Free Music from Matt Maher, Out Of Eden and Satellites & Sirens

Head on over to Itickets this week for a free download of Matt Maher's "Alive Again" and Out of Eden's "Rolling Stone". They are also offering a free music video download from Satellites and Sirens courtesy of VideoRocket.

Enjoy!

Cristine



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Cristine


God provides. You are blessed.... make the most of it!

Free Worship, Praise and Christian Music

"Sing out your thanks to the LORD; sing praises to our God, accompanied by harps." Psalm 147:7

I LOVE music - especially the kind that lifts up praise to our LORD. Here is a listing of sites online that offer up free (and legal) worship and contemporary Christian music. Sometimes the downloads are from talented, but lesser known artists that are trying to get established and wanting to bless the world with their sound and other times they are from well known artists offering a sneak peek into a particular album. In either case, I have found that these free downloads are a great way to discover new sounds and add to your music collection. I will be adding fresh sites to this list as I can, so check back often.


Christian MP Free
Excellent listing of Indie Christian music (Indie simply means "independent", as in independent from any music label). As this site says, these artists are free from a larger, controlling unit (music execs and record label) and the music they turn out is generally driven by passion above money (not that major recording artists are not also driven by passion). In any event, the artists listed at this site have made some of their songs available at no cost in order to call attention to their work. I have found a couple of real gems on this sight.

Check out After the Chase's We Wait. I fell in love the first time I heard it and The Steves' Can You Imagine It - kind of Beatles-esque in its sweet simplicity. You'll also find a song off of Jars of Clay's Closer CD (not a fav of mine - I think they have much better -but very Jars of Clay, none the less).


Forerunner Media Group
A division of the International House of Prayer, this site offers some powerful music from the ministry's worship leaders and songwriters. As the website says, the artists represented by the Forerunner label are IHOP–KC worship leaders who express the message of abandonment to Jesus and love for Him through song, as King David did.

Through out the past 2 years or so, I have been tremendously blessed by the deeply soul stirring sounds of IHOP worship leader Misty Edwards. She is a MUST in my MP3 player. You'll find three of her songs offered up as freebie downloads, but I'd recommend investing in every one of her albums - she's just that good. I know this post is all about FREE music, but I'm just saying : ).

Anyway, at this writing, there are 18 songs that you can download for free available at this site. Getting your free download does require registration, but the songs you get in return are well worth it. Check out Justin Rizzo's Glory Will Cover The Earth and Matt Gilman & Cory Asbury's Holy - they are both simply beautiful. Julie Meyer's Alabaster Box and Audra Lynn's Without You are also well worth listening to.

If you are worried about registering - I registered and downloaded songs months ago and have never received spam from them.


The Secret Place
Ray Watson describes his music as an intimate, spontaneous and prophetic worship experience. I found many of his songs to be relaxing, contemplative and quite simply - soothing - making them a good choice for biblical meditation, quiet prayer time or just to leave on in the background to promote an atmosphere of calm and peace. Visit his ministry's website for 5 free downloads (you do have to provide an email address). There are also song samples to listen to at the site and he's offering a download of 43 songs from 6 albums for ANY donation amount.


Soaking.net
This site features free downloads of "music selected to facilitate genuine intimacy with God" through the practice of soaking. If you are not familiar with the term "soaking" don't let it intimidate you. As this site says - soaking is simply a word used to describe the action of "showing up" and being silent before God, letting Him pour His affection over you, letting Him reveal your heart and learning to become more familiar with His language. It is laying down before God with no other agenda than to meet with Him. It is whispering, "Father, I am here to be with you, I let go, I give you, I will do, work in me, heal, save, restore...".

You'll find an ecclectic mix of contemporary, instrumental, folk, blues, prophetic, and spontaneous prayer music. Really, there is something for most musical tastes and you do not need to practice soaking in order to enjoy the worship. I've personally been blessed to discover the music of Sean Dietrich , Derek Loux, the Hendrickson Family and Joshua & Jennifer Wymore at this site and listen to them both in and out of my prayer closet. Check it out and see what gems might be there for you.


Itickets
The Christian music concert promotion and ticket site invites registered users to stop by the site every week to receive free music downloads from today's top Christian artists. There are usually a few songs to choose from and they will send you an email whenever a new song is posted. Pretty cool.


Enjoy!

Cristine


God provides. You are blessed.... make the most of it!