Sunday Setist---Palm Sunday Apr.17

Today was our annual Palm Sunday worship celebration. We take this service and extend the music portion of the worship. It's fitting that it celebrates when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem to the praises of His people. We know that they would all turn on Him within the next few days, but at the time they thought He was riding in on that donkey to claim His throne. Little did they know, He would accomplish so much more than that.

The children sang "Were You There?" A powerful song that they performed in front of the whole church with hands motions and everything. It was great.

Then, the praise team began the music. Here was the order:

Offertory (Made to Worship)

All Praise & Honor (Baloche)
Hosanna (Fraser)
Healer (Guglielmucci)

We took our time with these songs. We spent time lingering, giving people time to really connect and feel the Spirit. So many wonderful lyrics in these songs:

....when You are glorified, my heart is satisfied to know, all praise and honor is Yours...
....heal my heart and make it clean.....break my heart for what breaks Yours...
....Hosanna in the highest!!
....I believe You're my healer....I believe You are all I need...
....nothing is impossible for You, for You hold my world in Your hands...

Wonderful declarations to our God and Savior.

Then we had a time of invitation, singing I Surrender All. People came forward to the altar, came for prayer, went and prayed with someone... all kinds of responses to the Spirit.

Then, the Spirit led us to play Revelation Song, a very powerful worship song. We always see wonderful expressions of praise during this one.

After that, we ended with an upbeat medley to really end on a high. We played He is Exalted/The Stand/Awesome God to finish it out.

My prayer for this service was for our congregation to experience a deeper time of worship during the extended song set, and then be able to recall it for other services. For them to really identify with the lyrics and sing them as if they were there own, as if the wrote them or were praying them.

I can't wait to hear more reports of how the Lord moved in people's lives and hearts. Praise God!!!

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