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12:22 am - Saturday, February 18, 2006

Not my own, I cry,
as earthly passions die.
All for you, I sing,
for you took away my sin.
Give me a hunger for you word,
let me not by sin be lured,

And to you alone be glory Lord, glory in the highest,
and to you alone be honour Lord, every knee shall bow.

The Holy Spirit works within,
cleansing me of my desire to sin,
my relationship with God to build;
the God to whom all things will yield,
the God whose love and awesome power
sustains me, builds me, hour to hour.

And to you alone be glory Lord, glory in the highest,
and to you alone be honour Lord, every knee shall bow.


Thank you Lord for Jesus your Son,
what can I give for what you've done?
But my life you'd take from me I pray,
and use for your purposes day to day.
That I may praise you before your throne
and see my life as not my own,

But live to give you glory Lord, glory in the highest,
and live to give you honour Lord; that every knee shall bow.

I was adding things to my little 'section' next to my bed which has a collection of prayer points, verses for courage, and encouragement and this is what I happened to write when considering how we should treat God:

ARRGH!

Awe filled, Reverence, Respect, Glory, Honour!

I thought it quite amusing when that anagram came out...

I know I don't fear/revere God enough, or stop to consider the extent of his perfection, love and goodness. He is just so far above us, he's just so amazing, thinking about his qualities fills me with praise!

Up, up, up and away!!

2 Bludgers' annotations:

Blogger Minerva said...

ARRGH *pirate wench sounding*
That is a really good anagram :D

I don't think any of us appreciate God as much as we should/could even. I mean, when we used to pray (in the spirit), a few of us used to break down and cry unstoppably.
It's interesting when you hear different people's testimonies, some people were brought up in christian families so they became christian then, other people were lost in this human world and after tragedy turned to God, and some people (like myself) are just amazed, truly amazed at how someone/our Creator loves us so much NOT to vhoomp us into vapour after all the garbage we've done, are doing and would do in the future. I mean, I'd vhoomp me if I could. God's mercy and grace is neverending :)

- 18/2/06 1:06 am
Blogger Catie said...

I know I don't think about it/appreciate God as much as I should... But whenever I do, it's so overhelming, just how amazing He is and how much He loves us and has done for us. Like some of thoe hymns about Christ on the cross, like 'In Christ Alone', just really remind you of everything He has done and how we are saved. Praise to God!

It's nice to be reminded of this in my blog surfing :)

- 18/2/06 1:03 pm


CALENDAR

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PRAYER POINTS

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FROM MAY

Make Japanese friends, with whom I can practice my Japanese and work in Osaka.

MID/END JULY

Extend Working Holiday Visa

JULY/AUGUST

Meet up with Tokyo friends to climb Fuji!

MID/END SEPTEMBER

WEEK 1:Make my way up to Tokyo.

WEEK 2:Explore a little of northern Honshu.

26th SEPTEMBER

Evening Qantas flight to arrive 27th AM.

MID OCTOBER

Start full time work with TTW. Find a pad in Harbord area so I can surf it up before work.

At the moment it looks like I will stay home awhile from lack of $$!

JAPAN

Decisions in budgeting, studying, working and exploring

...

PERSONAL

General travel safety

Sinking my teeth into and learning Japanese well

keeping in contact with everyone!

Hooking up with a good bible based church

opps to share lives with 日本人 and make some good friends!

Not getting surf deprived

Visitors? / Travel Companions?