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How To Stay Humble While Playing An Amazingly Anointed Solo As a teenager, I began to hear that my playing was anointed. At that age I’m not sure I knew what that meant, but I did believe I was using my gift for God’s glory. On one occasion, while warming up to play, someone told me they felt the anointing and was almost in tears. I responded that I was only practicing and that didn’t count. They simply replied by letting me know they couldn’t tell the difference. It was then that I realized that anointing precedes playing (Jer. 1:5). Playing was simply a way I could release the anointing. Wether I was warming up or not, the anointing still seem to be evident. God’s anointing had superseded my understanding and touched lives without my approval. He had gone before me and I then understood who was in charge. Your desire to play is directly connected to the prophetic anointing inside of you. Wanting to play a solo is not selfish. Playing for selfish reasons is selfish. The desi

The Move & Flow Of The Holy Spirit

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How is it that we are missing to see the Holy Spirit but on a hot and sunny summer day you can locate even a small cloud that’s miles away even at night we can see a small fire at the top of the mountain we can recognise that fire from kilometres away. So why can we not recognise the Holy Spirit when he moves if he is as big as a cloud and if he is like a fire in night. In their forty years in the wilderness the children of Israel didn’t have a say in the manner in place or position of where the tabernacle was to be placed. And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: Exodus 13:21   So when the pillar of cloud or pillar of fire moved The Levites and Priest would go a three days journey ahead of the camp to set up the tabernacle onto the place where the pillar would stop. How many of us in our worship follow the Holy Spirit where He is going and what He wan

Communion And Fellowship: What Its All About

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Worship is lifting up the name of God in all splendor with everything we have in life, it’s not just a song you sing, worship is a lifestyle and daily experience not a 2hour Sunday recreation of taking off stress. Worship is what we were created to do, Isaiah 43:21 states “ This people have I formed for myself; they shall declare my praise ” When I talk of fellowship I am not talking of meeting with the brethren once or twice a week to have coffee, tea, biscuits, and a song plus discussing a chapter of the bible. When I talk of communion I am talking of taking the Lord’s Supper and the elements not am talking about the frequency we should take it. The bible sometimes uses these interchangeably because they basically speak of the same lifestyle. I am talking of a lifestyle of living and knowing God in an intimate way. Talking of not knowing God at 8am, 1pm or at 10pm when you sleep, only knowing during your prayer time and beyond that there isn’t anything. I speak of a l

Listening In Two Directions: Listening To The Spirit While Practicing

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This Article was written by Stacey Gleddiesmith   http://thinkingworship.com The idea of listening to the Spirit during practice may seem silly. After all, you’re simply figuring out who plays what, when, and making sure everything will go smoothly when it’s time for the real deal. But practice is more than rote learning, or getting our musical ducks in a row (if  only  we all had musical ducks!). It’s also a moment of confirmation and adjustment. Either practice confirms that I’m following the Spirit’s voice or it is another opportunity for the Spirit to interrupt the “me-show” and re-align my plans with his calling and purpose. We may have planned well and thoroughly, and tried our best to listen as we did so, but sometimes our sin-selves still get in the way. As we, with prayer, enact the prayer-soaked plans we made, we  hear  we  feel  the places that are “not quite right.” The spots where my pride, or my agenda, or my selfishness got in the way of my service to the