TWLL #23: How To Surrender When You Step Into Your Set

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Regardless of how prepared or unprepared you and your team are, when it’s time to step onstage to lead worship you’re faced with a choice.  

Will you go into the set walking under the weight of how you could’ve prepped better?   Or will you step into the moment in a posture of surrender, and trust Him with the mechanics of the set?

Today, I want to highlight three things we can do as worship leaders to help us surrender when it’s time to step into our sets.

Release Control

When you step onstage to lead worship, it’s natural to assess where you and the team are at, in terms of how much/how well you prepped.  

Something about the reality of knowing you’re about to lead a set, can really force you into the awareness of how ready or not ready you are.

And if you jump into the set wrapped up in what you could have done differently that week to get ready, you are jumping in with an anxious heart and a distracted mind.

So what’s the solution?  You LET GO.  You let go of the analyzing, you let go of the worry and wishing you’d done it differently— you release the control.

How do you do this?  You verbalize it to Jesus, and tell Him you’re letting go.  You picture your hands moving from closed fist to wide open.  You see yourself taking the weight off your back and setting it down.

Trusting Him

After you make that deliberate choice to let go, you take your attention and place it on Jesus.

In doing this, you’re trusting Him with the mechanics and details of the set.  You’re looking to Him and believing that He will help you, and walk you and the team through the worship set.

There is great freedom and peace that comes from not just letting go of the control, but actually trusting Him with it instead.

Focus In

With your mind and heart less tied up, you can take the mental and emotional energy you were spending on the worry, and focus in on what you’re singing and Who you’re singing to.

In other words you put communicating the message of the song front and center on your radar screen, along with the fact that you’re singing the song TO Jesus.

When we focus on the message of the song and the Person we’re singing it to, this actually helps with the technical mechanics of what we’re doing.  

Our vocal pitch and tone, our guitar strumming, our keyboard playing will actually improve when we do this.

Conclusion 

The next time you’re stepping up to lead worship and are hit with how prepped or not prepped you and the team are— remember that you have a choice.  

You don’t have to live in that analytical and anxious space of worry.

You can surrender instead— you can let the worry go, you can trust Him, and you can focus in on what you really want to be doing: singing songs of worship straight to Jesus.

That’s all for today.

See you next week 

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