Today i’ve prayed on what should i post……for some reason i feel i need to post the lyrics to a song that i listen too! …the singer is Aaron Jeoffrey..the song is called He Is. 

This song is about Jesus…and what every book of the Bible says about him.

 

In Genesis. He’s the breath of life

In Exedus. the Passover Lamb

In Leviticus. He’s our HIgh Priest

Numbers. The fire by night

Deuteronomy. He’s Moses’ voice

In Joshua. law giver

In Ruth, the kinsmen-redeemer

First and second Samuel, our trusted prophet

In kings and Chronicles. He’s sovereign

Ezra, true and faithful scribe

Nehemiah, He’s the rebuilder of broken walls and lives

In Esther, He’s Mordecai’s courage

In Job, the timeless redeemer

In Psalms, He is our morning song

in Proverbs, wisdom’s cry

Ecclesiastes, the time and season

In the Song of Solomon, He is the lover’s dream

He is, He is, HE IS!

In Isaiah, He’s Prince of Peace

Jeremiah, the weeping Prophet

In Lamentations, the cry for Israel

Ezekiel, He’s the call from sin

In Daniel, the stranger in the fire

In Hosea, He is forever  faithful

In Joel, He’s the Spirits power

In Amos, the arms that carry us

In Obadiah, He’s the Lord our Savior

In Jonah, He’s the great Missionary

In Micah, the promise of peace

In Nahum, He is our strength and our shield

In Habakkuk and Zephaniah, He’s pleading for revival

In Haggai, He restores a lost heritage

In Zechariah, our fountain

In Malachi, He is the son of righteousness rising with healing in His wings

He is, He is, HE IS!

In Matthew,Mark, Luke and John. He is God, Man, Messiah

In the book of Acts, He is fire from heaven

In Romans. He’s the grace of God

In Corinthians, the power of love

In Galatians, He is freedom from the curse of sin

Ephesians, our glorious treasure

Philippians,the servants heart

In Colossians, He’s the Godhead Trinity

Thessalonians, our coming King

In Timothy, Titus, Philemon He’s our mediator and our faithful Pastor

In Hebrews, the everlasting covenant

In James, the one who heals the sick

In first and Second Peter, he is our Shepherd

In John and in Jude, He is the lover coming for His bride

In the Revelation, He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords

He is, He is, HE IS!

The prince of peace

The Son of man

The Lamb of God

The great I AM

He’s the alpha and omega

Our God and our Savior

He is Jesus Christ the Lord

and when time is no more

 

He is, HE IS!

 

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 Hannah Whitall Smith tells the story of the man who was walking along a road, carrying a heavy burden on his shoulders.  a wagon overtook him and the driver kindly offered to give the man a ride.  The man happily accepted to carry the heavy load on his shoulders.

     Perplexed, the kindhearted wagon driver said, ” Sir, why don’t you put down your burden?  There’s plenty of room.”

     “Oh, no,” said the man.  “I feel it’s almost too much to ask you to carry me.  I wouldn’t think of asking you to carry my burden also.”

Maybe you are like that man.  You’ve allowed Christ to carry you-to be your Savior-but you are unwilling to entrust certain areas of your life to his care.  Jesus wants control of your whole life:”(matthew 11:28).  If there are problems in your life too heavy for you to bear alone, give them to Jesus.  he will carry your load.

     Back in the 1800’s, a young Englishman traveled to California in search of gold.  after several months of prospecting, he struck it rich.  On his way home, he stopped in New Orleans.

     Not long into his visit, he came upon a crowd of people all looking in the same direction.  Approaching the crowd, he recognized that they had gathered for a slave auction.  slavery had been outlawed in England for years, so this young man’s curiosity drew him to watch as a person became someone else’s property.  He heard “Sold!” just as he joined the crowd.  A middle-aged black man was taken away.

     Next a beautiful black girl was pushed up onto the platform and made to walk around so everyone could see her.  “The miner heard vile jokes and comments that spoke of evil intentions from those around him.  Men were laughing as their eyes remained fixed on this new item for sale.

     The bidding began.

     Within a minute, the bids surpassed what most slave owners would pay for a black girl.  as the bidding continued higher and higher, it was apparent that two men wanted her.  In between their bids they laughed about what they were going to do with her, and how the other one would miss out.  The miner stood silent as anger welled up inside of him.  Finally, one man bid a price that was beyond the reach of the other.  The girl looked down.  The auctioneer calle out, “Going once! Going twice!”

     Just before the final call, the miner yelled out a price that was exactly twice the previous bid.  an amount that exceeded the worth of any man.  The crowd laughed, thinking that the miner was only joking, wishing that he could have the girl himself.  the auctioneer motioned to the miner to come and show his money.  the miner opened up the bag of gold he had brought for the trip.  The autioneer shook his head in disbelief as he waived the girl over to him.

     The girl walked down the steps of the platform until she was eye-to-eye with the miner.  she spat straight in his face and said through clenced teeth, “I hate you!” The miner, without a word, wiped his face, paid the auctioneer, took the girl by the hand , and walked away from the still-laughing crowd.

     He seemed to be looking for something in particular as they walked up one street and down another. Finally he stopped in front of some sort of store,   the slave girl did not know what type of store it was.  She waited outside as the dirty-face miner went inside and started talking to an elderly man.  she couldn’t make out what they were talking about.  At one point the voices got louder, and she overheard the store clerk say,  “But it’s the law! It’s the law!” Peering in, she saw the miner pull out his bag of gold and pour what was left of it on the table.

     With what seemed like a look of disqust, the clerk picked up the gold and went in a back room.  He came out witha piece of paper, and both he and the miner signed it.

     the young girl looked away as the miner came out the door.  Stretching out his hand, he said to the girl, “Here. these are papers that say you are free.  Take them.”

     “I hate you!” the girl said, refusing to look up. “Why do you make fun of me!”

     “No listen, ” He pleaded.  “These are your freedom papers.  You are a free person.”

     The girl  looked at the papers, then looked at him, and looked at the papers once again.  “you just bought me…and now, you’re setting me free?”

     “That’s why I bought you.  I bought you to set you free.”

     The beautiful young girl fell to her knees in front of the miner, tears streaming down her face.  “You bought me to set me free! ” she said over and over.

    The miner said nothing.

     Clutching his muddy boots, the girl looked up at the miner and said, “All i want to do is to serve you-because you bought me to set me free!’

  At one time we were all slaves to sin and to death.  But Christ came to redeem us-to pay for our freedom.  he bought us with His own blood, that we might be free.  “For you know that it was not with persihable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed…but with the precious blood of  Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect” (1Peter 1:18,19).

     In the darkest part of the night, a ship’s captain cautiously piloted his warship through the fog-shrouded waters.  With straining eyes he scanned the hazy darkness, searching for dangers lurking just out of sight.   His worst  fears were realized when he saw a bright light straight ahead.  It appeared to be a vessel on a collision course with his ship.

     To avert disaster he quickly radioed the oncoming vessel.  “This is Captain Jeremiah Smith, ” His voice crackled over the radio.   “Please alter your course ten degrees south! Over.”

     To the captain’s amazement, the foggy image did not move.  Instead, he heard back on the radio, “Captain Smith. This is Private Thomas Johnson.  Please alter your course ten degrees north! Over.”

     Appalled at the audacity of the message, the captain shouted back over the radio, “Private Johnson, this is Captain Smith, and I order you to immediately alter your course ten degrees south!. Over.!

     A second time the oncoming light did not budge.  “With all due respect.  Captain Smith, ” came the private’s voice again,, “I order you to alter your course immmediately ten degrees north! Over.”

     Angered and frustrated that this impudent sailor would endanger the lives of his men and crew, the captain growled back over the radio, “Private Johnson.  I can have you court-martialed fort this! For the last time, I command you on the authority of the united States government to alter your course ten degrees to the south! I am a battleship!”

     The private’s final transmission was chilling: “Captain Smith, sir. Once again with all due respect, I command you to alter your course ten degrees to the north! I am a lighthouse!”

Many of us in today’s world have little respect for authority.  We operate as if rules can be (or should be) changed to fit our personal needs and desires.  Commercials egg us on: “Have it your way.” In reality we can’t always have it our way.  We have to conform our lives to a higher  truth, a higher authority–the Word of God.

     God’s truth is like a lighthouse.  it’s not going to change to accommodate us.  We are the ones who must change to conform our lives to what God wants for us.

     Jesus is also like a lighthouse.  The Bible teaches that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Heb. 13:8).  he will always be there for us.  He is absolutely dependable.  We Christians must conform our lives to His will for us.  If He tells us to alter our courses, we have no choice but to obey.  That’s what being a disciple is all about.

     Once upon a time there was a little girl whose parents had died.  she lived with her grandmother in an upstairs bedroom.

     One night a fire broke out in the house and the grandmother perished while trying to rescue the little girl.  The fire spread through the house very quickly and the first floor was soon engulfed in flames.

     As the fire spread through the house, the neighbors arrived and tried to enter the house but couldn’t because all the doors were blocked by flames.  Someone called 911, but they knew that the fire department would arrive too late to save the little girl who was trapped upstairs.  They could hear her cries in the upstairs bedroom, but there was nothing that anyone could do.

     Suddenly, a man appeared with a tall ladder and raised it against the side of the house.  he climbed the ladder, broke a window and disappeared into the house.  Soon he reappeared at the window with the little girl in his arms.  he descended the ladder just as an ambulance arrived, and he delivered the little girl to the paramedics who took her quickly to the hospital.  The little girl survived, but the man who saved her disappeared into the night.

     A few months later, the little girl went before a judge who had the responsiblility of placing her in a fosteer home.   She had no living relatives, so it was up to the courts to find a proper home for her.

     The judge decided to interview several prospective people who were willing to take her in.  After interviewing them all, he would make his decision.  The little girl was present in the courtrooom during all these proceedings.

     The first person requesting custody of the child was a school teacher.  She pointed out that the child would need a good education, and as a teacher, she could make sure that she learned a great deal.  She knew how to deal with children, she said, and she knew how to take care of a girl like this one.

     The next person was a farmer.  he offered the little girl a wholesome environment, where she would learn principles of hard work and the simple life. She would get to be around animals and learn responsiblity.

     Next was a rich woman who said,  “I can give this child anything she needs or wants.  I will provide her with the finest clothes and send her to the best schools.  If she lives with me, she will have whatever her heart desires.”

     Several other people were interviewed, each of whom explained why it would be to the little girl’s advantage to live with them.

     ” Does anyone else have anything to say before I make my decision?  “asked the judge.

    Just then a man came forward from the back of the courtroom.  He walked very slowly and with a slight limp.  From his old clothes, it was obvious that he wasn’t rich or well-educated.  When he got to the front of the room, he stood directly in front of the little girl and held out his arms.  The crowd gasped.  his hands and his arms were terribly burned and scarred.

     ‘This is the man who saved  me!” cried the little girl.  With a leap, she threw her arms around the man’s neck, holding on for dear life, just as she had on the day of the fire.  She buried her face in his shoulder and sobbed for a few moments.  Then she looked up and smiled with a grin that lit up the courtroom.

     ‘I think I’ve just made my decision,” said the judge.  And the court was adjourned.

     There is an old hymn that goes  “Oh, how I love Jesus…Because he first loved me.”  When we come to Jesus Christ,  we come to him out of gratitude for what he did for us on the cross.  We live for Jesus because of what he has done for us.

       A little boy was overheard talking to himself as he strutted through the backyard, wearing his baseball cap and toting a ball and bat.  “I’m the greatest hitter in the world,”  he announced.  Then he tossed the ball into the air, swung at it, and missed.  “Strike One!’ he yelled. Undaunted, he picked up the ball and said again, “I’m the greatest hitter in the world!”  He tossed the ball into the air.  when it came down, he swung again and missed.  “Strike Two!” he cried.

     The boy then paused a moment to examine his bat and ball carefully.  He spit on his hands and rubbed them together. He straightened his cap and said once more,   “I’m the greatest hitter in the world!”  Again he tossed the ball up in the air and swung at it.  he misses.  “Strike Three! Wow!” the boy exclaimed.  “I’m the greatest pitcher in the world!’

Your attitude determines how circumstances impact your life.  The little boy’s circumstances hadn’t changed, but his optimistic attitude prompted him to give an encouraging meaning to what had happened.

     what difficult time are you going through right now?  Can you do something to change it? If you can, don’t wait another day–make the needed changes.  If you can’t change the circumstance, however, change your attitude–you’ll discover that circumstances won’t have the last word.

     One day a prairie chicken found  an egg and sat on it until it hatched.  Unbeknownst to the prairie chicken, the egg was an eagle egg, abandoned for some reason.  That’s how an eagle came to be born into a family of prairie chickens.

     While the eagle is the greatest of all birds, soaring above the heights with grace and ease, the prairie chicken doesn’t even know how to fly. In fact, prairie chickens are so lowly that they eat garbage.

     Predictably, the little eagle, being raised in a family of prarie chickens, thought he was a prairie chicken.  he walked around, ate garbage, and clucked  like a prairie chicken.

    One day he looked up to see a majestic bald eagle soar through the air, dipping and turning.  When he asked his family what it was, they responded, “It’s an eagle.   But you could never be like that because you are just a prairie chicken.”  Then they returned to pecking the garbage.

     The eagle spent his whole life looking up at eagles, longing to join them among the clouds.  It never once occurred to him to lift his wings and try to fly.  The eagle died thinking he was just a prairie chicken.

You were born to fly.  But some of you think and act like prairie chickens because the world keeps telling you that’s what you are.  God created you “a little lower than the angels” (see Psalms 8 and Hebrews 2:7).  do you ever feel like there’s something, more to life than what you are experiencing?  Look up! Lift your wings and fly! God wants you to be all that you were created to be.

     The apostle Peter writes in 1 Peter 1:14, “As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.” In other words, “Stop living like eagles who think they are prairie chickens.” You are no longer ignorant.  You know who and what you are.  You are born again through the living and enduring Word of God.  Now live that Way.  Spread your wings and fly.

Henr was 73 years old when he moved into the rest home. Since the death of his wife two years earlier, Henry had been extremely lonely.  He needed some company, someone to talk to.

     After unpacking his belonings, Henry walked to the activities room, where many of the other residents were gathered.  everyone in the room was either talking, reading, playing cards, or watching television.

  Suddenly Henry felt nervous about trying to make new friends at his age, He wasn’t sure he  had made the right decision.

    As he stood in the doorway surveying the room, Henry was startled by a gentle tap on the shoulder.  He turned to find a small woman staring up at him.  Even though she must have been 85 years old, she had a kind face and was attractive.  she said nothing but continued to stare at Henry.

    Finally, Henry said,  “Good day, madam.  My name is Henry.”

    With a sparkle in her eye, the elderly woman said, “Henry, you look just like my fourth husband.”

    “I do?” Henry asked. “Tell me, how many husbands have you had?”

     Smiling broadly, the woman replied, “Three.”

 

Needless to say, the woman made Henry’s day.  No matter how old you are, it still feels good to be wanted.  Maybe you can give someone the gift of affermation today.  all kinds of lonely people need a tap on the shoulder and a reassurring smile.

     Mark Twain once said,  “I can live two weeks on one good compliment.” affirmation is a powerful act of  grace that spreads God’s love and leads to life.  Let’s build each other up and look for people around us every day who need a little encouragement and kindness (1 Thessalonians 5:11).

An overweight man decided it was time to shed some pounds.  He informed his coworkers that he was going on a diet and would no longer be bringing donuts to the office.  He knew it would be hard to resist stopping at the bakery on the way to work, but he committed himself to remaining strong and resisting temptation.

    His coworkers were surprised one morning to see him arrive at the office with a big box of donuts.  when they reminded him of his diet, he just smiled.

    “These are very special donuts,”  he explained.  “when I left for the office this morning, I knew I was going to drive by the bakery, and i wondered  if maybe the Lord might want me to have some donuts today.  I wasn’t sure, so I prayed, ‘Lord, if you want me to stop and buy some donuts, let there be an open parking place directly in front of the bakery.’ As you know, parking places in front of that bakery are hard to get!”

     “So the parking place was there?” one of his coworkers asked.

     “It was a miracle,” the man replied. “The eigth time around the block,  there it was!”

 

We need to remember that God’s will is not always our will.  When we pray for God’s will to be done, we shouldn’t be trying to manipulate God into rubber-stamping what we have already decided to do.  The Bible tells us that our hearts are wicked and “deceitful above all things” (Jeremiah 17:9).  Most of the time, what we want to do is not what God wants us to do.

     Jesus did not want to die on the cross, but rather than demanding his way, he prayed, “Father..not my will, but yours be done” (Luke 22:42).  God always knows what’s best for us.  We must submit ourselves to doing what he wants, not  what we want.

  During World war II an engineer at Genral Electric named James Wright was searching for a synthetic rubber substitute.  In one of  his experiments, he poured boric acid into a test tube filled with silicone oil, and it became a soft, malleable substance.

     Imagine his suprise when he dropped a glob of the substance on the floor–and it bounced! With a little more investigation, Wright discovered that the substance could also be stretched, flattened,rolled, and sculpted into many different shapes.

     Around the General Electric labs, the substance became something of a novelty.  soon many GE employees were taking some home to show their family and friends.

     Unfortunately, the new substance proved to have a rather short shelf  life, which made it useless for engineering purposes.  It was dismissed by the GE engineers as an interesting, but worthless, discovery.

     But a writer named Peter Hodgson became intrigued with the amazing substance after he saw it demonstarated at a party.  Hodgson, a copywriter for a toy catalog, had a feeling that the failed rubber substitute would be extremely popular with children, even if it was not useful for engineers.

     After testing the material for safety, Hodgson packaged the stuff in plastic eggs and added a name to it.  Within months the weird rubber know as silly Putty became one of  the hottest-selling toys in American history.

What looks completely worthless to one person may be extremely valuable to another.  It’s all a matter of perspective.

     For example, others may put you down because you seem worthless to them, however, God has a purpose  and plan for your life that no one may be able to see right now.

     When Jesus came as Saviour for the world, he was rejected by his own people.  Even today, people reject him.  But as the apostle Paul pointed out,”The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of  God”(1 Corinthians1:18).

    What looks foolish to the world is wisdom to those who can see things from God’s perspective.