Prayer's Answer

Dear Father,

 I come to you in deep distress

To cast on You my care

I trust that You will hear my plea

And “Yes” You’ll answer me

 

Dear Child,

I know just what you need

Trust Me to know what’s best

Trials come to help you grow--

Accept the answer: “No”

 

But if not “no” or yet a “yes”

Still come with cares to Me

Sometimes I answer right away—

Sometimes with “Wait and see”

 

There are other answers that I give

That you may not understand

But through the darkest Valleys

Be sure that I hold your hand

 

Sometimes “Heaven” is an answer

For those you greatly love

And in those grieving moments

I send Grace down from above

 

Dear Child, I know your problems

I’ve felt each pain you bear

Let Me be the greatest answer

To your every heartfelt prayer

 

 

Proverbs 3:5-6, Hebrews 4:15-16, I Peter 5:7, Psalms 18:6, John14:18

There is one prayer request that God always says “Yes” to—Romans 10:13 

Two Crowns

Cursed...

Braiding the thorns that grew from my choice

Regrets woven with the ever-present sin

A crown of my making, leaving stripes deep red

A constant reminder, self-placed, upon my head 

Blessed...

Let Me take your thorny curse, My diadem you'll wear

I offer you my righteous robe, Your burden I will bear

I call you "My Beloved", come dwell beneath My wing

Straighten up your golden crown, O Daughter of the King!

Psalm 45:13, Isaiah 53:4-5, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Psalms 91:4

Psalms36:7, Genesis 3:1-24, John 19:5, Romans 9:25

 

You Are Calling My Name

 

You whisper on the gentle breeze

And beckon with a moon beam

Branches from the birch tree

Seem to hasten me to come

 

The flowers by the wayside

Remind me to be still

To always rest inside Thy care

To walk within Thy Will

 

Once more You call in sunset’s blaze

I marvel at the sight

But the greatest wonder as You call

Is that You know my name at all

The Daysman

 From eternity to eternity

Always crowned with Deity

Wonderful, Creator

Master, Sustainer

 

Then the Word became flesh--

God with us, God for us

Born in Bethlehem’s stable

A manger for his cradle

 

The King of Glory, The Son of Man

Now hung between the earth and sky

A Rugged Cross spans the gulf between

Appeasing Justice, making sinner clean

 

Jesus—wonderful and holy

Lived a life so meek and lowly

God in flesh—the sinner’s friend

Will you not on Him depend?

 

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Job 9:33  Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. 

Eph 2:4-9

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

Not of works, lest any man should boast. 

Eph 2:14-17  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 

And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 

The Voice of a Psalm

Give thanks unto the LORD

He has wrought for His Name’s sake

Cleansing our sin

Making us whole

 

Sing praise to our God

For His strength in our weakness

Lifting us up

Giving us grace

 

Worship at His footstool

For He is holiness and compassion

The God of Truth

Who proved His Love

 

Hallelujah to the King of Kings

Our Righteous God still reigns

His Word is everlasting

Pleading to sinners…Come!

 

Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD!

 

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Go All the Way with Me

 

Go All the Way with Me

 

Go all the way with me, Lord, all the way

Stamp in me the cross of Thy Son

Transform my mind, my motive, myself

Do not stop until Thy work is done

 

Go all the way with me, Lord, all the way

Through trials and suffering I don’t understand

Use these times to mold my heart

To respect Thee, adore Thee and hold to Thy hand

 

Go all the way with me, Lord, all the way

Dear Shepherd, help me hear Thy voice

So in death’s shadow or stormy vale

Thy presence will cause my heart to rejoice

 

Go all the way with me, Lord, all the way

Until in Heaven someday I stand

When I shall see Thy blessed face

I will praise Thee again for what You planned

 

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From a sermon by Curtis Hudson

The New Name

Once on a mountain in the Wilderness

The Law was given—

Rules in which to choose and live or to refuse and die

But no man was found

 

Once on a hill in Jerusalem

A Saviour was given

God who made the Law became Man to fulfill the Law

He is the Promise found

 

Once by humble faith

Salvation was claimed

Not a wage earned but a gift received by faith

It is seeing my sin by the Law—and His sacrifice in my place

 

And They call it Grace

 

 

 

Eph 2:1-10 

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 

Not of works, lest any man should boast. 

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.