Write This on My Heart

Lord, write upon my heart the depth of Your love,
The love that You showed in the shedding of blood.

Inscribe upon my heart Your sacrifice given
With joy at the want of relationship with us.

Etch into my heart Your selfless humility, all that You are -
That I would live as Christ to this world.

Jesus, Your love – so pure and freely given,
Make me as one selfless and pure like You.

Write upon my heart, deeply on my heart -
All that You are, that I would love like You do.

Ever deeper and deeper, inscribe upon my heart
The depth of Your love, shown for me on the cross.

Write this on my heart. Etch it ever deeper, that I might shine forth -
Shining for the glory of God, who made and loves me.

You who are a King, yet You humbled Yourself to the point of death, death on a cross, taking the filth of our sins upon Yourself so that we could have a love relationship with You. Something so undeserved, and yet You love us that much! Do you know Jesus? God loves you!

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I Shall Taste and See

You are so near,
Yet never near enough.

Oh for the day to come
When my eyes fully see,
And my senses fully know
The goodness of You, my God.

Still the hope remains
That just as David prayed,
I shall taste and see Your goodness
In the land of the living.

So good You are,
Endless and matchless always.

Whom have I in heaven but You?
And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.
My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
(Psalm 73:25-26)

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Battle Cry (You Are All We Want, God)

song in the night…
(Background: I woke up at 4:00am this Saturday morning while I was attending Zadok House of Prayer’s Keeping the Charge conference because God had the new song below going through my head. Hopefully I’ll record it and post the audio soon!)

(Chorus:)

You are all we want, God. We want You, we want You.
You are all we want, God. We want You, we want You.
All the enemy has stolen — Bring it back, bring it back.
All the enemy has stolen — Bring it back, bring it back.

The distractions are many in this battle that’s raging,
The things trying to take us, to take us from You.
But we’re called to You, God — our Portion forever,
Like Levites we minister to You, holy God.

(Chorus)

For worthy of honor and glory and praise,
Worthy of worship, our hearts we raise!
Worthy of honor and glory and praise,
Worthy of worship, our hearts we raise!

(Chorus)

So come have Your way, Lord, come take us over.
Come have Your way, Lord, come have Your way.
So come have Your way, Lord, come take us over.
Come have Your way, Lord, come have Your way.

(Chorus)

[The Levites, the sons of Zadok] shall enter My sanctuary,
and they shall come near My table to minister to Me,
and they shall keep My charge.
(Ezekiel 44:16)

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Lion of Judah, Fiery and Compassionate

I saw Your face in the night before I slumbered,
You as the Lion – the Lion of Judah, fiery and compassionate.
Love poured forth from Your eyes and something indescribable -
The vision fleeting, yet a moment so intense!
Your eyes penetrating deep and deeper still.

What were You expressing with Your eyes, oh Lion of Judah?
What do You want to express, my Savior, my Lord?
Your servant is listening, aching fully to hear,
Oh Lion of Judah, speak, even with only Your eyes.
I want to deeply know – what’s on Your heart?

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Put Your Songs in Our Hearts

The sheer weightiness of God’s presence during our pre-service prayer time blew me away me this morning.

Saturday night I had a tension headache that continued into morning, threatening to make the day more of a fight for focus than usual, but the weight of God’s presence and the focusing of my mind on Him quickly swept it away. What’s such a pointless thing as that compared to the beauty of God anyway?

God awakening my senses to His presence as I entered into worship and prayer eclipsed all else. His glory far eclipses all afflictions, large or small (a headache is nothing compared to other things!) As the lyrics of the song How He Loves go:

“…all of a sudden I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
and I realize just how beautiful You are and how great Your affections are for me.”

I’m finding the sweetest moments with God are when He’s refining you in His fire, growing you into a tree with roots planted deep in Him by the streams of His Living Water, and making you more Christlike (Psalm 1/Jeremiah 17). It’s worth it. It will be worth it. It already is worth it. Jesus is the One I want to live for. What else is there? Nothing and no one is better. He’s the fairest of all!

Today I wanted nothing more than to be still & quiet before God’s throne. God both amazed and blessed me at once, and how humbling this is! That God would, firstly, send His Son to take away my sins, though none of us can even love Him without Him! And that He would bless by using the imperfect vessel that is me as His vessel when God needs no one–I mean, one word from His mouth  brought forth creation–why would He even want to use me?

Yet so much does God care, about each one of us! Yes, He doesn’t need us–He’s God, but He does want us! I can’t repeat it to myself or remind others enough, nor can I fathom it fully: God made us to love us and us to love Him, to have a relationship with us. God is love!

I wrote this in magnetic poetry on my fridge yesterday:

lead me to the mountain, Lord,
teach me the language of Your heart.
give strength to my spirit,
and humble me like Jesus.
I rejoice in Your everlasting love!
sing Your freedom songs through me!

He’s been answering that prayer all along, but today He took it to a new level in me for His glory yet to graciously show me who He made me to be as His vessel of love, truth and light!

Lord, You are outstandingly loving, merciful and beautiful! Keep putting new songs and prayers in our hearts and upon our lips, words wholly inspired by Your Spirit! We need the songs and prayers You want sung, proclaimed and prayed more than any others!

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All For You

Pour forth Your love upon me,
Like oil flowing richly down.

Let Your love transform me,
You embracing me — me embracing You,
Loving You –
With all of me, all for You.

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Living Sacrifice

The fire inside is burning, burning -
Just for You it’s burning.
It’s growing in strength, it’s growing,
Just as I pray it is growing.

Let the fire inside that You’re growing -
Keep going and growing in You.
Add to the fire, add fueling -
Fueled with Your love and Your truth.

Your love compels me, compel me -
Compel me to live only for You.
Let my love for You grow, enduring -
To endure to the end for You.

In trials help me press on, persisting,
Faithfully living for You.
The Faithful and True, my Jesus -
Help me be faithful to You.

The way to live, truly live -
Is to live my life for You,
Yielded to You, You alone,
A living sacrifice for You.

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Vessels of Love, Truth and Light

I want just to go to the mountain with You,
I’m tired and I’m weary,
But I know I’m to stand firm, firm in You,
A tree planted by the water with roots growing deep -
Set aside to be Your vessel of love, truth and light.

Fill me with Your strength and Your Spirit,
Romance me away from the cares of this world.
Even with battles around and enemies on each side,
All I’m to do is fix my eyes on You,
To be Your vessel of love, truth and light.

All I’m to do is wait,
Then yield to You – at the appointed times,
To live for You from the depths of me,
Letting words pour forth -
Living Water from a vessel of Your love, truth and light.

Everything’s wholly Yours,
And all is in Your hands;
So set Your Spirit upon me – fill me up,
Let me pour forth for Your glory,
Consecrate me as Your vessel of love, truth and light.

“Prepare the way, prepare the way,”
I sense Your return at hand;
“Prepare our hearts, prepare our hearts,”
Put down all that exalts itself above You.
“Raise them up, raise them up,”
Those who will seek after Your heart,
“Let us seek, let us seek,
To do His will whatever the cost.”

To do justly and love mercy,
To walk humbly with our God:
Anoint us for Your glory,
Compel us by Your love,
To truly be Your vessels of love, truth and light.

Proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor,
And the day of vengeance of our God:
Pour out Your Spirit upon us,
And let us stand firm in You, God,
Your wholly consecrated vessels of love, truth and light.

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A Psalm

You alone satisfy, O God my Redeemer.
You feed me with Your words,
And fill me with Your waters of life:

Their life-giving flow, abundant let them be,
Your words, the bread of life, everlasting for me.

That I would desire You only,
And fill emptiness not
With that which does not satisfy:

For You alone satisfy, O God my Redeemer.
You alone be the praise of my life.

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Poetry: None See the Wind

None see the wind,
only what it moves;
a feather ruffled, a leaf stirred,
but from where did it originate?

Such is God’s Spirit -
Him we cannot fully comprehend,
His greatness, His vast majesty -
no words can aptly describe.

When will God speak and how?
Through what means will He choose -
His Word or creation, a psalm or melody?
Finite minds cannot understand His lofty ways.

I am, quite frankly, glad -
glad not to know all!
God, You take care of all things,
even the tiniest details of life.

How You love us so!
Blessing, speaking at an unknown hour,
bringing joy and hope,
peace and clarity when least expected.

Yet the times You’ve perfectly set aside;
the moments wrought meticulously by Your hands -
by the Lord of all, my Father, Creator -
the Saviour of my soul!

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