Musings from Graceland

GOT TO BE HIM...A PERSONAL PRAYER REQUEST

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I sure would appreciate y'all's prayers. I'm singing in church tomorrow and I just feel so ill prepared. Its a busy, crazy weekend and the cd I'm singing along with didn't even arrive til yesterday so I've just had very little time to practice.

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Pray that the song, NEVER LET GO by the David Crowder Band, will really minister to folks. We've got a lot of hurting people at our church right now. I want this song to encourage, strengthen, and bless them.

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And I'll be real here, the musician in me also wants to not mess up. Singing solos is a tough situation for me. I love singing usually. Much of the time I sing because I love the Lord and enjoy praising Him and I want to minister to people. But a lot of times a big part of why I sing is that I like the attention and praise. For a few years I wouldn't even sing solos because I felt like my motivations were so warped...so about me instead of about Him and ministering to others.

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At our present church, I've been asked to sing a good bit. And so I find myself struggling with this heart issue...but also struggling musically. The older I get the worse my memory gets. I have a hard time learning songs, remembering words and melodies. I also have a hard time even hearing the music and cues sometimes. So a song that in my college days I could have easily performed after just a few run throughs now takes me hours...hours that as a mom of seven I just rarely have.

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I really need God to help me. I can't sing on my own abilities. In the past, I could probably do it without much need of prayer and dependence on Him. Those days are gone. The older I get, the more I'm aware of my limitations and absolute need for Him. It has got to be Him.

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If you'd like to hear the song I'm singing, here's a link to a previous post featuring the video.

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Never Let Go by David Crowder Band.

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