Praise and Worship Songs
Worship In Life
Nigerian Music Artists Offer the Past Blended With the Present
May 20th
Image via Wikipedia
Nigerian Christian music offers a wealth of worship songs as well as artists. The music from the Nigerian past was more biting and finger-pointing than it is today. However, one of the famous singers today is Nneka who is known as a gospel and soul artist. She is one of the new singers who is “telling it like it is.”
One of Nneka’s recent singles is entitled “Africans.” It is considered to be a blunt and raw record. The singer said she was offended herself, as an African, with the thoughts she had. The song calls for change. Nneka sings her song and threads the pieces together about how the country has the resources, but the country must act and react.
One of the unique gospel singers who hit the scene in 2007 is named Asa. Her music is known to be very artsy full of both spirituality as well as intellect. Another artist, Nigerian born Christian singer Ben Okafor has said that the new Nigerian music is creative in its beats and rhythm while being spiritually and intellectually bankrupt. This is more confirmation that the gospel music of Nigeria, the singers, the era from the past is presently going through a major transformation.
A number of Nigerian Christians feel the new songs have such negative values that they are eroding the value systems of both the youth and the adults in the country. There is some sadness that people feel that the Christian artists are not making any cultural statement with the music.
However, the Nigerian gospel music is still there; although the volume might be turned down a bit. In the 1960s the Evangelical Church of West Africa choir used their voices to let the people know what gospel music is all about. The 1970s brought the Good Women Choir, Sola Rotimi, Bola Aare, and Ebenezer Obey to name a few. One of the turning points was when Minister Dorothy James and Rev. David Mporampora transformed gospel music in Nigeria. It is believed that together they laid the foundation of the gospel sound that is known today.
The beautiful hymns, the moving gospels, all of the sounds known to Nigeria have spread the music throughout the world. Such artists as Jide Arowolo, Dayo Bello, David Ojo, Funmi Willians, and many others have taken the Nigerian music, made their own interpretations, and introduced these sounds to most every corner of the world.
The Nigerian music of worship remains a main vein in the African country. The artists from the past shared their beautiful voices and words that have carried on with the artists of today. In days past this music offered peace of mind and dedication toward a brighter tomorrow. The message continues today although some of the “new” Nigerian artists have added their own style and thoughts.
Related articles
- Nigerian Christian songs (iheartworship.com)
- Music Newcomer Preashea Hilliard Debuts At #4 On Billboard Gospel Albums Chart “Fresh Fire” Radio Smash Blazes To Top 20 (prweb.com)
Top 7 search terms for this article:
- nigeriachristianmusic com
- nigeria worship songs lyrics
- gospel songs about transformation
- www nigeriachristiansong
- PRAISE AND WORSHIP SONGS SUNG BY NIGERIANS
- songs about transformation
- nigerian christians
Love Is All We Need!
Feb 17th
8Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. 9The commandments, “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. - – Romans 13:8-10
God had given the Israelite 10 commandments after coming out of Egypt. These were given as basic “lowest acceptable level” type rules that God put in place to esure a happy and blessed life for His people.
As you continue to read through the Old Testament and into the New Testament you start to realise that these laws are constantly being broken by God’s people – and even continue to be today.
So Paul decided to try and make things a little simpler when he said, “The commandments, “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Jesus put it this way in Mark 12:28:
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.”
So what Jesus and Paul are both trying to say is, “All we need is love.”
To follow God’s commandments, we need to: More >
Top 7 search terms for this article:
- worship songs love your neighbor
- call to worship love your neighbor
- christian songs about coveting
- gods love is all we need son
- love your neighbor as yourself worship songs
- you are my treasure music esure
Life Is Short – Enjoy The Dance!
Feb 17th
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask: How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done,
do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say, “Hi”?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance too fast.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower.
Hear the music.
Before the song is over.
~ David L. Weatherford
Top 7 search terms for this article:
- the life is short dance
Life Is A Fleeting Breath, But Is Life Meaningless?
Feb 12th
4 “Show me, O LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. 5 You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man’s life is but a breath. Selah 6 Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro: He bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it. 7 “But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you. 8 Save me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools. - – Psalms 39:4-8
David here questions the purpose of life – just as his son Solomon does years later.
David states, “Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro.” while Solomon puts it a little bit more bluntly when he says, “Life is meaningless.” But they are both in the same situation , wondering what is the purpose of their lives. Do we really matter in the scope of eternity? With our lives being so miniscule in relation to eternity – a drop in the ocean of time, then what is really important?
I love what David asks of God in verse 4:
“Show me, O LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life.”
Our lives on earth are limited . From the moment of our birth we are like an hourglass and the grains of sand are quickly passing with each moment. Yet we still get caught up in the little meaningless things and forget what is really important.
David realised this and knew that if he could really grasp how brief his time on earth really was, then he would start to find out what was really important in his life.
Have you ever had a near death experience or know someone who has?
Notice how almost instantly their priorities change? Thigs that were important are tossed to the side as they chase the dreams they were to afraid to live. They always seem to ‘get their lives in check.’
David mentions the meaningless of wearch in verse 6, just as Solomon does in Ecclesiastes 5. He also casts aside these as meaningless as well:
- Wisdom 16 I thought to myself, “Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind. - – Ecclesiastes 1:16-17 More >
Top 7 search terms for this article:
- solomon life is meaningless
- fleeting breath
- life is a fleeting
- a fleeting breath
- life is fleeting days
- life is fleeting verses
- life is nothing but a fleeting
Godly Success In Three Easy Steps!
Feb 12th
Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
- – Joshua 1:7-9
What God is doing here is laying out to Joshua His strategy for success. As Joshua takes over leadership from Moses God wants to ensure that Joshua will leader Israel into victory and live a successful and prosperous life.
God Wants You To Be Successful
But before we can look at God’s plan for success in our lives we mush first understand what true success is. The dictionary defines success as:
The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted
So putting this into God’s point of view, we are successful when we acheive what God has desired fulfilling the plan he has for our lives.
I don’t know about you, but I definately want to be successful in God’s eyes, so lets pull that verse in Joshua apart and look at 3 things that we can do to ensure that we are doing all that God has called for us to do.
- Guard Your Heart And Your Tongue
I love the Message version of Proverbs 18:21Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose.
Words are powerful. Think about it, God formed the universe with His words, He spoke and light was. This is why He says to Joshua: ‘Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth.’
God wants us to be speaking life into situations, into people and into ourselves. He wants us to confess His promises, His laws and His love. However His promises have to be in us before they can come forth from our mouths. They need to be ingrained into our spirit before we can speak them with authority.
I love Luke 6:45 where it says: ‘Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.’
How often do you hear someone says something that is hurtful, only to add ‘I was only joking.’ Maybe you have done this yourself. I know I have many times, which is why this verse really hit home with me. Usually when we say these things, they just come out, before we can stop ourselves we have already blurted out this hurtful statement – because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Knowing this, I decided to make a change. But instead of trying to stop myself from saying these things, I went to the root of the problem - my heart. I had to examine what I was allowing into my heart, and put up walls and set boundaries to stop certain things from influencing my heart.
But stopping things from getting into your heart is only one part of seeing God’s heart flow abundantly out of our heart – and mouth. We need to make sure we are letting God’s word in. More >
Top 7 search terms for this article:
- do you think joshua was successful in fulfilling god\s plan for his life
- do you think joshua was successful in fulfilling gods plan for his life? why or why not?
- do you think joshua was successful in fulfilling god’s plan for his life?
- - God’s plan for his life Do you think Joshua was successful in fulfilling? Why or why not?
- Steps in fulfilling Gods Plan in our lives
- Steps in Fulfilling God\s Plan to our lives
- steps to godly leadership
This Is Our God: A Visual Journey [PICTURES]
Nov 29th
Have you ever really stopped and thought about how great of God really is. About how incomparable his size is compared to our minute bodies on our tiny planet? Then again our tiny planet is just in a small corner of our galaxy – that just so happens to be one of 100′s of billions (that’s 1,000,000,000,000) of galaxies! Our God is massive – are you getting it?
I love how Isaiah paints the picture and so I want to take you through a visual journey of the greatness and grandeur of OUR God from different passages in Isaiah 40!
Who has scooped up the ocean in his two hands?
or measured the sky between his thumb and little finger?
Who has put all the earth’s dirt in one of his baskets,
weighed each mountain and hill?
Top 7 search terms for this article:
- our god
- valley of kings
- galaxie
- our god reigns
- billions visual
- our god is a god of order
- people in worship images