I got Phil Wickham's new cd, and I am thoroughly enjoying it now that my cd player in my car is actually working! yippee! and this is probably my favorite song right now, and i think it just kinda goes with my last post and where my thoughts have been a lot recently. The song is called "All I Am" and these are the lyrics!
Take these hands
I know they're empty
But with You they can
Be used for beauty
In Your perfect plan
All I am is Yours
Take these feet
I know they stumble
But You use the weak
You use the humble
So please use me
All I am is Yours
I give You all my life
I'm letting it go
A living sacrifice
No longer my own
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours
Take this heart
Set it on fire
Shining in the dark
I wanna tell the world of who You are
All I am is Yours
I give You all my life
I'm letting it go
A living sacrifice
No longer my own
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours
I give You everything
To You I belong
Every beat of my heart
The breath in my lungs
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours
I lift my hands up
God I surrender
All that I am for Your glory, Your honor, Your fame
I life my hands up
God I surrender to You
I give You all my life
I'm letting it go
A living sacrifice
No longer my own
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours
I give You everything
To You I belong
Every beat of my heart
The breath in my lungs
All I am is Yours
All I am is Yours
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
sanctification
Lately, the reality that I have absolutely nothing to offer Christ...is really leaving me in a broken state. But right after that state comes the realization of God's amazing grace.
Christ gave absolutely everything, and how much do we give Him?!
we are to give ourselves as a LIVING sacrifice...daily dieing to ourselves and taking up our own cross.
my eyes are being opened to the utter selfishness in human beings, particularly myself. and this realization is making me hate selfishness so much more. It causes so much hurt and destroys people and destroys the glory of God. Yet we are all guilty of being selfish. And this will probably be a sin we will forever struggle with, but my prayer is that we may actually be stripped from selfish thinking and really learn how to put Jesus and other's before ourselves, before our own thoughts and desires. and to make our lives completely not about us, because we are not here to please ourselves, but to please our Loving, Holy Father above.
I think we also forget, in that Christ has given us everything and sacrificed everything for us (among many...He became a man...limiting His Godly attributes, He died the most the brutal death, He was beaten, He was misunderstood, He has given us His Holy Spirit and made a way for us to be with the Father, He has made us righteous...), He also demands a lot from us. Which is only right.
I think in the Western World, we so often (whether we realize it or not) take the words of Jesus, and commands, and somehow think that they are a choice for us to make...We think that what Jesus has commanded, is our own choice whether we act like or what He says. But the reality of it is...we have no choice in the matter of how we, who have accepted Christ as our Savior, live our lives. Jesus tells us how we are to live all throughout the New Testament. and His commands given, are just that...COMMANDS! (to demand, to order authoritively)
Obedience pleases our God.
So I ask the question, what are we giving to God?!
I have recently fallen in love with a couple songs...one is The Stand by Hillsong, and my favorite line in it is
"So what can I say, what can I do? But offer this heart O God completely to you."
Jesus deserves our whole heart. When the weight of all that Jesus has done and given for/to us realy resonates in our hearts and not just our minds, that is when we truly will be changed from the inside out and surrender all we are. and this is an on-going surrender.
Christ gave absolutely everything, and how much do we give Him?!
we are to give ourselves as a LIVING sacrifice...daily dieing to ourselves and taking up our own cross.
my eyes are being opened to the utter selfishness in human beings, particularly myself. and this realization is making me hate selfishness so much more. It causes so much hurt and destroys people and destroys the glory of God. Yet we are all guilty of being selfish. And this will probably be a sin we will forever struggle with, but my prayer is that we may actually be stripped from selfish thinking and really learn how to put Jesus and other's before ourselves, before our own thoughts and desires. and to make our lives completely not about us, because we are not here to please ourselves, but to please our Loving, Holy Father above.
I think we also forget, in that Christ has given us everything and sacrificed everything for us (among many...He became a man...limiting His Godly attributes, He died the most the brutal death, He was beaten, He was misunderstood, He has given us His Holy Spirit and made a way for us to be with the Father, He has made us righteous...), He also demands a lot from us. Which is only right.
I think in the Western World, we so often (whether we realize it or not) take the words of Jesus, and commands, and somehow think that they are a choice for us to make...We think that what Jesus has commanded, is our own choice whether we act like or what He says. But the reality of it is...we have no choice in the matter of how we, who have accepted Christ as our Savior, live our lives. Jesus tells us how we are to live all throughout the New Testament. and His commands given, are just that...COMMANDS! (to demand, to order authoritively)
Obedience pleases our God.
So I ask the question, what are we giving to God?!
I have recently fallen in love with a couple songs...one is The Stand by Hillsong, and my favorite line in it is
"So what can I say, what can I do? But offer this heart O God completely to you."
Jesus deserves our whole heart. When the weight of all that Jesus has done and given for/to us realy resonates in our hearts and not just our minds, that is when we truly will be changed from the inside out and surrender all we are. and this is an on-going surrender.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
what are we doing?
Do we realize how blessed we are?
This morning I have been reading my compassion international magazine. and im being reminded of how many privelages so many of us have, and yes God loves us, and in fact a lot of us are spoiled in Christ but are we grateful? and what are we doing with all that God has given us, are we hording it or giving it back? and what are we doing about poverty?
Do we realize what the children we sponsor actually go through in a day, what they live like?!
We complain about getting up early, when some people in oppressed countries would die to be able to get up and have the freedom to read their bible. We complain that we have nothing to eat when our fridge and pantry is full. We complain about our living conditions, when there are people who live in a garbage dump.
the Old testament tells us numerous times to take care of the poor. the farmers were told to not take all of their crop, but to leave some behind for the poor to glean from. and James tells us religion that is pure and holy is to visit orphans and widows int heir affliction and to keep oneself unstained from the world….
i have to ask the question…are we really unstained from the world?!
here are some hard facts to take in:
naerly 2 million children worldwide are forced into the sex trade each year.
250,000-500,000 children live as prostitutes in Brazil (alone). Some sources place this number as high as 2 million.
40,000 annual birthds in Thailand go unregistered. Without a birth certificate, these children are denied health care and education, and are more vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
1 in 5 women worldwide becomes a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime.
The least we can do is pray.
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