In this place, I sing!

Standing here, in Your Presence
Praying here, not into the air
Waiting here, for the One my soul loves
Watching here, waiting for Divine Love

Like arrows from Heaven
Like waters break on the rock
Like shooting comets
Like the knowledge of Your will

Oh Lord You are One
Your Name, You are One
You take away sin
You wash clean again
You make me who I am
You are the Lamb of God

Bowing down before You Lord
Hailing You as King of my soul
I claim allegiance now
The One to behold

Fixed gaze on Your Throne
Trusting You alone
I let go of life now
I grab hold of You now
Your promises for my shame
Your Name for my pain
I claim You as Lord

Here in the Presence of the Lord!
Here in the courts of the King!
Here in the chambers of my God!
In this place, I sing!

Lifting battered arms in praise
Muscles flexing for Your Name
Let Passion arise
Let Glory abide
Full belief like dancing rain
Devoted hope rises again
You’re always enough
Love never runs dry
Divine Holy King!

Send Renewal!

Today, I set my heart on a pilgrimage
A journey to the Most High
Finding my strength in God alone
Rejecting passivity
Again I rise

I press on
Turning away from glitter
Letting go of anxiety
Looking to Jesus
He is my author, He, the finisher of my faith
Strength to strength again
My goal, the magnificent Prize of Christ

I will see my God in Zion
There He will satisfy my soul
There Oh God, is where I want to reap
The joy of the whole earth
I will not lose heart
Turning my eyes upwards
Gazing, scanning, looking, longing
To the Most High, my brilliant tribute

You are the light at the end of my tunnel
You are my very present hope
I embrace this wild country
There is no shadow of death for me
For where I am, there You are
I have no fear
Trepidation and care flee from me like terrified prey
Now I, on the offensive
Flinging my hope and trust Heavenward

You pour out grace and glory on Your ones
How blessed is the man who trusts in You
Surely goodness and mercy always comfort
Everyday of his life
Covering, surrounding, emboldening
Ready for devotion or war
Hands prepared for praise, or equipped for battle
Waiting for the command

Gathered with the throng
Because we love You
Longing just to be with You
Having no greater joy
Fascinated in delight in Your Presence

Help us, Oh Father
To know how to rend these hearts
Fully Yours
You are the potter, here is the clay
Burn, mold, shape, and renew
All to You

I arise and seek the One I love
I must find this One
Can not live without
Can not do without
I lift the latch and peer through the lattice
I call out, I run out, I search for this great Love!

My passion in life, to know
All these other goals must bow
On this journey of love to be with You
Returning again to Divine primacy
This One thing…

King of endless worth
Are You, Lord God
The only Almighty
As a slain lamb
As a conquering lion
You are more worthy than I know

Believing in the coming King
Jesus, who will return to Mt. Zion
Splitting the sky and mountain
Even hearts and souls
Release Revelation
Even so, Come Lord

Making a solemn vow
A covenantal stand
Placing my heart, soul, and mind
That this life would be lived as worship
That this heart will be given over in love
That this allegiance will be sworn
That I will cling to You alone

For You are jealous
For You are worth it
For You are Love
You are God

Jesus, I am Yours
This heart, forever
Just wanting to be with You
Not afar off or after busyness
Now, a stilled heart
Now, a steadfast mind
Now, an ardent resolve

Come and take Your place!
Even now, in the center of our hearts!
You, who are the center of it all!
Have primacy in my heart
Have the head seat in my soul
Take Your place!

Today my soul is lost in longing
Propelled out of the dry land
Flourishing in this richest of fare
Springs exploding up
Waters and a lavish oasis of soul
You, who are the Center of it all
Pouring down now

My soul longs for You
Rising up on strength that is not my own
I draw near, You draw closer
Is this supernatural grace?
Closer still

By the Spirit, putting to death the flesh
Being led by the Spirit now
As an heir, as a son, as one who belongs
Let the light of Your countenance shine
Under these wings, I want to live

Break in with the Spirit of wisdom and revelation
Reveal the knowledge of God to Your own
Give the wisdom of the Holy One
The hope of this calling
To see Jesus in all glory
To see greater things for this city
Even in this day and hour

Heaven, Today

Oh Lord, You have searched me and You know me
Where can I run from Your Spirit?
Where can I flea from Your Presence?
You are all around me – surrounding
You know all my ways
I can go nowhere

Eyes oh Eyes of the Lord
Running swiftly to and fro throughout the earth
Looking for a heart that is fully Yours
Pour grace upon this one
To walk with You in truth

The task at hand is more than I can bear
I look to You
The past tries to weigh down like a millstone
I look to You
The present has only light for the next step
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet
Here is a light for my path
I look to You

Great and marvelous
Wonderful and fabulous
Spectacular and splendid
Breathtaking and brilliant
Magnificent and incredible
Grand and superb
You Are

You who hold the universe, even all of man
Everything upheld by the power of Your Word
How am I not more enthralled by You?
Why am I not thrust to the ground by the sheer weight of You?
Release revelation!

How do You hold seven stars in Your hand?
How do You walk among the seven lamp stands?
How do You live in me?
I want to be a man obsessed by the knowledge of You

Thank You for Your Spirit
Asking today for a greater measure
A baptism in the knowledge of You
Afresh

Afresh and anew, today and tomorrow
This morning and in the middle of the night
Again, and once more
Baptized in who You are
Immersed, deeper, into another measure
More now

Release Your Glory
Standing before Holiness
Believing that You hear these prayers
In faith, in the Throne Room
Contending for revival

The dreams of Your heart for this city
Your Word spoken – in our day
Come to pass
Disease can not stand
Want must make way
Nothing is impossible for You!

Stir up hunger for Your Name today
Standing, Believing, Crying out
Even for reverence for who You are
Break into hearts, into lives
Break in with life and hope
Will You display Your Power in our midst?
You, who surely will come?

Ready, hungry, earnestly desiring more
Stretch forth Your hand
Release healing

It keeps coming back to Your Glory
How do I miss it so quickly?
How do I keep making other things primary?
It is so much less complicated
It is so much easier than I have made it

Life, hours, days, it really is just about
Knowing You, looking to You, loving You
Then all else falls into place…
So many other things simply fall away

Being caught up
Enthralled, enraptured, even on earth
Even today, even at this very moment
Looking to the Lord, the Most High

Here is love, here is life
Here is direction, here is hope
In this One’s Presence
There is found the fullness of joy
Heaven is only Heaven because God is there
He is what makes Heaven so

Why then, could we not have Heaven here?
If it is about being in His Presence
If it is about turning to Your Word
If it is about letting our hearts be loved by God
Immortal, Divine, Omni, Merciful, Just, True!
Heaven, today

Your Name is my Reward

The longing of my heart
Yes, the aching of my inner being
Oh Lord, let it be
I will praise you with my whole heart
My inner man sings and makes mention of You
Your lovingkindness and truth overshadow me
I lean on them like pillars
I cried out, and You answered me
You make me bold with strength in my soul

I am revived once again
When I wonder, is all hope lost?
Then You are there
How can You be ever faithful – even to unfaithful man?

Holiness adorns You
Beauty surrounds You
New life is in Your eyes
Would You look at me?

Holy One, who keeps covenant and mercy
Faithful for a thousand generations
Here we are
Here we are
Those who love You and keep Your commandments

Wanting to be with You
Wanting to gaze on this beauty
For this my eyes were created
How I long to simply gaze
One thing I ask of You, Lord
To just dwell in Your house
To stand in Your temple
To be set in the secret place
That I might forever gaze on the uncreated One
On the Most High, the Perfection of Beauty
You, the worthy One

Jesus,
You are holy, You are glorious, You are worthy of this
Where else can we go?
But You,
The only Rock who hears supplications

You are worthy of
You are deserving of
All this life can offer to You
Holy and Glorious One
Running towards You
Drawing near to You
Moving closer now…
Pour out grace to know You
All glory, honor, and power is Yours

I don’t want to go through the motions
I don’t want to know You from afar
Earnestly desiring history between us
My goal to have memory in our gaze
A knowing, and understanding, a close communion
Knowing even Your glances

Will You bring me to this place?
I ask, I seek, I knock… for You
Even now…
No longer trying to attain to You
No longer striving to reach sanctification
Letting go, trusting now
Yielding to Your faithfulness over my own
Believing You are faithful to complete it
Today I release my life to You

You are with me
An ever-present help in time of trouble
You are ever-present, ever-near
You never leave
You never forsake

Abandoning worry and fear
I choose to trust You
You are for me
The Darling of Heaven – He is with me

I am never alone
You are with me
You have to become my all
You have to be everything
The One who was, who is, who is to come
Riding on the clouds of Heaven
On whom is written, Faithful and True

Beautiful, all Glorious
Fully awesome
Men fall in Your Presence
Center of it all
Worthy lamb who sits upon the throne
All creation bows
And I,
I join the throng
And that has made all the difference

Faithful glance

I want to be found faithful
I want to be found steady
In the end of days, on the last march, at the hour of reckoning
Where can I give my life towards to this end?

Can I just sit and gaze?
Can I be faithful as You are faithful?
Will You just look at me that I might be changed in that gaze?

Eternity drives me
What prize do I wish to attain?
Where to give my time and affection?
How can I be found faithful?

The answer is in the cry
The answer on my lips already
Before I ask it, I know
How can I simply live in the place of prayer?
Will You orient my life that I might give myself to this life?

I don’t want to leave the Secret Place
I don’t want to lose the gaze
I don’t want to do “good things”

I want to live my hours, my days, my life before Your Eyes
Flaming eyes of fire – search and know this one
Passion arises. Strength and Resolve break forth.
Wash me with the water of Your Word
Again and again, like the sea breakers that cannot be stopped
There is no taming them

Like a hidden treasure, like buried gold and silver
Where You are, that’s where I want to be
Have You not placed me in this school of love?

Just let me pray
Just let me contend
Just set me on the wall
Just give me the charge
My ears strain for the call

Let faith and wonder arise
Here is the safe place, even when life collapses, here is where I go
The alter of the Most High

How is it there is always more?
How is it You are always more?
Would You grant such grace to Your servant to go to the deep places?

Jesus, living flame of Love!

It is still in the first glance
It is still in the gaze, a shared memory
It is still in the Word, enrapturing
How can this soul not return equal obsession?

I remember the dance
I remember the passion
I remember being utterly lost – caught in the throes
How is Your love towards us this way?
How is it we read Your Word and are reduced to mush?

I’ve never known a love like this
I’ve never been so lost in it all
Again and again, batter this heart
Posses, breathe, shine, and seek to mend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make new

Grant what You desire for Your own
If life, if death, if much, if little, if many, if none
Do what You want to do, do whatever it takes
Just come

I waited patiently for the Lord...

Oh God, through me, Your hands have the power to heal every disease.
Your Power can heal, deliver, and set your people free
Now is the time for faith upon the earth
Now is the season of signs in the Heavens and wonders on the earth
My preaching is not with wise or persuasive words
But by a demonstration of the power of God

Here I am asking!
Here I stand, believing!
Your Glory oh Lord is my reward
Will You usher me into this place?
Worthy is the Lamb

Supernatural power working through Your servants
Through Your ones, to bring more to Yourself
Declaring that You are worth it
Now, let the prophetic break forth
Now, let faith arise

And with it, power to heal, power to deliver, power to set people free
Bind up the brokenhearted and bandage these wounds.

Oh God, now is the time, it was always available, it was always there…
Awaken us to who You are, Jesus, and what You are doing
That we may live in the reality of who You are on this earth
That we may live in the power of the Holy Spirit
Pour Your love on us

Bring us to the revelation of You, the faithful One

Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God
The faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations
With those who love Him and keep His commandments

Teach us, lead us, show us Your ways upon the earth
Grant the desires of hearts now God
Fulfill petitions and grant purposes
Set Your Seal upon our hearts
That we might know the width and depths
Of the divine love of God

The melody, the song, the call of my heart:

I set myself before You again, Jesus
Coming before the Throne of Grace
Oh God, release the seal of Your fiery love
Set Your Seal upon my heart. All consuming One.
You who are fire, and You who are an all consuming flame.
Would You come now and burn in me?
Would You burn all away that is not of You.

I ask for You.

By the Power of the Holy Spirit
Would You set Your seal upon my heart and life?
Even now… Jesus.
I am asking for passion for Jesus
Fill my heart with Your Love, oh God
I want to love like You love
Come and fill my heart with Your love, Jesus
Set Your seal of fire on who I am

I want to be set on fire with love for You, Jesus.
I want to love like You Love.
I want it to be all about Love.
Come and fill my heart

Even now, more and more…

Set me before You again
I know it’s gonna be worth it all
Seal my heart with Love
Release the seal of fire upon who I am
The intimacy of the Holy Spirit

This is my chief desire, and this, my chief end

Won’t You come?
Here I stand, here I wait, and here I call out
I don’t wanna go anywhere else

I am standing here until You move me

I won’t go anywhere
You said we could ask for Your Love
Jesus, I want this

All consuming fire – come and burn in the deep places of my heart
Where else can I go, and what else could I do?
I want to be set on fire in love, for You Jesus
I believe You are worth it
You are worth my life, You are worth my time, You are worth my affection

Could I please just stay in this place?
Could I please never leave?
I don’t want to go
I don’t want to strive
I want to stand, serve, minister, and burn before You
Jesus, I just want to stand and gaze at Your beauty
I just want to be filled up in love with who You are
I want to know who You are
I want to know who You say we are
Worthy is the Lamb

Setting my heart in Your Presence again
Would You strengthen my heart in the Grace of God?
Abba, I come before You
That the love with which You love Your Son, would be put in my heart
I now ask for that love

The love with which You love, Jesus

You said, You would pour this love upon our hearts
So now, I ask to be filled with this Heavenly love
Supernatural love

Pour it on my heart
I want this love – that You have for Your Son, that You have for people
I am asking for this love
I want to be consumed
I want to be lost in love for You, Jesus

Fill us once again

Sail oh heart

Could a heart sail?
Could the dreams of even one so small come to pass?
Out of the billions of voices on the earth
Could this one’s be heard?

What do You ask of Your servant?
Will You help me come to that place?
Will You bring me to where You want me to be?
Will You make the way shine like the morning star?

Could the human heart yearn more?
Could desire be awakened on a grander scale?
Knowing I’m not alone
Trusting that You are good and faithful
Believing that You are who You say You are
Believing I am who You say I am

I know You have never left me
I know You have never forsaken me
Knowing that Your love carries Your own through
Like the wings of the wind, always there, impossible to pin down

More than the watchman waits for the morning
I wait for You
Over and over and over
Will You come?

The world offers me all it has again
Continually trying to wear me down
I know there is nothing lasting there
That is the key – lasting…

I have found the place of prayer to be the only place that brings life
Life breaks forth because we meet the author of life in that place
Why would I not want to know the author?
The very One who brought it all to pass?

I’m not trying so hard anymore
I don’t white knuckle life anymore
Father of Glory, You are the One who can bring Your plans about
I look to You again

Here is all that I can bring or give
Here is all that I could think or do
Grace, Lord, Grace

This is who I am

I set my heart again today to live for eternity

I am a stranger here, a pilgrim here, and I’m living for another age

May You find faith and love in my heart

This is righteous and what pleases the Father

Believing God through His Son, Jesus

The blind see, the deaf hear

The lame walk, the mute talk

Father of Glory, Bridegroom who is all beautiful

I dance before You

All fear is gone as I get lost in Your Presence

Spinning, leaping, flying

Faith rises in who You are

There is nowhere else I want to be

This is who I am

Lover King, Sacrificial lamb

You died even for me

While You hung on the tree

You kept choosing to stay

Roman whips and a jeer-filled crowd

Nails in Your Hands, splinters in Your back

You chose to stay

You were the expression of love

Did ever such love and sorrow meet?

You were the example of what love is

You were the first One, always the first

Thinking on You, drawing near

I think my heart has exploded inside me

Jesus, I love You

Every time they hit You

Every time they beat the nails in deeper

Every time You breathed on the Cross

You died, but You chose to stay

And then You rose from the grave

Forever enthroned in Heaven

Awesome One, You are exalted, the King is exalted

Forever Your truth shall reign

And I give my life to You

You are my Lord, You are the Lord

Throughout the endless ages

Even exalted in every nation of the earth

You will be magnified

I turn my heart to You now

This is who I am

For You are the Lord

You smooth my soul

In this place, with no fear, no trepidation

I believe all things are possible

You have been enthroned upon High

Jesus the Name above all Names

The secret place, the prayer room, lost in this sea of worship

This is who I am

I don’t fit in other places as I fit in this place

This is who I am and this is what I do

I turn my heart again upwards to You

My face as well and my arms outstretched

Are my feet touching the ground?

I never want to leave

This is who I am

Enraptured, impassioned, caught up

Worship in harmony

Strengthened with might by Your Spirit

Fire burns me now, is this life?

To know the depth and height of the love of Jesus

May Your power break in

That this great love would be made known

There is no end to this love

This is the love I want to know

Oh divine, oh immortal, Jesus

I love You

Pour out Your Spirit oh God

Make known Your Son, Jesus

That we might know and comprehend the love of God

The height, the width, the depth of Your zeal for who we are

King of Kings, Lord of Lords

This is who I love

That I would stand for righteousness, for holiness

That I would live worthy before You

That I would speak Your Word

That my spirit would be given over to God

Divine might – deep within

This is who I am

Given over in Love

Dear Heavenly Father,
Asking for vision and for revelation
Asking for the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the Knowledge of You
Asking for great purpose and great moment

Asking that You would set my feet like the feet of the deer and set me up on the heights
You are the great One who can overcome
You go before me
You are my rear guard
You know the plans You have for me – plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans to give me a hope and future.
So release destiny now God

Where else can I go?
You have the Words of Life
I return again and again to who You are

Asking to know love as deep as is possible for a man on this earth
Come reign in my heart and my affections
I don’t want to miss that which You have for me
Let nothing keep Your Will in purpose and love from finding my life
Crash us together like waves upon the rock
Collide us like a shooting star that cannot be stopped

I lay it down before You again.
I call out Your Name and say,
Oh God, bring the dreams and the plans of your heart for Your servant.
I call out to You day and night.

I am desperate to know You and Your will for my life
I am desperate like a starving man searching for food and water
Oh God, where are You?
Where is my God and where is my Beloved?
You said, “Seek Me and you will find me when you seek Me with all of your heart.”
I look high and low
Early and late
Near and far
My heart searches for the Most High
You said, “When you seek Me, you will find me, I promise”
Father, I hold to Your Word and I believe it is even for this day and hour

Where is my God and where is my King?
Is this what a faint heart feels like?
A sense of desperation with the knowledge that if I do not find You, I will surely die
How can I seek You better?
I will go to that place
I am at the point of utter no-return
I fully believe that if I do not find You oh King, I will pass away like grass
Surely man is nothing before You, and yet you esteem the heart that is contrite

Have my heart then God
Have the deep places in it
Have the shallow too
I search my heart, and I look inside, I look for places that are not fully Yours
Where are they?
Purge them from me even if it takes fire

I desire You above all else, Jesus
I have looked at life and tried and seen there is nothing that compares to You
My heart is only content in the Secret Place
And yet it wants more, craving to give into this Divine dependence

I am compelled, I am obsessed, I am infatuated with who this God is
How can the angels cry “Holy” over and over and never tire?
What is it about You that compels them that they could do nothing else?
Will You take me to that place?

I have heard now of the Divine Wound
And I want it
Even in the night, I cry out to the Most High to strike His servant with such a grace
A revelation of the beauty of Jesus…
A vision of the Cross…
A marking of eternity…
A ruining to this world…
Wound Your servant now Oh God with who You are

Never before have I felt more like an alien and a pilgrim in this world
Like one passing through, with thoughts set on He who is above
I fill my mind on God
I am driven by eternity

I look at things that sparkle and shine
I also see the advertisements
They do not breed discontentment in my soul
My heart is set firmly like a wall
I am consumed with the Word
It burns inside me as I read – even as I meditate – a searing inside
Burn oh Word of God
I set my hope on the Return of this Great and Mighty King
How long?
I rest in You, oh God

Wait on God
Be Still and Know that I Am
Do not worry and do not be anxious of your future
The greater your vision of Him becomes, the greater your life vision
The greater your vision of Him becomes, the less your problems are
With God, all things are possible
All things are possible for he who believes – set your belief and hope on the Most High
He does not disappoint
He does not let down
He is always more.
He is the I am who is always greater than.
Here is God

You who are asking for vision… look to the Most High
He is the light, the way, the truth
No greater vision exists on the earth
Draw near – believe you can come closer than you have ever come before
Believe that He is good.
Believe that this great God that we serve - loves with a love that redefines our knowledge of the word…this story is bigger than we know

You have not yet experienced consuming fire-love
You do not yet know love that burns like a jealous flame
You have yet to be enraptured and caught up in the Love of God – like a Holy Passion

Do you want to understand more?
The answer is found in the Cross
The Cross was the greatest expression of love the world has or will ever know
The Passion of the Christ was more than even man can comprehend
It remains the definition of love

You pray to know and experience love as great as possible for a man
Very well, do not be surprised if the answer looks different than you would imagine
Loving God is the greatest experience of Love a human being can ever know
Perfect love, fullness of joy, a heart exhilarated, peace like battering waves, even true rest

Love is a Divine idea
Love is more than a sentiment; it is more than a warming of the heart
Love is the deepest emotion any creature can experience
Love is the most powerful force in the world
Love is truly unstoppable

This is why God is Love
This is why Love can conquer all
This is why Love is the greatest
Nothing can stand against Love, nothing

You seek Love, good.
You will find what you seek
You will reap what you sow
You will receive what you ask for.
There are some laws that always are in effect.
You will know love

This is Divine
You do not yet know how the Heart of God feels for His ones
Here is true Love
For God so loved the world, that He sent His One and only Son, so that whosoever should believe in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that through Him, they would be saved

We have just a little time here and now, while it is still called today, to seek the Most High
He is so much more concerned with the heart, than we have any idea
He wants our hearts
He wants our affections
He wants us to give over in Love to Him
Here is the great I Am
His Name is Jesus

Heart Offering

Overtake me once more
Overwhelm me with love
Holy Father
Oh God You said that You love us
I wanna get lost in that love
I don’t want to be anywhere else
I don’t want to do anything else
Hold my heart now

Draw me ever nearer to who You are
I want to be lost in You
I don’t want to come up for air
I don’t want to do all those other things
Awaken and batter my heart again

I want to know Love
I want to see Your eyes and hear Your voice
I want to draw near
Would You draw this one?

Can I be closer today?
Will You have all?
For You know my name
Creator-King, Incarnate-Love, You are
I lay it down again, just to be with You

Worthy is the lamb
Will You have all of my passions and affection?
Will You seal them in an alabaster jar that I might pour it out before You?
Even though my love is small, I give You every corner of my heart
Holy One, have my heart offering

I have no regrets before You
You are worthy, You are good
When You look at me, when I feel Your gaze, love fills me again
Here is life – love over and again
Here I am before You
Believing You call me beloved
Rend this heart to You as a life offering

Here is life, it’s all about love.

Isaiah 41:10
“Fear not, for I Am with you.
Be not dismayed, for I Am your God.
I will strengthen you; yes I will help you.
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”

This is truth and this is reality. You have no reason to fear or walk in the spirit of timidity, for God is with you. He strengthens you, even renewing your strength, strengthening you out of Zion. He helps you. He will uphold you with His righteous right hand. He is God. He is your portion. He is your exceedingly great reward. Praise the Lord, save! Oh King, answer us when we call on You, when we call on You in truth.

Here is hope. Here is future. Here is stability. Here is life.

Now the harvest is white. As the country, yea the world, teeters on hopelessness and searches for answers. As savings disappear, and lives break under the weight of lost dreams and work that came to nothing, we look for answers.

Jesus – He is the only answer to the human spirit. He brings light where the path is dark. He brings hope where dreams are lost. He brings joy where all joy has been overtaken by despair. Here is the King. Here is the hope of the world. Here is the faithful One. Are you looking for a savior? Are you looking for answers to these questions of what to do in uncertain times?

Pray the prayer of faith – “Jesus, help me now. I need You in my life. If you are real, if you really are love and hope and joy and the way to go, come now into my life. Forgive me of any sin I have. I give my heart to You.”

He will come and meet you in your need, right where you are at. He is gracious and kind and slow to anger, He is abounding in love. He is not mostly mad or mostly sad or mostly disappointed in you. He is a loving King who longs to have a relationship with man. He has extended His hand, He has made a way to come to Him – His Name is Jesus. It’s all about love. It really is.

Here is where the great battle in the Heavenlies is being played out… for the human heart, and for the affections and allegiance of the hearts of men. Whom will you serve? To what will give your life? We will all of us pour out our lives and strength towards some end. The question is what will that be for you?

Eternity really is set before you. The immortality of the soul is the reality of our lives. We’re only on this earth for 70 or 80 years, and then we step into life – forevermore, with God or without. Choose this day whom you will serve. Will you choose Jesus? He who is life? Choose life. He will bring life, love, peace and purpose into your life. He is the only way, He is the only truth, He is the only life. It’s all about love, all of it.

For God so loved the world that He gave His Son Jesus into the world to make a way for men to be saved – to make a way for us to come to God. It is a very easy thing. Just believe. Just trust. We are saved then not by any works we may do, but by faith – just believing in our hearts that Jesus is the Son of God and confessing with our mouths, “Jesus, I believe.”

This is life. This is love. This is hope. This is peace. Are you searching for answers? Are you looking and looking for the way you should go? Believe in Jesus and He will be as a light to your feet and as a lamp to your path – showing you the way you should go.

It’s all about love. It’s not about anything else. It’s about just letting go and letting God love you as He would. You see, at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for us – the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, but for a good man, someone might possibly dare to die. But Jesus demonstrated His love for us in this, while we were still sinners, He died for us, to pay for our sin, and to make a way for us to be with Him.

He does love you now, but He will only manifest that love with life, joy, peace, hope, even fun, when we believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus, is the Christ, and Lord of our lives.

Try me in this. Test even now, my words and see if they are true. Do you have anything to lose? You have everything to gain, if only I am telling the truth. Do you want to know what it’s like to come home and to be completely at peace? Do you want to know what life is like when your heart is sure and you have hope and joy? Have you ever longed to know, just for a second, what it is like, to be fully loved with no shame and no condition? Have you ever been overwhelmed by love?

Here is life.

This is what it is like to face each morning of each day with purpose, with vision, with the feeling of God’s hand on your life. It’s all about love.

Jesus is waiting, standing at the door of your heart, knocking and saying, “If you will only let me in, and give your life to Me, I will do such a work in your life you would not have believed if someone tried to tell you.” It will be better than you think, greater than you know, this overtaking love.

He is the creator of the world and also the maker of you. Do you know the way He loves you? Do you know the way He longs to come into your life and bring order and life and joy and hope and peace?

He can bring stability where there is chaos.
He can bring peace where there is only storm.
He can bring love even to the most dejected and jaded.

He is love.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up our wounds.
He can tell your shattered heart to beat again, beat once more oh broken heart!
He can bring love to a marriage that has given way to necessity instead of intimacy.
He can do all things, even that which we think is impossible.

Will you let Him love you?
Will you just take that chance?

You have the world to gain; you have only love to find.
He can make your heart alive once more.
Just let Him love you.

Here is life, it’s all about love.

Overwhelmed… overtaken by love

Could a man be more overwhelmed by love?
Could a heart be more wooed?
I searched for security, stability, validity in the realms of organization
I looked so many places for value and for reassurance
But You, Jesus, my Lord
In Your mercy, You kept calling me back
You have kept drawing near to me, and in Your Grace, loved me

I tried to imagine where I would be without You, my God
I wonder what my heart would look like
You have brought light and hope
How can Your Love really be this good?
How can a heart overflow again and again?
How can it keep getting better?
What is this Divine Love?

You overwhelm me
You overtake me
You surround me on every side
You bring me through as the Israelites walked on dry ground through the Red Sea
What is this Divine love You have for us?

I thought I knew You
I thought I had some concept of Your love for people
But You…
You are always more
You are always greater
There is always enough, even now, there is more than enough!

I asked to know Love as much as is possible for a man to know
I prayed and brought my supplication before the Lord
I said, “Oh God, I want to give and receive as much Love as is possible for a man in this life, and to that end I will give my heart and strength.”
And then You…
You brought me into the school of love
Tenderizing the deep places of my soul
All my walls fall down
I do not reel back from You
My trust is in Your Word, and I give myself again to know it

Your law is perfect, converting my soul
Your testimony is sure, making me wise
Your statutes are right, rejoicing my heart
Your commandment is pure, enlightening my eyes

I am overwhelmed again by Divine Love

A thanksgiving to the Lord for His great works of deliverance – Psalm 107

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
Then I cried to the Lord in my trouble, and He saved me out of my distresses.
I cried out to the Lord in my trouble, and He delivered me out of my trials.
I was at my wits’ end, and He led me forth by the right way
That I might go to a city for a dwelling place.

For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness
He brought me out of darkness and the shadow of death.
And broke my chains in many pieces
He broke the gates of bronze that held me
And cut the bars of iron in two
He sent His word and healed me
And delivered me from my destructions
I will sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving
And declare His works with rejoicing!
He calms my storms, and all my waves are still

Then I am glad because He has quieted my soul
He has guided me to my desired haven.
I will exalt Him also in the assembly of the people
And praise Him in the company of the elders.

He turns my wilderness into pools of water
And dry land into water springs
There He makes the hungry dwell
That they may establish a city for a dwelling place
And sow fields and plant vineyards
That they may yield a fruitful harvest

He also blesses me, and I greatly multiply, and He has not let me decrease
May I be wise and observe these things, and understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

The Glory of the Saints

This is what we come here for

This is what you made us for

To partner with you

Here we are, here we are!

Here I am, Oh my God!

Would you come?

I want nothing else

Give me Yourself!

Put me wherever You are

I don’t want to go after all those other things

I don’t want to be lost trying and striving

I want You! Let Your Word run with Power!

Even now

This is my glory

Inflict Yourself upon my heart

Win over my heart; do not let it go its own way

Brand with fire, brand with passion, brand with love

Could I go higher?

Could I go deeper?

Further up and farther in.

I don’t want anything else.

This is why I’m here

Come God! Come Father!

This is why You made me, here I am!

Overwhelm and overtake me

Am I not burning for You?

Does not my heart awaken in the night and long for You?

Do You not wake me early in the morning and call me to pray and intercede?

Am I not compelled to do so?

My history is in You, my future is wrapped up in hope in You.

I have given myself no other options

So come burn! Come brand! Come sear my heart with fire!

From the inside out

I feel it even now…

My muscles quiver and my jaw shakes

My eyes look to the horizon and long for You

I wait for You as in a dry and dusty land

Father of Glory and of Power

Creator of light and author of intercession

Give the Spirit of Revelation in the knowledge of who You are

Quicken my spirit even now

Pour out the Spirit of Glory

Pour out who You are

Let the nations shake, let the wind of Your Word go forth, suddenly.

Bring to completion wholeness, fullness, all that You are

Light! Power! Strength! The Kingdom of God! Send Your Spirit!

Let it come. Let there be light!

Like a mighty rushing wind, like flaming tongues of fire.

Release the Spirit of Revelation on Your Church

Release Your Word in our hearts and on our lips

Here we are a kingdom of priests

Partakers of this Heavenly calling

Grafted into something greater than we are

Break in with who You are

A cry for the power of God!

Release Revival

Release the Majesty of God

Release the revelation of intercession

Light from Heaven

Light break in on our souls and on our minds,

Awaken us to the things of God

Do what’s in Your Heart!

I want nothing else

Even Now

Would You come?
Come like you promised?
Pour out Your Spirit on all flesh!

Father of Glory, come even now.
Come and fill.
Come and restore.
Come and redeem.
Come and bring to completion the good works You have begun.
Oh God!
We need You now more than ever.
Where else can we go?
To who else can we call?
There is no other.
It is You and You alone.

Let it rain now God.
Would You really open the floodgates of Heaven?
Would You really pour out all that You are on us?
How much can we have?
How far can we go?
Where are You Oh God?
Would You come now like a rushing river?
Would You pour out Your Spirit on all flesh?
Let us see You for who You really are.
You are savior, You healer, You are deliverer, You are God.

What a friend we have in Jesus.
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.
I know You are with me
What joy is mine to speak with You in the secret place?
Who am I to be granted such grace as this?

Will You have my heart fully?
Will you render all to Yourself?
How can I give of myself more?
I would do some great achievement for You
I would go on some grand quest to prove my love and gratitude for what You have done
But You… You only require that I give You my heart.
Here is the great battle.
To believe God through His Son, Jesus
Here is righteousness, here is justice… here is life!

Have my affections.
Have my hopes and dreams.
Have my time and talent.
Have my love.