This video literally gave me chills all over when I watched it yesterday. I have heard all kinds of talented singers sing this song, but somehow this little boy's version affected me in such a powerful way. It reminded me of my freshman year in college, when I traveled with my choir to Brazil during Spring Break. We toured Rio de Janeiro singing songs of praise to God. We visited churches, schools, and favelas spreading the gospel in song...and what did we find in those places? We found a people that were greatly affected by music, a people that were moved to worship passionately in song and dance!! A people that opened their arms and their hearts to us! I've never really seen or heard anything like it here in the United States.
Why did Brazil affect me so? Why did I find these people so amazing? What was it that made me never want to leave? Maybe, it was because I could feel the joy radiating from their faces, contagiously seeping from their spirits! Maybe, it was because many of them had so little, yet worshipped so passionately!! Maybe it was because they knew something that I needed to learn...that God is great and mighty and all-powerful, and with Him in our hearts, we can handle anything that comes our way with JOY and VICTORY in our spirits!
Little Jotta brought me back to a time when I experienced worship like never before, a time when God was transforming my life in AMAZING ways. It was the summer after my freshman year that I realized my call to ministry. It was that summer that I learned to worship freely! Over the years, I have forgotten what it felt like to follow God so passionately. I do love Him and worship Him, but life has distracted me from loving and worshipping Him passionately. It is time for me to narrow my vision and turn my eyes upon Jesus alone. It is time for me to get back to passionate worship. Thank you, Jotta, for that reminder!
I pray that my heart will burn with His love, my soul overflow with His joy, and my voice rise to praise Him with wholehearted passion!!
Revelations 3:14-16 NLT
14 “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Laodicea. This is the message from the one who is the Amen—the faithful and true witness, the beginning[e] of God’s new creation:
15 “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! 16 But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!
Deuteronomy 6:4-6 NLT
4 “Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.[a] 5 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. 6 And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today.
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amen!
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