I'm not Judas

 I'm a sinner, I'm a saint 

My humanity's a given 

Priests and teachers, scared overreachers 

Can even Judas be forgiven 

Betraying Jesus, King of kings 

Called son of perdition 

While I sin, still hemmed in 

Betrayal, not my mission 

Tricky question, Judas' choice 

destined doomed to debris

O my fate, love not hate 

He's laid His hand on me 

Betraying Jesus, King of kings 

Called son of perdition 

While I sin, still hemmed in 

Betrayal, not my mission 

Betraying Jesus, King of kings 

Called son of perdition 

While I sin, still hemmed in 

Betrayal, not my mission.

Psalms 139:5 (ESV)

5 You hem me in, behind and before,

and lay your hand upon me.

Luke 22:2-4(NIV)

2 and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people. 3 Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. 4 And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus.

John 17:12 (KJV)

12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

We all hurt

 It’s not just you on your piece of dirt 

Look up 

look out 

we’re everywhere 

& we all hurt 

We all hurt, we all bleed red 

We all have tears that flow 

We sit  proud in our nation-state 

All  no-gods on show

Doesn’t matter language, tribe, or team 

What colour hat or shirt 

Folks all know in heart of hearts 

We all know we hurt 

We all hurt, we all bleed red 

We all have tears that flow 

We sit  proud in our nation-state 

All  no-gods on show

We all hurt, we all bleed red 

We all have tears that flow 

We sit  proud in our nation-state 

All  no-gods on show.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made me jealous by what is no god

and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.

I want fans not friends

 I’m ashamed to admit the statement is true

Can’t  I just trust Your plan

I should be teaching, not overreaching 

Proclaiming & healing man

Interesting spirit makes me want fans 

Same spirit  dogged others in past 

Earth is enticed, I follow Christ

One who’s both first and last 

Spirit is strong for followers and fans

Friends too, as long as arms-length 

Folks make a mess, still I say yes 

I can befriend through His strength

Christ could’ve had fans, He could’ve called down 

Legions to protect and adore Him

He chose to die, stay up there and die 

True friend to those who are for Him.

1 Corinthians 1:11-12

My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephas”; still another, “I follow Christ.”

Matthew 4:10-11

Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”

Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Respect is given, not taken

 You seem away, far off today 

Yet I’m holding You herewith

Yes I’ve sinned, You’ve seen and binned 

My old minds now a myth

In control of this old soul

In mercy You’ve bought us

Ne’er too late,  we long await 

From detention, brought us

From the beginning there’s been sin, not new even under the sun 

You only need our wills to awaken 

As much as we try to set ourselves high

Respect is given, not taken

You break through noise, unbound by doors

Right up to the edge we’re driven 

Some things we don’t know, not all is on show 

Offence is taken, not given. 

Acts 5:17-19

The Apostles Persecuted

Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out.

Matthew 13:53-57

A Prophet Without Honor

When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there. Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked. “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”

Barren height

 God doesn’t change, He’s always good 

Never turns to the left or right 

Always a’flame, we honour Your Name 

Go again to our barren height 

Wherever you go, there you are 

Can’t get away from your climb 

You  know you can’t stop, you see the top 

You know it’ll cost to spend time 

We do what it takes, can’t outspend God

He’s there, waiting and molding 

We quake and squirm, He holds firm

Eternal Earth He’s holding

Wherever you go, there you are 

Can’t get away from your climb 

You  know you can’t stop, you see the top 

You know it’ll cost to spend time 

Wherever you go, there you are 

Can’t get away from your climb 

You  know you can’t stop, you see the top 

You know it’ll cost to spend time.

Numbers 23:3

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.

Psalms 75:3

When the earth and all its people quake,

it is I who hold its pillars firm.

God He heals

 God is healing  me to use my brain 🧠 to re-learn how to learn

Thank the Lord I’m still in His sights

Privileged position, fixed by Great Physician 

We're destined for great heights 

God He heals 

God He heals 

He’s the One who made us so He knows

God He heals 

God He heals 

Only One tree of life grows 

Why are we so loved by our Creator 

Made us in His image to fully heal 

Even when we don’t know how He does it 

Both sides of the river leaves are real 

God He heals 

God He heals 

He’s the One who made us so He knows

God He heals 

God He heals 

Only One tree of life grows 

God He heals 

God He heals 

He’s the One who made us so He knows

God He heals 

God He heals 

Only One tree of life grows.

Revelation 22:1-2

Eden Restored

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

My Kadesh

 One of our largest obstacles, barrier, threat

Looms above us like a cloud 

Second to salvation, our imagination 

Screens reality like a shroud 

Don’t decide to die in desert, Be bold like Caleb

Silenced crowd around him, spoke in power

Knew of danger, giants a risk

Appointed for this hour 

God appoints us in our times 

We’re weak, sometimes, in flesh

God, in grace, makes clear to us 

This may be my Kadesh 

Your Kadesh takes different forms 

Mine sprang from sickness

A stroke meant I could live or die 

I now don’t question quickness 

Life is fragile, life is sweet 

We get to live here free

Our Kadesh is in our flesh 

Trust in God and see.

Numbers 13:27-30

They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.

The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan. ”

Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

Barren Heights

 We can't even look up today to see a barren height 

Our eyes are glued to a phone 

While we've ravished, You have lavished 

You could've left us alone 

We've all sat by the road, we're nomads 

Still defiling land today 

Business suits, yet prostitutes

Wickedness, our way 

You've still shown Your love for us 

Still sinners yet You came 

Tortured, killed, Your blood we spilled 

Still saved in Jesus name

We've all sat by the road, we're nomads 

Still defiling land today 

Business suits, yet prostitutes

Wickedness, our way 

We've all sat by the road, we're nomads 

Still defiling land today 

Business suits, yet prostitutes

Wickedness, our way.

Jeremiah 3:2

2 “Look up to the barren heights and see.

Is there any place where you have not be

en ravished?

By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers,

sat like a nomad in the desert.

You have defiled the land

with your prostitution and wickedness.

Romans 5:8

⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Sinkholes & slips

 Obedience is a key, Persist, persevere 

Whatever help we need will be there 

God knows we’re weak, mighty men are meek

Call  to God for help so we can care 

Thank God He helps us, He saves & sustains 

He’s advocate & mediator

There are sinkholes and slips, we testify with lips 

He carries all our burden as Creator 

Son, Holy Spirit, both sent from Father 

Into our world that’s broken and bruised 

He’s seen how things are done, He’s always been the One 

Eternally  providing all that’s used 

Thank God He helps us, He saves & sustains 

He’s advocate & mediator

There are sinkholes and slips, we testify with lips 

He carries all our burden as Creator 

Thank God He helps us, He saves & sustains 

He’s advocate & mediator

There are sinkholes and slips, we testify with lips 

He carries all our burden as Creator.

Numbers 11:17

I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone.

John 15:26-27

The Work of the Holy Spirit

“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father —the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

Just can’t hide from God

 Trust God and rest, He knitted us 

He has the whole picture and plan

We run and hide, not why He died 

Wonderful works, we’re man

God sees all, even our thoughts

Our hearts laid bare before Him

We’ll give an account, once we surmount 

Effort to obey and adore Him 

We seek and strive, He sees all works 

He knows of all intent 

He’s cop and Judge, His love won’t budge 

His justice Heaven sent

God sees all, even our thoughts

Our hearts laid bare before Him

We’ll give an account, once we surmount 

Effort to obey and adore Him 

God sees all, even our thoughts

Our hearts laid bare before Him

We’ll give an account, once we surmount 

Effort to obey and adore Him.

Psalms 139:7-14

Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

and the light become night around me,”

even the darkness will not be dark to you;

the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

Hebrews 4:11-13

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Wisdom comes from Word

 You give us a new Word each time we read or hear 

You’re always speaking through the Word

Every time we read, You fulfil a need

Wisdom made from what’s heard 

Wisdom comes from Word 

Wisdom comes from Word 

A practice that pays 

Wisdom comes from Word 

Wisdom comes from Word 

Understand our days 

Other books are good, we learn in lots of ways 

The fact is all things aren’t revealed 

As a foil for Word, trust anything heard 

Word makes us a master in His field

Wisdom comes from Word 

Wisdom comes from Word 

A practice that pays 

Wisdom comes from Word 

Wisdom comes from Word 

Understand our days 

Wisdom comes from Word 

Wisdom comes from Word 

A practice that pays 

Wisdom comes from Word 

Wisdom comes from Word 

Understand our days. 

John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Hold lightly to the land

 We  don’t know how long we have 

We don’t know what we hold

He knows all, trumpet call 

His earth, His hot, His cold

It seems that we, His children 

We’ve inherited so much 

Treat, my dear, a call so clear 

Protect, steward, touch

One day we’ll find what’s left behind 

What’s newly Created, Built

Until then, its sowing sin

On Jesus  laid our guilt 

It seems that we, His children 

We’ve inherited so much 

Treat, my dear, a call so clear 

Protect, steward, touch

It seems that we, His children 

We’ve inherited so much 

Treat, my dear, a call so clear 

Protect, steward, touch.

Leviticus 25:8-12

The Year of Jubilee

“‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan. The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

Delegation of Hope

 Cease a curse from following a line 

One God gives that power

Abandon Him to go after them 

Land will fail to flower

May, in fact, never see home

Deported, exiled, expelled

Can’t see the one, could be grandson 

Someone in line rebelled 

From the top of all things 

He knows just who swings 

He’s the scales, the judge, the clock 

For  us alive, He’s given us drive 

We can cease,  cure, and unlock

Why He’s given us power, given control 

They’re spiritual, timeless things

He trusts us with these, in Him we please 

Delegation of Hope it brings. 

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Deuteronomy 29:24-28

All the nations will ask: “Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?”

And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt. They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book. In furious anger and in great wrath the LORD uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

Luke 9:1-2

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

Same song

 I’ll put my foot in the river I’ll write whatever You say

My role on earth is basic: bring You honor 

People say I should be climbing, I’m just glad I’m rhyming 

I stop hearing You I’m a goner 

Same song every time, Same song indeed 

Ain’t no need to change just to suit ‘em

When I hear Your voice, I  daily make a choice 

I could sing ‘em loud or I could mute ‘em

Every songs the same, my choices keep a’coming 

World’ll push the pattern loud and long 

Wanted  us conformed, we  transformed

Me  & Stevie sing the same song

Same song every time, Same song indeed 

Ain’t no need to change just to suit ‘em

When I hear Your voice, I  daily make a choice 

I could sing ‘em loud or I could mute ‘em

Same song every time, Same song indeed 

Ain’t no need to change just to suit ‘em

When I hear Your voice, I  daily make a choice 

I could sing ‘em loud or I could mute ‘em.

Romans 12:1-2

A Living Sacrifice

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing and perfect will.

You'll be caught

 The same cycle of shame, baffling to read 

Can't the house of Israel just obey 

Kings, officials, prophets, & priests 

Trusting in a tree is not The Way 

Trees aren't your fathers, stones don't give you birth 

Turn your face to God, not your back 

In your time of trouble, you need Him on the double 

Run straight for Him, He's your rescue track 

God is omniscient, He sees all

His saving grace can't be bought 

Same with your Saviour, belief then behaviour 

If you're just thieving you'll be caught 

Trees aren't your fathers, stones don't give you birth 

Turn your face to God, not your back 

In your time of trouble, you need Him on the double 

Run straight for Him, He's your rescue track 

Trees aren't your fathers, stones don't give you birth 

Turn your face to God, not your back 

In your time of trouble, you need Him on the double 

Run straight for Him, He's your rescue track.

Jeremiah 2:26-27

26 “As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, 27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say,'Arise and save us!’

Fill me to the brim

 Pride is a problem, Humble, a goal 

Whatever it takes to hear Him

I’m full of just me, why I can’t see 

I need re-filling to fear Him

Fill me up God, I’m, once again, empty 

I’ve done all I can and still lacking 

I feel like a ghost, You see through me most 

My biggest strength is Your backing

What I couldn’t see, it’s taken some years 

There’s a replacement for pride 

His presence, on high, He drains us, we die 

In Jesus, our Fortress, we hide

Fill me up God, I’m, once again, empty 

I’ve done all I can and still lacking 

I feel like a ghost, You see through me most 

My biggest strength is Your backing

Fill me up God, I’m, once again, empty 

I’ve done all I can and still lacking 

I feel like a ghost, You see through me most 

My biggest strength is Your backing.

Luke 18:14

“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Now may be today

 We don’t know the date or time 

We only know the fact

When we obey while it’s today 

We escape intact 

Today may the date He comes 

The next may be the hour

Our  Master state upon that date 

Settles sweet or sour

Draw up, be ready, persist in faith 

Reject the hater’s hate

Now you’re prime, He created time 

Only you can now be late 

Now’s the moment, now’s the day 

An instant into forever

Time stand still, it never will 

Believe, it’s now or never.

Luke 17:23-24

People will tell you, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them. For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For he says,

“In the time of my favor I heard you,

and in the day of salvation I helped you.”

I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

Still an outlaw in my mind

 In our teens & twenties we tore through town

Ripped through rails swinging from the rafter 

Didn’t get much done, man we had some fun 

When we reminisce there’s lots of laughter 

Now I’m in my fifties, Completely different man

Ain’t  even a speeding ticket in years 

Weirdly I  find, still an outlaw in my mind 

Truth is still all tied up with fears 

If I see red lights flashing it all comes rushing back 

My head says here they come to get ya 

Even though there ain’t no reason, I’m in a different season

That outlaw he ain’t quite prepared to quit ya

What I need to see though is outlaw dead and buried 

That boy just ain’t the ghost of Christmas past

He’s gone not to return, I make that memory burn 

My choice if I’m to make his memory last 

God, in Grace and Wisdom formed a brand new man 

His creation this time ain’t no felon

In His perfect plan, He buried the old man 

All his outlaw ways went with the quellin.

Psalms 7:17

I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness;

I will sing the praises of the name of the LORD Most High.

A’playing and a’singing

When Christ comes I’ll be singing 

Hallelujah, amen 

He came for us the first time 

Comes for us again 

A’playing and a’singing

Upon the harp and lyre

He uses what He needs to use 

Even wind & fire 🔥 

As sure as sun rises

He’s coming, one prepares

Not slow, He’s patient 

Conveying us how He cares 

A’playing and a’singing

Upon the harp and lyre

He uses what He needs to use 

Even wind & fire 🔥 

A’playing and a’singing

Upon the harp and lyre

He uses what He needs to use 

Even wind & fire 🔥.

2 Peter 3:8-9

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

Anger zone

 There exists a zone in the mind of man 

The injured, broken brain 

Flare fire red, dumb and dead

We walk in there again 

Anger zone, a pit

Anger zone, it’s lit 🔥 

Feels like we’re stuck on a bullet train 

No escape, won’t stop 

Feel like there’s an end just round the bend 

Recite relief from The Top

Anger zone, a pit

Anger zone, it’s lit 🔥 

Top never fails, Top is just there 

He knows your way off, your release

He knows what to do cause He’s been there too

Through trust He’s your perfect peace. 

Isaiah 26:3

You will keep in perfect peace

those whose minds are steadfast,

because they trust in you.

Is Jesus Christ?

 Most important question asked in life 

Answer names your resting place 

We start at birth belonging to earth 

From faith we’re face to Face

Everything comes from Him in His story 

from the start He’s all above

Everything returns to Him in His glory 

Ends up Christ is Love

What shall we say to such a glorious Love

Possibly offer Supreme

Has to be Honor, serve , & speak out 

Tell others of our redeem

No question Jesus died on earth 

Evidence at hand abounds 

Resurrection draws direction 

Voice from heaven sounds 

If Jesus claimed just manhood 

We’d understand His story 

What we find odd, His claim as God 

Why wait to see in Glory?

Is, after all, His stated name 

The Voice said, “You are my Son”

During our days, do we believe when He says 

“I and the Father are One”.

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.”

Luke 3:21-22

The Baptism of Jesus

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

John 3:31

The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all.