Steve369
June 16th, 2007, 02:05 PM
Hello Friends
A few years ago during one of the summers a certain song/tune began playing in my mind and heart. I believe it started as I sat at the piano in my studio. So as usual I began to develop it. Well….this was a different song in that it wouldn’t leave me alone. It just overwhelmed me. The song was on my mind constantly in the day and while I slept. There were times after I finished the body of the composition that I could hardly play it, because when I did play it I felt like the Lord including the host of heaven was with me in my studio. Sometimes I would shake so that I could hardly finish playing the song on the piano given I could barely keep me fingers on the keys.
Well during that time…I just happened to be going through my performance season and while I was performing my compositions at a retirement home, I told the audience a version of the story above, and that I didn’t yet have a name for the song. So I performed it with the same passion as I was in my recording studio. Afterwards, a resident in the audience yelled out: “A Prayer for Jerusalem”
So this became the official name of the song; but, that’s not all. Later on, maybe a year or two later I was to visit a few of the saints who are close friends in British Columbia. They asked me to prepare to do the special music at the Sunday church service. So I thought about it and prayed, then I decided to do, “A Prayer for Jerusalem.”
Well, it so happens that their pastor was also out visiting/preaching at another church that Sunday, so a visiting missionary was called to preach in stead. The program was setup so the sermon would be right after the special music. Again, before playing the song I told the church the same story above including how the song got its name. Then I played it with the same passion.
Afterward, the visiting missionary gave us the sermon he prepared, which was based on Psalm 122, “A Prayer for Jerusalem. ….and God is also sovereign. (smile)
Sometimes when playing this song I can visualize the Son of God returning with the saints in all His glory....or the time when Jesus said: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"
This song is free to listen to at the following web site. All I ask is that as you listen to it that you say a prayer for peace of Jerusalem, the church body, and include me as well. I will be traveling and performing in several locations this summer including South East Asia, the Pacific North West, and Canada. I plan to play this song where every the Lord sends me.
http://www.idolunderground.com/Pages/Profile/UserProfile.aspx?UserID=108193
Praise to the One who was, and is, and is to come. The Alpha and the Omega, Amen.
A few years ago during one of the summers a certain song/tune began playing in my mind and heart. I believe it started as I sat at the piano in my studio. So as usual I began to develop it. Well….this was a different song in that it wouldn’t leave me alone. It just overwhelmed me. The song was on my mind constantly in the day and while I slept. There were times after I finished the body of the composition that I could hardly play it, because when I did play it I felt like the Lord including the host of heaven was with me in my studio. Sometimes I would shake so that I could hardly finish playing the song on the piano given I could barely keep me fingers on the keys.
Well during that time…I just happened to be going through my performance season and while I was performing my compositions at a retirement home, I told the audience a version of the story above, and that I didn’t yet have a name for the song. So I performed it with the same passion as I was in my recording studio. Afterwards, a resident in the audience yelled out: “A Prayer for Jerusalem”
So this became the official name of the song; but, that’s not all. Later on, maybe a year or two later I was to visit a few of the saints who are close friends in British Columbia. They asked me to prepare to do the special music at the Sunday church service. So I thought about it and prayed, then I decided to do, “A Prayer for Jerusalem.”
Well, it so happens that their pastor was also out visiting/preaching at another church that Sunday, so a visiting missionary was called to preach in stead. The program was setup so the sermon would be right after the special music. Again, before playing the song I told the church the same story above including how the song got its name. Then I played it with the same passion.
Afterward, the visiting missionary gave us the sermon he prepared, which was based on Psalm 122, “A Prayer for Jerusalem. ….and God is also sovereign. (smile)
Sometimes when playing this song I can visualize the Son of God returning with the saints in all His glory....or the time when Jesus said: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"
This song is free to listen to at the following web site. All I ask is that as you listen to it that you say a prayer for peace of Jerusalem, the church body, and include me as well. I will be traveling and performing in several locations this summer including South East Asia, the Pacific North West, and Canada. I plan to play this song where every the Lord sends me.
http://www.idolunderground.com/Pages/Profile/UserProfile.aspx?UserID=108193
Praise to the One who was, and is, and is to come. The Alpha and the Omega, Amen.