TODAY

Snippet

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Ken Wilber

Scripture

This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24 NASB

Song

Beautiful Day by Jamie Grace

http://youtu.be/uPy0ctqMwE0

Oh Oh

Wake up and smile cause it's been a while

It's been like a whole day since I stopped

so you could hold me

This child awaits strong in the faith

Lord You are the refuge that I can't wait to get to

Cause I can't let a day go, can't let a day go by

Without thanking You for the joy that You bring to my life

[Chorus:]

And oh there's something 'bout the way

Your sun shines on my face

It's a love so true I can never get enough of You

This feeling can't be wrong I'm about to get my worship on

Take me away

It's a beautiful day,

It's a beautiful day

When trouble seems to rain on my dreams

It's not a big, not a big deal

Let it wash all the bugs off my windshield

Cause You're showing me in You I'm free

And You're still the refuge that I've just got to get to

So I won't let a day won't let a day go by

So put the drop-top down turn it up I'm ready to fly!

[Chorus:]

And oh there's something 'bout the way

your sun shines on my face

It's a love so true, I can never get enough of you

This feeling can't be wrong!

I'm about to get my worship on

Take me away!

It's a beautiful day.

It's a beautiful day.

I've got no need to worry

I've got no room for doubt

No matter what's coming at me, you'll always be the

beautiful I sing about

There ain't no limitations to Your amazing grace!

Your amazing grace

And there's something 'bout the way

Your love shines on my face...

oh no I just could never get enough of You

This feeling can't be wrong,

I'm about get my worship on!

I'm gonna sing a brand new song!

Yeah, I'm about to get my worship on

take me away on this beautiful day

Sentence Prayer

Father, today is a gift from you.  Let us rejoice and be glad in the present!  Amen

HOPE

Snippet

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.” ― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

Scripture

And patience produces character, and character produces hope. 5 And this hope will never disappoint us, because God has poured out his love to fill our hearts. He gave us his love through the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us. When we were unable to help ourselves, at the right time, Christ died for us, although we were living against God. Romans 5:4-6 NCV

Song

Hope Now Addison Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH6sNNJ4u8o

(VERSE 1)

If everything comes down to love

Then just what am I afraid of

When I call out Your name

Something inside awakes in my soul

How quickly I forget I'm Yours

(PRE-CHORUS)

I'm not my own

I've been carried by You

All my life

(CHORUS)

Everything rides on hope now

Everything rides on faith somehow

When the world has broken me down

Your love sets me free

(VERSE 2)

And when my life is like a storm

Rising waters all I want is the shore

You say I'll be ok

Make it through the rain

You are my shelter from the storm

(CHORUS)

Everything rides on hope now

Everything rides on faith somehow

When the world has broken me down

Your love sets me free

(PRE-CHORUS)

I am not my own

I've been carried by you all my life

(CHORUS)

Everything rides on hope now

Everything rides on faith somehow

When the world has broken me down

Your love sets me free

(CHORUS)

Everything rides on hope now

Everything rides on faith somehow

When the world has broken me down

Your love sets me free

(CHORUS 2)

You've become my hearts desires

I will sing Your praises higher

Your love sets me free

(Your love sets me free)

Your love sets me free

(You love sets me free)

Your love sets me free

Sentence Prayer

Almighty God, help me to Love you, for no other reason than I

belong to You..Father, you have always protected those who truly

believe,Almighty, you punishes the proud as much as they have

sinned. Father, as I put my hope in You, help me to  be strong

and brave. Amen  (based on Ps 31:23,24)

MISTAKES

Snippet

The reason I am attracted to the light of scriptures is because there is another side to me that is dark.  The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I am not like them and would like to be.  I’m not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.  Bono to Liam Mackey (Walk On the spiritual journey of U2 pg 55)

Scripture

He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea. Micah 7:19 NASB

Song

Oceans by Audio Adrenaline

http://youtu.be/y281553XUAA

The Mistakes I`ve made

That cause pain

I could have done without

All my selfish thought

All my pride

The things I hide

You have forgot about

Chorus

They're all behind you

They'll never find you

There on the ocean floor

You sins are forgotten

They're on the bottom

Of the ocean floor

My misdeeds

All my greed

All the things that haunt me now

They're not a pretty sight to see

But they`re wiped away

By a mighty, mighty wave

A mighty, mighty wave

Your sins are erased

And they are no more

They're out on the ocean floor

Take them away

To return no more

Take them away

To the ocean floor

To the ocean floor

To the ocean floor

Your sins are erased

There are no more

They're out on the ocean floor

Sentence Prayer

Father; I have made a mess of things again, have compassion on me again. Holy Spirit stomp out the inequities of my life.  Cast my sins to the oceans floor, by the weight of the blood of Jesus.  Amen!

THRIVE

Snippet

The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light."Author Unknown

Scripture

I remember what happened long ago.
I spend time thinking about all of your acts.
I consider what your hands have done.
I spread out my hands to you in prayer.
I’m thirsty for you, just as dry ground is                              thirsty for rain. Selah Psalms 143:5,6 NIRV

Song

THRIVE BY CASTING CROWNS              http://youtu.be/qQ71RWJhS_M

Here in this worn and weary land

Where many a dream has died

Like a tree planted by the water

We never will run dry

So living water flowing through

God we thirst for more of You

Fill our hearts and flood our souls

With one desire

Just to know You and

To make You known

We lift Your name on High

Shine like the sun make darkness run and hide

We know we were made for so much more

Than ordinary lives

It's time for us to more than just survive

We were made to thrive

Into Your word we're digging deep

To know our Father's heart

Into the world we're reaching out

To show them who You are

So living water flowing through

God we thirst for more of You

Fill our hearts and flood our souls

With one desire

Just to know You and

To make You known

We lift Your name on High

Shine like the sun make darkness run and hide

We know we were made for so much more

Than ordinary lives

It's time for us to more than just survive

We were made to thrive

Joy Unspeakable, Faith Unsinkable, Love Unstoppable,

Anything is possible

Joy Unspeakable, Faith Unsinkable, Love Unstoppable,

Anything is possible

Joy Unspeakable, Faith Unsinkable, Love Unstoppable,

Anything is possible

Joy Unspeakable, Faith Unsinkable, Love Unstoppable,

Anything is possible

Just to know You and

To make You known

We lift Your name on High

Shine like the sun make darkness run and hide

We know we were made for so much more

Than ordinary lives

It's time for us to more than just survive

We were made to thrive

Hey!

We were made to Thrive

Sentence Prayer

Father I am a tiny seed in your hand, Holy Ghost teach 
me that in order to grow I need to be dropped in dirt, 
covered in darkness, and only in my thirst for Jesus 
the Living Water, can I struggle to reach the light.  
It is in the light of Your love I will thrive and 
produce fruit, for your glory!  Amen R.M.

DIFFERENCE MAKER

Snippet

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? Bob Marley

Scripture

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. Proverbs 20:11,12 KJV

Song

               DIFFERENCE MAKER                  NEED TO BREATHE

http://youtu.be/L2LtB9KLf98

Yeah, isn't it amazing how a man can find himself alone
Call into the darkness for an answer that's he's never known
Yeah, isn't it amazing how God can take a broken man
Yeah, let him find a fortune, let him ruin it with his own two hands

And he climbs on up the hill on the rock on which he stands
He looks back at the crowd
He looks down at his hands and he says
I am a difference maker

Oh, I am the difference maker
Oh, I am the only one who speaks to him
And I am the friendliest of friends of God

Yeah, isn't it amazing how a man can find himself alone
Call into the darkness for an answer that's he's never known
Yeah, isn't it amazing how God can take a broken man
Yeah, let him find a fortune, let him ruin it with his own two hands

He walks on up the hill to the rock on which he stands
He looks back at the crowd
He looks down at his hands and he says
I am a difference maker

Oh, I am the difference maker
Oh, I am the only one that speaks to him
And I am the friendliest of friends of God

I am on the fence about nearly everything I've seen
And I have felt the fire be put out by too much gasoline
And we're all strangers passing through a place and time afternoon.  Life is but a vision in a window that we're peeking through

A helpless conversation with a man who says he cares a lot
It's a passive confrontation about who might throw a punch or not.  We are all transgressors, we're all sinners, we're all astronauts. So if you're beating death then raise your hand but shut up if you're not.

'Cause I am the difference maker
Oh, I am the only one that speaks to him
And I am the friendliest of friends of God

I am the difference maker
Oh, I am the only one that speaks to him
And I am the friendliest of friends of God

I am the difference maker
Oh, I am the only one that speaks to him
And I am the friendliest of friends of God

Sentence Prayer

Father, help me to wonder at the eye you have made that sees what is seen and unseen.  Teach me to pluck from my eye, all the distractions that keep me from the life I was created for.  Holy Spirit fill my eye with all that is worthy of sight.  Amen

RADICAL

Snippet

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

Scripture

So  Pray all the time. Ask God for anything in line with the Holy Spirit’s wishes. Plead with him, reminding him of your needs, and keep praying earnestly for all Christians everywhere. Pray for me, too, and ask God to give me the right words as I boldly tell others about the Lord and as I explain to them that his salvation is for the Gentiles too.  I am in chains now for preaching this message from God. But pray that I will keep on speaking out boldly for him even here in prison, as I should. Ephesians 6:18-20 LB

SONG

Radical by S.O. Featurine Lecrae

http://youtu.be/Zx0hqGGDyiU

Uh, they say that I’m radical

And I should go on a sabbatical

Go and take a break, go and take a paper chase and

Escape and have a go

My answers no!

I’m chained up to my masters throne a

Slove loving His master

Some of my heroes stayed in them

Catacombs

Eaten up by them animals

It’s Radical and outrageous look how we move coz’

Jesus have saved us

Move with our Maker look at our makeup

Live it out gracious making statement, stating

Call us name ? calls us name

Not to make way into the hall of fame

But to pray It’s all of grace

You can say strange but I wont sway

I’m radical

The way we livin is not the usual,

Invisible, It’s incredible.

I’m radical

No other way, I gotta let them know

I’m Radical

They can talk if they want

I’m Radical they can never hold me down

I’m Radical (x2)

I’m Radical, yes I’m Radical

Radical, radical, Yes, I’m Radical, radical,

Radical.

I am a radical, eat that truth like an

Animal

Spit it out live it out goin head

Keep your eyes on my mandible

I Pray I never eat my words, the way I’m

Always telling you to read the word (Yeah)

Took my faith to places that’s known for

‘Hatred for the truth I heard

They probably wanna kill Lecrae because

I rap for the Christian I preach the way

I’ll probably be judged for the things I say

I aint backing scared of the beef though I eat fillet

I ain’t backing down

Aint backing out

Anything for the King is OK to

The A holla

1-16 I’m radical

I’m radical

The way we livin is not the usual,

Invisible, It’s incredible.

I’m radical

No other way, I gotta let them know

I’m Radical

They can talk if they want

I’m Radical they can never hold me down

I’m Radical (x2)

I’m Radical, yes I’m Radical

Radical, radical, Yes, I’m Radical, radical,

Radical.

Sentence Prayer

Lord, you are a shield about me.

Shield us, Lord, from all evil

And lift us from apathy and despair

That even when we are terrified

We may trust your power to save.

Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.  Amen

(Daily Prayer App Church of England April 27 Morning Prayer)

JOURNEY

Snippet

God never tells us to pray that we'll never have problems. He tells us to pray that when we have them, we will be steady in the storm.  Joyce Meyers

Scripture

If you want to learn,
    then go and ask
the wild animals and the birds,
     the flowers and the fish.
 Any of them can tell you
    what the Lord has done.
 Every living creature
 is in the hands of God. Job 12:7-10 CEV

Song

Your Hands JJ Heller

http://youtu.be/4l3CEMWCxSk

I have unanswered prayers

I have trouble I wish wasn't there

And I have asked a thousand ways

That you would take my pain away

You would take my pain away

I am trying to understand

How to walk this weary land

Make straight the paths that crooked lie

Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

When my world is shaking, heaven stands

When my heart is breaking

I never leave your hands

When you walked upon the earth

You healed the broken, lost and hurt

I know you hate to see me cry

One day you will set all things right

Yeah, one day you will set all things right

When my world is shaking, heaven stands

When my heart is breaking

I never leave your hands

Your hands that shaped the world

Are holding me

They hold me still

Sentence Prayer

Father of mercy,

Keep us joyful in your salvation

And faithful to your covenant

And, as we journey to your Kingdom,

Ever feed us with the bread of life,

Your Son, Jesus Christ Amen

(Daily Prayer App Church of England April 27 Morning Prayer)

JESUS

Snippet

Come, people of the Risen King
Who delight to bring Him praise;
Come all and tune your heart to sing
To the Morning Star of grace.
From the shifting shadows of the earth
We will lift our eyes to Him,
Where steady arms of mercy reach
To gather children in. (Keith and Kristyn Getty)

Scripture

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” Matthew 9:27

Song

Give Me Jesus Fernando Ortego

http://youtu.be/z1oOYTjrxk0

In the morning, when I rise

In the morning, when I rise

In the morning, when I rise

Give me Jesus

Chorus:

Give me Jesus

Give me Jesus

You can have all this world

But give me Jesus

When I am alone

When I am alone

When I am alone

Give me Jesus

Chorus

And when I come to die

When I come to die

When I come to die

Give me Jesus

Chorus

Sentence Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner.