Beth Norland - Simply HIS
"To glorify the Lord
is my greatest honor,
to magnify His name
is my heart's desire"
- Beth Norland
"It is as if I am HIS INSTRUMENT, and He simply PLAYS ME."
Beth Norland, though she considers herself simply "a worshiper", is a songwriter, composer, vocalist, keyboardist, and flutist... producer and publisher...
This done, simply in obedience to the Lord's leading her to "get out to the public" HIS Music.
The music she ministers is her spiritual gift in operation. With no formal music training, and simply "available" and "willing", Beth Norland has written the music and lyrics of over 149 songs, and records all her own accompaniment tracks and vocal tracks. Everything you hear is a "solo work".
Yet Beth acknowledges "Without Christ, the LORD, I can do nothing." i.e. "nothing happens creative without HIM". I know when I have the anointing upon me to minister music. It is as if I am the instrument, and He plays ME. So the music is not perfect, but it is perfectly His...meaning for His Pleasure.
Beth emphasizes: “Those that know me well realize that Christ is My Everything and He is leading me a step at a time, though to tell the truth, I don't always understand the steps I take "at the time" I am taking them. I am not led by ambition, and creating music, nor is a business venture my “focus”. I am led by the Spirit of God. And most of what is upon this site is simply borne from personal intimacy with Christ.
One of my songs, Past Passed Away, contains the lyrics "What He tells me is my hope. What He tells me is my plan. What He tells me is what faith is leading me to"...and that really is HOW he leads me. I really just inquire and do as He says, moment by moment, and it certainly brings simplicity to my life. Just being “In His Presence” is my greatest joy…and it is only in the “Receiving FROM Him” that any of us is able to “give out to others”…so DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU too!
King David says within "Who am I... that I should be able to offer this... for all things come OF THEE, and of thine own have we given thee."
"In the simple sharing of what The Lord has given me, I pray HE will bless YOU! (smile) THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! Not only to my music... but to HIS VOICE within yourself, as you listen. All my music is "in vain" if HE is not heard."
May the prayer YOU prayed, Jesus, be answered...and please use this website's creation:
"O righteous Father - the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known THAT YOU SENT ME... And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which you loved me may be IN THEM, and I IN THEM. Sanctify them by your truth; Your Word is truth. May they come into complete unity that the world may know that you sent me, and that you LOVE them." (taken from )
UPDATE ON BETH
Beth Norland moved to St. Louis, Missouri, August 2011, by the will of God, to minister to those in that city, and to stand alongside and show her support to a brother-in-law and sister who have just begun to pastor a new church plant there. Feel free to email her on this website, via the Contact Tab. Because she is single (a widow), for security reasons she is not openly disclosing her new address or phone on this website.
If Beth's music has ministered to you, you may contribute to her support by using the donate button on this website.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The Lord led me to an awesome recording technician, Tony Rominger (Elizabethton, TN), and Track upon track, Hour upon hour, persevering through ups and downs, God anointed us to get this music done in a timely fashion and with His Presence with us in his small home studio. The CDs were brought forth on a humble budget with personal funds, so it was SO GOOD OF GOD to bring me to someone who knew what they were doing! (smile) And who understood my creative process!Previous home studio technicians included Thad Davidson, Markus Hendrickson, and Brandon Frederick.
Beth Norland is a member of ASCAP and owns copyrights of all her songs.