Spontaneity in Worship

I don't have much commentary on this one, but I'd be remiss if I didn't link to it. Worship Matters has a fascinating post on spontaneous worship songs. Here's a little taste:

For many years I’ve sung spontaneous songs during corporate worship that I believe are a form of prophecy. They’re similar to a spoken prophetic impression from the Lord, only they’re sung, they rhyme, and they are often sung “from God to us.” I’ve never believed for a moment that the words I sing are “word for word” from God. That’s called Scripture. But these songs seem to consistently communicate in verse the Lord’s heart for a particular individual, group, or situation.

The idea intrigues me a lot. Any thoughts?

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Actually our church is big on this. We just get together... begin to worship and let God do what he wants. It's revolutionized our thoughts about corporate worship times.

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The International House of Prayer in Kansas City does this kind of worship in their prayer room. It is very powerful. They call the people on the worship team Prophetic Singers. Some of the most beautiful, moving, powerful songs have come from their Prophetic Singers allowing God to speak through them, spontaneously, in the moment. They are always recording what is going on in the prayer room and then release a monthly CD that has the 'best' songs on it.
My wife used to break into song that was, I beleive, directly from God, as the words were always specifically directed to either our church or the whole body of the church. The words were instructional, cautioning, guiding and encouraging but always loving. I remember every now and then someone would mumble that God would never speak outside His Bible. But the wise response was always that God will do whatever He wants, when He wants and won't be pigeonholed.
I am a pentecostal sceptic.
That is I grew up pentecostal. I pracitce aspects of Christian spirituality that would be considerred to be pentecostal. And I am generally sceptical of many obvious expressions of pentecostal worship. They often seem to me to be performed instead of offered for the benefit of a worshipping community.

Anyhow, to my point. I practice this for m of worship as aprt of my spirituality. It is very intimate with God. I usually receive imspiration while others are singing the songs lead buy the worship team, and I have always considerred my proctice of Spirit singing to be a personal spirutuality. A form of making a thought written by another song-writer personal and allowing the Holy Spirit to take that thought deep into my soul and bring it out in a fresh expression... (David's "sing to the Lord a new song")

Many times things that we prefer to keep personal, are blessings to others. Perhaps it is best to share such things in our spiritual life in order to 'build up' the body.

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