i am an offering

If I’m really honest with you all, I would let you know that I was a bit nervous about yesterday’s service.  The piano player and I didn’t even practice one of the songs beforehand (both of our printers were having problems) and our normal rock star volunteer wasn’t there to run EasyWorship.

It all worked out.  I had several compliments on the music - and one of our youth stepped up big time and achieved rock star status as well - almost flawlessly running EasyWorship without ever doing it before (I do not recommend this, by the way - we should have found a way to train him beforehand.)

And, to top it off, a great introductory message on The Law (God’s law, Law of Moses) from Pastor Wade.  I’m really looking forward to this series and really looking forward to looking into the mirror to see where my heart needs to be changed.

Songs we did:

• Shout to the Lord - Zchesch
• Open the Eyes of My Heart - Baloche
• Holy, Holy - Nathan Fellingham
• Jesus, Thank You - Pat Szcebel

Yesterday’s service was great.  Really great.  For the first time in a long time, I knew without a shadow of a doubt that the Holy Spirit was guiding the service.  I know this all of the time, but yesterday I was completely certain.

There were a few reasons:

First, I thought I had everything ready to go by loading the EasyWorship service onto a flash card to bring to church (our church is a church plant and currently runs off of a laptop that is in different hands from week to week).  The only problem was, I forgot my flash card reader.  Whoops!

Thankfully, the volunteer that was going to run EasyWorship was willing to run home and grab her copy of the file since she didn’t live too far away.  And, thankfully, she seemed to forgive my ridiculous lack of preparation.  Hence, she wins volunteer of the month award.  Thank you so much, Lisa!

So, Rock Star Volunteer Lisa runs home and grabs the service.  We’re good to go.

Second, during our prayer time in the service I was feeling led that we should sing the last verse of the hymn we had just sung after the prayer time was finished.  When the prayer time was finished, Pastor Wade walks next to me and whispers, “Let’s sing that last verse again.”  God still moves, folks!

Third, Lisa again proved her rock-star-ness by following along perfectly even though some verses in songs ended up getting skipped and/or repeated.

God was in control yesterday, not anyone else, and it was awesome!

The most important thing that I learned from yesterday’s service was that God is above anything we can imagine, but even though He’s able to take care of all the details if we think we’ve messed them up, we still need to make sure we’re properly prepared and we properly prepare those we’re working with.