Hillsong – Just Let Me Say
Just let me say how much I love You
Let me speak of Your mercy and grace
Just let me live in a shadow of Your beauty
Let me see You face to face
And the earth will shake as Your Word goes forth
And the heavens will tremble and fall
But let me say how much I love You
Oh my Savior, my Lord and Friend
Just let me hear Your finest whispers
As You gently call my name
And let me see Your power and Your glory
Let me feel Your spirit’s flame
Let me find You in the desert
Till this sand is holy ground
And I am found completely surrendered
To You my Lord and Friend
So let me say how much I love You
With all my heart I long for You
For I am caught in this passion of knowing
This endless love I’ve found in You
And the depth of grace, the forgiveness found
To be called a child of God
Just makes me say how much I love You
Oh my Savior, my Lord and Friend
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Featuring a true life account of a boy who ran too fast. (he sure wasn’t very wise either)
Church camp has been awesome. One thing I’d miss about camp is spending time with God and the people I love 24 hours a day. I think that our groups have grown much in fellowship as we spend so much time learning from the Word together, praising and worshipping together and of course, sleeping in the cramp rooms together. We find out one another’s quirky habits, know one another’s dark secrets and old lifestyles. Our caregroup members are no longer just people we meet for a couple of hours on caregroup and service days… they’re as much human as I am! We’re not just ‘friends’, we’re running the race together!
And I just can’t stop grinning from ear to ear because I’m so glad that these people are running alongside me.
Lord, yet let me not forget the words You’ve spoken to me during church camp.
Remind me, O Lord, that these undeserving hands belonging to an unworthy life will seek to honour Your Name only.
Remind me, O Lord, that despite my flaws, my wrongdoings and cui-ness, You still choose to use this life to minister to others. Lord, I’m humbled by Your grace and at the same time, amazed at how You can touch even the hardest of hearts.
Remind me, O Lord, that in all the things I do, be it shepherding or meeting the needs of people, let me do it in love and help me love them as my own.
Remind me, O Lord, that even as many of us leave the campsite at downtown east, even as some of us head back into our neighbourhood, into our schools, into our camps, alone sometimes but that will no longer be a reason to hold us back. We may be the only Chrtistian in our own spheres of influence, we may take lonely walks, we may struggle and feel so hopeless at times, but God, we choose to be unstoppable. Because we remember that God, out of the darkness, Your light shines and we hold on to Your love for us.
Remind me, O Lord, the tears shed in camp during those moments where Your spirit touched ours will never be confined to just in camp! Help us to be people on our knees constantly, let Your spirit touch us daily and let those tears flow freely down our cheeks. Break our hearts, help us to be spiritually dissatisfied, help us to know that there is something You’ve called us to do in our community. Help us to know that there is something we should do, we have to do, we will do. Let us lead victorious and empowered lives for you, for we are no longer defeated in spirit because in You, there’s new life!
God, I stand up and choose to be counted for!
Filed under: Musings.
‘We long to be servants but are unwilling to leave the comfort of the lounge chair. We’d like to be humble – but what if no one notices?’
John Ortberg.
My steps are hesitant, which side should I choose? On one hand, my heart’s desire is to give God my full surrender and let His presence and joy soak through my entire life. Yet on the other hand, the flesh takes a step back and defends: I won’t get to control my own life – I wanna choose to do what I want, and whenever I want. Such is the struggle of a double-minded man. (hey i have my struggles too)
I think God has been hinting at me to withdraw from the world and into His presence again for a prolonged period of praying; I haven’t exactly done that and I think I’ve been such a blockhead. I was stopped dead in my tracks in my pursuit to do more, complete more and achieve more. I was trying to rush through my life, thinking that I’d benefit the Kingdom more while ignoring the cries of a tired mind, body and soul.
So much so that I had to take an MC after a serious bout of flu (no i wasn’t snorting either).
As I ponder much about my life for the past month, I figured: hey I’ve been pretty busy (or at least trying to be busy with something)! But much busyness hasn’t achieved much business at all. You could say I was trying to have a hand in everything around me – yeah you guessed it, I pretty much didn’t accomplish anything.
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Luke 10:41-42
I need to pray.
Filed under: Musings.
THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.source: http://www.aa.org/en_pdfs/smf-121_en.pdf
What would you and I replace the word ‘alcohol’ with?
