Where shall I go from your Spirit?

Where shall I go from your Spirit?

    Or where shall I flee from your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, you are there!

    If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

If I take the wings of the morning

    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

even there your hand shall lead me,

    and your right hand shall hold me.

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,

    and the light about me be night,”

even the darkness is not dark to you;

    the night is bright as the day,

    for darkness is as light with you.

 -Psalm 139:7-12

If God is present at every point in space, if we cannot go where He is not, cannot even conceive of a place where He is not, why then has not that Presence become the one universally celebrated fact of the world? ... Men do not know that God is here. What a difference it would make if they knew. -A.W. Tozer

For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell...

For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. -Colossians 1:19-20 Image

The love, therefore, wherewith God loveth, is incomprehensible and immutable. For it was not from the time that we were reconciled unto Him by the blood of His Son that He began to love us; but He did so before the foundation of the world, that we also might be His sons along with His Only-begotten, before as yet we had any existence of our own.  -Augustine

You Will Make All Things New

 

You Will Make All Things New

 New Sovereign Grace Music 

VERSE 1

We can feel it in the suffering everywhere

Are we hopeless, are we broken, past repair? 

VERSE 2

Are you with us? Have You left us in the dark? 

Can you hear us? Do our cries still move Your heart?

CHORUS

Jesus, you will make all things new 

Jesus, you will make all things new 

VERSE 3

You will heal us, You will mend what death has torn 

Life will spring up, joy will bloom instead of thorns 

BRIDGE

The blind will finally see, the lame will run and leap 

The dead will rise and breathe for You have conquered

And every tear that fell will cry out “it is well”

The dark will be dispelled for You have conquered 

The Lamb for sinners slain is coming soon to reign

Our hope is not in vain for You have conquered 

For the word of God is living and active...

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. -Hebrews 4:12

 

We need to confess to God our sin of neglecting His Holy Word. We have time enough—we take time—to read the writings of fellow-sinners, yet we have little or no time for the Holy Scriptures. The Bible is a series of Divine love letters, and yet many of God’s people have scarcely broken the seals.  -A.W. Pink

The voice of the Father will be heard...

The voice of the Father will be heard as He sets before us a widely opened door and receives us into blessed fellowship with Himself. When we pray for the Spirit's help, it will no longer be in the fear that prayer is too great an effort for us. Instead, we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love. -Andrew Murray Image

Glory in His holy name!

Glory in his holy name;

    let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

Seek the Lord and his strength;

seek his presence continually!

-Psalm 105:3-4

O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire Thee with our whole heart; that, so desiring, we may seek, and seeking find Thee; and so finding Thee may love Thee; and loving Thee, may hate those sins from which Thou hast redeemed us.   -Anselm

With rev'rence let the saints appear...

With rev'rence let the saints appear,

And bow before the Lord;

His high commands with rev'rence hear,

And tremble at his word.

 

How terrible thy glories be!

How bright thine armies shine!

Where is the power that vies with thee,

Or truth compared to thine?

 

Thy words the raging winds control,

And rule the boist'rous deep;

Thou mak'st the sleeping billows roll,

The rolling billows sleep.

 

Justice and judgment are thy throne,

Yet wondrous is thy grace;

While truth and mercy, joined in one,

Invite us near thy face.

-Isaac Watts

"Because I go to the Father..."

“It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.”  -John 16:7–11

"It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make man". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save man"." -JC Ryle Image

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord...

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord;

    let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!

Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;

    let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

For the Lord is a great God,

    and a great King above all gods.

In his hand are the depths of the earth;

    the heights of the mountains are his also.

The sea is his, for he made it,

    and his hands formed the dry land.

   Oh come, let us worship and bow down;

    let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

For he is our God,

    and we are the people of his pasture,

    and the sheep of his hand.

          -Psalm 95:1-7

Jesus, Our Judge and Our Savior

Jesus, Our Judge and Our Savior 

 Sovereign Grace Music

Call now, O sinner, on your coming Judge

To be here even now as your Savior

Fall now, O sinner, on the mercy and grace

Of Jesus, our Judge and our Savior

Who is He we shall meet at the end of life’s road

The One who will judge every heart, every soul

Who is He who will one day sift the tares from the wheat?

Jesus, our Judge and our Savior

Call now, O sinner, on your coming Judge

To be here even now as your Savior

Fall now, O sinner, on the mercy and grace

Of Jesus, our Judge and our Savior

Who is He who will end all the sin and the pain?

The One who was dead yet who rose up again?

Who is He heaven praises as the Lamb who was slain?

Jesus, our Judge and our Savior

Call now, O sinner, on your coming Judge

To be here even now as your Savior

Fall now, O sinner, on the mercy and grace

Of Jesus, our Judge and our Savior

For the Lord will come down and the trumpet will sound

At the mighty command of the Lord

And the saints will arise, meet the Lord in the skies

To be joyful in Jesus forever

Call now, O sinner, on your coming Judge

To be here even now as your Savior

Fall now, O sinner, on the mercy and grace

Of Jesus, our Judge and our Savior

I will bless the Lord at all times...

I will bless the Lord at all times;

    his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

My soul makes its boast in the Lord;

    let the humble hear and be glad.

Oh, magnify the Lord with me,

    and let us exalt his name together!

I sought the Lord, and he answered me

    and delivered me from all my fears.

Those who look to him are radiant,

    and their faces shall never be ashamed.

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him

    and saved him out of all his troubles.

The angel of the Lord encamps

    around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!

    Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

       -Psalm 34:1-8 Image

Oh, the breadth of the love of Christ!

Do you think, Christian, that you can measure the love of Christ? Think of what His love has brought you-justification, adoption, sanctification, eternal life! The riches of His goodness are unsearchable! Oh, the breadth of the love of Christ! Shall such a love as this have half our hearts? Shall Jesus' marvelous loving-kindness and tender care meet with but faint response and tardy acknowledgment? O my soul, tune your heart to a glad song of thanksgiving! Go through the day rejoicing, for you are no desolate wanderer, but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by your Lord. -Charles H. Spurgeon Image

“You are the light of the world..."

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. -Matthew 5:14-16 Image

Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. You put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light. -Dwight L. Moody