Saturday, March 31, 2012

There Is No Other

[Thank God for guiding us to meditate on His word and through songs, to dwell on the truths of Who He is... and encounter Him deep in our spirit man... responding in worship and abandonment in living for God!

May Spirit of God give me understanding of how beautiful and glorious Jesus, the Branch of the Lord, is... that even now, I not only sing in worship, but also live for the day of His coming... Oh.. the terror of the Lord and the glory of His majesty... who can fathom! Show me O Holy Spirit... I want to know, I want to understand.. (Isa. 2:10, 19, 21) ]


Isaiah 4:2 ~ "In that day the Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious;
And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing..."

There is no other as lovely
There is no other as worthy
As beautiful, as beautiful as You

The Branch of the Lord
Shall be glorious
The fruit of the earth
So excellent

The Branch of the Lord
Shall be beautiful
The fruit of the earth
So appealing

(that we will sing..)

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

No eye has seen

No eye has seen
No ear has heard
What You have prepared
For those who love You

No eye has seen
No ear has heard
Reveal, reveal Jesus
By Your Spirit

Let me hear Your voice
In the morning
Let me hear Your voice
Late at night
Let me hear Your voice
Calling me


1 Cor 2:9-12
But as it is written:

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

Moments when you just can't carry on a conversation with God...

I remember when the House of Prayer was located in the Bible House building. We did not have many verses on the wall. Probably only one, I think...

Psalm 27:4
One thing I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord,
And to inquire in His temple.

I remember one day, I was meditating upon this verse in the House of Prayer and decided to talk to God using this verse. From the bottom of my heart, while the devotional worship was going on in the background, I told God, "You are my one thing...".

Then I paused and before I wanted to say it again... I thought I heard God saying to me, "You are my one thing...". I kind of shrugged off the voice, as thought I might be dreaming or hearing things... So I opened my mouth and was about to continue talking to God. But He did not allow me to continue...

"You are my one thing... You... You are my one thing..."

Tears welled up in my eyes...

These are moments I could not carry on a conversation with God...

More than five years on, with all its ups and downs, north and south winds... this verse still moves my heart... for every time when I attempt to say that to Him, I hear Him saying the same thing back to me...

It is the name that God has given us as a House... to remind us that above all, to keep Him as the 'one thing' - the very priority, love and pursuit in our lives...crowd or no crowd, glory or no glory, to remember our name... for this is who we are - a People of One Thing..

Praise be to God for His undying love and abundant grace in my life... O how He loves us so.. I want to know Him more... and run with Him...



2Cor 11:3 ~ "For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."

Deut. 4:24 For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

 
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