Kindle Notes & Highlights
The Lord is always saying to His beloved Bride, “Let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely” (Song 2:14). He’s always coaxing us to open up because our universal tendency is to shut down.
The skill of worship ministries will be measured, not so much by their ability to sing their songs with excellence, but by their ability to unlock and release the song of the people.
back in a 1960s model of worship—singing four songs in succession. When the songs are done, the worship is done. Most worshipers don’t exercise themselves to sing past the song, so we don’t experience the song of the people.
Today, we’re singing the songs of the songwriters, we’re singing the songs of the platforms, and we’re singing the songs of the worship bands; but we’ve lost the song of the people.
The worship warms us, and we applaud it approvingly, but it doesn’t draw out our song.
Why have we lost the song of the people?
We haven’t carried with us the worship gifts God gave us in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. L...
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singing in the Spirit or free worship
The saints sang their hearts out to the Lord!
This form of spontaneous singing in the Spirit was a sweet gift from above, but some churches resisted it at the time because it was usually associated with singing in other tongues.
They picked up new songs, lifting hands, clapping hands, and even shouting, but not singing in the Spirit.
It was the song of the people, and it was lost.
This practice of singing freely in the Spirit to the accompaniment of rhythm
and chord progressions was a sweet gift from heaven, and it really empowered and released the song of the people.
This gift had empowered the song of
the people, but in the 2000s it fell off the radar of most groups in the global Church.
How can we recover and awaken the song of the people? The answer to that question
teach God’s people to sing past the song
It’s almost as though our worship is only song deep.
When the song is over, the worship stops.
God’s people need to be taught and trained to sing past the song. After all, when the song st...
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It’s as though we don’t know how to sing our love to Jesus in words that originate from our own hearts. We’re dependent on today’s songwriters to give us words so we can worship.
In the next wave of
worship, we’re going to labor to help believers sing their own song to the Lord. The song
The song of the people is self-generating, and it comes from the hearts of firebrands who have been awakened by...
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(because worship is your first response when you see God).
In the next wave, worship ministries are going to help believers learn how to sing past the song.
Revival
What will awaken the song of the people in these coming days? Revival!
Revival is a move of the Spirit of God, marked by the Presence and power of God, that awakens the Church to a greater passion for Jesus and His cause in the earth, to see culture transformed and the lost saved.
without exception, God has used new songs in historic revivals to release the song of the people and give the saints language for their newfound joy in the Holy Spirit.
At the revival’s inception, all singing was a cappella and was entirely vocally driven—it was the song of the people. “Singing in tongues” together was also commonly practiced.
The songs of the meetings weren’t initiated by a song leader on a platform, but they came extemporaneously from the crowd.
The energy in the people’s singing was so riveting that it was one of the features often covered by newspaper journalists. The meetings flowed freely between prayer, song, and preaching.
the movement was most widely recognized by the way it ignited the song of the people. Congregations would sing in the Spirit for sustained lengths of time, with the energy for the singing coming entirely from the people, not from musical instruments.
The song of the people. Revival.
If we’re heading for a resurgence of the song of the people,
We’re heading for revival!
Watch for a great wave of revival in the coming days that will awaken the Church and rest...
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Signs and Wonders
Signs and wonders are catalytic to releasing the song of the people. Why? Because when we see God moving in our midst in power and glory, we can’t help but lift our voices and celebrate God’s manifest Presence among us.
