I want to know what it means to be worry-free. Woke up at 8am and I need more sleep. Facebooked for a while and went back to sleep. I think I really need to get back to a normal sleeping routine. It will certainly do good for my well-being. In just a few days time, I will be home. Agh, just the thought of it makes me shiver. :)
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My Notes
I am reading chapter 5: HE will Rejoice! Halleluyah. :)
Knowing God is ever present in and with us is the comforting factor all Christians have through our situations, both good and bad. Many scriptures reaffirm that He is with us:"the LORD, is in the midst of thee" and "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is MIGHTY". Praise the Lord. :)
The Lord does dance! And the best part is that He dances over us! His children! We have already been reconciled to Him - our judgments have been taken away, the enemy is under our feet, the Lord is with us, Christ assured the ultimate defeat of evil in His redemptive work. (Dryden: page 53)
Scriptures
Sing, O daughter of Zion; SHOUT, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
The LORD has taken away thy judgments, he has cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shall not see evil any more (Zephaniah 3:14-15)
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is MIGHTY;
HE will SAVE,
HE will REJOICE over thee with JOY;
HE will REST in HIS LOVE,
HE will JOY OVER THEE WITH SINGING. (Zephaniah 17)
GOD hath spoken in his holiness;
I will REJOICE,
I will DIVIDE Shechem,
and mete out the valley of Succoth. (Psalm 60:6 and 108:7)
The LORD shall REJOICE in his works. (Psalm 104:31)
Questions
i) What is our Lord like?
- He is mighty, He is my Saviour, He is compassionate and merciful, He forgives and am patient, He loves all created things and am willing to send his one and only son to die on behalf the sins of humanity.
ii) Did the above from Scripture, your imagination, or was it passes on to you by your family, church, or some significant other?
- The above come from my reading of the Bible, during Bible Study and also the evidences of who he is the as described above, through my personal relationship with him.
(iii) What kind of limitations does your portrait place on Christ? Truth limitations like His unchangeableness or inability to lie, or others? What is the source of these constraints?
- I think it limits my understanding that God can be fun-filled as well. It seems that the God that I am portraying is a serious God. Source that comes from within which tries to place God in a box.
iv) If our Lord dances over us, why should we refuse to dance in praise of Him?
Of course. I will dance alongside my beloved Father. That is for sure. :)
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Praise & Worship
i) Power of your Love (Rebecca St James)
This song comes at a surprise. It is different from the normal conventional style that I have to know. Praise God for creativity among his people. :) I would love to sing and dance freely to this song. Freedom is the key word that Ive got from this song. Praise God for this life.:)
ii) There is None Like You (Don Moen)
Dancing to this song gives me the freedom to truly understand the depth of love that God has for me. ;) This make me think twice of putting most of my affections on all other living things beside God. Indeed, the love that God has for me cannot be compare to the love that is on this earth.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
3rd precious day: Dance in the Freedom We Know
Another glorious day. As I begin to read Chapter 4: Scriptural Authority for Dancing Before The Lord, my spirit has been refreshed and my mind is delighted. Every part of me is free. I am beginning to find the key to a victorious life and that is to praise and worship my Lord, my God. :) Praise be to my Lord, both now and forever more.
As I begin to rise up and take responsibilities to what has been given me, I am beginning to take courage to pursue this. Indeed, I am here for this season of being a worship authority. Together with the Word and Praises in my mouth, I can trampled over snakes and scorpions, which is better known in the human language => Condemnation, Cynicism, Comparison and Categorization.
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(i) Lets start my devotion now.
Scripture
For ye are brought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit,
which are God's. (1 Corinthians 6:20)
"Honor God with your body (NIV)
Context: The author encouraged us to use all ourselves: our body and spirit to praise God. In context, the scripture meant that we are to use every part of our body for the purposes of glorifying God. To sum both together, at the end of day, the sole purpose of our mind, soul and spirit is to be united together in praise and worship for the purpose of glorifying our God, instead of using it for self-glory and sensual lifestyle that dishonour God in the eyes of the world.
ii) List the ways you offer praise to God and compare them to what you have just read.
- reserve-like movements
- in control
iii) Why do you praise Him the way you do?
- I like to use what I know to control my dance movements
iv) What prevents you from praising Him in the ways shown in the passages presented?
- Insecurity (better translates to I care about what others think of me)
- My lack of relationship with the Creator.
- Wanting to be in control.
My Prayers
Dear Father Abba, thank you for showing me that my worship is far from what you have initially ordained. I begin to see that my lack of relationship with you has resulted in a dry and controlled form of worship. Father, thank you for you have open my eyes to see you. My mind has been renewed from reading this book. Father, indeed I want to grow closer to you, to love and adore you. ;):):)
Father, I want this new form of praise; to jump, shout, leap, twirl and receive the liberty (freedom) and joy that you have listed in your words. I want this desperately and I know it comes with practices. Father, may this year be a year of great leap of faith, great and deep relationship with you and the people around me. I do not want to be in control but I want to be free to live life to the fullest that I know how. Let this year be the best 32 years in my entire life.
The best part of all, I know that you are HERE with me. :)
In Christ alone, In my Beloved Father alone,
Doreen C.
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Praise and Worship
i) The Freedom We Know- Hillsongs
ii) The Joy of the Lord - Twila Paris
As I begin to rise up and take responsibilities to what has been given me, I am beginning to take courage to pursue this. Indeed, I am here for this season of being a worship authority. Together with the Word and Praises in my mouth, I can trampled over snakes and scorpions, which is better known in the human language => Condemnation, Cynicism, Comparison and Categorization.
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(i) Lets start my devotion now.
Scripture
For ye are brought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit,
which are God's. (1 Corinthians 6:20)
"Honor God with your body (NIV)
Context: The author encouraged us to use all ourselves: our body and spirit to praise God. In context, the scripture meant that we are to use every part of our body for the purposes of glorifying God. To sum both together, at the end of day, the sole purpose of our mind, soul and spirit is to be united together in praise and worship for the purpose of glorifying our God, instead of using it for self-glory and sensual lifestyle that dishonour God in the eyes of the world.
ii) List the ways you offer praise to God and compare them to what you have just read.
- reserve-like movements
- in control
iii) Why do you praise Him the way you do?
- I like to use what I know to control my dance movements
iv) What prevents you from praising Him in the ways shown in the passages presented?
- Insecurity (better translates to I care about what others think of me)
- My lack of relationship with the Creator.
- Wanting to be in control.
My Prayers
Dear Father Abba, thank you for showing me that my worship is far from what you have initially ordained. I begin to see that my lack of relationship with you has resulted in a dry and controlled form of worship. Father, thank you for you have open my eyes to see you. My mind has been renewed from reading this book. Father, indeed I want to grow closer to you, to love and adore you. ;):):)
Father, I want this new form of praise; to jump, shout, leap, twirl and receive the liberty (freedom) and joy that you have listed in your words. I want this desperately and I know it comes with practices. Father, may this year be a year of great leap of faith, great and deep relationship with you and the people around me. I do not want to be in control but I want to be free to live life to the fullest that I know how. Let this year be the best 32 years in my entire life.
The best part of all, I know that you are HERE with me. :)
In Christ alone, In my Beloved Father alone,
Doreen C.
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Praise and Worship
i) The Freedom We Know- Hillsongs
ii) The Joy of the Lord - Twila Paris
Thursday, January 13, 2011
2nd Day of Praise & Worship
Woke up to the sound of rain water pattering on the window sill. God is GOOD, as always. :) This I proclaimed from deep within. Indeed, I feel this sense of tremendous JOY when I worship my beloved GOD. ;) Who say God is not real? Lord, humble us and open our eyes to you alone. ;):):):)
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Chapter 3: What is Dancing Before The Lord? (Continuing from the book "Dance Before the Lord")
My notes:
Dancing
- mechowlah (Hebrew) => round dance
Praise
- is a physical demonstration to God in a
shout, a song, hand clapping or waiving, and dancing.
Dance
- to turn, twist, move in the round, skip and leap.
David danced with ALL HIS MIGHT (2 Samuel 6:14 - 15)
- indicates wild movement of the feet with efforts at leaping perhaps.
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i) Compare the scriptural examples of dancing to worldly dancing. How would you characterized the difference(s) between the two?
Worship Dance
- Dance for God
- To give God the glory for what he has done in our lives; (for who is he, his protection, his healing)
- Humbling to the point of making us foolish
Worldly Dance
- Dance for self and to impress others (through sensuous and degrading body language
- Self-absorption leads to pride; everything must be of a standard
ii) Write down the scriptures presented in this chapter. Spend some time looking at them. Meditate on them. Let these words of God dwell in your heart.
(a) Singing and shouting often accompanied dancing
Be glad in the LORD,
and REJOICE, ye righteousness:
and SHOUT FOR JOY,
all ye that are UPRIGHT IN HEART. "Psalm 32:11
(b) Deliverance from enemies (first dancing song in the Bible)
I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously:
the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation:
he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation;
my father's God, and I will exalt him. (Ex 15:1-2)
- reference to the timbrel sounds
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. (Psalm 150:4)
(c) Restoration of the ark of covenant
And David danced before the Lord with ALL HIS MIGHT; and
David was girded with a linen ephod.
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of
the LORD with shouting and the sound of trumpet. (2 Samuel 6:14-15)
(d) Healing of the lame man
And he leaping up stood,
and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping and praising God. (Acts 3:8)
iii) Make a list of the reasons why the people in the Scriptures you just read, danced. How many reasons on your list are ungodly? How many are godly?
Reasons as written above.
All of them are godly. All danced to praise God for all that He has done in their lives. God come to have relationship with us, deliver us from our enemies, to heal and to protect us.
iv) Since human motivation is an essential key in dancing as praise, perhaps you should inventory your own reason(s) for dancing and for not dancing. Write this list in your study journal to pray over.
For Dancing
- to worship God
- to bring glory to God
- to be a light and salt out there.
For Not Dancing
- lack of motivation
- distraction with other things; hence giving less time to worship God
- plain lazy
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My Prayers
Dear Father Abba, thank you for this life, this opportunity to dance before your throne. Father, I want to know more of you, to deny self and to live for a greater cause/purpose. Father, my life has been bought at a price, of your son. Father, I pray that my eyes will be for you and my security comes from you ALONE. Father, I trust that you will protect me from harm and even if I am in one, you always lift me above the storm. :):):) Father, I surrender my relationship, work, ministry, family and all that I am holding unto you alone. Father, I prayed for the salvation of my dad, big sis and family, mer mer and alvin and the rest of my extended family, friends (k and f). Father, I pray that you will send your people to be a representative of who you are in their lives. Father, I want to uphold CS and family unto your hand. Pls be their provider, Jehovah Jireh in their family.
Father, I also would like to pray for the many who are suffering at Queensland and Brisbane. They have lost their home, their identities and even loved ones. Father, please protect them and they will find you, love and support from the community during this time of chaos. Father, I want to uphold Roshan, Euge, Jason, Tims' families who are staying there unto your hand. Protect them from harm, from loss of property. Father, please do not test them beyond what they can bear.
In you alone, my Father Abba.
Your beloved,
Doreen
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Praise & Worship
i) His LOVE
ii) At the CROSS
iii) With All I Am
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Chapter 3: What is Dancing Before The Lord? (Continuing from the book "Dance Before the Lord")
My notes:
Dancing
- mechowlah (Hebrew) => round dance
Praise
- is a physical demonstration to God in a
shout, a song, hand clapping or waiving, and dancing.
Dance
- to turn, twist, move in the round, skip and leap.
David danced with ALL HIS MIGHT (2 Samuel 6:14 - 15)
- indicates wild movement of the feet with efforts at leaping perhaps.
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i) Compare the scriptural examples of dancing to worldly dancing. How would you characterized the difference(s) between the two?
Worship Dance
- Dance for God
- To give God the glory for what he has done in our lives; (for who is he, his protection, his healing)
- Humbling to the point of making us foolish
Worldly Dance
- Dance for self and to impress others (through sensuous and degrading body language
- Self-absorption leads to pride; everything must be of a standard
ii) Write down the scriptures presented in this chapter. Spend some time looking at them. Meditate on them. Let these words of God dwell in your heart.
(a) Singing and shouting often accompanied dancing
Be glad in the LORD,
and REJOICE, ye righteousness:
and SHOUT FOR JOY,
all ye that are UPRIGHT IN HEART. "Psalm 32:11
(b) Deliverance from enemies (first dancing song in the Bible)
I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously:
the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation:
he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation;
my father's God, and I will exalt him. (Ex 15:1-2)
- reference to the timbrel sounds
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. (Psalm 150:4)
(c) Restoration of the ark of covenant
And David danced before the Lord with ALL HIS MIGHT; and
David was girded with a linen ephod.
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of
the LORD with shouting and the sound of trumpet. (2 Samuel 6:14-15)
(d) Healing of the lame man
And he leaping up stood,
and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping and praising God. (Acts 3:8)
iii) Make a list of the reasons why the people in the Scriptures you just read, danced. How many reasons on your list are ungodly? How many are godly?
Reasons as written above.
All of them are godly. All danced to praise God for all that He has done in their lives. God come to have relationship with us, deliver us from our enemies, to heal and to protect us.
iv) Since human motivation is an essential key in dancing as praise, perhaps you should inventory your own reason(s) for dancing and for not dancing. Write this list in your study journal to pray over.
For Dancing
- to worship God
- to bring glory to God
- to be a light and salt out there.
For Not Dancing
- lack of motivation
- distraction with other things; hence giving less time to worship God
- plain lazy
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My Prayers
Dear Father Abba, thank you for this life, this opportunity to dance before your throne. Father, I want to know more of you, to deny self and to live for a greater cause/purpose. Father, my life has been bought at a price, of your son. Father, I pray that my eyes will be for you and my security comes from you ALONE. Father, I trust that you will protect me from harm and even if I am in one, you always lift me above the storm. :):):) Father, I surrender my relationship, work, ministry, family and all that I am holding unto you alone. Father, I prayed for the salvation of my dad, big sis and family, mer mer and alvin and the rest of my extended family, friends (k and f). Father, I pray that you will send your people to be a representative of who you are in their lives. Father, I want to uphold CS and family unto your hand. Pls be their provider, Jehovah Jireh in their family.
Father, I also would like to pray for the many who are suffering at Queensland and Brisbane. They have lost their home, their identities and even loved ones. Father, please protect them and they will find you, love and support from the community during this time of chaos. Father, I want to uphold Roshan, Euge, Jason, Tims' families who are staying there unto your hand. Protect them from harm, from loss of property. Father, please do not test them beyond what they can bear.
In you alone, my Father Abba.
Your beloved,
Doreen
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Praise & Worship
i) His LOVE
ii) At the CROSS
iii) With All I Am
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Psalm 149
1 Praise the LORD.
Sing to the LORD a new song;
his praise in the assembly of his faithful people.
2 Let Israel rejoice in their maker;
let the people of Zion be glad with their king.
3 Let them praise His name with dancing
and make music to him with timbrel and harp.
4 For the LORD takes delight in His people;
he crowns the humble with VICTORY
5 Let His faithful people rejoice in this HONOR
and sing for joy on their beds.
6 May the praise of God be in their mouths
and a double-edged swords in their hands,
7 to inflict vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples
8 to bind their kings with fetters,
their nobles with shackles of iron,
9 to carry out the sentence that is written about them -
this is the glory of ALL HIS FAITHFUL PEOPLE.
PRAISE THE LORD.
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i) Who are the verses addressed to?
- Israel
- The people of Zion
- His faithful people
ii) What do they say to do?
- To praise the Lord
- To sing a new song in a company of Gods' people
- Rejoice in the Maker
- Be glad in the King
- Praise Him with dancing and make music with timbrel and harps
iii) What is the result of the ordered actions?
- God delights with our praises
- God protects/delivers us with VICTORY over our situations
- Received joy even when sleeping over the protection.
- God delivered us from enemies as we began to rise up with faith that God is with us. ;):):)
- Together with our continuous praises for God, we received JOY and together with the power of His WORDS, we are OVERCOMER!!
In summary:
We praise God ===> God delights in our praises, protects us with Victory, gives us abundant JOY ==== to overcome the spiritual forces with Him.
Praise & Worship
i) Mighty to Save
ii) My Redeemer Lives
Sing to the LORD a new song;
his praise in the assembly of his faithful people.
2 Let Israel rejoice in their maker;
let the people of Zion be glad with their king.
3 Let them praise His name with dancing
and make music to him with timbrel and harp.
4 For the LORD takes delight in His people;
he crowns the humble with VICTORY
5 Let His faithful people rejoice in this HONOR
and sing for joy on their beds.
6 May the praise of God be in their mouths
and a double-edged swords in their hands,
7 to inflict vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples
8 to bind their kings with fetters,
their nobles with shackles of iron,
9 to carry out the sentence that is written about them -
this is the glory of ALL HIS FAITHFUL PEOPLE.
PRAISE THE LORD.
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i) Who are the verses addressed to?
- Israel
- The people of Zion
- His faithful people
ii) What do they say to do?
- To praise the Lord
- To sing a new song in a company of Gods' people
- Rejoice in the Maker
- Be glad in the King
- Praise Him with dancing and make music with timbrel and harps
iii) What is the result of the ordered actions?
- God delights with our praises
- God protects/delivers us with VICTORY over our situations
- Received joy even when sleeping over the protection.
- God delivered us from enemies as we began to rise up with faith that God is with us. ;):):)
- Together with our continuous praises for God, we received JOY and together with the power of His WORDS, we are OVERCOMER!!
In summary:
We praise God ===> God delights in our praises, protects us with Victory, gives us abundant JOY ==== to overcome the spiritual forces with Him.
Praise & Worship
i) Mighty to Save
ii) My Redeemer Lives
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Day 3: Can't wait
Day 3
Can't wait to worship God in the morning. :) Lord, I LOVE YOU!!! I will dance for you later. :)
Loving you to bits,
Doreen C.
Can't wait to worship God in the morning. :) Lord, I LOVE YOU!!! I will dance for you later. :)
Loving you to bits,
Doreen C.
Friday, December 24, 2010
A new beginning
Today I have begin a new journey. With a new heart and spirit, I shall blog down the worship and prayer time that I have started since last night. From now onwards, I will commit 1 hour each day, in praise & worshipping through dance and meditating His words everyday. :)
The experience last night was interesting. I wouldn't say that it was not fun, but it was interesting. Thank God for YouTube because I can just go on and on with playing the songs that I want. :) I find it easy to dance. I find that I have to remind that I am not performing for someone but I am doing this for God. :) There were some funny moments where I danced crazily like King David. :) I know deep within what I am doing here is not only changing my heart but it is also changing the spiritual realm. I am "fighting" the war, I know it. This experience of "waiting" is not the literal waiting but my dance is an act of trusting God to move, while I dance before Him. :)
Today, I woke up again to do the same. This time I meditated on his words.
i) I give you peace, the kind of peace that I only I can give.
It is not the peace that this world can give.
So, do not be worried or afraid. John 14:27
ii) You will keep in perfect peace Him,
whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord,
is the Rock Eternal. Isaiah 26:3-4
Blessed are those who seek His Face...
Blessed are those who trust in Him...
Blessed are those who obeys Him
Blessed are those who are contrite in their hearts..
Blessed be upon us who yearns after Him
with all that we have.
Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen!!
Lord God, thank you for this peace. Indeed, there is authority in your word. Father, let me not be troubled or worry, but Father, as I turn my eyes upon you, I will see your grace and beauty. And all the things are the world will grow strangely dim. ;)
Youtube: Turn your eyes upon Jesus by Alan Jackson
Father, I trust in you. Trust that you are here for me and have already leading me in the process. :) Muaks! :)
Loving you,
Doremi
The experience last night was interesting. I wouldn't say that it was not fun, but it was interesting. Thank God for YouTube because I can just go on and on with playing the songs that I want. :) I find it easy to dance. I find that I have to remind that I am not performing for someone but I am doing this for God. :) There were some funny moments where I danced crazily like King David. :) I know deep within what I am doing here is not only changing my heart but it is also changing the spiritual realm. I am "fighting" the war, I know it. This experience of "waiting" is not the literal waiting but my dance is an act of trusting God to move, while I dance before Him. :)
Today, I woke up again to do the same. This time I meditated on his words.
i) I give you peace, the kind of peace that I only I can give.
It is not the peace that this world can give.
So, do not be worried or afraid. John 14:27
ii) You will keep in perfect peace Him,
whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord,
is the Rock Eternal. Isaiah 26:3-4
Blessed are those who seek His Face...
Blessed are those who trust in Him...
Blessed are those who obeys Him
Blessed are those who are contrite in their hearts..
Blessed be upon us who yearns after Him
with all that we have.
Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen!!
Lord God, thank you for this peace. Indeed, there is authority in your word. Father, let me not be troubled or worry, but Father, as I turn my eyes upon you, I will see your grace and beauty. And all the things are the world will grow strangely dim. ;)
Youtube: Turn your eyes upon Jesus by Alan Jackson
Father, I trust in you. Trust that you are here for me and have already leading me in the process. :) Muaks! :)
Loving you,
Doremi
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