My name is Michael Harrah. I started Messianic dancing about 6 months ago and it has changed my life.
For about 16 years I suffered from severe chronic illness and I've been recovering from that for about the last 2 years. Now I belong to 3 dance teams and dance 4 or more days per week. Dance is so healing and such powerful worship, I want the whole world to know what they are missing! Dare I say it, everyone needs to dance!
So along with the dancing, I am learning to video our events and practices and put them up on youtube. Heavenly Father keeps reinforcing to me how important it is to put videos of his children worshiping him up on the internet. Let's flood the whole earth with our dance, praise and worship!
Let me share a little research I did into what the Bible says about dance. The Hebrew word "giyl" (Strongs #1523) is translated as "rejoice" 27 times in the Bible. And this word actually means to dance, or as one scholar puts it, "A continual rolling or circling...A rejoicing by dancing around in a circle." This is exactly what we do in Messianic dance. Even more powerfully, there are two scripture passages that use that word in reference to Father God dancing/rejoicing over us. Here they are:
"And I will rejoice (dance) in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying." Isa. 65:19
I believe all of us were created to dance as part of our worship. When we go back to our roots and use our whole bodies to worship, then we experience healing on every level. I am so grateful to have the opportunity to do this and share it with others. Please come join us!
Michael
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