A Confession

This is a song for my family outside the walls of Sunday morning from some within.

This is a song to confess our sins, lay it all out, and try to begin again. To hope again.



Please forgive our ignorance in looking down on you.

Please forgive our selfishness for hiding in our pews while the world bleeds.

While the world needs us to be what we should be.

This is a song for my family who just can’t believe in the Jesus that you’ve seen on Sunday morning.



This is a song for the cynical saints.


The burned out and hopeless.


The ones that we’ve cast away.


I feel your pain.



Please forgive the wastefulness of all that we could be.

But don’t forget, there’s more than this.


Her beauty still exists.

His bride is still alive.

This is a song for my family inside the walls of Sunday morning.

Be what you should be.

- ‘Song For My Family’ by Michael Gungor






Inheritance

“The Lord says that there is nothing that you can do that would make Him love you more.

there is also nothing you can do that would make Him love you less.

He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you,

because that is what He is like.

it is His nature to love, and you will always be the beloved.

And His love is unchanging, and He loves you 100%.

He won’t love you any better when you become better. He loves you 100% right now, and even if you have no plans to become better, He will still love you 100%; because He loves you, because that’s the way that He is.

Even if you don’t want to change, He will love you 100%.

Even if you have no plans to walk with Him, He will love you 100%, because that’s his nature.

He loves all the way all the time. His love is unchanging.

What will change says the Lord is your ability to receive my love, and this evening I want to cram some more of that ability inside you.

So I challenge you says the Lord, open your heart to me, open your heart to me and you will receive more of my love than you’ve ever experience before.

I dare you says the Lord, come on, open you heart to me, give me your heart, give me whatever your obstacle is, I’ll take it, I’ll remove it out of the way, because I love you as you are right now.

I love you 100% as you are right this moment.

I love you as you are, so be loved. You are the beloved.

it is your job says the Lord, to be loved outrageously.

It is why I chose you, and it is why I set my love upon you, that you would live as one who is outrageously loved.

That you would receive a radical love, so radical it will blow all your paradigms of what you think love is.

And know says the Lord, I will love you outrageously all the days of your life, because I don’t know how to be any different, this is who I am, and this is who I will always be, this is the I Am that I promised you, I am He that loves you outrageously.

And you may love me back with the love that I give you; you may love Me back outrageously, with the outrageous love that I bestow upon you.

And know this says the Lord you can only love Me as much as you love yourself.

So My love comes this evening to set you free from yourself, to set you free from how you see yourself. To set you free from the smallness of your own thinking about yourself.

My love comes to set you free from rejection, and from shame, and from low self-esteem, and from despair and from abuse.

Because when I look at you says the Lord, I see something that I love, and I see someone that I can love outrageously.

And I have so much to bestow upon you, so much to give you, so many places to take you in My heart, but you can’t go there unless you allow Me to love you.

And my love for you, will break every barrier, bring every wall crashing down.

And know this says the Lord, My love damages fear, My love hates fear My love will fight fear it will fight fear in you it will fight fear around you, and if you have fear this evening says the Lord, then know that you have a treat in store, because My perfect love casts out fear.

There is no fear where I am present, because My love casts out fear. Beloved, you are My beloved, you are My beloved, and in My love I want you to feel good about yourself.”

- Graham Cooke






Hands full.

Eyes of the heart


What do you see when you look with the eyes of your heart?


I see a world of hurt being renewed by the very definition of love. I see a broken relationship being made whole. I see fires starting. I see desires being realised. I see hope and prosperity. I see restoration of what was lost. I see a good God. A loving Father. I see sons and daughters awakening from sleep. I see a beautiful earth. I see whole people and I see an enemy that is trembling as it hides behind the lies it thought would never be exposed.


You were worth it.


You are welcome.


Bring your baggage.


Thirst - What Jesus wants you to know

I know you through and through - I know everything about you. The very hairs on your head I have numbered. Nothing in your life is unimportant to Me. I have followed you through the years, and I have always loved you - even in your wanderings.

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I know every one of your problems. I know your need and your worries. And yes, I know all your sins. But I tell you again that I love you - not for what you have or haven’t done - I love you for you, for the beauty and dignity My Father gave you by creating you in His own image.

It is a dignity you have often forgotten, a beauty you have tarnished by sin. But I love you as you are, and I have shed my blood to win you back. If you only ask Me with faith, my grace will touch all that needs changing in your life. I will give you the strength to free yourself from sin and all its destructive power.

I know what is in your heart - I know your loneliness and all your hurts - the rejections, the judgments, the humiliations. I carried it all for you, so you might share My strength and victory. I know especially your need for love - how you are thirsting to be loved and cherished. But how often have you thirsted in vain, seeking that love selfishly, striving to fill the emptiness inside you with passing pleasures - and ending with even more pain. Do you thirst for love? “Come to me all you who thirst” (John 7:37). I will satisfy you and fill you. Do you thirst to be cherished? I cherish you more than you can imagine to the point of dying on a cross for you.

I thirst for you. Yes, that is the only way to even begin to describe my love for you: I thirst for you. I thirst to love and to be loved by you - that is how precious you are to Me. I thirst for you. Come to Me, and I will fill your heart and heal your wounds.

If you feel unimportant in the eyes of the world, that matters not at all. For Me, there is no one more important to Me in the entire world than you. I thirst for you. Open to Me, come to Me, thirst for Me, give me your life - and I will prove to you how important you are to my heart.

No matter how far you may wonder, no matter how often you forget Me, no matter how many crosses you may bear in this life, there is one thing I want you to remember always, one thing that will never change: I thirst for you - just as you are. You don’t need to change to believe in My love, for it will be your belief in My love that will change you. You forget Me, and yet I am seeking you every moment of the day - standing at the door of your heart, and knocking.

Do you find this hard to believe? Then look at the cross; look at my heart that was pierced for you. Have you not understood My cross? Then listen again to the words I spoke there - for they tell you clearly why I endured all this for you: “I thirst” (John 19:28). Yes, I thirst for you - as the rest of the Psalm verse, which I was praying says of Me: “I looked for love, and I found none” (Psalm 69:20).

All your life I have been looking for your love - I have never stopped seeking to love and be loved by you. You have tried many other things in your search for happiness; why not try opening your heart to Me, right now, more than you ever have before.

Whenever you do open the door of your heart, whenever you come close enough you will hear Me say to you again, not in mere human words but in spirit: “No matter what you have done, I love you for your own sake.” Come to Me with your misery and your sins, with your troubles and needs, and with all your longing to be loved. I stand at the door of your heart and knock…Open to Me for I thirst for you.

- written by Mother Teresa

A Confession

This is a song for my family outside the walls of Sunday morning from some within.

This is a song to confess our sins, lay it all out, and try to begin again. To hope again.



Please forgive our ignorance in looking down on you.

Please forgive our selfishness for hiding in our pews while the world bleeds.

While the world needs us to be what we should be.

This is a song for my family who just can’t believe in the Jesus that you’ve seen on Sunday morning.



This is a song for the cynical saints.


The burned out and hopeless.


The ones that we’ve cast away.


I feel your pain.



Please forgive the wastefulness of all that we could be.

But don’t forget, there’s more than this.


Her beauty still exists.

His bride is still alive.

This is a song for my family inside the walls of Sunday morning.

Be what you should be.

- ‘Song For My Family’ by Michael Gungor






Inheritance

“The Lord says that there is nothing that you can do that would make Him love you more.

there is also nothing you can do that would make Him love you less.

He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you

because He loves you,

because that is what He is like.

it is His nature to love, and you will always be the beloved.

And His love is unchanging, and He loves you 100%.

He won’t love you any better when you become better. He loves you 100% right now, and even if you have no plans to become better, He will still love you 100%; because He loves you, because that’s the way that He is.

Even if you don’t want to change, He will love you 100%.

Even if you have no plans to walk with Him, He will love you 100%, because that’s his nature.

He loves all the way all the time. His love is unchanging.

What will change says the Lord is your ability to receive my love, and this evening I want to cram some more of that ability inside you.

So I challenge you says the Lord, open your heart to me, open your heart to me and you will receive more of my love than you’ve ever experience before.

I dare you says the Lord, come on, open you heart to me, give me your heart, give me whatever your obstacle is, I’ll take it, I’ll remove it out of the way, because I love you as you are right now.

I love you 100% as you are right this moment.

I love you as you are, so be loved. You are the beloved.

it is your job says the Lord, to be loved outrageously.

It is why I chose you, and it is why I set my love upon you, that you would live as one who is outrageously loved.

That you would receive a radical love, so radical it will blow all your paradigms of what you think love is.

And know says the Lord, I will love you outrageously all the days of your life, because I don’t know how to be any different, this is who I am, and this is who I will always be, this is the I Am that I promised you, I am He that loves you outrageously.

And you may love me back with the love that I give you; you may love Me back outrageously, with the outrageous love that I bestow upon you.

And know this says the Lord you can only love Me as much as you love yourself.

So My love comes this evening to set you free from yourself, to set you free from how you see yourself. To set you free from the smallness of your own thinking about yourself.

My love comes to set you free from rejection, and from shame, and from low self-esteem, and from despair and from abuse.

Because when I look at you says the Lord, I see something that I love, and I see someone that I can love outrageously.

And I have so much to bestow upon you, so much to give you, so many places to take you in My heart, but you can’t go there unless you allow Me to love you.

And my love for you, will break every barrier, bring every wall crashing down.

And know this says the Lord, My love damages fear, My love hates fear My love will fight fear it will fight fear in you it will fight fear around you, and if you have fear this evening says the Lord, then know that you have a treat in store, because My perfect love casts out fear.

There is no fear where I am present, because My love casts out fear. Beloved, you are My beloved, you are My beloved, and in My love I want you to feel good about yourself.”

- Graham Cooke






Hands full.

Eyes of the heart


What do you see when you look with the eyes of your heart?


I see a world of hurt being renewed by the very definition of love. I see a broken relationship being made whole. I see fires starting. I see desires being realised. I see hope and prosperity. I see restoration of what was lost. I see a good God. A loving Father. I see sons and daughters awakening from sleep. I see a beautiful earth. I see whole people and I see an enemy that is trembling as it hides behind the lies it thought would never be exposed.


You were worth it.


You are welcome.


Bring your baggage.


Thirst - What Jesus wants you to know

I know you through and through - I know everything about you. The very hairs on your head I have numbered. Nothing in your life is unimportant to Me. I have followed you through the years, and I have always loved you - even in your wanderings.

[caption id=”attachment_33” align=”alignright” width=”250” caption=”copyright Takenya Rosetta”]copyright Takenya Rosetta[/caption]

I know every one of your problems. I know your need and your worries. And yes, I know all your sins. But I tell you again that I love you - not for what you have or haven’t done - I love you for you, for the beauty and dignity My Father gave you by creating you in His own image.

It is a dignity you have often forgotten, a beauty you have tarnished by sin. But I love you as you are, and I have shed my blood to win you back. If you only ask Me with faith, my grace will touch all that needs changing in your life. I will give you the strength to free yourself from sin and all its destructive power.

I know what is in your heart - I know your loneliness and all your hurts - the rejections, the judgments, the humiliations. I carried it all for you, so you might share My strength and victory. I know especially your need for love - how you are thirsting to be loved and cherished. But how often have you thirsted in vain, seeking that love selfishly, striving to fill the emptiness inside you with passing pleasures - and ending with even more pain. Do you thirst for love? “Come to me all you who thirst” (John 7:37). I will satisfy you and fill you. Do you thirst to be cherished? I cherish you more than you can imagine to the point of dying on a cross for you.

I thirst for you. Yes, that is the only way to even begin to describe my love for you: I thirst for you. I thirst to love and to be loved by you - that is how precious you are to Me. I thirst for you. Come to Me, and I will fill your heart and heal your wounds.

If you feel unimportant in the eyes of the world, that matters not at all. For Me, there is no one more important to Me in the entire world than you. I thirst for you. Open to Me, come to Me, thirst for Me, give me your life - and I will prove to you how important you are to my heart.

No matter how far you may wonder, no matter how often you forget Me, no matter how many crosses you may bear in this life, there is one thing I want you to remember always, one thing that will never change: I thirst for you - just as you are. You don’t need to change to believe in My love, for it will be your belief in My love that will change you. You forget Me, and yet I am seeking you every moment of the day - standing at the door of your heart, and knocking.

Do you find this hard to believe? Then look at the cross; look at my heart that was pierced for you. Have you not understood My cross? Then listen again to the words I spoke there - for they tell you clearly why I endured all this for you: “I thirst” (John 19:28). Yes, I thirst for you - as the rest of the Psalm verse, which I was praying says of Me: “I looked for love, and I found none” (Psalm 69:20).

All your life I have been looking for your love - I have never stopped seeking to love and be loved by you. You have tried many other things in your search for happiness; why not try opening your heart to Me, right now, more than you ever have before.

Whenever you do open the door of your heart, whenever you come close enough you will hear Me say to you again, not in mere human words but in spirit: “No matter what you have done, I love you for your own sake.” Come to Me with your misery and your sins, with your troubles and needs, and with all your longing to be loved. I stand at the door of your heart and knock…Open to Me for I thirst for you.

- written by Mother Teresa

A Confession
Inheritance
Hands full.
Thirst - What Jesus wants you to know

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