When my team leader asked us if we had anything to contribute for the Easter Sunday service there was a prompting in my spirit to sing Via Dolorosa. I have dreamed of singing that song on Easter Sunday for as long as I can remember. I count it such an honor to have the privilege of sharing that anointed song with God’s people on this special day. We had a sunrise service at 5am this morning, and I was able to share my heart through the words of that song. I prayed and cried out to God for hours last night just asking that His Holy Spirit would take over and that people would feel His Presence and be drawn unto Him through the song. I wanted to be completely invisible so Christ would be fully glorified. I replayed the song for hours last night in my time of worship. My heart broke with God’s love for His children as He began to stir my heart in a way that removed me, and replaced it with Him. The words in the song that always make me cry the hardest are, “but He CHOSE to walk that road, out of His love for you…and me…” The weight of the song gave me a burden so heavy this morning I could barely walk. My heart was pounding outside of my chest and my body felt like it was on fire. As soon as the music started, I shared John 3:16 with everyone and began to tremble as I could feel the Holy Spirit all over me. I was shaking as I sang each word straight from a heart of brokenness. At the end of the song I fell to my knees in tears, completely in surrender, arms stretched out, allowing Christ to enrapture me. I have never felt a stronger anointing when singing a song as I did today. I am still in tears in such gratitude that the Lord would choose me, His humble servant, so undeserving, to share such a powerful message of God’s unconditional love for us on this day of His Resurrection. After the service ended 3 hours later, a young 17-year-old girl from the worship team ran up to me with tears in her eyes, took my hands in hers, and told me that the song made her weep and she thanked me over and over again. God had touched her through the message of the song and He broke her heart, as He had broken mine. There was such an innocent purity in her eyes, and a beautiful brokenness that gleamed from her beaming face. Again, I am so overwhelmed by God’s unwavering love for us and that in our sin, in our selfishness, as we cried out for Him to be crucified, He still said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” What an incredible God we serve that He would give His only son to die for us, in all of our filth and ungratefulness, and Jesus would choose to love us even when we scorned and mocked Him as He died a criminal’s death that should have been for us.
If you would like to see the video of me singing this song, go to:
The Pastor asked me to sing Via Dolorosa a second time at the night service in the street, and this is the recording of that one: http://youtu.be/-XwgBXFkenc
I miss all of my family and friends back home and I hope and pray that your celebration of our Savior today is as wonderful as mine! I send all of my love <3
