Worship leading 101

the story of how God showed up.

it was a frustrating morning practice. everything wrong with our ministry just began to surface one by one. musicians not prepared for the songs, some. some co leaders singing at the top of their voices just to be heard. the choir screaming even more since they dun have microphones. everything was just so loud and noisy. it was so clear, that everyone was individual. there was no team effort at all in making the practice work.

i was so tempted to just let them sing all they want and then speak my mind during the morning prayer, but i knew in my spirit that that was the thing i wanted to do, not what god wanted. i started to moan and ask why is this happening? am i missing something?

prac ended and i headed straight to the prayer room. i was close to tears.im 20+ years younger than most of my team here. what can i do. this is not what i thought worship ministry would be. these ppl were full grown adults acting like little children. how was this supposed to work for the glory of God.

i was praying for an answer. praying and praying. then i recalled my theme for worship service,and then i realised what was happening, God had the whole world in His hands. was god taking me on a real life situation of the theme of my worship service? it looked certainly like it was. everything was literally out of my control. what else could i do besides mere shouting? what else could i do besides probably asking the sound technician to turn down the co leaders' mic volume. at that point of uncertainty and a lack of control, only God could do something.

9:25am, time to go up stage. i lingered in the prayer room for a good one minute, and muttered, 'God, take control. ive realised my ways are not higher than yours. show me your way. all i want to do is worship.' i walked up the stage, took a breather, and started. 

results: whatever that went wrong during practice, simply worked itself out during the service itself. and i realised right then, its not abt how u want god to use you, we dun get a say, we just need to be available and obedient. Man may disappoint, but God never does. trust had to be placed in the right person.