{"id":1807,"date":"2014-10-08T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2022-08-06T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T16:23:03","slug":"world-needs-your-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/world-needs-your-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Needs Your Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I recently encouraged you to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/tell-soul-sing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tell Your Soul to Sing<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and today I want to share with you what God has been showing me about that powerful act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">First &#8211; here is the video that inspired me to begin to tell my soul to sing. . .\u00a0<em>Louder, Louder!\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Louder Louder (Spontaneous Worship) - Steffany Gretzinger | Bethel Music\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rGAswlDhM1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Isn&#8217;t that fantastic!? How can you &#8216;tell your soul to sing&#8217; when you don&#8217;t fee like it? And what\u00a0should I tell my soul to sing? It&#8217;s great to get all hyped up over a great song. . . but then what? And, what does it mean that <em>The World Needs Your\u00a0Song<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let&#8217;s revisit the verses from a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/tell-soul-sing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous post<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[5] Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me <em>and<\/em> be disquieted within me? Hope in God\u00a0<em>and<\/em> wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God. [6] O my God, my life is cast down upon me [and I find the burden more than I can bear]; therefore will I [earnestly] remember You from the land of the Jordan [River] and the [summits of Mount] Hermon, from the little mountain Mizar. [7] [Roaring] deep calls to [roaring] deep at the thunder of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your rolling waves have gone over me. Psalm 42:5-7,\u00a0<em>Amplified Bible<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Amplified Bible translation can be a little much if you&#8217;re not used to it &#8211; but take your time and let these verses roll over you for a minute. . .<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God. . . <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: #000000; font-size: inherit; font-family: var(--text-font); letter-spacing: var(--text-tracking);\">My life is cast down upon me and I find the burden more than I can bear. . . <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: #000000; font-size: inherit; font-family: var(--text-font); letter-spacing: var(--text-tracking);\">I will remember You and your abundant land of promise. . . <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: #000000; font-size: inherit; font-family: var(--text-font); letter-spacing: var(--text-tracking);\">Roaring deep calls to roaring deep. . .\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The last thing I feel like doing when\u00a0<em>the burden is more than I can bear<\/em>\u00a0is to worship and praise God. To sing. To engage my mind and body in the act of thankfulness, remembering how good and loving my faithful God is. . . from the bottom of the pit. Yet this is the very thing that will shake the burden loose, as I raise my hands in thankfulness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yet. . . there is more. We can have a fantastic time worshipping God, and proclaiming His goodness. . . but our actions, and what we do <em>with<\/em> the faith from that encounter is what ultimately puts the nail in the coffin of defeat, death, burdens, and struggles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u00a0is a powerful act to begin to worship God with the gifts He has entrusted you with. Maybe it is singing, and leading others in worship. Maybe it is writing Bible studies, or working with children. Is it art? Dance? Serving? Whatever God has called you to do &#8211; begin to again <em>do that<\/em> as worship to Him, and watch that burden begin to shake loose. It is a powerful reminder to our souls, and the kingdom of darkness, when we chose to &#8216;sing&#8217; when we do not yet feel like it.\u00a0<em>I shall yet praise Him.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This does (at least) a couple of things for our soul: First, it reminds us of <em>God and [His] abundant land of promise<\/em>. God has called and equipped you to have purpose, meaning, and full, abundant life on this earth. Getting up, and remembering His promises over our lives when we don&#8217;t feel like it is a powerful act of worship. <em>I will yet praise the Lord.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Next, &#8216;singing&#8217; when we do not feel like it will often get our eyes off of the problem, and on God by realizing that the &#8216;song&#8217; we are to sing will encourage, lift, and help another sing their song.\u00a0We become<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0God-focused and others-focused. This can be the\u00a0hardest thing to do when we want to be <i>me-and-my-problem-focused<\/i>. Ever been there? Ever wanted to stay in pity-party-city, population ONE? Meeeee to! Let&#8217;s be honest though, it gets really pathetic, and really lonely, really fast in PPC. So lift up your eyes, remember the abundant promises of God, use your voice, and your gift to praise God, and serve others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I made this picture, and hung it in my office this summer as a reminder of God&#8217;s promises over<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1835\" src=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photo-5.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/> me (<em>It says, &#8216;The World Needs Your Voice&#8217;<\/em>). I look at it often. I don&#8217;t always feel like it is true. It is hard at times to believe God&#8217;s Word when I cannot see any progress in that direction. So I look at this, I trust His promise, I pray what He has spoken, and I get back to what He asked me to do\u00a0<em>today<\/em>:\u00a0Trust God. Love people. Serve where I am, with what is in my hands <em>today<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As I have done this I have felt my soul respond, to heal, to feel hope again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Soon you will be found in the\u00a0<em>roaring deep<\/em> place with God where His life, His promise, His Spirit so overwhelms you that the problem can be seen for what it is. . . an insignificant speck on the scene of life with Him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/logo-02.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"109\" src=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/logo-02.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3078\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently encouraged you to\u00a0Tell Your Soul to Sing\u00a0and today I want to share with you what God has been showing me about that powerful act. First &#8211; here is the video that inspired me to begin to tell my soul to sing. . .\u00a0Louder, Louder!\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that fantastic!? How can you &#8216;tell your soul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1],"tags":[62,7,20,151],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The World Needs Your Song<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn to serve where you are, with what is in your hands today. The world needs your song, and so do you! 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