Forty-Three DIFFERENT, UNWRITTEN songs were sung simultaneously from a rooftop…
Annie Walker and I made music from instruments we “DON’T” know how to play…
AND
Kelsey Sage and I played guitar to a psalm David wrote, in a way that we shouldn’t have sounded.
I want to share three instances, in which, I have been a part of a new “tapping into” of a deep freedom in worship. Now, for all of you who will say, worship is more than a song– its your lifestyle, I AGREE. However,
I am specifically being awakened to a deeper freedom in worship through
music and song. Not just worship, but PROPHETIC WORSHIP.
There is power in FORTY-THREE. Last week, my entire squad was on a rooftop in Ghana, Africa. We tapped into what we have called prophetic worship. There were three of us playing djembes (drum), and two people on guitar. We were not playing any songs that were written by other people, instead we were playing from the heart. Everyone was invited to sing their own song to the Lord. All of a sudden,
there was a span of time when all the instruments stopped, and
forty-two people sung forty-three different songs to the Lord. It was
LOUD. No one was holding back. No one had a “fear of man” (what their
neighbor thought). Every single person was worshipping in THEIR VOICE from THEIR HEART. It was one of the most INCREDIBLE experiences I have been a part of, and the beginning to much, much MORE!
Today, four of us were worshipping on the beach. Tim had been playing guitar for over an hour, and asked me to take over. “I don’t know how to play guitar. I only know a couple of chords,” were the first two sentences out of my mouth, but I took the guitar anyway.
I then pulled a Tim on Annie with the djembe (drum). I started playing
the chords I knew to the song “heart of worship.” The next thing I
know, I am playing that chord progression to a strum pattern of my own, as Annie is keeping perfect beat to a drum she has never hit.
In that moment, I discovered a deeper freedom in worship. We were
worshipping our Lord and Savior. We worshipped in a manner, that we “SHOULDN’T” have, because we didn’t know how…BUT WE DID. We made a sound that “SHOULDN’T” have been made…BUT WE DID. We communicated to our Father in a way that we “SHOULDN’T” have tried, because it wasn’t our gifting…BUT WE DID!
Finally, today Sage was burdened to play her own music to a song David wrote long ago. She wanted to sing Psalm 81 to the Lord, in a different
