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

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 joy that comes after the

Twenty-Four - Jess Ray

Lately I have been listening to lots of music and podcasts while working and biking to work. I was feeling a need for some new music so I turned to NoiseTrade to check out some new artists. My favorite thus far is Jess Ray because of the honest lyrics, tastefully simple musicality and overall enjoyable listening environment. While on my flight back to Atlanta I was struck by this song at first because of the drums that propel this song behind the walking guitar. If I were to add drums to a track like this it would have been done in a very similar manner. Once I got past the drums I was awe struck by the simple power of these lyrics, take a read below and follow the link to her blog to listen. To me it was not written for an outward expression of hope or encouragement but rather as a inward proclamation to the soul. As the psalmist often choose to sing, this song speaks inward in a call to stand up and be reminded of truth all to often forgotten. As I gear up for the star

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 All the earth replies, Holy are You Thi

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