Worship Songs for February 1

First Baptist Church of Euless – BEHIND THE PRAISE
Worship songs
February 1st, 2009

“Redeemed” 9:15

The word redeemed implies the idea of a slave standing on the trader's auction block being offered to the highest bidder. At last the price is paid by a compassionate new owner, who then gives the slave his unconditional freedom. But the freed slave, out of gratitude to his new owner, offers himself as a loving bond servant for life to his redeemer.This popular gospel song by Fanny Crosby first appeared with William Kirkpatrick's jubilant tune in the hymnal Songs of Redeeming Love, published in 1882. It is another of the more than 8,000 hymns by the blind American poetess, Fanny Jane Crosby, the most important writer of gospel hymn texts in American history.

Redeemed--how I love to proclaim it!
Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb;
Redeemed thru His infinite mercy
His child, and forever, I am.

Redeemed and so happy in Jesus;
no language my rapture can tell;
I know that the light of His presence
with me doth continually dwell.

I think of my blessed Redeemer.
I think of Him all the day long;
I sing for I cannot be silent;
His love is the theme of my song.

I know I shall see in His beauty
the King in whose law I delight,
who lovingly guardeth my footsteps
and giveth me songs in the night.

Redeemed, redeemed,
redeemed by the blood of the Lamb;
redeemed, redeemed,
His child, and forever, I am.

Click here for an arrangement of the song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqnC0N9rVC0

Click here for a jazz arrangement of the song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNxhcuVodBs

"You're Worthy of My Praise" 9:15am

This song was written by David Ruis. David is a well-respected worship leader, songwriter and speaker. Together with his wife Anita, he is also known as a church planter and pastor having established churches in Canada and the US within the Association of Vineyard Churches. David has also been instrumental in seeing Christian communities developed in Nepal and India within the Vineyard movement. Much of his focus tends to be in indigenous settings working amongst the poor, as well as facilitating leadership development and the fostering of originality in song writing and the arts in various cultural settings.David has several worship songs published that are standards in Church worship, most notably "You're Worthy of My Praise" and "Every Move I Make". He recently released his latest CD, “When Justice Shines” through ION Records (ionworship.org). David has also authored two books with Regal Publishing - "The Worship God Is Seeking" and more recently "The Justice God Is Seeking".At this point David is giving significant focus to music and the creative aspects of his calling, which involve music production, writing, and composition. David continues to travel internationally both speaking and leading worship. A burning passion for the Ruis family is the discovery of the practical and theological integration of creative worship expression within community that is engaged in a lifestyle that interfaces with the issues of poverty and social injustice.David, his wife Anita and their four children currently reside in the Los Angeles area.

Click here to listen to David share about how the song came about: www.theheartofworship.org/stories/Story-164-YouAreWorthyofMyPraise-Ruis.mp3

Click here to worship along with the Vineyard worship team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcWkt7rxrg

Click here to worship along with Jeremy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ33YN3lZWw

"God of Wonders" 9:15am

This song by Steve Hindalong has become a classic. Here is a description of how the song came about: When Marc played the chord progression and melody, it felt really big. I kind of got a chill-I got goose bumps on my arms. I just thought, 'This song needs to be big, with really vast language.' So 'God of wonders beyond our galaxy' was as big as I could think." Having attended an Episcopal church for the last few years, Hindalong has been introduced to a new inspiration for his songwriting. "The liturgy, the old words, is kind of new to me. I flipped through The Book of Common Prayer, and I remember 'Lord of all creation, water, earth and sky.' That became the first line of the song."

Lord of all creation Of water, earth and sky /
The heavens are your tabernacle /
Glory to the Lord on high /

God of wonders beyond our galaxy /
You are holy, holy /
The universe declares Your majesty /
You are holy, holy /

Lord of heaven and earth
Lord of heaven and earth

But it isn't the vastness of the song that seems to really impact people, relates Hindalong. "People have sent me emails about the song and referred to the second verse. I think the real power of the song is there, when all of the sudden it gets intimate. It says 'When I stumble in the darkness, I will call Your name by night.' This God that is the God of not only our earth, but of all the worlds, that is so big-but when I'm afraid, when I'm alone, when I sin, when I'm in trouble, He comes close enough that I can call His name. It's the truth that's powerful, not the song. It is that particular truth that is so moving."

Click here to worship along with Third Day & Caedmans' call www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBNE25rtnE

Click here for another version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZL0cjcLBYY

"It is Well" 9:15am

Click here to read the story of how the song was written along with the rest of the story http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2003/09/it-is-well-with-my-soul.php

Click here to watch the Gaither video version with David Phelps www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPFVijGcLtI

Click here for more background information: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Is_Well_With_My_Soul

To listen to the song click here: www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/i/t/i/itiswell.htm

“I Never Lost My Praise” 9:15 & 10:45

This gospel song was written by Trumaine Hawkins.

In 1969, Lady Tramaine joined the Edwin Hawkins Singers and was a part of the Gospel Music Revolution via the recording of Oh Happy Day the first million-selling Gospel single to top the Pop record charts as well as the first cross over hit, in all cross-sections of the world. Lady Tramaine then moved on to the Los Angeles area to join Andrea Crouch and the Disciples, where she sang lead vocals on the Grammy nominated single "Christian People". After sharing her gifts with Andrea Crouch and the Disciples, Lady Tramaine returned to the Oakland area where she rejoined the Edwin Hawkins Singers. Lady Tramaine can be heard singing lead vocals on the Love Alive Series with Walter Hawkins and The Love Center Choir and also with The Hawkins Family in the 70's and 80's.

Click here to worship along with Trumaine:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOkwUKn_gfc

Go here to listen to the song on Trumaines’ myspace standalone player
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=85236027

“For our Good” 9:15 & 10:45

This song of declaration was written by Kim Noblitt – National Christian Recording Artist and Songwriter. Kim was for nine years the featured soloist for the group Truth. From 1999 – 2005 Kim served as Minister of Music for the dynamic First Baptist Church of Euless, TX He is President and Founder of G3Worship Music. Kim has completed numerous recording projects including God Is Good, You Saved Me, You Are My Victory and His Kingdom Shall Never End. He and his wife Susanne reside in Springfield, Arkansas where he serves as worship pastor for the First Baptist Church of Springfield.

I know You’re faithful more than able You are my Abba Father Friend.
Jehovah Jireh, my provider. I give my anxious heart again.

You alone are God, high above the heavens, You rule all creation.
Through the storms of life, I will trust Your promise.
Everything together for our good.

You refine me, through the fire.
I know some day I will shine. So I surrender, all my dreams, Lord.
I choose to take You at Your word

“Still Standing” 10:45am

This song was written by Israel Houghton. Israel wrote the following on worship:
When I was 7, I met my grandfather for the first time, who was the same guy who told my mother, ‘You got to move on.’ I saw my cousins and my younger siblings running up and jumping on his lap and hanging out. A great time was being had by all. So I thought, Let me do the same thing. Well, I ran and jumped up on his lap, and the next thing I knew, I was on my back. He had pushed me to the ground. He had still not been able to make peace with this cultural thing. I just said, ‘What’s wrong with me? Why?’
Later on you’d hear, especially when worship started taking shape, you know, Kent Henry was one of those worship leaders, ‘Hey, just crawl into your Father’s lap and let Him love you.’ And I’m sitting there going, I’m having a difficult time with that.
You want to think you’ve moved on from that, but at the same time, the intimacy of worship with God, it affected me. I realized, You’ve gone through all of this, not to hurt you but to shape you, to be acquainted with the pain that a lot of people feel. So it has shaped my life incredibly by just diving into the Father’s love and encouraging others to do it -- not trivializing the pain that a lot of people who come to church and come to a concert or whatever are feeling, but just the sensitivity to where people are at and helping them come into a place of breaking through into what God really has for them.
When you read Psalm 139, it throws out all the ‘I’m here accidentally’ stuff that I believed for so long. I felt like an accident. I felt like a mistake. But when you understand, ‘I’m fearfully and wonderfully made; I’m skillfully crafted; how precious are your thoughts toward me; how marvelous are your works,’ when you start considering all that and going, Ok, I didn’t just sneak into the earth, I was created for something great, the more I dwell on that, the more I meditate on that, the more I share that with people who want to hear it, the better I feel about why I’m here.
I love being home. My first ministry is in this house. The church that I pastor is right here. My congregation consists of Malaysia, Mariah, Duncan, and Mylonlily, and everything else is secondary, including Lakewood.
I believe that if I don’t take care of my family as a great leader and husband and father, I could have all kinds of accolades and awards and a big mantle up there or something with a bunch of statuettes, but if my children don’t respect me, if I haven’t been a good husband, then that’s all a joke to me.
My first real experience with worship, I was 19. I was playing drums in the church band at a church in Phoenix, and they asked me to be the worship leader. They had heard me sing or something and they said, ‘Why don’t you consider leading worship for us?’ I said something like, ‘I’ll pray about that.’ He said, ‘Pray hard because you start tonight!’ Honestly, I didn’t know what I was doing. I was like Ron Kenoly Jr. -- I knew three Ron Kenoly songs, and I sang them every service, for weeks. Finally, this lady came up to me and she said, ‘You might want to go find your sound and go find who you are.’ My first real experience of just knowing this is what I was born for, this is what I was created for, I took my piano in to the kitchen because I had tile on the kitchen floor, and it was great acoustics in there and I would just worship. Four, five, and six hours would go by, and I’d sit there weeping and crying and having this conversation with God all by myself. I like to say I was doing worship before it was popular. I was doing worship as a lifestyle before it was a section at the bookstore.
When I started getting into the recording industry, I would hear, ‘Choose a style,’ and I used to say, ‘How about we just put it all together?’ Because when we get to heaven, there’s not going to be sections -- ‘This is the black section of heaven. This is the white section of heaven. What kind of music do you like? Well you’re going to be over in that room.’
I believe the Kingdom has a sound. I believe glory has a sound. So I want to be a part of doing it. I believe it’s a very multi-cultural mix of sound and style and lyric and melody and everything else.

Click here to worship along with Israel Houghton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtQ2Y4JCgY&feature=related

"My Savior Lives" 10:45am

This is a new song by Jon Egan & Glenn Packiam of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Co. When asked about writing songs for the church in an interview Jon shared the following.

Those songs were written out of innocence just to equip our own church. I think that probably is the reason for the success. The heart of these songs, the heart of us as worshippers or worship leaders, has always been to help our people in our spheres of influence. The fact that it's equipped the Church beyond our church is overwhelming, wonderful, and humbling. Jared: We weren't really following anyone into it; we were just excited about what God was doing. We started to try our own songs at times other than Sunday morning. We just put it out there to see if it would live. It began that way, and it crept into the culture of Sunday morning.

Click here to listen to the song: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=139038586

Click here to worship with the New Life church: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_SB-SpNm00&feature=related

“Savior of the world” 10:45

This powerful worship song was written by Sam Evans.
Overflowing with faith, Sam Evans is a passionate and powerful speaker of the Word. Her heart's desire is for every person on earth to be touched and revolutionized by the power of the Holy Spirit. Her heart for worship is infectious and she'll inspire you to position yourself to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus. Her tenacity and hunger for God's presence will stir your spirit to see change come about in your life and circumstance. Sam and here husband Russell are the senior pastors of Planetshakers City church in Melbourne, Australia. Their desire is to see each person empowered by the Holy Spirit to reach their God-given destiny.

Verse 1
It's time for you and I to stand
To march into our promised land
To walk in faith and not by what I see

His Favour rests upon us now
We're clothed in righteousness and power
It's time for us to shout the victory

Lift your eyes to see Him clothed in majesty
Great and powerful is He

Jesus He conquered the grave
Jesus the Lamb that was slain
Jesus the Saviour of the world

Jesus He overcame sin
Jesus He's coming again
Jesus the Saviour of the world

Jesus Jesus
Jesus the Saviour of the world
Jesus Jesus
Jesus the Saviour of the world

Click here to learn more about the Planetshakers:
www.planetshakers.com/music/discography.php

Click here to listen to Sam Evans share about what Jesus as our Savior means:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fYLrzgOlxM

Click here to listen to the song online:
www.deezer.com/track/saviour-of-the-world-T2343624

“Here in your Presence" 10:45

Jon Egan wrote this song after meditating on the presence of God. He said that as he leads worship for the youth, he sees what a few moments spent in the presence of the Lord can do for people.

Click here to listen to Jon Egan share how he wrote the song, scroll down to the song: www.theheartofworship.org/stories.shtml

Found in Your hands, fullness of joy
Every fear suddenly wiped away
here in Your presence

All of my gains now fade away
Every crown no longer on display,
here in Your presence

Heaven is trembling in awe of Your wonders
The kings and their kingdom are standing amazed

Here in Your presence, we are undone
Here in Your presence, Heaven and Earth become one
Here in Your presence, all things are new
Here in Your presence, everything bows before You

Wonderful, beautiful, glorious, matchlessin every way
Wonderful, beautiful, glorious, matchless in every way

Click here to worship along with the New Life worship team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFZyT2fEK3I