What is our Purpose here?

Well, I am back from a week with my worship team at the International Worship Institute in Grapevine, TX. Let me tell you I have never experienced anything like I did this week. The first picture is of our "Girlfriend Group" from left to right, Laura Murray, Ashley Morgan, me, Lisa Eddington, Kathy Hickey (Our mentor) and Spring Minette. The other picture is of all who went which include our Worship Minister, Mark, Joel Chan and Tonya Peaden. (The pict. is blurry-it was taken with Mark's new IPhone)
The key word here is purpose. God has a purpose. The invitation for us is to press violently into it. If you want to find purpose, you first have to find God. Without God, there is no purpose.
I could type 400 pages on what I got from this convention. But, in a nut shell, I realized that as a worship leader I am the middle man for ministering to others the word of God. We aren't up there to sing and perform and worry about what others think about "OUR" performance. Nope, its not about us. Not about if we hit the right notes and played the right keys. Its to mean the hymnals and lyrics we sing and fill the place with His glory! Its about God!
I saw what it was like to worship God like no one else is around. Like only He and I are present.
Bob Sorge says, We will be completely uninhibited in our worship when we get to heaven—nothing will hold us back! So why should we not be that way down here, now? Uninhibited worship does not take any specific outward form, but it will allow us to be as completely transparent before the Lord as we will be in heaven.
Who's Bob Sorge? Well, I thought he was a Sound Tech. Because as people where filling into the nightly worhsip meeting he was on stage saying, "Testing one two" - over and over. It got to be comical because this went on for over 15 min. Then he left the stage and Shane and Shane(the Christian artist that performed that night- AWESOME) sang and then they introduced a Pastor named Bob Sorge that has many other names. Like Pastor, Author, Worship Minister, Song writer....And this guy gets up on stage. Yep the Sound Tech.
Long story short-15 years ago he had something (Cancer I think) removed from his larynx and the Dr. Botched his vocal cord and he now talks in a low whisper and it is painful for him to talk long periods of time. Pressing his lips to the mic and speaking in a low whisper talked louder to me than I have ever heard!
That man gave a testimony that brought everyone in there to there knees in tears. It was so powerful I could only weep. I just can't explain the impact he had on people and the way the Holy Spirit filled that room of over 2,000 people that night.
Like I said I could go on for days...we had several GREAT speakers. We Sang in the Mass Choir one night for Tommy Walker and Friday night for Martha Munizzi The other pict.is us on stage, during a sound check, looking out at the room that would be filled with thousands of people. The woman in the long hair is Martha, a winner of Soul Train award, Dove's woman award, Christan female of the year, Blahh blahh...she is amazing. The other women (the black lady facing us) is our Choir Director Valerie. She was amazing.
I have so much more to talk about but I will end for now with these words of wisdom either quoted by our speakers or psalms.
Worship is the key to experiencing His presence, to knowing the indescribable joy of our salvation, and to reflecting His glory. Isaiah 56:7

he Creator of the Universe, the One who designed us in the first place, has planned something far greater for those who seek Him with all their hearts. He tells us that only in His presence is true happiness; only in His presence is complete fulfillment; and only in His presence is fullness of joy. (And, we don't have to wait until we get to heaven in order to taste this.) By learning to worship Him in the Spirit - not just on Sundays in church, but privately at home - every day, we will be able to experience the fulfillment and the joy that the world and everyone in it is so desperately searching for, but very few seem to have found.
Truly, private worship is the key to joy and happiness!