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broken hallelujah (reprise)

our voices need to respond to something. we see great baseball plays and we shout. we see great performers and we cheer.
our hearts need to respond to something. we cry at great films. we get choked up when the music rises in intensity. we enjoy giving love when we love someone.
our minds need to respond to something. we get stimulated when a conversation or book interests us.
our hands need to respond to something. we want to help when we find a cause worth helping. we want to work when we realize we need to provide.
but our voices and hearts and minds and hands were ultimately designed to respond to God. His infinate value is the greatest thing we can respond to.
when our heart and mind is broken and God pours His infinate grace over them, our voices respond with hallelujah and our hands respond with "what shall i now do"

i pray that in the wake of any broken hallelujah that we experience, we will respond with open hands.

sunday night was awesome. for many reasons, but mainly because God broke hearts and restored them with His grace. and we wanted to respond.

here was the setlist:
Holy Holy Holy
"My King" audio track
Indescribable
O Praise Him/Here is Our King
His Love is Alive
Prayer Time
All Creatures
This is my Father's World
From the Inside Out/How Great is our God
Desperate for You
Silent Prayer/Confession
Here I am to Worship
Amazing Grace
Group Prayer/Confession
O No, You Never Let Go/Majesty/Shout to the Lord/The Stand
Clap Your Hands Hallelujah
Happy Day/O Happy Day
I Saw the Light
On Our Side

broken hallelujah

september 23rd
6:30 pm
a time to worship God together at night.
awesome.
this will be the first in a series of worship nights titled: broken hallelujah.

broken hallelujah is a representation of the worship that i desire to take place every second of the day.
every second, we ought to be broken before God: confessing that He alone is God and sovereign King and holy and righteous and worthy of praise and satisfying and truly beautiful.
and every second, our hearts ought to be responding with a hallelujah, that we have been forgiven much and brought into a relationship with this holy God. a relationship that we did not deserve, but has brought God joy to give us and has brought us joy to receive.

every sunday is a broken hallelujah as a corporate body of believers.
every week is a broken halleujah as we work and worship God in our day to day activities. glorifying Him in our eating and walking and hanging out.

O God, i pray that every moment our hearts would be broken before You and responding with a joyful Hallelujah.