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.

In Quiet I trust

 His Spirit still speaks, says same things 

Repentance and rest remain real 

On Him we rely, we live then we die 

Be willing, His Spirit's our seal 

Wake up, settle, in quiet's where He speaks 

Delight in the day as we trust 

He's there for us too, our days are but few 

Jesus, both loving and just 

We're never alone, He's with us in quiet 

May seem alone but He's there 

May be dismal and dark, alone in garden park 

Jesus sweat blood for our prayer

Wake up, settle, in quiet's where He speaks 

Delight in the day as we trust 

He's there for us too, our days are but few 

Jesus, both loving and just 

Wake up, settle, in quiet's where He speaks 

Delight in the day as we trust 

He's there for us too, our days are but few 

Jesus, both loving and just.

Isaiah 30:15 (KJV)

15 For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” But you were unwilling.

Mark 1:35 (KJV)

35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

Reformation over ritual

 It’s a tough test sharing  what you have

Working  honest and well 

He knows your intent, Being content 

Hoists you to heaven from hell 

It’s a tough, old world and His plans are in place 

His Words are a’plenty, not few

With Christ in your heart, you doing your part

He covers, descending like dew

We ourselves are the tender plants 

He Himself is the rain 

We all now know, alone we can’t grow 

His power pushes us up through the pain 

It’s a tough, old world and His plans are in place 

His Words are a’plenty, not few

With Christ in your heart, you doing your part

He covers, descending like dew

It’s a tough, old world and His plans are in place 

His Words are a’plenty, not few

With Christ in your heart, you doing your part

He covers, descending like dew.

Deuteronomy 32:1-2

Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;

hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.

Let my teaching fall like rain

and my words descend like dew,

like showers on new grass,

like abundant rain on tender plants.

Blindfold

 We can’t blindfold God

If hiding, He sees through 

May seem like shafted, Christ has crafted 

Special purpose for you 

Don’t be Judas, showed up for last supper 

Knew what he did and took part

Gave his instruction, doomed to destruction 

Sought Christ for his purse, not heart

We face the same choice, We can turn Jesus in 

Look away while they spit and strike Him

Be it bag or purse, we’re not under His curse 

We’re built up and blessed to be like Him

If you’re alive, your purpose still stands 

It’s walking right here on the ground 

Omniscient, He’ll see, He waits ‘til you’re free

Seek Him while He still can be found.

Mark 14:65

Then some began to spit at him; they blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, “Prophesy!” And the guards took him and beat him.

Romans 9:21

Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

Deuteronomy 21:22-23

If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole, you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

The Elect

 We are sinners saved by grace

We’ve searched and found The Light 

We don’t know how, we just know now

We’ve found The Way that’s right

We are the elect

We’re here to direct 

You’ve told us all ahead of time 

Won’t let the false infect 

The Way that is before us 

Beautiful, bright, unbent

Had we our way, our minds may say 

These gods are heaven sent 

We are the elect

We’re here to direct 

You’ve told us all ahead of time 

Won’t let the false infect 

We are the elect

We’re here to direct 

You’ve told us all ahead of time 

Won’t let the false infect.

Deuteronomy 12:30

and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”

Mark 13:20-23

“If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them. At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time.

Distance to Christ

 Isn’t it sweet that people have sight 

We see what animals don’t 

Our hearts fill with fear, we sense God is near 

Reach for Him, can’t see why we won’t 

What is plain to people, what we do see 

All of the bad stuff around 

If we were to pause, stop and look just because 

God and His goodness abound

Now to the point, the heart of the matter 

When God looks at us He sees Christ

On earth we’re in Him, in heaven we’re with Him

We’re free ‘cause He sacrificed 

What is plain to people, what we do see 

All of the bad stuff around 

If we were to pause, stop and look just because 

God and His goodness abound

What is plain to people, what we do see 

All of the bad stuff around 

If we were to pause, stop and look just because 

God and His goodness abound.

Mark 12:34

When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.

Acts 17:27-28

God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’