On fainting in the SPIRIT

September 5, 2007

by Rocky Wing

I didn’t catch the irony of this whole situation until Tuesday while soaking in the shower and thinking about how I was going to relay this strange happening.
It was right in the middle of one of the worship songs I was leading in the north auditorium for Sunday morning. I held out a long note and that’s when I noticed this odd sensation creep slowly through my body. It started in the extremities and ended up in my eyes. Everything went dark and fuzzy. I lost feeling in feet and hands. Was I swaying back and forth or was it the whole church shifting slowly to the left and right? And then just as I was about to fall to the ground unconscious, guitar in hand, the feeling left me.

Later as I considered all of this in the green room, I thought maybe it’s because I didn’t eat breakfast this morning. this plus the fact that I’m wearing heavy boots and am not used to standing for too terribly long since the broken foot. I am just weak. I sat much of the service, eating as much as I could.
And here is where it gets really weird. I end up nearly fainting second service in the exact same part of the worship song as first service. The irony? This all happened on the lyric “what makes me think that I can do this life on my own, what makes me feel I’m enough.”
This is a reminder to me. I think I try to do this life (which sometimes includes ministry) on my own strength, relying on my own gifts and talents. I got these songs covered; I got this worship service covered. It’s funny that it takes something like this for me to realize (again, and again, and again) that it is GOD working in and through me. And without HIS strength I can’t even take my next breath - let alone lead a group before HIS throne.

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