The Stand-- go ahead, pray twice.

Music has an amazing way of connecting and digging up emotions that you didn't know you had inside. I've always enjoyed listening to music-- especially reading lyrics.

My Grandpa Paul used to always tell me, "When you sing, you pray twice." I didn't know at the time that he was quoting St. Augustine, I just thought Grandpa was trying to hook me up with a way out of prayer!

{Christmas 2005}

Nope, he wasn't, but Grandpa was a wise, wise man, God rest his soul.

So I share with you, The Stand, by Frontline worship band:

The lyrics that resonate with me the most in this song:

"You stand before my failure/Carried the Cross for my shame/My sin weighed upon Your shoulders/My soul now to stand.

So what can I say/What can I do/But offer this heart O God/Completely to You."

I love the acknowledgment of what Christ did for us-- He took our sin that upon Him and nailed it to the cross. I love the question of "What can I say, what can I do?" And then the realization that the only thing to do is to offer ourselves up to the Lord.

My other favorite part of this song:

"So I'll stand/With arms high and heart abandoned/In awe of the One who gave it all.

So I'll stand/My soul Lord to You surrendered/All I am is Yours."

Stephanie has an amazing voice to sing this song out to the Lord. Check her out on Itunes.

Come join us-- and pray twice! :)