Nothing Beside Jesus || South Africa

Hello ! 

 

 

 

Take a minute and just soak up this song. Read the lyrics – Pray about them – Deeply think through them – Close your eyes…Do whatever your heart desires!

 

 

 

Lord we lie before Thy feet

Look on all our deep distress

Thy rich mercy may we meet

Clothe us with Thy righteousness

 

Stretch forth Thy Almighty hand

Hold us up and we shall stand

Lord increase, increase our faith

Make us faithful in this land

 

May we know nothing

May we know nothing

 

May we know nothing beside Jesus

May we know nothing beside the Lord

May we know nothing beside Jesus

Crucified

 

Make Thy mighty wonders known

Let us see Thy sufferings plain

Let us hear Thee sigh and groan

Til we sigh and groan again

 

Let us trust Thee evermore

Every moment on Thee call

For new life, new will, new power

Let us trust Thee Lord for all.

 

 

 

 

One night during worship this past week, my squad was worshiping to this song. I starting really sorting through the lyrics and thinking about what they truly meant to me in my life today. To be honest, I got emotional. So many times during the day I get caught up in my worldly desires. I get lost in my circumstances, problems, feelings, and emotions. God has been speaking to me the word – – > PERSERVERANCE, PERSERVERANCE, and more PERSERVERANCE. He has just been telling me that it is so important to become one with the crucifixion. Becoming one with His suffering on the cross brings FREEDOM- Embracing the suffering in my day to day to life. Not in thought but actually living out where God calls me and who exactly He calls me to be even though it is extremely hard.

 

Romans 5:3-5

 

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLING TO MY WORD AND I WILL CALL YOU BLESSED.

 

GOD 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James 1: 22 – 25

 

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it, not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it, they will be blessed in what they do.

Thank you for your prayers!!

 

 

 

 

 

Best, 

Andrea

 

 

 

 

 

P.S. – " Here is a little something I wanted to share for the week – A perspective worth looking through…

 

 

“ Today you were defeated, 

discouraged, dejected, burned

 again.

Someone brought it up, dressed

 you down, told you off, staged a

 coup.

Any other day you could’ve

 shrugged it off: but not today. 

A tone, a word, a face dragged

 you into a pit, a chokehold, a

 fog.

It stings. But hey: you are not 

what has happened to you.

You’re not someone else’s fake

 idea of who they think you

 should be. 

You’re more than a backroom

 whisper where rumors lose

 reality

 
You are more than seedy

 surface opinions born in a broth

 of fantasy. 

You are beloved by a cosmic

 king of constancy
who has narrated a different

 history over today, and

 everyday, and for eternity.

 
He underlines, highlights,

 italicizes you apart from who

 you think you are: and He is 

writing you with a furious final

 love.

 
Don’t let a bad mood steal you;

 don’t let a bad day say more

 about you than today.

Because it’s just today. 

 

Let love say good morning.
                    – J.S. (via jspark3000)