Worship Interludes - Piano Instrumentals for Prayer, Meditation, Soaking Worship, Relaxation, Study, and Rest
Summary: Fred McKinnon is a Georgia-based pianist and composer. His music is ideal for devotional times of prayer, meditation, instrumental worship, soaking worship, studying music, sleeping music, and relaxation music. It includes both solo piano and orchestrated music that is perfect for personal listening, soundtracks, and film scoring. His desire is that the music he creates would inspire others in their faith or personal times of contemplation. Some have characterized these piano instrumentals as healing music, background music, prophetic music, study music, meditation music, calming music, soothing music, and relaxing music. In religious settings, Fred's music has been played as background music for soaking worship, altar calls, prelude music, and music for personal and corporate prayer and devotions. Fred McKinnon's instrumental music is also frequently used in schools and classrooms because of the calming affect it has on children and is used to help people rest and sleep better, such as those with insomnia or sleep disorders. Another frequent use of this music is in the world of fitness and physical care, such as yoga, massage therapy, and stretch or de-stress classes. For more information: Website: http://www.fredmckinnon.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FredMcKinnonMusic YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/FredMcKinnonMusic
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Today’s interlude is called “Speak to Me”. Â It was inspired by the story of young Samuel in 1 Samuel 3 of the Bible. Â In this story Samuel hears a voice calling his name but does not realize it’s the voice of God. Â He goes to his priest, Eli and says to him “here I am, you called me” and Eli has to tell him that he did not call him. Â After the third time Eli realized what was happening and suggested that young Samuel return to his rest and to listen for that voice. Â If the voice calls out to Samuel again he was told to respond “Speak, Lord for your servant is listening”. I am quite confident that God’s voice is speaking to us many times and we do not recognize it. Â Perhaps it’s drowned out from all the noise of the world or perhaps we mistake it for something else. My hope is that as you listen to this interlude that it will prepare you to be still and listen for that voice.
Are you weary? Â I love this great photo courtesy of Pexels.Com. Â This guy looks like he’s just about to give up. Â He can’t take it anymore. Â Just pull over, stop it all, and crash. I’ll be honest. Â July has been a very difficult month for me. Â Where God is opening new doors, He is closing familiar ones. Â Even today, in the past hour, I’ve been faced with frustrations and agonizing disappointments. Â I hold my head high, but I’ll be honest, I’m weary. Jesus spoke in Matthew 11:28, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest”. Â (NIV) There is a rest when we find peace. Â So in the hectic pace of my routine and my day, after managing some chaos and disappointment in my business-life, what did I do? Â I turned to the source of Peace. Â For me, that is in my relationship with Jesus Christ. Â Â I prayed and played this interlude. Â I recognize that there are many who listen to this music who are not of the Christian faith. Â I hope that this music will still impact you in a significant way as you face your own trials and disappointments.
For those who read the show notes, I’m grateful. You’ll begin seeing that these instrumental interludes are part of my life. I play them first for me, for my own times of devotion, prayer, meditation .. and then share them with the world. As a result, if you follow along closely you can see the thread of my life in these interludes, much like a personal diary. This interlude is called “Storms”. The past week has been a week of storms in my life. I’ve had some serious issues in my business that were very painful. At the same time, I’ve been battling sickness in my body and have not felt good for over a week. The combined stress of the business struggle, the erratic schedule of a holiday week, combined with getting sick has me somewhat struggling. That’s why there haven’t been new interludes since July 4th. But I’m back. I’m here today to play, to worship, to share, to be vulnerable. This interlude, “Storms” is for all those who are in the storms of life. The overwhelming majority of my interludes are recorded in “one take”. I started this one at least three or four times and at once point just banged the keys out of frustration. That’s where I am. Even still, I find peace and comfort in playing this music and sharing it with the world. Because even in the storms, I have the Prince of Peace inside of me.
Happy 4th of July. I realize that thousands of listeners to this podcast are outside of the United States of America but today is our birthday as a country. I hope you enjoy my piano interlude of “America the Beautiful” and the slideshow. God bless America.
Worship Interludes: Questions [Episode 40, July 3, 2017]
Worship Interludes: Persisting [Episode 39, June 29. 2017)
Worship Interludes: Trust [Episode 38, June 26, 2017]
Worship Interludes: Overcome Evil with Good [Episode 37, June 19, 2017]
Worship Interludes: Waiting [Episode 36, June 14, 2017]
Worship Interludes: Keep Trusting [Episode 35, June 8, 2017]
Worship Interludes: Speechless [Episode 34, June 5, 2017]
Worship Interludes: Take It In [Episode 33, June 1, 2017]
Worship Interludes: Rains [Episode 32, May 25, 2017]
Worship Interludes: Fresh Start [Episode 31, May 22, 2017]
Worship Interludes: Starry Night [Episode 30, May 17, 2017]
