As we continue this week-long focus on tilling the soil of our hearts, today we're going to look at the power of worship and opening our hearts to receive all that God longs to give.

For most of us, worshiping is something we engage in in a corporate setting.

It's a collective expression of adoration and relationship,

but worship can be so much more than the songs we sing together.

It's a powerful avenue to softening our hearts toward God

that we can and should journey down every day. As we make space to focus

on the power of worship today, may God stir up each of our hearts to worship him with all we are

and all we have. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. One of the most powerful ways to till the soil of the heart is through worship.

Authentic worship is a powerful exchange of God pouring out his love on us, and us giving

him our hearts in return.

In worshiping through music, our hearts naturally become soft and receptive to God's love as we encounter

His goodness and engage in adoration of the only one worthy of our affections.

God created music with an innate ability to affect us at our core.

Music has the power to fill us with peace, joy, and anger. It can cause tears to well up in our eyes and even make the most mundane events beautiful.

Martin Luther said,

Behold, music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul.

It is one of the most magnificent and delightful presence God has given us.

By consistently engaging in worship through beautiful music, we provide a framework for the Holy Spirit

to both till the soil of our hearts and to fill us with the seeds of God's presence and perfect

character. The Bible is brimming with

admonishment to worship through song. Paul tells us in Colossians 316, let the Word of Christ

dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms

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