The Foolishness of Unbelief

2019-03-15 Devotional Companion to Revelation, Devotional with Hymn No comments

A prayer response to Revelation 9:13-21,
the sixth trumpet

Father, uproot from my heart and life
all the foolishness of unbelief.

You created me.
You shared Yourself
with me and
through me.
You redeemed me.
When I didn’t know You and had
no inclination toward You whatsoever,
You poured out Your life for me.
Yet I still struggle to trust You completely with needs that are
right now,
in the real world.
When the pain is pressing and I feel no relief,
I still doubt.
When the answer doesn’t come when and how I expect,
I waver.
You know it’s true, Father.

You are the only Source and complete reservoir of all
love,
power, and
wisdom.
All that I see, touch, and know
came from You alone.
Yet it’s still not automatic to trust that
You and all Your promises are
absolutely real and
absolutely certain.

I trust material things and not You?
Money and not You?
Myself and not You?

Father, continue to uproot all this nonsense from my
thinking and
doing.
How many times do You have to prove Yourself to me?
I do believe in You.
I do know, from reason and experience, that You are
completely true,
always responsive, and
unfailingly faithful.
Infuse all I am with that simple faith.

You are the most real thing in all my world.
Help me to live like it.

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Hymn: Lord, Why Am I Anxious?
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Psalm 22

2019-03-13 Hymns No comments

When Jesus prayed on the cross,
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”,
he was quoting Psalm 22.
This hymn helps us understand His prayer,
not as a cry of doubt,
but as a deep expression of faith
for life’s worst moments.

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O why have You left me,
My Father and my Lord?
My prayers hang unanswered,
My desperate cries, ignored.
Your love, pure and holy,
Is ever here and now,
A pure, tender wisdom,
Though sense cannot see how.

They growl as they circle.
They pierce my hands and feet.
They mock, laugh, and torture
With hatred soon complete.
O God, I am helpless,
But ever it is so.
I need You each moment –
O Lord of all, You know.

My God, still my Father,
I praise Your glorious name!
In light and in darkness
Your goodness is the same.
My song is Your greatness,
Your glory, my reward,
My Sovereign, my Savior,
My Life, my Light, my Lord!

 

by Ken Bible, © 2017 LNWhymns.com

ThinkSingPray

2019-03-11 ThinkSingPray No comments
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Lent 2 

 

Monday –      I Want to Follow Jesus
         Hymn: Come See Our God (recording) (printed)

Tuesday –     Denying Myself
         Hymn: In Your Steps (recording) (printed)

Wednesday – Grasping for Greatness
         Hymn: Not Greatness, but Sacrifice (recording) (printed)

Thursday –    Surprised by Suffering
         Hymn: Glorify Your Name (recording) (printed)

Friday –          Career Goals
         Hymn: In the Father’s Hand (recording) (printed)

Saturday –     Weeping Over Jerusalem
         Hymn: Lord, Keep Us Reaching (recording) (printed)

 

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Free for the Asking

2019-03-08 Devotional Companion to Revelation, Devotional with Hymn No comments

A reflection on Revelation 22:17-21,
a final invitation

All God’s very best gifts are
free for the asking.

“Ho! Everyone one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money, come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without cost.
Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And delight yourself in abundance.”
(Isaiah 55:1-2, NASB)

His Spirit calls to you, “Come!”
His redeemed people call to you, “Come!”
All who have ever trusted Him urge you to “Come!”

Do you have a thirst that nothing else has ever satisfied?
Forgiveness,
purity, and
the fullness of life
are freely available.
Come!

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Hymn: Lay Aside Your Passing Pleasures
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You Are Almighty God

2019-03-06 Hymns No comments

See our three-in-on God in all
His power,
His love, and
His beautiful, personal presence.

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Look up and see His holy power.
Listen and hear Him in the thunder.
Bow down and find Him in the darkness.
He is Almighty God.
Father, O Father,
We are Your children.
We bow in worship.
You are Almighty God.

Look up and see His body broken.
Listen and hear His Spirit groaning.
Bow down and wonder in the silence.
He is the Son of God.
Jesus, O Jesus,
Shepherd and Savior,
We bow in worship.
You are the Son of God.

Wake up and see the Spirit moving.
Hear Him and follow as He whispers.
Step out, depending on His power.
He is the Breath of God.
Spirit, O Spirit,
Speak to Your people.
Come, Holy Power.
You are the Breath of God.

 

by Ken Bible, © 2006 LNWhymns.com

ThinkSingPray

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Ash Wednesday, Lent 1 

 

Monday –      Prepare for Ash Wednesday
         Hymn: Ash Wednesday Hymn (recording) (printed)

Tuesday –     Ashes to Ashes
         Hymn: Ashes to Ashes (recording) (printed)

Wednesday – Have Mercy
         Hymn: Have Mercy (recording) (printed)

Thursday –    Prepare for Lent
         Hymn: Hear His Call (recording) (printed)

Friday –          The Christ of Lent
         Hymn: Come and Follow Me (recording) (printed)

Saturday –     The Temptation of Jesus
         Hymn: With Jesus in Temptation (recording) (printed)

 

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Ultimate Urgency

2019-03-01 Devotional Companion to Revelation, Devotional with Hymn No comments

A reflection on Revelation 22:6-16,
be ready

We are approaching the gate to eternity.

The end will come
quickly,
suddenly,
unpredictably,
irreversibly.

The fate of each person will be eternally fixed.
The righteous will go to
complete, unending union with
the Source of all good.
The wicked will go to
complete, unending separation from
the Source of all good.
Heaven or hell,
blessed or cursed,
inside or forever outside.

Jesus had seen
earth and heaven,
time and eternity.
He spoke of His return and the judgment
with absolute, ultimate urgency.
His coming again was
the overriding reality that should determine
our every decision,
our every priority.
He urged us,
implored us to
get ready and
stay ready.

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Hymn: Second Coming Hymn
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Psalm 31

2019-02-27 Hymns No comments

On the cross,
Jesus committed Himself completely to His Father,
using the words of this ancient Psalm.
Through this hymn setting,
make His prayer your own.

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Into Your hands, Almighty God,
I lay life and all I am.
Crucified here, I give myself
To live and die with Christ the Lamb.
Lord of all love, so high, so true,
Father, You hide my life in You. 

Sickness, injustice, grief, and pain,
Loss that my heart can’t understand –
You are my God, my good, my all.
All of my times are in Your hand.
Lord of all love, so high, so true,
Father, You hide my life in You.

Blessed and secure, we sing Your praise,
Joyful in You, so good, so great!
Seasons and struggles come and go;
Strong in Your strength, we trust and wait.
Lord of all love, so high, so true,
Father, You hide my life in You.

 

by Ken Bible, © 2018 LNWhymns.com

ThinkSingPray

2019-02-25 ThinkSingPray No comments
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Jesus’ Earthly Ministry 2 and Transfiguration 

 

Monday –      Hymn: One by One (recording) (printed)

Tuesday –     He Comes to Us
         Hymn: See Him Walk on the Water (recording) (printed)

Wednesday – Rulers arise in their own nation…
         Hymn: Jesus, Living God! (recording) (printed)

Thursday –    The Transfiguration
         Hymn: Transfiguration Hymn (recording) (printed)

Friday –          Jesus was transfigured AS…
         Hymn: The Father’s Face (recording) (printed)

Saturday –     God’s Kingdom Comes
         Hymn: See His Kingdom Come in Power (recording) (printed)

 

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The Fruits of Your Presence

2019-02-22 Devotional Companion to Revelation, Devotional with Hymn No comments

A prayer response to Revelation 21:22 – 22:5,
the glories of heaven

Father, we will have no more need for a temple,
no need for a symbolic reminder of Your presence.
Your presence will be
full,
personal,
immediate.
We Your people will be Your temple.
You will live in and among us.

We will need no other sources of light.
You and Your Son will be the light, and
You will shine
within us and
in our midst.
We will glow and sparkle transparently
with the glory of Your presence.

Life will be
fresh,
fruitful,
abundant,
freely available,
constant,
forever.
We will live at its very source.
There will be no need to
horde it or
haul it in small doses.
It will flow in the water around us.
It will grow on all the trees.
Health and wholeness on every level will be
complete and
universal.

There will be no more curse,
no more shame.
Never again will we hang our heads and say,
“I am only human.”
Christ the Holy,
Christ the Glorious
is the new Adam, and
we are of His race.
We are His beautiful bride,
His chosen ones,
a blessing to all creation.

No longer will we be banished from the presence of the King.
We will see His face.
His name,
His character,
His glory
will radiate from us.
We will fully share
His life,
His authority,
His holy splendor
forever and ever.

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Hymn: When Christ Our Healer’s Work Is Done
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