Let me be wise

 It starts and ends with You Lord Jesus

Your Love and not our deeds 

Use the voice, see, rejoice 

Wise is one who heeds 

Lift the needy from affliction

Increase the family flock

Walk like Jesus, pray He sees us 

Speak, and stand on Rock

We tend to ask Him what to do 

What deeds will earn my due 

Jesus swaps it, Triune tops it 

Swap all your what’s for Who

Lift the needy from affliction

Increase the family flock

Walk like Jesus, pray He sees us 

Speak, and stand on Rock

Lift the needy from affliction

Increase the family flock

Walk like Jesus, pray He sees us 

Speak, and stand on Rock.

Psalms 107:43

Let the one who is wise heed these things

and ponder the loving deeds of the LORD.

Matthew 19:16-17

Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life ?” 

“Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

What’s my meth?

 Drugs make the brain crave more 

Want with whole being

Attention may be drug I crave 

Certainly not what I’m seeing 

Introspection, search me God

Test me, know my heart 

Help me know the Way to go 

Plan to play my part 

Part is all, not the whole 

A member of the band 

Backing  sound, solid ground 

With Christ, my King, I stand

Introspection, search me God

Test me, know my heart 

Help me know the Way to go 

Plan to play my part 

Introspection, search me God

Test me, know my heart 

Help me know the Way to go 

Plan to play my part.

Psalms 139:23-24

Search me, God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.

Hail

 I don't want to be here when plague of hail starts

I pray I'm already there 

100 pounds, dwarfed by the sounds

Cursing, some folks can't care 

It's hailing, it may be too late 

It's hailing, don't curse and don't hate 

Avoid intoxication 

Don't drink the wine of nation 

Babylon, the beast still exists 

It's hailing even now in His domain 

Christ sits on His throne, He's saving those He's known 

Patient, He forgives again.

Revelation 16:21 - 17:2

21 From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.

Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast

1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”

Redemption

 Redemption narrative makes us Secure, starting point for Stable

Lamb who was slain, His Book of Life

Rests upon this table 

Redeeming people, saving us 

He’s been doing it for ages 

Why He’s saving, beyond behaving 

All written in its pages 

All people guess, we make choices 

Some outside The Book

If you doubt what awesome’s about 

Outside, at night, just look 

Redeeming people, saving us 

He’s been doing it for ages 

Why He’s saving, beyond behaving 

All written in its pages 

Redeeming people, saving us 

He’s been doing it for ages 

Why He’s saving, beyond behaving 

All written in its pages.

Psalms 111:9

He provided redemption for his people;

he ordained his covenant forever—

holy and awesome is his name.

Revelation 13:8

All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

Tribalism is learned

 We’re born into beauty, we see it all around

How do others step on different dirt

Surely we’re the chosen, outside our frame is frozen

Teach the children why and who to hurt 

This  tribe is important, keep decrees and laws 

Others are just Cretans and creeps 

Stay within the tribe, if asked just don’t imbibe 

Pride and hate are two things this tribe keeps 

Who are other people, let’s just call them ‘they’

They don’t matter, they’re outside our gang

We’ve held on so long, oh wait, Dear God, we’re wrong 

Broken both all Law and prophets hang

This  tribe is important, keep decrees and laws 

Others are just Cretans and creeps 

Stay within the tribe, if asked just don’t imbibe 

Pride and hate are two things this tribe keeps 

This  tribe is important, keep decrees and laws 

Others are just Cretans and creeps 

Stay within the tribe, if asked just don’t imbibe 

Pride and hate are two things this tribe keeps.

1 Kings 11:31-33

Then he said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand and give you ten tribes. But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe. I will do this because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees and laws as David, Solomon’s father, did.

Matthew 22:37-40

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Drugs with whores

 College in the 80’s, What a blurry blast 

Reagans in the house doing his act 

16 in ‘81, by the time the decades done 

I’m now the whore’s the natural fact 

80’s almost killed me, in fact the old guys dead

I was way worse than tax collector

Jesus tracked me down, clemency for a clown 

From ‘65 on He’s my protector 

What to do with new guy, no more drugs and whores 

I’m in the Book and have a mapped out plan 

Help me to be humble, You’re Light so I don’t stumble 

Walk me home with You hand in Hand.

Luke 18:13-14

“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

“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.”

Waiting for Christ

 Are you ready? Are you waiting?

Look up the sun it shines 

The moon is still in place , still a’waning 

You still feel some sorrow, it may be tomorrow 

The Lord’ll be your light, ever reigning 

We have this once on Earth

A walk to death from birth 

We tread upon the land, light and tender 

We are planted shoots, in Christ we have our roots

Our role upon the earth: display His splendour

It will happen fast, today may be the last 

There’s more than this, heaven and salvation 

On earth it seems like small, we heed Jesus’ call

Mature into  a mighty nation 

We have this once on Earth

A walk to death from birth 

We tread upon the land, light and tender 

We are planted shoots, in Christ we have our roots

Our role upon the earth: display His splendour

We have this once on Earth

A walk to death from birth 

We tread upon the land, light and tender 

We are planted shoots, in Christ we have our roots

Our role upon the earth: display His splendour.

Isaiah 60:19-22

The sun will no more be your light by day,

nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you,

for the LORD will be your everlasting light,

and your God will be your glory.

Your sun will never set again,

and your moon will wane no more;

the LORD will be your everlasting light,

and your days of sorrow will end.

Then all your people will be righteous

and they will possess the land forever.

They are the shoot I have planted,

the work of my hands,

for the display of my splendor.

The least of you will become a thousand,

the smallest a mighty nation.

I am the LORD;

in its time I will do this swiftly.”

Hebrews 9:27-28

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

Rich like cows, poor like Kings

 We trust in God for every breath 

We won’t be overawed 

Like cows we roam on God’s rich loam 

Sustained, Adamic,  flawed

First world wealth, we all sin 

Don’t be beasts that perish 

Choose well what to read, whose advice to heed 

Be wise what and Who you cherish 

Cows never reign, with Christ we will 

He’s dividing the spoils with the strong

Our sin He did bore, His life unto death He did pour 

His intercession lasts only so long 

Make His decision before passing away 

We each on Earth have that power 

Make it today, not blown away 

Choose King instead of wild flower.

Psalms 49:16-20

Do not be overawed when others grow rich,

when the splendor of their houses increases;

for they will take nothing with them when they die,

their splendor will not descend with them.

Though while they live they count themselves blessed— and people praise you when you prosper—

they will join those who have gone before them,

who will never again see the light of life.

People who have wealth but lack understanding

are like the beasts that perish.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,

and he will divide the spoils with the strong,

because he poured out his life unto death,

and was numbered with the transgressors.

For he bore the sin of many,

and made intercession for the transgressors.

James 1:9-10

Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position. But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.

Released from Nation-State

 You are above nation-state 

You are above it all 

Every realm, You’re at the helm

Pre and post The Fall

Post The Fall and after Babel 

We’re spread all over Earth 

We band and glower, our new tower

The nation of our birth 

Our new tower doesn’t reach 

Heavens way above 

Flags that waive will never save 

They don’t last like Love

God’s forever, nations aren’t 

You are lasting life 

We fight like fools, we make new rules 

No wonder we’re in strife 

We’ll all press on, a new dawn 

Our lives are highly priced 

Nations cease, our release 

Upon return of Christ.

Hebrews 7:16-17

one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. For it is declared:

“You are a priest forever,

in the order of Melchizedek.”

Abyss

 I need Jesus, His will is why I'm sent 

There's no other way to be alive 

I've left behind some ghosts, I trust The Lord of hosts

Blessed to be in The Lord and thrive 

Even as I thrive, I sometime fall to earth 

Sinner, I may make mistakes 

Jesus hold me close, You're what matters most 

Abyss is real and trust is what it takes 

Abyss is second death, first we can't avoid 

100% of us die 

Abyss we can avoid, death has been destroyed 

Jesus is the key so trust and try 

Even as I thrive, I sometime fall to earth 

Sinner, I may make mistakes 

Jesus hold me close, You're what matters most 

Abyss is real and trust is what it takes 

Even as I thrive, I sometime fall to earth 

Sinner, I may make mistakes 

Jesus hold me close, You're what matters most 

Abyss is real and trust is what it takes.

Psalms 84:12 (ESV)

12 O LORD of hosts,

blessed is the one who trusts in you!

Revelation 9:1

1 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.

Cacophony

 Duelling dialogues around at all times 

Our key Is repentance and rest 

One God to fear, all you can hear 

Quietness and trust is the test 

Tempest of might, unapproachable light

Rages around Him, devouring 

Not one can come near, a fortress of fear 

Enemies flee from it, cowering 

If fear was all, He’d just be a wall 

In mercy He’s given a gate 

In His own Son, He’s given The One

Jesus is love, not hate

Tempest of might, unapproachable light

Rages around Him, devouring 

Not one can come near, a fortress of fear 

Enemies flee from it, cowering 

Tempest of might, unapproachable light

Rages around Him, devouring 

Not one can come near, a fortress of fear 

Enemies flee from it, cowering. 

Psalms 50:3

Our God comes

and will not be silent;

a fire devours before him,

and around him a tempest rages.

Isaiah 29:6

the LORD Almighty will come

with thunder and earthquake and great noise,

with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.

Isaiah 30:15

This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:

“In repentance and rest is your salvation,

in quietness and trust is your strength,

but you would have none of it.

I belong to God

 I belong to Jesus Christ

I belong to God

I was bought with Jesus blood

My steps on earth are trod 

My  walk on earth belongs to Him 

My life is not my own 

I tread on top, until I stop

Grow from seed He’s sown 

When I present, I’m heaven sent 

To earth with each a task

A twinkling flash, I do my dash 

Then Glory, back to bask 

Why He died and raised to life 

We’re just here for growth 

As I live and when I die 

I belong to Christ in both.

Joshua 1:3

I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.

Romans 14:7-9

For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

Back to Eureka Springs

 It’s a long way back to Eureka Springs 

It’s a long way up to the Crescent 

It’s a different mood, I’m a different dude 

I’ve moved from past to present 

The new is here the old is gone, I’ve come down from the stage

Fun times had, just old not bad

He created us to age 

Age we do and remember you 

Sweet suites in that hotel 

Blowing loud, strutting proud

Could’ve led me straight to hell 

Here I am, new me shining 

Content with what He’s made 

Incandescent, can tour the Crescent 

Now I’ll just rest in its shade.

2 Corinthians 5:16-17

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

Life of Christ

 How am I living the life of Christ?

When I touch does that mean He touches 

I’s dead in the grave, His new me He did save 

All dead, He came through in the clutches 

We who are alive, toward heaven we strive 

Please accept the fact that you’re healed 

Given over to death, with every breath 

Carry Christ to the world He’s revealed 

As I write I’m given insight 

It’s His body, His life we’re revealing 

His perfect pen for our imperfect sin

Mercy, His whole plan for healing 

We who are alive, toward heaven we strive 

Please accept the fact that you’re healed 

Given over to death, with every breath 

Carry Christ to the world He’s revealed 

We who are alive, toward heaven we strive 

Please accept the fact that you’re healed 

Given over to death, with every breath 

Carry Christ to the world He’s revealed.

2 Corinthians 4:10-11

We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.