Live courageously from your heart!
Check out these lyrics from the song ‘Jesus Bring The Rain’ by Mercy Me.
So I pray
Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings You glory
And I know there’ll be days
When this life brings me pain
But if that’s what it takes to praise You
Jesus, bring the rain
That’s a tough perspective, isn’t it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB38EvSZhEM
On this LIVE edition Tony Marino and Pastors Brian Whiteside, Michael Duncan, and Dr. Jeff Klick.
Guest Panelists: Jason Velotta, Lyn Smith, Ed Hook, Tim Young, and Shawn Savage (Shawn & Caroline Savage).
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Have you ever felt the blunt force trauma of life? Have you ever been in this place, where you never thought you would be able to hope again, breath again, believe again or recover? Do you want to stop just existing and live fully alive?
We ask God to fix this (our circumstance) and God says I’m trying to fix you…so I can use you to reach out touch the world.
*Interview starts about 30 mins into the broadcast.
I want you to imagine this scene.
God had just finished creating Adam and Eve placing them within the pristine landscape of Eden; a land of paradise beyond our wildest imagination.
They live in a garden paradise where they could thrive and raise a family of their own, but this garden of theirs is more than a physical utopia. It’s a land where they live in perfect harmony with one another and with their Creator. They would commune with Him as their Father and as a friend. And that relationship – more than all the fruit-bearing trees, more than all the crystal waters, more than the beauty and comfort of their surroundings – provides everything their human hearts could ever desire. They have love, because their love came from God. They had joy, because their joy came from God. They had peace because their peace came from God. There was no hunger, greed, fear, or pain because God’s holy presence surrounded and filled that perfect place.
Its tough losing the ones we love, isn’t it?
I lost my mom back in 2008 and I continue to thank the Lord for her. I know that she is in an amazing place and I can’t even begin to imagine what her eyes are seeing right now….but yeah, “I miss my mom!” It’s not the same without her.
Here are some words I spoke of her during her funeral.
