Song that Spoke to your heart

[Abigailwc]

There are a lot of recent songs that I like, but it seems that so many hymns have spoken to my heart:

Amazing Grace

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found;

Was blind, but now I see.

[Christ's Free Servant]

There are just so many that it is hard to pick just one. I have been putting together a collection of them in a notebook (the lyrics) just to read them for encouragement. Here is one that has not been posted yet:

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[cmariebright]

I want to comment on Giaour post on his favorite song "I can only imagine" This song was especially meaningful to me and this is the reason why. I went to Judgement House one night and you walk through different scenes you even walk through heaven and hell and when I walked in Heaven "I can only Imagine" was playing and everyone there had to walk up to "Jesus" and he asked you if you were going to be in heaven with him and all these angels surrounded you and were worshiping to this song I could feel the Holy Spirit's presence in that place. It was Amazing. cms

[nebula]

I recently re-heard a song by DeGarmo & Key song (Christian Rock band fromt he 80's).

A few lines in there really stood out, so I thought I'd share:

Never give out

Never give in

Never forget Me when you need a friend

Never give out

Never turn back

Never let hard times push you off your track

Never look back

Isn't it just like God's wisdom

To put grace where He plans to lead. . .

[Openly Curious]

Steve Camp's "Living Dangerously in the Hands of God"

How easy Jesus is forgotten amid the comfort of our lives;

Our flames become a flicker and faith a brilliant disguise;

Our Sundays become a holiday; they're an empty exercise,

And the cost of real devotion seems so foreign to our lives.

Oh, Oh to gladly risk it all;

Oh, Oh to be faithful to His call;

Abandoned to grace and anchored in His love,

Living dangerously in the hands of God.

Our Lord He is a hiding place His Word is strong and sure;

Though the storms may reach around me in His love I stand secure;

So let me live like I believe it, and though my faith is prone to fail,

Though I cower under trials by His grace I shall prevail.

Oh, Oh to gladly risk it all;

Oh, Oh to be faithful to His call;

Abandoned to grace and anchored in His love,

Living dangerously in the hands of God.

There's safety in complacency;

But God is calling us out of our comfort zone

Into a life of complete surrender to the cross.

To live dangerously is not to live recklessly,

But to live righteously.

And it is because of His radical grace for us

That we can risk living a life of radical obedience to Him

You've got to walk on

For the Lord He walks with us;

You've got to walk on

Though it costs you everything.

You've got to pray on,

"For the eyes of the Lord moved to and fro

Through out the earth that He may strongly support those

Whose hearts are completely His."

(2 Chronicles 16:9)

Oh, Oh to gladly risk it all;

Oh, Oh to be faithful to His call;

Abandoned to grace and anchored in His love,

Living dangerously,

Are you living dangerously,

Yes we ought to be

Living dangerously in the hands of God.

[Marnie]

I recently re-heard a song by DeGarmo & Key song (Christian Rock band fromt he 80's).

A few lines in there really stood out, so I thought I'd share:

Never give out

Never give in

Never forget Me when you need a friend

Never give out

Never turn back

Never let hard times push you off your track

Never look back

Isn't it just like God's wisdom

To put grace where He plans to lead. . .

"Here's To All The Losers (Who lose all guilt and sin)" is another great D & K song that comes to mind. Great choice Neb, from the golden age of Chrsitian music.

[mikado5001]

I want to comment on Giaour post on his favorite song "I can only imagine" This song was especially meaningful to me and this is the reason why. I went to Judgement House one night and you walk through different scenes you even walk through heaven and hell and when I walked in Heaven "I can only Imagine" was playing and everyone there had to walk up to "Jesus" and he asked you if you were going to be in heaven with him and all these angels surrounded you and were worshiping to this song I could feel the Holy Spirit's presence in that place. It was Amazing. cms

[Kabowd]

I am a huge U2 fan, and have liked the song "Miracle Drug" ever since I heard it. However, after reading the book "Walk On" and learning the story behind the song...I came to love it even more. Here's an excerpt from the book:

"Miracle Drug" is a song based around the life and disability of Christopher Nolan, a school colleague of the band. After a difficult birth, the motor center of his brain was so damaged that he could not coordinate his limbs. His voice was so distorted that it was unintelligible. When he was eleven, he was given a new miracle drug called Lioresal, which relaxed his muscles so that he could move his neck ever so slightly. He was given a unicorn stick that was strapped to his forehead and allowed him to type. The family was aware that Nolan's mind was probably not as tattered as the rest of his body. They knew he was making an effort to read. However, the tiniest movement of his neck revealed a genius who had been captive in a dsyfunctional body for years. He started to write, and poetry started to flow. He was fifteen when his first book, Dam-Burst of Dreams, was published.

Bono had been drawn to Nolan through school. Nolan arrived at Mount Temple around the end of U2's time there. That he became a great Irish writer who won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1987 also endeared Bono. Yet there were a couple of crucial aspects to his story that caused Nolan to end up in a song. The first was that when he finally got the chance to write, Nolan didn't rage at God but wrote his first poem, "I Learn to Bow". Bono was impressed with the attitude of a frustrated genius unable to communicate who saw being able to move his neck ever so slightly as the greatest blessing of life. Being angry with God seems a more natural response than to bow in worship. Bono was fascinated at such humility. Interestingly, in Nolan's third poem, "Ambitions", he wrote about "pills you find as lasting prayer/An irate person may possibly/have faith instead of despair".

Like many U2 songs, "Miracle Drug" is about more than what the song is about. Bono reflected on a story like Christy Nolan's, and it sent him off in contemplation and into other ideas and lessons. "Miracle Drug" is also a prayer for the pills that might defeat HIV/AIDS. In many ways the song is about believing even when there seems no reason to believe. Nolan's mother spoke to him and read to him and stimulated his mind, having absolutely no idea that there would be any miraculous end to the story. There must have been times when she wondered whether she was wasting her time and when family and friends told her she was. Yet she believed and hoped against all the odds. Nolan's mother gave Bono strength in inspiration. American Christian leader and political activist Jim Wallis wrote about such a hope in his book The Soul of Politics. He said, "Hope believed is history in the process of being changed." He continued: "Hope is believing in spite of the evidence and watching the evidence change." Bono saw such hope in Nolan's story and prayed for the same in Africa.

[bad biker]

That is an awesome song, Gerioke!

Here is one on my heart today. I have memorized it to sing with my church choir during our upcoming Easter drama. The "citizens of Jerusalem" sing it as Jesus is healing people during His ministry:

MERCY SAW ME

Beautiful,

That's how Mercy saw me.

For I was broken

And so lost

Mercy looked past all my faults.

The justice of God saw what

I had done.

But Mercy saw me through the SON!

Not what I was,

But what I could be,

That's how Mercy saw me!

Whatever you've done,

You can't go too far,

That His eyes of Mercy

Can't see where you are.

He loves you too much

To leave you alone.

You're flesh of His flesh

And bone of His bone.

And His tender heart

Hears your heart cry.

See yourself through His eyes

Then you will say.

Beautiful, that's how Mercy saw me....

[nebula]

Great choice Neb, from the golden age of Chrsitian music.

Amen!