Being a lead worshipper I am lucky enough to lead worship all over the country. A few weeks ago I was leading worship and talking at a conference called celebrate. It's an amazing week packed full of teachings, prayer, worship and fun. The weather was amazing.
We stay at a place called John fowler, and I was staying in an old and slightly damp chalet (like a flat) it was the same one I had been in for the past eight years.
But this year however I picked up a bit of a bug. And from Tuesday evening I lost my voice, I could only manage a mere whisper.
I still had to lead worship for the rest of the week (funny enough one of my talks had mentioned how you don't need to have a voice to lead worship - putting my words to the test)
It came to the next worship session and it was after mass, I'd been praying and drinking so much water in desperation to get some form of voice. But still had nothing, so the worship began and I was struggling, trying to communicate with my band and the people in the worship was tough. Then as it drew to a close the most beautiful thing happened. We were just finishing with a time of silence, and from the back of the room something started to swell, moving forward very quietly.
The people we had just been leading were now leading and ministering to us. The song was rising up and then it just burst open. It nearly blow me off my seat and instead it just filled me with tears - such a beautiful moment.

It proved to me that you don't need a voice or any musical ability - you just have to have a heart to worship and allow God in.