Lift Songs of Praise to the Lord

I was asked by my Care Group leader, a few days ago, to lead worship for care group meeting on Friday (today). I was scared out of my wits, to be frank. I don’t know why but I had to ask my two sisters and a few friends (who weren’t exactly helpful, eeks!) whether I should do it. I wasn’t reluctant, don’t get me wrong but I just didn’t know if I was ready and all. After contemplating and being encouraged by my sisters, I agreed to do it but was still looking for something from God which is when the next part of this story begins.

I normally read the devotionals for the day after I come back home from school. But today, without any prompting whatsoever, I decided I’ll just read it before I leave for school (I was going to leave for the venue where the Care Group meeting was to be held immediately after I was dismissed). So I flipped over to 26 September and to my complete amazement, the heading read “Lift Songs of Praise to the Lord” and I was speechless. It went on to quote “…but be filled with the spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:18-19). Now, you tell me, how cool is that? It was more than a mere coincidence, it was God.

So I headed out to school with so much of adrenaline pumped in my body, I was almost dancing in the library (but I did pretend to be a rockstar and I think I pulled it off quite well, lol). My friends thought I was nuts but I was essentially in Joy and no occassion called for me to be scared for the mock GP test which was just an hour away, or for the worship session I was going to lead much later. I couldn’t contain my happiness and why should have I contained it? I had just received the ’something’ I was looking for, was goimg to lead a group of people in praise and worship and I knew it was all going to be taken care of.

Everything went smoothly. With A LOT of help from Shaun, the guitarist (I could never get the right cues and so, whenever I missed it, he whispered the starting of the song in my ear from where I picked up) I led the group into a time of worship and praise and I am an infinite percent positive that He was amongst us. It was so cool that nearing the end of the time dedicated to praise and worship, I felt moved by the spirit to sing a song that we (Shaun and myself) hadn’t planned or practiced. And that particular song just flowed with the music, bringing us to a whole new place.

Even being at F1 (which I am, by the way, against cos of the pollution and all) couldn’t have made me as happy or excited as I was today. Today, was an all time high, a Christ-like adrenaline rush. You had to be there to witness it cos it felt like history in the making.