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Name: Song of Rebirth
Interests: Striving to glorify the One who gave me this life to live and using the gifts He has blessed me with for His purpose and His only.
Expertise: Falling on my face in the mud; but then being picked up, cleaned off, and carried by my Lord and Savior.
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Member Since:
10/9/2003
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| This song is amazing: There are many prodigal sons
On our city streets they run
Searching for shelter
There are homes broken down
People’s hopes have fallen to the ground
From failures
This is an emergency!
There are tears from the saints
For the lost and unsaved
We’re crying for them come back home
We’re crying for them come back home
And all your children will stretch out their hands
And pick up the crippled man
Father, we will lead them home
Father, we will lead them home
There are schools full of hatred
Even churches have forsaken
Love and mercy
May we see this generation
In its state of desperation
For Your glory
This is an emergency!
Sinner, reach out your hands!
Children in Christ you stand!
Sinner, reach out your hands!
Children in Christ you stand!
There are tears from the saints
For the lost and unsaved
We’re crying for them come back home
We’re crying for them come back home
And all Your children will stretch out their hands
And pick up the crippled man
Father, we will lead them home
Father, we will lead them home
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| God is
JUST....but also LOVING....HE is GOD...HE is in CONTROL....We might not understand...but HE does.....
For He created EVERYTHING....Formed us from DUST....We are CLAY and HE is the POTTER...HE does whatever HE wants to....All GLORY be to HIM forEVER... ----------- Well, I'm off to Deception Pass for the week, camping with my family...May you rest in the LORD this week-no matter WHAT comes up-TRUST HIM...HE will sustain you and guide you! | | |
| Praising God with a ginormous crowd of people at the Gorge was incredible. That picture shall never be wiped from my memory...It just reminds me of when we shall all be in Heaven worshipping Him for eternity...every tribe and tongue singing praises together as one body in Christ. It just blows my mind...I cannot even begin to imagine it!
Something hit me hard yesterday during the sermon at church...I don't know about you, but when I'm at a M's game and everyone is singing along to the national anthem and the part "the land of the FREE, the home of the BRAVE" comes on, I almost always choke up or get tears in my eyes because I think of all those men and women who have fought/are fighting for freedom and peace and I'm SO proud of them and SO thankful for their sacrifice...and yes, I think SO highly of my country's soldiers...but at the same time, how much more should The Kingdom of God, and The King Himself, move me to tears? The Kingdom of God is what we should all be fighting for, but not fighting with swords, instead, we need to be fighting with humility; with sacrifice...with the Cross...with Christ's love.....Sometimes I do get so overwhelmed by and so in awe of my Lord and Savior that tears do usually well up and overflow, but it sure doesn't impact me as hard as it should...He is where it all starts and ends, and all our affections and passions should come from Him alone. May He strengthen you in the fight-to be strong, yet humble; to stand firm, yet be quick to love...May He give you faith; may He fill to overflowing with hope; and may He give you a love, SUCH A LOVE, for all people, that NOTHING will stop you in doing HIS WORK IN LOVE!!! | | |
| Driving home from work today I was listening to one of my favorite cds and I started thinking about one of my all time favorite quotes, which is by C.S. Lewis, about how fantasy is a human mind really longing for heaven and for a beautiful, perfect world without darkness or filth or sin!
Every time I read a good fantasy book (namely LOTR), I get so excited and thrilled with all of the beauty that comes after all of the darkness is banished forever! And oh how much more excited I feel whenever I read about heaven in the Bible, especially in Revelation...I feel like crying. Seriously. Crying because it's so overwhelming and wonderful and I just cannot wait for that day when I will go there and not be constantly bogged down by the world and by my own sin. Ah, I seriously long for that day SO SO MUCH!!!
I wish I could have the same thrilling feeling and joy that I feel when thinking about heaven, for doing God's work here. I pray that He will give it to me, that I will work hard and ALL of the time for His glory in doing what He has called me to do while I am here.
*sigh* I hate sin...it is constantly hindering my ability to do anything...Lord God, please help me to keep going and focus wholly on You instead of getting so lost and helpless in my sin all of the time!!!
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| O God of the open ear, Teach me to live by prayer as well as by providence, for myself, soul, body, children, family, church; Give me a heart frameable to Your will; so might I live in prayer and honour You, being kept from evil, known and unknown. Help me to see the sin that accompanies all I do, and the good I can distil from everything. Let me know that the work of prayer is to bring my will to Yours, and that without this it is folly to pray. When I try to bring Your will to mine it is to command Christ, to be above Him, and wiser than He: this is my sin and pride. I can only succeed when I pray according to Your Word, and to be done with as it pleases You, according to Your sovereign will. When You command me to pray for pardon, peace, brokeness, it is because You will give me the thing promised, for Your glory, as well as for my good. Help me not only to desire small things but with holy boldness to desire great things for Your people, for myself, that they and I might live to show Your glory. Teach me that it is wisdom for me to pray for all I have, out of love, willingly, not of necessity; that I may come to You at any time, to lay open my needs rightly to You; that my great sin lies in my not savouring Your ways; that the remembrance of this truth is one way to the sense of Your presence; that there is no wrath like the wrath of being goverened by my own lusts for my own ends. (Valley of Vision) | | |
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