...Last Sunday the power did go off. The adult chorale was about to sing...Mark McAlister was moving from the organ to the piano, when...Boom-lights out! The emergency lights came on but provided little light. What a quandary. What do you do? How long do you wait? Pastor got up and filled space for a bit and then challenged the singers to sing acappella. Then people started seeking the Lord if haply they might feel after Him and find Him, though He is not far from each and every one...and wow, did they ever find Him!
God's presence moved in waves, and it reminded me of the worship of the Old Testament with people shouting and praising, with horns blowing. Jeremy Brock began moving around the congregation blowing the trombone...for 30-40 minutes this continued...I can't remember ever being in a service like that.
Then, the power came back on. We shut it all back off and continued to bask in His presence. Evidently, God wanted to send us a message that much is given to help us in our worship to Him, but when stripped of all those things, He still moves powerfully.
...don't know why the power went off...don't care. My family, and many others, will never, never, never, forget "the night the power went off when Mark McAlister was moving from the organ to the piano."
Isa 6:1
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
KJV
KB
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