Spontaneous worship from Bethel Church featuring Steffany Frizzell-Gretzinger, William Matthews and Jeremy Riddle.
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Spontaneous worship from Bethel Church featuring Steffany Frizzell-Gretzinger, William Matthews and Jeremy Riddle.
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Alive
All Sons and Daughters
Capo 4
Intro – D/F# G A
(Verse 1):
D/F# G A
This is a call to all the dead and disappointed
D/F# G A
The ones who feel like they are done
D/F# G A
This is a word to all the ones who feel forgotten
D/F# G A
But you are not
D/F# G A
Oh you are not
(Chorus):
D/F# G A
Were alive, alive, alive were singing
D/F# G A
Were alive, alive, alive and were shaken
D/F# G A D/F# G A
Were alive, alive, alive, alive in You
(Verse 2):
D/F# G A
We are soaked in all the grace that we’ve been given
D/F# G A
Unchained from all that we have done
D/F# G A
Your mercy’s rising like the sun on the horizon
D/F# G A
Were coming home
Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. (Colossians 2:7 NLT)
“If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones… (Luke 16:10a NLT)
Psalm 95
New Living Translation (NLT)
Psalm 95
1 Come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come to him with thanksgiving.
Let us sing psalms of praise to him.
3 For the Lord is a great God,
a great King above all gods.
4 He holds in his hands the depths of the earth
and the mightiest mountains.
5 The sea belongs to him, for he made it.
His hands formed the dry land, too.
6 Come, let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,
7 for he is our God.
We are the people he watches over,
the flock under his care.
If only you would listen to his voice today!
8 The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah,
as they did at Massah in the wilderness.
9 For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience,
even though they saw everything I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with them, and I said,
‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me.
They refuse to do what I tell them.’
11 So in my anger I took an oath:
‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
Daily Devotional
December 9
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
Deuteronomy 15:15–17
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. – Psalm 40:6–8
The ear of Jesus Christ was opened, pierced not with an awl but by the wood of the Cross of Calvary. Jesus is the perfect bondslave who came not to be served, but to serve (Mark 10:45), who came not to do His own will, but His Father’s (Matthew 26:39). For the joy set before Him, He endured the Cross, despising the shame (Hebrews 12:2). He knew there would be suffering and bleeding, but He also knew that on the other side, there would be joy which would far outweigh and supersede even the pain.
And such can be the same for you and me . . .
Doulos, the Greek word for servant, refers to an under rower. Think of a ship sailing across the Mediterranean Sea. While the passengers on the deck enjoy the view, below them are men expending great energy, toiling at the oars. That’s what it means to be a servant. You slave away hour after hour, day after day in order to get the people above you to their destination. The true servant says, “I want to get you to where you’re supposed to be – out of the slough of despondency, out of the place where you’re discouraged, confused, or damned eternally. I want to do whatever I can to get you to your destination.”
“That sounds awful,” you say, “rowing day after day under the deck just to get someone else to his or her destination.”
But here’s what you must remember: If the people on deck are headed to Maui, guess where you will end up? It’s true. If I’m helping someone else to have a better day, I arrive at the same port. If I’m helping someone overcome discouragement, I myself end up overcoming my own discouragement. If I’m helping someone else with their marriage, my own marriage grows stronger, richer, and deeper. If I’m helping someone else who is confused about the nature of the Father, as I row for them, my own understanding of the Father becomes so much clearer.
This should not be surprising. After all, Jesus said, “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again” (Luke 6:38).
Next time you have a week where you feel physically, emotionally, spiritually, or mentally fatigued, here’s the key: Serve others. Talk to others. Pray with others. Maybe people will notice your labor of love on their behalf. But it may be that your work will take place under the deck where, out of sight, unnoticed by others, as a bondslave, you row faithfully to get them to their destination.
This Daily Devotional is an excerpt from the book “A Pillar By Day” by Pastor Jon. “A Pillar By Day” is a collection of 365 short devotions from the Old Testament books of Genesis through Deuteronomy.If you would like your own copy of “A Pillar By Day” you may click here to go to the SearchLight Store.
Daily Devotional
October 23
And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish.
Numbers 29:13
From the sacrifice of a single lamb in the morning and in the evening, seen in Numbers 28:4, the sacrifice grew to over a ton of flour, one thousand gallons of wine and oil, thirteen thousand oxen, and sixty thousand sheep given annually (Numbers 29:13–39).
“That’s an awful lot of giving,” you say, “a huge sacrifice.”
Wait a minute. Suppose my nine-year-old son Benjamin said to me, “Daddy, can I have ten dollars to get you a Father’s Day gift?”
“Sure,” I say, and give him a crisp ten dollar bill.
Father’s Day morning, sure enough, I get a homemade card from Benny and inside the card is the crisp ten dollar bill.
“Thanks Ben!” I would say excitedly – even though I gave him the money to give to me.
That the Israelites gave thousands of livestock, a ton of flour, and thousands of gallons of wine and oil meant that God had blessed them with these things in the first place. As I did with Benny, God provided His people with everything they would give back to Him.
So too, God gave us all that we have, all that we are. If we lay down our lives for God, it’s only because He gave them to us in the first place.
This Daily Devotional is an excerpt from the book “A Pillar By Day” by Pastor Jon. “A Pillar By Day” is a collection of 365 short devotions from the Old Testament books of Genesis through Deuteronomy.If you would like your own copy of “A Pillar By Day” you may click here to go to the SearchLight Store.
The Prophets 