You Hold Me Now

>On that day when I see
All that You have for me
When I see You face to face
There surrounded by Your grace

All my fears swept away
In the light of your embrace
When Your love is all I need
And forever I am free

Where the streets are made of gold
In Your presence healed and whole
Let these songs of heaven rise to you alone

No weeping, no hurt or pain
No suff'ring You hold me now
You hold me now
No darkness no sick or lame
No hiding You hold me now,
You hold me now

In this life I will stand
Through my joy and my pain
Knowing there's a greater day
There's a hope that never fails

When You're name is lifted high
And forever praises rise
For the glory of Your Name
I'm believing for the day

When the wars and violence cease
All creation lives in peace
Let these songs of heaven rise to you alone

No weeping, no hurt or pain
No suff'ring You hold me now
You hold me now
No darkness, no sick or lame
No hiding You hold me now,
You hold me now

For eternity
All my heart will give
All the glory to Your name

No weeping, no hurt or pain
No suffering You hold me now
You hold me now
No darkness no sickening
No hiding You hold me now,
You hold me now

The Zone Conference was just extremely delightful. I love it to bits. One of those days I'll remember always. Pastor Judah Smith was funny and gregarious and so clear in his message. The Hillsong United team led a wonderful time of worship, the time spent worshipping was just.. extremely indescribable. Joel Houston was so amazingly and endearingly humble...

Everything was so great. Will blog more about it tomorrow morning.

Just wanted to share one of the songs we sang during the concert today.. It was so hard hitting and so beautiful when we sang it, and the lyrics are so simple yet so intricately beautiful. I love it.

Hope you guys like it, see you tomorrow morning (:

My Saviour Loves, My Saviour Lives.

Yes, living, dying; let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior

My flesh and heart may fail, but Your strength will be my portion forever.

What matters to you, doesn't matter, matter to me.

"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." - Albert Einstein

It happens to everyone as they grow up; you find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that the people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. And so you keep the memories but find yourself moving on.
– Unknown

I got this from Ernie's tumblr, couldn't help but think how true this is.

You both were once the greatest to me, but its strange (and possibly worrying) how I don't seem to miss you guys at all. To the point where, I don't see the point of digging up the past so that we can recollect and reminisce again. I don't see the point at all. I love you both, but I'm on to different things in life and I'm sure you two are as well.

I get excited over small things.

But thanks Mr B. Your rapport with children is simply magical. You inspire.

Harder, easier?

The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says "Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don't want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. I don't want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked--the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours."

- Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

Pastor Prince mentioned in his book, "Destined to Reign" that some people reckon the Christian way of living is hard, when the actuality of it is that the Christian way of living is almost impossible. But with great relevance to the quote I've found above, we live not of our own works, but through God's way. Surrendering every fibre of our being to Him, and living because we know of our state of righteousness through Jesus Christ, not by what we should or what we can do.

So is it hard? Or is it easy?

We need to learn to rest fully in God's arms. To rest, to enrich ourselves with His presence. More of Him equals to more likeness of Christ in us. We need to remember we are fully righteous through Jesus Christ, to remember we are already made a new creation.

I love Jesus. He's my everything.

My Manic and I

Morning was mocking was us, blood hit the sky.
I was just happy, my manic and I.
He couldn't see me, the sun was in his eyes.
And birds were singing to calm us down.

And I'm sorry young man, I cannot be your friend.
I don't believe in a fairy tale end.
I don't keep my head up, all of the time.
I find it dull when my hearts meets my mind.

And I hardly know you, I think I can tell..
These are the reasons I think that we're ill.
I hardly know you, i think I can tell..
These are the reasons I think that I'm ill.

So somehow through all these differences, I think I'm still drawn.

power.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous. Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us - it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give permission for other people to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Marianne Williamson

Beautiful, just look at the kids. So happy, so pure and so innocent. Makes me want to cry.
Mr B, you're the best teacher.

What use is knowledge if you were to use it unthinkingly?