Last night's praying at RL meeting

I was told to lead worship last night and I went there without an agenda or a songlist and just proceeded to play my favourite C2, G/B, Am7 and D progression then went into "I give you my heart" in G. Then I played the same progression again and this time just encouraging my co-servants in the Lord to sing their prayers aloud and that room, with just CX, Suhui, Liying, Jeraldine, Audrey and me was filled with songs of intercession for our ourselves and later for our young people. We were, as I read it in Joel's blog, enthralled by Spirit as we Worship the father.

The reason I am sharing this was because I have not done personal worship with a guitar for a long time. I've always been worshipping and praising God on the go. Which means it's always rushed or interupted. The last time I did it was actually last Sunday when I was practising "Great is Thy faithfulness" for the YAC reunion. It's been a long time since I did that. I really love leading worship in a small group format where everyone is praying and crying out to God with all of their hearts. It's always different in a larger group because sometimes u'll find yourself singing alone at where you're sitting; or the worship team might seem to be giving a concert.

An experience like this is not the "defining moment" in my spiritual life. It's not a one time thing. I've been experiencing God like this almost everytime we all come together to worship and prayer. I am not trying to boast about my spirituality, but I want to use this opportunity to question the experiences of people who's life are conditioned by the "quality" of their experience and not by the quality we find in Christ. When the music stops and there are no instruments to aid in the praise and worship of God, will we still offer God the extravagant praise that He deserves or will we remain passionless and fruitless because we don't "feel right"?

Tonight is Rageberry Jam. I pray that it'll be like what we experienced last night and that it'll not stop when the meeting ends, but that their lives will continue to be a continuos praise and worship unto the Lord always. I pray the Lord to cause the prayer warriors to be unsettled and unsatisfied until God is most satisfied with our hearts.

"I will not let go until You bless me"

-Jacob after he wrestled with an angel the whole night