Comments on: Singing Canceled http://www.springofjoy.org/the_library/singing-cancelled Glimpses of our world... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JHB http://www.springofjoy.org/the_library/singing-cancelled#comment-132 JHB Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:24:35 +0000 http://www.springofjoy.org/the_library/singing-cancelled#comment-132 Angie: We have been praying for you guys all along the way here. "Singing canceled" is a balm for the soul and a rasp for the ego. Oh, for a heart to praise my God A heart from sin set free a heart that's sprinkled with the blood so freely shed for me. (Charles Wesley) Lots of love to the Davis family! JHB Angie: We have been praying for you guys all along the way here. “Singing canceled” is a balm for the soul and a rasp for the ego.

Oh, for a heart to praise my God
A heart from sin set free
a heart that’s sprinkled with the blood
so freely shed for me. (Charles Wesley)

Lots of love to the Davis family! JHB

]]> By: maretta http://www.springofjoy.org/the_library/singing-cancelled#comment-131 maretta Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:26:26 +0000 http://www.springofjoy.org/the_library/singing-cancelled#comment-131 Okay, sister, you need to write a devotional! Actually, it appears you've already written it. :-) Okay, sister, you need to write a devotional! Actually, it appears you’ve already written it. :-)

]]> By: John and Becky http://www.springofjoy.org/the_library/singing-cancelled#comment-130 John and Becky Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:59:01 +0000 http://www.springofjoy.org/the_library/singing-cancelled#comment-130 You're absolutely right. True worship always requires sacrifice, a dying to self. I have this recurring image on the days I don't feel like worshipping. I picture myself swimming, as it were, under the surface of self. I just don't feel like worshipping for whatever reason. My "worship" is muffled at best, because I am more comfortable staying below the surface. But Someone above the surface is calling me up. It's a familiar voice. He calls me daily, but especially on Sunday morning, when the music starts and the whole Body of Christ hears the same call simultaneously. I remember whose I am, and that I worship Him because He is worthy of it, not because I feel like it. I struggle to break through (die to self), breathe in the fresh air of His Spirit, and exhale with great satisfaction the song of my heart. I can see and hear clearly when I'm above the surface. He is there. I want to live above the surface, but there are things that pull me back under. Then the cycle begins again. I guess sanctification is learning to keep your head above water. :) You’re absolutely right. True worship always requires sacrifice, a dying to self. I have this recurring image on the days I don’t feel like worshipping. I picture myself swimming, as it were, under the surface of self. I just don’t feel like worshipping for whatever reason. My “worship” is muffled at best, because I am more comfortable staying below the surface. But Someone above the surface is calling me up. It’s a familiar voice. He calls me daily, but especially on Sunday morning, when the music starts and the whole Body of Christ hears the same call simultaneously. I remember whose I am, and that I worship Him because He is worthy of it, not because I feel like it. I struggle to break through (die to self), breathe in the fresh air of His Spirit, and exhale with great satisfaction the song of my heart. I can see and hear clearly when I’m above the surface. He is there. I want to live above the surface, but there are things that pull me back under. Then the cycle begins again. I guess sanctification is learning to keep your head above water. :)

]]> By: Karen Mirabella http://www.springofjoy.org/the_library/singing-cancelled#comment-129 Karen Mirabella Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:46:33 +0000 http://www.springofjoy.org/the_library/singing-cancelled#comment-129 Thanks Angie, for your words that are an encouragement and challenge to me. Thanks Angie, for your words that are an encouragement and challenge to me.

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