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Saturday, September 8, 2012

I welcome You with praise!!!

Let our praise be Your welcome

Let our songs be a sign

We are here for You, we are here for You
Let Your breath come from heaven

Fill our hearts with Your life

We are here for You, we are here for You

I am here for You...I welcome You with praise...fill my heart with Your life...I am here for You.  That has been the cry of my heart of late.  I am in awe of my God!  He has brought me to a place in my life that I have never been  before...a dessert place.  He has brought me here and has been teaching me SO many things, with such tender and gentle whispers.  He has been breaking me down, stripping away my flesh, and giving me a very intimate image of His amazing love for me.  He has been actively pursuing me in the dessert, whispering to me that a promise land is coming, all the while holding me in his arms and loving me in ways I never thought possible. 
To You our hearts are open

Nothing here is hidden

You are our one desire
You alone are holy
Only You are worthy
God, let Your fire fall down


My heart is open to you...You are my one desire...You are worthy!  Only you are worthy!  This journey began some time ago.  God allowed several things to happen in my life that I never thought would.  Mitch and I were both struggling with different things and didnt know what to do, we were at a cross-road.  We both felt that the Lord wanted us to get together with a very good friend of ours who was a pastor from our church, Lynn Erskine, to have some wise council.  God used Lynn to speak directly to our hearts.  He had different things to say to both of us, and his words cut right to our hearts.  The Lord shared things with us through Lynn that only God could have known...and both Mitch and I have been impacted in ways that we will never forget. We were so blessed to have the Lord speak to us in such an intimate way, actively pursuing us and doing that by using our friend to speak it to us...
Let our shout be Your anthem
Your renown fill the skies
We are here for You, we are here for You
Let Your Word move in power
Let what’s dead come to life
We are here for You, we are here for You


Let my shout be Your anthem...Your renown fill the skies...I am here for You!  These words are my prayer!  I long to have my life shout an anthem for the Lord, that his renown may fill the skies...Mitch and I have both faced an unexpected loss recently.  Our good friend Lynn, that God used so amazingly in our lives, went to be with the Lord this past week - Sunday September 2nd.  
Lynn with one of his girls wearing the
birthday crown that she made for him. (He actually
wore it at church that day as he led worship)  :) 
A family picture taken shortly before
he went to be with the Lord.
As I have been going through the sadness of losing a friend, He has come along side me so tenderly and has been reminding me of his love for me, that He is perfectly sovereign, and that even when His timing makes no sense to me - it is perfect.  Lynn was 31, the healthiest person I knew and had a young beautiful family.  I am inspired by the life he lived, and I long for the intimacy he had with God.  He  truly is with his First Love.  His wife is a beautiful Godly women, and has that same heart and passion for the Lord that her husband had.  I pray for her as she mourns his physical death, but I'm excited to see how God is going to be glorified through all of this.  Let Your word move in power...I am here for You!  
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To You our hearts are open
Nothing here is hidden
You are our one desire
You alone are holy
Only You are worthy
God, let Your fire fall down

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To you my heart is open...You are my one desire!  You alone are holy, only You are worthy!  God, please let your fire fall down!!!  I pray the words of this song over and over again.  It's crazy how God uses the hardest times in this life to teach us so much.  I often tell Mitch 'this is the kind of stuff that all those older wise people had to go through for years and years in order to have the wisdom that they have now''.  God is teaching me so many things...and I praise Him for that even if I don't understand his timing of them  because God is good and He knows the outcome.    
We welcome You with praise
We welcome You with praise
Almighty God of love
Be welcomed in this place
Let every heart adore
Let every soul awake
Almighty God of love
Be welcomed in this place
We welcome You with praise
We welcome You with praise
Almighty God of love
Be welcomed in this place
[Matt Redman - Here For You]


I welcome you with praise! Almighty God of Love, I pray that every heart adores You, that every soul awakens to You..  Almighty God be welcomed...I welcome You with praise, be welcomed in this place.
Amen