You give life, you are love...

 You give life, you are love.....

These words from Casting Crowns ran through my mind all through the night...

After coming off of a mountain in Jackson, Wyoming...a conference on vision/direction, “All In” with the Christian organization, Biblica, those words we sang were so applicable....

The translation and dissemination of the Word of God to all nations, people groups across the world...so that each person has the opportunity of reading/hearing, in his or her own language, the Word of God, the creator of the universe...Not only one organization, but many committed together in unity/partnership of purpose to do this...each building/using  one another’s Strengths to do this...

Sitting there, soaking in the stories, the songs, the worship, the vision, the unity was a breath of very fresh air...seeing major organizations with thousands on staff to small groups working together, putting aside differences, was so heartwarming, it is hard to put into words...

They spoke of three pillars that are the central push; 

Gateway languages...the major world languages; rising generations, the  untouched youth of the World; and finally the frontline people, those who have been marginalized through various means...

I put my toe into the ocean of untouched youth...the future leaders of nations...those who will shape the new horizons...the generations to come until the Lord returns...

Thank YOU, only You can do this....

“Great are You, Lord...

You give life, You are love

You bring light to the darkness

You give hope, You restore

Every heart that is broken

 

Great are You, Lord

 

It’s Your breath in our lungs

So we pour out our praise

We pour out our praise

It’s Your breath in our lungs

So we pour out our praise

To You only

 

You give life, You are love

You bring light to the darkness

You give hope, You restore

Every heart that is broken

 

Great are You, Lord

 

It’s Your breath in our lungs

So we pour out our praise

We pour out our praise

It’s Your breath in our lungs

So we pour out our praise

To You only

[x2]

 

All the earth will shout

Your praise

Our hearts will cry

These bones will sing

Great are You, Lord

[x3]

 

It’s Your breath in our lungs

So we pour out our praise

We pour out our praise

It’s Your breath in our lungs

So we pour out our praise

To You only”

[x2]

Casting Crowns

Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures.

Psalm 119:89-90

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

Romans 10:17

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you.

1 Peter 1:23-25