How He Loves Us!

This video is amazing and the song is powerful! Enjoy! And wait until the end......it's worth it!



How He Loves Us - Kim Walker

He is jealous for me
Love's like a hurricane, I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy
When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
and I realize just how beautiful You are and how great your affections are for me.
Oh, how He loves us so
Oh, how He loves us
How He loves us so.

So we are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean we're all sinking
So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss and my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way

That he loves us,
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves

New Year, New Me!

I have high hopes and expectations for this year! I expect to fall. I expect to fail. I expect to love. I expect to lose. I expect to grow, change, and learn. I expect God to continue to crucify my old nature. I expect Resurrection! I expect suffering. I expect abundant life! I expect the kingdom to advance and I expect the Lord to give me work to do. I expect tears and I expect joy!

I expect to blog more, complain less, visit more, pray more, love more...eat less, excercise more, listen more, talk less, dance more, stumble less, sing more. I expect to capture many new sunsets, travel, enjoy God's creation, and bless others. I expect to testify, witness, boast in Christ, devour His word, and enjoy His Presence! I expect to surrender and I expect to walk in freedom!

In lieu of resolutions (which I have, but are typically the same each year - get in shape, grow closer to God, and get out of debt)....here are the lyrics to 2 songs that sum up my heart's desire for 2009! Both of them I heard over Christmas. The first is a Vineyard song that my sister Laura re-introduced me to, and the second is a song I heard at the Vineyard Church in Ann Arbor during worship. It's by Jared Anderson. Hope you enjoy - both are on itunes and I highly recommend them! If you read through the lyrics of Ready Now, read all of the repeated lines and ask yourself: Are you ready now?.....for God to do what He wills?

Invitation Fountain- Vineyard Music

All who are weak
All who are weary
Come to the rock
Come to the fountain
All who have sailed
On the rivers of heartache
Come to the sea
Come on be set free

If You lead me Lord I will follow
Where You lead me Lord I will go
Come and heal me Lord I will follow
Where You lead me Lord I will go
I will go, I will go

Ready Now - Jared Anderson

You come like you promised you would
I want to surrender for good
I know that i need you
And i dont want to keep living life alone

So take my heart
and make it new
make it true
And make it like you
Take my hands
I lift them high
They're yours not mine to do
Do what you will
Do what you will
Do what you will

I feel like a blind man in you sight
I know that im wicked in your eyes
So wash me and make me shine like the sun
I want to tell everyone
that you're the only one

So take my heart
And make it new
Make it true
And make it like you
Take my hands
I lift them high
They're yours not mine to do
Do what you will
Do what you will
Do what you will

Im ready now
Im ready now
Im ready now
Do what you will
Im ready now
Im ready now
Im ready now
Im ready now
Im ready now
Im ready now
Do what you will
Im ready now
Im ready now
Im ready now