Creative Project (Essentials Blue Fall 08)
For: The Institute Of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephens University, Essentials Blue Online Theology Course with DAN WILT”
OK, here it goes, I asked Dan if I could present a song in Spanish, lots of Reverb! , lol, I hope you guys like it, as you can see it is only 4 phrases so it is very simple, I typed the song in Spanish but I also did it in English so you guys will know what it means.
Lyrics for the song
The title of the song is “Oracion”, which means “Prayer”. One of the things I heard during the course that really made me think a lot was the idea that We need to have an “Allegiance” with the Lord. Just as He is a an awesome God, good God, merciful God, we also need to see him with the respect He deserves. He is the Creator of the Universe, the one who allows me to sub-create with him.
The song says: ” Señor yo vengo ante ti”, this is a affirmation wanting to come to him, YES I want to come to you. As I have been reading, posting, discussing during these few weeks, I keep hearing we need to be available for him, Yes, I want to be use by him.
Also, I know He is seeking for me, I am not just the only one seeking for him, wow, that is so amazing. He deserves our allegiance!. We Are The Pursued, not the the ones who pursue, He is the redeemer, He wants to restore our lives.
He wants to save broken world, This is about the God who acted, He suffered and gave his life for us. He is our Healer. He send his only son to die for us because He wanted to have a relationship with us, because He is a relational God.
The chorus says: “I praise and exalt you my Lord”, this is not a suggestion to worship God, this is intentional to worship him. Just like David made himself worship God I want my soul to never forget who He is.
Also, the words Praise and Exalt makes us sing “together”, as a body, God is honored when we come before him and worship as a body.
I wanted to say thank you to Donny Cannoy for helping me posting my mp3!
mp3 song
Dan, thank you so much for letting me be part of this, it really has been challenging ( the reading…) but it has been so encouraging in the same time, it is great to know that we are always leaning and it was an honor to learn together with you and all the guys of The e*b course. Will, thank you so much for facilitating everything for us, the questions, the postings, the phone calls, etc, thank you so much!
Blessings to all in the e*b., love ya guys!
November 10, 2008 at 12:46 am
Wow Jorge
Thats amazing. Beautiful song.
bob
November 12, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Jorge, that was a really sweet piece. I too was struck by the allegiance thing that Dan mentioned in his audio talk. I used that in a morning prayer and it changed the nature of it. We don’t put the same emphasis on “surrender” to God as we would giving Him our allegiance. I guess allegiance implies more action. Thanks for the beautiful song. Did you record while out and about or are you home now?
November 15, 2008 at 5:12 am
Jorge! What a great song! I love the melody and the feel. The spirit of the song is just right. It’s a great recording too. It makes me want to sing in spanish so I can sing this in our congregation. Simply beautiful.