Written for a Resound Worship songwriting challenge, the intention is for the song to be a really simple worship song of adoration that is easily translatable and relatable for different people groups to access.
Rebecca Beese
Oxford, UK
I’ve always found it remarkable that on the night of Jesus’ arrest Peter was so afraid that he denied Jesus in the dark of night to a servant girl, and yet just a few chapters later he was standing in an open market place in the bright light of day declaring the gospel to all who would listen. This dramatic transformation can only be down to the work of the Holy Spirit. And that same spirit is at work in us today. Based on Acts 2 and the passage Peter reads from Joel, it’s a call for the same empowerment and release for us.
Many of the songs we sing about the Holy Spirit are based around how we feel, or what we want to experience. This song is about who the Holy Spirit is and what we're wanting to see the Holy Spirit do in our lives and in the wider communities we're living in. It's missional at heart, asking the Holy Spirit to fill us to empower us to go out into the world, enable us to share the love of God and draw people to Him.
Based on Psalm 27, this is an unapologetic declaration of where we're putting our hope. Written to build faith when facing adversary, this song causes courage to rise as we seek the presence of the Lord and to fix our eyes on Him rather than the trouble around us.
Love Abides digs deep into the attributes of God's love, naming the qualities and strength of it and where we can go to access it.
A response song with a focus on us waiting for the Lord until He speaks, pushing into His presence.
Singing the bedrock of our faith is a glorious and faith building thing to do and leads us into worship. The Nicene Creed was written 2000 years ago to try and lay out clearly all that we believe. We took writing this song very seriously, keeping everything as close as possible to the original and leaving no important part out. Our prayer is that this singing out of our solid foundation and declaration of what we believe will strengthen the church and deepen its worship.
About me
Rebecca Beese is a writer for Resound Worship, a worship pastor and songwriter based in West Oxfordshire. She has a passion to see authentic spirit led worship released in the churches in which she serves, seeing them singing songs that tell their own stories. Rebecca divides her time between being a wife and mum, a music teacher, songwriting, leading worship and training and developing others. She has a heart to see others released into all that God has for them.
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