dear all,
ada yg tau Israel Houghton?salah satu worship leader yg amazing dari segi musiknya tp jg dalam heart of worship...dengan bandnya New breed membawakan konsep gospel...bbrp lagu yg dinyanyikannya adalah Jesus Be the Center, Friend of God, You are Good, dll
i'm so blessed with him with his song..
album terupdate adalah Jesus at the Center tp masih blum keluar di Jakarta...
kl Israel di masa kandungannya adalah anak yg tertolak, mamanya pernah hampir bunuh diri tp diselamatkan ama seorang yg datang kepadanya dan bilang Jesus love u..
LISA RYAN: You had a difficult start in life. You could have easily been an abortion statistic.
ISRAEL HOUGHTON: I could have. My mother is white. My biological father is black. When my mother was 17, she got pregnant. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at the time in 1971 was a very segregated society. She came home and told her parents, ‘I’m pregnant and the father is black.’ They had a really difficult time with it.
The suggestion was, ‘Have an abortion. Move on with your life.’ She was a terrific concert pianist, she had everything ahead of her, and in a lot of ways had every reason to go, ‘Let’s just chalk this up as a mistake and move on.’ She said, ‘No, no, I’m going to keep this baby.’ She ended up kind of getting shunned for a good chunk of her life after that and didn’t have a lot of contact with her parents.
When she was eight months pregnant, her and my father split up. So, if you get the picture, it’s 17,000 miles from home, she is pregnant with a black man’s baby that the state of California is getting ready to take away from her because she was considered an unfit mother, and she was on drugs. It was like the perfect Lifetime movie.
God sovereignly knew what was going on and made it such that this lady came up to her out of the blue and said, ‘I don’t know you, and I don’t want to give you a hard time, but I was driving by and I really felt that I needed to come tell you Jesus loves you. You’re not forgotten. You did the right thing. It’s going to be all right.’
Those words of life were so powerful to her and so revolutionary to her that she got on her knees on the street corner on Carlsbad Avenue, out of San Diego, and gave her life to the Lord. I’m here today because of that woman’s faithfulness to God to share the gospel with my mother.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnmusic/Interviews/700club_IsraelHoughton_041205.aspx
