Pursuit - Daniel Bashta and Rita Springer

Strip everything away
'Til all I have is You
Undo the veils
So all I see is You

Lord this is my prayer that you would strip everything away! Take away all of my desires to worship false idols, strip away my anything that draws me away from you. Father, anything that does not bring glory to you, please remove it from my life and my heart. Lord I want to only be able to see you, only you Lord.

I will pursue You
I will pursue Your presence
I will pursue You
I will pursue Your presence

Open my eyes
Search me inside
I can't live without Your presence
I can't live without Your presence

I'm pressing into You
So do not pass me by
I'm breaking through the boundaries
I will not be denied

I can't live without Your presence
I can't live without Your presence

Why do I run to the muddy water and drink when you offer clean water that is eternal life. Why do we so often reject the free gift of you son and embrace the temporal aspects of this world that only bring death!   Our response must be to pursue the God of the universe that has created us in his own image and he wants to have an intimate relationship with us! We must allow our hearts to see that he is pursuing us because he LOVES us so much that he continues pursue us regardless of all of our issues. Once our hearts are able to see this great Love we can choose to return that love or reject it. This song echos that we will pursue him back!!!! That is why I love this section of the song so much!

I will pursue
I will pursue
I will pursue
I will pursue You

All is Great in the Lord
Paul Shackelford

Arms Wide Open - Misty Edwards

What does love look like? This has been the question that I am asking, what does your love for me look like, how do I learn from how you loved me so that I can love others in that same manner. Father you are the teacher of love, how to love, what love is, what it really is. In these last few days that Father has been revealing so much about how I am to be Romanced, how can I ever Romance someone if I do not know the Romance of the Father? This fact has led me to just sit, read, ask the Father how he loves me, tangible ways, in my day, in my walk to class, in my lunch with a friend. When I accepted Christ into my life, I did more than just say some words, I accepted the proposal of a loving God who simply wants to love us! And oh how this song captures almost everything that has been rocking me in the last few days! What does love look like? is the question I've been pondering What does love look like? What does love look like?...

Alleluia - Jesus Culture with Martin Smith

Once again worship last night was Glorious! Had a great day just chilling with my SDP folks from last summer, went up the river and just talked about the past season of life and where the Lord is leading us into. Exciting and scary stuff but it was great to be back with some awesome people who speak some potent truth. Last night during worship was one of many firsts... For the first time in a long time I actually stood while I sang, for the first time in a long time I was singing from a place of Joy, for the first time in a long time I did not care how I worshiped my Lord I just worshiped. Well its not like these things have not happened ever in my life, but I just felt so much peace during worship. So I decided to throw the song that we just repeated for a long while up here, mainly cause I did not know the name so I was looking it up and now I am pumped, gotta buy this album! All the angels cry out, Holy is the Lord God ...

Rise Again - Needtobreathe

I have been reading a book about the arts and Christians role in creating culture. Steve Turner, the author, asserts a major critique that modern Christian art does not speak about real life. The art created does not sound genuine or have any ties to real life that people outside the faith can connect with. While reading the book I listened through this album and I think that this song does a great job of breaking the mold. The members of Needtobreathe are all outspoken followers of Jesus but very little of the art that they produce mentions Jesus or Christianity at all. Instead they craft creative music, written from places of pain and joy. "Rise Again" steps through pain that occurs in life as we see relationships stretched and torn. The bitterness of broken hearts and friendships is then contrasted with the truth that we will get up from this pain and rise again. "I can see us moving on, I can feel that coming on strong", the j...

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