FRIDAY, April 9, 2010

THIS IS OUR GOD (Beth Coulson)

Your grace is enough

More than I need

At your word, I will believe

I wait for you You’re near again

Let your spirit make me new

And I will fall at Your feet

I will fall at Your feet

And I will worship You here

Your presence in me

Jesus like the wave by the power of Your Word

I am restored, I am redeemed, by Your spirit I am free

And I will fall at Your feet,

I will fall at Your feet

And I will worship You here

Jesus.

Jesus, my hope is in You

Jesus, my hope is in You, Lord

Freely, you gave it all for us

Surrendered your life upon that cross

Great is Your love poured out for all

This is our God

Lifted on high from death to life

Forever our God is glorified,

Servant and King, rescued the world

This is our God

And I will fall at Your feet, I will fall at Your feet

And I will worship You, here

And I will fall at Your feet, I will fall at Your feet

And I will worship You, here

HALLELUJAH!!!  Great is Your love poured out for all.  I worship You, today, Lord Jesus.  My hope is in You.  I am restored, I am redeemed, by Your Grace I am free.  This is the morning after Father.  Yesterday was hard as I heard of a death of a friend.  Someone that I had mentored probably took his own life (the final report hasn’t come in).  In spite of that and the pain it causes, I am aware of Your presence as it “hovers” over me.  I know that my hope is in You.  You paid a great price for my hope, I will not walk over Your great sacrifice.  I love You, Lord Jesus.  You are becoming more and more the real reason for living.  It’s beginning to rain outside.  I am waiting in the dark to know what the light will bring today.  My physical body has been restored through the night and now I am waiting with great anticipation with the promise of today. 

The Power of the Cross.  No matter the anguish and pain that I see around me, I know that there is victory in Christ.  My friend that died yesterday was a person of great anguish.  His life was full of pain, his priorities were wrong.  I don’t believe things with him were always as they seemed.  I always tried to look at him with the eyes of Christ.  I was saddened as I watched him struggle.  He was my friend.  I spoke with him many times about his relationship with Christ.  I knew that all the other things he was involved in wouldn’t matter “when it was all said and done”.  He confessed Christ, he grew up in a Christian family.  But….I am also saddened that his life on this earth was so full of trouble.  I am saddened that things got so bad that he felt there was no other way, but to end his life.

Is there another way to be free from so much trouble?  You betcha.  I declare war on the enemy of our souls.  He is defeated.  How many times and how many ways do we need to declare this?  We are fighting in a real battle.  The enemy has no compassion.  Yesterday, someone was talking to me about how much the enemy knows and how smart he is.  That’s not true.  He isn’t smart at all.  He uses the same old tricks over and over again.  He has no creative power, there is nothing smart about him.  Joel Osteen…..”Focus on your faith, let God deal with your fear.  Don’t use your energy to worry, Use your energy to believe”.   He also said that it takes the same amount of energy to believe as it does to worry.  I choose to believe.  Won’t you?  Today I am

Amazed that He has poured His love all over me and I’m getting ready to play with Londyn all day,

Mary Ann