A New Year...A New Dance.

Psalm 67
For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A song.
1 May God be gracious to us and bless us
and make his face shine on us—
2 so that your ways may be known on earth,
your salvation among ALL nations.

3 May the peoples praise you, God;
may ALL the peoples praise you.
4 May the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for you rule the peoples with equity
and guide the nations of the earth.
5 May the peoples praise you, God;
may ALL the peoples praise you.

6 The land yields its harvest;
God, our God, blesses us.
7 May God bless us still,
so that ALL the ends of the earth will fear him.
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From Karl Cobos:  To those who I sing with in the Nation of Worship choir and band.
I have so enjoyed this year...singing next to you, dancing to the music, worshiping our Father, lifting my hands in praise, crying my eyes out at the embrace of the Holy Spirit and being thankful for His incredible grace and mercy among us.  I've enjoyed all the treats, tea and coffee beforehand, and all the encouraging, inspiring and thought-provoking words that fill the choir room before we go in to the service.  I love you...you're my family, and you've always been there.

In with the new...let us enter this New Year with newness in our hearts, praise and sing to the Lord more and more new songs.  Let His praise be on your lips no matter what has happened during the week...come into oneness and unity thanking Him and reaching out to Him when we're together singing to Him.  Let love consume us...let us be ourselves in our worship, embrace Him and each other and enjoy dancing in our joy!  God wants His children to have fun and be happy and leap like a calf out of the stall.
Here we are ... TO WORSHIP!

Happy New Year!
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From CITN events:
A Little Slice of Heaven in 2011!!

New Year's Eve Celebration! CITN is joining with the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit to ring in the new year on Friday, December 31 from 10PM to Midnight. Please join us for a lively evening of great music, laughter and special guest speaker, Bishop Carlton Pearson. (The Cathedral is located at 2600 H.F. Shepherd Drive, Decatur, GA 30034)

Reminder: there will be one combined service at 11:00AM on Sunday, January 2, 2011. (All children's ministry services will be open at 11:00 as well.) And this is our first Communion Service of 2011, so come with an attitude of gratefulness and expectation!

Week of Prayer - Please come out January 3-7 from 7-8PM as we pray together for direction and divine order for all our lives, this ministry, and this nation. There will not be a Body Life meeting on Tuesday (Pastors Jimmy & Darlene Swilley's Bible study), nor a Real Women meeting on Thursday so that all the focus will be on prayer. See you there!
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Songs for Sunday:
My Everything
Say So
Lord I praise You
Your Love is Extravagant

Offering: I just want to celebrate

Colors are Shades of Blue, black and or tan.

From Pam:  Thank you all for your contribution to P. Jon. We really stepped up and blessed his family tremendously. YOU ARE AMAZING!
I know it is right after the holidays but if you want to contribute to the fund...please do.

It is the 1st Sunday so Altos have breakfast.

Also P. Jon wants to have You are Amazing from your cd's ready for the 9th. Be working on that as we will be practicing it on Sunday.

I Worship You!

I worship YOU

I worship YOU

From the rising up of the sun, 'til the goin' down of the same
The name of the Lord is to be praised!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Enter His gates with THANKSGIVING and His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him and bless His name; for the Lord is good and His love is everlasting...Psalm 100:4,5

Happy Thanksgiving to all...a day filled with thanks...and a day filled with giving...and you will be filled and stuffed.

God bless you all!

Worship the Lord with all your heart

One Love! What about the one heart? One Heart!
What about - ? Let's get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One Love!);
So shall it be in the end (One Heart!),
All right!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right - Bob Marley

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Commune with me/Remember me

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart..."

Commune With Me / Remember Me

If you were at Wednesday night's service you heard bishop mention about wanting to focus a little more on worship. So...let's do it...pray for a great service and an awareness of His presence, and let's just worship!
Remember last year's focus on worship during the School of the Bible time.

Prepare in the car coming...sing...prepare your heart, let go of the troubles and bring in your positive vibe and praise!

For the choir:
My Savior Lives
I Am Not Forgotten
Indescribable
Breathe
Possible extras: Here I Am To Worship, How Great Is Our God, Overwhelmed
Colors are: black / black

Welcome Pastor Jon Scott

We welcome Pastor Jon Scott to Nation of Worship!!
Thank you for stepping in...leading and guiding us and the congregation in lifting Him up through worship and proclaiming His name.  God bless you greatly in your time with us...let the creativity continue to flow...

CHANGE

Ammend...replace...transform...modify...remodel...redo...renew...alter...tweak...metamorphosis...CHANGE


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(beginning drum solo...singing starts around 4:43)




Pastor Jimmie and Sharon: We love you, thank you for all you guys have done, accomplished and blessed us with...and know that God has great things in store for you and your family.

Our Father in heaven, establish now your Kingdom
All power, dominion, be to our awesome God!

Come, let us sing to the Lord, let us shout joyfully
He is exalted, forever exalted on high.
He is the Lord, forever His truth shall reign
Heaven and earth rejoice in His holy name.
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...to feel the warmth of Your embrace
You are my desire, bring me back to you.
You're all I want...You're all I've ever needed
You're all I want...Help me know You are near...
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Who is like the Lord?.. nobody!
Your name is great and greatly to be praised...how great You are!

"ALL the earth shall worship You and sing praises to You..." (Psalm 66:4 - NKJV)

Hallelujah...He reigns!

You are an awesome wonder!

SHOUT TO THE LORD...WORSHIP HIM!

WORSHIP GOD!
"Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker." (Psalm 95:6)

Today I will live in the now! I will live in the now because I am a worshipper of the I AM.

7 Affirmations Of Worship In The Now For Today:
"Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? You in your mercy have led forth the people whom you have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation." (Exodus 15:11, 13)


"I know that whatever God does, it endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it. And God does it so that men will [reverently] fear Him [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is]. That which is now already has been, and that which is to be already has been; and God seeks that which has passed by [so that history repeats itself]." (Ecclesiastes 3:14, 15 – AMP)


"And in that day you will say: Praise the Lord, call upon His name; declare His deeds among the peoples, make mention that His name is exalted. Sing to the Lord, for He has done excellent things; this is known in all the earth. Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!" (Isaiah 12:4-6)


"Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard (difficult) for You. You are great in counsel and mighty in work [deed] . . . You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, to this day . . . and You have made Yourself a name, as it is this day." (Jeremiah 32:17,19,20)


"God is sheer being itself – Spirit. Those who worship Him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration." (John 4:24 – The Message)


"Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen." (1 Timothy 1:17)


". . . Allelujah! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory . . ." (Revelation 19:6, 7)

Where the Spirit of the Lord is...

"No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord', for they ALL shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord.  For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more"  (Jeremiah 31:34)

Rivers rich in mercy beckon
EVERYONE who thirsts is welcome
ALL who hunger freely come
Bread of Life for everyone

Free for ALL, free for ALL
Over every limitation free for all
Where the Spirit of the Lord is
There is freedom free for ALL



Holy, and righteous
Come Lord, and abide with us
Your presence is all that we need
Our hearts are fixed upon Your face
Our thankful lips are filled with praise
Your presence is all that we need


Draw me close to You
Never let me go
I lay it all down again
To hear You say that I'm Your friend...

You're all I want
You're all I've ever needed
You're all I want
Help me know You are near

Come Just As You Are

Come, just as you are to worship
Come, just as you are before your God
Come!

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One day EVERY TONGUE will confess You are God

Give Him the highest praise
For He is worthy to be lifted up...

Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
Holy, holy is He
Sing a new song to Him who sits on
Heaven's mercy seat...



Holy, holy, holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, and is, and is to come...


All the old fashions are now obsolete. Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivlized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on EVERYONE IS DEFINED BY CHRIST, EVERYONE IS INCLUDED IN CHRIST. (Colossians 3:11 - The Message)

Cover The Earth With Your Glory And Free The Nations

"The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and ALL flesh shall see it together..." (Isaiah 40:5)

Let me be an instrument
To exalt and to extend
Jesus' name globally
As the waters cover the sea
Open the heavens O Lord
Pour out Your Spirit
...Cover the earth with your glory

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Come bless the Lord
Draw near to worship Christ, the Lord
And bless His name, His holy name
Declaring He is good.

O that men would praise Him
Rejoice in the Lord always
AND AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE!



You said Your glory will fill the earth
Like water the sea.
You said "lift up your eyes",
The harvest is here, the kingdom is near.

...distant shores and the islands will see
Your light as it rises on us.



Who will shout to the corners of the earth
That Christ is King?
We speak to nations, "be open"
We speak to nations, "Fall on your knees"
We speak to nations,
"The kingdom is coming near to you"
Oh ---, we speak to strongholds, "Be broken"
"Powers of darkness, you have to flee"
We speak to nations,
"The kingdom is coming near to you"
We speak to you, "Be free, yeah, be free"



(note to choir - colors for this weekend are black/brown.
no rehearsal Jan. 30, project 404 conducting the service.)

Begin Again

BEGIN AGAIN in 2010!!

Today I will open a new chapter in the book of my life. I will learn something that I did not know before (or didn't know that I knew); I will think a new thought . . . speak a new word . . . sing a new song . . . pray a new prayer. I make the choice today to live in a world full of new beginnings as darkness is replaced by dawn, and winter is replaced by spring. Today is a new beginning for me, and today I will live in the now!
-Jim Earl Swilley, A Year In The Now
 
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord as we move forward.
 
I'm not going back, I'm moving ahead
I'm here to declare to you my past is over
In You, old things are made new
Surrendered my life to Christ , I'm moving, moving forward.
-Israel Houghton and Ricardo Sanchez
 
"Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.'" (Revelation 21:5)


Let everything that has breath, praise Him!
All ye lands just praise Him
Lift up those hands and praise Him
Bless His holy name...
 



Oh, that the Church would arise
Oh, that we would see with Jesus' eyes
We could show the world heaven
...let the redeemed of the Lord say so...I am redeemed
-Israel Houghton and Michael Gungor


With all creation I sing
Praise to the King of kings
You are my everything
And I will adore you...



Happy are the people whose strength is in You...
As they pass through the Valley of Tears, they make it a source of springwater...
They go from strength to strength; each appears before God in Zion.
(taken from Psalm 84:5-7)

You are my strength, strength like no other...




How happy are those who reside in Your house, who praise You continually.
Psalm 84:4