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From Joseph soundtracks, here is “You Know Better Than I“
I thought I did what’s right,
I thought I had the answers
I thought I chose the surest road
but that road brought me here
So I put up a fight
and told You how to help me
Now, just when I have given up,
the truth is coming clear
You know better than I,
You know the way
I’ve let go the need to know why,
for You know better than I
If this has been a test,
I cannot see the reason
But maybe knowing I don’t know
is part of getting through
I try to do what’s best
and faith has made it easy
To see the best thing I can do
is to put my trust in You
For You know better than I,
You know the way
I’ve let go the need to know why
for You know better than I
I saw one cloud and thought that was the sky
I saw a bird and thought that I could follow
But it was You who taught that bird to fly
If I let You reach me, will You teach me ?
For You know better than I,
You know the way
I’ve let go the need to know why
I’ll take what answers You supply
You know better than I …

This song was written for youth people to encourage them for dedicating their life in service to God. Out of few songs that I listened today, this is one of my favorite. Kept me thinking, if we are the body, why aren’t we doing anything for the world?

Casting Crowns
If we are the body

It’s crowded in worship today
As she slips in trying to fade into the faces
The girls teasing laughter is carrying farther than they know
Farther than they know

CHORUS
But if we are the body
Why aren’t His arms reaching?
Why aren’t His hands healing?
Why aren’t His words teaching?
And if we are the body
Why aren’t His feet going?
Why is His love not showing them there is a way?
There is a way

A traveler is far away from home
He sheds his coat and quietly sinks into the back row
The weight of their judgmental glances
Tells him that his chances are better out on the road

CHORUS
Jesus paid much too high a price
For us to pick and choose who should come
And we are the body of Christ

CHORUS
Jesus is the way

By: Ray Boltz
Album: The Classics
Oh, when He rolls up His sleeves
He ain’t just puttin’ on the Ritz,
Our God is an awesome God.
There’s thunder in His footsteps
And lightning in His fists.
Our God is an awesome God.
And the Lord, He wasn’t jokin’
When He kicked ‘em out of Eden,
It wasn’t for no reason
That He shed His blood,
His return is very close
And so you better be believin’ that our
God is an awesome God.

CHORUS:
Our God is an awesome God,
He reigns from Heaven above,
With wisdom, pow’r and love,
Our God is an awesome God.

And when the sky was starless
In the void of the night,
Our God is an awesome God.
He spoke into the darkness
And created the light.
Our God is an awesome God.
The judgment and wrath
He poured out on Sodom,
The mercy and grace
He gave us at the cross,
I hope that we have not
Too quickly forgotten that our
God is an awesome God.

CHORUS (repeat)

Our God is an awesome God.

CHORUS (repeat 2X)

I’ve been listening to Don Moen latest album, Thank You Lord for the last few days, and there are two songs that caught my heart *ciehhh*.
They are:
1. Thank You Lord
This song shows the simplicity of how worship can be. Don Moen says on the inspiration from which this song came from: “I was sitting at my church in the balcony, looking at the congregation, and wishing I had a simple song of thanks that people can sing.  Praise and worship songs can get very complicated. The congregation really wants to worship, but sometimes as leaders we make it difficult musically and lyrically for them to do that.

That Sunday in my own church, I asked the Lord to give me a song that causes people to give thanks to Him easily, that puts thanksgiving on their lips. The result was “Thank You Lord.” The reffrein goes like this: “With a grateful heart, with a song of praise, with an outstretched arm, I will bless Your name, thank You Lord, I just want to thank You Lord” It only took me three times of listening to this music before I can memorize the reffrein and some part of the song.

2. Rescue
This songs shows that we really need Jesus in our life. The refrrein goes like this: “I need You Jesus to come to my rescue, tell me, where else can I go? Coz there’s no other name, by which I am saved, capture me in Your grace, I will follow You.” This song I believe really suits those who are having problems in their life.

A song from SCC which says that our hope lies in God who is beyond even our wildest imagination and our trust in a love that has no end. Click here to listen to sample.

Steven Curtis Chapman – Great Expectations
From the album Speechless

The morning finds me here at heaven’s door
A place I’ve been so many times before
Familiar thougths and phrases start to flow
And carry me to places that I know so well
But dare I go where I don’t understand
And do I dare remember where I am
I stand before the great eternal throne
The one that God Himself is seated on
And I, I’ve been invited as a son
Oh I, I’ve been invited to come and…
Believe the unbelievable
Receive the inconceivable
And see beyond my wildest imagination
Lord, I come with great expectations
So wake the hope that slumbers in my soul
Stir the fire inside and make it glow
I’m trusting in a love that has no end
The Savior of this world has called me friend
And I, I’ve been invited with the Son
Oh I, I’ve been invited to come and…
We’ve been invited with the Son
And we’ve been invited to come and…
Believe the unbelievable
Receive the inconceivable
And see beyond our wildest imagination
Lord, we come with great expectations