WAR OF CHANGE

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These days there is a lot of “Godless Chatter” going on.  Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, apps, CNC, Fox News-the list goes on and on.  There are so many things that say “listen to me!”  I’ll tell you what’s right? But who really decides what’s right from wrong?  God tells us that all this “chatter” is falsely called knowledge.”  It’s okay to use social media,  but keep in mind who is really in control, and who above all else, lets us know what is good, right and wholesome.  Beware of all the avenues that Satan uses to plant evil in our minds and hearts.  Don’t allow the “chatter” of our modern lives to make you deaf to the voice of God, which is the only truth in the universe. Alex Robertson The Duck CommanderDevotional Howard Pub April 25

Scripture

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge. 1 Timothy 6:20 NIV

Song

War of Change Thousand Foot Krutch

http://youtu.be/HdnTSXUWd3E

It's a truth that in love and war,
World's collide and hearts get broken,
I want to live like I know I'm dying,
Take up my cross, not be afraid

[Chorus]
Is it true what they say, that words are weapons?
And if it is,then everybody best stop steppin',
Cause I got ten in my pocket that'll bend ya locket,
I'm tired of all these rockers sayin' come with me,
Wait, it's just about to break, its more than I can take,
Everything's about to change,
I feel it in my veins, its not going away,
Everything's about to change.

It creeps in like a thief in the night,
Without a sign, without a warning,
But we are ready and prepared to fight,
Raise up your swords, don't be afraid,

[Chorus]

This is a warning, like it or not,
I break down, like a record spinning,
Gotta get up,
So back off,
This is a warning, like it or not,
I'm tired of listenin', I'm warning you, don't try to get up,

There's a war going on inside of me tonight (don't be afraid) [x2]

Wait, it's just about to break, its more than I can take,
Everything's about to change,
I feel it in my veins, its not going away,
Everything's about to change,
It's just about to break, its more than I can take,
Everything's about to change,
I feel it in my veins, its not going away,
Everything's about to change.

Sentence Prayer

Father; In the Power of you Spirit, make me a mighty warrior.

Teach me to fend of the godless chatter of this world.

Jesus pierce me to the very soul cutting away all that is false.

So as I carry my cross in this world, I will remain true to You.

Amen

DELIGHT

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Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.      Mikhail Bakunin   

Scripture

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen. Romans 11:36 NASB

Song

We Delight Caedmon’s Call

http://youtu.be/Q0DewmS0rXw

We delight in the law of your word 
We delight in the son who was perfect from birth 
We delight in the day he's returning to earth 
Hallelujah 

We will bow our hearts because we are free 
As we raise our hands to give you glory 
Father of life and love and infinite worth 
[We're delivered by blood that flows from the tree] ????? 
Draws near to you vessels of your mercy 
For the invention of man, glorious trinity 

CHORUS 
We delight in the law of your word 
We delight in the son who was perfect from birth 
We delight in the day he's returning to earth 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah 

We will lift our eyes to the cloud and the flame 
Lord you guide our steps and restore us again 
The nations of man will rejoice in the God of the wilderness 

CHORUS 

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK 

CHORUS 2X 
Hallelujah, Oh Hallelujah

Sentence Prayer

Holy Father

Help us to Fix our Eyes on your Son Jesus, The source and perfection or our faith. Holy Spirit help our under-             standing how He ran the race of life, so we may finish well.      May we face the crosses of this life with the Joy of Jesus, Knowing one day we will find the delight of hearing; “well done good and faithful servant.”  Amen  (Prayer based on Hebrews 12:2 R.M.)

SAVING ONE

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

C. S. Lewis

Scripture

For you are to be his witness, telling everyone what you have seen and heard.  What are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized. Have your sins washed away by calling on the name of the Lord. Acts 22:15,16

Song

The Saving One by Starfield

http://youtu.be/dDpud8v-UWw

What mercy was revealed
What selflessness and peace
My fate was surely sealed
Until He rescued me
His pardon for my sin
His bounty for my need
From slavery and shame
I am redeemed

And Heaven can't contain
The glory of the Son
Jesus is the Christ, the saving One
His love has made a way
The grave is overcome
Jesus is the Christ, the saving One

No fear can hold me down
Nor darkness steal my joy
For blood has been poured out
The enemy destroyed
Death could not hold Him down
The cross was not enough
To steal away His throne
For He is God

And Heaven can't contain
The glory of the Son
Jesus is the Christ, the saving One
His love has made a way
The grave is overcome
Jesus is the Christ, the saving One

Anyone who calls upon His name
They will be saved
They will be saved
Anyone who calls upon His name
They will be saved
They will be saved

And Heaven can't contain
The glory of the Son
Jesus is the Christ, the saving One
His love has made a way
The grave is overcome
Jesus is the Christ, the saving One [x2]

Anyone who calls upon His name
They will be saved
They will be saved
Anyone who calls upon His name
They will be saved
They will be saved

Sentence Prayer

Jesus, May I not only Call on your name to be Saved

May I also cry to you in Joy and pain.  That I may walk with you all of my days.  Amen R.M.

REDEEMER

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“Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work. 'The kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community

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O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever! For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed,then in my flesh I shall see God, Job 19:24-26

Song

I Will Sing of My Redeeder

By Selah & Barlow Girl

http://youtu.be/5mA8j81Xcu0

Will sing of my Redeemer

He who took the nails for me

I've been purchased, I've been pardoned

Bound to Him I'm truly free

I will sing of my Redeemer

How He sought me while a slave

Loosed me from the curse of sin and

From the power of the grave

[Chorus]

I will sing of my Redeemer

Lift my voice to praise my Lord

Ransomed by His blood and mercy

I am His forevermore

I will sing of my Redeemer

He who bore my cross, my curse

Came a servant, chose to suffer

Lifted up and cast from earth

I will sing of my Redeemer

Tell about the grace I've known

Here on earth with those forgiven

And one day around His throne

[Chorus]

Sentence Prayer

Father, we you for the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

We have no fear of death because of Jesus and His Resurrection.  We praise and thank You for thise assurance! Through Him, Amen.

(Phil The Duck commander Devotional Howard Books New York New York April 22)

GOD IS NOT DEAD

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Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.” -- Floyd W. Tomkins

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Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ’s sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb. And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately—at the end of the ages—become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you. It’s because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God. 1 Peter 1:18-21 Message

Song

Our God is not Dead Newsboys

http://youtu.be/ghC3gqNQJPQ

Let love explode and bring the dead to life
A love so bold to see a revolution somehow
Let love explode and bring the dead to life
A love so bold to bring a revolution somehow
Now I'm lost in Your freedom
In this world I'll overcome
[2x]
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
Roaring, He's roaring, roaring like a lion
Let hope arise and make the darkness hide
My faith is dead I need resurrection somehow
Now I'm lost in Your freedom
In this world I'll overcome
[2x]
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
Roaring, He's roaring, roaring like a lion
He's roaring, He's roaring
[3x]
Let heaven roar
And fire fall
Come shake the ground
With the sound
Of revival
[4x]
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
He's roaring, He's roaring, He's roaring like a lion [2x]

Sentence Prayer

Lord of all life and power, who through the mighty resurrection of your Son overcame the old order of sin and death to make all things new in him; grant that we being dead to sin and alive to you in Jesus Christ.  May reign with him in glory; to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be praise and honor, glory and might now and in all eternity.  Amen

(Daily Prayer App Church of England April 20 Evening Prayer)

PILGRIMAGE

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If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.  Anne Lamott Help Thanks wow the Three Essential Prayers. Pg 27 Riverhead books

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When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead; but he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! Though I am the First and Last, the Living One who died, who is now alive forevermore, who has the keys of hell and death—don’t be afraid! Revelation 1:17,18 LB

Song

He’s Alive Don Francisco

http://youtu.be/NyPBVwOCYmM

The gates and doors were barred
And all the windows fastened down
I spent the night in sleeplessness
And rose at every sound
Half in hopeless sorrow
And half in fear the day
Would find the soldiers breakin' through
To drag us all away
And just before the sunrise
I heard something at the wall
The gate began to rattle
And a voice began to call
I hurried to the window
Looked down into the street
Expecting swords and torches
And the sound of soldiers' feet
But there was no one there but Mary
So I went down to let her in
John stood there beside me
As she told me where she'd been
She said they might have moved Him in the night
And none of us knows where
The stone's been rolled away
And now His body isn't there
We both ran toward the garden
Then John ran on ahead
We found the stone and empty tomb
Just the way that Mary said
But the winding sheet they wrapped Him in
Was just an empty shell
And how or where they'd taken Him
Was more than I could tell
Oh something strange had happened there
Just what I did not know
John believed a miracle
But I just turned to go
Circumstance and speculation
Couldn't lift me very high
'Cause I'd seen them crucify Him
Then I saw Him die
Back inside the house again
The guilt and anguish came
Everything I'd promised Him
Just added to my shame
When at last it came to choices
I denied I knew His name
And even if He was alive
It wouldn't be the same
But suddenly the air was filled
With a strange and sweet perfume
Light that came from everywhere
Drove the shadows from the room
And Jesus stood before me
With His arms held open wide
And I fell down on my knees
And I just clung to Him and cried
Then He raised me to my feet
And as I looked into His eyes
The love was shining out from Him
Like sunlight from the skies
Guilt in my confusion
Disappeared in sweet release
And every fear I'd ever had
Just melted into peace
He's alive yes He's alive
Yes He's alive and I'm forgiven
Heaven's gates are open wide
He's alive yes He's alive
Oh He's alive and I'm forgiven
Heaven's gates are open wide
He's alive yes He's alive
Hallelujah He's alive
He's alive and I'm forgiven
Heaven's gates are open wide
He's alive He's alive He's alive
I believe it He's alive
Sweet Jesus

Sentence Prayer

God of our earthly pilgrimage,

Feed your Easter people with the Bread of Heaven,

That we may hunger and thirst for righteousness until we reach our promised land; thought Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen

(Daily Prayer App Church of England April 20 Evening Prayer)