This was one of my favorite moments of Passion 2012... Voices of the nations joining together to worship God in adoration and uncontainable joy! Background, culture, nationality, language... these were not a source of division but a unity in song that revealed the beauty and power of our great, uncontainable, awesome God! It was a tiny glimpse of heaven... Surrounded by 42,000 believers from various nations, each lifting their song and heart to their Savior. How great is our God!
Then when Louie asked us to lift up the nations in prayer, to hear the voices of my brothers and sisters in Christ raised to intercede on behalf of the captives, the broken, the enslaved, and the believers around the world...God was there, and He moved in power. He heard the voices of His children, and heard their cry of FREEDOM for the 27 million chained in slavery. My voice was raised in prayer for India, the nation that has been on my heart for months... the majority of the money raised during Passion is going to organizations in India, to set captives free! So many who haven't heard... who need Him! Here I am, Lord send me! These are not statistics, these are not nobodys... these are people with names and faces and stories who desperately need the hope I have! Rise up. Raise your voices. Tell the world, so they may know the joy of worshipping our great God who gives LIFE.
"Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name;
make known among the nations what he has done,
and proclaim that His name is exalted.
Sing to the Lord, for He has done glorious things;
let this be known to all the world.
Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion,
for great is the Holy One of Israel among you." Isaiah 12:4-6
See the joy on the faces of the Ugandan children's choir? Worship Him in freedom. He has set us free! He deserves our all. How GREAT is our GOD!
*more about Passion 2012 soon!
SO awesome to see on this side of freedom :)
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