what it’s like to really be able to worship even if
there is barely anyone in the room. And that is
what really carries the purity of UPPERROOM.
People are not just waiting for their shot to
be onstage in front of thousands of people. If
you’re involved, you’re there worshipping every
week to just a few people in the room. It’s never
different during the week than it is on Sunday.
The person that wrote “Surrounded”, Elyssa
Smith, has a Wednesday prayer set, and I’ve
never in my whole life seen her deviate from
what she does and who she is, and we’ve done
tens of thousands of people, and two people,
and I’ve never seen her heart or the way she
worships change. There are so many people
out there who are always wondering how
things happen. How did Bethel happen? How
did Stephanie Gretzinger become so amazing
at singing spontaneously? The answer is the
secret place. The answer is cultivating that gift
in a place where you can keep that purity and
foster it and keep doing it over and over again
from a true and pure heart of just worshipping
the Lord without an agenda.
Then, those things come on a Sunday when
you’re in a service, the symptoms of those
things come out, and that is “Surrounded”.
“Surrounded” is, like a lot of our moments. It’s
something that has come out of that place of
being in the prayer room. It actually came out
originally in the prayer room, and then it was a
Sunday service in ministry time. The song was
never planned. They were never going to do
the song, and there weren’t even chords to the
song. It was just that melody that Elyssa had
gotten. It was in ministry time that they started
hitting this flow, and she started singing it, the
band started playing what they were playing,
and it just came out. And it was messy, the
BPM, beats per minute, changed, they were
trying to start the click track and figure it out. It
was a super raw, open your heart up moment,
that just happened. We decided to release it
because we felt the Lord on it.
I think that’s another big factor with the
UPPERROOM. A lot of people are out there
waiting for perfection when, number one,
perfection doesn’t exist, and number two, the
Lord doesn’t just bless perfection. So, if you’re
waiting for that perfect moment, or perfect
thing, where everyone played great and the
band didn’t mess up, then you’ve already
missed the point! The point, especially for us,
is we want to release things that the Lord is on,
that the Lord is blessing, that He has anointed,
and if it’s a little bit messy, we’ll do it anyway.
Because that’s the purpose, the purpose is to
change lives through His presence, and that’s
what “Surrounded” did. If we would have been
focused on trying to protect the integrity of
the musicians and the quality and all of those
standards that people set, we probably would
have never released it. In fact, our cameras
were turned off, we had just started doing
moments and our cameras were off. There
was one GoPro in the corner of the room that
22 July 2020
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