Well this was an interesting night, and I had to come to terms with some things quite quickly.
For those who know me well, know that I struggle with music worship, and how worship leaders engage people in worship. But tonight again, for the second night running whilst here in florida, the worship has touched me masively.
Last night made some sense, as when cahterine, or ha ha as I now know her, lead worship, I knew most of the songs she sang, but tonight I didn't know any of them, and yet I still felt able to worship god, and feel his presence.
For those who know me best you will know how much this is a miracle in itself, becuase of how hard I find musical worship and musical worship leaders.
But tonight, for the second night running the presnce of God was so strong, that I just felt that I had to praise him.
the interesting thing for me in the worship, is that, in most situationjs I have been in, the worship leader leads the congregation, but tonight, as it was last night, it really felt as thogh the peple there were actually leading the worship, rather than the worship leaders themselves.
This gave me a large amount of hope, because, in my opinion, worship leaders should be there to lead people into the presnece of God and then allow them to worship in their own way. and this is what seems to be happening here in florida.
There is nothing forced, nothing contrived, and nothing false about the worship here, and it gives people an amazing amount of space to worship God in the way in which they want too.
The space that has been there, and the ability to worship God how I want too, has enabled me to build a much strnonger relationship with god.
Having spent some time reading Mark chapte 10, verses 46-52 before coming out here, it is clear that people need to have that deeper relationship with God before asking for anything else. It is all about the depth of relaitonship with God.
there was prayer at the end of the meeting, and it was great to see someone who had had parkinsons and needed 3 people help her on to the plantform, actually walk with only one person holding her hand, and then when she fell over in the spirit of god, she was able to get herself up of the platform, what an amazing witness.
People prayed for my eye sight, but nothing massively happend, wa sable to blink lots, but have been able to do that for a while, and felt the eye socket itself, and stil believe that it is getting bigger.
A number of things have become clear to me whilst being out here for the role that Rolltherock needs to paly over the comning months and years, and more of this will be in our newsletter and on our website.
One last thought before going to bed, is it always necessary, to label what god is doing at any time. Is our mindset as humans set that we need a label for somthing, ie revivival, a move of god, or something similar. why can't we just say that god is doing something new, something amazing at this time, and we as he poeple want to be involed in it.
Thursday, 10 July 2008
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