For personal worship

When I lived in NC, that was a song I could relate to during rush hours. Getting onto interstates 40 and 85 at that time a day often required a personal leap of faith--given all the traffic that was around.

 

This is a great thread!

 

rsr:
You sure you're Arminian ?

 

I don't usually grieve. Especially when such a day
as special as tomorrow is approaching.
Tomorrow is my first child's birthday:; Jennifer
will be thirty. Usually, at this time, my heart is
filled with joy at the memories of her birth.

Our first baby! A boy. We were expecting a boy!
Stilll, when the doctor said, "It's a girl!" I was not
in the least disappointed. But when they placed
her there for me to hold, I was astounded! She
was, and remains, the most beautiful baby I have
ever seen in my life!

She has brought me much joy. A precious child,
always wanting to please me. Even in her two
years in deliberate sin as a teen, she still
respected me and looked for my approval.

But last year, the day after her birthday brought
such national sorrow, cutting short my free cele-
bration of her life. It was she who called and
said, "Mom? Are you watching TV?" She told me
the news.

Tonight, on the way from the store, I grieved for
our nation, for an innocense lost. I was lifting my
hand toward heaven for comfort, wiping a tear
from my eye, when I really realized that I had,
the whole time, been humming--

I must tell Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
I cannot bear these burdens alone.
I must tell Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
Jesus will help me, Jesus alone.

The first verse says:
I must tell Jesus all of my sorrows,
I cannot bear these burdens alone;
In my distress He surely will help me,
He understands and cares for His own.

Such a simple song, but it is true.

He is all I need, He is all I need,
Jesus is all I need;
He is all I need, He is all I need,
My Jesus is all I need.

 

This is one of our family's *new* favorites:

I will glory in my redeemer,who's priceless blood has ransomed me.
Mine was the sin that drove the bitter nails that hung Him on that judgment tree.
I will glory in my redeemer,who crushed the power of sin and death.
My only saviour before the Holy judge,the lamb who is my righteousness,the lamb who is my righteousness.

I will glory in my redeemer,my life he bought,my love he owns.
I have no longings for another,I'm satisfied in Him alone.
I will glory in my redeemer
His faithfulness,my standing place.
Tho foes are mighty and rush upon me,my feet are firm held by His grace,my feet are firm held by His grace.

I will glory in my redeemer,who carries me on eagle's wings.
He crowns my life with loving kindness,His triumph song I'll ever sing.
I will glory in my redeemer,who waits for me at gates of gold.
And when he calls me,it will be paradise,His face forever to behold,His face forever to be hold.

So much Truth and depth. It encourages me to have such gratefulness every time I hear or sing it.Aren't you guys so happy to see I do like some new songs! I said I was fine with a newer song as long as it was drenched in scripture. This one is.

[ November 17, 2002, 07:37 AM: Message edited by: Molly ]

 

Is there really such a thing as personal worship?

 

Good question!

 

Last night before I went to sleep
My knees went to the floor
I turned my eyes up to the sky
And I prayed, please help me, Lord
You know I've sowed my wild oates
And now the fun's all gone
And then I heard these tender words
And so I put them in my song

Infamous angel come on home
To Someone Who loves you
And knows you needed to roam
Grab your things
A ticket's waiting at the bus depot
For Imfamous angel
Destination: home

I heard Heaven's choir rejoicing
As the tears broke from my eyes
And all at once it lifted
The weight from my past life
I found a pen and I left a note
On the dresser drawer
It said, "infamous angel
She don't live here anymore"

Infamous angel come on home
To Someone Who loves you
And knows you needed to roam
Grab your things
A ticket's waiting at the bus depot
For: infamous angel
Destination: Home

Love that song. If I ever put a Christian band together, I'd like to have Infamous Angels as a name.

[ December 16, 2002, 10:47 PM: Message edited by: Mike McK ]

 

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JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL Paul Oakley

It's all about You, Jesus,
And all this is for You, for Your glory and Your fame,
It's not about me, as if You should do things my way,
You alone are God and I surrender to Your ways.

Jesus, Lover of my soul, all-consuming fire is in Your gaze.
Jesus, I want You to know, I will follow You all my days.
For no one else in History is like You,
And History itself belongs to You.
Alpha and Omega, You have loved me,
And I will share eternity with You.

(C) 1995 Kingsway's ThankYou Music

 

BE NEAR by Shane Barnard

You are all, big and small, beautiful,
And wonderful, to trust in grace through faith, but I’m asking to taste…
For dark is light to You, and depths are height to You,
Far is near, but Lord, I need to hear from You!

Be near, O God, be near, O God, of us,
Your nearness is to us our good.
Be near, O God, be near, O God, to us,
Your nearness is to us our good, our good.

Your fullness is mine,
Revelation divine,
But, O to taste, to know much more than a page,
To feel Your embrace…
For dark is light to You, and depths are height to You,
Far is near, but Lord, I need to hear from You!

Be near, O God, be near, O God, of us,
Your nearness is to us our good.
Be near, O God, be near, O God, to us,
Your nearness is to us our good, our good.

(C) 2003 Waiting Room Music

 

What time the mighty moon gathering
light,
Love paced the thymy plots of Paradise,
And all about him roll'd his lustrous eyes;
When, turning round a cassia, full in view
Death, walking all alone beneath a yew,
And talking to himself, first met his sight;
"You must begone," said Death, "these
walks are mine."
Love wept and spread his sheeny vans for
flight;
Yet ere he parted said, "This hour is thine;
Thou art the shadow of life, and as the tree
Stands in the sun and shadows all beneath,
So in the light of great eternity
Life eminent creates the shade of death;
The shadow passeth when the tree shall fall,
But I shall reign forever over all."

Excerpt from LOVE & DEATH by Tennyson

 

AMAZING LOVE Graham Kendrick © 1989 Make Way Music

My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly;
That I, the guilty one may go free?

And so they watched Him die, despised, rejected;
But O the blood He shed flowed for me.

CHORUS
Amazing love, o what sacrifice!
The Son of God giv’n for me;
My debt He paid, and my death He died,
That I might live, that I might live.

And now the love of Christ shall flow like rivers;
Come wash your guilt away, live again!

 

In the path of the liion, there stands the Lamb.
It's Jesus, the Son of God, He is the great I AM
He paid sin's debt on Calvary, and won the victory, In the path of the lion, there stands the Lamb!

 

Love Divine, all loves excelling, Joy of Heaven to earth come down. Fix in us Thy humble dwelling, all Thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure Unbounded Love Thou art, Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.