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is in the Lord’s
hand
and my reward
is with my God what is do me say this
out loud what is Do Me
is in the Lord’s hands
see because I’m his servant it’s his
purpose it’s his will it’s his word it’s
his word so God get me out of self-pity
oh why does nobody appreciate me why
don’t they see
and put the shine on me why is nobody
thanking me all of those things are
natural to feel but get this in your
spirit yet what is Do Me
is in the Lord’s
hand which one sometimes the left one
sometimes God is going to bless you out
of his left hand
look for it in the left hand watch for
the left hand
watch for God
to take somebody that you weren’t even
trying to impress or get to notice you
and bring them over to help you with
something that you needed help with
watch for God point you to somebody who
isn’t looking for you let’s don’t just
get in a selfish mindset we got to think
like Servants of the Lord here
and watch for God to say I want you to
be the left hand in this situation
I want you to offer to do that for them
I want you to make a difference in this
situation and nobody’s expecting you and
you need to blow a trumpet in fact do it
in secret don’t even blow the trumpet
about it don’t announce it oh I’m coming
to help just be that that left-handed
that sneaky secret weapon that God can
use don’t have to preface things when
you encourage people I want to encourage
you today just slip a little
encouragement him boom do it so much
that they don’t even know it was you
they just did it like it was from God or
they think they thought of it one of my
favorite things people tell me
after I preach is I loved when you said
blank blank blank and I didn’t say any
of that because I feel like I got them
tapped into the Holy Spirit and the
spirit said that and the spirit is way
smarter than Pastor Stephen so we did
our job Lord boom you got him with the
left hand boom got my left hand bought a
sneaky jab that’s that jab right there
that’s God coming in to do a work in
your life through the left hand watch
for the left hand the unlock is in the
left hand how many times did I think
that I wasn’t going to be a good
songwriter for worship music because of
my vocal limitations oh man I can’t sing
like that guy or that person I don’t
even know all the music theory and maybe
I should have studied more and learned
the music theory
maybe I could have maybe I could have
I’m sure I could have I know I could
have I could have paid more attention to
those lessons I got a book somewhere
around here where the lessons are
sitting in a notebook I’ll find it
I don’t want to distract myself right
now but it’s a big thick green binder
where a guy named Daryl and Saint
Stephen’s South Carolina taught me I’d
go out there and drive to Saint
Stephen’s every what was it Tuesday
night
and my mom will give me the money to go
pay I’m 16 years old she’s still paying
for my guitar lessons like she did when
I was 10 but I wouldn’t practice so I
know
I know a little bit about a guitar I
probably know enough to say if you just
heard me go uh boom
oh man
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oh man I wasn’t that clean but
if we just sat here for a minute you
think I no but my knowledge would run
out so you know
for years when I was in a songwriting
situation I would think of myself as
like the least musically knowledgeable
person in the room
and I usually am
as far as Theory
you know I only really can play this one
instrument and what I know about it is
limited
but
I have been able to work with great
people
who know things I don’t know
and bring the gift that I do have
as a musician I have an instinct that’s
unique to me
I have a way of phrasing things like one
creative put it each personality is a
prism in the Life light shines through
US differently than it will anybody else
so when I get in there and see myself as
a prism
rather than putting myself in the prison
of what I don’t know what I can’t do
how much better they are how much better
they sound no sometimes the fact that I
only know so many chords helps me
do something simple
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that’s the chords to a song called
Graves into Gardens
that song has gone around the world it’s
been
one of the most powerful songs that I’ve
ever been a part of writing with the
people I wrote it with and I was just
playing
this guitar is Out Of Tune by the way
the simplest riff you can imagine
with my left hand
so you can’t see the right hand the
right hand is strumming down here
but the left hand is fretting
[Music]
just that
sus Court
set the tone for
you turn morning to dance
[Music]
you give Beauty for Ashes
you turn shame into Glory
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you use left-handed people now I’m
right-handed
but my left hand is fretting
your left hand has a job too
in your weakness he is made strong
so
look for the unlock
in the left hand
offer
not only your strengths to God
which are awesome you know as I said I
spent my strength in man but the Lord
said I have hidden
certain gifts
in weaknesses
not as an excuse not to practice your
guitar just to realize that your
limitations sometimes
are what God uses to unlock his power
you can see this over and over again in
scripture can’t you