GOD GAVE ME A SONG THIS DAY!

God,

You never cease to amaze me! How can this dirty lump of clay, Patti Klein Sikes, be the receiver of such grace, mercy, and song. Your timing is impeccable...often coming at the 11th hour and 59th minute...but always just at the right time. That's the way it has been this week with Your gift of song. Today's song is certainly no exception. Here I've been talking about how to pull these concepts together to go forward the rest of the month in our Master-Full Moms class. I am speechless at how You have answered!

My desire has been to spend this summer with You teaching us the following...but, it hasn't been me at all...it is evident to me, that these thoughts are Yours:

1. Teaching us as individual women to step out of the darkness (masks, excuses, selfishness, sinfulness, unsubmissiveness, and unsatisfied lives) and walk by Your Spirit via the Sermon on the Mount...be-attitudes, salt, light...all the way to maturity...
2. Teaching us to live in harmony with one another...with our husbands...with our children...in our families...in Your church...
3. Giving us individually a song to sing...giving us songs to sing with our husbands...giving us as mothers songs to sing to and with our children...giving our children songs to sing...giving our families songs to sing...

So, what did You do? You led me to a song today that I have never heard before - a song about darkness to light, harmony, us...Your creation, and us...Your church...The Redeemed. Not only that, but it's written and sung by my favorite musician at a place where I have been with Crystal as she sang there with her childrens' choir in the Crystal Cathedral. For today, all I can say is, "THANK YOU! YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A SONG!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FnJPllet0E

THE ABOVE LINK IS TO THE SONG, THE SINGER, WRITTEN AND SUNG BY GOD THROUGH HIS INSTRUMENT, DAVID PHELPS:

1. The music began at His command and the Singer drew His breath.

The melody rose and dawned on the land and pierced the emptiness.

And from a barren and lonely place life began to spring.

And on the stage of time and space GOD threw back His head and began to sing.


CHORUS:

Let there be light!

Invade the darkness!

Fill up the void!

Replace the noise with sweet harmony!

And let there be joy and echoes of laughter

And the Singer sings on and still writes the song of the redeemed


2. Now, though beautifully sung, the song went unheard

And darkness returned again

But GOD had a plan in the second verse to win back the hearts of men,

A star rose up in the eastern sky that night in Bethlehem.

And as the baby JESUS cried, GOD sang out His song and the angels joined in.


CHORUS:

Let there be light!

Invade the darkness!

Fill up the void!

Replace the noise with sweet harmony!

And let there be joy and echoes of laughter.

And the Singer sings on and still writes the song of the redeemed



And everytime a soul receives that joyful Christmas song

He rises from His throne and all creation sings along.

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