"More Than Conquerors" -- The Song

I listened to one song over and over again -- for more than an hour -- on Wednesday afternoon. After having heard just 24 hours previously about my Dad's UNC Medical report that cancer has returned -- aggressively, The Holy Spirit truly used a new song by Rend Collective to help me successfully turn all possible worry for my Dad into sure adoration and worship of my God. 

Lord, let us never forget that TEAM JESUS wins!!!! 

In Your Powerful and Compassionate Name, we pray. 

Amen.

Here's the link to the song below. Listen, my friends, it will surely reinforce your faith. (Especially if you listen to it in a loop for an hour or more.)

Grateful

Click here: 'More Than Conquerors" from Rend Collective (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO) - YouTube

In The Beauty Of Your Holiness

Seemingly all day yesterday this spiritual song written by Gary Sadler was playing on my mind bringing assurance to my own soul and passing through my lips as an offering of adoration to my Dear Lord:

Lord, I thirst for You
I long to be in Your presence
My soul will wait on You
Father, draw me nearer,
Draw me nearer
To the beauty of Your holiness

I will wait for You, Almighty God
In the beauty of Your holiness
I will worship You, Almighty God
In the beauty of Your holiness

Click here: Lord I Thirst for You/The Beauty of Your Holiness

Holiness Unto The LORD!
Grateful

The Perfectly Balanced Life

Spirit of the Living God, please reign within us and give to us The Perfectly Balanced Life. Only You, Sweet Spirit of Truth, can give us from within a God-ordered simultaneous balance that imparts to us a blessed overlap of adoration, occupation, recreation, and restoration. Yes, we cry out to You, our Loving Lord, to be our Peace and so engineer our lives that we might be the opposite of driven people. We want to be perfectly tuned by Your indwelling presence in the areas of worship, work, play, and rest. In our lives Lord Jesus be glorified, be magnified, and be satisfied. Amen.

ALL JOY!
Grateful

FAITH LIFT -- A Praying Lab

I offer this F-A-I-T-H LIFT acrostic as a prayer laboratory:

F- FAITH
Pray believing that God lives and God loves. (Heb. 11:6 paraphrased) Unless we pray believing God is able to help us and God wants to help us, we pray in vain. Let us not forget that the most basic Biblical purpose of prayer is that we might Know God.

A-ADORATION
Pray as a true worshipper. "Oh come let us adore Him." Remember the words of Wise Men in Matthew 2:1 (MSG): "We are on pilgrimage to worship Him." Pray that your life will magnify, glorify, and satisfy God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit... One.

I-INTERCESSION
God is looking for those who will stand in the gap between Heaven and earth in intercessory prayer. To pray is to intercede, to invoke the name of Jesus not only for yourself but also for others. When you pray with others in mind, you prove that you love God, you love others, and you love yourself.

T-TRUTH
Pray the Word of God, so that God's will is always the focal point of your praying. The words of the Psalmist are powerful prayers for us to echo back to our God. In my life, it is impossible not to be encouraged when I pray God's Word back to Him. Read Luke 4:1-14 and listen to Jesus pray the Word of God to overcome temptation and to defeat the devil. God's Word is powerful!

H-HOLINESS
Totally surrender to God in prayer. Nevertheless, not my will, but Thine be done. Your part in holiness is total surrender to God's desires. So, ask God to help you specifically and then trust God completely. Yes, trust God to help you according to His perspective on your life and His compassion for your life.

Finally, remember that prayer is both simple and profound, in that, if you are presently in the midst of a trust crisis, simply pray. If you are currently in the fog of a prayer crisis, profoundly trust.

An Invitation: If you'd like to participate in an audio prayer laboratory based on this simple but profound F-A-I-T-H acrostic, go to http://www.abeaconofhope.org/ and click on "audio sermons". Then select the sermon for August 30, 2009 titled "Gethsemane Gathering -- FAITH". I pray it will be a blessing to you as it was to our local family of faith, hope, and love. May you experience as we did, a FAITH LIFT!

ALL JOY!
Grateful