Early service:
- O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Neale/Coffin, Plainsong adapt. by Helmore)
- The Savior Is Waiting (Carmichael)
- I Need Thee Every Hour (Hawks/Lowry)
- Choir: All the Earth Will Worship (Bible/Fettke/Kingsmore)
- Offertory: Holy Spirit, Rain Down (R. Fragar)
Contemporary service:
- You Are Good (Houghton)
- Rain Down (Martin Smith/Stuart Garrard)
- Freedom (Bushard)
- Dance With Me (Dupree)
- You Won’t Relent (Edwards)
I have a God story to tell today.
If you are familiar with the song Dance With Me, you know that the song comes from Song of Solomon and refers to God as “the Lover of our souls.”
Before we sang it this morning, our contemporary service worship leader had something to read to our congregation. As he began reading, I started to think that it was sounding awfully familiar and emotion began to flood my heart. I had written it! Written just from the overflow of things God’s been putting on my heart.
It turns out that our worship leader had no idea that God had led me to write what he was reading. Later on, I shared with him and another friend in the car about how it blessed me that God used it. That was when it was discovered that he didn’t know it was from this blog, and had “stumbled” upon it via a search engine.
I was blessed, humbled and loved on by God as part of this post was read to our congregation, and that God would use it in our very church, without us even knowing it prior! What unity that is–totally a God-thing, uniting with our hearts! How amazing our God is!
I am greatly blessed that something God’s teaching me could be used by Him for others. It was just… that God would use something like that, the mere outpouring of one’s heart. I am humbled. And I am praying that God will bring us closer and closer to Him as a church, as His beloved children!
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the LORD.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it…
(Song of Solomon 8:6-7)
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That is too cool!
Seriously!
God works through blogs!
He uses EVERYTHING. He did make everything after all!
Wow! That is amazing. Great setlist but even better experience!
What an awesome testimony of how God is using YOU to minister to your congregation AND your church staff! Could you receive a bigger affirmation?! I praise God with you right now! I got chill bumps reading it! Woohoo! That’s awesome.
So you guys did Israel’s You Are Good? How did it go? That song is on our rehearsal list and about to go into our rotation. We aren’t there yet with it though… getting there, but not quite yet. It’s really high energy and we are going through this thing with our group that everyone is like statues on-stage! LOL! We are really having to coach animation and smiling and stuff. Does your group ever go through anything like that?
Love Holy Spirit Rain Down! We do that one quite often. Great set, girl!
Hope you have a blessed evening to go with your totally blessed morning!
Wayne over @ deepwaterwalk.com
Amazing story, Amanda. Thanks for sharing it!
I really enjoyed your post Lover of God/Lover of my soul. If you don’t mind I think I’d like to read it sometime in one of our worship sets.
@Steffanie – Go for it!
@Wayne – We’ve done You Are Good for a while. Great song, our congregation absolutely LOVES it! We mainly try to get everyone clapping, but our group is a mix of “quieter” worshipers (movement-wise), more animated folks, and some in-between.
Brilliant story. I love stories like this!