TeenInChrist Posted July 15, 2010 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 17 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/06/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 09/29/1993 Share Posted July 15, 2010 These are the lyrics to Take me as I am by Lecrae It Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephobell1 Posted July 15, 2010 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 37 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 86 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 18 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/03/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/18/1994 Share Posted July 15, 2010 amazing lyrics there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiloh62 Posted July 15, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,683 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 51 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/14/2008 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/14/1962 Share Posted July 15, 2010 amen, our works won't save us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladypeartree Posted July 15, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 37 Topic Count: 542 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 33,035 Content Per Day: 5.05 Reputation: 23,853 Days Won: 237 Joined: 06/21/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/23/1953 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Hope and pray this post will help others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtletwo Posted July 15, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1,192 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 7,264 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 15,710 Days Won: 194 Joined: 07/15/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted July 15, 2010 Thanks for sharing this, TeenInChrist. Very good words! I'm sure many will relate and benefit from it. I respect the young in this generation who are taking a stand for Jesus and sharing the gospel. It makes me happy. Styles of music definitely change over the years. But it is sure nice when the message doesn't! I was a Christian in my teens too. That was many years ago. Back then we had a song with a similar meaning, called "Just as I am." It was written in old english, but I am posting it anyway. I hope it will help (some of the older readers here may not have difficulty with old english. I know that my kids do, though...) Isn't it so cool that in the body of Christ we can be saying the same message, but in different ways? It makes me so sad when people don't understand we can never be good enough to earn our way to Heaven. And that is the whole reason Jesus had to suffer and die, in our place! My family doesn't understand that us coming to Christ, just as we are and looking to what He did is what saves us. By the way, I have played them newer styles Christian music in hopes it would help them surrender their hearts to Jesus. Good works will always follow the radical change He makes in us, but you can never reverse the order..."getting the cart before the horse." Ephesians 2: 8-10 explains it well. 8-9 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. So verses 8-9 are how He saves us... Verse 10 is the result from getting saved. Below are the lyrics to the song 'Just as I am' that really touched when I was a teen and to this day. Just as I Am, Without One Plea Text: Charlotte Elliott, 1789-1871 Music: William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 Tune: WOODWORTH, Meter: LM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Just as I am, without one plea, but that thy blood was shed for me, and that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. 2. Just as I am, and waiting not to rid my soul of one dark blot, to thee whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. 3. Just as I am, though tossed about with many a conflict, many a doubt, fightings and fears within, without, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. 4. Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind; sight, riches, healing of the mind, yea, all I need in thee to find, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. 5. Just as I am, thou wilt receive, wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve; because thy promise I believe, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. 6. Just as I am, thy love unknown hath broken every barrier down; now, to be thine, yea thine alone, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. Hope this will speak to somebody, even as TeenInChrist did to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traveller Posted July 15, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 827 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 12,101 Content Per Day: 1.50 Reputation: 249 Days Won: 3 Joined: 04/01/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted July 15, 2010 Excellent post, turtletwo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtletwo Posted July 16, 2010 Group: Royal Member Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1,192 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 7,264 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 15,710 Days Won: 194 Joined: 07/15/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted July 16, 2010 I appreciate that comment, traveller. I want very much to minister to whoever I can through Worthy's site. And I recognized that same heart inTeenInChrist, with lyrics that those that age will identify with. So I thought that posting Just as I am would be something positive I could do (to share with older people here a like-minded message.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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