{"id":364,"date":"2017-06-30T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:09:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T16:09:01","slug":"dwell-the-new-prayerscapes-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/dwell-the-new-prayerscapes-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwell &#8211; the new prayerscapes album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re super-excited to announce the release of our new album &#8220;Dwell&#8221;, now available globally via <a href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/dwell\/id1247549752?app=itunes\">iTunes<\/a>, Amazon and on our site at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/music\/lead_dwell.html\">prayerscapes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the material on &#8220;Dwell&#8221; is taken from the\u00a0 videos that you may already have seen at prayerscapes. The album weaves inspirational poetry, foundational scripture and song ministry together with filmatic soundtracks.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWzDzlyaJ7U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what others are saying about &#8220;Dwell&#8221;:-<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If you are looking for a recording all about Biblical meditation and reflection you won&#8217;t find anything better than the prayerscapes albums.\u00a0We&#8217;ve used them for years at our creative prayer workshops. Yet again Neil\u00a0&amp; Julie\u00a0prove that\u00a0they have a God given talent by producing this unique new album.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ishmael &amp; Irene Smale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishmael.org.uk\/\">Ishmael<\/a> &#8211; singer\/songwriter &#8211; writer of &#8220;Father God, I wonder&#8221; and numerous children&#8217;s albums.)<\/p>\n<p>Much of the material on the new album has been born out of some of our life experiences over the last few years. &#8220;May the Road Rise Up to Meet You&#8221; came out of praying for Julie, soon after our second child was born. I stumbled over this ancient Celtic blessing and found myself praying\/singing it for her. It became a gentle reminder that whatever stresses we face (and these were plentiful with a small baby &amp; a six year old child!) God holds us in the palm of His hand, and His faithfulness and love will never let us go:-<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vNZ9rsVmNo4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other tracks have emerged from flashes of inspiration and creativity. The words to the track &#8220;Prayer Connects&#8221; came to Julie as one continuous stream of ideas &#8211; she scribbled the words down with the aid of a torch during the middle of the night! The poem is about God&#8217;s amazing gift of prayer, and charts the many different ways in which we encounter prayer in our lives:-<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K_xFxNogukc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other tracks simply invite us to return to our maker, and dwell on His goodness and provision. &#8220;This I Know&#8221; takes the form of a gentle lullaby, reminding us that whatever befalls us, we have a refuge, a safe place, a sanctuary we can abide in and find freedom:-<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8f3ak7HK2hU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Dwelling is about finding a home, about connection with our Eternal Creator, pushing our roots deep into God\u2019s Kingdom. To find \u201chome\u201c we need to settle, unpack, relax and feel welcome. \u201dDwell\u201d is an open door leading us to moments that crystallize our beliefs, shelter our troubled hearts and inspire us to connect, to rest and to seek after the love of Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible to explore the album further by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/music\/lead_dwell.html\">this page<\/a> and clicking on the samples from the tracks on &#8220;Dwell&#8221;. Clicking on the track titles will take you to the lyrics, scriptures and poems that are on the album. Here you can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/music\/lead_dwell.html\">buy the album<\/a>, either as mp3s or as a good old physical CD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re super-excited to announce the release of our new album &#8220;Dwell&#8221;, now available globally via iTunes, Amazon and on our site at prayerscapes.com. Some of the material on &#8220;Dwell&#8221; is taken from the\u00a0 videos that you may already have seen at prayerscapes. The album weaves inspirational poetry, foundational scripture and song ministry together with filmatic <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/dwell-the-new-prayerscapes-album\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Dwell - the new prayerscapes album","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[3,31,36],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","category-music","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-poem","tag-prayerscapes-albums"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Dwell_Promo_600.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bKxI-5S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":424,"url":"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/dwell-at-christmas\/","url_meta":{"origin":364,"position":0},"title":"Dwell at Christmas","date":"December 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In this season of giving, it is hard sometimes to cut through the commercial trappings, rise above the \u201cperfect Christmas\u201d expectations and truly connect with loved ones to give a gift that is really yearned for. 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