A Season Of A New Beginning

In every season you are still God, I have a reason to sing, I have a reason to worship.

When we think about seasons, we think of how God carries us out of hard times, but carries us into the good times too.

I went through the transitioning season last year, and what I mean with that is I went from doing a phone call study to doing my study in the same way I've done it, but doing it in video form on a ministry that I've been with since 2020.

There is a Christian series I'm reading called Out Of Time. In those type of books it reminds me of this scripture.

Ecclesiastes 3 says this- There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,  a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

The books I'm reading in the Out Of Time Series have each title reference of what those verses are.

I realize, that I may have done a study like this before but the reason I'm bringing it back in a little bit of a different light, is because even though a lot of us go through seasons, hard times, or difficult moments, we have something in common with that, which is we are never alone in anything we go through.

When we realize that, we see God is helping us every step of the way and helping us that a lot of what we go through, even when we feel like giving up, we don't because just like in the song I Believe It Now by Sidewalk Prophets, the lyrics say this: I couldn't see it then, but I believe it now, Just a searching soul tired of reaching out, Stuck on the tracks, train bearing down, Screaming from my lungs, " Who will save me now?", As the reruns of the regrets, they replay inside my head, Got the devil on my shoulder, and he's leaving me for dead, Whispers and lies have brought me here, Flooding my veins with doubt and fear, Oh, I, I could not see it then, Oh, I, I could not see, Oh, my God, I remember when I cried, Shook my fists up at the sky, I wondered why, You felt so far from me, Oh, God, It was in my deepest pain, That I heard You call my name, I heard You say, That You were right there with me. I couldn't see it then, but I believe it now, Trying to hold my head up when the ground fell out, I felt all alone even in a crowd, Like a sinking stone dragging my heart down And the weight of the sorrows I carried on my chest, It kept pulling me under, and I couldn't catch my breath, Not how I thought my life would go, Didn't know my heart could sink this low, No, I, I could not see it then, No, I, I could not see it, Oh, my God, I remember when I cried, Shook my fists up at the sky, I wondered why, You felt so far from me, Oh, God, It was in my deepest pain, That I heard You call my name, I heard You say, That You were right there with me, Love was standing there, Holding me, But I couldn't see, That love was always there, He carried me And now, I believe, Oh, my God, I know You heard me when I cried,, 'Cause You were right there by my side, I realized, That You have never left me.

2 Peter 3 verse 8- But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Romans 15 verse 13:  May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 23 verse 4: Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Deuteronomy 31 verse 8: The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

The last remaining scriptures with the quotes, remind us how just like in that beginning lyric I shared, there's a place for everything, there's a time to sing, time to worship by singing praise, and in every season we walk through, we know that God is still good and that He is with us. We know that God is our friend, and we know that what the Enemy sometimes means for bad, God has meant for good because God gets us through each season, the hard and difficult and bad moments, but He also gets us through the good, the wonderful, and delightful moments.

Let us take this to heart as no matter what we may face, God will always get us through it all.

Relying On God's Mercy

 Once there was a holy place, Evidence of God's embrace And I can almost see mercy's face, Pressed against the veil

Looking down with longing eyes, Mercy must have realized, That once His blood was sacrificed, Freedom would prevail And as the sky grew dark And the earth began to shake, With justice no longer in the way, Mercy came running

Like a prisoner set free, Past all my failures to the point of my need, When the sin that I carried, Was all I could see And when I could not reach mercy, Mercy came running to me.

A thousand times I've failed, Still your mercy remains, Should I stumble again, Still I'm caught in your grace
Everlasting, your light will shine when all else fades, Never ending, your glory goes beyond all fame, Your will above all else, My purpose remains, The art of losing myself in bringing you praise, Everlasting, your light will shine when all else fades, Never ending, your glory goes beyond all fame, In my heart, in my soul

I give you control, Consume me from the inside out, Let justice and praise, Become my embrace, To love you from the inside out, Everlasting, your light will shine when all else fades, Never ending, your glory goes beyond all fame And the cry of my heart is to bring you praise, From the inside out, Lord my soul cries out.

Luke 6 verse 36- Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Psalm 23 verse 6- Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Ephesians 2 verse 4-5:  But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

Psalm 103 verse 8- The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Jude 2 verse 2- Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.

In all of this we see how God shows us that no matter where we are life that surely Goodness and Mercy will follow us all of our days.

We see that no matter what, whenever we go through a storm in life that we can rely on God to show us Mercy, Love, and Grace.

When we feel down, God lifts back up and shows us that we can receive His Mercy and show Mercy to others around us.

We need to remember that no matter what comes our way that everything is going to be okay.

I want to end on these two things for tonight's study because I think it's important to learn.

Everyone needs compassion, Love that's never failing, Let mercy fall on me, Everyone needs forgiveness, The kindness of a Saviour, The hope of nations.

Here is a definition of what mercy means: compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm.

In these last two things, it reminds us how it is better to show Mercy than to not allow ourselves to feel down and out in how things can be out of our control versus what is in our control and that is when we realize we need to rely on God's Mercy, and Let Go and Let God.

That for me in that quote sums up how we need to let God handle these things without thinking we are meant to fight it alone. We are not, and God will continue to show us Mercy.

Moments We Seek Christ

Today I want to talk about the moments we seek Christ. I want to start this as a way of opening a door.

I mean, I want to open the door to have the conversation of moments we seek Christ on a daily basis.

• We are alive and well, therefore we seek Him in the moments of thanking Him for this life.
• When we were created in His Image we were uniquely, and wonderfully made in His Image.
• If we look around us, we seek Him in the moments that things in our life get rough or tough.
• We give it to Him in prayer and seek guidance from Him and we know that we are beloved.
• No matter what we seek Him in the moments that give us the joy in how we are His children.

If we were to look at these bullet points, we would see that each moment we seek in Christ, brings us one step closer to know that God gives us in times we feel down, the restoration and peace we need at times.

We see how God gives us the ability to overcome in how we seek Him in the things we need most.

What we need most is Him and when we realize that, we are able to see and understand in the moments we seek Him in the Spotlight and when we seek Him in the Spotlight that we understand how those moments we seek in that way, are the moments we spotlight for Him because we are always desperately wanting to seek Him, to honor Him, and to spread joy wherever we go.

In these times we are thinking in how we can do the things that we need in time which is His Love.

Matthew 6 verse 33- But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Hebrews 11 verse 6- And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Jeremiah 29 verse 13- You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Let Go And Let God.

I wanted to share that quote because this quote to me means that we are in the moments that we seek Christ, because when seeking Him, we are Faithful to speak and Faithful in Christ to understand His Will and understand how when we give it all to Him, we seek His Presence.

Deuteronomy 4 verse 29- But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Psalm 9 verse 10- Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqf6CJEykPo&list=RDzqf6CJEykPo&start_radio=1

Matthew 7 verse 7-8- “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAmpsNtU6g0&list=RDAAmpsNtU6g0&start_radio=1

In all of this, as well as these two songs that we can seek Him fervently and Faithfully in the moments that we understand and know that He is our Savior and that things work in His Timing and because of that we know all things work together for His Good and Glory.

Psalm 105 verse 4- Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.

Let that last scripture be a reminder as to why we need to seek God in every moment of our life.

Our Freedom In Christ

 John 8 verse 36-  So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

… Who am I that the highest King, Would welcome me? I was lost, but He brought me in, Oh, His love for me. Oh, His love for me … Who the Son sets free, Oh, is free indeed. I'm a child of God, yes, I am… Free at last, He has ransomed me, His grace runs deep, While I was a slave to sin, Jesus died for me, Yes, He died for me… Who the Son sets free, Oh, is free indeed, I'm a child of God, yes, I am, In my Father's house, There's a place for me, I'm a child of God, yes, I am … I am chosen, not forsaken, I am who You say I am, You are for me, not against me, I am who You say I am, I am chosen, not forsaken, I am who You say I am, You are for me, not against me, I am who You say I am, I am who You say I am.

2 Corinthians 3 verse 17: Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Galatians 5 verse 1: It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

… You unravel me with a melody. You surround me with a song, Of deliverance from my enemies, 'Til all my fears are gone … I'm no longer a slave to fear, I am a child of God, I'm no longer a slave to fear, I am a child of God.

… I am surrounded by the arms of the Father, I am surrounded by songs of deliverance, We've been liberated from our bondage, We're the sons and the daughters, Let us sing our freedom.

John 8 verse 32:  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Romans 8 verse 1-2- Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Galatians 5 verse 13-14: You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love came down and rescued me, Love came down and set me free, I am Yours, Lord, I am forever Yours, Mountains high or valley low, I sing out and remind my soul, I am Yours, I am forever Yours, When my heart is filled with hope, Every promise comes my way, When I feel Your hands of grace, Rest upon me, Staying desperate for You, God, Staying humble at Your feet, I will lift these hands in praise, I will believe, I'll remind myself, Of all that You've done

And the life I have Because of Your Son.

In everything we see how God who is the greatest of loves because He is love, has rescued us, has sent His Son to die on the cross to forgive us of our sins, so that we wouldn't have to pay the price.

We see our freedom this Fourth Of July is showing us in how no matter we live our life we can be thankful for those who have served, for those who are currently serving and also we can be thankful that we have our truest of Freedom found in Christ because without Him, He may not have sent His Son to die on the cross, and we can be very thankful that it was not like that where He didn't do the opposite of that because with Christ we have Freedom, we have the Freedom to be appreciative of all the things around us and all the things that we are grateful for because with Christ in everything we do, we know that it's God who shows us we are His.

Faith

Rise

Engage

Enjoy

Dream

Onward

Mercy

Inspire

New

Compassion

Hopeful

Risen

Inspired

Saved

Trust

I wanted to end with that because we have Faith to Rise and Engage with those around us. We can Enjoy the Freedom we have in Him and Dream about the things that He has planned as we walk onward in the Mercy of Christ. We can inspire one another in New Beginnings and have Compassion towards one another. We should also be hopeful in knowing that one day as we don't know the day or the hour but there will be a day that Christ will return because just like how we celebrate Easter, we know that He was Risen from the grave 3 days later and this is a very Inspired thing to know because it reminds us in how we are Saved and we need to Trust in His Timing and His Plan for our life because true freedom in Christ is what we should strive for.

Our Testimonies

 I can’t imagine where I would be, If it weren’t for the blood that washed over me , Oh, Jesus over everything, From who I was then to who I am now, The one explanation, the only way how, Is Jesus over everything, Jesus over everything, His cross has covered me, Yes, Jesus over everything, Jesus, Name above all names, Forever I will sing, Yes, Jesus over everything, In every season, in joy and in pain, In blessing and suffering I speak the name, Of Jesus over everything, This is my banner, this is my cry, No matter the outcome, the choice of my life, Is Jesus over everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoOKYQX0xEU

Colossians 1 verse 17: He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

I’ve gone where the hopeless go, The dead end of broken road, And I’ve learned there’s a place so low, You can’t see your way out, Been stuck in a ditch so deep, Thought it might be the end of me, But I’m still here and there could only be, One way how, My life is a God story, Gotta tell the world what He’s done for me, Miracles on miracles, That only He could do, I’m proof that we’re all only, One prayer away from a testimony, There’s only one getting all the glory, My whole life is a God story, From beginning to the end, From who I was to who I am, I can see His fingerprints, On every single page, Now the story I love to tell, Is the story of the one who brought me back from hell, From all is wrong to it is well, And all I can say is, From death to life, from blind to sight, This is my God story, From lost to found, from then to now, I’ll tell you how, God story, Who brought me through from old to new, It’s a true God story, Ain’t hard to see the change in me, Could only be a God story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf246bFwfg4&list=RDpf246bFwfg4&start_radio=1

Psalm 139 verse 16-17: Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book, before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

You feel like a candle in a hurricane, Just like a picture with a broken frame, Alone and helpless, like you've lost your fight, But you'll be alright, yeah, you'll be alright, 'Cause when push comes to shove, You taste what you're made of, You might bend till you break, 'Cause it's all you can take, On your knees, you look up, Decide you've had enough, You get mad, you get strong, Wipe your hands, shake it off, Then you stand, oh, then you stand, See, life's like a novel with the end ripped out, The edge of a canyon with only one way down (Canyon, oh, one way down), Take what you're given before it's gone, And start holdin' on, keep holdin' on (Hold on), 'Cause when push comes to shove, You taste what you're made of, You might bend till you break, 'Cause it's all you can take, On your knees, you look up, Decide you've had enough, You get mad, you get strong, Wipe your hands, shake it off, Then you stand, Every time you get up And get back in the race, One more small piece of you, Starts to fall into place, 'Cause when push comes to shove, You taste what you're made of (What you're made of), You might bend till you break, 'Cause it's all you can take (All you can take), On your knees, you look up, Decide you've had enough (You've had enough), You get mad, you get strong, Wipe your hands, shake it off, Then you stand.

https://youtu.be/57kP_BpmnLA?si=ms5HPVVC8rfeXe1P

Philippians 4 verse 1:  Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends!

Somewhere out there hanging by a thread, All of your strength is gone, Strength to keep holding on  And don't buy those lies that are in your head, That say you should just give up, That you'll never be enough, Remember you're a child of the King, Sing, sing like you've already won, Be grateful for all He has done, As long as there’s air in your lungs, sing, You're so much stronger than you think, The Spirit that brought Christ back to life, Is the same one you have inside, So next time there's a wall standing in your way, Sing along with that new song in your soul And watch them fall like Jericho, Sing, sing like you've already won, Be grateful for all He has done, As long as there's air in your lungs, sing, Sing, sing like you finally believe Your name has been changed to redeemed , So with every breath that you breathe, sing, Don't give up, don't give in, Go on and raise your voice , Don't give up, don't give in, Make a joyful noise.

https://youtu.be/SQQR_9Q1B_g?si=4MQcBD35tz8VQy_B

Zephaniah 3 verse 17:  The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

Lord, I confess my attention has wondered from You, My heart needs a course correction, Back to what is true, Of a thousand things I’d run to, You’re still the only one who satisfies, So, Jesus every time, I choose You, Nobody loves me the way that You do, I choose You, Over and over, Because You chose me, When I gave you nothing You gave everything, All my life, You’re calling me closer, So, I choose You, Over and over, Hands lifted up as I lay down, For good for what is best, Surrender all at the alter And trust You with the rest , You’re calling me out of my grave, No turning back now I’ve made up my mind, Jesus, every time.

https://youtu.be/gWH0nQ7Rrkc?si=O-qTbDmeliliKu-o

John 15 verse 16: You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

In all of this, I wanted to share what God has laid on my heart because these songs shape us and mold us. These songs can make a difference in our life. We are God's Beloved. In everything we see from the lyrics of each song, and the scriptures that go with it, we see that God is shaping our testimony. He is calling us for such a time as this and showing us that we can be who we are created to be in His Image.

When we think about being made in His Image, we think of how wonderful that is to know that God doesn't give up on His Children, that He keeps shaping us for such a time as this one to do strive well.

In a Matthew West Song called Don't Stop Praying, we see that even in that song, we shouldn't stop praying when life gets bad, we should continually pray and praise God for when the times are great too.

We all go through life in our testimonies where we have bad days but we also go through life with good days and what we do with each day should count.

We may not be here forever because one day, we will be with Jesus and when we really realize that we see how in everything, with prayer and petition, when we make our requests known to Him, we can see that God will shape and mold and answer our prayers in His Timing and reveal to us what needs revealed.

My hope in this particular study is to allow ourselves with these scriptures, this message and the songs to reach us in a way that allows us to not only see the hope inside ourselves this week but to show hope to others, to share our testimony with others, to share God's Story with others and listen to their stories.

My prayer is that this study allows you to not give up in what God is calling you to do for Him daily.

If nothing more, my hope is to know that no matter what God gives me to say in these studies, that wherever and however God gives me the topic, that God works through you as He works through us all and allow Him to show you that in the week ahead that when you feel down, He'll pick you back up.

Let these last things be a reflection this week in how God will use for His Good and Glory.

Coming Back Home To Christ

 We are not alone. The God who stands beside us is the One who will go before us.

The story of the prodigal son is the story of a God who goes searching for me and who doesn't rest until He has found me.

Jesus told the story of the Prodigal Son to make a point: Never mind what you've done, just come home.

Mercy is a song, singing to my heart, Telling me it's okay, come just as you are, I never heard a melody, like the one they're singing over me And I just wanna sing along, 'cause mercy is a song, Freedom is a choir, swaying back and forth, Shining in the shadow of a stain-glassed Sunday morning, Shouting hallelujah, yesterday is gone, Oh, freedom is a choir and mercy is a song, Singing oh, there is a life for every soul, No matter where you've been just come on home, Let all God's children sing along, Hallelujah, chains are gone, Mercy is a song.

I've read the words in red, How You leave the 99, To find the one missing, Feels like that was written, With me on Your mind And the prodigal son who ran, leaving his home behind, The part where the father came running to meet him, Did You say that with me on Your mind? Who am I that the King of the world, Would give one single thought about my broken heart? Who am I that the God of all grace, Wipes the tears from my face and says, "Come as you are"?, You paid the price, You took the cross, You gave Your life and You did it all with me on Your mind (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh) Me on Your mind (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh) Just knowing You're mindful of me, Just knowing You call me Your child, It's flooding my soul with unspeakable hope, Thank You, Lord, that it's me on Your mind.

Father, meet me with Your arms wide open, The world's done broken Your prodigal son, Down that road I traveled, Everything raveled only came undone, Father, lead me down to the river, Wash me in the water 'til I'm whiter than snow, I know I'm not worthy, But tell me there's mercy for the wanderin' soul, I lost my way but now I'm on my knees, If it's not too late, won't You tell me please? You gotta place for me, A little grace for me, Father, meet me in the cool green valley, In all of Your glory, when my days are done, Name me as one of Your chosen, Heaven's unbroken prodigal son.

John 14 verse 6- Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

James 4 verse 8- Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Jeremiah 29 verse 13- You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Acts 17 verse 27- God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.

Matthew 11 verse 28-30: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Deuteronomy 4 verse 29-  But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Psalm 51 verse 10-12: Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Isaiah 40 verse 31- But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

In all these scriptures and everything that I've shared, for me it reminds me of how we can find our way back home to God and how even in these things just like the Prodigal Son, God would leave the 99 to bring back the one to help us in the moments that we can see clearly.

In these moments that God has given us the opprotunity to reach and to show others in the things that we do in order to grow and in order to bring us to our Father in Heaven who is waiting with open arms to say to us well done, good and faithful servant.

I've carried a burden, For too long on my own, I wasn't created, To bear it alone, I hear Your invitation, To let it all go, Yeah, I see it now, I'm laying it down And I know that I need You, I run to the Father, I fall into grace, I'm done with the hiding, No reason to wait, My heart needs a surgeon, My soul needs a friend, So I'll run to the Father, Again and again.

You saw my condition, Had a plan from the start, Your Son for redemption, The price for my heart And I don't have a context, For that kind of love, I don't understand, I can't comprehend, All I know is I need You.

Sometimes on this journey, I get lost in my mistakes, What looks to me like weakness is a canvas for Your strength And my story isn't over, my story's just begun And failure won't define me 'cause that's what my Father does, Yeah, failure won't define me 'cause that's what my Father does, Ooh, lay your burdens down, Ooh, here in the Father's house, Check your shame at the door (ooh), 'Cause it ain't welcome anymore (ooh) Ooh, you're in the Father's house, Arrival's not the end game, the journey's where You are, You never wanted perfect, You just wanted my heart And the story isn't over, if the story isn't good, A failure's never final when the Father is in the room And failure's never final when the Father is in the room, Ooh, lay your burdens down, Ooh, here in the Father's house, Check your shame at the door (ooh), 'Cause it ain't welcome anymore (ooh) Ooh, you're in the Father's house, yeah, Prodigals come home, The helpless find hope, Love is on the move, When the Father's in the room, Prison doors fling wide, The dead come to life, Love is on the move, When the Father's in the room, Miracles take place, The cynical find faith And love is breaking through, When the Father's in the room, The Jericho walls are quakin', Strongholds now are shakin', Love is breaking through, When the Father's in the room, I said love is breaking through, When the Father's in the room.

Every time I tried to make it on my own, Every time I tried to stand, I start to fall And all those lonely roads that I have travelled on, There was Jesus, When the life I built came crashing to the ground And when the friends I had were nowhere to be found, I couldn't see it then, but I can see it now, There was Jesus, In the waiting, in the searching, In the healing, and the hurting, Like a blessing buried in the broken pieces, Every minute, every moment, Where I've been, and where I'm going, Even when I didn't know it, or couldn't see it, There was Jesus, For this man who needs amazing kind of grace (oh yeah) And for forgiveness at a price I couldn't pay, No, I'm not perfect, so I thank God every day, oh yeah, There was Jesus, There was Jesus.

In these last few songs, we are reminded that there is hope and there is light, because just like a Jordan Feliz song reminds us as well. we are never too far gone.

This should be a sole reminder that we can come back to God and God will welcome us home.

The Strengthening Of God's Love

 Before I spoke a word, You were singing over me, You have been so, so good to me, Before I took a breath, You breathed Your life in me, You have been so, so kind to me, Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, Oh, it chases me down, fights 'til I'm found, leaves the ninety-nine, I couldn't earn it, and I don't deserve it, still, You give Yourself away, Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, yeah, When I was Your foe, still Your love fought for me, You have been so, so good to me, When I felt no worth, You paid it all for me, You have been so, so kind to me, Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, Oh, it chases me down, fights 'til I'm found, leaves the ninety-nine, I couldn't earn it, and I don't deserve it, still, You give Yourself away, Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, yeah.

I'm Amazed That You Would Give Your Life For Me, You Bore The Weight Of Shame And Suffering.

It's Incredible, Astonishing, You Would Go To That Extreme, You Chose The Cross, You Paid The Cost.

Your Love Is Outrageous, It's A Love Beyond Belief, It Never Changes But I Know It's Changing Me.

For Your Goodness And Your Mercy, I Will Praise You Endlessly. Your Love Is Outrageous For Me.

I Don't Deserve Forgiveness But Your Kind, You Heal The Brokenness I Hold Inside. It's Incredible, Astonishing, I've Been Redeemed From Death To Life. A Heart Revived, Your Love Is Outrageous It's A Love Beyond Belief, It Never Changes But I Know It's Changing Me. For Your Goodness And Your Mercy, I Will Praise You Endlessly. Your Love Is Outrageous For Me.

I chose Cory Asbury's Reckless Love and Dave Langdon's song Outrageous Love because I wanted to share these two songs before going into the scriptures because I think it's important to understand that in Romans 5 verse 8 it says: While We Were Still Sinners, Christ Died For Us. You see in these two songs, we aren't focusing on God's Word being Outrageous or Reckless, we are focusing on His Wondrous Love, The Beauty of His Radiant Love for us because when you think about the lyrics from the first song, you see that before we spoke a word, and even took a breath, we were made in the Image of Christ because if you really think about that for a second, God loves us so much that He doesn't see His Children as Outrageous or Reckless, but He sees us as Beloved and Beautiful. 

The moments we take from the second song of I'm Amazed That You Would Give Your Life For Me, you see God sent His Son to die on the Cross, so that we could have everlasting and eternal life. His Son paid the price for our sins, so that we could be forgiven and what great it is to know that His Love Is Outrageous and what I mean with that is knowing that His Love is Radiant and Extravagant that It's A Greater Love Beyond Belief because it never changes but we know it changes us for the better.

We need to let our Hearts be Revived and we we need to praise Him Endlessly because God's Love is enough for us and every step we take, we know that God is changing our lives for the better of it all.

John 3:16-17- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

1 John 3 verse 1- See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

John 15 verse 13-  Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

Jeremiah 29 verse 11- For I Know The Plans I Have For You Declares The Lord, Plans To Prosper You And Not To Harm You But To Give You A Hope And A Future.

John 13 verse 34-35-  “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

To me these last two things remind me of why I wanted to do this study, and why I felt it was important to share about God's Love for us because no matter what with the overwhelming and ever ending reckless love and outrageous love, we can go out into this world and share about His Unfailing Love that doesn't end because He is Love and because of that, we can count on the Love of God to be forever and He'll continue to Love us forever and always because no matter we go, we should want to as a Matthew West song title says: Love On The Radio, because that's what we should want to do. We should want to go out into the world and put His Love on the radio, we should want to show Love towards one another just as Christ has and continues to do for us and we should first and foremost want to spread God's Love to those we know and love but we should always want to spread His Love to those who may not know Christ and are longing for that relationship and looking for God's Unfailing Love.

I think even in the scriptures that this study can speak to the heart of many who are looking for that purpose and plan that God has for them, but also look into the heart of God's Love where He doesn't abandon us, but He strengthens us and equips us to do a good work in Him because without God we would have nothing and with the Love of God we know we have everything because just like in Sarah Kroger's Song Belovedness, she says: Beloved Believe, He died to make your heart His Home. That line for all of us, should be an indication as to why we need God's Love surrounding us in Hope, but also why we need God to help us show the kind of love to those around us even more because God gives us the strength and the ability to overcome in the kind of Love that He has for all of us as His Child.