Cathy Sanders

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.. Psalm 63 Live at Coral Springs- awesome Prophetic move

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Add to My Profile | More Videos It is really easy here on Myspace to just add a friend here and there and not really know much about the person. Whether we just met here in cyberspace or you’ve known me for years I think this will help us all to get to know each other better. So please take a few minutes and read, enjoy, and please write back if you would like to!I grew up in Central NY, and my parents have always been solid Christians, so I got saved at age 9. Just a few years after that my parents would notice that after church I would go off to find a piano and plunk out the tunes to the worship songs we sang that day, so they got me into piano lessons, soon followed by voice. This is where it all started.I wrote my first song for a class assignment in school, then in Bible College God started to give me more songs. I would go to the practice rooms and play for hours, many times in the dark so it was just me and God. Many of these first songs I never recorded- chalking it up to experience- God was honing the songwriting skill. Only one song that I had written from the first about 5 years of writing was recorded, “Teach me to care”, on my first CD “I choose your ways.”A few years later, I went to see Nicole Nordeman open for Avalon. During the whole concert God was speaking to my heart, saying, “That could be you up there someday.” The thought was overwhelming to me but it kept pounding in my soul. Not long later Sara Groves came to our church and the same thing happened. Sara gave me advice about writing and music and she is my greatest inspiration.It was now time to get my first recording done so we put together a very low budget CD, “I Choose Your Ways. To save time and money, we actually did a live recording and then fixed up the tracks from there. Even though it is not top quality I have had so many people respond to the message behind the music. That has been the driving force for me- the message. All along I knew that these songs were not just for me, but for others too.God continued to give me more music, some worship, some stories, some prayers, or things He was teaching me through situations in my life. I wish I had the time to share how each song was given to me, because it really makes the songs mean more, but I will just tell you about a few. When my daughter was a baby and my son was 2, God showed me how they depended on me so much for everything, and when I had to discipline my son, he still wanted me to hold him. God spoke to me and told me that many of His children don’t respond to Him that way and the song “Trust You” came as a prayer- “Lord help me trust you the way they trust me…”Another song, “Fire by night” (the title song for my new CD) came just months before God told us to sell most of our possessions, resign the church we were pastoring, and hit the road full-time. I had no idea that when I was writing about the Israelites pulling up their tent pegs to follow God wherever He led them, that we would be doing the same thing shortly. Watch out for what you write, God will take you through it if you haven’t been there already!In July 2006 we started traveling all over the USA and overseas as much as possible. My husband, Andy, has the gifts of evangelism, and teaching and carries a very accurate prophetic word. When we first started out, I sang more on a performance level, with some worship. Over the last year and a half this has been shifting. God has put into me the desire to worship more than anything and to lead His people into the secret place of His presence. The songs He has been giving me lately are very strategic worship songs for the body of Christ. This new style of worship is very spontaneous and prophetic, and is consistently increasing. It is awesome to sing prophetically because no song is ever sang the same way twice and you never know what new direction God is going to go.Well, I’ll wrap it up with saying God is so good and I am glad that He gave me the opportunity to be your friend. Please feel free anytime to write and tell me about yourself, Myspace is such a great networking tool for Christians to be able to unite from all over the world. Blessings and hope to hear from you soon,