#CodeOrangeRevival Night 8 - A WORSHIP EXPERIENCE

Friday night was Worship night at Elevation Church.  But it wasn't just any old worship night, Elevation Worship was live recording a new album, set to release Spring 2017

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I CAN'T WAIT!!!

I wasn't going to write a post about night 8 of #CodeOrangeRevival, but I felt the Lord say, 'I have a purpose for each one of these nights, and that includes tonight.'  So I promised to be obedient and play my role in His purpose for night 8.

Leading up to tonight and during the service, I had been thinking about music.  About the power and freedom that can come by singing a single song, a single verse, recalling a single lyric in a particular moment.  Songs and music evoke a change in atmosphere, a change in attitude.  But Worship music, Worship music has the power to change, the power to restore, the power to heal, the power to comfort, the ability to bring hope to the hopeless, and joy to the disheartened.

Sometimes we don't even know what we're feeling or what we want to say to, God.  But the power that lays in a Worship song is to draw out of us those things that we didn't even know were there or had the words to express.  And when we Worship together corporately, when we join with like-minded people at Church, at a conference, or at a bible study in someone's home; we are transported to the throne room of God, worshiping our Father amongst the heavenly hosts.

There is no substitute for reading your bible, but I can appreciate the impact that a song has.  When I first got saved, I didn't know a lot of scripture, but I had a knack for retaining songs.  So when I didn't know what God said about me, or I didn't know what to pray or how to pray to God, I would sing.  I would sing over my circumstances, I would close my eyes and worship Him in song, and be transported before my King.  "Worthy is the lamb",  "Shout to the Lord", "Jesus, lover of my soul", "I give you my heart", "Christ is enough", "You never fail", "What the Lord has done in me", "You said", "My hope is in you", "I can only imagine", "Word of God speak", "Awesome God", "No longer slaves", "Letting Go", "Forever", "Good good Father", "Holy Spirit", "Trust in you", "O come to the Altar", "Resurrecting", "Do it again".  Which if you want to listen to any of these songs you can click below.  

WORSHIP 1 PLAYLIST - CLICK HERE

Some of these are older, some are new, and they are but a small snippet of what I worship to, but they all achieve one thing;  They disengage my head and engage my heart, falling on my knees before the Lord with an attitude of love, praise, and thankfulness.  
Tonight as I sat in my bedroom in Indiana, behind a computer screen, I joined in worship with thousands of other people, from all around the world - All singing in one unified voice, with a unified focus - Our Father, who art in heaven.  I can imagine the smile on His face as the sound lifted high above the earth, and filled the halls of heaven.

Elevation Worship Team - #CodeOrangeRevival 2016

Well, there are only 2 more days of Code Orange left.  I hope you've been enjoying these posts as much as I have been enjoying writing them.  I can't wait to see what God's going to do on night #nine!!  So until then, God bless you guys,

Psalms 8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

Psalms 29:2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.

Psalms 95:6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!

Psalms 99:5 Exalt the LORD our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!

Exodus 15:20-21Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. And Miriam sang to them:  “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously;the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

Psalms 59:16 But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

Psalms 63:3-4 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Psalms 66:4  All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.” Selah

Psalms 150 Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!