Thanksgiving found a lonely man
Far from home – his native land
A former Muslim his entire life
He had recently embraced Christ
He had no friends or family
His wife left him because he believed
But when I asked them to invite him to our Thanksgiving table
The answer was no, we’re just not able
We’re not able to share our hearts and our home
On this Thanksgiving you’ll remain alone
It’s just too crowded at our house you see
We just can’t fit one more mouth to feed
But
Thank God in Heaven He’s not the same way
There’s always room at His Table for those who seek Him today
Unlike those who by self are consumed
Love forever and always makes room
Love makes Room! Oh Yes! LOVE MAKES ROOM!
There’s never a time or moment when He’s not there for you
Behold I go and a place I prepare for you
And I will prepare you for this place,
To meet Me face to face – Love makes Room!
Oh yes! Love makes room!
You can count on Him to let you in
And free you forever from the bondage of sin
Just in case you’re wondering – God’s given you His best!
Love makes room (we’re no longer homeless)
Love makes room (come to Jesus and find your rest)
Love makes room (oh we are so blessed)
Love makes room, oh yes, Love makes Room!
Luk:22:30
“Be careful to entertain strangers”
“Some people go through life
while others, life goes through them”
Father, I’m Your son
From You I’ll no longer run
I’m tired of this pig swill
My belly, my heart long to be filled
With the food found only at Your table
If I be but a servant in Your stable
Please Father, take me in again
Deliver me from my so called “friends”
I no longer wish the path of sin
As I approach You from afar off, what’s this I see?
Oh Father, Oh Father, You are running to me?
Oh thank You Father, thank You! Forgive my insanity
It’s with You my Father I wish to be.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
We are wanted, we are pursued
We are loved our whole lives through
We are desired, we are sought
If we’ll humble ourselves then we’ll be caught
Then all our sin will come to naught
For it would become us (one and all)
To let Love overcome us (hear His call)
Hear His cry oh hear His plea
Open the eyes of your heart and see
God loves you and He loves me
And He wants us to become family
And be close to Him through Eternity
Isa:62:12
Gen:28:14
God’s heart has always desired a family. He’s a family man! He loves and blesses families and wants us all to be a part of His family forever. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God! As Jesus proudly declared Himself to be the “Son of Man” so may we now declare ourselves to be “Sons of God”!
We are loved our whole lives through
We are desired, we are sought
If we’ll humble ourselves then we’ll be caught
Then all our sin will come to naught
For it would become us (one and all)
To let Love overcome us (hear His call)
Hear His cry oh hear His plea
Open the eyes of your heart and see
God loves you and He loves me
And He wants us to become family
And be close to Him through Eternity
Isa:62:12
Gen:28:14
God’s heart has always desired a family. He’s a family man! He loves and blesses families and wants us all to be a part of His family forever. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God! As Jesus proudly declared Himself to be the “Son of Man” so may we now declare ourselves to be “Sons of God”!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Blessing in Disguise
Sometimes if you’ll look through God’s eyes
You might just find a Blessing in Disguise
Yes if you’ll look with your heart and not your eyes
You just might realize a blessing in disguise.
There we were on the road to Emmaus
We were hurting and thinking our God had betrayed us
But a wonderful thing happened to us on that road
As a stranger joined us – He began to lighten our load
Our hearts burned within us as He began to speak
And He shared with us about the Christ in whom we’d come to believe
(of whom our hearts did seek)
But it wasn’t until we had supped with Him
And we had broken bread
That we realized He was our Lord – Risen from the dead!
So Jesus showed us a simple Truth
In which we’ve come to trust –
That when all is said, that when all is done
ALL OUR GOD TRULY DESIRES IS TO WALK AND TALK WITH US!
This is why He came and died and why He lives today –
To walk with us and to talk with us in loving harmony
So if you feel your heart burning deep inside
It just might be, The Lord you see, A BLESSING IN DISGUISE!
Luk:24:13-34
For some of us, Jesus will appear to us in a form we don’t recognize. If we’re a Baptist, he might come to us in the form of a Pentecostal. If we’re a Pentecostal, He might appear as a Baptist. Or as a Jew. If we don’t believe in Apostles or Prophets today, He might just appear as one of these. In any case, we must be willing to sup with each other in order to see the Christ in one another. We must be willing to walk and talk together or we won’t be able to “discern the Body”, a primary goal of communion.
You might just find a Blessing in Disguise
Yes if you’ll look with your heart and not your eyes
You just might realize a blessing in disguise.
There we were on the road to Emmaus
We were hurting and thinking our God had betrayed us
But a wonderful thing happened to us on that road
As a stranger joined us – He began to lighten our load
Our hearts burned within us as He began to speak
And He shared with us about the Christ in whom we’d come to believe
(of whom our hearts did seek)
But it wasn’t until we had supped with Him
And we had broken bread
That we realized He was our Lord – Risen from the dead!
So Jesus showed us a simple Truth
In which we’ve come to trust –
That when all is said, that when all is done
ALL OUR GOD TRULY DESIRES IS TO WALK AND TALK WITH US!
This is why He came and died and why He lives today –
To walk with us and to talk with us in loving harmony
So if you feel your heart burning deep inside
It just might be, The Lord you see, A BLESSING IN DISGUISE!
Luk:24:13-34
For some of us, Jesus will appear to us in a form we don’t recognize. If we’re a Baptist, he might come to us in the form of a Pentecostal. If we’re a Pentecostal, He might appear as a Baptist. Or as a Jew. If we don’t believe in Apostles or Prophets today, He might just appear as one of these. In any case, we must be willing to sup with each other in order to see the Christ in one another. We must be willing to walk and talk together or we won’t be able to “discern the Body”, a primary goal of communion.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
You're a Miracle
O you’re a Miracle of great worth!
You have been ever since your birth –
A Miracle of great worth!
For a Miracle is something that only God can do
and a Miracle is what He performed when He created you!
For you He did pre-destinate
For you He did foreknew
For you He took such loving care
When He formed you in the womb
You are a Miracle – designed by God in intimate detail
And I know the plans that He has for you will never, ever fail
You are not just here by chance
Your life is not just happenstance
God wouldn’t waste His time and the effort that He gave
In seeing you so beautifully and so wonderfully made
Only to lose you now to death, hell and the grave
No, He hasn’t abandoned nor forsaken you
No His plans for you are great!
For in the end they will have taken you
All the way home to the pearly gate
To a mansion made for you in the New Jerusalem
For you are A Miracle of great worth
You have been ever since your birth –
A MIRACLE OF GREAT WORTH!
Joh:14:3
PS: Happy Birthday TJ! Heb:13:5
You have been ever since your birth –
A Miracle of great worth!
For a Miracle is something that only God can do
and a Miracle is what He performed when He created you!
For you He did pre-destinate
For you He did foreknew
For you He took such loving care
When He formed you in the womb
You are a Miracle – designed by God in intimate detail
And I know the plans that He has for you will never, ever fail
You are not just here by chance
Your life is not just happenstance
God wouldn’t waste His time and the effort that He gave
In seeing you so beautifully and so wonderfully made
Only to lose you now to death, hell and the grave
No, He hasn’t abandoned nor forsaken you
No His plans for you are great!
For in the end they will have taken you
All the way home to the pearly gate
To a mansion made for you in the New Jerusalem
For you are A Miracle of great worth
You have been ever since your birth –
A MIRACLE OF GREAT WORTH!
Joh:14:3
PS: Happy Birthday TJ! Heb:13:5
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Beleaguered, battered and broken and torn
Scattered and shattered, ridiculed and scorned
Attacked and berated and wanting our death
Though all forsake us, still we will confess –
You my Father are Faithful and True
You my Father will carry me through
Though I’m imperfect and fail time after time
You’ll never stop holding this weak heart of mine
Forever our hearts will be intertwined
You’ll love me and keep me though no one else will
I’ll rest in my knowledge of You
and be still….
Psa:46:8
2 Cor:12:15
When God says “Be still and know that I am God” it’s sometimes because He has us on an operating table – the altar of His Will, and during surgery we must be very still…. At other times it’s because He’s invited us to abide under His shadow, beneath His skirts (see Eze:16:8), as His lover, like Boaz covered Ruth when she lay still before him. Be still and know me as a wife knows her husband. If we don’t enter into this place of intimacy with Him, He’ll one day say “depart from Me, I never knew you”. He “Knows” all of us with His head but does He know us, does He have us, in His heart? Are we intimate with Him? This is why He speaks to us with a “still, small voice”, a whisper in other words, because we can only hear a whisper by being close to the one who is whispering!
Scattered and shattered, ridiculed and scorned
Attacked and berated and wanting our death
Though all forsake us, still we will confess –
You my Father are Faithful and True
You my Father will carry me through
Though I’m imperfect and fail time after time
You’ll never stop holding this weak heart of mine
Forever our hearts will be intertwined
You’ll love me and keep me though no one else will
I’ll rest in my knowledge of You
and be still….
Psa:46:8
2 Cor:12:15
When God says “Be still and know that I am God” it’s sometimes because He has us on an operating table – the altar of His Will, and during surgery we must be very still…. At other times it’s because He’s invited us to abide under His shadow, beneath His skirts (see Eze:16:8), as His lover, like Boaz covered Ruth when she lay still before him. Be still and know me as a wife knows her husband. If we don’t enter into this place of intimacy with Him, He’ll one day say “depart from Me, I never knew you”. He “Knows” all of us with His head but does He know us, does He have us, in His heart? Are we intimate with Him? This is why He speaks to us with a “still, small voice”, a whisper in other words, because we can only hear a whisper by being close to the one who is whispering!
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