Deep Calls To Deep

Blog by Kristen Hicks

Yesterday, I had this weird moment. It’s happened before, but never has it been quite like this. I was on my way back to my Dad’s house after running to town for a bit, and it was as if I couldn’t get there quick enough.

There was something stirring in my spirit. Something deep. Something heavy.

I ran inside, put my stuff down, and went to the basement. I felt like I was literally running. Like I was holding my breath, grasping for air. It’s hard to explain. I finally got downstairs and grabbed a guitar.

I sat down and began to play and I just started singing out. Not even words at first. You know those verses in Romans 8 that say,

“And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.” (vs. 26-27 NLT emphases added)

That was what I felt coming out of me…groanings. It was like in that moment, I needed to just sing. I needed to worship. I needed it like I needed water, or food, or breath. I love that the NLT version uses the word “harmony” when talking about God’s will. If you read my previous blog, I talked about coming into “agreement with a greater song.” In this moment, that is exactly what was happening. When we find ourselves without words before the Father, and allow the Spirit to bring something new out of us, whether it be in song form or just a groan itself in prayer, when we just LET IT OUT, it collides with His voice, the song that the Father is singing. It doesn’t clash the way that sometimes our prayers with words do. You know what I’m talking about. Those prayers that are driven by flesh and soul wounds. No, when the song of the SPIRT rises up within you it creates a harmony to the melody that the Father is singing. All my music people out there know, that when a harmony is done right, when it is pure, and it collides with melody, it sounds like…ONE VOICE.

Sitting down here tonight to write this blog I didn’t have much to go on. All I knew to write about was this one particular moment. As I always do when I write, I had turned on a youtube instrumental worship song. In the song video that I had chosen, the first thing that was on the screen was a waterfall with the words, “deeps call to deep.” Coincidence? I don’t believe in those. I knew to look up that verse. As I read it, I figured I needed to post the whole Psalm.

Psalm 42

“As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’ These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise amount the festive throng. Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the highest of Hermon-from Mount Mizar.

Deep calls to deep, in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.

By day the Lord directs His love, at night His song is with me-a prayer to the God of my life. 

I pray to God my Rock, ‘Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?’ My bones suffer mortal agony, as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’ Why, my soul, are you downcast? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.” (Emphasis added) 

Ok I know that was a lot but I wanted you to get the full picture. This is the song of the Spirit. Something was stirring within this guy. Something deep. Something heavy. But he allowed the song of his spirit to supersede his soul. In spite of what he felt, in spite of being tormented and taunted by the enemy.

Then there is this connection. After reminding himself of who God is, and all the things the Father has proven Himself to be, he says, “Deep calls to deep.” The deep things within him call out to the deep things within God. This may be gross to some of you, but when I think about this, I picture an umbilical cord. It’s a connection like no other. This is worship. This is coming into agreement with a greater song.

“In the roar of your waterfalls”, Ezekiel 43:2 says that “His voice was like the roar of rushing waters.” 

“All of your waves and breakers have crashed over me.” The waves of His grace, love and mercies continuously fall on him. As well as the breakers of His justice and His truth. The things He uses to break down your walls, your insecurities, your doubts.

Then it talks about the day and the night. The Light and the darkness. And I love the fact that it is in the darkness that he is reminded of the Father’s song. The song of deliverance. The song that will lead him out of the darkness and into the light of day.

When I was in my moment, yesterday, I felt led to sing, “No Longer Slaves.” This song doesn’t just carry the anointing of truth, it carries an authority. A reminder of not just who you are but WHOSE You are. And that reminder isn’t just for you. It’s for all those demons that torment and taunt you. It’s the song of the Father’s heart! It’s a song to be reminded of and sing in the darkness of the night! It’s a song of deliverance!

As I was singing this song, a new little melody came out of me and it was this:

“Let it Rise within you

The confidence of Truth

You are and will forever be

A daughter of the Most High King” 

It was as if this little melody was what the Lord wanted to bring out of me in my moment of worship with Him. How sweet is it that the Lord is so intentional in His ways? He doesn’t EVER waste time. He doesn’t overlook a moment of opportunity to pour out His love into us. We just have to realize He is doing it. We have to choose to respond in the moment when we feel Him calling, when we feel Him drawing us. Because as simple as the little melody that came out of me was, it is a profound truth. It’s a song that will disarm in the enemy. It’s a song of deliverance.