Bride's Song

  Len Douglas, worship leader, musician and songwriter gave me this song to record in 2019.   Len, his wife Gail, our friend Marcia and I are an Intercessory Worship Team, Incense Rising.  We meet to worship, pray and plant God’s desires for our region through decreeing His Word and prophetic song.   Last year Len had been meditating on John 20 and Mary Magdalene’s encounter at the empty tomb on the day of resurrection.  This song is filled with a depth of emotion; of loss, then surprise and unspeakable joy.  “We seek the one we love so such, we brought the spices for a final touch. It’s an act of worship, in our own way but His love was greater and He couldn’t stay.”   Later in the song the lyric changes to, “He brought the spices for a final touch.” That resurrection morning the women came with their precious spices for Jesus.  It was their act of love that compelled them to go with their spices to the tomb that morning.  At that...

  What kind of sacrifice is pleasing to God?  To answer that we need to look at the root of worship. Hebrew has only one word for the worship of God and that is s hachah . (H-7812, Strong’s)   It appears over 100 times in the Old Testament scriptures.   There are other words in the Old Testament that are translated as worship but they are used in reference to worshipping other gods, not the only true God.   Shachah means, “to bow down, to depress, to prostrate oneself before God in worship and in homage.”   This word infers humility, making oneself low before God.   Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool- He is holy.   Psalm 99:5 Give unto the LORD the glory due to His name, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.    Psalm 29:2 Oh, come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.   Psalm 95:6 Throughout scripture we see people fall on their face and worship the LORD.  ...