Jesus and Jesus Alone

I love You, I love You, I love You Lord today. You paid the price for me way back on Calvary. That's why I praise you I lift you up and I magnify Your name. Oh how my heart is filled with praise. My heart, my mind, my Soul belongs to You.....This song reminds me of the closeness of Jesus and how He and He alone is all my inner most being should long to embrace. Today I just thought about the faultiness of man and how the Lord Jesus is immutable. He is the only one that's there always the word of God says He sticks closer than a brother.Proverbs 18:24 A man of too many friends comes to ruin,But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Often times I depend my joy upon the status of my friends and family. As that song came to my mind I was reminded of the deepness of the verse.. My heart my mind my soul belongs to You. That is to the Lord Jesus. So the joy sang in that song is the same joy that should reign in my heart as my days are a going. Instead of the hurt and bitterness of those around me. For because of what Jesus did on my behalf why should I have a consistent glow for Him and intern for others. No matter the circumstance.Another example that comes to mind is like on Wednesday night at the DWYL concert,I was willing to praise the Lord in the sweltering heat. Nothing could spoil the joy of worshipping Jesus. Not even the sweat that weighed me down.So I must remember what belongs to Jesus...my Heart, Mind and Soul. I gotta give Him everything

At the feet of Jesus

We fall down
We Lay our crowns
At the feet of Jesus
We cry Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lamb

The greatness of your mercy and love
At the feet of Jesus
We cry holy holy holy is the Lamb

What a great place to sit and rest at the feet of Jesus. On this Lord's day, sleep deprived and all I heard the gospel message proclaimed and it caused me to first to look deep within to see if I earnestly knew, how can a man be in the right before God? In my heart I rejoiced that I can be right and am right with God because of what the Lord Jesus did on my behalf and man's behalf. So, I reflect back to waht I heard and this song came to mind. The sermon sent me to worship the holy lamb that was worthly to be righteouness on my behalf that flames up the fire and joy from early coversion. So I am reminded how I must cast down all my crowns the things that I hold high and bow before the King.In thanksgiving and awe of His mercy and love. The only true with no string attached mercy and love at the feet of Jesus.Great reminder to return to the feet of my first love.

Thinking on the night shift

When I'm on the night shift I have so much more time to think. Some would say too much time to think (12Hr shift). Many things I ponder are about the Lord. I am often amazed at Him and His Glory. I was thinking tonight just how great He is and how the testimony of His greatness that I can cling to is that from the scriptures and what He has done in my life and what He continues to do. It has to take the saving power of Jesus to keep me. Often I feel the power of sin trying to redeem itself but the Jesus that saved me, defeats the power of sin from reigning. Whereas when I was lost in my trespasses and sin there was no fight. Sunday, I believe it was Sunday PK that's my pastor, he was explaining how God was the Christian's shield.He expanded the definition by saying he is our buckle. You know like a belt buckle that hold your belt that holds your bottoms. He supported it by Scripture's from the Psalms. Like Psalms 3:3,5:12,7:10,18:2,30,35. My favorite being Psalms 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. So praise be to God for the life has been created in me and how he continues to be my shield and hold my life together. For He desires to be that to all men. Who reject the ways of the flesh and cling to the ways of Jesus Christ. To think and think about the Lord provokes me praise to Him. For my old thoughts were encompass by ways to praise me. So I'll continue to sit back and ponder the things of God. Until He shows Himself faithful and rises the sun in the morning, also the end of my shift. Think about the things of the Lord..........
Psalms 28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.

The Valley of the Sun

How hot do you think it is in the valley of the sun? Your correct scorching.... I walked out to the garage to get the key for the mail box. Then I thought I best get in the car and drive there and to get something cool so I did. Oh yeah by the way it's on 108 the average around this time is 112-114. We are doing good so far. So the best thing for me to do is get a book and read the heated day away.But the grand thing about this heat is that we know God, is in complete control of thermastat. So I must not complain. But praise the one who let's the sun shine constant and warm!

False hope

This morning as I was leaving work that is "The Night Shift", I rode home in the presence of the apostle Paul's letter to Timothy. This was via CD, the bible on CD. Paul warned them against false teachers of the law . People who would come and change the doctrine that had been taught to them. The truth about Jesus Christ would be under attach.Here's what I heard:
3As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer 4nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work—which is by faith. 5The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 6Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. 7They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.
8We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. 9We also know that law[a] is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.My heart was pretty overwhelmed by this subject. As I went to sleep to prepare for another night shift, I was wakening by the urge to pray for those you are being deceived and for those who are deceiving. I was once caught in the lies of false teachers and was clueless about the truth of Jesus Christ. There are still many who I love dearly that are trapped and see no way out. But God can make them to alive in Christ as He did me and those in Ephesians 2.So as my heart continues to be burden I share with you in hopes that you to will pray, but ultimately I will carry it to my Father who is patient with us, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

Music

I never really knew how much I enjoyed music. Often I find myself sing and remixing different songs. Which brings me to this one. In Christ alone has had such a major impact on my life. I remember first hearing it Summer 2006 at a evening worship serve at Eastwood. So I had the song sheet and I was like if this anit' the gospel then what is. So I continued to sing it mess up the original tune, one day the Projects worship team finish practicing and my boy Alvin Melton was playing this song in a different style. I mean the truth and good music it was great. From then on this has be my theme. Every time I hear it, it gives me the chills. Read it I'm sure it will have that impact:
In Christ Alone
In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
this Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
when fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
here in the love of Christ I stand.

In Christ alone! who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones he came to save:
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied -
For every sin on Him was laid;
Here in the death of Christ I live.

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain:
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave he rose again!
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me,
For I am His and He is mine -
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.

No guilt in life, no fear in death,
This is the power of Christ in me;
From life's first cry to final breath.
Jesus commands my destiny.
No power of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand;
Till He returns or calls me home,
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand.
By: Stuart Townend, Keith Getty

So just imagine I have been sing this since the recent Lord's day.

Expectation for your Life

This book was great! Bruchko by Bruce Olson. A friend of mine recommended this book to me last week on the way to the gym. I brought it home and thought I'll get to that a little later. So I finished the book that I was currently reading and the I began this one. Just a brief overview:Bruce Olson a nineteen year old young man. Set sail to impact a tribe in South America. He faced disease, terror, loneliness, kidnapping and torture. But what he experience has has a major impact on the missions world. Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down. The main reason was the main character walked in faith time after time. I wanted to continuously see how he was able to make it through trial after trial. Hint:Obeying the Lord was his secret. There where many times he wanted to get give up but he pressed on. That what I needed to here. So though this book was a true story based on events that occurred 40 years ago, its still applicable today. I must tell you of one of the latter chapters that caught my attention the most. It was a discussion based on Philippians. One Character asked the other" Is Jesus Christ the expectation for you in your life? Really? Just as it did the character it had the same effect on me. It stop me short....and caused me to ponder, and reconsider some of my expectations!