Blessed Lamb of Calvary
Category: Love
Always Trusting
Upon our lives His Spirit shines
A radiant golden glow
And in our lives His presence is
Whichever way we go
And others wait, stand still
Yet trusting always in his Love
We strive to do His will
And in days where silence reigns
We hear him close at heart
And upon our tear filled sighs
He gives us a fresh start
Waiting in the darkness still
Are thoughts to run and stray
Thoughts upon his Love does come
To Trust Him and obey.
Summer Days
Summer days and sunsets yellow,
drops of Love fall down to man,
yet still we cower from our Maker,
in every corner that we can.
Plates abound with tables’ riches,
His Provision goes unseen,
mistaking money for his presence
on other posts we seem to lean.
Still our minds make up their stories,
hatred spits from lofty views,
of a life without a Saviour,
from opinions still eschewed.
Yet a gentle power swaying,
lights our hearts at every turn,
underpinning daily living,
as we turn to trust His warmth.
Like gentle swans upon the river,
tilted by the stream’s dear spait,
at every point being lifted higher
Upon his words we trust and wait.
The Story Behind And Can It Be
Romans 5 New International Version
Peace and Hope
5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
According to the editor of The Oxford Edition of the Works of John Wesley, “And Can It Be” was written immediately following Charles Wesley’s conversion to Christianity on May 21, 1738. Wesley had known his Bible well before this time but had not yet experienced affirmation of new birth or the wholeness of grace in his life.
Wesley starts the first stanza by expressing admiration over the love shown by Jesus dying for him and wonders how we who “pursued” his death are now graced by it.
In the second stanza, Wesley calls for appreciation of God’s love and mercy in this sacrifice. In the third stanza, Wesley conveys the unending grace and mercy of Christ’s love and humility in the incarnation, death, and finding of lost sinners. In the fourth stanza, Wesley harkens to the “imprisonment” of his own sin and the freedom he found in Christ.
Finally, he reviews the results of Christ’s loving and merciful work: there is no condemnation for those made alive in Christ and clothed in his righteousness; rather, there is open access to the throne as we have the right to claim the divine crown.
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Holy Spirit Holy Flow
The Holy Spirit, Holy Flow
Is flowing down from head to toe
Like moving waters, rushing wind
From heart to heart, the change within
So fresh like dew in early morn
The Spirit breathes, new life is born
Upsprings the green, it’s everywhere
The flowers form, in beauty rare
And fire a gasp, it’s solemn glow
Is Holy Light, now sent below
And set apart, in firing flame
Our hearts will never be the same
Our lifting heads, and weary eyes
Are seeing hope, new joy arise
Our hands they reach up, to the sky
Receive the rains, from God Most High
Our thirsty hearts, are quenched and filled
Our songs they sound, in joy we’re thrilled
The Spirit comes upon dry land
And rivers flow at God’s command
And flowing here, and flowing there
God’s river’s flow is everywhere
From you to me, and me to you
The Spirit flows in love that’s true
Our hearts they bloom, our hearts are freed
As God the Spirit intercedes
He opens eyes, we start to see
What God had always planned to be.
So Spirit come! Pull up the stops
So in will come the harvest crops
For God the Maker of it all
Will have His harvest in His store.
Amen
Poetry & Art by Lisa Lawlor
For or Against
Luke 6:27-30
Love for Enemies
27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.
30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
VERSE 1: You were the Word at the beginning
One with God the Lord Most High
Your hidden glory in creation
Now revealed in You our Christ
CHORUS 1: What a beautiful Name it is
What a beautiful Name it is
The Name of Jesus Christ my King
What a beautiful Name it is
Nothing compares to this
What a beautiful Name it is
The Name of Jesus
VERSE 2: You didn’t want heaven without us
So Jesus You brought heaven down
My sin was great Your love was greater
What could separate us now
CHORUS 2: What a wonderful Name it is
What a wonderful Name it is
The Name of Jesus Christ my King
What a wonderful Name it is
Nothing compares to this
What a wonderful Name it is
The Name of Jesus
What a wonderful Name it is
The Name of Jesus
BRIDGE:
Death could not hold You
The veil tore before You
You silence the boast of sin and grave
The heavens are roaring
The praise of Your glory
For You are raised to life again
You have no rival
You have no equal
Now and forever God
You reign Yours is the kingdom
Yours is the glory
Yours is the Name above all names
CHORUS 3:
What a powerful Name it is
What a powerful Name it is
The Name of Jesus Christ my King
What a powerful Name it is
Nothing can stand against
What a powerful Name it is
The Name of Jesus
Love walks with me
Honouring the Lord
Philippians 2 New International Version
Imitating Christ’s Humility
2 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit,if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
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did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
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being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
This is one of my early videos I liked when I started watching video’s on You tube. Unfortunately I don’t know the exact words and there is an additional chorus been added to the song by the band as you will hear
Teach Me to Love You More.
Teach Me to Love You More.
Oh the webs we weave,
From darkest caves within our minds
Where Love should be, we hold our grudge until one day when light does shine.
And the earth around our feet,
Pulls us down to dangerous lows
Where Love should be on solid ground. We weep of earthly fears and woes.
Teach me to Love You more.
Oh the fears we have,
Of cars and pets, siblings and kin
Where Love should be upon our lives We surrender not to let You in.
Teach me to Love You More.
Joseph McTaggart.
Trust
1 Corinthians 13 New International Version
13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The love chapter as we all know is very well known and commonly used at weddings. The highlighted verse talks about trust which made me think of the wonderful song ‘I am trusting thee Lord Jesus to the moving tune of Bullinger).
- I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus,
Trusting only Thee;
Trusting Thee for full salvation,
Great and free. - I am trusting Thee for pardon;
At Thy feet I bow;
For Thy grace and tender mercy,
Trusting now. - I am trusting Thee for cleansing
In the crimson flood;
Trusting Thee to make me holy
By Thy blood. - I am trusting Thee to guide me;
Thou alone shalt lead;
Every day and hour supplying
All my need. - I am trusting Thee for power,
Thine can never fail;
Words which Thou Thyself shalt give me
Must prevail. - I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus;
Never let me fall;
I am trusting Thee forever,
And for all.
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