Sing to Him a New Song

He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the LORD and put their trust in Him. Psalm 40:3

If you know me well, you know that I LOVE playing music. I love to play the piano, alto saxophone, djembe, violin, harmonica, and especially my mandolin (Amanda Lynn).   Any instrument I can get my hands on I'd love to learn it! Going into a music store for me is like placing a kid in the middle of a candy store! However, the one thing that I'm not too fond of...at least in front of people...is singing. Ever since my 6th grade solo in the Christmas program at my church and a friend making fun of my singing, I've always been super self-concsious about my voice. However, I have come to accept that I am only singing to an Audience of One...Who is the One that gave me this voice in the first place! :)

Here she is: beautiful Miss Amanda Lynn

But even with that I love making new songs to the glory of my Savior. Since being here I've gotten closer with my mandolin.  :)  I play her for staff worship sometimes at school, take her to ministry sites to play, and love coming home after a rough day at school to play my mandolin and sing songs to Jesus.

There are various verses found in the Bible, especially in Psalms, where it talks about singing to the Lord a new song.  I was with my prayer partner and fellow teacher at school, Miss Lara Spaw,  one day and as we were praying I found myself praying for God to give each of us a new song. (she loves singing and playing the guitar)

A few days later I found myself singing a song in Spanish to God.  The coolest part about this and how I KNOW it's from the Lord is that I started singing these words:

"Es por ti que vivo
Es por ti que estoy aquí
Es por ti que entrego todo..." Wait...what...entrego? What does entrego even mean? So I looked up up and it means "give up...or surrender...or give" Sure enough it fits!

I quickly got my mandolin to match the chords to my voice and before I knew it I had a "chorus" to my new praise song written in Spanish.

The verse that had been on my heart lately had been, "Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you." Psalm 73:25

I decided to look it up in Spanish and the first part says, "A quién tengo en el cielo sino a Ti?" and so I put that to music next as a verse and then decided to do more of a literal translation for the second part, "No hay nada en la tierra que desee más que a Ti" 

I added that to the song and then I had a chorus and a verse! I wanted to show it to my friend Hector (who's the music teacher at school & also helps out with a ministry with Nathan Ironside who's from Hillsong Church) to get his critique and how I could make it better and such and after he heard it he asked, "Hey would you like to record it sometime? We could record it at my house or here at school but probably not until November."  My response was...um seriously?? OKAY! He suggested I add a bridge to the song before then and so throughout the next month I was praying for words for a bridge in this song and then this is what the bridge turned out to be:

Sin Ti no soy nada      
Solo un alma muerta
Contigo tengo vida
Cúbreme con Tu amor

Recording the song!

Last Sunday I went to his place to record the song and I played the mandolin, vocals, and djembe drum while Hector played the shakers and the piano part.  I'm so excited and feel so blessed that God answered my prayers by not only giving me a song but He went BEYOND my request and gave me one in Spanish! (Oh how I long for the day where I can be fluent in Spanish...when you think of it please pray for my Spanish and learning it...I long to be able to speak to not only Colombians about Jesus but the rest of the Latino world as well.)

And here I go back to this verse I had at the beginning: He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the LORD and put their trust in Him. Psalm 40:3

My prayer for songs that God gives me is that He would use them for HIS GLORY and that many will see and fear the LORD and put their trust in Him through hearing these songs. Please join with me in praying these things.


I would like to end this post with you by sharing the song He has given me. It's definitely homemade but we had a lot of fun making it!

Click here to listen: 
Es Por Ti by Allie & Amanda Lynn

 Es por Ti  lyrics and translation:

Es por Ti que vivo
It's for You I live
Es por Ti que estoy aquí
It's for You I'm here
Es por Ti que entrego todo
It's for you I give all
Todo para Ti!
All for You!

A quién tengo en el cielo sino a Ti
Whom have I in heaven but You?
No hay nada en la tierra que desee más que a Ti
There's nothing on erath I desire more than You
Cristo es la Luz y mi Salvación
Jesus is my Light and my Salvation
A Él sea la gloria por siempre!
To Him be the glory forever!

Es por Ti que vivo
It's for You I live
Es por Ti que estoy aquí
It's for You I'm here
Es por Ti que entrego todo
It's for you I give all
Todo para Ti!
All for You!

 Sin Ti no soy nada
Without You I am nothing
Solo un alma muerta
Only a dead spirit
Contigo tengo vida
With You I have life
Cúbreme con Tu amor
Cover me with Your love

Es por Ti que vivo
It's for You I live
Es por Ti que estoy aquí
It's for You I'm here
Es por Ti que entrego todo
It's for you I give all
Todo para Ti!
All for You!

p.s. Also, be sure to check out Hector's ministry here!:
English: http://www.thestirring.com/
Spanish: http://www.thestirring.com/esp/