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Showing posts with label God's Cross We Are Called to Bear. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
Sunday's Testimony ~ Jim Caviezel of his Experience in "The Passion of the Christ"
Sunday's Testimony
Monday, April 7, 2014
Monday's Mourning Ministry - Come Lift Up Your Sorrows ~Michael Card
Monday's Mourning Ministry
Come Lift Up Your Sorrows
~Michael Card
Come Lift Up Your Sorrows
song (written, played and sung)
by Michael Card
and video created by Heather Gartshore
~~~
"This wailing is what is inside all us Child-Loss parents all the time..."
~Tommy Prince
~~~
If you are wounded
And if you're alone,
If you are angry,
If your heart is cold as stone,
If you have fallen,
And if you are weak,
Come find the Word of God
That only the suffering seek.
Come lift up your sorrows,
And offer your pain.
Come make a sacrifice of all your shame.
There in your wilderness,
He's waiting for you
To worship Him with your wounds,
For He's wounded too.
He has not stuttered
And He has not lied
When He said "Come unto Me,"
You're not disqualified;
When you're heavy laden,
You may want to depart
But those who know sorrow
They're closest to His heart.
Come lift up your sorrows,
And offer your pain;
Come make a sacrifice of all your shame.
There in your wilderness,
He's waiting for you
To worship Him with your wounds,
For He's wounded too.
In this most holy place,
He's made a sacred space
For those who will enter in
And trust to cry out to Him,
You'll find no curtain there,
No reason left for fear;
There's perfect freedom here
To weep every unwept tear.
Come lift up your sorrows, (Lift up your sorrows)
And offer your pain. (Offer your pain)
Come make a sacrifice
Of all your shame.
There in your wilderness, (There in your wilderness)
He's waiting for you (He's waiting for you)
To worship Him with your wounds,
For He's wounded too.
(Come, come) Come lift up your sorrows,
(Come bring your pain, oh yeah)
And offer your pain. (Come make a sacrifice)
Come make a sacrifice (Of all your shame)
Of all your shame.
There in your wilderness,
He's waiting for you (He's waiting for you)
To worship Him with your wounds,
For He's wounded too. (He's wounded too yeah)
Worship Him with your wounds, (all your wounds)
For He's wounded too.
Come worship Him with your wounds,
For He's wounded too.
Grief Video: http://youtu.be/TciR2ITXbaY
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Monday's Mourning Ministry - The Old Rugged Cross ~Alan Jackson
Monday's Mourning Ministry
The Old Rugged Cross
~Alan Jackson
The Old Rugged Cross
~Alan Jackson
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suffering and shame,
And I love that old cross where the Dearest and Best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.
So I'll cherish the old rugged cross (old rugged cross)
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross
And exchange it some day for a crown.
To the old rugged cross I will ever be true
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He'll call me some day to my Home far away
Where His glory forever I'll share.
And I'll cherish the old rugged cross (old rugged cross)
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
And I will cling to the old rugged cross
And exchange it some day for a crown.
I will cling to the old rugged cross
And exchange it some day for a crown.
picture: http://christianbackgrounds.info/the-cross-sunshine/
video: http://youtu.be/Za1-e9zuGV0
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Monday's Mourning Ministry - O The Wonderful Cross ~Michael W. Smith with Matt Redman
Monday's Mourning Ministry
O The Wonderful Cross!
~Michael W. Smith
O The Wonderful Cross!
~Michael W. Smith
words by Matt Redman
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died
My richest gain I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride
See from His head, His hands, His feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet
Or thorns compose so rich a crown
O the wonderful cross!
O the wonderful cross!
Bids me come and die
And find that I
may truly live
O the wonderful cross!
O the wonderful cross!
Bids me come and die
All who gather here
By grace draw near
And bless Your name
Were the whole realm of nature mine
That were an off'ring far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all
O the wonderful cross!
O the wonderful cross!
Bids me come and die
And find that I
may truly live
O the wonderful cross!
O the wonderful cross!
Bids me come and die
All who gather here
By grace draw near
And bless Your name
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all
And the beauty and the shame
In the glory of His name
O the wonderful cross!
O the wonderful cross!
O the wonderful cross!
Bids me come and die
And find that I
may truly live
O the wonderful cross!
O the wonderful cross!
Bids me come and die
All who gather here
By grace draw near
And bless Your name
*****
May I never boast except in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
through which the world has
been crucified to me,
and I to the world.
And being found in appearance
as a man, He humbled Himself
and became obedient to
death-- even death on a cross!
Then Jesus said to His
disciples, "If anyone would
come after Me, he must
deny himself and take up
His cross and follow Me."
~Matthew 16:24
Let us fix our eyes on
Jesus, the Author and
Perfecter of our faith, who
for the joy set before Him
endured the cross...
~Hebrews 12:2
This man was handed over
to you by God's set
purpose...and you... put
Him to death by nailing
Him to the cross.
~Acts 2:23
For the message of the
cross is foolishness to those
who are perishing, but to us
who are being saved, it is the
power of God.
~I Corinthians 1:18
Picture and Video: http://youtu.be/_9oIJUK8QLA
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Friday's Faith - Meditation - The Lord Comes Down...
Friday's Faith
Meditation
The Lord Comes Down...
The Lord comes down
Into my heart;
His Spirit comes 'roun
His peace to impart.
He lifts my face
To see His eyes;
When we embrace,
My heart complies.
The Lord comes down
Into my heart;
His Spirit comes 'roun
His peace to impart.
He puts my hand
On tomb-stone ajar,
Holds out Love's hand,
I feel Love's scar.
My tears fall down,
His arms surround.
The Lord comes down
Into my heart;
His Spirit comes 'roun
His peace to impart.
Inside the tomb
I smell spice scents ~
Mother of His womb
Brought frankincense,
His body to glove
With her tears of love.
The Lord comes down
Into my heart;
His Spirit comes 'roun
His peace to impart.
He gives me a glimpse
Through Heaven's gates;
I catch a glimpse
Of my sweet child's face ~
Such peace therein
On her smiling face...
I breathe a sigh within
For His amazing grace.
The Lord comes down
Into my heart;
His Spirit comes 'roun
His peace to impart.
I hear the songs
The angels sing
As my heart longs
For my flight on wing...
Such joy untold
Does fill my soul,
His peace does fill
This hole in my soul.
The Lord comes down
Into my heart;
His Spirit comes 'roun
His peace to impart.
As He leans down,
I kiss His face;
As His tears flow down,
His love I taste.
His sacrifice of Love,
He asks me to embrace;
As my tears o'erflow,
Love's tears interlace.
The Lord comes down
Into my heart;
His Spirit comes 'roun
His peace to impart.
Then Love ascends
To Abba's embrace;
Such peace within
As I see Their face...
Love's sacrifice, Love knows ~
To me, Their Love o'erflows:
Feeling Their tears upon my face
As Father, Son, Spirit
~ me --Their child-- embrace;
To endure Love's hurt,
They fill my heart with grace.
The Lord comes down
Into my heart;
His Spirit comes 'roun
His peace to impart.
~ ~ ~
Let the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in Thy sight,
O Lord my strength, and my Redeemer.
Amen.
~Psalm 19:14
Portrait of Jesus, "Prince of Peace" was the first picture of Jesus painted by Akiane Kramarik when she was only 8 years old!
An interesting story: Little Colton Burpo at age 4 had a near-death experience in which he went to Heaven and saw Jesus; his father wrote the New York Times #1 bestseller in non-fiction paperbacks, Heaven is for Real in which he captured some of Colton's amazing experiences in Heaven. (It is a very inspiring book for us child-loss grievers ~ although it is not a "grief" book, it has ministered to us grieving mothers more than any other grief book out there (according to observations from The Compassionate Friends, USA informal polling).
So, anyway, Colton's parents held up every picture of Jesus they could find (Colton's dad is a pastor) after Colton's visit to Heaven, but Colton had said "No" to every one of them, saying they did not resemble Jesus as he saw and remembered Him. Later, Colton's parents were told about the child prodigy Akiane Kramarik, and that she had painted a picture of Jesus. When they found the picture and showed it to Colton, he just very matter-of-factly said, "That's Him!"
Akiane's mother was Athiest, her father a lapsed Catholic when Akiane began having "divinely inspired visions" after which she began translating into poetry and art. By age four, Akiane was painting and writing poetry. She has appeared on CNN, World News Tonight, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Akiane too has a book entitled Akiane; I have the book, and it is very inspiring. It has many of her poems and many of her paintings, including this "Prince of Peace."
Other pictures, thanks to turnbacktogod.com
Monday, June 20, 2011
Tuesday's Trust - No Scar? ~Amy Carmichael
Tuesday's Trust
No Scar?
~Amy Carmichael
Hast thou no scar?
No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear thee sung as mighty in the land,
I hear them hail thy bright ascendant star,
Hast thou no scar?
Hast thou no wound?
Yet I was wounded by the archers, spent,
Leaned me against a tree to die; and rent
By ravening beasts that compassed me, I swooned:
Hast thou no wound?
No wound? No scar?
Yet, as the Master shall the servant be,
And pierc-ed are the feet that follow me;
But thine are whole: can he have followed far
Who has no wound nor scar?
~Amy Carmichael
*****
"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands;
your walls are ever before Me."
~Psalm 49:15-16 NIV
*****
"For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ,
not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake."
~Philippians 1:29
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