Monday, January 9, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Lyrical Friday - Crags and Clay
Happy Friday!
I am so excited to announce a new Heal group. This is the first adult Heal group that I do. It is definitely way different that leading a youth only group. It was a very sweet time. So what more appropriate song than Crags and Clay by Gungor.
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You are wonderfully made.
You are wholly and dearly loved by God.
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Crags and Clay, Gungor
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Standing up from crags and clay
The peaks of earth
In full display
They break the lines
That break the sky
That's full of life
Full of life
The chaos of creation's dance
A tapestry, a symphony
Of life himself
Of love herself
It's written in our very skin
All praises to the one who made it all
Who made it all
All praises to the one who made it all
And finds it beautiful
Soil is spilling life to life
Stars are born
To fill the night
The ocean's score
The majesty
Of sculpted shore
Mystery
All praises...
Fearfully and wonderfully and beautifully made
I am so excited to announce a new Heal group. This is the first adult Heal group that I do. It is definitely way different that leading a youth only group. It was a very sweet time. So what more appropriate song than Crags and Clay by Gungor.
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You are wonderfully made.
You are wholly and dearly loved by God.
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Crags and Clay, Gungor
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Standing up from crags and clay
The peaks of earth
In full display
They break the lines
That break the sky
That's full of life
Full of life
The chaos of creation's dance
A tapestry, a symphony
Of life himself
Of love herself
It's written in our very skin
All praises to the one who made it all
Who made it all
All praises to the one who made it all
And finds it beautiful
Soil is spilling life to life
Stars are born
To fill the night
The ocean's score
The majesty
Of sculpted shore
Mystery
All praises...
Fearfully and wonderfully and beautifully made
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011
A Year In Verses
Hello Friends and Good-bye 2011.
I have spent all morning reading and reflecting over my journals for this year. The faithfulness of the Lord is so wonderful. His Holy Spirit remains my greatest strength and my best friend. His Word continues to heal, mend and lead. His promises stand true forever and ever.
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As my last post of the year, I would like it to be about what I love most. I love God's word and all who know me know this to be true. I love reading it, treasuring it in my heart, learning from it, teaching it and sharing it. For the last 6 years I have purposed to text morning verses and I have. This year I surpassed 300+ people that I text daily. And though time consuming, it is a joy in my life to be able to deliver God's word to so many. I date and journal the verse I send out and so here you will find my year in verses. One verse from each month.
I have spent all morning reading and reflecting over my journals for this year. The faithfulness of the Lord is so wonderful. His Holy Spirit remains my greatest strength and my best friend. His Word continues to heal, mend and lead. His promises stand true forever and ever.
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As my last post of the year, I would like it to be about what I love most. I love God's word and all who know me know this to be true. I love reading it, treasuring it in my heart, learning from it, teaching it and sharing it. For the last 6 years I have purposed to text morning verses and I have. This year I surpassed 300+ people that I text daily. And though time consuming, it is a joy in my life to be able to deliver God's word to so many. I date and journal the verse I send out and so here you will find my year in verses. One verse from each month.
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Read my 2010 verses, and 2009 verses.
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January 31, 2011
"...that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days..." Deuteronomy 30:20
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February 4, 2011
The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. Isaiah 50:4
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March 11, 2011
So we fasted and earnestly prayed that our God would take care of us, and he heard our prayer. Ezra 8:23
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April 7, 2011
That Christ would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. Ephesians 3:16
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May 5, 2011
Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 124:8
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June 13, 2011
By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:35
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July 29, 2011
And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things! Romans 10:15
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August 7, 2011
Friends, when life gets really difficult, don't jump to the conclusion that God isn't on the job. Instead, be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner. 1 Peter 4:12-13
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September 9, 2011
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 1 John 5:4
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October 10, 2011
But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 1 Peter 5:10
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November 5, 2011
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the LORD upholds him with His hand. Psalm 37:23-24
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December 23, 2011
Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of the Lord will be your treasure. Isaiah 33:6
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My 2010: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." -John 10:10. As I reflect on this past year, I was given an abundant year full of life, joy and blessings. Was it the year I would have planned for myself? No. But it was the year God planned for me and I lived it abundantly.
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So till next year dear friend.
May your heart be turned to the Lord and His Word.
"...that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days..." Deuteronomy 30:20
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February 4, 2011
The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. Isaiah 50:4
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March 11, 2011
So we fasted and earnestly prayed that our God would take care of us, and he heard our prayer. Ezra 8:23
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April 7, 2011
That Christ would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. Ephesians 3:16
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May 5, 2011
Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 124:8
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June 13, 2011
By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:35
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July 29, 2011
And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things! Romans 10:15
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August 7, 2011
Friends, when life gets really difficult, don't jump to the conclusion that God isn't on the job. Instead, be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner. 1 Peter 4:12-13
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September 9, 2011
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 1 John 5:4
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October 10, 2011
But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 1 Peter 5:10
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November 5, 2011
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the LORD upholds him with His hand. Psalm 37:23-24
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December 23, 2011
Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of the Lord will be your treasure. Isaiah 33:6
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My 2010: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." -John 10:10. As I reflect on this past year, I was given an abundant year full of life, joy and blessings. Was it the year I would have planned for myself? No. But it was the year God planned for me and I lived it abundantly.
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So till next year dear friend.
May your heart be turned to the Lord and His Word.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Lyrical Friday - When Death Dies
Happy Friday to you and Merry Christmas!
Today's post come from the talented and musically genius Gungor Band. This song tells the best part of the Christmas story. I pray it inspires you today to rejoice and be the bearer of glad tidings!
Christmas story time.
Whether its playing on TV/ being read in a classroom/ played as a skit/ or shared to a church body, the Christmas story is being told. What sweet glory this time of year is, when even heathens declare the birth of our King. How tragic though to leave the story half way told. The birth of a King and the gifts He received wasn't the end of it all. He grew, He lived, He died and He rose from the dead victorious. And because He lives, those who believe in Him, live as well.
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O Death, where is your sting?
"O Hades, where is your victory?”
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52, 55-58
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I challenge you, tell the complete Christmas story to all the people around you. The end of the story is the best part, for the end of the Christmas story includes your name and mine,
"...and [your name here] too has risen from the dead and will life forever and ever with Jesus."
Like the waters flooding the desert
Like the sunrise showing all things
Where it comes flowers grow
Lions sleep, gravestones roll
Where death dies all things live
Where it comes poor men feast
Kings fall down to their knees
When death dies all things live
All things live
Like a woman searching and finding love
Like an ocean buried and bursting forth
Where it comes flowers grow
Lions sleep, gravestones roll
Where death dies all things come alive
Where it comes water’s clean
Children fed
All believe
When death dies all things live
All things live
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Sentence Tusday
A person is only beautiful
when their own beauty is reflecting on to others.
when their own beauty is reflecting on to others.
-Tara Grady
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Morning and Evening
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Rend your heart, and not your garments. Joel 2:13
GARMENT-RENDING and other outward signs of religious emotion, are easily manifested and are frequently hypocritical; but to feel true repentance is far more difficult, and consequently far less common. Men will attend to the most multiplied and minute ceremonial regulations-for such things are pleasing to the flesh-but true religion is too humbling, too heart-searching, too thorough for the tastes of the carnal men; they prefer something more ostentatious, flimsy, and worldly. Outward observances are temporarily comfortable; eye and ear are pleased; self-conceit is fed, and self-righteousness is puffed up: but they are ultimately delusive, for in the article of death, and at the day of judgment, the soul needs something more substantial than ceremonies and rituals to lean upon. Apart from vital godliness all religion is utterly vain; offered without a sincere heart, every form of worship is a solemn sham and an impudent mockery of the majesty of heaven.
HEART-RENDING is divinely wrought and solemnly felt. It is a secret grief which is personally experienced, not in mere form, but as a deep, soul-moving work of the Holy Spirit upon the inmost heart of each believer. It is not a matter to be merely talked of and believed in, but keenly and sensitively felt in every living child of the living God. It is powerfully humiliating, and completely sin-purging; but then it is sweetly preparative for those gracious consolations which proud unhumbled spirits are unable to receive; and it is distinctly discriminating, for it belongs to the elect of God, and to them alone.
The text commands us to rend our hearts, but they are naturally hard as marble: how, then, can this be done? We must take them to Calvary: a dying Saviour's voice rent the rocks once, and it is as powerful now. O blessed Spirit, let us hear the death-cries of Jesus, and our hearts shall be rent even as men rend their vestures in the day of lamentation.
Morning and Evening devotions by Charles Spurgeon
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