Test of faithfulness

I was blessed reading my devotional today from Oswalds book 'my utmost for his highest'.

We know that all things work together for good to those who love God . . . —Romans 8:28

It is only a faithful person who truly believes that God sovereignly controls his circumstances. We take our circumstances for granted, saying God is in control, but not really believing it. We act as if the things that happen were completely controlled by people. To be faithful in every circumstance means that we have only one loyalty, or object of our faith— the Lord Jesus Christ. God may cause our circumstances to suddenly fall apart, which may bring the realization of our unfaithfulness to Him for not recognizing that He had ordained the situation. We never saw what He was trying to accomplish, and that exact event will never be repeated in our life. This is where the test of our faithfulness comes. If we will just learn to worship God even during the difficult circumstances, He will change them for the better very quickly if He so chooses.
Being faithful to Jesus Christ is the most difficult thing we try to do today. We will be faithful to our work, to serving others, or to anything else; just don’t ask us to be faithful to Jesus Christ. Many Christians become very impatient when we talk about faithfulness to Jesus. Our Lord is dethroned more deliberately by Christian workers than by the world. We treat God as if He were a machine designed only to bless us, and we think of Jesus as just another one of the workers.
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.

Lord Help

Lord, help me to walk this road
Because on my own, I fail to follow
The crooked routes, the rocky paths
I need your hand all the way
The dusty roads, they blur my vision
The ditches and potholes, they hurt my feet
You know the way, please lead me home.

Before the throne of God

Before the throne of God above
I have a strong, a perfect plea:
A great High Priest, whose name is Love,
Who ever lives and pleads for me.

My name is graven on his hands,
My name is written on his heart;
I know that while in heaven he stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart
No tongue can bid me thence depart.

When Satan tempts me to despair,
And tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look, and see him there
Who made an end of all my sin.

Because a sinless Savior died,
My sinful soul is counted free;
For God, the Just, is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
To look on Him and pardon me

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise the One,Risen Son of God!

Behold him there, the risen Lamb
My perfect, spotless righteousness,
The great unchangeable I AM,

The King of glory and of grace!One with himself,
I cannot dieMy soul is purchased with his blood
My life is hid with Christ on high,
With Christ, my Savior and my God
With Christ, my Savior and my God

Awesome lyrics by Shane and Shane

Drugged on Jesus

Mm mm mm mmm so good!
You give me a warm fuzzy feeling.
When all is perfect and as it should be,
It's good!
When there is chaos every which way,
It's still good!
You give me peace and joy that is above and beyond.
Give me more and more and more, more of you Jesus.

You're my Strength

You’re my Strength
(Reuben Morgan)

You are my strength
Strength like no other
Strength like no other
Reaches to me

You are my hope
Hope like no other
Hope like no other
Reaches to me

In the fullness of Your grace
In the power of Your Name
You lift me up
You lift me up

Unfailing love
Stronger than mountains
Deeper than oceans
Reaches to me

Your love O Lord
Reaches to the heavens
Your faithfulness
Reaches to the skies

8th January 2008

Lord I thirst for you
I long to be in your presence
To busk in your loving arms and enjoy your kisses.

Right now I wish I could stop breathing
Shut out thoughts that are running helta skelta across my mind.
If just for a brief moment I would stop feeling and everything would be silenced.
Jesus, Jesus.
My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no other.

Birth your purposes and plans in my heart oh God, that I may be fulfilled living on this earth.
Oh that everything in me would be silenced in God's presence.
Hush! be still all yee in the presence of the God of Heaven and earth.

My life belongs to you

"I'll sing your praises forever, deeper in love with you
Here in your courts where I am close to your throne
I've found where I belong".

Everyday, listening to songs of worship excites me more and more.
Everyday, the words of these songs mean more than ever before.
The musicians were truly inspired by the Holy Spirit to put into words what my heart feels about my God.
God you are so worthy, so worthy!!!
Psalm 111

Sometimes I think one needs to have gone through stuff to sing and mean these songs.
"I'm trading my sorrows... though the sorrows may last for a night, His Joy comes.."
"So close, I believe your holding me now in your hands I belong"