If I am in you and your word is in me
You said to ask what I wish and so it will be
As I hide in your love and I cherish your word
I know that my prayers will be answered and heard
CHORUS
I believe in your word, though I can't see it now,
but I know that you're true and you will answer somehow
Just like always, your ways, will amaze and astound
If they come with great power or without a sound
Prechorus 1
So if the answer is long in coming and our hearts feel in pain and distress
We'll remember, you're perfect and loving and you always do just what's best
So when the answer is long in coming and our hearts feel in pain and distress
You are faithful and your care you've promised so on your word we will rest
CHORUS
John 15:7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
I wrote this song about the above verse. I know someone who needs healing and people are praying and was reminded of this. I have also been praying for healing for myself. I know I am not totally healed yet, and I am not sure about this other person. But I have seen God answer prayers really fast and powerful, or over a longer period of time, unexpectedly, even imperceptibly, and He always does what is loving and best and far exceeds what we would think. He loves us lots.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
My Love
My love he set his eye on me, though I noticed him not.He saw me and he cherished me, before my glance he caught.
My love, he set his heart on me, and none could turn away
his faithful true pursuit of me, with his whole life he'd say:
(CHORUS)
My love, oh my love
I want you, I love you
My love, oh my love
how I desire your heart!
Long-suffering, his love, it was. For years and years he'd wait
so patiently for me to see, his love he'd demonstrate.
Oblivious I wandered on, I somehow didn't see
That my good love had set himself to win and romance me.
In time I saw his love, though my heart struggled to believe
why such a one would care for me and what in me he'd seen
for none is quite so noble and so honrable and good
as him, though I know many times I've not done what I should.
My love, his love, it covers me and all the wrong I've done.
My love, his love comes after me, e'en when I hide or run.
In all my failures he has seen a value in my heart.
My love, his love will never leave, we'll never be apart.
My love, his love for me is strong, he's patient and he's kind.
When I hurt him he turns his cheek, when I am hurt he cries.
When danger came he stood between: gave his life for my own
So now I've made a place for him, my heart will be his home.
CHORUS
My love, my heart it aches for him, I want to see his face
But he has gone ahead of me, he's making me a place.
I know someday I'll see him there, and for that day I long.
For now I'll wait for him down here, his love will be my song.
CHORUS
So who's the man this song's about and how was he so great?
And how can I still sing to him with death to separate?
Jesus Christ is this true love who died and rose again.
He's calling you to be his love, and you to be his friend.
CHORUS
Chorus- the favorite, Verses- CGAmCG (2 line pattern)
This song is kind of a ballad. The chorus can be seen as the loved one singing to the person and the person singing to the loved one mentioned at various points in the song. I think the song is in 12/8 time.
The romance part may sound funny to mention about God, but there are some things about God loving the church in Ephesians 5 and is even a book called the Sacred Romance by John Eldrege and Brent Curtis that looks into the phenomenon of God calling His people to himself.
Here are some verses that seem to relate to the song.
Acts 17:26-28
26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for"'In him we live and move and have our being';
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 11:33-36
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34 And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" (italics mine)
John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Eph 3:17a so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith -
1 Cor 15:3-4
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures
Rom 5:6-8
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person - though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die - 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us
Matt 5:39 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. (Jesus said this, then demonstrated it very thoroughly when he was crucified. You can check it out if you want in the end of the gospels).
Also there may be some confusing things with the chronology of the song: since God is the Lord over and creator of time and therefore somewhat outside of our limited sphere, I figured it would still be accurate.
This one has been on deck for a while, but posting it on Good Friday seems pretty appropriate. heh. Happy Easter weekend!
My love, he set his heart on me, and none could turn away
his faithful true pursuit of me, with his whole life he'd say:
(CHORUS)
My love, oh my love
I want you, I love you
My love, oh my love
how I desire your heart!
Long-suffering, his love, it was. For years and years he'd wait
so patiently for me to see, his love he'd demonstrate.
Oblivious I wandered on, I somehow didn't see
That my good love had set himself to win and romance me.
In time I saw his love, though my heart struggled to believe
why such a one would care for me and what in me he'd seen
for none is quite so noble and so honrable and good
as him, though I know many times I've not done what I should.
My love, his love, it covers me and all the wrong I've done.
My love, his love comes after me, e'en when I hide or run.
In all my failures he has seen a value in my heart.
My love, his love will never leave, we'll never be apart.
My love, his love for me is strong, he's patient and he's kind.
When I hurt him he turns his cheek, when I am hurt he cries.
When danger came he stood between: gave his life for my own
So now I've made a place for him, my heart will be his home.
CHORUS
My love, my heart it aches for him, I want to see his face
But he has gone ahead of me, he's making me a place.
I know someday I'll see him there, and for that day I long.
For now I'll wait for him down here, his love will be my song.
CHORUS
So who's the man this song's about and how was he so great?
And how can I still sing to him with death to separate?
Jesus Christ is this true love who died and rose again.
He's calling you to be his love, and you to be his friend.
CHORUS
Chorus- the favorite, Verses- CGAmCG (2 line pattern)
This song is kind of a ballad. The chorus can be seen as the loved one singing to the person and the person singing to the loved one mentioned at various points in the song. I think the song is in 12/8 time.
The romance part may sound funny to mention about God, but there are some things about God loving the church in Ephesians 5 and is even a book called the Sacred Romance by John Eldrege and Brent Curtis that looks into the phenomenon of God calling His people to himself.
Here are some verses that seem to relate to the song.
Acts 17:26-28
26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for"'In him we live and move and have our being';
John 11:33-36
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34 And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" (italics mine)
Eph 3:17a so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith -
1 Cor 15:3-4
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures
Rom 5:6-8
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person - though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die - 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us
Matt 5:39 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. (Jesus said this, then demonstrated it very thoroughly when he was crucified. You can check it out if you want in the end of the gospels).
Also there may be some confusing things with the chronology of the song: since God is the Lord over and creator of time and therefore somewhat outside of our limited sphere, I figured it would still be accurate.
This one has been on deck for a while, but posting it on Good Friday seems pretty appropriate. heh. Happy Easter weekend!
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