Veeve Holtz and our new gospel worship group did a fantastic job of leading us into the presence of God this morning at Life Church. What a great day, as we broke through into what really felt like a fresh outpouring of the Spirit of God. New sacrifice and offering, new glory. God is good!
Veeve led Larry, Tim, Charmayne, Omose, Briana, and Mallory as singers, with Jeff on drums, D'Markus on bass, and CJ on keys, as we took our first journey with this team into corporate worship with gospel music. I think these guys did a great job of making these songs accessible to us, so we were very easily able to participate and worship, rather than feeling like we were at a concert. God's helping us get out of our box, and we'll be incorporating this team into our regular schedule once a month or so.
Here are the songs we did this morning:
1. Is There Anybody Here (Deitrick Haddon version)
2. Come Bless The Lord With Me (Darwin Hobbs version?)
3. Here I Am To Worship (Tim Hughes, ThankYou Music, CCLI #3266032, Israel Houghton version-ish).
4. Release Your Power (T.D. Jakes). We stayed on this one for a long time, as the request for God to bring his presence and release His power became a real heartfelt prayer, and then it became a prayer He was answering. We lingered in His presence and received His power for what He's calling us to do as individuals and as a church. It was awesome!
Tom Bedford brought us a word today, titled "The Cost of the Culture," about bringing the culture of the Kingdom by paying the prices required in our lives - holiness, loss of things if necessary, doing without certain things and experiences - all with the understanding that God paid the first and highest price to establish the church and bring His Kingdom from heaven to earth by giving His Son Jesus.
We all came to the altar at the end of the meeting to commit ourselves again to the Lord, and went back into "Release Your Power" as a song of consecrating ourselves to Him.
This morning's worship team came over to our house for lunch, and Lori, Evan, and I had a ball hosting them.
If you're from Life Church, what did you think of our worship time? If you're from somewhere else, hope you had a great day in the Lord. Read about what happened in worship all over the place at Fred McKinnon's Sunday Setlist blog carnival at theworshipcommunity.com. Have a great week!
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