Breathtaking Worship.

The other night, during Unite (college group), I had a little bit of a meeting with Jesus.

It was humbling, and breath-taking all at once.

A bring me to tears sort of moment.

And since I'm stillll not over it, I figured I'd share it.

There were maybe 25, maybe 30 people that night, all spread throughout the room.

Worship was super chill: acoustic, no mics, nothing plugged in.

Everyone sort of congregated to the front of the room to worship together, but I was still towards the back of the room.

Towards the end of the last song, '10,000 Reasons', Daniel (head honcho, mr. college pastor, etc.), stood up and read:

"Praise the Lord.

Praise God in his sanctuary;
    praise him in his mighty heavens.

Praise him for his acts of power;
    praise him for his surpassing greatness.

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
    praise him with the harp and lyre,

praise him with timbrel and dancing,
    praise him with the strings and pipe,

praise him with the clash of cymbals,
    praise him with resounding cymbals.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord."

Psalm 150 

 Then he threw in a little challenge for us too. He said, 

"If this was the last moment you had to worship God, how would you respond? How would that change the way you are worshiping?" 

For the next few minutes we continually sang,

"Bless the Lord, Oh my soul, Oh my soul,
Worship His holy name.
Sing like never before, Oh my soul
I'll worship Your holy name."

And, I wish I could adequately describe what happened in that room.

There weren't thatttt many people in the room, but the worship that had erupted, and the presence of

God was SO overwhelming it was as if there were far more people in there than there really was.

Suddenly, in the midst of it all, I had one of those 'glimpse of heaven' moments...

One of those, 'this is what heaven is going to be like' moments.

Every person in tune with God. Every heart focused on Him. 

Each person giving their absolute everything in worship.

Arms raised, heads held high, knees bent, voices loud.

It was perfect.

And I got a glimpse of heaven when we'll be standing before the

throne of God worshiping day and night, and as if we

never have before. 

Powerful, meaningful, focused, surrendered, beautiful worship.

I couldn't even sing anymore at that point.

I was completely breathless, and as tears were streaming down my face in awe of 

what I had just been able to experience,

I had to leave the room to gather myself, and spend some time alone with Jesus;

thanking, worshiping, and basking in His presence.

There aren't many things that can beat out moments where you're in a room

surrounded by your friends who's hearts are all sold out to Christ

and have surrendered their everything in worship of Him all at the same time.

Such an incredible experience that literally makes me SO stoked for heaven.

It's going to be pretty magnificent, and I cannot wait. :)