Your story

Darlene Zschech is one of my all-time favorite artists and worship leaders.  You see, you may not automatically recognize her name but if you have ever sung the song "Shout To The Lord" then you have been singing one of the songs that she has written.

She has an amazing article in this month's WORSHIP LEADER MAGAZINE.  It's all about YOUR STORY!  We all have a story to tell....whether it is good, bad or somewhere in between.  Your experiences in life is what makes your story yours! 

She began with a word from the WORD....Rev 12: 10 - 11 says:

¹⁰Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:    "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ.  For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.  ¹¹They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony;  they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.  ¹²Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them!  But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you!  He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short."

How about that?!  She goes on to say "Don't let the accuser beat the song and story out of you or keep you from standing strong in the promised hope of the future.  And share this posture of worship with the people you lead on a weekly basis."

"God's story of redemption over your life is what gives your story power!  Make sure that you are living your life wholeheartedly in worship!  Our songs and stories are not wrritten to make us rich, and they are not designed to tickle the ears of man; they are birthed out of the sacred moment of realizing that without Him, we are nothing!"

Taken from WORSHIP LEADER MAGAZINE, "Priorities: Story in Story" by Darlene Zschech, page 24.