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and praising God, there is something powerful that happens when we mentally lower our walls and let God in. We don’t have to lower our walls, God’s already in and doing His thing, but when we acknowledge that we are going to surrender and be vulnerable to Him I think that’s when He can really transform our hearts. “Heart Wide Open” // Mack Brock “Great er Things” // Mack Brock [WM] In the “Greater Things” video on New [Mack] I’m very much somebody who likes to Song Café, you talk about being under the whatever it might be. Then God has to move clam up (laughs). I don’t like opening up, I’m an covering of God’s umbrella. Can you tell us the umbrella back over my head. Whether introvert and I like to keep all of my emotions more about this analogy? he does it through his scripture and reading locked up inside naturally. I think one of the His word, or whether He does it through my things that God has been teaching me over the [Mack] The biggest thing for me, when you’re communion and prayer life with Him. Or, if He years is just the truth that God knows us – He in any sort of transition, I think our society is does it through my relationships through a wife created us. He knows everything about me, super aware of what anxiety, stress, and or friend that is speaking truth over me. every depth of my heart and every part of my life. depression can cause, and all of these things. I If He already knows it, I’m not going to pretend think it’s just a natural thing that we experience There are those times that rain may be falling and I don’t have anything to hide. That’s where a lot, everybody can relate to that. What I’ve on you, and you feel you are getting drenched that comes from for me, I want to acknowledge learned is that, every once in a while, I will get by the weight of the world, but that’s not based that God knows me intimately, and chooses to out from under that umbrella of God’s peace in what God is and what God wants for us. love me. He knows everything about me and and God’s rest where you have trust and peace Sometimes we just have to remind ourselves yet He still loves me more than anybody else. in God. I can look out from the umbrella and of that. So just being in that open place and allowing just get overwhelmed and rained on by stress ourselves when we’re in a worship experience and anxiety, or inadequacies and insecurities, [WM] What are some of the most valuable Blue Amber Photography 30 October 2018 WorshipMusician.com