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Worship Songs for the Contest are Posted

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Over 100 songs were submitted for the Worship Contest… Songs for an Awesome God.  Every song written is precious in God’s eyes. It’s been a joy for me to hear all the submissions. It made me cry thinking that these are just the songs in English. How pleased God must be to hear new worship songs sung in so many different languages!

Several beautiful worship songs are now posted at the site for you to hear for both age categories. Here’s a comment from one of the adult songwriters.

Went to the site… Good job! I listened… I am humbled. I’m thinking about voting for someone else. Wow… what a wonderful collection of worship and worshippers!"

Both categories are accessible from – www.worshipguitarclass.com/contest.html

I was particularly impressed with all the Kids that wrote songs. There were 21 submissions in this category. Nine are on the site. I know you’ll be blessed too, just hearing worship from the heart of a child or teenager!

The specific URL’s are:

Age 17 and younger –  http://worshipguitarclass.com/sep-2006kids.html
Age 18 and older – http://worshipguitarclass.com/sep-2006.html

How to Write a Worship Song

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This is the first article since announcing the Worship Contest that deals with writing worship songs. Before you start to write your song, you need to know what you want to say. For the contest, one of the requirements is that you must back up some of your words with a least one Scripture verse.

You may take a verse and sing it. That works. I did that for Psalm 67 in my Friends of the Heart CD. It’s literally Scripture. God’s Word is Active and Alive. It’s good to meditate on it. In a Bible Class I took years ago, they told us to pick a verse and find 30 truths or applications. My verse was Jeremiah 9:23-24

Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

The first ones were easy to see. We are not supposed to boast. It got harder finding the numbers 25 – 30, but it hit me what God didn’t say. He didn’t say we should boast about His wisdom, His power and His riches which He possesses to the ultimate. No, instead He says to boast about His Lovingkindness, his righteous attributes and to boast that we know Him.

How do we know Him? Take a real good look at Jesus in the New Testament. You now know God. Jesus said if we have seen Him, then we have seen the Father. He said as we abide in Him and His Word abides in us then we can ask whatever we wish and it will be done. (We will desire for God’s will to be done!)

Last week, I sat down and wrote this song based on that passage in Jeremiah and on the observations I saw. I wanted to make the song easy, so it starts in the key of D with the I, IV & V (D, G & A7). This is covered in my Worship Guitar Class DVD volume 2. When you sign up for the Newsletter, you receive an e-book of common chords and the I, IV and V are there too.

Songs often have a chorus which repeats after verses. An easy format could be Chorus, verse 1, Chorus, verse 1 ,etc. For the verses I added a few other chords in the Key of D, this is from that free e-book.

To get on the Newsletter list, visit WorshipGuitarClass.com.  Maybe later I can get a signup box in this blog too.

Worship Contest

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Throughout Scripture there are references about singing a new song. For example Psalm 33:3 says “Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.” In Ephesians 5:19, Paul tells us to “Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord.” After being severely flogged, we find Paul and Silas praying and singing hymns in a jail that couldn’t hold them, Acts 16.

Now you have the opportunity to ‘sing to Him a new song…’ by submitting one song in the worship contest. There are two age categories, 17 and younger or 18 and older. The song must be original and needs to have at least one reference to a Scripture passage. The song must be a worship song, directed towards God.

There are wonderful songs sung about God, but this needs to be directed to God. Songs may be sung a cappella or with instrumental accompaniments, but must be sung in English. The songs must be submitted by September 23rd, 2006. The songs for the two age categories will be posted on the website, for people to listen to the songs and vote for their favorite. Songs will be posted on the website and voting will begin on September 25th, 2006. Only one vote per computer will show up, to keep the voting fair.

First place winners will receive a Guitar, Case, Tuner and a set of the first three volumes of Jean Welles Worship Guitar Class(TM) DVD’s. Second place winners will receive the 3 DVD’s. The winning songs will stay posted at the site. Best songs will be posted and voted on at the end of September.

To enter the contest, go to www.worshipguitarclass.com/contest.html and fill out the appropriate form for the 17 years and younger or 18 years old and older.

New song – 'Mi Vida Es Para Ti', or 'My Life, It Is For You'

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I recently finished a Beth Moore Study called ‘Believing God.’ She certainly is a wonderful teacher and vibrant speaker/encourager. On the last night we watched her, via DVD, demonstrate how short our lives are by putting a sign post on one end of the stage that said ‘0 Years’ and another at the opposite end of the stage with ‘1000 years.’

In Scripture it says that 1000 years is as one day to God. There were three more sign posts, one saying ‘500 years’ in the middle of the stage, ‘250 years’ between the ‘0’ and ‘500 years,’ and ‘125 years’ between the ‘0’ and ‘250 years.’ The ‘0 years’ and ‘125 years’ sign posts were close enough together that Beth could touch both with her hands.

That’s our life in terms of eternity. It’s brief. Well, a few days later I was worshipping and praying and a my first song in Spanish was birthed. I had heard from a number of stores that their Spanish customers loved my videos and DVD’s. I found out they were being used in several churches in the Panama, Spanish Churches in the US and in missions trips to Hispanic Countries.

The song, inspired by Beth Moore’s class, is all about how our lives are short and belong to Him. I sang the song to a few Spanish friends. One of my prayer partners, Marion, corrected a few lines and that Sunday, my friend Esther, from Cuba, told me she thought the song would be well received in a Spanish Church she knows. Then, Rich, a dear brother who preaches at a soup kitchen for mostly hispanics loved it too. I’ve sung at his soup kitchen a number of times, in both English and Spanish.

It’s a song with simple chords and I have it here with both the audio and music. Since English is the language most of you speak, I translated it into English too.

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HERE to both hear and see the music. Feel free to use it in personal or corporate worship.