There is just something very glorious about singing out lyrics from scripture in worship and adoration . Songs of Psalms seem to carry a special grace upon them. ''Speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, [offering praise by] singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord when they are sung from a sincere expression of ones own heart . Ephesians 5 ;19 Amplified Bible ]
I became a Christian in April of 1978. Not a whole lot of high tech anything out there, let alone Christian music. Here in the Pacific Northwest there were a few radio stations that ran 24 /7. They were important in my new walk. So was/is the music. Chuck Girard, John Michael Talbot, Maranatha music, Honeytree, Michelle Pilar, Evie, Ernie Retino & Debbie Kerner and on and on. So good to come across Chuck Girard again. Thanks for having this out there for us. Praise the Lord.
So much beauty and soul pouring out of a blessed mouth. May God walk with you brother, for I know how hard this world can get. Love you my brother, we will prevail by his mercy should he consider us worthy of his peace. Let's hope the blood of Jesus Christ redeems us of all our demons and fears. O Lord please walk with us! We need you like newborns need mother's milk.
The Supplied Life- BILL FREEMAN Handling love "I drew them with gentle cords, with bands of love, and I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. I stooped and fed them." Hosea 11:4 This love is "handling love." It is the way God handles us in our rebellion. In Hosea 11:2 there is rebellion. God sent His servants to His people, and the people turned away from them. They went back to their Baals and they sacrificed. Taken from Expositor Bible Commentary: 3-4 Here the tender figure of a parent teaching an infant to walk shows the Lord's compassion in disciplining Israel (Ephraim). But they were blind to his healing purpose in dealing with them. The poetic language continues in v.4. God had "led" (lit., "drawn") them with cords of "human kindness" and "ties of love." He also had lifted "the yoke from their neck," just as an owner sometimes lifts the yoke away from the face of an ox so that it might eat more comfortably. So God had dealt gently with his people in spite of their sin. Do you know what God's unconditional love does in that state? He says, "I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; but they did not know that I healed them" (11:3). This describes the tenderness with which the Lord handled His people. Then He amplifies on how He handled them: "I drew them with gentle cords, with bands of love." Gentle cords and bands of love are in apposition to one another. The gentle cords are the bands of love. In these verses Ephraim is pictured as a stubborn, rebellious heifer. Usually, stubborn heifers would be handled with thick ropes to control their rebellion. But God does not do that with us. He does not throw those heavy ropes over our rebellion and try, so to speak, to force us to the ground, and then draw us like a beast. He does not handle us in that way. Even when we are rebellious, He is so delicate and so gentle. He draws us with gentle cords - cords of a man, not cords of a beast. Using thin, gentle cords, He tugs slightly and draws until our rebellion begins to be subdued. 11/28/2020 Over the Mountains Topic: God’s presence Song of Solomon 2:8-17 Song of Songs 2:8-9 (NETFull) The Arrival of the Lover The Beloved about Her Lover: 8 Listen! My lover is approaching! Look! Here he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills! 9 My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the window, peering through the lattice. When communion with Christ is broken, there are great difficulties in the way of its renewal. It is much easier to go downhill than to climb to the same height again. It is easier to lose joy in God than to find the lost jewel. The spouse in Song of Solomon speaks of mountains dividing her from her beloved (Song of Sol. 2:8). She means that the difficulties were great. They were not little hills, but mountains, that closed up her way. Mountains of remembered sin, Alps of backsliding, dreaded ranges of forgetfulness, ingratitude, worldliness, coldness in prayer, frivolity, pride, unbelief. The dividing difficulties were many as well as great. She does not speak of a mountain, but of mountains. Our Lord is jealous, and we give Him far too much reason for hiding His face. A fault, which seemed so small at the time we committed it, is seen in the light of its own consequences, and then it grows until it towers upward and hides the face of the beloved. When our sun has gone down, fear whispers, “Will His light ever return? Will it ever be daybreak?” The pain of our Lord's absence becomes intolerable when we fear that we are hopelessly shut from Him. If we have wandered away from Christ, you and I feel that there are ranges of immovable mountains between Him and us, and we will feel sick at heart. We try to pray, but devotion dies on our lips. We attempt to approach the Lord at the communion table, but we feel more like Judas than John. So the spouse seems to have come to the conclusion that the difficulties in her way were insurmountable by her own power. She does not even think of herself going over the mountains to her beloved, but she cries, “Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains” (v. 17). She knows she cannot climb the mountains. Where the sinner ends, the Savior begins. If the mountains are impassable, then the soul cries out with the prophet, “Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence-as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil-to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!” (Isa. 64:1-2). Jesus can come to us when we cannot go to Him. The gazelle and young stag live among the crags of the mountains and leap across with amazing agility. They are unrivaled in swiftness and skill. Our Lord's coming into the world was not bought, sought, or thought of. He came completely His own free will, delighting to redeem. Adapted from Till He Come by Charles Spurgeon
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There is just something very glorious about singing out lyrics from scripture in worship and adoration .
Songs of Psalms seem to carry a special grace upon them. ''Speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, [offering praise by] singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord when they are sung from a sincere expression of ones own heart . Ephesians 5 ;19 Amplified Bible ]
❤amen
I became a Christian in April of 1978. Not a whole lot of high tech anything out there, let alone Christian music. Here in the Pacific Northwest there were a few radio stations that ran 24 /7. They were important in my new walk. So was/is the music. Chuck Girard, John Michael Talbot, Maranatha music, Honeytree, Michelle Pilar, Evie, Ernie Retino & Debbie Kerner and on and on. So good to come across Chuck Girard again. Thanks for having this out there for us. Praise the Lord.
Ditto....
I became a Christian in 1967 I I lived in LA and was a Jesus person
#GlenKaiser #RezBand
Still relevant in this locckdown period. Thanks for sharing 😊
Wow so true but there is a revival coming!! The biggest that ever happened ❤️
So much beauty and soul pouring out of a blessed mouth. May God walk with you brother, for I know how hard this world can get.
Love you my brother, we will prevail by his mercy should he consider us worthy of his peace. Let's hope the blood of Jesus Christ redeems us of all our demons and fears. O Lord please walk with us! We need you like newborns need mother's milk.
The Supplied Life- BILL FREEMAN
Handling love
"I drew them with gentle cords, with bands of love, and I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. I stooped and fed them." Hosea 11:4
This love is "handling love." It is the way God handles us in our rebellion. In Hosea 11:2 there is rebellion. God sent His servants to His people, and the people turned away from them. They went back to their Baals and they sacrificed.
Taken from Expositor Bible Commentary: 3-4 Here the tender figure of a parent teaching an infant to walk shows the Lord's compassion in disciplining Israel (Ephraim). But they were blind to his healing purpose in dealing with them. The poetic language continues in v.4. God had "led" (lit., "drawn") them with cords of "human kindness" and "ties of love." He also had lifted "the yoke from their neck," just as an owner sometimes lifts the yoke away from the face of an ox so that it might eat more comfortably. So God had dealt gently with his people in spite of their sin.
Do you know what God's unconditional love does in that state? He says, "I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; but they did not know that I healed them" (11:3).
This describes the tenderness with which the Lord handled His people. Then He amplifies on how He handled them: "I drew them with gentle cords, with bands of love." Gentle cords and bands of love are in apposition to one another. The gentle cords are the bands of love.
In these verses Ephraim is pictured as a stubborn, rebellious heifer. Usually, stubborn heifers would be handled with thick ropes to control their rebellion. But God does not do that with us. He does not throw those heavy ropes over our rebellion and try, so to speak, to force us to the ground, and then draw us like a beast. He does not handle us in that way.
Even when we are rebellious, He is so delicate and so gentle. He draws us with gentle cords - cords of a man, not cords of a beast. Using thin, gentle cords, He tugs slightly and draws until our rebellion begins to be subdued.
11/28/2020 Over the Mountains
Topic: God’s presence
Song of Solomon 2:8-17
Song of Songs 2:8-9 (NETFull) The Arrival of the Lover
The Beloved about Her Lover:
8 Listen! My lover is approaching!
Look! Here he comes,
leaping over the mountains,
bounding over the hills!
9 My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag.
Look! There he stands behind our wall,
gazing through the window,
peering through the lattice.
When communion with Christ is broken, there are great difficulties in the way of its renewal. It is much easier to go downhill than to climb to the same height again. It is easier to lose joy in God than to find the lost jewel. The spouse in Song of Solomon speaks of mountains dividing her from her beloved (Song of Sol. 2:8). She means that the difficulties were great. They were not little hills, but mountains, that closed up her way. Mountains of remembered sin, Alps of backsliding, dreaded ranges of forgetfulness, ingratitude, worldliness, coldness in prayer, frivolity, pride, unbelief.
The dividing difficulties were many as well as great. She does not speak of a mountain, but of mountains. Our Lord is jealous, and we give Him far too much reason for hiding His face. A fault, which seemed so small at the time we committed it, is seen in the light of its own consequences, and then it grows until it towers upward and hides the face of the beloved. When our sun has gone down, fear whispers, “Will His light ever return? Will it ever be daybreak?”
The pain of our Lord's absence becomes intolerable when we fear that we are hopelessly shut from Him. If we have wandered away from Christ, you and I feel that there are ranges of immovable mountains between Him and us, and we will feel sick at heart. We try to pray, but devotion dies on our lips. We attempt to approach the Lord at the communion table, but we feel more like Judas than John.
So the spouse seems to have come to the conclusion that the difficulties in her way were insurmountable by her own power. She does not even think of herself going over the mountains to her beloved, but she cries, “Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains” (v. 17). She knows she cannot climb the mountains.
Where the sinner ends, the Savior begins. If the mountains are impassable, then the soul cries out with the prophet, “Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence-as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil-to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!” (Isa. 64:1-2).
Jesus can come to us when we cannot go to Him. The gazelle and young stag live among the crags of the mountains and leap across with amazing agility. They are unrivaled in swiftness and skill. Our Lord's coming into the world was not bought, sought, or thought of.
He came completely His own free will, delighting to redeem.
Adapted from Till He Come by Charles Spurgeon
So insipring