SHAKE THE WORLD

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Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be accepted.  Belonging on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.  Brene Brown Gifts of Imperfection preface Hazelden 2010 PG 25

Scripture

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the

counsel of the wicked,

Nor stand in the [a]path of sinners,

Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,

And in His law he meditates day and night.

He will be like a tree firmly planted by

streams of water,

Which yields its fruit in its season

And its leaf does not wither;

And in whatever he does, he prospers.

Psalms 1:1-3 NASB

Song

Shake the World Finding Favour

http://youtu.be/UMH6RyZ0Hxg

This is for my sisters that find yourselves confused

From the magazines and movie screens telling you how to be you

Oh, don't you think it's time to just be free?

Yeah, and this is for my brothers trying hard to be a man

But that past you can't forget sure makes it hard for you to stand

Oh, don't you think it's time to just be free?

Ah, we're free to just believe God's grace will always be enough

Free to just be children, wrapped up in His great love

When the sons and daughters start singing this song

Then everybody all around 'em will be singing along

It's gonna shake the world

It's gonna shake the world

When we all start marching to the beat of the drum

Moving to the rhythm of the Kingdom to come

It's gonna shake the world

It's gonna shake, shake, shake the world

Yeah with mercy as our melody and justice as our guide

We're gonna sing to all the broken that the world has cast aside

Singing don't you think it's time to just be free

Our God's the only God bringing hope to all the lost

There's healing and forgiveness in the anthem of the cross

When the sons and daughters start singing this song

Then everybody all around 'em will be singing along

It's gonna shake the world

It's gonna shake the world

When we all start marching to the beat of the drum

Moving to the rhythm of the Kingdom to come

It's gonna shake the world

It's gonna shake, shake, shake

Darkness has to tremble at the sound of His great name

Every king, every ruler, bows down at His great fame

There's nothing that can silence the song of the redeemed, oh

When the sons and daughters start singing this song

Then everybody all around 'em will be singing along

It's gonna shake the world

Yeah, when we all start marching to the beat of the drum

Moving to the rhythm of the Kingdom to come

It's gonna shake the world

It's gonna shake, shake, shake the world

Shake the world

Shake the world

Shake the world

Sentence Prayer

Father;  thank you for the blessing of Your reign.

Help me be who you made me to be.

Help me to Walk in your path.  Amen

COME

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You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Rick Warren

Scripture

When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! ¹⁸ I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, ¹⁹ and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’

²⁰ “So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. Luke 15:17-20 NLT

Song

Come However you are

City Harbor

http://youtu.be/mA9X199f_CE

To anyone walking down a hard rock

Worn out with blisters on your feet

To anyone with heart that's shattered

Doing your best to hold it together

With no prayer to pray

And no song left to sing

Oooh oooh

Whatever pain you're dealing with

Oooh Oooh

Let me offer this

Come however you are

Come with all your heart heartbreaks

Come with all the mistakes

Lay them down at the cross

Give them to the God who loves you

Hurt scarred falling apart

Come however you are

To the girl who never had a Father

To the guy who thinks he'll never amount to much for anything

To those of us who feel unwanted,

Unneaded, Unloved and desperately incomplete

Come however you are

Come with all your heart heartbreaks

Come with all the mistakes you made

Lay them down at the cross

Give them to the God who loves you

Hurt scarred falling apart

Come however you are

Come with your regrets

Come with the things you can't change

Come with all your fear and all your shame with everything

Come with the pieces of your bruised and broken heart

Don't wait

Oooh oooh

Whatever pain you're dealing with

Oooh Oooh

Let me offer this

Come however you are

Come with all your heart heartbreaks

Come with all the mistakes you made

Lay them down at the cross

Give them to the God who loves you

Hurt scarred falling apart

Come however you are

Come however you are

Come however you are

Sentence Prayer

Jesus; help me to learn wherever, however and whenever I have left you, the answer is always to come to you.  Amen R.M.

FLY AWAY

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You can never become what you want, until you drop what you used to be.  T.D. Jakes

Scripture

Don’t let anyone under pressure to give in to evil say, “God is trying to trip me up.” God is impervious to evil, and puts evil in no one’s way. The temptation to give in to evil comes from us and only us. We have no one to blame but the leering, seducing flare-up of our own lust. Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer. James 1:13-15 Message

Song

FLY AWAY RHEMA SOUL

http://youtu.be/FGIIvjUzw1U

Mama, I remember them times when Daddy was on the grind
Not for the money, but daddy’s infatuated with dimes
And you wanted him out, but wanted him to say
Especially when we seen him out playing like a player plays
I would call him daddy, his friends called him Dickie, but Ice Man is what they use to call

him in the city
Because his game was so cold he would leave the girls chilly
And at fiv years old I just thought he was a lily livered coward
Ah man, Mama here’s a flower
Because I’m gonna be the man
At least I thought that I would
Fast forward on the hour glass I’m dealing with his shadow
And not being the way my daddy was is a battle
So being as far from the tree is where I’m planning to travel
They say the apple don’t fall far from the tree but I had to
Disprove statistics, now I got a Mrs. and a princess and it’s so fly, I’m living limit less

When we met I was pre-teen
Young an impressionable I met you on the East wing
Posted by the locker rooms and you wanted to be seen
So I maneuvered to the spot, attention was locked and loaded on a real thing
So pretty and pristine, then from front to the back I studied you, blood rushing like a bee sting
All of my senses were got, infected I caught glimpse of a beauty more painful than the one the sea brings
A little boy infatuated with a dime
Drawn in like a scavenger and straddling the line
Who is really to blame for the mystery of discovery?
Borne of the flesh, hiding our nakedness with shrubbery
Break loose from tom foolery and lust
Watch it boast a heavy punch and knock you over like a windless gust
Boyhood dreams are so fleeting and cunning
Just don’t forsake the lord in your days as a youngin

It was a sunny day, riding on my bike like kids play
He’s nearly twice my age, took a liking to my frame
And now he took away pieces of my youthful days
And introduced me to a stage I should know about at that age
How do you explain living life with fits of rage?
He told me I’d be gay and now my heart is full of hate
I wanted to escape like a wing upon a plane
Fly away to a place where I’d feel no more pain
I’m fading away because I know it don’t exist
So I look to exit in his smile he look so brave
He knows what to say; like a potter I’m his clay
He’s molding me away into this image I portray
But it’s all so fake, because inside I’m cold and pained
His words have left a curse and now I’m living with the shame
But what can I say? Freedom came my way
And like an eagle now I’m soaring flying high above the waves

Sentence Prayer

Father the nature of our humanity is defiance and rebellion.

Jesus may your sacrifice gives me wings to fly

away from the what I was.  Holy Spirit give me wings to

fly into your Arms.  R.M.

HOW MAJESTIC

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Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone. (The Gospel of the Redman Ernest Thompsom Seton Pg. 18

Scripture

O Lord, our Sovereign,how majestic is your name in all the earth! PSALMS 8:9 NRSV

Song

HOW MAJESTIC KARI JOBE

http://youtu.be/JB_R34rdPh4

Without a word
The mountains speak
The song that all creation sings
The painted skies
The sun and stars
The Heavens tell how great You are
The Heavens tell how great You are

How majestic is Your name
How majestic is Your name
Jesus wonderful, powerful
You're the Lord of all
How majestic is Your name

A rugged cross
A humble King
How beautiful the mystery
That love would bleed from majesty

All rise, all rise in highest praise
Your name will reign through all eternity
Our hope, our strength, our victory
We bow down, down at Your feet

Sentence Prayer

O GOD,

we thank you for this earth, our home; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the ocean and streams, for the towering hills and the whispering wind, for the trees and green grass.

We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of fields of golden wheat, and taste autumn's fruit, and rejoice in the feel of snow, and smell the breath of spring flowers.

GRANT US a heart opened wide to all this beauty; and save us from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thornbush is aflame with your glory.  (http://www.appleseeds.org/earthday.htm)

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD!

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.”

― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Scripture

young men and women,

old people and children.

Praise the Lord,

because he alone is great.

He is more wonderful than heaven and earth.

God has given his people a king.

He should be praised by all who belong to him;

he should be praised by the Israelites, the people

closest to his heart.

Praise the Lord!  Psalms 148:12-14 NCV

Song

What a Wonderful World

Alison Mosshart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XI3atsTIuk

I see trees of green, red roses too

I see them bloom for me and you

And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white

The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night

And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky

Are also on the faces of people going by

I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do

They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow

They'll learn much more than I'll never know

And I think to myself what a wonderful world

Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

Sentence Prayer

God, you have made our world and seen that is good;

Grant to us, created to complete your work,

The bright, delightful vision that

makes us care for what we do.

God of unchangeable power.

When you fashioned the world

The morning stars sang together

And the host of heaven shouted for joy; 

Open our eyes to the wonders of creation

And teach us to use all things for good,

To the honor of your glorious name;

Through Jesus Christ out Lord.

You made us Lord, and we are yours;

Grant that we may so use your gifts that all your creatures

enjoy the harmony you planned. Amen  (A New Zealand Prayer Book Pg. 569,570)

HE REIGNS

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Until then, believers can, through their faith in God, live under God’s reign, because the kingdom takes shape everywhere that people allow the action of Jesus Christ-which is the action of God-who-reigns-to take place through them. To Act According to the Gospel by Xanier Leon Dufour Hendrickson publishing 2005 pg 13

Scripture

The Lord says to my lord:

“Sit at my right hand

until I make your enemies

a footstool for your feet.”

The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,

“Rule in the midst of your enemies!”

Your troops will be willing

on your day of battle.

Arrayed in holy splendor,

your young men will come to you

like dew from the morning’s womb.

The Lord has sworn

and will not change his mind:

“You are a priest forever,

in the order of Melchizedek.”

The Lord is at your right hand[c];

he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.

He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead

and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.

He will drink from a brook along the way,

and so he will lift his head high.  Psalms 110 NIV

Song

He Reigns Newsboys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuLr5rQmp0

It's the song of the redeemed

Rising from the African plain

It's the song of the forgiven

Drowning out the Amazon rain

The song of Asian believers

Filled with God's holy fire

It's every tribe, every tongue, every nation

A love song born of a grateful choir

It's all God's children singing

Glory, glory, hallelujah

He reigns, He reigns

It's all God's children singing

Glory, glory, hallelujah

He reigns, He reigns

Let it rise about the four winds

Caught up in the heavenly sound

Let praises echo from the towers of cathedrals

To the faithful gathered UNDER GROUND

Of all the songs sung from the dawn of creation

Some were meant to persist

Of all the bells rung from a thousand steeples

None rings truer than this

It's all God's children singing

Glory, glory, hallelujah

He reigns, He reigns

It's all God's children singing

Glory, glory, hallelujah

He reigns, He reigns

It's all God's children singing

Glory, glory, hallelujah

He reigns, He reigns

It's all God's children singing

Glory, glory, hallelujah

He reigns, He reigns

And all the powers of darkness

Tremble at what they've just heard

Cause all the powers of darkness

Can't drown out a single word

When all God's children sing out

Glory, glory, hallelujah

He reigns, He reigns

All God's people singing

Glory, glory, hallelujah

He reigns, He reigns

Sentence Prayer

Stay Awake!

Happy are those servants who are alert and ready

When their master comes.

When much is given, more will be demanded.

When a great deal is given on trust,

A great deal more is expected.

Stay Awake!

Your master is coming.

Stand Ready!

The Son of Man comes at the least expected hour.

The kingdom of God is upon us.

Why are you sleeping?  Jesus said.

Rise and pray, that you may be spared the test.”  Amen

(The New Zealand Prayer Book 135,136)

MOTHERS DAY

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The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World"  William Wallace

Scripture

“My soul glorifies the Lord

and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,

he has been mindful

of the humble state of his servant.

From now on all generations will call me blessed,

for the Mighty One has done great things for me—

holy is his name. Luke 1:47-49

Song

One Heartbeat at Time Stephen Curtis Chapman

http://youtu.be/PP4nBMLkfko

You're up all night with a screaming baby

You run all day at the speed of life

And every day you feel a little bit less

Like the beautiful woman you are

So you fall into bed when you run out of hours

And you wonder if anything worth doing got done

Oh, maybe you just don't know

Or maybe you've forgotten

You, you are changing the world

One little heartbeat at a time

Making history with every touch

And every smile

Oh, you, you may not see it now

But I believe that time will tell

How you, you are changing the world

One little heartbeat at a time

With every, "I know you can do it"

And every tear that you kiss away

So many little things that seem to go unnoticed

They're just like the drops of rain, over time they become a river

And you, you are changing the world

One little heartbeat at a time

Making history with every touch

And every smile

Oh, you, you may not see it now

But I believe that time will tell

How you, you are changing the world

One little heartbeat at a time

You're beautiful, so beautiful

How you're changing the world

How you're changing the world

You, you are changing the world

One little heartbeat at a time

Making history with every touch

And every smile

Oh, you, you may not see it now

But I believe that time will tell

How you, you are changing the world

Oh, I believe that you, you are changing the world

One little heartbeat at a time

Hey, you're changing the world

Sentence Prayer

Heavenly Father

Thank you for my earthly mother, who at the very lest gave me life.  But I have been doubly blessed for she loved me also.  Amen