Lingerdog's World

We go through life, and we pray, and sometimes we don't see the prayer get answered, even when it does, because maybe it wasn't answered the way we thought it would be. And sometimes we ask for direction from above, and it's given, but because it isn't necessarily the direction we were expecting, we try to go in the direction we want, and justify to ourselves that God will definitely step in if we aren't doing what we should.
And sometimes, direction will be given, even when not explicitly asked for, maybe it's a thought you've had and haven't even been asking for direction and suddenly your are shown the way.
I've never had that so clearly happen to me as tonight.
I ride around listening to my ipod, right now it's all Christian groups, there are 286 songs on it.
I've been trying to play the guitar again, and really trying this time, and actually praying for help, praying to be able to make music for God, to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Psalm 66:1

And I've been thinking that, there should be a site out there on the internet to get chords and tab for Christian songs. There's one I go to for tab that has some Christian music, but it's pretty slim pickings. And I haven't bothered to look for one since I'm not really at a point, I didn't feel, that I would need those things yet.
So I'm listening to my ipod, the first song was Desperate by Fireflight
The second song was Lay Down My Life by Sidewalk Prophets
This song has been on there for maybe a month and, but I haven't heard it, not that surprising, as for the most part, I only get to listen in fifteen to thirty minute spurts as I drive from one place to another.
But I hear this song, and I think, I'd like to sing that one day, I'd like to play my guitar as I sing it, and I'd like to preach a message about laying down our lives for God. I don't mean that in the die for God way, but expanding on the idea of the things in our life we can give up for God. How if God wanted us to do something for him, but it would disrupt our life in a major way, like being called away from a really good job to go be a missionary with little or no money in some far land, would we lay down our life for God in that way.
And I think about this message and listen to this song twice on my way home, and when I get in I hook my ipod to these little speaker I have, and am now hearing it play for the eighth or ninth time.
But the first thing I did was search for the lyrics just so I can start singing along to it. The first time I googled it I didn't type in the bands name and it brought up some songs by different artist with similar names. And one was from a site WWW.HIGHERPRAISE.COM and I figured I would see what the lyrics of this persons song was, see if it was actually a remake.
Well what I found at that site, was the thing I had been wondering about, Christian bands, chords and tab for their songs. Sometimes you can see God show you what you need, that direction I was speaking of, even if you haven't exactly asked for it yet.

You can check the song out HERE if you're interested.