Tag: music

The Saturday Song – Blessed Be Your Name

Posted on by Dorci

I love the old songs we used to sing, and this was one of my favorites. And for some reason, when I thought of it today, I thought of my friend Matt, who loved music and played it beautifully from the depths of his heart.  He went to be with Jesus it seems like a lifetime ago, and so many of us still miss his smile, and his kind and loving and gentle spirit.  So, I want to dedicate this song to our dear friend, Matt.  We can’t wait to see you again, friend.  What a glorious day it will be when we’re all there, worshipping our precious Lord together again.  

 

The Saturday Song – Everlasting God

Posted on by Dorci

 

Starting to feel a little weary?  Yeah, me too.  But God’s Word says

 

The Lord is the everlasting God,
    the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows weak or weary.
    No one can measure the depths of his understanding.
He gives power to the weak
    and strength to the powerless.
Even youths will become weak and tired,
    and young men will fall in exhaustion.
But those who trust in the Lord 
will find new strength.
    They will soar high on wings like eagles.
They will run and not grow weary.
    They will walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31 NLT

 

I used the New Living Translation because that’s the version spoken by the little girl near the end of the song.  (That part always gets to me.) 

But in the original Hebrew, the word, or phrase, used where it says “those who trust in the Lord…” is wait upon. Waiting on the Lord is not sitting and doing nothing, and it’s certainly not waiting in anxiety, wringing our hands, feeling helpless. 

Wait upon means to bind together.

If while we wait upon the Lord, we will spend the time in His presence, in prayer and in His Word, binding our hearts to Him, He is then able to give us new strength, His strength, a second, third, fourth wind so we can keep going, keep waiting, keep trusting, and not grow weary. 

And the bigger the trial, the more time we need to spend with God.

So, let’s do what we need to do to catch our second wind, rise up in His strength and power, and keep going.  

 

 

There Is a River

Posted on by Dorci

“God is our refuge and strength,
    an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
    and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam
    and the mountains quake with their surging.
                                                                                    Selah

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
    the holy place where the Most High dwells.

He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God;
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth.’
                                                                                    Selah”

Psalm 46:1-3, 4, 10

No matter what we face, God is our refuge and strength. I love that the Hebrew word for God used here is Elohiym, the plural form of God.  God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.  

The entirety of His character – His goodness, His faithfulness, His ever-presence, and more than I could ever list here – is available to us in times of trouble. 

The streams of His grace and love and peace continually and eternally flow through the kingdom of God and sustain us.

“Be still…

Stop

and know…

Acknowledge

that I am Elohiym…”

that He is the I Am, the All-Encompassing, All-Sufficient, Triune God. 

Selah.

Selah indicates a pause in the music. In the entire Psalm, there are 3 selahs.

Yes, they may be instructions for the music, instructions for the singers, but I believe they’re also instructions for us.  

Pause…   and contemplate what’s been said. 

Pause…   and let it take hold inside the heart and mind. 

Pause…   and believe. 

This is a song a dear friend introduced me to years ago, and it never fails to bring tears to my eyes. The precious Holy Spirit of our God is a joyful, quenching constant for every need we will ever have.  We can go to the river and be satisfied.  

 

 

There Is a River
by Rita Springer

 

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of our God (repeat)
And I will rejoice
I will rejoice
And be glad
There is a fountain full of grace and it flows from Emanual’s veins
It came and it healed me
It came and refreshed me
It came and it washed my sins away!
And I will rejoice
I will rejoice
And be glad
I rejoice in the Lord always
And again I say I will rejoice!
Rejoice in the Lord always
And again I say rejoice.

He Loves You!

Posted on by Dorci

Don’t let new year begin with even the slightest shadow of doubt in your mind about the fact that God loves you.  Know that His capacity to love you is greater than your sins, deeper than your understanding, wider than your choices, and further than anything your future holds.

He loves you!

And if you do doubt, if you wonder, if you’re afraid….look at the cross.  See Him there…..bloody, spat on, beaten – beyond recognition – struggling to breathe, exposed…..and know that it’s for you.  He laid on that cross and and let the nails go through flesh and tendons and nerves..for you.  He hung there and died…for you.  For your sins.  Every. Single. Last. One of them.

Oh how He loves you!

 

 

Drowning in His Grace,