Why You Should Listen to Praise and Worship radio stations

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People listen to the radio for a variety of reasons. Some of them treat it as a great source of entertainment‚ some listen to it to stay upbeat with the world news and some just do it merely for passing time while driving. Lately‚ there has been the emergence of a new audience which wants to actually listen to praise and worship songs on the internet radio. Some time before I already named some of the most popular praise and worship radio stations and now I will tell you what are the advantages of listening to such radio stations.

Listening to the praise and worship programs on internet radio stations makes the peace of mind and dedication towards god much easier for people. In fact, radio stations playing this genre of songs are one of the most sought after stations on the internet these days. With the emergence of many internet radio stations, people are finding it easier and easier to practice their faiths and beliefs. There are many advantages of listening to such radio stations. Some are.

  • Stay Connected With God:
    As we plug into the internet, we become connected to the world in terms of information and sharing of data. In this tough era of competition we often end up ignoring our faith and religion. However, this advancement in technology has not really left religion behind either. Internet praise and worship radio stations allow the busy disciple of god to stay in touch with him.
  • Say No To Worldly Tension:
    The worldly tensions accompany us wherever we go but if we tune into something like a praise and worship station we suddenly feel that we need to leave all the tensions and rely on the powers of God. Hence, whenever a person listens to such radio stations, he or she is bound to feel a kind of serenity that is unmatchable to anything else in the world.
  • Free of cost:
    Religion has never been restricted. This fact also applies to most praise and worship radio stations, despite the fact that they are online. In order to listen to some of the most profound quotations from the Bible and heartfelt songs of this genre, all a person has to do is to type the website address of the radio station and tune in.

Many such stations have a great collection of praise songs so you can actually place a request for your favorite praise songs on the website and listen to them. Praise and worship is now online and it is now even easier to get closer to god.

Origins of Nigerian Praise and Worship Songs

For ages‚ people have especially celebrated praise and worship songs owing to the immense faith, belief and intensity that Nigerian singers instill in their praise and worship music. In earlier days, before the arrival of Christian missionaries, Nigerians used to sing different songs in the praise of their Almighty. These songs echoed in the valley whenever there was a brief shower after months of drought or after reaping a good harvest.

There were many special occasions when these praise songs were sung. Some such occasions include the birth of a child in the family to celebrate new life‚ victory of some warrior to celebrate his or her valor and many other songs especially composed to ask the god for his blessings. In fact, there were praise songs for the leader of nation as well.

After the advent of Christian missionaries into the country‚ these praise songs were slowly transformed into worship songs with established guidelines and rules. The praise songs were no longer just songs sung to praise the God but an integral part of Nigerian worship rituals on a day to day basis. Although not very different, these nigerian praise songs were now considered as worship songs.

Furthermore, over time‚ praise songs have been modified and classified into several categories. While the modern worship songs are liked by a lot of people throughout the world‚ there are also many traditional songs which still use the old customary instruments like drums and horns.
In today’s world, nigerian praise and worship songs can be classified into many groups. Some of these include.

  • family songs:
    These are the most commonly used praise songs in many Christian homes. These are ritual songs which are sung to thank god for His kindness and his blessings.
  • marriage songs:
    These are the common songs played or sung during a marriage ceremony. These songs are used to praise and worship the Lord for bringing two souls together.
  • songs for thanksgiving:
    This is the most well known form of this revered genre. These songs are sung when people reap very good harvest.

Praising and worshipping god is one trait that is common across all religions. This includes even pagan beliefs of some tribals. However, it is also an established fact that if someone mentions the words ‘praise and worship’ these days it is almost certain that he or she is talking of Christianity.

Kids Praise And Worship

Praise and Worship music is a good way of turning kids towards the religion and helping them understand what it is about. This music is also called Christian kids music. It is a commonly known fact that there are verses in the bible which speak of children praying to god. This is the sole motive behind the praise and worship genre being promoted to children. These songs are ideal for facilitating a child’s interest in religion and helping him or her understand the reasons and concepts pertaining to worshipping God and taking the right path in life.

The dominating characteristic of these songs is that they are sung by the children for the children. Children have often be found to be extremely pure in their feelings and innocent towards life while gives a special intensity to their beliefs and faith towards God.

Kids worship songs can do wonders for a person feeling jaded or fatigued from life. In fact, one of the reasons why these are popular is the fact that a child’s voice has this peace in it which gets transferred to the listener. Furthermore, it has even been documented by many priests and churches that praise and worship songs done by children have performed miracles in this world. The following are some points to consider when it comes to kids worship music performed by children.

  • It has been noticed that children are more disciplined towards a particular way of life. Once they start following a particular lifestyle they are very devoted towards it.
  • The praise and worship of the God is the most remarkable way to remember Him for giving us this life and helping us through the difficult paths of life. Christian kids’ music has very huge audience throughout the globe. It can help to bring in more kids to worship the Almighty and hence spreading the righteous path more.
  • The children are pure and innocent so they can invoke more trust amongst the masses. Resultantly, kid’s worship songs increases the faith of the people towards God. In addition to this, people love their soulful voice and it helps them attain the meditation style trance.
  • Although children are not missionaries, they can definitely preach the religion of faith amongst the people of the world as well as any priest or missionary.

About Brooke Fraser

Who is Brooke Fraser and why is she so famous? Let us present some information about this amazing worship artist.

Brooke Fraser’s successful musical career:

Her first album “What To Do With Daylight” was first released in New-Zealand, in 2003 it became so successful that it got platinum status for 7 times! She managed to sell a whopping 100,000 copies in just New-Zealand alone. In addition, she managed to remain at the top of the charts for 66 weeks. All of her 5 singles managed to make it to the top 20. Some of her most famous albums are the following:  Better (2003), Lifeline (2003), Saving the world (2004), Arithmetic (2004), Without you (2005) Deciphering me (2006), Shadow feet (2007), Albertine (2007) cs Lewis Song (2007)

Personal Life:

Brooke Fraser

Brooke Fraser

Brooke Fraser is the oldest sibling out of her three siblings, She grew up in Naenae, Lower hutt and attended school at dyer-street school after that, she switched schools to Naenae Intermediate and Naenae college. Fraser had an affinity to music as a young girl, and thus showed great interest in playing the piano, and she pursued her desires by taking piano lessons at the age of 7 years. She continue playing the piano until she was 17. She also loved writing songs, and began writing them at the age of 12, and also learned the acoustic guitar on her own. For such a great singing talent, it’s surprising to know that she never took singing lessons. On an annual New-Zealand festival the “Parachute” she performed live in front of audiences, and continued to do so, until 2000. Later in life, following the success of her very first album, Fraser decided to move to Sydney, Australia, there she resided for 5 years. She often commuted to the United States on her tours. Later in life, she ended up marrying Scott ligertwood who also resided in Sydney, Australia.

Awards and Reconditions:

Throughout her career Broke Fraser has won several awards, such as: Most promising women musician award, Best female solo artists for the album “What To Do With Daylight“, Breakthrough artist of the year for what to do with daylight, Most performed work on NZ radio, She earned a silver scroll from Australasian Performing Right Association, The warehouse’s largest selling album- Albertine- Apra silver scroll awards, Record of the year- Deciphering me, Editors music choice award- Albertine, International Achievement- 2009 New-Zealand music award.

What do You think about Brooke Fraser? Do you like her music and her work? Tell us your opinion…

Chris Tomlin Discography 1995-2000

Some time ago I have written an article titled “Chris Tomlin Biography” in which we went through the historical path of his life and events that shaped him into becoming a reputable Dove Award-winning Christian Contemporary Music artist. Now I think we should also give some attention to Chris Tomlin Discography that is why I decided to cover this part of his life in more details.

So let us go through Chris Tomlin Discography in the period 1995-2000:

1. His debut album “Inside Your Love” was released in 1995 on the good old Audio Cassette and I will try to find the track listing soon and publish it here.

2. Chris Tomlin’s second album was released in 1998 with the title “Authentic“. Here is the track listing of the album Authentic:
1. “In Love with You”
2. “Tell Me Who”
3. “Romans 16:19″
4. “Alle”
5. “You Are My King”
6. “The Cross, the Crown (No Greater Love)”
7. “You Are My Treasure”
8. “Lamb of God”
9. “We Fall Down (My Jesus I Love Thee)”
10. “Shout to the Lord”

3. “Too Much Free Time” was the last album from the period 1995-2000 and it was released in 1999 in cooperation with Ross King. In case you are interested here is the track listing of this the “Too Much Free Time” album:
1. “One Light Town”
2. “Anymore”
3. “Big Man”
4. “Foot In My Mouth”
5. “Hidden Track”
6. “I Fell In Something”
7. “Christmas Song”
8. “If The Devil Was a Man”

As we see Chris Tomlin Discography inludes three releases in five year period (1995-2000), Inside Your Love (1995), Authentic (1998)
and Too Much Free Time (1999).

If you liked this post feel free to come back in few days when we publish the second part of Chris Tomlin Discography in the period 2001-2005.

For more information you can read “Chris Tomlin Biography” that offers a great insight into life of this amazing musician.

Easy Worship Songs – Some songs for easy praise and worship

One of the most natural forms of human expression is through singing. It is thus not surprising when people worship the deity they believe in – which they do through singing easy worship songs. Easy worship songs can be described as giving praise to God, or a form of prayer. The importance of these songs is to give adoration, devotion, affection, and love to God, which worshipers can do by bowing down before Him, observing moments of silence in submission to Him, lifting hands out to Him, and just pouring everything from the heart.

Easy worship songs, or tags if you like, are very simple, and form a very crucial and powerful part of any worship set. Most of these songs are normally around 2-4 lines long, with 3-4 chord progressions. These simple tags of worship are quite powerful perhaps because of the repetition because unlike a normal worship song with verses, the chorus, and the bridge structure where one gets to sing only twice or thrice maximum, easy worship songs can be sang up to 30 times as the lines are short.

The repetition of easy worship songs gives the worshipers time to really listen and reflect on what the words are saying, and giving them enough time to personalize the lines, making them their own and applying them on their particular situation. Many people have discovered that easy worship songs reach and express their deepest feelings far more strongly than words alone could.

During easy worship songs, the congregation will often harmonize in a free manner, probably even singing and speaking in tongues, while the worship leader will more often than not seek to be ‘guided and led by the Holy Spirit’. A Unique and indescribable experience is created when there is an improvised flow from one song to another, and it is not uncommon to find a musical material inserted from one song to the other.

Additionally, easy worship songs make the church lively. No one wants to worship in a boring church with no songs. This is perhaps related to the fact that worshiping involves both call and response whereby the worshippers call upon the Lord and reaches the deepest depths of their hearts with special power, while singing out to the Lord expresses with very unique and special power the deepest response from the worshiper’s hearts to the Lord.

Last but not least, easy worships songs are what determine how everything else in a typical service will proceed. When easy worship songs lift people to the highest heights, people who lead the worship including the pastor will without a doubt be inspired to preach and lead the congregation with greater power and freedom. It has also been proven that people who sing worship songs in truth and in spirit find that their hearts and minds have been opened more clearly to hear and receive from the Word of God.

Here are some examples of easy worship songs:

Awesome God

Our God is an awesome God

He reigns from heaven above

With wisdom power and love

Our God is an awesome God

My God Is A Miracle God

My God is a Miracle God (2x)

He has never failed,

He will never fail.

He will do what He says He will do,

He will do what He promised to do.

Come And See The Lord Is Good

Come and see the Lord is good (2x)

There is nothing He can not do

Come and see the Lord is good.

He gave me victory

He gave me peace of mind

There is nothing He can not do

I have seen Lord is good