Month: March 2011

This song just came on and these things are all so true of God. It blessed my heart to just be able to sing along and pray this to the Lord. 

 

“You Are For Me”

 By: Kari Jobe

“So faithful. So constant.
So loving and so true.
So powerful in all You do.

You fill me. You see me.
You know my every move
and You love for me to sing to You.

I know that You are for me.
I know that You are for me.
I know that You will never,
forsake me in my weaknesses

I know that You have come now,
even if to write upon my heart.
To remind me who You are.

So patient, So gracious,
So merciful and true…
So wonderful in all You do.
You know me. You see me.
You know my every move.
You love for me to sing to You”

 

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God is good!! This is what I read today (Psalm 42)…so encouraging and my prayer for today. My soul pants for the Lord. My soul thirsts for Him. “Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.” My God is a good God. A holy God. An awesome, amazing God. I am only satisfied by him. My thirst is only quenched by him. I am reminded of the passage in John 4 about how Jesus is talking to the Samaritan women at the well (vv. 13-14): “Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.’ “

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“As a deer pants for flowing streams,
        so pants my soul for you, O God.
     My soul thirsts for God,
        for the living God.
    When shall I come and appear before God?
     My tears have been my food
        day and night,
    while they say to me all the day long,
        “Where is your God?”
     These things I remember,
        as I pour out my soul:
    how I would go with the throng
        and lead them in procession to the house of God
    with glad shouts and songs of praise,
        a multitude keeping festival.

    Why are you cast down, O my soul,
        and why are you in turmoil within me?
    Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
        my salvation and my God.
    My soul is cast down within me;
        therefore I remember you
    from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
        from Mount Mizar.
     Deep calls to deep
        at the roar of your waterfalls;
    all your breakers and your waves
        have gone over me.
     By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
        and at night his song is with me,
        a prayer to the God of my life.
     I say to God, my rock:
        “Why have you forgotten me?
    Why do I go mourning
        because of the oppression of the enemy?”
     As with a deadly wound in my bones,
        my adversaries taunt me,
    while they say to me all the day long,
        “Where is your God?”

    Why are you cast down, O my soul,
        and why are you in turmoil within me?
    Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
        my salvation and my God.”
 (Psalm 42 ESV)

Sanctus Real – “Lead Me”

I look around and see my wonderful life

Almost perfect from the outside

In picture frames I see my beautiful wife

Always smiling

But on the inside, I can hear her saying…

“Lead me with strong hands

Stand up when I can’t

Don’t leave me hungry for love

Chasing dreams, what about us?

Show me you’re willing to fight

That I’m still the love of your life

I know we call this our home

But I still feel alone”

I see their faces, look in their innocent eyes

They’re just children from the outside

I’m working hard, I tell myself they’ll be fine

They’re independent

But on the inside, I can hear them saying…

“Lead me with strong hands

Stand up when I can’t

Don’t leave me hungry for love

Chasing dreams, but what about us?

Show me you’re willing to fight

That I’m still the love of your life

I know we call this our home

But I still feel alone”

So Father, give me the strength

To be everything I’m called to be

Oh, Father, show me the way

To lead them

Won’t You lead me?

To lead them with strong hands

To stand up when they can’t

Don’t want to leave them hungry for love,

Chasing things that I could give up

I’ll show them I’m willing to fight

And give them the best of my life

So we can call this our home

Lead me, ’cause I can’t do this alone

Father, lead me, ’cause I can’t do this alone

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This song came on the radio on the way home from youth group tonight. It was so fitting for tonight. We are talking about marriage in youth group and just so happened to be on the biblical roles of marriage and what that means as male and female believers in this day and time. We talked a lot about Ephesians 5, and it was so good. We talked about the biblical role of the man and how is supposed to lead. And we talked about the roles of the women and how she is supposed to be submissive and follow her husband’s lead. Whomever my husband is, I pray that he will be a man who leads me as he is following the Lord, like Ephesians 5 and like this song says. Moreover, I pray I can be a women of God who will be submissive, quiet, gentle, loving, and so much more! I pray that I can love my husband with everything I have and that with his leading we can glorify the Lord. I pray that each day leading up to my marriage and each day that I am married, that I can practice these things. That the Lord, who has shown me so much grace, will help me to show grace. I pray that somehow, someway I can live out the Gospel in my relationship with my husband and my relationships with my children. The Lord is so good and his faithfulness endures forever!!! He is teaching me so much and I am so completely grateful for every thing that is going on in my life. Although times are hard, the Lord has sustained me. He has provided for me. He has kept me safe. He has watched over me. He has broken me. But he is healing me. He is restoring my soul.

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Psalm 23 says it perfectly: 

 “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. {He is my everything and I don’t need anything besides him!!!}

         He makes me lie down in green pastures.

    He leads me beside still waters.

         He restores my soul. {He is healing my heart}

    He leads me in paths of righteousness

        for his name’s sake. {All of this is to glorify himself!!!}

    Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

        I will fear no evil, {The Lord is always faithful and I can trust him; I don’t have to fear}

    for you are with me;        your rod and your staff,

        they comfort me.

    You prepare a table before me

        in the presence of my enemies;

    you anoint my head with oil;

        my cup overflows. {I am Soooooo Blessed!!!}

     Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

        all the days of my life,

    and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD

        forever.”

 Amen!!!!!!