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The River is Here
Touching the Father’s Heart #20Please note: reviews are the personal opinions of the author. That is why we publish most of the reviews received. If you don't like this review, please write your own one.
by Alan Page
This album was my first exposure to worship music in the style and focus of theVineyard, back in 1994. At that time my pastor and 3 others from our church visited the Toronto Airport Fellowship. I had never known that worship music could be so personally touching and intimate, without sounding easy-listening or bland.
After that precious time of intimate worship and personal healing and blessing, I ordered the entire original #1-16 Father’s Heart series that was being discontinued at the time. From those albums to the most recent, I’ve found almost every album a treasure of rich, intimate worship.
With this album, however, I feel particularly placed in the throne room with my Father. I am lovingly soothed by the ethereal synthesizer keyboards beginning with “Take Me Away,” as well as carried away into the loving arms of Jesus in “Yahweh.” I want to cry out “I love you Daddy” and “thank you for Your mercy to me,” throughout this album, when I hear “Satisfied With You” and “Draw Me Close.”
These songs help me to express my innermost heart-felt worship to my Father. Tears often flow as I prayerfully reflect on and enjoy our Father’s love and presence, in songs like “Master Saviour.”
Isn’t it funny how sometimes a song grows on you over time? Such a song is “We Will Ride.” Initially, I skipped over this track, but now I join the choir of the whole body of believers, when we proclaim together, “Yes! Lord!”
Overall, this is a splendid album of reflective worship, as well as loud exalted praise, as in “His Love Endures Forever”.
Though hard to pick an overall favorite of all the Father’s Heart releases, this one is always at the top of my list.
Alan Page <page@ptd.net> serves as a lay worship leader, and worships with his wife, Donna, and his three children at Pleasant Valley Presbyterian church in Effort, PA.
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