Dance upon Dissapointment....Amanda Cook (Bethel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5KNck6k5OY

I have been at a point for some time now, that I want more of Jesus than I want to understand the craziness of this world. One thing I know for sure. I will NEVER allow the enemy steal my worship!!! If he can steal my worship, he can steal the greatest weapon I have against him!!

Jesus, thank you for teaching my feet how to "Dance upon Disappointment." I will trust in You completely. You've awakened my soul a long time ago to sing with Your breath in me. So if you are weary, lift your eyes to see. I pray your heart awakens and sees that His love crushes every lie of the enemy.

One of the most beautiful thoughts I have since my husband has gone home to be with Jesus is that, I get to walk in a Spiritual relationship with Jesus here, at the same time my husband is in His presence, walking with Him there. This is TRUTH!! Scripture tells me that "We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord." (2 Corinthians 5:8)....and Jesus left me with John 14: 15-31, the Holy Spirit, living in me. What a gift to carry me to my eternal home. If you have the love of God in your heart and soul, you would know. You would know, because you would NEVER BE THE SAME!

So Hallelujah, until He calls me home I will worship! Psalm 32: 7-11, "You are my hiding place; You will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My loving eye on you.........Rejoice in the Lord and be glad......sing all you who are upright in heart!" Amen...

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Steady Heart... Steffany Gretzinger and Amanda Cook (Bethel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp80oWtnJc0

Many songs I attach are prayers from my heart to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This is one of them.

Many times in our journey here, we will go through dark times. Times where you won't have a clue of what God is up to. But you can bet, it is part of His plan. You don't have to like it, but we have a choice to trust Him Who knows best. At least you know at the end, victory is yours, one way or another. Life or death, God's "steady heart," and hand hold you.

My faith, and my love for God, tells my heart to stay steady and trust Him. He's carried me through many trials in my life, and He hasn't changed, but He CONTINUALLY is changing me.

His love, His perfect love that I keep seeking, is being formed in me. It's a love that drives out all fear. 1 John 4:18, "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.... The one who fears has not fully experienced His perfect love."

Fear truly has it's way of creeping it's ugly head into my life every now and then. It's certainly not from God. It's what I allow, and where I allow the enemy to bring my thought life.

Psalm 141:8, God tells me to keep my eyes fixed on Him. 2 Corinthians 10: 5, Tells me to take EVERY THOUGHT captive and make it obedient to Christ. Oh how I wish I could stay in that peaceful place. I know God wants it for me even on this side of heaven. I have to say, I'm not where I used to be Praise God!!

I pray the chorus of this song. It's a reminder of all God is to me, and then some.....

"Steady heart that keeps on going, steady love that keeps on moving, lead me on. Steady grace that keeps forgiving, steady faith that keeps believing, lead me on. You are faithful, You will lead me. You are faithful, You will keep me. And as the dawn breaks, and as the clouds clear, in an open space, together we will run."

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Transfiguration.......Hillsong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMtfq5epbw

1 Corinthians 12: 13, "For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink."

Ephesians 4: 4, "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;"

I pray you believe every lyric of this song. If you don't, you must not have experienced the Living God. I pray that you will just ask Him to reveal Himself to you.

"Holy is the Lord revealed before my eyes, and my burning heart can scarcely take it in. As I behold Your beauty with unworthy eyes, the only song my soul can sing is Hallelujah, Hallelujah my King."

This truly was my personal experience at a Christian concert I went to the other night. Jesus Culture, an amazing band, and their lyrics to their songs are very powerful. First they pray over the whole crowd, and that our hearts would be open to welcome the Spirit of God in. Well as the concert was about 1 hour into it, I couldn't help but notice a security guard at the corner of the stage, guarding the stage for crowd control. I could tell that he didn't even know the music. He was there just doing his job. But God had a plan for him.

I began to sense in my spirit to pray for him. So I began from a distance. I was about 5 steps up from the stage and floor crowd. I wasn't even paying attention to the music at this time. I just keep praying that if he didn't know God, he would before the night was over. Within about 5 to 10 minutes I glanced down at him and I noticed a man and young boy talking to him. Then I saw them embrace him in a huddled prayer. As I continued in AWE of what was happening, about 6 more people reached over to join in. This young security guard welcomed it. The smile on his face was priceless. God showed me, we truly are ONE IN SPIRIT!!

Holy and POWERFUL was the Lord before my eyes. When I tell you that my burning heart could scarcely take it in, I mean it!!! All I could say was Hallelujah! So did the lady behind me. When you are one in Spirit, you know what's happening. I told her I couldn't stop praying for him. She told me keep doing it. Then we both witnessed that.

I continue to pray for him even still. I pray that he is "changed, and changing still, as he looks upon the Lord and believes."

The "Transfiguration" that happens in a persons heart and soul is real, and it keeps on working till we are called home. When you experience the LOVE of the Living God, you are never the same!

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For the Cross.... (Bethel) Brian and Jenn Johnson

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuRNZg6uatg

I pray you listen to EVERY WORD of this song and it bows your heart to our Lord Jesus! Thank You Jesus.

Romans 8: 28-35

You hear a lot of people say, "I love this scripture. God is going to work everything out for my good."

Yes it's true, He will. But really meditate on this scripture. Resurrection Sunday did not come without good Friday. They call it good, only because it was good for us. Horrible suffering for Jesus, but good for us.

We will never have to face that horrible separation from God's presence at our hour of death like Jesus did. What a Savior! What a Friend! Can you even imagine the depths of darkness Jesus experienced when His Father turned away while all the sins of the world were cast upon Him as He hung suffering on the cross. All our sins, past, present, and future. I can't, and won't ever have to face that horror because of my faith in Jesus Christ.

To be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ is not going to be a comfortable process in life. But we will be comforted at our death PRAISE JESUS! Our lives have meaning, and purpose for the kingdom of God. Our eternal home. We are just pilgrims here. Yes all things will work out for our good, but it does not come without our own good Friday. Trouble, persecution, hardship of any kind that God allows to come our way.

Romans 8: 28-35...READ IT ALL for yourself. What could ever separate us from the love of God? What will it take in our lives to conform us to the likeness of His Son? Verse 32, "He did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all".... Matthew 20: 21- 23, Are we willing to drink from the cup of suffering? (Selah)

 

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