This Wednesday, Liberty Church will gather as a whole for a night of unbridled worship and prayer. As the worship team rehearsed this week, they broke out in prayers that conveyed the passion they feel for people to connect with Jesus in new ways during these nights.
Worship Nights, which happen only four times a year, are transformational for individuals and have become important for our church body to seek the face of God together. Each Worship Night is always preceded by an excitement for the spiritual awakening of lives immersed in acts of worship and for the spiritual breakthrough for our growing church. But whenever a Worship Night approaches, no one carries more expectation than the team of musicians who prepare to lead the entire church.
- They pray that lives would be changed through newfound freedom, deliverance, and healings—physical, emotional, and spiritual.
- They pray for a revelation of God’s love to expand our hearts and vision and to grow our faith.
- They pray for people to be drawn in by a hunger for God, regardless of where they are coming from.
- They thank God for their talents—the gifts he has given to the church—and ask the Holy Spirit to breathe on their gifts to do what they cannot do.
- They pray for an environment where people are free to be authentic and seek him wholeheartedly without distraction or reservation.
- They pray that the church could walk into an atmosphere that is thick with God’s presence and love.
- They believe that the Holy Spirit will break out with freshness, renewal, and new depth and that God will show himself through the unexpected and the unrehearsed moments.
Knowing all that goes behind the scenes, they pray for an anointing on the team and for God “to smooth out the details” of the logistical aspects of the night, “so that we can focus more easily on you and your purposes and what the Spirit is asking us to do.” But they also pray that the level of excellence in performance would “come from an overwhelming sense of how much we love you, that things are done beautifully because we love you, not because we want to be excellent.”
And, as any worshipper who has found an intimacy with God that goes beyond words, they pray simple prayers, too: “We praise you just because. Just because.”
7:30pm at St Paul’s German Church, 315 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
