I'm in love with this song! I've had this song on my ipod for awhile now, but have been listening to it a lot more recently!!! What a wonderful picture of God's love for us! If you haven't listened to this song! DO!!! Even better...download it and listen to it over and over and over!!
Beautiful
Phil Wickham
I see Your face in every sunrise
The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakens in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say
You're beautiful
I see Your power in the moonlit night
Where planets are in motion and galaxies are bright
We are amazed in the light of the stars
It's all proclaiming who You are
You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see you there hanging on a tree
You bled and then you died and then you rose again for me
Now you are sitting on Your heavenly throne
Soon we will be coming home
You're beautiful, you're beautiful
When we arrive at eternity's shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we'll sing
You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, I see Your face
I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
You're Beautiful - Phil Wickham from Steve V on Vimeo.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Plans...
I was reading my sister's blog tonight...a little down and I came across a verse she quoted:
"In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps."
Proverbs 16:9
How many times have I gone through life planning the courses I was going to take? Where I would go to college, what I would study, when and who I would marry...and when life doesn't go to plan I simply have a pity party for myself. I look past all of the wonderful things in my life! My friends, family, good health, job, etc. I forget His promise to me:
"'For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.'" Jeremiah 29:11
So why is that when life gets hard or complicated I forget that promise? Why do I pity myself? How can I get passed my own worldly wants and get back to the heart of it and have that intimate relationship with Jesus? I don't have the answers to these questions...I mean I'm literally typing my thoughts out right now, but I can say one thing...
THANK GOD THAT HE DETERMINES THOSE STEPS!!! I think I would do a pretty horrible job if it was just up to me.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Yay!!! Jesus Loves me!
I was on facebook and reading through the daily posts from all my friends and I came across one that just made my heart smile!!! My little 3 year old niece Marlee sang these lyrics:
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. – 1 John 4:9-11
How precious is Your steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge and put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. Psalm 36: 7
But God--so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us. Ephesians 2: 4
"little ones to Him belong, they are weak but He is strong. YAY Jesus Loves me. YAY Jesus Loves me..." How awesome is that?! Not just a simple yes, but a whole hearted, rojoicing YES!!! I am so grateful for His love.
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. – 1 John 4:9-11
How precious is Your steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge and put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. Psalm 36: 7
But God--so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us. Ephesians 2: 4
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Fears...
Everybody has fears...some are hard to admit. One of mine is sharing my faith...
Last sunday was our dedication of our new building for First Baptist Rogers. We were blessed to have Dr. Bruce Wilkinson speak last sunday and he presented us with a challenge. Our church is in the middle of a kairos moment, and has the opportunity to change the future of the church and commit to growth. The challenge is to double the number of attendance by November 2011. Of course, this means that we must get involved, must go out! This is confronting one of my biggest fears. Sharing my faith...I don't know what it is that is scary...I believe and want others to know of this great love that God has for us and how he has impacted my life. So why is it so hard for me to vocalize what God has done for me?
I've come to the conclusion that my issue is exactly what I just wrote, it's hard for "me" to vocalize. What it comes down to is that I'm not trusting God to speak through me. I'm limiting His use of me. I'm letting Satin tell me that I'm not good enough, educated enough, special enough...fill in the blank...
Here is my commitment:
"The Lord God is my strength, my personal bravery, my invincible army. He will make my feet like hinds' feet. To walk, not stand still in terror, but to WALK! and make spiritual progress upon my high places of trouble, suffering or responsibility." Habakkuk 3:19 (adapted)
I heard this verse stated this way a few years back at a Beth Moore Conference, but it has more meaning today then it did then. I need to stop making excuses and rely on God to keep me walking.
Last sunday was our dedication of our new building for First Baptist Rogers. We were blessed to have Dr. Bruce Wilkinson speak last sunday and he presented us with a challenge. Our church is in the middle of a kairos moment, and has the opportunity to change the future of the church and commit to growth. The challenge is to double the number of attendance by November 2011. Of course, this means that we must get involved, must go out! This is confronting one of my biggest fears. Sharing my faith...I don't know what it is that is scary...I believe and want others to know of this great love that God has for us and how he has impacted my life. So why is it so hard for me to vocalize what God has done for me?
I've come to the conclusion that my issue is exactly what I just wrote, it's hard for "me" to vocalize. What it comes down to is that I'm not trusting God to speak through me. I'm limiting His use of me. I'm letting Satin tell me that I'm not good enough, educated enough, special enough...fill in the blank...
Here is my commitment:
"The Lord God is my strength, my personal bravery, my invincible army. He will make my feet like hinds' feet. To walk, not stand still in terror, but to WALK! and make spiritual progress upon my high places of trouble, suffering or responsibility." Habakkuk 3:19 (adapted)
I heard this verse stated this way a few years back at a Beth Moore Conference, but it has more meaning today then it did then. I need to stop making excuses and rely on God to keep me walking.
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