Mashup of me

 Just a mashed up version of me 

I constantly change and grow 

I’m up, I’m down, I smile, I frown 

Still carry seed to sow 

He’s constantly working, He’s shaping my form 

He uses whatever He needs 

Thought I was a hash up, now see I’m a mashup 

He fortifies fences and feeds 

If I was just normal I’d be a plain man 

Turns out I’m anything but 

Like eagle I soar, I hear His roar 

The ropes to the plain I cut 

He’s constantly working, He’s shaping my form 

He uses whatever He needs 

Thought I was a hash up, now see I’m a mashup 

He fortifies fences and feeds 

He’s constantly working, He’s shaping my form 

He uses whatever He needs 

Thought I was a hash up, now see I’m a mashup 

He fortifies fences and feeds.

Job 37:2

Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice,

to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

Acts 27:31-32

Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.” So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away.

I’m lame… and that’s ok

 We don’t all have all the gifts 

We only have what’s given 

Moses led, Aaron spoke 

Came the day, they’re driven 

God called Moses, Moses paused 

He said to God, “ I’m lame”

God replied, He didn’t chide 

He just spoke His Name 

On the day He always speaks 

Commands are always there 

Listen close, His Holy Ghost 

Unfolds His course of care 

Don’t worry ‘bout people who can’t be pleased 

God’s the one who's testing 

Think you’re lame, saints felt the same 

End of the day, you’re resting.

Exodus 3:13-14

Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Exodus 7:1-2

Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country.

1 Thessalonians 2:4

On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts.

Captives

 All through time His are held 

We’re held and He hears us 

He is fervent for His Servant

Not despise, endears us 

Captives, on the train 

He drags us into heaven 

Captives, on the train 

It’s late, it’s time, eleven 

We’re waiting in our robes of white 

Till all the saints are martyred 

We’re on the train, it stops again 

Jesus’ life been bartered 

Captives, on the train 

He drags us into heaven 

Captives, on the train 

It’s late, it’s time, eleven 

Captives, on the train 

He drags us into heaven 

Captives, on the train 

It’s late, it’s time, eleven.

Psalms 69:33

The LORD hears the needy

and does not despise his captive people.

Revelation 6:11

Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.

Hush to hear it

 I now have hearing aids, I can hear again 

Alone, I hear His Spirit 

Must be old it seems, I too have dreams 

I have to hush to hear it

God gave Joseph answers, he used them to serve 

God kept people fed in the famine 

He uses us today, it’s His plan His way 

We’re now the ones the world will examine 

Voice of Holy Spirit, have to hush to hear it 

God made us one mouth and two ears 

Church praying for us, through time all adore us 

Get up, serve is still what one hears 

God gave Joseph answers, he used them to serve 

God kept people fed in the famine 

He uses us today, it’s His plan His way 

We’re now the ones the world will examine

God gave Joseph answers, he used them to serve 

God kept people fed in the famine 

He uses us today, it’s His plan His way 

We’re now the ones the world will examine.

Genesis 41:15-16

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

“I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”

Acts 12:5-7

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.

The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.

I went after dark

 ‘Bout ‘78 I went after dark, by ‘80 I was stumbling 

He called in ‘77, I knew the way to heaven 

I ran, 10 years tumbling 

Came a day ‘bout ‘89, my lamp He’d kept alight 

He showed me who I could be 

Could change from wrong to right

When I knelt in ‘91, was Christ who stood me up 

Went after dark but found The Light 

Now drink from Loving Cup. 

Wonder who and what I’d be had I not knelt  that day 

I’d be stumbling, probably mumbling 

May’ve had hell to pay 

Came a day ‘bout ‘89, my lamp He’d kept alight 

He showed me who I could be 

Could change from wrong to right

When I knelt in  ‘91, was Christ who stood me up 

Went after dark but found The Light 

Now drink from Loving Cup

Came a day ‘bout ‘89, my lamp He’d kept alight 

He showed me who I could be 

Could change from wrong to right

When I knelt in ‘91, was Christ who stood me up 

Went after dark but found The Light 

Now drink from Loving Cup. 

Psalms 18:28

You, LORD, keep my lamp burning;

my God turns my darkness into light.

John 11:9-10

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”

Sacred significance

 Numbers crucial, give us bearing 

A Constellation of sevens

Seven priests with seven horns 

Seven days of blaring

Seven circles on seventh day 

People hear long blast 

They then shout their great shout 

When walls fall go fast 

Just like Bart, he heard it was Jesus

He knew he had to act fast 

Crowd was appalled, Christ heard and called 

In His mercy He heals and we last 

Seven circles on seventh day 

People hear long blast 

They then shout their great shout 

When walls fall go fast

Seven circles on seventh day 

People hear long blast 

They then shout their great shout 

When walls fall go fast.

Joshua 6:4-5 (KJV)

4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. 5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

Mark 10:46-52 (ESV)

Jesus Heals Blind Bartimaeus

46 And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. 47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 48 And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 49 And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart. Get up; he is calling you.” 50 And throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51 And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.” 52 And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.

Love limits liberty

 Our love for others limits thoughts, words, & deeds

Low to the ground we’re bowed 

Servant to The Lord, comes of His own accord

Favour, found fresh He endowed 

Love changes thinking, limits liberty 

Considering others as whole 

We refuse our right, eyes fall on His light 

We endure and unblock His goal 

Lets cross culture, all we’ve known is me 

Our first way ain’t thinking ‘bout others 

Do what it takes in our mind, make it or fake it and  find

We’re protecting our sisters and brothers 

Love changes thinking, limits liberty 

Considering others as whole 

We refuse our right, eyes fall on His light 

We endure and unblock His goal 

Love changes thinking, limits liberty 

Considering others as whole 

We refuse our right, eyes fall on His light 

We endure and unblock His goal.

Genesis 18:1-5

The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground. He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by. Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way—now that you have come to your servant.” “Very well,” they answered, “do as you say.”

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more?

But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

If’n you’ant

 Down South we have a sayin, means go on and get it 

Ain’t nobody ‘gon help or stop ya 

If’n you’ant means what you want 

Don’t let no bar set a’top ya

Language is crucial, just look at Babel 

Reason He stopped ’em from building 

If’n we want, displace Him we don’t 

He knew we’d’ve carried on gilding 

Even the best can’t long survive 

Defying God just ain’t an option 

Through time He sees us, predestined  through Jesus

Gave us sonship in adoption 

Language is crucial, just look at Babel 

Reason He stopped ’em from building 

If’n we want, displace Him we don’t 

He knew we’d’ve carried on gilding 

Language is crucial, just look at Babel 

Reason He stopped ’em from building 

If’n we want, displace Him we don’t 

He knew we’d’ve carried on gilding.

Genesis 11:6-9

The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Ephesians 1:5-6

he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

Apollos’ pride

 Just like Apollos, My grasp of gospel slight

I too learned from friends 

We stay with what’s written, we’re less often bitten 

Pride is a passage that ends 

Pride is in all, a gift and a curse 

All of us bound up and boasting 

Bound to believe, we clearly receive 

To God and to others we’re toasting 

What makes us think we dreamed it up 

Makes us think we know 

If Jesus Christ was born to die 

Makes sense that it’s His show

Pride is in all, a gift and a curse 

All of us bound up and boasting 

Bound to believe, we clearly receive 

To God and to others we’re toasting 

Pride is in all, a gift and a curse 

All of us bound up and boasting 

Bound to believe, we clearly receive 

To God and to others we’re toasting.

1 Corinthians 1:12

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.”

1 Corinthians 4:6-7

Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.” Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other. For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

Hold sway

 Go down to the house, there I will speak 

I’ll test you to see if you’ll hold 

Once you’re there, see I create with care 

I make the wheel and I make the mold

Spirit hold sway in me 

Spirit hold sway 

In my  flesh I’m helpless and weak 

In my place You proffered, Your own Son You offered 

You taught us  to turn the other cheek 

Live according to Spirit 

Law has been fully met 

In us speaks the sway He’s holding 

We’re on The Potter’s wheel, He made all that’s real 

Every day He continues molding 

Spirit hold sway in me 

Spirit hold sway 

In my  flesh I’m helpless and weak 

In my place You proffered, Your own Son You offered 

You taught us  to turn the other cheek 

Spirit hold sway in me 

Spirit hold sway 

In my  flesh I’m helpless and weak 

In my place You proffered, Your own Son You offered 

You taught us to turn the other cheek.

Jeremiah 18:1-6

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

Then the word of the LORD came to me. He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.

Romans 8:3-4

For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Dump it all at the Cross

 How can He handle it, wants all our stuff 

He’s calling, chasing, & testing 

Will we sin, curse Him to win 

Result one of burning or resting 

Paul told His story 

His own road to glory 

He knew God was on his side 

Called by the King, his one response, sing

Heavenward, angel songs abide 

Our road will be a rough one, trouble is sure

We’re shackled to this self like Paul

That’s the thing with Jesus,  tests us & frees us 

Now at foot saying “dump it all”

Paul told His story 

His own road to glory 

He knew God was on his side 

Called by the King, his one response, sing

Heavenward, angel songs abide 

Paul told His story 

His own road to glory 

He knew God was on his side 

Called by the King, his one response, sing

Heavenward, angel songs abide.

Job 2:10

He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Acts 26:31-32

After they left the room, they began saying to one another, “This man is not doing anything that deserves death or imprisonment.”

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

Volume of Voice

 Big volume, massive 

Too vast to grasp 

Why we need ears to hear 

Silent Shouts drowning droughts 

He’s perfect roaring Fear 

He’s at the top throughout time 

Why He’s Rock of ages 

His fire devours, He summons hours 

Justice roars and rages 

He’s all around, He won’t be quiet 

Volume knob is broken 

Dominion wide, get on His side 

Subpoena writ and spoken 

He’s at the top throughout time 

Why He’s Rock of ages 

His fire devours, He summons hours 

Justice roars and rages 

He’s at the top throughout time 

Why He’s Rock of ages 

His fire devours, He summons hours 

Justice roars and rages.

Psalms 50:3-4

Our God comes

and will not be silent;

a fire devours before him,

and around him a tempest rages.

He summons the heavens above,

and the earth, that he may judge his people:

Sea shuttle and port

 Like zinc blocks on shuttle are sacrificial 

You needed sacrifice

The Lord told Aaron and Moses, sacrificing shows us 

His character commands a price 

Passover began the year, tenth day celebrated 

On this day every man shall take a lamb

He and his nearest neighbour, divided up the labour 

Blood on door defended house from damn

Behold The Lamb of God, takes away our sin

Jesus, with us from the start

He's the sacrifice, paid the highest price 

With Him, we're able to play our part 

Passover began the year, tenth day celebrated 

On this day every man shall take a lamb

He and his nearest neighbour, divided up the labour 

Blood on door defended house from damn

Passover began the year, tenth day celebrated 

On this day every man shall take a lamb

He and his nearest neighbour, divided up the labour 

Blood on door defended house from damn.

Exodus 12:1-5 (ESV)

The Passover

1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. 

John 1:29 (ESV)

Behold, the Lamb of God

29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Aright

 Live real life, Look up, look out 

Trees and sand and sky

It’s no mystery, His history 

He tells us when and why

God’s not trying to trick us 

He’s not holding back

He wants us all to live full lives

He’s written down His Word, all of time He’s heard 

The plan He has is one where mankind thrives

When you read His Word you can see the Way

It’s there, written down in black and white 

Seek and you shall find, not meant to be a grind 

Wisdom means we number days aright.

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.

Psalms 90:12

Teach us to number our days aright,

that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.