<img src="Noel Dear Main Logo 2.png" style="width:600px; border: none; box-shadow: none; background: none;"> *Dr. Noel Dear's Sermons, Bible Studies, Articles, & Devotions* ([[Pastor Noel's Resources|Home]]) # How to Be Worship Leaders – July 30, 2025 Message for Choir and Orchestra Worship Event ## August 3, 2025 # Introduction - You are the worship leaders. - What does that mean? - Your worship impacts the worship of the entire church. # How to Be Worship Leaders - ## Worship by finding a reason to rejoice. - **[[Psalm 95.1]] | Come, let’s shout joyfully to the Lord, shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!*** (CSB) - **[[Psalm 95.2]] | Let’s enter his presence with thanksgiving; let’s shout triumphantly to him in song.*** (CSB) - ## Worship from a place of humility recognizing the undeserved privilege. - **[[Psalm 95.6]] | Come, let’s worship and bow down; let’s kneel before the Lord our Maker.*** (CSB) - ## Worship by seeing God as a refuge. - **[[Psalm 73.28]] | But as for me, God’s presence is my good. I have made the Lord God my refuge, so I can tell about all you do.*** (CSB) - **[[Psalm 73.28]] | But ==it is good for me to draw near to God==: I have put my trust in the Lord God, That I may declare all thy works.*** (==KJV 1900==) - ## Worship to give not receive. - **[[Psalm 96.8]] | Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name; bring an offering and enter his courts.*** (CSB) - **[[Exodus 23.15]] | Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because you came out of Egypt in that month. ==No one is to appear before me empty-handed.==*** (CSB)