Too much joy for the blues

 Be careful what you do or say, ain’t no sense in secrets 

In the end you reap just what you sow 

Rich in heart, He does His part 

Angels sure to know which way you go 

Tell my big brother the shape I’m in 

Please put in a Word  for me 

Saint Peter may just shut the gate 

You had your joy you see

Ain’t  too much joy brother is there enough 

Sensed the shape I’s in

Won’t you put in a word for me 

Maybe I’ll see you again

Tell my big brother the shape I’m in 

Please put in a Word  for me 

Saint Peter may just shut the gate 

You had your joy you see

Tell my big brother the shape I’m in 

Please put in a Word  for me 

Saint Peter may just shut the gate 

You had your joy you see.

Psalms 51:17

My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;

a broken and contrite heart

you, God, will not despise.

Luke 16:19-26

The Rich Man and Lazarus

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

“The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’

“But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

Unity, liberty, & love

 Unity is love, Acceptance God-given 

Let’s not fight over non-essentials

I’ll show love, you show patience 

Meet  at The throne with His credentials 

Liberty is one thing, love is above  

Love is above every other 

What Paul is stating, ain’t no room for hating 

Every single human is your brother 

We are in the world today 

We’re human and we’re spirit 

When we’re choosing unity 

We are right there near it 

Liberty is one thing, love is above  

Love is above every other 

What Paul is stating, ain’t no room for hating 

Every single human is your brother 

Liberty is one thing, love is above  

Love is above every other 

What Paul is stating, ain’t no room for hating 

Every single human is your brother.

Romans 14:1

The Weak and the Strong

Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.

Debt

 Sin is a debt I continually owe

I’m like the man born blind 

I’ve seen the Son, know He’s The One 

I’ve found All I’ll find 

Worship is my one response

Being brought to Life 

I‘ve been bailed, sin was nailed 

Paid at Cross of Christ 

Loving others now my goal 

My one way to be Him 

Law fulfilled, Christ once killed 

Through love I let ’em see Him 

Worship is my one response

Being brought to Life 

I‘ve been bailed, sin was nailed 

Paid at Cross of Christ 

Worship is my one response

Being brought to Life 

I‘ve been bailed, sin was nailed 

Paid at Cross of Christ.

John 9:35-38

Spiritual Blindness

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

“Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”

Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”

Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.

Romans 13:8

Love Fulfills the Law

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

Actual impostor

 What faith have I, am I actually real 

Is my offering pleasing 

Can’t conform, can transform 

God’s will for me ain’t a teasing 

In our thoughts we think we’re all that 

We grasp for more than we oughta

We can all relax, just face the facts

We’re all His son or daughter 

What is a man, just blood and bone 

Without the spirit, nothing 

He blows along, sings his song

Whole time believes he’s bluffing 

In our thoughts we think we’re all that 

We grasp for more than we oughta

We can all relax, just face the facts

We’re all His son or daughter 

In our thoughts we think we’re all that 

We grasp for more than we oughta

We can all relax, just face the facts

We’re all His son or daughter .

Romans 12:1-3

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. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.

God sustains

 God created me and you 

Dreamed  us up and made us 

Placed  us in the land we’re in 

Heard our cries, inlaid us 

God sustained both me and you 

God saved us all 

God sustains us to be true 

Place our lives , bow all 

How can I give all to God 

I’ll give all I can 

What is possible with our God

Impossible with man

God sustained both me and you 

God saved us all 

God sustains us to be true 

Place our lives , bow all 

God sustained both me and you 

God saved us all 

God sustains us to be true 

Place our lives , bow all.

Deuteronomy 26:5-10

Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous. But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, subjecting us to harsh labor. Then we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression. So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey; and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, LORD, have given me. ” Place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before him.

Luke 18:27

Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”

New slave

 Old guy was slave to sin

Old heart was bent 

Unwilling spirit, though right there near it 

New heart Heaven sent 

I’ve a New song to sing 

I’ve a New heart to bring 

New way to behave 

New slave 

Wouldn’t’ve known I could ever obey

Couldn’t’ve seen the Light 

Every breath led down to death 

Had the wrong heart in the fight 

I’ve a New song to sing 

I’ve a New heart to bring 

New way to behave 

New slave 

I’ve a New song to sing 

I’ve a New heart to bring 

New way to behave 

New slave.

Psalms 51:10-12

Create in me a pure heart, O God,

and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Do not cast me from your presence

or take your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation

and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Romans 6:15-16

Slaves to Righteousness

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey —whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Prophecy and Psalmody

 586, what a year, Babylon burns it down 

If you're alive in 585

Enslaved under new crown 

Jeremiah, looking back 

Sees what once was royalty 

Egypt flirted, then deserted 

Hard lesson to learn on loyalty 

Judah gone, exiled out 

City now deserted

Royal once, now a dunce 

From God their eyes averted 

Look to Jesus, therefore 

Since we’re so surrounded 

Run you're race to see His face 

Perfect faith He founded.

Lamentations 1:1

1 How deserted lies the city,

once so full of people!

How like a widow is she,

who once was great among the nations!

She who was queen among the provinces

has now become a slave.

Hebrews 12:1-2 (ESV)

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Status of kings and duties of slaves

 

Strange  how we have both sides 

Two sides active in one 

Presence of Christ and pressure of sin

Only have Peace through the Son

Status of kings and duties of slaves

All mashed up into one 

Born to boast, we’re given The Ghost 

Til our suffering’s done

Hope is so powerful, hope is eternal 

Hope is our boast in His glory

Our active hope, His course to cope 

While we live in His story

Status of kings and duties of slaves

All mashed up into one 

Born to boast, we’re given The Ghost 

Til our suffering’s done

Status of kings and duties of slaves

All mashed up into one 

Born to boast, we’re given The Ghost 

Til our suffering’s done.

Romans 5:1-5

Peace and Hope

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Down to the bookstore

 Go on and check out the Bible  

Only one you can look up 

God wrote the Bible  

Love letter to all who book up 

What is the Bible anyway 

It’s our guide to glory 

He’s Relational, He’s sensational 

He writes the larger story 

Drop what you’re doing 

Engage with Him today 

It ain’t rules to fix some fools 

It’s listening to Him say 

Let’s go down to the bookstore 

Let’s you and I seek God

We’re our brother’s keeper 

Avoid the land of Nod 

Drop what you’re doing 

Engage with Him today 

It ain’t rules to fix some fools 

It’s listening to Him say 

Drop what you’re doing 

Engage with Him today 

It ain’t rules to fix some fools 

It’s listening to Him say.

Genesis 4:16

So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Return to You

 I’m a man of wrath 

I'm of the earth 

Far from You I’m just sad and weak 

I have turned away, no good to do or say

Meritless, my one choice is seek 

Return to you, my shepherd 

Return to You, my God

All my life depends upon Your keep

Return to you, my shepherd 

Return to You, my God

Without You this man is asleep 

Thank You that You’re good

You are omnipresent 

Faithful  beyond comprehension 

When there’s no one righteous, not one understands 

Still You’re Shepherd, absolving our dissension

Return to you, my shepherd 

Return to You, my God

All my life depends upon Your keep

Return to you, my shepherd 

Return to You, my God

Without You this man is asleep 

Return to you, my shepherd 

Return to You, my God

All my life depends upon Your keep

Return to you, my shepherd 

Return to You, my God

Without You this man is asleep.

Mark 14:37-38

Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Simon,” he said to Peter, “are you asleep? Couldn’t you keep watch for one hour? Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Romans 3:10-12

As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;

there is no one who understands;

there is no one who seeks God.

All have turned away,

they have together become worthless;

there is no one who does good,

not even one.”

Constant courting

 For  you to you through you babe 

It’s constant courting 

I give myself up for you babe 

My mind and self still sorting 

I’ll commit to cleansing 

I’ll present you clean 

Show you shameless, holy, blameless 

Love my King and queen 

Royal pair we all are 

Christ  gave Himself for us 

First appointed, crowned, anointed

Changed to Royal from dust

I’ll commit to cleansing 

I’ll present you clean 

Show you shameless, holy, blameless 

Love my King and queen 

I’ll commit to cleansing 

I’ll present you clean 

Show you shameless, holy, blameless 

Love my King and queen.

Ephesians 5:25-28

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Tide is rising

 We pass each other on the beach 

Pretend our lives are sweet 

We pass the dogs like table salt 

At least they’re within reach 

Tide is rising 

Waters high ( I need a shoulder to lean on)

Tide is rising 

Waters high ( I need a boat I’m seen on)

Why cant we hug like it’s ‘99

Our hearts in sync back then

All it takes is a renewal 

We can rise high again 

Tide is rising 

Waters high ( I need a shoulder to lean on)

Tide is rising 

Waters high ( I need a boat I’m seen on).

Unhindered

 Long  as we stay focussed 

We seek and we find 

Teaching, bold in proclamation

We then run our race, marked out for us all

Run to Christ, He built and owns The Station

He’s sitting in the throne room, initial work all done 

Christ endured the cross, scorned it’s shame 

Our race to run, fix eyes on the Son

Keep heart for good to glorify His name

What happens if we lose heart 

What if we look away 

What tangles us in our web of woe

The world of weariness, death the end of sin 

Unfinished race, no place or show

That’s the thing with Jesus

He’s there to fix our eyes 

Always and forever He’s alive 

Up to us to seek Him, saints surround so seek Him 

He’s our second chance to survive.

Acts 28:30-31

For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ—with all boldness and without hindrance!

Hebrews 12:1-3

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Quiet blessings

 How did His children not be quiet 

Why did they grumble 

He led them through with much ado 

The least they have is humble

He led them through, He leads us too 

We’re still prone to noise 

Born to bless, He said yes 

I am, you’ll see my joys

We’re prone to doubt, we haven’t seen 

So long and yet He tarries

If we could see , why wait for free 

We’d see the cost He carries

He led them through He leads us too 

We’re still prone to noise 

Born to bless, He said yes 

I am, you’ll see my joys

He led them through He leads us too 

We’re still prone to noise 

Born to bless, He said yes 

I am, you’ll see my joys.

Deuteronomy 8:4

Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

Mark 14:60-62

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?” But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer.

Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”

“I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”