Music Monday!!

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Coming off of Thanksgiving week, reflecting on all Christ has done for us, and what we as Christians really have to be thankful for - well, there just aren't any words. I have been listening to this song for the past week and wanted to share it with y'all...

This week I'm highlighting:

Artist: Hillsong United

Song: Thank You

Music Monday!!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Kick your week off listening to Francesca with me.

I love this song. Here is the chorus...

I got a couple dents in my fender
Got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to fit the pieces together
But perfection is my enemy
And on my own I'm so clumsy
But on Your shoulders I can see
I'm free to be me

This week I'm highlighting:

Artist: Francesca Battistelli

Song: Free To Be Me

Music Monday!!

Hey Friends,

Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Kick your week off by worshipping and praising Jesus with me...

This week I'm highlighting:

Artist: Hillsong Live

Song: Forever Reign

Music Monday!!

I had to share this song with you - it has been stuck in my head since yesterday's worship service. I just love, love, love it.

Stop and just worship Him while you listen!

Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week, my friends!!

This week I'm highlighting:

Artist: Matt Redman

Song: Holy

Music Monday!!

You are going to LOVE this!!

This week I'm highlighting:

Artist: Chris Tomlin

Song: I Will Rise (Live)

Have a great week!! :)

Music Monday!!

This week I'm highlighting:

Band: Hillsong United

Song: Shout Unto God

This song doesn't need much of an introduction. It's just amazing. Y'all already know my passion for Hillsong and this song is unbelievable!

These peoples' hunger and cry to God is just beautiful. I LOVE it!!

Have an awesome Monday!

Music Monday!!

I love the line in today's song: "Get out and do what you were meant to do."

We tend to take our time for granted, but God has called us to serve and live for Him now! As believers we have a mission. We have a call. We have a purpose that He has given us. Not for later but NOW. I don't know about you, but I can get wrapped up in my everyday routine. However, we need to stop and realize the things God has called us to are bigger than our everyday checklist.

I recently stopped and did some evaluating of my daily checklist to see how much of my time was for me and how much was for God. I encourage you to take a day and write down what you do all day from the time you get up and see what fills your time. You have a purpose, friend. Make sure you are walking in the purpose He has for you daily.

Jeremiah 29:11 - "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Philippians 1:6 - "For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus."

This week I'm highlighting:

Artist: SuperChick

Song: We live

Music Monday!

I'm so excited to share this song with you.

Lately this has been my song! This year has been a transitional year for me personally and in ministry. I tend to cling to certain songs through seasons of life. This has been "my anthem" during this season. It's especially interesting when I hear a tune a couple of years later and it reminds me of what I was going through and how the LORD moved in my life during that time.

Here's the chorus of "God is Able"; I just can't help but shout it out loud everytime!

Lifted up
He defeated the grave
Raised to life
Our God is able
In His name
We overcome
For the Lord
Our God is able

This week I'm highlighting:

Artist: Hillsong Live

Song: God Is Able

Music Monday!

I know it has been a while since our last Music Monday, but now that a semi routine is back, I wanted to share with you some great music again!

This week I'm highlighting:

Artist: Hillsong

Song: It's Your Love

For the first two minutes Darlene Zschech is reading the Psalm 103.

If you know me, you know it has been insanely hard for me to not already introduce Hillsong to Music Monday's. :)

I'm honestly in love with this song! I sure hope it ministers to you as much as it does to me.

Music Monday!

Easter @ Central 2011 - Beautiful Things from Central Online on Vimeo.

I have just loved this song from day one! It's actually my ring tone on my phone. :) This video is from Central Christian Church in Las Vegas, NV. My man and I have some friends that we met several months after we got married (just a true blessing of a couple) that both work on staff at this church.

I love how Central incorporated different elements of worship into this song. They did this Easter morning and I think they out did themselves.

I'm in LOVE with the song's bridge, "You make me new, You are making me new."

I'm so thankful my God is making me new and more and more into His image as I seek His face and His will daily.

This week I'm highlighting:

Artist: Gunger

Song: Beautiful Things

Music Monday!

I love the chorus to this song:

There could never be a more beautiful you
Don't buy the lies, disguises, and hoops they make you jump through
You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do
So there could never be a more beautiful you

The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime. To say ladies care about their appearances is an understatement.

This song sends a message to girls today that needs to be shouted on a mountain top.

Girls listen up: The devil wants nothing more than for you to believe the lies of this world, but let me tell you something - you are beautiful just the way He made you. You don't need to conform or become what some friends, boy, TV Show, or magazine tells you to be. All you need to conform to is God and His Word. Cling to Him. Imitate Him (Eph 5:1).

I love Colossians 3:2 - "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things!" We get so focused on things on the earth that we push aside the whole reason and purpose on why and what we are here to do. We were created to worship and bring Him honor and glory in everything we do. What a privilege and an awesome/humbling opportunity we have as Christians - carrying His name.

God tells us what He thinks of us:

Psalm 139:14 - "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Girlfriend - take note of that last part: "...I know that full well" Do you know that "full well" or are you just reading it? If you know it than you walk, talk, and act like you know that full well. The only way you can know it is by being in Him on a daily basis - seeking His plan and His ways for your life.

Ephesians 2:10 - "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." Catch that - YOU are His workmanship. That is something you should write on your mirror with a dry erase marker. You are God's workmanship, girlfriend. Don't believe any different and don't let anyone make you think any different.

Psalm 45:11 - "The King is enthralled in your beauty; honor Him, for He is your Lord." I'm just in awe of this verse. My King is enthralled by yours and my beauty. HONOR Him. Question for you - Are you honoring Him in what you say, how you dress, what you watch, or even how you treat your parents? Girlie, let me tell you. I didn't see a question mark after that verse. God is telling you to HONOR Him - Your King in EVERYTHING!

The beauty that matters most to God is on the inside, but it will be reflected in how you present yourself on the outside.

Proverbs 31:30 - "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."

This week I'm highlighting:

Song: More Beautiful You

Artist: Jonny Diaz

Music Monday!

I'm sorry I did not give y'all a heads up on being on vacation last week. My man and I took a week off...but I'm back and ready to go.

This week I'm highlighting...

Artist: Jamie Grace

Song: Hold me

This video wasn't even released a week ago...I just love this sweet girl. Isn't she amazing?!? If you know me, you know I'm a HUGE fan of TobyMac. Toby discovered this sweet thing, Jamie Grace, and is actually the one singing with her in the song.

What an awesome song about God holding us.

Psalms 73:23 - "Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand."

Psalms 139:1- "even there your hand will guide me, you right hand will hold me fast."

Love that she brought these scriptures above about God holding me into a song for girls today. Girls need to know that God is there holding them and guiding them when they seek Him.

Music Monday!

I LOVE this song! Personally, I am a huge fan of Mandisa! What an awesome godly woman.

The lyrics in this song hit home for me. When we go through trials in life, they are for us to grow in Him and become "stronger" in our faith. We don't see what He has in store and what He is trying to teach us, but we can hold onto the promises He has for us in His Word. And let me tell you... I've held onto them so tightly in the middle of my storms. Here are a few of my favorites verses:

James 1:2 - "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance."

Deuteronomy 31:8 - "The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."

This week I'm highlighting...

Artist: Mandisa

Song: Stronger

Music Monday!

This week I'm kicking off Music Monday!

When?

Each Monday I'll post a new song to check out. The artist/bands will vary in all styles - so if you are not digging this week's, be sure to check back each week.

What?

With so many Christian artists with amazing talent and a positive message available now there is no excuse for us to settle for what the world says is good music. There are better options out there - we just have to look.

Why?

I'm starting this to shine a light on artists who are not only good musicians but promote the message of Christ.

Hearing affects our direction. Don't take my word for it...take God's...

Job 36:11-12 - "If they obey and serve Him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment. But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge."

Sooo many times I hear that music and hearing things don't affect you...

If hearing things does not affect you, then when someone gossips about you and you "hear" about it, it shouldn't affect you.

If hearing things does not affect you, then when you tell someone you love them, it shouldn't bring comfort or security.

If hearing doesn't affect you, then when the enemy tells you a lie, you wouldn't ever believe it.

If hearing doesn't affect you, then when someone says something mean or rude to you, you wouldn't react.

Here is another example: Ever hang around someone who is sarcastic or gossips too much? You find yourself doing the same thing, or walk away feeling dirty?

What about when you hang around the wrong crowd and your attitude changes? It's usually because you were influenced by speech and actions of that crowd. That's why who you hang and associate with is sooo important, because what you listen to affects you.

If hearing something didn't affect people, then Eve wouldn't have eaten the wrong fruit.

Hearing has been, and always will be important to God.

Music is a message. Therefore, if you are listening to lyrics that are sexual, or down right dirty, then it will affect you.

Matthew 15:13-20 - He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit." Peter said, "Explain the parable to us." "Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them. "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.'"

Who?

This week I'm highlighting...

The Band: Superchick

The Song: Cross the Line

These Christian artists actually made this video themselves. This video is rad.