Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Unchanging God in a Changing World



John 1:1 English Standard Version (ESV)
The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Psalm 81:12 New International Version (NIV)
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts
    to follow their own devices.

This last week was a difficult one for those follow Jesus and treasure His Word, yet still love this country.  The sight of the promise of God, a rainbow, illuminating this country's White House, praising the pride of man and not the glory of God, was unsettling to say the least.  We have been outrageously impudent before the God of all to redefine and relabel what He has created.  I just looked up another landmark Supreme Court decision, Roe v Wade, and have learned that well over fifty million abortions have been performed in this country since that right was granted in 1973, a court ordered sanction of the taking of lives created by God.   Now we have marriage equality.  That's a nice phrase to describe our stubborn rebellion against a God ordained covenant, a picture of Christ's own love for his church.  We want what we want and God may let us have it. 

What have we done?  Have we set our own house on fire?  Is it so important to be on the right side of history that we endanger our eternity?

God doesn't change, and in that truth we can find our peace.  We can trust Him even though the winds may blow against us. 

Hold to God's Unchanging Hand - Lindell Cooley 
  

Not Lying There

Monday, June 29, 2015

Unstoppable God

Romans 8:37-39 New International Version (NIV)

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Build Your Kingdom Here - Rend Collective
Lyrics
Come set Your rule and reign
In our hearts again
Increase in us we pray
Unveil why we're made
Come set our hearts ablaze with hope
Like wildfire in our very souls
Holy Spirit come invade us now
We are Your Church
We need Your power
In us

We seek Your kingdom first
We hunger and we thirst
Refuse to waste our lives
For You're our joy and prize
To see the captive hearts released
The hurt; the sick; the poor at peace
We lay down our lives for Heaven's cause
We are Your church
We pray revive
This earth

Build Your kingdom here
Let the darkness fear
Show Your mighty hand
Heal our streets and land
Set Your church on fire
Win this nation back
Change the atmosphere
Build Your kingdom here
We pray

Unleash Your kingdom's power
Reaching the near and far
No force of hell can stop
Your beauty changing hearts
You made us for much more than this
Awake the kingdom seed in us
Fill us with the strength and love of Christ
We are Your church
We are the hope

On earth


Heal Our Land (Song For The National Day Of Prayer)