out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks

ok, so we did this excercise at
worship team rehearsal tonight and it was really neat.
Mike had us all open our Bibles to Psalms,
and just skim through the pages and find a Psalm
that really stuck out to us. And then he had us all get up
and walk around the sanctuary, just reading Psalms out loud,
all different ones but at the same time, so we weren't really
listening to each other, but we were reading the Psalms out loud.

The point of the excercise was to not feel weird
having God's words on our lips
"out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks"(matt 12:34)
The overflow of our hearts, as followers
and worshippers of Christ, should BE Christ!
when we come to church Sunday morning,
it should not feel awkward or weird to us
to be singing praises to God.
It also should not feel like we're performing.
So in order to make it feel natural to speak or sing God's praises,
we have been asked to read the Psalms out loud in a quiet time with God
just in worship to Him...so i decided to share one of the psalms
that i happened to read out loud tonight


this whole practice has made me fall in love with God all over again =)


Psalm 66:1-12, 16-20

Shout for joy to God, all the earth;
sing the glory of his name;
give to him glorious praise!
Say to God, "How awesome are your
deeds!
So great is your power that your
enemies come cringing to you.
All the earth worships you
and sings praises to you;
they sing praises to your name."


Come and see what God has done:
he is awesome in his deeds toward the
children of man.
He turned the sea into dry land;
they passed through the river on foot.
There did we rejoice in him,
who rules by his might forever,
whose eyes keep watch on the nations-
let not the rebellious exalt themselves.


Bless our God, O peoples;
let the sound of his praise be heard,
who has kept our soul among the living
and has not let our feet slip.
For you, O God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
You brought us into the net;
you laid a crushing burden on our
backs;
you let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through
water;
yet you have brought us out to a place of
abundance.

....


Come and hear, all you who fear God,
and I will tell you what he has done for
my soul.
I cried to him with my mouth,
and high praise was on my tongue.
If i had cherished iniquity in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.
But truly God listened;
he has attended to the voice of my
prayer.

Blessed be God,
because he has not rejected my
prayer
or removed his steadfast love
from me!