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The National Quartet Convention is just around the corner and I am looking forward to seeing many of you there. Come by booth 142 & 144 and say hello. I was asked to start writing this article at convention about 3years ago. The Unhands were just getting started with their web magazine and they have come a long way in a short period time. I want to thank them for allowing me the opportunity to share with you over these many months. I have had some wonderful responses to my articles and I have enjoyed sharing what little I know with my readers. But the Holy Spirit says that it’s time to end this series.

I have had the pleasure of meeting many of you along the way and hope that I will be able to meet even more of you in the future. I want to thank each one of you for being faithful readers. My prayer is that I have been able to help you in some small way. I will hold your singing ministry up to the Lord, daily. Please remember me as I venture into new territory. God has placed before me a tremendous vision that I must pursue. I know that it is going to take a lot of prayer and listening for God’s voice to accomplish, but I also know God will not ask us to do anything but what. He doesn’t make a way to accomplish the task. We have already seen God’s hand at work and we have just started on our journey.

The voice is a powerful tool that God chooses to use and what a blessing it is when it is our voice that has been chosen. Along with the calling comes a great responsibility. We have to keep our minds and hearts on Him. It is so easy to start looking at the stars and the big stage and miss the point, all together. We have to know why we sing, about whom we sing, and where to sing. Oh, we can spout out the answers, we know the perfect things to say to people when we are asked these questions. But if you are totally honest with yourself and God (after all He knows your heart), are they the true answers? Take the time to talk to yourself and question your heart.

We need to be sure that our heart is right and we’re not just trying to impress people by saying all the right things. Remember, God already knows our heart so we can’t fool Him. We can trick the people for a while, but even they will see through a lie in time. The Holy spirit will always come through when He really lives inside of us.

Make sure that the light that shines in your life is truly the Holy Spirit in your heart and not just an act that becomes so hard to maintain. God wants you to be real, with all your flaws and imperfections. God can use an imperfect but honest heart. Remember, that other people can identify with our imperfections. But people with and honest hearts are difficult to find. We must strive to be the exception to the rule and we must work very hard to have and honest heart.

Always keep your eyes on the Lord, and He will take you to far and distant places, even better than you can imagine. You must follow God’s lead and not walk our own pathway.

Keep singing His praises, and I will see you somewhere along the way.

Marti Ledford

Reader Comments

Say it ain't so!

Marti, I really appreciate your insight and abilities, as well as your "take" on how we do what we do, so that we may further the Kingdom of God.

Thank you so much for all you have written. It has helped me, and the group I am with improve on so many of the "little" things that can so easily turn into bigger things.

Now I have to pick a different "first place I go to" article.


Thank you again!

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