Songs
I can categorize each season of my life through songs. As soon as I feel myself moving on to another song, I know that I am moving into a new process and idea to process.
Pieces: Pieces is a song that will never not be relevant in my life because it is the song that opened my heart a crack so God's love could come rushing through. I've lived from performance my whole life, and this was a season of learning that nothing I could ever do good or bad will ever affect God's love for me.
Reckless Love: The intensity of God's love, revealing the foundation for the nature of the Father.
No Longer Slaves: a lot of stuff broke off me during this time period, chunks of fear falling away when I stepped outside my comfort zone, feeling conviction rise.
King of My Heart: God doesn't change. He is not bendable or only sometimes strong. He is always victorious, always steadfast, always faithful, always powerful, and always always good. We will never reach the end of the statement "God is good." It seems like such a weak word to describe the God of everything, but there is a depth to it, a feeling of groundedness. We will never reach the end of His goodness.
Our Breath Back: my emotions are not evil, they are not the part of me that is unlovable and sinful. and God wants to be so fully involved in every aspect of my life, even the ones that don't feel holy. Our tears become beautiful when we bring them to Him.
So Will I: getting a bigger picture of beauty and eternity. knowing that He would be tortured and separated from His Father a million times, even if it was just for me.
Extravagant: love settling deeper into the dark places. learning that He wants it to be a two-way relationship, not just a person echoing back His words. He wants to hear our words, our thoughts.
Perfect Peace: how to rest in God. how to rest in confidence. how to be buzzing with stress and anxiety, and take a deep breath, giving it to God. truly giving it to God.
Wonder: just because we live in a fallen world doesn't mean that we have to regard it as such. I had somehow gotten it into my head that I was supposed to dislike this world and long for the next, always looking ahead. but this world is straight from His imagination, from His glory and power. Fallen, yes, but still sparkling with remnants of His creativity and passion.
The Voyage: an ongoing song. I don't think I'll move on from this one for a long long time.
He is not afraid of my fear, of my questions. My future is a subject I am still working through, and this song is teaching me that a life in Him will never be small.
What If We Believed: faith is powerful, and it can move mountains, but just because something didn't happen doesn't mean that your faith was not strong enough or you did something wrong. God does not punish ignorance. a lot of Christians like to try and explain or rationalize unanswered prayers, fitting it into their definition of faith, saying "maybe it's because of *this* or *this*" instead of completely handing over the reigns, believing that God is good no matter what, even if you don't understand the reason behind something.
Tremble: standing in confidence that He is Lord over everything. Nothing gets past Him, and as His children, we get a measure of that power and joy through everything because nothing is too powerful.
Sound the Alarm: it's time to step into love fully, to be encircled by the Trinity. God loves us as much as He loves Jesus, and He wants to be just as close. He wants to be everything, and we have to remember what that love feels like. Our very DNA is an imprint, a representation of God. We HAVE to step into that and embrace walking every step with the Trinity next to us.
All Hail: hearing about/listening to songs of the crucifixion is very hard for me. Early on, the Holy Spirit took that subject that I was so desensitized to and walked me through what it all actually was. it wrecked me, and now Jesus' death is so real to me that it hurts to think about. This song brought me to the heart of victory, the history of triumph. It is still hard to listen to though.
Peace: the Holy Spirit showed me that the fruit of the spirit is a natural side effect of walking with Him. Peace is so much more powerful and tangible than we have defined it. Peace is not an emotion, I've had emotions of sadness, anger, etc. while staying grounded in peace. It changes everything.
Endless Alleluia: Every fiber of our being is to be engaged with and directed towards our Father. He is our everything. I would hear that phrase tossed around, but I never knew what it meant. It's a shift in our thought processes, our awareness, our existence is transformed when we make Him the only thing we need.
Defender: Another side of the "He is everything". We cannot defend ourselves, because we are robbing Him of the pleasure of holding our hearts and coming to our aid. It is His joy when we come to Him needing something. He responds to neediness because He is the Father of plenty, of relief, and HE wants to be the one to give it to us.
Sails: I could write an essay on this song. I can't even begin to describe what settled in through this song.
Still Will I Love: currently in this one. in the emptiness, there is reliance. even when we don't feel any reciprocation on His end, we know His nature, we know that every bit of His being is love. through anything. we'll get through anything. He is hope when it's hopeless, He sings over us even when we can't hear Him. He is constant when we feel abandoned. He never leaves, even if we can't see Him. Our choice of confidence in Him is one of the most important ones we could ever make. He is moving in every situation, no matter how desolate it seems.
Pieces: Pieces is a song that will never not be relevant in my life because it is the song that opened my heart a crack so God's love could come rushing through. I've lived from performance my whole life, and this was a season of learning that nothing I could ever do good or bad will ever affect God's love for me.
Reckless Love: The intensity of God's love, revealing the foundation for the nature of the Father.
No Longer Slaves: a lot of stuff broke off me during this time period, chunks of fear falling away when I stepped outside my comfort zone, feeling conviction rise.
King of My Heart: God doesn't change. He is not bendable or only sometimes strong. He is always victorious, always steadfast, always faithful, always powerful, and always always good. We will never reach the end of the statement "God is good." It seems like such a weak word to describe the God of everything, but there is a depth to it, a feeling of groundedness. We will never reach the end of His goodness.
Our Breath Back: my emotions are not evil, they are not the part of me that is unlovable and sinful. and God wants to be so fully involved in every aspect of my life, even the ones that don't feel holy. Our tears become beautiful when we bring them to Him.
So Will I: getting a bigger picture of beauty and eternity. knowing that He would be tortured and separated from His Father a million times, even if it was just for me.
Extravagant: love settling deeper into the dark places. learning that He wants it to be a two-way relationship, not just a person echoing back His words. He wants to hear our words, our thoughts.
Perfect Peace: how to rest in God. how to rest in confidence. how to be buzzing with stress and anxiety, and take a deep breath, giving it to God. truly giving it to God.
Wonder: just because we live in a fallen world doesn't mean that we have to regard it as such. I had somehow gotten it into my head that I was supposed to dislike this world and long for the next, always looking ahead. but this world is straight from His imagination, from His glory and power. Fallen, yes, but still sparkling with remnants of His creativity and passion.
The Voyage: an ongoing song. I don't think I'll move on from this one for a long long time.
He is not afraid of my fear, of my questions. My future is a subject I am still working through, and this song is teaching me that a life in Him will never be small.
What If We Believed: faith is powerful, and it can move mountains, but just because something didn't happen doesn't mean that your faith was not strong enough or you did something wrong. God does not punish ignorance. a lot of Christians like to try and explain or rationalize unanswered prayers, fitting it into their definition of faith, saying "maybe it's because of *this* or *this*" instead of completely handing over the reigns, believing that God is good no matter what, even if you don't understand the reason behind something.
Tremble: standing in confidence that He is Lord over everything. Nothing gets past Him, and as His children, we get a measure of that power and joy through everything because nothing is too powerful.
Sound the Alarm: it's time to step into love fully, to be encircled by the Trinity. God loves us as much as He loves Jesus, and He wants to be just as close. He wants to be everything, and we have to remember what that love feels like. Our very DNA is an imprint, a representation of God. We HAVE to step into that and embrace walking every step with the Trinity next to us.
All Hail: hearing about/listening to songs of the crucifixion is very hard for me. Early on, the Holy Spirit took that subject that I was so desensitized to and walked me through what it all actually was. it wrecked me, and now Jesus' death is so real to me that it hurts to think about. This song brought me to the heart of victory, the history of triumph. It is still hard to listen to though.
Peace: the Holy Spirit showed me that the fruit of the spirit is a natural side effect of walking with Him. Peace is so much more powerful and tangible than we have defined it. Peace is not an emotion, I've had emotions of sadness, anger, etc. while staying grounded in peace. It changes everything.
Endless Alleluia: Every fiber of our being is to be engaged with and directed towards our Father. He is our everything. I would hear that phrase tossed around, but I never knew what it meant. It's a shift in our thought processes, our awareness, our existence is transformed when we make Him the only thing we need.
Defender: Another side of the "He is everything". We cannot defend ourselves, because we are robbing Him of the pleasure of holding our hearts and coming to our aid. It is His joy when we come to Him needing something. He responds to neediness because He is the Father of plenty, of relief, and HE wants to be the one to give it to us.
Sails: I could write an essay on this song. I can't even begin to describe what settled in through this song.
Still Will I Love: currently in this one. in the emptiness, there is reliance. even when we don't feel any reciprocation on His end, we know His nature, we know that every bit of His being is love. through anything. we'll get through anything. He is hope when it's hopeless, He sings over us even when we can't hear Him. He is constant when we feel abandoned. He never leaves, even if we can't see Him. Our choice of confidence in Him is one of the most important ones we could ever make. He is moving in every situation, no matter how desolate it seems.
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