lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing, for the glory
Of the risen King
Jesus, Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing for the glory
Of the risen king
Monday, May 29, 2006
-10:35 pm
Click
here to watch a video that moved me to tears.
Thank You Lord.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
-9:23 pm
Dear Lord,
Please help me through this time. I know I just need to be patient and wait upon You, to just surrender and trust in Your plan for me. Please help me not think too much.
Your ways are higher than my ways, and Your thoughts higher than my thoughts. For when man proposes, God disposes.
Whatever it is, I know it's all in Your perfect plan. There's no point in human endeavours, in striving to do things my own way. So please help me to let go so that I can release it to You.
It's difficult, but I know I have to.
Give me a faithful spirit that will quietly trust in You, without doubts or questions, that will grow to love You more and more until it becomes me.
Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
All I need is -You.
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Sunday, May 14, 2006
-10:31 pm
You are the source of the life
I can't be left behind
No one else will do
I will take hold of you
I need You Jesus
To come to my rescue
Where else can I go
There's no other name by
Which I am saved
Capture me with grace
I will follow you
This world has nothing for me
I will follow You
This world has nothing for me
I will follow You
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-9:05 pm
"haha... that makes the two of you :)"
As innocently meant as this comment was, I couldn't help but be struck by it. Until this point, I never really realised how alike we are- the same temper, the same loud voice, the same authoritative manner, the same commanding tone,
the same pride, the same reluctance to apologise and say that we're wrong, and the same struggle we face with each other.
I am like him.
He's like me.
I don't know how to love him in the face of his temper and storm of angry words; it's so difficult.
But put myself in his shoes and I get the same thing: he doesn't know how to express his love for me when I get all huffy with him. It's a circle, a cycle, a system of gears; once one cranks into action, all the others start turning in tandem. How do we get out of this, I don't know.
It's a deadlock, a standoff, a stalemate.
None of us dares to initiate a move because you can never tell when the volatile other might explode in your face. He must feel the same way. I should walk a mile in his shoes, to know how it feels like. Someday I'll be in his place. But right now, I can't see from his perspective because we're meant to be at odds with one another. It's the Generation Gap, they say.
I'm trying, and sometimes, when I put myself in his shoes, I feel downright ashamed of what I've said and done, though it's realising too late for the damage is done. Then, I'll remember what he has said and done and I'll feel angry again. What can I do to make things better?
I feel like it's such a huge drain- for the lack of a better expression- to jump across. The gap has widened so much until I don't know if I might jump and miss the landing, falling deep into the ravine below.
But before one of us takes the first crucial though humbling step to make peace, it's still going to be a standoff, like the Gulf War, complete with all the ammo and casualties.
Who can break a stalemate?
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God will make a way
where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me
He will be my guide
hold me closely to His side
with love ang strength for each new day
He will make a way
He will make a way.
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
-7:39 pm
Father, thank You for everything.
Though I may face challenges and rough patches,
it doesn't discount the fact that You have been good
and will continue to be good to me.
I will choose to thank You in every circumstance,
to praise You in every trial,
to worship and adore You,
each and every single day,
to call upon Your name in every storm,
to wait upon You in the quiet,
to linger in Your presence
amidst all the busyness...
I will choose to seek You at every cross-road,
for You know the path that I take,
to say that You are Lord my God,
despite the giants and roadblocks...
And no matter what life may bring,
I will love You for who You are
my Beautiful Saviour and Magnificent King,
still the God whom I praise
yesterday, today and for the rest of my days.
I l o v e Y o u .
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