Worship

So, tonight I led worship at Liberty for the youth group. I feel so concerned about their spiritual growth and realization of who God really is. Of course, there are a few who sang out loud, but for the most part, everyone just stood there. In high school, and when I was apart of the youth group as a student, I had no idea of the true experience of worshipping God. Maybe this is the case for these students. We sang two brand new (to them) songs, which could have led to the lack of corporate worship. We sang Glory to God Forever by Fee and Savior King by Hillsong along with Rescue as made popular by NewSong.

I feel like I'm called to lead worship for these students and to help show them a better way of experiencing the greatness of God. Glory to God Forever is such a simple song with alot of meaning in it. It's a straight-forward way of expressing Glory to God Forever. As the writer of the song, Steve Fee, puts it, so many other songs talk about bringing glory to God and how the mountains will praise Him, but in this song, we, the children of God, can attempt to give Him the glory that He deserves. In the song Rescue, it repeats, "I need you, Jesus" which is also so meaningful to me. I can never get enough of Him and oh how I need Him more and more each moment I'm alive.

I also feel so let down as if I'm doing a poor job of leading worship. I'm in the middle of a book, Worship Matters, written by Bob Kauflin who focuses on worship leaders and gives numerous wonderful pointers on improving corporate worship time for the worship leader. I try to incorporate many of these ideas that Bob gives to try to make the worship time a better and more God centered/cross centered event so that everyone may see God in a clear way. I don't want these students to see me on stage as a singer but as another worshipper.

Regardless of the reaction I get from the group, I have a blast worshipping my Creator. I hope and pray that those students will see Christ through me and that I set a positive example for them as they journey through life to walk closer to our Lord.

I pray (and hope you will too) for these students that they might see the greatness of God through our worship time. Pray for me as I continue to lead the worship for this group. Glory to God Forever!

Long Week.

This has been a pretty long week. I've had so much free time, but time that I couldn't be doing too much productive. So being an RA at UNCA, I had to stay in the Residence Halls until the last day. I had to make sure all of my residents moved out and left their rooms clean. So, basically, I waited around until they were ready to leave and then I would check their rooms. Luckily, they were all out before the morning of the last day. So I finished packing all my stuff and left ASAP yesterday morning. Ha. But now I'm at home unpacking all the stuff and trying to decide where to put it. It seems like everything I own are those things that I never use but always tell myself, "I will need that next week or next semester" when in reality, I'll never ever actually use whatever it is again.

So far this morning I have been going through clothes that I don't/can't wear any longer (freshmen 15 plus sophomore 30 is catching up with me) and packing up to donate to the Salvation Army or Rutherford County's own "Yokefellow". I'm wondering who actually came up with the name?

Another addition to this week is I've been getting over a migraine. It hit Sunday night. I took some Tylenol and laid in my dark room on my bed with a rag over my face with no one to hear my groans :( . But I eventually fell asleep and woke up around 3am pain-free. I laid there 3 more hours before I could fall back asleep. I woke up with a "headache hangover" where I felt like I just got over the migraine and my head was still a little sore. It's Monday now. Around 2 or 3pm that afternoon, I thought a brick had just collided with my brain. It was an all of a sudden thing. One minute I'm fine, the next, I'm suffering again. I laid down for two more hours. Now I'm home and went to the doctor yesterday to find out about these migraines. The doc just told me that what I had described to him was the classic migraine (thanks, doc). But he prescribed me some migraine "preventer". So, I'm looking forward to hopefully controlling these terrible things. He also set up an appoitment to have a brain scan next Wednesday just to make sure nothing is wrong. It's better to be safe than sorry. Anyways, for those of you who talk to Jesus, remember me next week.

Until next time, ponder this:
What would chairs look like if our kness bent the other way?

First and Foremost!!!

Ok, so first blog. Basically, I just want to get comfortable with things! Let's see how this works