A Musical Prayer

Last night I came home and felt a strong compulsion in my heart to pray. I felt the irrepressible urge to pour my heart out to God. I felt like God was calling on my heart to engage in an intimate moment with Him. In my music I am vulnerable. My music is the voice I best know how to use. I sometimes wish that I could speak in this voice and no other so that my most pure heart can be given to God at all times. This is a weakness of mine I realize and I’m trying to let a voice spring from every ounce of my being. But as many of you know this is a learning process and God is yet busy teaching me how to do many of these things. Yet I love to express this voice to God. So I sat down and planned nothing. I simply found a sound that moved me. I turned off the lights, lit a candle, and stripped my soul naked before God. This is what came out of that moment. Perhaps it’s nothing to write home about but that doesn’t really matter to me. This was the conversation that God and I had last night. It was His love pouring into me and my heartfelt attempt at pouring it back out to Him. Sometimes the things we do can feel insignificant or inadequate. Yet God is a steadfast presence holding us there in the dark beside the candle. He wraps us in His warmth. He kisses the top of our head and cradles us. He sways us in His arms like his greatest love. His smile weakens us because it is so beautiful. He is there with us when we look upon the night sky and behold the majesty of the stars calling us home. He is there with us when we behold the splendor of life an invigorating sunrise. He is the rain that covers us in love and grace. He is…everything. He has been this since before the rise of time. He has been this all our lives even before we knew the sustenance of breath. He is the kiss of joy upon our lips. He is to be praised in all things. So let all our voices, in whatever form they might come, rattle the heavens with abounding joy. Go ahead. He is listening………………………

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[chris]

As I listened to the MP3 I envisioned this "prayer" being prayed over the Oasis family in one of our gatherings. Perhaps this Sunday following the teaching. That kind of musical ambience from the keys is soemthing that would fit well in our communion and prayer/ministry time when we gather.