Daily Christian thoughts music, poems based around God
Month: Mar 2020
Psalm 28 Crisis brings out the best and worst in us! Have you seen the news lately (silly question)? What about the reports of people who purposely contaminate food and supplies? Then there are the hoarders and price gougers. Behaviors are surfacing that are destructive and deviant. While many people are working diligently to solve […]
Five Truths King David Knew — GraceSpeak
It’s been about ten days since we in the UK went into lockdown.
By Monday I was getting pretty bored and found myself playing candy crush on Facebook.
On the plus side I have been able to do some video calls on Facebook, so much so I was on video chat for two and a half hours
You may or may not believe it but it also gave me the chance to file and tidy up my paper work.
I have to say I was still able to get my daily blogs out and go about my usual duties during the week.
I live in a street in a housing scheme where there is usually children running around, it seems strange not seeing them around, hardly anyone in the street,
It feels really weird! One good thing is that it Covid-19 has got people talking to people they wouldn’t normally talk to.
2 1-4 If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favour: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
5-8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human!Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.
9-11 Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honoured him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honour of God the Father.
I have many songs in The Salvation Army songbook that I like, some a little bit more than others. The one in the video has to be one of my favourites because it’s a song of testimony.
The verses in the video are out order from the songbook below plus I think there are additional verses. Hope you enjoy never the less.
Verse 1
There is a name I love to hear,
I love to sing its worth;
It sounds like music in mine ear,
The sweetest name on earth.
Chorus
O how I love the Saviour’s name!
The sweetest name on earth.
Verse 2
It tells me of a Saviour’s love,
Who gave his life for me,
That I, and all who come to him,
From sin may be set free.
Verse 3
Jesus, the name I love so well,
The name I love to hear;
No saint on earth its worth can tell,
No heart conceive how dear.
Verse 4
In Heaven with all the blood-bought throng,
From sin and sorrow free,
I’ll sing the new eternal song
Of Jesus’ love to me.
Towards the end of yesterday’s blog you may recall I asked you to pray for the people of Greece as they deal with what’s happened at the southern end of their country.
If you don’t already know some of you outside the UK reading this will know we have had the biggest heatwave since 1976 with temperatures reaching up to 36 degrees in the south of the country. Resevoires are low as are rivers, farmers crops are suffering as well. Yesterday I heard on the news that hospital departments that would normally be quiet at this time of year are experiencing the same volume of people now as they would in winter.
It is ironic however that we British people are never satisfied because we seem to complain when theirs no rain or not enough sun.
The well is deep, and I require
A draft of the Water of Life
And none can quench my souls desire
For a draft of the Water of Life
Till one draws near
Who the cry will hear
Helper of man
In their time of need
And I believing, find indeed
That Christ is the Water of Life
“I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” Matthew 28:20 “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as your have: for He has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 He is with us. Wherever we are, whatever is happening – in […]
Not Alone — GraceSpeak
“You’ll get through this. It won’t be painless. It won’t be quick. But God will use this mess for good. Don’t be foolish or naive. But don’t despair either. With God’s help, you will get through this.” Max Lucado Isaiah 43:But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, […]
Timely Quote from Max Lucado — GraceSpeak
It’s finally here folks! We’re all in lockdown in the UK thanks to the idiots that never needed the government’s advice to self distance and went to markets, beaches at the weekend.
Even today they were seen one crowded escalator going out of a tube station.
Thanks to you guys I won’t be able to see my daughter or granddaughter for 3weeks, nor will I be able to see my 86yr old mother who hasn’t yet received her mother’s Day gift because she is voluntary self isolating for another week as she flew back from Cyprus last week
We are only allowed outdoors for exercise, shopping and for those that cannot work from home.
We do not walk around in this world as Pollyannas, ignoring the evil and attempting to gloss over the pain with positive thinking and cute sayings. No. Real problems exist. People are hurting. Evil is on a rampage. Truth lies buried and sorrow ravages. Disease has disrupted our lives. Even the locusts are on the […]
Cry to Jesus — GraceSpeak
11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. 13 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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