Keep Yourself Pure
October 23, 2007
If you keep yourself pure, you will be a utensil God can use for his purpose. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.
2 Timothy 2:21
Love of Christ
September 24, 2007
May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
Ephesians 3:19
Blessing of Abraham
September 18, 2007
And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and now all the promises God gave to him belong to you.
Galatians 3:29
Blessing of Abraham (Donald Lawrence & the Tri-City Singers)
I am the God who healeth thee
Oh that you only trust in me
You are the seed
By faith receive
The blessing of Abraham
The blessing of Abraham
Wherever you are
Where ‘ere you go
Whatever you touch, is anointed to grow
You are the seed
By faith receive
The blessing of Abraham
The blessing of Abraham
It’s your inheritance (t sounds like d)
Get your inheritance
You are the seed
By faith receive
The blessing of Abraham
The blessing of Abraham
Key change
Wherever you are
Where ‘ere you go
Whatever you touch, is anointed to grow
You are the seed
By faith receive
The blessing of Abraham
The blessing of Abraham
Split
It’s your inheritance (t sounds like d)
Get your inheritance
You are the seed
By faith receive
The blessing of Abraham
The blessing of Abraham
(Repeat It’s your inheritance)
It’s yours
It’s yours
It’s your inheritance
It’s yours
It’s yours
It’s your inheritance
(Repeat as directed)
The head not the tail
Above not beneath
A lender
Not a borrower
Get your inheritance
Get your inheritance
Repeat
ENDING
You are the seed
By faith receive
The blessing of Abraham
The blessing of Abraham
You are the seed
By faith receive
The blessing of Abraham
The blessing of Abraham
Out of a Stump…
September 12, 2007
Out of the stump of David’s family will grow a shoot – yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root. And the Spirit of the LORD will rest on him – the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. He will delight in obeying the LORD. He will never judge by appearance, false evidence, or hearsay. He will defend the poor and the exploited. He will rule against the wicked and destroy them with the breath of his mouth. He will be clothed with fairness and truth.
Isaiah 11:1-5
When I read about the stump I think of something that was dead. Most stumps have been cut down from trees that were either weak or dead. We were once stumps that were dead to Christ. But the Spirit of God caused the spirit that He placed within us to sprout out from that stump into a life with Christ.
We have been called to the new Branch bearing fruit. We have the fruit of the Spirit within us. Below is a reminder of what the fruit of the Spirit is for you today. Write them on your heart for there is no law against these things:
- love
- joy
- peace
- patience
- kindness
- goodness
- faithfulness
- gentleness
- self-control
(Galatians 5:22-23)
Fear
September 11, 2007
Do not fear anything except the LORD Almighty. He alone is the Holy One. If you fear him, you need fear nothing else.
Isaiah 8:13
Dare You To Move
August 16, 2007
I read quite often the One Year Bible Blog as I go through the bible each year with other believers. Today, Mike placed the following song on the blog (at the very end of his post for the day).
I, like Mike, have VERY wide tastes in Christian Music. I believe that a Christian song can touch the unbeliever – especially when it contains God’s message to a broken world.
Being a rocker at heart, this band, Switchfoot, is awesome. You have to remember that I grew up in the age of Led Zepplin, Billy Squier, Donna Summer….oops — forgot to tell you that I like Disco too! 🙂
Here is the video… (the lyrics are beneath the video):
Dare You To Move
Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone’s here
Everyone’s here
Everybody’s watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next
[Chorus]
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before
Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
Tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be
[Chorus]
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before
Motive
August 7, 2007
The Lord’s searchlight penetrates the human spirit, exposing every hidden motive.
Proverbs 20:27
How Can I Keep From Singing?
August 3, 2007
I Will Sing – Don Moen
July 27, 2007
Artist: Don Moen
Album: I Will Sing
Lyrics: I Will Sing
Lord You seem so far away. A million miles or more it feels today.
And though I haven’t lost my faith, I must confess right now that it’s hard for me to pray.
But I don’t know what to say and I don’t know where to start.
But as you give the grace with all that’s in my heart.
I will sing.
I will praise even in my darkest time through the sorrow and the pain.
I will sing. I will praise.
Lift my hands to honor You because Your word is true. I will sing.
Lord is hard for me to see all the thought and plan You have for me.
But I will put my trust in You. Lord will meet Your guide to set me free.
But I don’t know what to say and I don’t know where to start.
But as you give the grace with all that’s in my heart.
I will sing.
I will praise even in my darkest time through the sorrow and the pain.
I will sing. I will praise.
Lift my hands to honor You because Your word is true. I will sing. (2 times)
You Were Called…
July 24, 2007
And having chosen them, he [God] called them to come to him. And he gave them right standing with himself, and he promised them his glory.
Romans 8:30
Do you realize that first you were chosen and then you were called? It was our job to accept the call. Thank God he knew that we would respond!
The Greek word in this text is Ejklektov (transliterated as Eklektos). It means the following:
1) Picked out, chosena. Chosen by God,
1. to obtain salvation through Christ (1a)
b. Christians are called “chosen or elect” of God
1. The Messiah is called “elect”, as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable
2.Choice, select, i.e. the best of its kind or class, excellence preeminent; applied to certain individual Christians.
Source: http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=1588
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