On the ride back home from a mother’s funeral of a young adult in our church, Lynette and I began to think outside of the box. We wanted to think of a way to get the young adults together without the same old monthly meetings and such. We wanted something new for us.
So, it’s been more than a month and that something new has taken place in the form of the Young Adults leading Praise and Worship at First Baptist Church.
When we first organized the Worship Team our group declared the following:
- Transformation will take place
- People will enter into a deeper relationship with God
- Joel’s prophecy will be fulfilled
- People will see and hear directly from God as we are worshipping
- From the parking lot to the pulpit people will be led and filled by the Spirit
- The worship team, choir, ushers, deacons, trustees, pastors will first usher in God’s presence
- We will be annointed to lead worship not out of our strength but in God’s
- People will not see or hear us but be brought right into God’s presence
- Breakthroughs and deliverance will take place
- Children as well as senior citizens will be blessed
- Our service will be uplifting to God
- We will decrease that He might increase
- Words of edification and encourage will come from our lips
After six weeks of leading worship, we have truly seen the Spirit of the Lord in First Baptist like never before – starting first with us. See, it’s so easy to sit in the pews and think, “This church is so dead. Something has to be done” and then continuing sitting there. What is challenging is putting action to your words.
When we walked into this worship team we didn’t expect that God would truly bring about a change in our hearts and minds. We didn’t expect that God would transform each of our relationships with Him. We didn’t expect that stumbling blocks would come along our paths outside of church trying to prevent us from doing what God has called us to.
We are learning that even if we aren’t feeling well, we praise God. We have come without voices and God has given us sound just as we stood in front of the mic. There have been times that we’ve been super tired but God has given us strength to go on. There have been times of brokenness and God has brought for restoration and peace right in the midst of our worship.
What we’ve learned through this worship team is that when we worship God in the midst of our struggles, we are trusting Him to murder the nonsense in our lives.
When we sing God is bringing forth healing, restoration, peace, strength. He is breaking chains that have kept us bound for years. He is increasing our faith in Him. He is using our voices to rejoice over the congregation with singing. He is planting truth and identity in the minds of the congregation.
We worship because it is through worship that we forget ourselves and remember who God was, is and always will be. And as we worship, He puts an end to the negatitivity in our lives and shapes us more and more into what He wants us to be.
Let us stand and worship the Lord. Let us come before His presence with Singing. Let us rejoice and know that the Lord is good. Let us magnify the Lord together. Let us agree with our voices, making God bigger than our individual problems. When we worship, transformation will truly take place in the church!
