REVIVAL

Snippet

Revival is falling in love with Jesus all over again.~ Vance Havner

Scripture

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation. Psalms 85:5-7 KJV

Song

Revival Town Delirious?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCHaa-ztewA

Well I've got a message to bring

I can't preach but I can sing

And me and my brothers here

Gonna play redemption hymns

We're not on our own you know

It's all around the world

Cos this is the freedom generation

Living for revival in this time

Hallelujah, people everywhere are singing

Hallelujah, you've turned my mourning into dancing

Revival town

That's what they're calling this place now

Revival town

It'll put a smile on your face now

Revival town

Well I've got a story to tell

About the King above all kings

You spoke for peace, hope, love and justice

Things that we all need today

You let a broken generation

Become a dancing generation

This is revival generation

You may not hear it on the radio

But you can feel it on the air

Hallelujah, people everywhere are singing

Hallelujah, you've turned my mourning into dancing

Revival town

That's what they're calling this place now

Revival town

It'll put a smile on your face now

Revival town

That's what they're calling this place now

Revival town

Sentence Prayer

Father; be not angry with America for our sins, may we return to a righteousness that honors you.Bring a spirit of revival to us, that there may be a genuine joy in your people. Bring your mercy to America again, may this revival further the efforts, the lost coming to be saved in Jesus!  Father, may we fall in love with you son Jesus again!  Holy Spirit, Convict us of our sins and light hunger for God’s righteousness!  Amen!

LIVING WATER!

Snippet

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'  Max Lucado

Scripture

“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. John 7:37-39

Song

Waterfall By Christ Tomlin

http://youtu.be/G5Ks1o1gOWo

Oh God, my God I seek You

I wanna move when You move

You're more than I could long for

I thirst for You

You're an ocean to my soul

To my soul

Your love is like a waterfall, waterfall

Running wild and free

You hear my heart when I call, when I call

Deep calls, too deep

Your love is like a waterfall, waterfall

Raining down on me

Waterfall, waterfall

Oh God, my God I seek You

In this dry and desert land

You lead me to streams of mercy

Once again

You're an ocean to my soul

To my soul

Your love is like a waterfall, waterfall

Running wild and free

You hear my heart when I call, when I call

Deep calls, too deep

Your love is like a waterfall, waterfall

Raining down on me

Waterfall, waterfall

It's coming like a flood

I'm dancing in the rain

Everything I've done

Is covered in rivers of grace, amazing

It's coming like a flood

I'm dancing in the rain

I lift up my hands

Your love never changes, amazing

Your love is like a waterfall, waterfall

Running wild and free

You hear my heart when I call, when I call

Deep calls, too deep

Your love is like a waterfall, waterfall

Raining down on me     

Waterfall, waterfall

Sentence Prayer

Jesus;

May your living water cascade from my heart, 

today. To bless myself and others.  Amen

Chris Tomlin - Waterfall (Audio)

WERE YOU THERE?

SNIPPET

“As Paul Hawken keenly observed, Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course.… We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.”

― Louie Giglio, Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe

SCRIPTURE

Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” JOB 1:21 NIV

SONG

Where Were You GHOST SHIP

http://youtu.be/DLf_Nlukra0

I said God I do not understand this world

everything is dying and broken

why do I see nothing but suffering

God I'm asking could this be Your plan

Sin has taken hold of this whole land

Will You not say anything else to me?

He said where were you the day that I measured

sunk the banks and stretched the line over

all the earth and carved out its corner stone?

Where were you the day that I spoke and

told the sun to split the night open

caused the morning dark with its light to show

Who shut in the ocean with stone doors

marked the reach of tides on those new shores

hung the day the waves rose and first broke forth

Have you seen the springs of that great sea

walked the caverns carved in the black deep

through the gates of darkness there on its floor

Have you seen the armoury i hold

snow and hail are stacked up in silos

for the times of trouble and war and strife

Can you raise your voice to the storm cloud

would the thunder answer and ring out

does the lightning ask you where it should strike

Who has cleft the channels for torrents

rain to sprout the desert with forest

in the wilderness that my hand has built

Can you hunt the prey for your lions

can you use the cords of orion

is this whole world bending beneath your will?

I spoke of things I did not understand

things too wonderful for me

although I had no right to ask

my God knelt and answered me

Sentence Prayer

Eternal God;

Who are we that you even think of us?

Yet not only thought of died for our sins?

In Your Sovereignty you rule the universe.

In Your Grace you knelt to personally relate to us.

In response may I kneel in awe at the wonder around me,

That shouts God rules!  Amen

PSALMS 51

Snippet

Our love for God and our appreciation of His love 

and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition 

of our sin and unworthiness. Dave Hunt

Scripture

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;

 wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Let me hear joy and gladness;

 let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

Hide your face from my sins,

and blot out all my iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God,

 and renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from your presence,

and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation,

and uphold me with a willing spirit.  Psalms 51:7-12 ESV

Song

White as Snow by  Modern Post

http://youtu.be/HfY6ft-H3bM

Have mercy on me, oh God

According to Your unfailing love

According to Your great

compassion

Blot out my transgressions

Would you create in me a clean heart, oh God

Restore in me the joy of Your salvation

Wash me white as snow

And I will be made whole

The sacrifices of our God are a broken and a contrite heart

Against You and You alone have I sinned

Sentence Prayer

No written prayer; spend some informal time in prayer 

recognizing God’s holiness and your need for 

His forgiveness.

WAR

Snippet

Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.--Randy Alcorn

Scripture

 So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing.  I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9:26,27 NLT

Song

Make War BY TEDASHII

http://youtu.be/vs1Sq7M7cIU

(feat. Flame and clips of John Piper)

[Intro: John Piper]

I hear so many Christians, murmuring about their

imperfections,

And their failures, and their addiction, and their

shortcomings.

And I see so little war! Murmur, murmur, murmur.

Why am I this way? Make war!

[Verse 1: Tedashii]

Bang with me, ba-bang bang, ba-bang with me

No more playing games mane

Cause this thang can get risky

So mane if you into Christ,

Take up! your cross quickly

Stand fearless on the front-line

Time to come with it, do the right thing

Wake up! And let's get it

I ain't even in the ring

They throwing bows like Riddick

Persistently attacking me

They're even in the back of me

It's either fight or loose my life

And I can't take this passively

So what you think I'm 'bout to do

I'm bout to do what I can do

Trust the one who got me through

And fight like it was after school

Never giving up, steady, standing on the battle field

Feet firm to the ground like I stepped on Chapel Hill

Flesh feeling frisky, sin persuades and tempts me

Satan cheers me on, guilt followed by conviction

It's the same ol' trap and we fall like we defenseless

Work your senses, grow in wisdom

Stand firm and be relentless

[Hook:]

I make war!

Cause sin never sleeps

It's got me in a trance

You can see it in my dreams

I make war!

Man I beat my flesh

To the death, every breath

Like I beat my chest

I make war

Sun up

I make war

Sun down

I make war

Time in

I make war

Time out

I make war

Against lust

Against pride

Against me

Until I die

[Verse 2: Flame]

Do you even have a clue

What happened to you when He died

When that tomb got rolled when He rose in the sky

I think we emphasis sin so much

That it makes us paralyzed

And glorify struggle so much

That it makes us terrified

And de-emphasize the fact

That we have been sterilized from our own lives and

thus We gotta snap out of it

We ain't in no straight-jacket, we free

When Jesus died in our lives something

strange happened

He gave us power

Yeah I know that we sinners

But since He rose He's renewing the image of God in us

Now, we gotta start making war

Now we can start saying no

To them fleshy impulses that Jesus Christ is paying for

Now we can start taking the lead

Just like the Dalai Lama and start going all out like a

suicide bomber

Whatever the sin is we gotta go go go harder

By His grace no time to waste and just just just like

there's no tomorrow

[Hook:]

I make war!

Cause sin never sleeps

It's got me in a trance

You can see it in my dreams

I make war!

Man I beat my flesh

To the death, every breath

Like I beat my chest

I make war

Sun up

I make war

Sun down

I make war

Time in

I make war

Time out

I make war

Against lust

Against pride

Against me

Until I die

[Verse 3: Tedashii]

I'm a Christ representer, fin' to stand and deliver

Cause a lot of my believers struggle with their agenda

So I dropped this on an adat

Just so you could come play back

A hit to be encouraged that rocks you with truth

from, way back

So listen up to it asap, like you do a Lecrae track

I'm spittin' written visions to put on heads

like a wave cap

Sinning, naw we don't play that

Cause that's the way that a slave acts

I'm filled with the spirit so tell them dog

this is payback

As you begin to copy the carbon copies of

Christ And conform to his written image you

should be shinning a light If you not, why is that?

Is it fear that's been grippin' you

Cause you scared they'll be dissin' you

Flipping birds while that spit at you

If you not, why is that?

It don't matter so bump it

Perfect love cast out fear and He ain't save us for

nothing This is a privilege (privilege)

Your life to give to Him (give to Him)

So stand firm for Him dawg and let's get it in

[Hook:]

I make war!

Cause sin never sleeps

It's got me in a trance

You can see it in my dreams

I make war!

Man I beat my flesh

To the death, every breath

Like I beat my chest

I make war

Sun up

I make war

Sun down

I make war

Time in

I make war

Time out

I make war

Against lust

Against pride

Against me

Until I die

SENTENCE PRAYER

Father; Help me to run with the purpose of becoming more like Jesus.  Remind me every day that this is not shadowboxing, but a dying to sin and a living for Jesus.  Help me to train every MOMENT for the fight of my soul.  That after talking a big fight, I may not lose my soul.  Amen R.M.

FREEDOM

SNIPPET

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” 
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

SCRIPTURE

But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— Colossians 1:22 NIV

SONG

Freedom’s never free

 BY PHILLIPS, CRAIG & DEAN

http://youtu.be/ldtvzcxv0DQ

Standing on a hillside

Where the river meets the sea

White crosses without number

Line the fields of peace

And each one a silent witness

Staring back at me

Every cross a story

Of another place in time

Where young men thought it worthy

To give their life for mine

And for the sake of honor

Left their dreams behind

And for the price they paid

I'm forever in their debt

Their memory will not die

'Cause I will not forget

I will stand and hold my head up high

I will dedicate my life

To the glory of the ones who had to die

I will live, live what I believe

If for no one else but me

I will remember

That freedom's never free

It was on another hillside

Outside the city gates

The battle lines were drawn

As soldiers took their place

The Father watched in silence

As a cross was raised

With freedom drawing closer

He took His final breath

He drank our cup of guilt

And took the sting from death

Heaven's Finest Soldier

clothed in human flesh

And for the price He paid

I'm forever in His debt

The cross will never die

'Cause I will not forget

I will stand and hold my head up high

I will dedicate my life

To the glory of the One who had to die

I will live, live what I believe

If for no one else but me

To remember that

Freedom's Never Free

I will walk free

I will stay free

I will live free

I will die free!

 

Sentence Prayer

 

Jesus, you are the constant reminder freedom is never free.  You have freed us from sin, guilt and hate.  Thank you.  YOu truly are a lion and a lamb. Thank you on this day the men and women who died a lion protecting us lambs.  May their example cause us to rise up against the injustice of this world, afirm the rule of Christ!  Amen