My Song is My Prayer
So often when I walk into a service and the Worship team
begins to lead in, the songs that are selected verbalize exactly what I am
feeling or exactly what I need to hear.
Recently I went to a Concert with my fiancé. We had planned
to take a good friend to this concert for her birthday. I went with no expectation;
neither did I go necessarily with a ‘spiritual mind frame’. To my amazement, the moment I walked in, the
performer that was opening the concert began encouraging all of us to open our
hearts and to see that night as an opportunity to get into the presence of God.
Specifically the focus of the night was to cast our cares on the Lord. A link to the song can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSJZoEoVPy4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I immediately began to communicate with the
Lord and say: ‘God you are talking to me
right now! You are telling me that I need to trust you with what I am going
through and what I need.’
Usually when we think about the book of Psalms, we realize
that these were songs that were written and sung during various events,
festivals, and celebrations in the lives of the Children of Israel. Moses,
David, Asaph, Lemuel and others contributed to writing the 150 Psalms. Today
many contemporary songs that we sing are based on verses from this book. I came across an
interesting verse a few months ago:
Psalms 72:20. The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.
David wrote many
Psalms and this verse gives us a beautiful description of the songs that he
sang. I can imagine him out in
the field, as the sun was setting and as his day was winding down after taking
care of his father’s sheep, he goes to his bag, grabs his harp and as he starts
to pluck the strings, and his heart begins to pray. I believe that every Psalms
that he wrote, every Psalm that he sang was not just a song, Psalms 72:20
describes them as prayers. I believe that they were the intimate prayers of his
heart. They were all verbal and written expressions of what he was feeling,
what he was asking for, what he was thinking at that moment.
Imagine if every time we walked into church, as we enter
into a service and hear the songs being sung, we wouldn’t just sing but we
would pray the words. The reality about our God is that He always answers
prayers. Some people that feel
‘musically challenged’ say: I can’t sing. That may or may not be true, but this
verse makes me realize that a song is more than rhythm, a melody and
cadence. You may not feel like you can
sing, but you can pray. The next time you step into church and as the lyrics
project onto the screen, Pray! My song is My Prayer to God.
Psalms 5:1-3
For the director of music. For pipes. A
psalm of David.
