Like Ted, I have been powerfully affected in the past by one of your songs as well. For me, it was at New Attitude last May and you sang a song for those struggling over past sexual sins and the guilt and condemnation that follows. The Lord powerfully used that song to immediately turn my life around - from one of feeling hindered by my past and now I’m a “second rate Christian” (as if that exists) to one of realization that the words “it is finished” applied even for me - even for this.

I remember as you sang “so live in the good of all that I paid for. Live in the good of the blood shed for you” that the Lord spoke clearly and directly to my heart and revealed to me the love on display at Calvary. There was/is no part of my sin not paid for on the cross.

I’m grateful that you posted this song. I view this song as a little teaser of what is to come on “Come Weary Saints” and I can’t wait to hear an entire CD focusing on our hope in Christ instead of remaining lost in our problems. Thanks!
Emily

At first, when those present heard what you were going to sing about, we all laughed. But when you sang and we heard the heart of God for those seeing themselves age … we were powerfully moved. One of my friends stopped wearing a toupe because of that word from the Lord. That sounds silly and trivial, but for those losing their hair, seeing in the mirror the effects of age and dying … it’s not trivial.

He sings over us, doesn’t He? …

And I, along with Ryan above, really appreciate your humility and honesty in sharing this with us. I pray that God would give us all a heart of humility and gratitude for what He’s given us in Christ Jesus.

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments. I agree. I’d never want to communicate that the only way to follow the Holy Spirit is through spontaneous leadings, impressions, or “sensing” what he’s doing. But in an effort to protect the authority and sufficiency of Scripture, some Christians have functionally ruled any experiential element out. That seems to fly in the face of what is happening in 1 Corinthians 121 Corinthians 12
[12:1]Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not
want you to be uninformed. [2]You know that when you were
pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were
led. [3]Therefore I want you to understand that no one
speaking in the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus is
accursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the
Holy Spirit.
[4]Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same
Spirit; [5]and there are varieties of service, but the same
Lord; [6]and there are varieties of activities, but it is
the same God who empowers them all in everyone. [7]To each
is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common
good. [8]For to one is given through the Spirit the
utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of
knowledge according to the same Spirit, [9]to another faith
by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one
Spirit, [10]to another the working of miracles, to another
prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between
spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another
the interpretation of tongues. [11]All these are empowered
by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one
individually as he wills.
[12]For just as the body is one and has many members,
and all the members of the body, though many, are one body,
so it is with Christ. [13]For in one Spirit we were all
baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and
all were made to drink of one Spirit.
[14]For the body does not consist of one member but of
many. [15]If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand,
I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any
less a part of the body. [16]And if the ear should say,
"Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,"
that would not make it any less a part of the body. [17]If
the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of
hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the
sense of smell? [18]But as it is, God arranged the members
in the body, each one of them, as he chose. [19]If all were
a single member, where would the body be? [20]As it is,
there are many parts, yet one body.
[21]The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of
you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of
you." [22]On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem
to be weaker are indispensable, [23]and on those parts of
the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater
honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater
modesty, [24]which our more presentable parts do not
require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater
honor to the part that lacked it, [25]that there may be no
division in the body, but that the members may have the
same care for one another. [26]If one member suffers, all
suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice
together.
[27]Now you are the body of Christ and individually
members of it. [28]And God has appointed in the church
first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then
miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating,
and various kinds of tongues. [29]Are all apostles? Are all
prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? [30]Do
all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do
all interpret? [31]But earnestly desire the higher gifts.
And I will show you a still more excellent way. (ESV)

and 14.

Because I’ve seen when a worship leader had a “sensing” of a prophetic song, but it turned into a big mess of disorderly worship and the focus more on what the people were feeling rather than what God has done in Jesus.

Although I think that word “sensing” is a bit mystical sounding (as if a special 6th sense is needed to tune in to what the Holy Spirit is doing in a church), I appreciate you clarifying your motives by explaining that the songs are an overflow of what God has done for us.

Do you ever have songs that are recorded and published get birthed out of spontaneous songs like this?