Dottie Rambo: The Gifted Songwriter of the Twentieth Century (Part 18)

If That Isn't Love



I Will Lift You There



Destined For the Throne



Jesus Star of the Morning



Bring All Your Needs to the Altar



Bring All Your Needs to the Altar (the background behind the song)



I Hear the Sound of Rain



I Will Not Overshadow



Stand Still and See His Glory



Don't Pick Up the Pieces



Brand New Breed of Believers



We Shall Behold Him



Background behind We Shall Behold Him



Sweet Mountain Mornin'



Bring All Your Needs to the Altar

Years ago back in the 1970's when the Rambos had a band, they were singing in Louisiana and had an altar service.  As Dottie Rambo was preparing to sing, she opened her mouth and composed this song while singing.  Every word, every note was perfect.  Nothing had to be changed.  This is the first song she's ever written that she sang without writing it first.  The Holy Ghost gave her the words as she sang.  As she sang the song, people from that service swarmed to the altar.  It was considered a very memorable service.  One of the band members asked her following the service why she didn't teach them that song.  She said she never heard it before. 

We Shall Behold Him

Dottie composed this song sometime in the late 70's.  The Rambos were going to a meeting in a Baptist Church in Ohio.  As they were in Ohio, Dottie stopped to visit a friend.  As she and her friend were headed out to the service in her car, Dottie saw some special formations in the clouds that were very pretty.  She told her friend about them and as a result, she had to scoot over to the passenger side because she couldn't drive.  As her friend was driving, Dottie composed this song within seven minutes.  She sang it to her friend and they both cried.  The song is popularly sung by Sandi Patty; who made a hit out of this song in the early 80's.

Holy Spirit Thou Art Welcome In This Place

This song was penned by Dottie probably sometime in the mid- 1970's.  During that time Dottie and her family (Buck, Dottie, and Reba) had been traveling behind the Iron Curtain.  When they sang in that area they were instructed to not mention the name of Jesus, the blood of Jesus, salvation, or anything about Jesus.  They could sing all the songs they normally sing, but they couldn't say anything about Jesus in-between songs.  One evening following their concert, their organizer decided to send them to a local bistro not far from where they were staying.  Dottie noticed when she was outside how dark, dreary, and oppressive the spirit was in that area behind the Iron Curtain.  Dottie had purposed in her heart to find someone in that restaurant who knew Jesus in order to encourage them.  She was told at the restaurant she couldn't mention Jesus.  She had a pamphlet with Psalm 23 on one side and Jesus with a little lamb on his shoulder on the reverse side.  She had it in the palm of her hand and the waitress came by her table and saw it.  The waitress mentioned Jesus' name and said she loved Him.  The people at her table were scared and fearful they could be arrested.  They immediately left and as she was walking outside she was thinking to herself, "Nobody here may want Jesus, but you're wanted here.  She was speaking in reference to her heart.  Hence the song was birthed by the time she went into the van that evening.  Over the years many people have misconstrued the title of that song thinking it's referring to the Holy Spirit being welcome in the House of God.  Dottie was making reference to the Spirit of God being welcome in a child of God's heart.