 Hi everyone welcome back. So we've started today's session with understanding the spiritual aspects of leading a worship ministry in the local church. So let's move on. Page number 58 in your notes please. We'll begin to start learning about the practical slash spiritual aspect if I may say that okay. So learning how to flow with this spirit right. We're going to get a little bit more technical and hands-on as well. So we will talk about song selection putting together a set list as what we would call it right. So before the worship time this is about again learning to flow with the spirit here with the Holy Spirit. You're talking about a Sunday you're the worship leader. Your worship leading activity doesn't start Sunday morning. It starts on a Monday itself like you start preparing for the Sunday start thinking about the songs that you're leading that you're putting together right. So that's before the worship time on Sunday. So what are some of the things that you can look for is song selection. Song selection as look at worship as leading people into an encounter with God and a time of preparation for what God wants to do in their lives through the word and the ministry of his spirit right. As leading people into an encounter with God and the time of preparation for what God wants to do in their lives right. Have a theme for your worship time. Once again I also you know as I keep saying that I realize that not all of us are worship leaders or leading worship ministry or whatnot but then it's okay to know some of these aspects of worship leading right so that you can lead the people that God will entrust you. Okay so have a theme for your worship time and listen to the Holy Spirit beforehand as to what he intends doing that day okay. Don't just throw a random selection of songs that does not take the congregation on a journey into God. Each song should generally build on the previous song understand the different phases of praise and worship which is declaration praise worship personal communion sailor moments repentance etc okay. So song selection well let's just do a fun exercise okay are you all up for a fun exercise okay cool. So I'll give you all I'll give you all say five minutes three minutes maybe and so your topic let's say pastor okay say I'm your I'm your pastor now and I'm going okay and you're all my worship leaders and and saying okay all right guys I'm going to be preaching a sermon on the love of God this Sunday what is yours and I want you to put together a song list say of four maybe five songs what is your song list going to look like. Sorry pastor did you say the love of God did you say love of God. Yes love of God I've put it in the chat section so that's your topic to build a set list so what you're going to that's the sermon that the pastor will be preaching on so how are you going to build your set list take a minute I'm I'm there to help you put your song list together this is just an exercise guys okay so some of you who are like pastor I don't lead worship you know just you know that's not graded this is just a fun exercise it'll be more fun in person but go for it can suddenly be realized putting together a set list is so challenging isn't it guys I don't just share one song at a time okay put together five songs and then share it at all you know share it together you know it's at once this is your set list okay say okay your dupa your leading worship asha your leading worship what's your what's that four songs five songs going to look like or even three songs is fine maybe five songs is a bit too much three songs is good enough how many of you are using google using google is good all right love's so great amazing grace sweet the sound saved the rich like me cornerstone my goodness of god awesome reckless love how we love one thing remains obsession I see you heard that song come on okay yes step right what about the others guys Christopher Shri Kumar say still working on it one more minute maybe okay well anyways guys I hope you been you know trying it out but this was just wanted to do an exercise with you all but yeah putting together a set list is it's absolutely beautiful okay I'm trying to see if I can share without some of the set list that I put together right I'll share that a little later so the way I would approach of making a set list right is let me share in the chat section so this is the kind of process I I tend to follow this is like solid 90% of the time right so how I choose the set list is first thing is you have like a songs of invitation right there needs to be a song of invitation for example now you know we have to remember Sunday morning you know you see 50 people 100 people how many of us 30 people 500 people coming to church they are all not going to be in the zone and pumped up you know everybody would some would have had a challenging week or a horrible week a bad week whatnot and you know some of them would have just parked the car in the parking lot and from the time that they've from the distance between the parking lot and the church they would have had a fight between you know whoever siblings or spouse whatnot a lot of things can happen and and and the worship you're asking how many of you are happy you know and you can some of them might just smile back but then they're not feeling it saying yeah no I'm not there yet right so you kind of you have you kind of this hold their hands and you know and then ease them into this thing that be you know that this time of worship that we will be getting into so songs of invitation is a classic classic song in the 90s and in the early 2000s which we I used to do probably overdid it a song like say come now is the time to worship right how many of them know that song it's it's there in almost every language now Brian Dirksen who wrote it come this is the song of invitation is like saying hey come now is the time for worship let's you know it's about Jesus let's fix our eyes on him and then are some of the songs like we are here for you by Matt Redmond let our praise be your welcome to you our hearts are open nothing here is hidden they you know the song just some of examples guys okay it's the songs of invitation holy spirit you are welcome here right come flood this place and fill this atmosphere right so there's a song of invitation I will look at okay what song can I choose you know just ease a welcome the spirit of the living God into our midst and also assure our people into that into his presence and then straight away I go into songs that focuses on him and nothing about how I feel what you know how happy I am how sad I am is it's not about me immediately but followed by the songs of invitation will be the songs focused on who God is something very declarative you know how great is our God is classic splendor of the king clothed in majesty you wrap yourself in light age to age he stands the time is in his hands beginning and the end the lion and the lamb it's all about him isn't it name above all names worthy of all praise my heart will sing how great how great is our God and there are kind of a hybrid kind of a songs that you know say holy is the Lord we stand and lift up our hands for the joy of the Lord is our strength we bow down and worship you know a great and awesome is he holy is the Lord God Almighty is very declarative right he's saying who God is so followed by the songs of invitation is are the songs of declaration I would look at my set list like that okay so what what are the songs can I add there and then now we go into the songs of response now I respond okay now I encounter now I see who he is you know I've declared who he is now I respond you see I surrender all in the context of to this great king that I've witnessed that I declared that I've sung about I you know I this is my desire Lord I give you my heart you know it's the songs of response and and that kind of leads to songs of this holy moment you know it's again pondering up on who he is like you know going all the way to the holy of holies for example the song is like enter of the holy of holies I enter the holy of holies Lord I worship you all Wilbur song right so most of the time my set list I would build it from the last song to the first one it's like working backwards like I would look at the fourth song you know like the holy moment as okay I want to build the rest of my set list around this song so this is where I want to take the congregation to the end it's like like the left hook you know what do I say okay they ask me okay well so what's the hook in this thing you know what's like every great movie has an amazing climax kind of a thing isn't it so it's like okay how are we gonna end it it has to make sense from song one to song four so the way I function is work backwards and sing okay I want this is where you know I want to take the congregation to and so then work backwards something like that so I hope this kind of helps that you know some of you worship leaders but also in talking about in line with the notes right now coming back to the notes in page 58 about the importance of a set list it's very important that one song flows into another song it's not just a concoction of some random things put together one song is talking about faith other song is talking about love other song is talking about hope etc etc okay you guys with me so that is before worship I'm any questions sorry I heard something yes say yes thank you pastor I'd like the example you gave very enlightening well what about a case whereby the pastor doesn't share with you the message though he gives a theme for the month yeah but you don't know the focus of the message uh that's Sunday how then do you encourage a worship team you know to to set their songs in such a way that one way or the other we can still align with the general theme for the month or even with the message right or how do you again even encourage worship teams that don't even have an clue of what the pastor is going to preach you know to kind of also ensure that the songs you know minister to the people and kind of syncing with the message yeah yeah I think you can ask him uh don't say as in like I before I was on staff with apc when I was just a volunteer with the worship team as a worship leader I would email pastor actually directly and ask him is like pastor what's this week's someone going to be about so I can prepare the song to set a list and so he would respond by saying and he would I would also ask do you have any song suggestions and he would have a couple of suggestions uh you know he would say you can look at doing the song but you don't have to if you can do it that's great if you cannot that's fine as well but so having that communication that that freedom to ask my pastor about what's this Sunday someone going to be like be about and and then if pastor says I don't know roshan I'm still waiting on what the god what god has god wants me to share on then you wait on it but you start I mean you kind of start working on the set list on based on the general thing that so it can work two ways a pastor a person who already knows what he's preaching about um but and a preacher who has no idea yet because he's still waiting on god which is absolutely fine um and so you can just put in the word say okay if there's anything that that you'd like the worship team to do or sing or focus on please let me know so we can communicate the same to the team so uh is communicate us should be fine say nothing complicated thank you maybe another one question um can there be a substitute to song to invitation for instance I like the idea of you know you're bringing everybody's minds to the point that we're here to worship god and seek his face can the substitute be um a prayer song basically you we're just praying but in a way it's like a melody we're singing a prayer song basically kind of in a way in that in that sense can that be a substitute for song of invitation yeah absolutely yeah see this is just a guideline so to speak of what I've shared is uh it doesn't have to be followed like you know to the not even expecting asking or telling you to follow the same thing pattern uh it's just uh one of the ways that you can approach preparing a set list um so you can approach preparing a set list um depending on you know the culture of your church your congregation what are they used to it uh you know your culture your congregation might be used to starting off with the song which is a prayer which is absolutely fine uh yeah thank you you're welcome it's so uh this is uh preparing a set list is what we will look at before the worship time and uh during the worship time itself where remember we are talking about flowing in the spirit so your leading worship uh it's very important to you uh to um um to not to interrupt the flow that means uh it could be about uh talk or exhort only when absolutely necessary this is one thing I will tell my younger self um I started leading worship at the age of 17 and I always felt the need to speak or to constantly talk or to constantly exhort if I had the opportunity to go back and tell my younger self I would say uh maybe not in a very nice way uh say Roshan please don't talk so much um so you'll make of it if you want to uh because um we need to remember that we are worship leaders not preachers uh you know and yes there will be times that you will uh you know uh have to share what God puts in your heart that you know that's where you're gauging uh that is absolutely necessary and you know this is what God's strongly putting in your heart um to share and so that's absolutely fine what I'm talking about is constantly consistently uh feeling the need to talk or exhort um right so just flow uh don't don't interrupt the flow be open be sensitive to the prophetic see what God is doing in the moment right um this is something um okay this word moment is uh huge um for me in in a time of worship right it's all about moments uh for example we use that word in a very not not not very often but we use it when it is very special for example uh you use it to say hey I remember the moment I saw that person for the first time I remember the moment when I met this person I remember the moment uh I read this or I heard it yeah you yeah does anybody relate with that uh you know I remember the moment yeah um so there's something special about the moment so worship a time of worship is all about moments with you and God so for example uh it's it's uh let's let's just imagine now okay uh you know there's a couple uh you know you and your you and your spouse or whoever there's a couple going out for a dinner uh and this is beautiful table candle light candle lit dinner candle light dinner whatever and this is um you know there's this waiter or the server who's you know uh bringing the food um and it's a dinner in a fine dining restaurant right uh everything is fancy the distance between each spoon is measured the distance between the the the water glass and you know everything is measured and whatnot right so and you're having this moment with uh your loved one right you're looking deep into each other's eyes and you're discussing whatever we're having this conversation uh and it's also romantic and whatnot uh and then suddenly you hear a drop of a plate or something crashing or falling uh it's like you know it's what's happened is there's been a distraction right there's been a disconnect in that moment right so how is it in line with worship the Russian is uh so you know someone in the congregation is having that intimate moment with God you know um they are in in that worship moment you know they are meditating on what what and the goodness of God on his faithfulness they're having that moment and then here I am as a worship leader who is not uh sensitive and then just feels the need to talk uh which is not in time which is not in line with what spirit wants to do or do something unnecessary or uh that's more of a distraction and what has happened is I have kind of interrupted the moment that this individual is having or the congregation is having with God or what God is talking to them are you with me yeah it's like see and also so there's two perspective right I'm the worship leader uh say who's insensitive uh you know but this what I shared is from the perspective of the congregation is that they are having a moment with God uh and it's so important to be sensitive um you know um to what's happening in the room but also it also goes to the my worship team members right I'm leading worship and uh and you know the drummer the guitarist the keyboardist who's behind me uh now let's say that I'm a good worship leader I'm sensitive to what God is doing in the room and what he's speaking and and you know I want to every time I want to stop a song I lift my guitar up and that's the cue for the team to stop them pull back on what we are doing right now I want to stop the song because I'm sensing okay there's a moment there that we can pull back and so everybody stop but the drummer is not stopping he's playing an extra measure and he stops at the wrong place uh now what has happened there is we've lost that moment that's precious moment but as a worship leader I know I want to stop there for a reason I'm not just stopping because I want to stop because I feel like okay stopping there singing that chorus uh or not repeating that chorus after that one time is not necessary so I'm stopping everybody else in the band is followed except the drummer uh nothing it's not eternally significant guys it's not like the earth is going to split wide open and swallow me because we didn't stop the song right we it's just that we've lost that moment right you guys with me and so and those moments are precious uh you know in in this time of worship and that's why it also kind of irritates me when I see people walking in late during the middle of the service or worship services uh so you have an individual who's again engaged fully uh in their time with god you know they're having this and then there's this individual who comes because they came late and say uh excuse me can you move I need to go in there oh it's the grace more grace lord so uh but that's the beauty of uh during the worship time is you are being sensitive uh to the leading of the Holy Spirit and that's so crucial and I can't stress enough about it recognize those moments those sailor moments um right it's very crucial um let me um right and then moving into the the ministry time is um now again pastor has come up on stage we we finished the worship time pastor has preached the sermon and he's calling the worship team up this might not happen in every church where after the sermon pastor calls on a worship team again but what most of the times what pastor does at apc pastashish is after his sermon he calls the worship team up back on the stage to a time of ministry uh right once again uh us being sensitive doesn't stop after the worship set and you and you continue to be sensitive to what god is speaking through your senior pastor and you're gauging okay this is where it is this where it is right and so during the ministry time let's say for example there's an example in your in your in in the notes page 59 where the preacher states uh he requests okay let's sing the song light of the world maybe i'll know the song um a simple thing uh these are all practical pointers to worship leaders okay when the pastor says let's sing the song light of the world uh don't start singing from the bridge of the song what's the bridge of that song i'll never know how much it costs to see my sin upon the cross it's so minute it's so small in detail it's uh again if you don't do that it's not something eternally ins you know something's going to happen uh but it's just again moment you're honoring uh you know also the preacher and you know it's small things like that and the preacher says that let's sing then sings my soul uh it's better that you don't start singing the verse oh lord my god um start from then sings my soul go start with the bang this is ministry time remember that right um and then oh if the preacher doesn't say anything at all uh for example if the preacher has preached on healing and deliverance he's just given a some a theory sermon on god is our healer he heals um i'm not going to come on ministry time i start saying father ebraham and many songs um sorry that was uh you what i'm saying isn't it uh you you choose a song that is in line with healing uh you know i believe you're my healer okay um you are you are great you to miracles so great so a song that is in line with healing and um deliverance right um you you guys uh with me all cool yes uh so yeah christopher there's a question uh yes but i would just want i wanted to find out uh uh in that uh you mentioned about that uh sila moment um where um is there is there times when um you know you may want to extend the song and also uh perhaps uh have uh you know um a kind of a instrumental uh you know moment you know and it'll be maybe a you know guitar or a lead guitar or a flute or you know or some wind instrument which brings uh you know a great uh sort of you know sense of worship also uh in the church at that time um and sometimes this could be um you know impromptu you know in the sense it's not it's not planned uh now i know that you know that is um you know ebc does have a very time you know it's very very very uh you know they seek to a particular time and you know it has to you know worship has to get over a certain time i'm just saying that uh you know it may also you know include that you know that um a particular song doesn't get get it get sung so i'm just trying to you know uh you know just try to um i mean has it has a have you had that experience before uh yes uh i i'll i'll probably play a video now uh or to just explain that sailor moment there was a time in uh it was leading worship i've uh felt like god wanted to uh release something prophetically but uh oh with an instrument um so that's happened um so let me just uh play that video um for us so this is a moment in worship during the worship set like like i just mentioned that felt like god wanted to release something uh prophetically but uh but he wanted to he wanted a person in the team to play something so uh let me just share that for us we saw it well in this moment this present right now and i request once again not to look around because we're gonna do something right now and i feel led to do that we're going to prophesy over you but with an instrument i want you to prophesy with your instrument and just receive once again i request engage with god right now because he's here and as we prophesy with an instrument receive it all yeah oh i played it okay uh right yeah so that's uh um there are moments like that um the sailor moments where i think it's so important for us again as worship leaders to know that it's not say we can all just calm down a little bit and just not go through song after song and just dwell uh in that in that moment sorry i'm using the word so much and the moment of what god is doing what god is saying um you know and just meditate and and just let god do what he does best yeah so yeah that was a moment so and that kind of uh leads into the next point which is like the last thing of flowing in in the prophetic uh you know train the team to flow in the prophetic time of worship right if you look at in page 60 the definition of prophecy is god communicating audibly to his people through a person to speak or sing by an inspiration of by inspiration of the holy spirit that's the definition and what couple of things what releases the prophetic it's not the only thing remember a couple of things is when you see in acts chapter 13 verse 2 it says while they were worshiping the lord the spirit of god came over them right and and revealed the what you know the plans what they have to do next but next chapter 13 verse 2 and then uh hosea 10 verse 11 it's very metaphorically speaking juda shall plow that means praise makes way it prepares the way to receive the word of god and he just prepares our hearts to receive the word of god as we as we as we praise right uh you know we this talking about the origins of praise from first year if you remember praise and worship you know remember laia you know she uh she's trying to win the love of her husband so she she's obsessed with that she's just only mindful and only focused on how she can win jacob's love for her so she names her first three sons uh you know god has seen me so will you not see me jacob and love me i have born your son and then second son you know i will you not hear and then third levi you know now surely i've born him three sons my husband will get attached to me so her focus was all about that i mean she realized that she couldn't do anything much verse 4 uh the next step next son she decides to name the fourth son juda right okay she's shifting the focus from herself to god and the things begin to change from there on right and so juda shall plow so a praise begins to prepare our hearts to receive uh a god's word right um four dimensions of prophecy is a prophecy of scripture prophecies that are compiled in the canon of the holy scripture that's right the prophecy of scripture uh the office of a prophet right um so who functions in the prophetic whose soul calling is to be a prophet uh a voice right um the god's voice to his people to the nation nations etc and this gift of prophecy uh this this is the gift of the holy spirit where every believer is encouraged to pursue this gift as well and this is to for edification exhortation etc and then the spirit of prophecy the quickening or or corporate anointing of the holy spirit in which all may prophesy okay so these are just the four dimensions of the prophecy i'm sure you have learned a lot more in depth in the course understanding the prophetic right but then some of the guidelines uh in moving in the prophetic uh is intimate relationship with god once again it all comes down to that basic thing uh intimate relationship with him lifestyle of worship lifestyle of fasting and praying an intentional bible study and meditation uh these four basic simple guidelines for us to uh you know to equip ourselves to move in the prophetic to flow in the prophetic to incline uh you know our years to what god is doing and saying right uh so encouraging our team to build that intimate relationship with god living a lifestyle of worship uh not living two different lifestyles on stage and off stage a lifestyle of prayer and fasting and intentional bible study and meditation right um so that's moving uh and in the prophetic as well i wanted to play a very small clip once again a video um of of the of the prophetic and and i felt like this this person explains it so beautifully um so here it is did y'all find some some 148 go to song 148 now now by by diving right in uh here is here's where here's where we're gonna head it's there's an awesome sound in heaven right now that is invading the earth and there are people that god has created that will have an ear to hear the sound of the song of the lord you know i have a book called sound of heaven symphony of earth there's a sound that is so that is so powerful in heaven that is leaking over into this realm and those that have an ear to hear it are coming into agreement with the sound of heaven and when we start coming into agreement with the sound of heaven the word where two or more agree is actually the word symphony or where two or more symphony or it's a musical term so when that sound of heaven invades earth it's like also there's another side of it the sound of heaven is invading your life and when the sound comes from heaven you have an opportunity to reject or to resist or react or you have an opportunity to respond and when you respond you become an instrument in the earth to resonate or resound resound his glorious song in the earth are you with me let me show you how this works one of the ways hey james back on the sound uh board guy um is this guitar is this guitar on turn this guitar oh this guitar to be very loud in the house and i want my voice that you don't want to guitar real loud in that monitor of course because you'll get some feedback but i want my voice very loud in this monitor that guitar loud in the house voice loud in the monitor hallelujah oh sorry move too close hallelujah holy lord holy lord that guitar is responding to the sound of my voice holy holy see what it's doing it's hearing the sound of my voice and it's saying i agree and the lord is speaking to a generation is waiting for us to hear this sound of his voice and become instruments of worship did you know what i was talking about last night on this morning while i was talking about the enemy satan himself he didn't have to leave worship with a guitar he was a guitar and then we got his place and now we become instruments of worship unto a holy god because we hear the sound of his voice come into agreement with it holy holy holy thanks james we met it was pretty awesome isn't it so that's moving in the prophetic that's flowing the prophetic knowing and understanding that there is a sound in heaven that is so loud that's that wants to invade the earth it all comes down to how many of us are you know willing to hear that sound and come in line with that and say i agree and say amen that is prophetic that's and it and so to train the team to move in prophetic is not just to say that oh our team moves in the prophetic it's not for that it's it's to say that we want to hear the heart of god because he has to say something and we want to release that we want to be that vessel that he will flow through so that basically is prophetic worship right yeah so hope that video was helpful um yeah any any questions anything you want to ask or share all right awesome well we'll conclude our session for today with that then we conclude chapter six as well worship ministry with the spiritual aspects of it right so thank you all for joining hope you had a good time god bless you i'll see you all again next week i'll watch out for the space because i'll be sharing your final assignment today on the trip on the stream sections all the instructions will be given you know in the stream sections so don't worry all right take care everybody god bless you have a lovely rest of the day bye 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