Rebecca Beese

Oxford, UK
Singing the bedrock of our faith is a glorious and faith building thing to do and leads us into worship. The Nicene Creed was written 2000 years ago to try and lay out clearly all that we believe. We took writing this song very seriously, keeping everything as close as possible to the original and leaving no important part out. Our prayer is that this singing out of our solid foundation and declaration of what we believe will strengthen the church and deepen its worship.
Rebecca Beese, James Martin
We were leading worship at a youth event and wanted more space for them to connect with the beautifully rich verse lyrics, so pulled them all out and put them together into another section. Then we had some fun with the melody. It went down a storm. They picked it up super easily and it caused a real swell in the worship that caused the whole evening to take a big step up. We'd definately use it again.
I’ve always found it remarkable that on the night of Jesus’ arrest Peter was so afraid that he denied Jesus in the dark of night to a servant girl, and yet just a few chapters later he was standing in an open market place in the bright light of day declaring the gospel to all who would listen. This dramatic transformation can only be down to the work of the Holy Spirit. And that same spirit is at work in us today. Based on Acts 2 and the passage Peter reads from Joel, it’s a call for the same empowerment and release for us.
2 years ago
Many of the songs we sing about the Holy Spirit are based around how we feel, or what we want to experience. This song is about who the Holy Spirit is and what we're wanting to see the Holy Spirit do in our lives and in the wider communities we're living in. It's missional at heart, asking the Holy Spirit to fill us to empower us to go out into the world, enable us to share the love of God and draw people to Him.

Bio

Rebecca Beese is a writer for Resound Worship, a worship pastor and songwriter based in West Oxfordshire. She has a passion to see authentic spirit led worship released in the churches in which she serves, seeing them singing songs that tell their own stories. Rebecca works with United Adoration UK (www.unitedadoration.com/uk), seeking to see the arts restored in then church and artists connected in and creating in their own language, culture and context. She also supports Resound Worship (www.12songchallenge.org) as they support and encourage grassroots writers to write for their local church, and with Evergreen (evergreenworship.org), a part of Engage Worship, who support worship leaders aged 18-35 for a healthy and sustainable ministry. ​ Rebecca divides her time between being a wife and mum, a music teacher, songwriting, leading worship and training and developing others. She has a heart to see others released into all that God has for them.

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