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Every Sunday I help lead children's worship at my church. It's actually my favorite most wonderful thing that God has allowed me to do. For Him to include me in this still baffles  me. I'm not that great with instruments but JESUS is teaching me to trust Him in that. 

 As I've been thinking about Worship ...

Scripture comes to mind... What constantly blows my mind is that there are two complete opposites of worship... and how my heart seems to juggle back and forth between the two.



Psalm 34:1 
I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips. I will glory in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and rejoice.  Glorify the LORD with me; let us exalt his name together.

Isaiah 29:13
The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.
 "Worship him in Spirit and in truth." John 4:24

The question I want to ask the kids is, "Why do we raise our hands when we worship?" ...
When my friend Played and I simply sang without my guitar  I would raise my hands and sometimes close my eyes. I remember one of the kids asking me, “why do you raise your hands”? Why do you have them open?... I responded because my hands yearn to feel him ..."As if He were tangible..." I told her that there was a joy in me that wanted to respond in reaching towards him... Looking back that was not the wrong answer...but I wasn’t being clear .

Raising our hands in worship is having to express physical surrender...
Proclaiming that He is King 


"When I initially think of surrender I think of how an Army invades a new land ... the previous inhabitants raise their hands, Why ?"  Surrender...

Surrender is a word that makes most people “feel” uncomfortable.  Surrender is relinquishing control and entrusting yourself to someone else. You do not know the outcome? … and so that instills fear, that is not from Him but from our flesh.  In what areas in our lives are we not waving the white flag before the Lord? Most of the time He is asking us to give up something... but we in our flesh refuse to... our flesh allows us to think that laying it down is weakness but on the contrary it shows strength in meekness.  



As Sunday is approaching quickly I want to encourage you to be in prayer for the kiddos and for their families. Be in prayer for our hearts to be laid down at HIS FEET…We are not in control of anything. But His Mighty hand is…and that we can TRUST. 

A visual: for me is that “If our hands are closed, there is no room for Him to give us His Blessing… that applies to our hearts …we won’t receive the blessing if it’s not open.”

Then I'm reminded of His Mercy and Grace towards us …that more often than not he lets us have the blessing… because He LOVES. 


Whoever is reading this, I love you and I’m praying for you …please pray for me as I lay things that were never mine in the first place…

<3 HIS Jocelyn

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM

    Love this ! Praise God !And may He continue to work in your Heart so you can keep on doing His work here ! I feel very blessed to see this Blog with Gods beautiful words, and you communicate very well !

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    1. Jocelyn Berenice LopezFebruary 5, 2013 at 8:29 PM

      God allowed me to lay this down and then HE gave it back with extras <3

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