So I lead worship in my church most Sundays. Though I haven’t been to church in 3 weeks due to training camp and babysitting, so when I found out I was going to lead worship and with a new song on Sunday June 12, I was a little nervous. The day was Pentecost and the new song my Pastor wanted us to sing was “Holy Spirit Rain Down”. It’s a beautiful song. Absolutely amazing. But practicing with a video on youtube, was not necessarily helping me. It was making me freak out and stress even more.
Sunday morning comes. I am the only one at church when we had planned to be. The Pianist isn’t there and neither is my singing partner. Now I am really beginning to freak out. Thinking “I can’t do this alone!” Finally the others show up and we practice the songs for the service in like 20 minutes (that is probably a record). None of the songs were turning out too well. They were difficult, high, fast… something seemed to be challenging about every song in the service.
Service begins with a reading about Pentecost and the Holy Spirit. We invite him to come. We begin to sing Rain Down….
And man did it turn out amazing! But no credit or glory to us, but I’m accrediting everything to God and the Holy Spirit. It blew me away singing, I couldn’t believe it because I knew how practice went and performing was nothing like it! The rest of the songs weren’t as good, but were indeed better than when we practiced them.
It just goes to show that when you are obedient and let God have control and invite him into your life and bask in His presence, and then everything will turn out just fine. God has everything under control and it is when we try to be in control of everything, all the little aspects of our lives, when things go awry and troubles arise.
This day is when I learned what is means when you lead worship and praise for God. Not for yourself. Not for the congregation. Yeah you are leading worship for the congregation, but it is for God that you are ultimately singing for and to. And when I am obedient in that, I am rewarded.
