🙌 It's the Friday Call to Worship! 🙌

Teenage me loved buying soundtrack CDs. The music behind the movie often says more than the script. It cues your emotions and sets the stage for the next thing.

My teenager has mastered the art of creating personal soundtracks. He has a playlist for game day, short car trips, long car trips, sleepovers with friends, chores, and almost anything he does. Our reality is that we are always hearing something, whether it's others' opinions or your own thought track. I think my son is onto something by choosing what he wants to hear to prepare him for what he's doing.

I knew this week would be tricky, so I experimented with pre-creating our soundtrack. I started with playing a worship concert on TV for my kids. Then we continued to listen to the lyrics to "Trust in God" as many times as we could. It took less than 24 hours for the anthem of trust, peace and worship to settle into our spirits. We all found ourselves singing it - my four-year old even sang it from the surfboard at the aquarium.

And do you know what set the melody when a whopper of a disappointment hit this week? Our soundtrack. The chords strummed in my mind before I had time to think anything else. The pre-written lyrics for my life commanded my spirit to get into the position I had already decided on.

Mind, heart, body, spirit: "I Trust in God, My Savior. The One who will never fail. He will never fail. I Trust in God."

Today is the perfect day to choose your soundtrack. Pre-decide and saturate your spirit with worship. You are a firstborn heir to the King of Kings. You are not living on the defense. You are the victor.