Let Hope In - Daniel Bashta

Daniel Bashta is one of those artists I love listening to his lyrics and having the Lord speak through so strongly. Tonight at Grace Midtown we worship through these lyrics while we celebrated some of Miracles, Signs, and Displays of Power from the last few months. It was an amazing time just praising God for being God. He is the creator, the caregiver, the giver of life, and protector, restorer, and redeemer. Throughout the night I knew the Lord was moving and it was so great simply to rest in the powerful presence of my God.

My prayer is that I would release my ever present risk averse mindset and just head first with faith that the Lord has a cool pool of water for me to swim and enjoy the Power of the Kingdom at hand. Also I pray that this song would ravage more than just my heart with the Truths of the reason Jesus is our only everlasting Hope!

I speak to barrenness

I command life within

Come live you desolate

Spring up you living well

I speak to barrenness

I command life within

Come live you desolate

Fling wide you ancient gates

Healing power flow like a river

Reveal your mending heart

To every tormented soul

Emmanuel come quick to deliver

So let hope in

Open your walls

Hope conquers all

I speak to barrenness

I command life within

Come live you desolate

Spring up you living well

I speak to barrenness

I command life within

Come live you desolate

Fling wide you ancient gates

Healing power flow like a river

Reveal your mending heart

To every tormented soul

Emmanuel come quick to deliver

So let hope in

Open your walls

Hope conquers all

There goes all my doubts

There goes all my pain

On that day you rose again

Sin no longer stains

There goes all my questioning

There goes all my fears

On that day of reckoning

Hope has reappeared

So let hope in

Open your walls

Hope conquers all

All is Great in the Courts of my King, he allows me to recline upon his Chest and Rest!

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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