Young Worshippers with Killer Hands
I read a wonderful article a couple years back about worship and the playing of musical instruments in worship. Here’s the skinny — because a true worshipper is a warrior in the spiritual realm, his/her instruments are weapons. When a worship-warrior begins to play on their instrument before the Lord, they begin to touch the things of the holy. They begin to practice the presence of God — Yeshua Shalom. This is one reason why I believe a lot of people in Churchianity who say they play musical instruments and are “called” to do music above making disciples are really nothing more than entertainers with Christian-oriented tunes. If one cannot discern the Body of Christ in the local, visible church properly (according to the Scripture), then they cannot lead those in that very Bride into Her ante-chamber. Their heart is not developed for battle in Word & intercession nor is it disciplined in the hard work of Christian-community service.
Sandy and I have been ruggedly digging those lessons out of these past years in shepherding a local Church. And, one of the common longings of our hearts is to train two young warriors in the proper preparation of worship. We want to guide them away from entertainment to the devoted love of God shown in service to His called out people. We want to show them how to capture the beautiful, turn it upward, and express it to Heaven with all of their skillful might.
So, we are setting out as a family to purchase a Clavinova. Reilly is ready to begin his training and Jessi touches the keys of the church’s keyboard every chance she gets (she’s our little music-lover). And, from what our entire city can tell, they’ve both been implanted with two strong instruments in their vocal chords. They love to sing and can keep in key and on pitch very well. So, our hearts are longing to train them and open the avenues for the future blessing of the Bride. We don’t have the money. Ok, no biggie. We’ve rarely ever had the money. So, we went out and found an instrument (pictured below) in the local area for a very good price. We’ve asked the Father for His goodness and help and we want to put it out on our blog. Often, people ask us what we need and we’re usually “all taken care of” and don’t have an answer. Now we do. Maybe you’ll want to help us save? I’ve included a button below if so. We rarely do something like this (in fact, this may be the first time) because we want this blog to be more information and reader oriented. Ok, that sounded like I was giving a presentation for Microsoft. We want — you — to enjoy — reading — here.
