Closer - John Mark McMillan

I remember listening to this song sometime last spring and just asking the Lord to come. Today I was thinking back on that season because I glance back through my journals every now and then, the one theme that dominated my writing, prayer requests, and actions was a lack of rest. I could not rest in anything, I was continually worn down and drawn thin. Looking back I was not very involved, school was easy, lots of awesome life giving relationships but it is coming into clarity now why I still felt a lack of rest... It was due to me not letting Papa come in close to me, I kept him at a distance. I did not want to allow him into the depths of the pain of my past! Last night at Summer Housechurch I just laid on the ground and invited the Lord with all of the faith I could muster to come close to me. To come and bring the intimacy that he promises, to come and see all that I am! He has done this in the past and I have felt the peace of the his presence overwhelm me! So here we go, take this song and let it wash over you and invite the Lord to come closer, open up your soul and let him fill you with his joy, peace, righteousness, and Love!

Come closer, closer to me.
Find me broken, find me bleedin'
cause I need more now than a fairy tale,
a god who lives in a book.
I need someone real.

So would you come?
Would you come?
If i begged you, would you come closer to me now?

Come closer, closer to me.
Find me broken, find me on my knees,
cause I need more now than philosophy.
Some god in outer space doesn't mean anything to me.

So would you come?
Would you come?
If I begged you, would you come closer to me now?
Would you come?
Would you come?
If i begged you, would you come closer to me now?

Son of David, do not pass me by,
cause I am naked,
I'm poor and I'm blind.
Son of david, don't pass me by,
cause I am naked,
I'm poor and I'm blind.

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...

It is Well - Bethel Music

So let Go my Soul and Trust in Him The waves and wind still know his name! While eating my breakfast this morning I was thinking through the above lyrics that we sung on Sunday morning at Midtown. Then a picture landed in my head that I could not shake. I saw myself holding on to the rudder of a small sail boat in the middle of the storm. Wave after wave crashing into the boat. I was standing firm and holding on to the rudder for dear life to keep the boat pointed in the direction that I wanted. Each time the wind would change direction the rudder would slap me around and I started to see the meaning behind this picture. I try so hard to control my life, my future, my possessions, my friends and at the end of the day I am broken and bruised from the storms of life. This morning the Lord simply said, let go of the rudder for a while. Let me take control and let the storm go its course. Let go of the rudder, the boat will travel where...

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