"For as the heavens are higher than the earth..."

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven

and do not return there but water the earth,

making it bring forth and sprout,

giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;

it shall not return to me empty,

but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,

and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

For you shall go out in joy

and be led forth in peace;

the mountains and the hills before you

shall break forth into singing,

and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands."

-Isaiah 55:9-12

Trust in the Lord, and do good...

Trust in the Lord, and do good;

    dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

Delight yourself in the Lord,

    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the Lord;

    trust in him, and he will act.

He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,

    and your justice as the noonday.

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;

    fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,

    over the man who carries out evil devices!

 -Psalm 37:3-7

Lead Us To Repentance

Lead Us To Repentance

Sovereign Grace Music 

VERSE 1

Lord, where can we hide? 

There’s nothing hidden from Your sight

You know every heart, 

You’ve seen the depths of who we are 

But when our shame says “run,” 

Your mercy calls us home

CHORUS

Lead us to repentance, make us know Your presence

Even when we fall, You are never far    

Draw us with your kindness, with You there’s forgiveness

Condemnation’s gone, all the work is done, lead us to repentance

VERSE 2

There’s no greater love, our Savior bled and died for us  

Guilty ones are dressed in Jesus’ perfect righteousness 

So when we go astray, Lord, give us grace to pray

CHORUS

Lead us to repentance, make us know Your presence

Even when we fall, You are never far    

Draw us with your kindness, with You there’s forgiveness

Condemnation’s gone, all the work is done, 

lead us to repentance

BRIDGE

Father, Your lovingkindness never has failed to find us

You have been patient with us, You always will be 

Father, Your lovingkindness never has failed to find us

You have been patient with us, You always will be    

CHORUS

Lead us to repentance, make us know Your presence

Even when we fall, You are never far    

Draw us with your kindness, with You there’s forgiveness

Condemnation’s gone, all the work is done, 

lead us to repentance

“Seek the Lord while he may be found..."

“Seek the Lord while he may be found;

    call upon him while he is near;

 let the wicked forsake his way,

    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;

let him return to the Lord, 

that he may have compassion on him,

    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

    so are my ways higher than your ways

    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven

    and do not return there but water the earth,

  making it bring forth and sprout,

    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;

    it shall not return to me empty,

but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,

    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

     -Isaiah 55:6-11

Receive therefore every day as a resurrection from death...

O Lord, our Lord,

    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established strength because of your foes,

    to still the enemy and the avenger.

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

    the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

what is man that you are mindful of him,

    and the son of man that you care for him?

Yet you have made him a little lower 

than the heavenly beings

    and crowned him with glory and honor.

You have given him dominion 

over the works of your hands;

    you have put all things under his feet,

all sheep and oxen,

    and also the beasts of the field,

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord,

    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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Receive therefore every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God’s goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.   -William Law

The wonder of the life of Jesus is this...

The wonder of the life of Jesus is this—and you will find it so and you have found it so if you have ever taken your New Testament and tried to make it the rule of your daily life—that there is not a single action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ, if He were here, Jesus Christ being here, would have you do under those circumstances and with the materials upon which you are called to act.  -Phillips Brooks

Because you have kept my word about patient endurance...

Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ -Revelation 3:10-13

And I will give you a new heart...

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.  -Ezekiel 36:25-27 

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak...

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,

    for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;

    but let them not turn back to folly.

Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,

    that glory may dwell in our land.

-Psalm 85:8-9

God is always speaking; He is never still. Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. 

-Charles H. Brent

Hymn Of Heaven

 

  Hymn Of Heaven

Phil Wickham

How I long to breathe the air of Heaven

Where pain is gone and mercy fills the streets

To look upon the one who bled to save me

And walk with Him for all eternity

There will be a day

When all will bow before Him

There will be a day

When death will be no more

Standing face to face

With He who died and rose again

Holy holy is the Lord

Every prayer we prayed in desperation

The songs of faith 

We sang through doubt and fear

In the end we’ll see that it was worth it

When He returns to wipe away our tears

There will be a day

When all will bow before Him

There will be a day

When death will be no more

Standing face to face

With He who died and rose again

Holy holy is the Lord

On that day we join the resurrection 

And stand beside the heroes of the faith

With one voice a thousand generations

Sing worthy is the Lamb who was slain

On that day we join the resurrection 

And stand beside the heroes of the faith

With one voice a thousand generations

Sing worthy is the Lamb who was slain

Forever He shall reign

So let it be today 

We shout the hymn of Heaven

With angels and the Saints 

We raise a mighty roar

Glory to our God 

Who gave us life beyond the grave

Holy holy is the Lord

Holy holy is the Lord

Holy holy is the Lord

So let it be today 

We shout the hymn of Heaven

With angels and the Saints 

We raise a mighty roar

Glory to our God 

Who gave us life beyond the grave

Holy holy is the Lord

Holy holy is the Lord

Holy holy is the Lord

Good and upright is the Lord...

Good and upright is the Lord;

    therefore he instructs sinners in the way.

He leads the humble in what is right,

    and teaches the humble his way.

All the paths of the Lord 

are steadfast love and faithfulness,

    for those who keep his covenant 

and his testimonies.

 -Psalm 25:8-10

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly...

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

-Colossians 3:12-17

And every one of us is a temple of God...

The Temple of Solomon was absolutely surrendered to God when it was dedicated to Him. And every one of us is a temple of God, in which God will dwell and work mightily on one condition—absolute surrender to Him. God claims it, God is worthy of it, and without it God cannot work His blessed work in us. God not only claims it, but God will work it Himself...

...Come and cast this self-life and flesh-life at the feet of Jesus. Then trust Him. Do not worry yourselves with trying to understand all about it, but come in the living faith that Christ will come into you with the power of His death and the power of His life; and then the Holy Spirit will bring the whole Christ - Christ crucified and risen and living in glory - into your heart.    -Andrew Murray  Image

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace...

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. -Hebrews 4:15-16 Image

Above all, beware of letting go the spirit of peace because of your faults. Humble yourself before God because of them, repent, make such reparation for them as you are able, and then do not dwell upon them any more. It is often mere pride which frets at finding itself beset by the same often renewed faults, and at its lack of spiritual progress. Do not deceive yourself into the belief that such disquiet is humility. A really humble soul accepts its faults with patience, and goes afresh on in confidence and hope. -Jean Nicolas Grou

Trust in the Lord, and do good...

Trust in the Lord, and do good;

    dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

Delight yourself in the Lord,

    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the Lord;

    trust in him, and he will act.

He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,

    and your justice as the noonday.

-Psalm 37:3-6

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him...

Behold, the eye of the Lord 

is on those who fear him,

    on those who hope in his steadfast love,

that he may deliver their soul from death

    and keep them alive in famine.

Our soul waits for the Lord;

he is our help and our shield.

For our heart is glad in him,

    because we trust in his holy name.

Let your steadfast love, 

O Lord, be upon us,

even as we hope in you.

-Psalm 33:18-22

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God Is Faithful

 

God Is Faithful (Psalm 114)

Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1

God brought out His people with a strong and mighty hand

Took them out of slavery to behold the Promised Land

Mountains fled before them and the seas turned back and ran

And they saw that He was good

 

CHORUS 1

God is faithful to His promise

He is with us, He is with us

God is faithful, God is faithful to His own

 

VERSE 2

God has come to free us from the bondage of our sin

Tasting of His kindness we cannot go back again

Leads us through the desert to the rivers of His grace

Working all things for our good

VERSE 3

We have known Your mercy and Your love as in the past

If days be few or many You will guide us to the last

You have said it, we believe it, every promise holding fast

For we know that You are good

 

CHORUS 2

God is faithful to His promise

He is with us, He is with us

God is faithful, God is faithful to His own

You are faithful to Your promise, 

You are with us, You are with us

You are faithful, You are faithful to Your own

“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own..."

“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who has a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and bad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all." ...JC Ryle

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom 

and knowledge of God! 

How unsearchable are his judgments 

and how inscrutable his ways!

 “For who has known the mind of the Lord,

    or who has been his counselor?”

 “Or who has given a gift to him

    that he might be repaid?”

For from him and through him

 and to him are all things. 

To him be glory forever. Amen. 

-Romans 11:33-36

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.  -1 Peter 1:3-5

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation...

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.   -2 Corinthians 5:17-21

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

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more...

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. -Philippians 1:9-11

Grant to us, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to praise that which pleaseth Thee most, to esteem that which is most precious unto Thee, and to dislike whatsoever is evil in Thine eyes.  -Thomas à Kempis

Awaken Us Today...

 

Awaken Us Today

From the Original Motion Picture "A Great Awakening"

From the oceans, through the valleys

From the mainland to the shore

Let Your Kingdom be awakened

In the hearts of men once more

Call Your children into freedom

Captive souls to liberty

Come awaken, Holy Spirit!

Come awaken us today!

Love unending, grace unyielding

Tender mercies from thy throne

Brings the lost soul into families

Calls the wayward sinner home

Bring salvation, Great Redeemer

Holy fire fan to flame

Come restore us, come revive us

Come awaken us today!

I will serve Thee, Precious Jesus

Unto Thee I give my all

Lay my hands unto thy service

And my heart unto thy call

Perish every fond ambition

Lay aside all selfish gain

All forsaken for thy glory

Come awaken us today!

Wake, O sleeper, from your slumber!

Saints awaken, come to life!

Christ will rise and shine upon you

In His heav'nly light divine

Like the sunrise in its dawning

Breaking darkness with new light

Rise upon us, King of glory

Come awaken us today!

For Your Kingdom, For Your Glory

Come awaken us today!

If my people...

"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." -2 Chronicles 7:14

I will remember the deeds of the Lord...

I will remember the deeds of the Lord;

    yes, I will remember your wonders of old.

I will ponder all your work,

    and meditate on your mighty deeds.

Your way, O God, is holy.

    What god is great like our God?

You are the God who works wonders;

    you have made known your might among the peoples.

You with your arm redeemed your people,

    the children of Jacob and Joseph. 

      -Psalm 77:11-15

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love...

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,

    for in you I trust.

Make me know the way I should go,

    for to you I lift up my soul.

   Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord!

    I have fled to you for refuge.

Teach me to do your will,

    for you are my God!

Let your good Spirit lead me

    on level ground!

   -Psalm 143:8-10

Since then we have a great high priest...

Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. -Hebrews 4:14-16 Image

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.  -William Cowper

Do not love the world or the things in the world...

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. -1 John 2:15-17

If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we don’t live the lives of Christians.  

-William Law

Blessed Be Our God and Father

 

Blessed Be Our God and Father 

Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1

Blessed be our God and Father 

Who has filled our lives with blessing

Every gift from heaven’s fullness 

now is ours in Jesus Christ 

Oh, what riches of his favor poured out 

freely from His throne

We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace

VERSE 2

Blessed be our God and Father 

Who before the world’s foundation

Knew He’d make us pure and blameless, 

changing sinners into saints

Oh, what mercy to be chosen

and in love to bear His name

We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace

CHORUS

Hallelujah! to Your name be all the glory

Hallelujah! to Your name be all praise

VERSE 3

Blessed be our God and Father 

Who with unimagined kindness

Gave His Only Son to save us 

for the glory of His name

Oh what power in His passion, 

raised from death to endless reign

We rejoice in praise for the glory of His grace

CHORUS

Hallelujah! to Your name be all the glory

Hallelujah! to Your name be all praise

Hallelujah! to Your name be all the glory

Hallelujah! to Your name be all praise

The Lord has made known his salvation...

The Lord has made known his salvation;

    he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness

    to the house of Israel.

All the ends of the earth have seen

    the salvation of our God.

  -Psalm 98:2-3

Every one who receives this Word, and by it salvation, receives along with it the duty of passing this Word on... Where there is no mission, there is no Church, and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.   -Emil Brunner Image

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering...

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. -Hebrews 10:19-25

The Lord is gracious and merciful...

The Lord is gracious and merciful,

    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

The Lord is good to all,

    and his mercy is over all that he has made.

All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,

    and all your saints shall bless you!

They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom

    and tell of your power,

to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds,

    and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,

    and your dominion endures throughout all generations.

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But the Lord will be your everlasting light...

The sun shall be no more

    your light by day,

nor for brightness shall the moon

    give you light;

but the Lord will be your everlasting light,

    and your God will be your glory.

Your sun shall no more go down,

    nor your moon withdraw itself;

for the Lord will be your everlasting light,

    and your days of mourning shall be ended.

Your people shall all be righteous;

    they shall possess the land forever,

the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,

    that I might be glorified.

The least one shall become a clan,

    and the smallest one a mighty nation;

I am the Lord;

    in its time I will hasten it.

-Isaiah 60:19-22 

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“Seek the Lord while he may be found..."

“Seek the Lord while he may be found;

    call upon him while he is near;

let the wicked forsake his way,

    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;

let him return to the Lord, 

that he may have compassion on him,

    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

    so are my ways higher than your ways

    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

-Isaiah 55:6-9

The Lord is at hand...

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. -Philippians 4:4-7

Prayer has everything to do with moulding the soul into the image of God, and has everything to do with enhancing and enlarging the measure of Divine grace. It has everything to do with enriching, broadening and maturing the soul’s experience of God. That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. -E.M. Bounds Image

Holy God!

Holy God,

Holy and Mighty

Holy Immortal One,

Have mercy; have mercy on us!

My help comes from the Lord...

I lift up my eyes to the hills.

From where does my help come?

My help comes from the Lord,

 who made heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot be moved;

    he who keeps you will not slumber.

Behold, he who keeps Israel

    will neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord is your keeper;

    the Lord is your shade on your right hand.

The sun shall not strike you by day,

    nor the moon by night.

The Lord will keep you from all evil;

    he will keep your life.

The Lord will keep

    your going out and your coming in

    from this time forth and forevermore.

   -Psalm 121

"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers..."

O Lord, our Lord,

    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.

    Out of the mouth of babies and infants,

you have established strength because of your foes,

    to still the enemy and the avenger.

When I look at your heavens, 

the work of your fingers,

    the moon and the stars, 

which you have set in place,

what is man that you are mindful of him,

    and the son of man that you care for him?

Yet you have made him a little lower 

than the heavenly beings

    and crowned him with glory and honor.

You have given him dominion 

over the works of your hands;

    you have put all things under his feet,

all sheep and oxen,

    and also the beasts of the field,

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,

    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord,

    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

     -Psalm 8

“Blessed are you..."

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. 

-Matthew 5:11-12

I waited patiently for the Lord...

I waited patiently for the Lord;

    he inclined to me and heard my cry.

He drew me up from the pit of destruction,

    out of the miry bog,

and set my feet upon a rock,

    making my steps secure.

He put a new song in my mouth,

    a song of praise to our God.

Many will see and fear,

    and put their trust in the Lord.

Blessed is the man who makes

    the Lord his trust,

who does not turn to the proud,

    to those who go astray after a lie!

You have multiplied, O Lord my God,

    your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;

    none can compare with you!

I will proclaim and tell of them,

    yet they are more than can be told.

-Psalm 40:1-5