Stop Being A Superstitious Worship Leader
What makes someone a superstitious worship leader? Might you be one?
I was once guest-leading at a church for several weeks. One of the weeks, the pastor said, “Dave, at the staff meeting this week, we were asking the LORD for direction for Sunday’s service. We felt like we were supposed to begin with uptempo praise songs and follow with more intimate worship songs.”
Now before you roll your 3-fast-3-slow songs eyes at me, this isn’t the point. And they really did feel that direction in prayer, and I had already been preparing and had felt similarly and was planning in that direction. And Sunday was remarkable. God met us in a unique way.
Here’s where it gets “good.”
The following week, the pastor says, “Let’s do that again.”
The question is, do what? Start fast and end slow?
That’s superstitious.
You don’t want to be superstitious. You want supernatural.
If he had done the supernatural idea he had the first week, which is ASKING THE LORD, he could’ve had the same supernatural result.
Or think of it this way.
Imagine you have an unbeatable battle. There’s no way you can win. And it’s the very first battle you are leading. But you seek the LORD, and He gives you some odd but clear instructions: “March in defenseless defiance against your enemy. Do that for a few somewhat embarrassing days. Then light up the band, raise a hallelujah, and see what I do.”
The victory was nothing short of miraculous.
Now imagine if that leader had gone into his next battle without seeking the LORD, but instead would have marched around the city of Ai for six days and blown some trumpets.
The heading in your bible might say, “Joshua the superstitious.” Turns out he lost for other reasons, but it’s clear he didn’t seek the LORD.
If you want supernatural results, where what God accomplishes way more through you than you could ever hope for on your own, seek the LORD. Sure, you can learn from the things He instructed you before, but if you just follow what you’ve done before, you’ll miss it.
Worse, you act like a superstitious leader. Next, you’ll be wary on any Friday the 13th, and you’ll give power to ladders, black cats, indoor umbrellas, knocked-on wood, mirrors, crossed fingers…
Let’s be supernatural leaders. Ones utterly reliant on the words of Jesus, planning our lives (let alone our worship sets) bathed in prayer, filled with the power of the Holy Spirit.
-Dave Helmuth
(purchase my book, "Worship Fertilizer: (the first hundred)" HERE)
Stop Being A Superstitious Worship Leader (Nº 347)
