We Are an Offering

Ok.. just a quick post.. in case you're wondering why i'm blogging so early in the morning, its cos i wanna jot down this dream i received this morning...

We were having a service.. it was in a big concert hall/auditorium.. i wasn't sure if it was indoors or outdoors.. and i saw a good amount of young people there.. but i don't think it was a Sojourners service cos there were adults there too.. it looked like some thanksgiving service or something and there were a lot of people...

The service began and the worship team took a song.. then when that song ended, it was like the whole band just stopped and there was like an awkward pause in between.. the band didn't go into the next song and i wasn't sure why.. i was very angry when i saw what was happening.. i was thinking that they were not giving due reverence to God.. i saw the guy on keys just being so casual about his attitude and even giggling up there instead of starting the next song and i wasn't very happy...

But then i heard the next song.. i'm not sure how it started.. the congregation may even have started singing it.. and i saw that everybody's hands were up, like as if they really wanted to engage and worship God.. and they started singing:

We lift our voices
We lift our hands
We lift our lives unto You
We are an offering

Lord, use our voices
Lord, use our hands
Lord, use our lives
They are Yours
We are an offering

All that we have
All that we are
All that we hope to be
We give to You
We give to You
We give to You...

And the song left such a deep imprint in my spirit that it stayed with me even after i woke up... It's the cry of a generation desperate for God.. and i believe that's where the Holy Spirit is stirring us towards... He's moving us to a place where that's the cry of our hearts.. that's the sound of a generation so lost in God.. and that song is my prayer for the youth as well as for myself.. after i heard them singing that song in the dream, i was even more zealous and determined to serve God in the youth ministry... cos i want them to offer up that song to Him...

Anyway, the dream didn't end there.. the youth were supposed to give a presentation during that service and there was a team of vocalists who sang.. i think i saw ****** though i'm not sure whether she was with the vocalists or in the first scene during the worship... i can't really remember if they had put up that same song or not.. but i can remember the excellent harmony and how powerful the vocals were.. i heard a guy singing onstage.. i went to see who it was... i looked cos i knew that there were not many guy vocalists around in Sojourners.. den finally i saw **** with the microphone.. and i heard him sing such grand high tenor parts that it gripped me!! it was like those kind of breathtaking tenor parts that leave you with a "Wow"! Besides him, i think there was one more guy vocalist but i can't really remember who...