Coming out of Worship this morning, I really have a burden that if we are to really and genuinely fellowship here on this Forum, we need to spend time in Worship together too.
With that in mind, I would like to continue this thread - and ask my fellow believers in Christ Jesus our Lord to share Worship songs here that we can all enjoy; Songs that speak to us in our times of need, songs that speak of His Glory and Mercy and Grace, songs that He used to speak to us.
Please, share the songs that have touched you... whatever ministry they might have come from. God sees and judges the hearts of His people; so let us Worship Him together... We can't have proper fellowship without it.
With these things in mind, I feel burdened to share this song which might be familiar to some from the Local Church, although here in the words with which it was
originally penned by Dennis Jernigen:
In 1981, God delivered musician Dennis Jernigan from a lifelong struggle with homosexuality. "He began teaching me," Dennis explains, "that being a new creation means the 'old Dennis' really is dead." Dennis married, became the father of nine children, and committed to living his life in praise to God.
He wrote "You Are My All in All" at an Oklahoma City church where he led a daily prayer meeting at 6:00 A.M. It's Jernigan's habit always to carry a music manuscript book with him. "I believe God sings over me," he explains, referring to [today's Key Bible Verse], "so I need to be listening. When I hear God, I write it down right away."
He was sitting at the piano thanking God "that He bore the punishment of my sin fully with the first drop of His blood." In that moment, the line came to him, "seeking You as a precious Jewel, Lord, to give up I'd be a fool." The song emerged in pieces. "I'd start the people praying over a specific need in the church, then I'd go back to singing what I was sensing in the Lord. With my left hand I'd play the piano, and with my right hand I'd write down the melody and the words."
Key Bible Verse: The Lord your God has arrived to live among you. He will exult over you by singing a happy song." (Zephaniah 3:17).
Dennis Jernigan Bio courtesy of Christianity Today, Friday November 22, 2002.
Let us praise Him who set us Free!
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