Majesty

Majesty

Martin Smith, Stu Garrard

Majesty, Majesty

Your grace has found me just as I am

Empty handed but alive in Your hands

Singing Majesty, Majesty

Forever I am changed by Your love

In the presence of Your Majesty

Majesty

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Soli Deo Gloria
ah

Yet I Sin

Eternal Father,

T hou art good beyond all thought,

         But I am vile, wretched, miserable, blind;

My lips are ready to confess,

   but my heart is slow to feel,

   and my ways reluctant to amend.

I bring my soul to thee;

   break it, wound it, bend it, mould it.

Unmask to me sin’s deformity,

   that I may hate it, abhor it, flee from it.

My faculties have been a weapon of revolt

     against thee;

   as a rebel I have misused my strength,

   and served the foul adversary of thy kingdom.

Give me grace to bewail my insensate folly,

Grant me to know that the way of transgressors

     is hard,

   that evil paths are wretched paths,

   that to depart from thee is to lose all good.

I have seen the purity and beauty of thy perfect law,

   the happiness of those in whose heart it reigns,

   the calm dignity of the walk to which it calls,

     yet I daily violate and contemn its precepts.

Thy loving Spirit strives within me,

   brings me Scripture warnings,

   speaks in startling providences,

   allures by secret whispers,

     yet I choose devices and desires to my own hurt,

   impiously resent, grieve,

   and provoke him to abandon me.

All these sins I mourn, lament, and for them

   cry pardon.

Work in me more profound and abiding repentance;

Give me the fullness of a godly grief

   that trembles and fears,

   yet ever trusts and loves,

   which is ever powerful, and ever confident;

Grant that through the tears of repentance

   I may see more clearly the brightness

   and glories of the saving cross.

from The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions, page 70

Prayer for Guidance (Wisdom & Discernment)

9 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.


Phil 1:9-11 (ESV)


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Soli Deo Gloria
ah

The Kingdom

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matt 6:33 (ESV)

The Baptist Faith & Message 2000


IX. The Kingdom

The Kingdom of God includes both His general sovereignty over the universe and His particular kingship over men who willfully acknowledge Him as King. Particularly the Kingdom is the realm of salvation into which men enter by trustful, childlike commitment to Jesus Christ. Christians ought to pray and to labor that the Kingdom may come and God's will be done on earth. The full consummation of the Kingdom awaits the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this age.

Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 9:6-7; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Matthew 3:2; 4:8-10,23; 12:25-28; 13:1-52; 25:31-46; 26:29; Mark 1:14-15; 9:1; Luke 4:43; 8:1; 9:2; 12:31-32; 17:20-21; 23:42; John 3:3; 18:36; Acts 1:6-7; 17:22-31; Romans 5:17; 8:19; 1 Corinthians 15:24-28; Colossians 1:13; Hebrews 11:10,16; 12:28; 1 Peter 2:4-10; 4:13; Revelation 1:6,9; 5:10; 11:15; 21-22.

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The true and living God is King, and His kingdom represents His rule and His power.

Scripture presents us with an understanding of the kingdom that is deeply rooted in biblical history, very relevant to the present, but ultimately focused on the future.

God rules His kingdom with absolutely unlimited sovereignty, completely unconstrained power, and absolute justice that reflects His holiness.

Although God's rule extends to all people in all places and at all times the kingdom of God is identified with and understood by those who confess Jesus Christ as Lord.

Christians have experienced the arrival of the kingdom of God in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Ultimately, the revelation of the kingdom of God awaits the return of Jesus Christ.



taken from The Baptist Faith and Message

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Soli Deo Gloria
ah

Courageous

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.  Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

Josh 1:8-9 (ESV)

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He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8 (ESV)

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Soli Deo Gloria
ah