies to express them ain form of praise at the moment they come to mind; the melodies form as the Spirit leads the singing, affirming my trust in His Love! It usually happens when the Spirit moves my heart about something that the mind wrestles with.
It is a form of prayer, turning my thoughts of doubt and stress into singing praises of gratitude. I found this to sooth my heart and mind. Pretty soon, clouds lift and the Son shines again freely to lift my spirit.
May God always bless you and your ministry of Songs of Worship!