With All Creation I Sing

With All Creation I Sing

 
                Wednesday was our first church service. It was our very first day here and I was expecting a look around, get to know the place day, BUT it was church day. I was a little rattled/frayed because I wasn’t sure how I was going to fit in/how to get meet the people or what to say. As church started, they started singing songs that we knew. Of course it was in Spanish, but they were song I’d heard and grown up to. It was a little calming to be able to at least sing along with my team in English. Still I felt shaken. I was nervous, with really no need to be. In my head I know that this is exactly God’s plan for me, and that I am perfectly in His will for my life right now, but I couldn’t seem to settle my spirit. We sang a lot of songs, and I got into the worship and just prayed that God would let me feel Him standing with me, that He would overwhelm me with His presence. The very last song we sang before starting the message was Revelation Song. First off, this song is one of my absolute favorites! It’s one of those songs that I just want to sing with all my body until I have no more breath. One of those times that I wish I could sing like Kim Walker or Christy Knockels so the people near me aren’t bothered by how loudly I’m singing, “You are my EVERYTHING and I will adore You!”

                As soon as I realized what song Pastor Louis was singing, it was as if God said, “I told you I was here.” A calm overtook me and I wasn’t nervous or scared to meet the people. One line caught me while I was singing. I had sung this song so many times, but never really lived it. It says, “With all creation I sing, praise to the King of kings!” How many times had I belted out this song, fully meaning that I wanted all the nations to praise Jesus? How many times had I read Matthew 28:19, “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit” and fully meant in my heart that I wanted every nation to be singing and praising with me? But this time was the first time that I realized that it was 2 nations joined together in praising our Savior. Whether we were saying God or Señor, we were all praising!

              God has presented us with so many opportunities in the barrios this week! We’ve gotten to pray over families, over their sick children and we got to go the hospital yesterday and pray for new mothers and older women! God has blessed us tremendously, and I’m so excited for the rest of the summer!