A Forest of Likes

Teach me to slow down and rest in Your arms Too often I keep myself too busy to see You And I am allowing my pride to control me When it’s causing me total blindness Lost in the blurry rush of this crazy life Slow me down and bring me to my knees Face to the floor surrendering my pride I want to be humble before Your throne Want to be a vessel You can use for Your glory Instead of me trying to shine bright for me Let all that I do bring You the praise You deserve Forgive me for trying to be something I’m not Cuz You’re God and I am definitely not So I slow my rush in Your sweet presence And I rest in the goodness of my God Please put my heart into slow motion So I can see what You are doing in my life And not miss out on opportunities to serve Everything else can wait cuz I am here Here at Your feet I want to just be with You Seeking Your face as I sit in Your presence Nothing else matters apart from this moment

I could run to the highest of mountains I could dig up the deepest of wells I could climb up the tallest of trees I could fall into the lowest of valleys But I could never escape Your love Even in the shadows and in the darkness Even in the moments of insecurity or loneliness How can it be that in those moments You are here with me I am overwhelmed And I am undone Even in my doubt Your love never runs out No oh oh it never runs out

We are called to walk in our calling To serve God and please Him only It is not about us and it’s not them The glory and pleasure is given to Him Joy and strength are given so we may enjoy The tasks, the job, and the responsibilities That our calling has to offer and to give Remember to be still and know that He is God Delight yourself in Him and in His promises Align yourself to Him so your desires are His Walk in the fearlessness of God’s truth Run with purpose towards the eternal prize Trust in the process of your heart changing Believe that He has the best plan for you Easy is not in the description but He’s with you Never alone never lost never forgotten He’s with you every step every moment So run to win and run with excitement 

It’s a new day to worship And I’m a new creation My hearts filled with praise Let me worship the King Hallelujah to God of all He’s worthy of my songs He rescued the world Saved me from my sin How can I ever stop Honoring the King My life is His to use Praise the name of Jesus Savior King Redeemer Another day to glorify  The One who holds my heart Here I am use me for You Let today be all about You

Pour out Your will on the blank slate of my heart it’s all Yours Let others see You in the depths of my eyes and life That they may know love beyond all imagination or thought Freedom from the chains that You broke Broke off of me and can do for them too Joy that is endless and is a bountiful harvest Peace that is overwhelming and so needed This blank slate is no longer blank but full Sharing Your goodness and righteousness Exuding Your love and grace and mercy Speaks of Your faithfulness covered with promises Shows the hardships that You and I have been But also shows the treasures we’ve found I write myself out on this slate for others to read Read about the God who has never left me Who saved me and gave me a new name This is my journey my story of Your grace

So why would I ever want to leave the arms of the Almighty Cuz nowhere else can I find rest hope love and peace Nobody else desires me so deeply enough to chase me That wants every part of me and whose love will never cease He loved me enough come down to this earth to die in my place And even though I'm selfish and sinful to the core He gives me grace How is that possible that His scars are there for me who am I Cuz it has nothing to do with me I deserve nothing but to die You call me out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock Tell me I am chosen and righteous cuz of Your blood spilt on the cross That I have freedom from the bondage that sin tries to hold on me Thank you God whom Your Son sets free they are free indeed May my life reflect Your Son and let others see Christ in me For this life is not my own but a gift to point others to Your divinity God You are so good and worthy of all our worship and praise May I continue to look more li

Teach me to seek You in the morning And for my heart to find you as its yearning Allow my heart not to rest but always be churning Grant me the power to be what You need from me Mold me and shape me into the one you've called To stand for you and trust you through it all I know I've made my fair share of mistakes And allowed myself my own heart aches I turn to you in my moments of weakness My brokenness only You can heal this My wounds and burns I lay at Your feet With my daily burdens and woes I heap Take these fragile hands and teach them love Here are my feet lead them as you must Holy King I surrender I am all in for You My heart is a sponge to soak up Your truth I lay down my rights and I give up my pride And I want Your perfect will above mine  My heart fully surrendered to Your call And my head be Your thoughts above all

I am a warrior in the army of Heaven Only here for a short period time The battle is not mine it's the Lords Strongholds fall at the name of Jesus They lose their grip on me and fail No longer bound by my own insecurity Walls fall down when Jesus breaks through The firmness of the hold is weakened Cuz I have resurrection power flowing through me At the power of the cross these strongholds bend I am free from the every weapon on the enemy tries Prayer is my secret weapon so let's pray War is waging on but the Lord has equipped me In the name of Jesus I am victorious Every obstacle has no weight to stop me For I am empowered by God to destroy strongholds Chains break and mountain fall by the power of my King Nothing can hold me back when I pray My victory is the Lords and I am in His army Boldness and tenacity flow cuz my God reigns He is seated on the throne and allows me refuge In the arms of my King there's peace and freedom

Do you know that You have a Father who loves you He created everything that you see in this earth Think about the vastness of the world and its wonders The mountains and the valleys and the oceans The unique characteristics that each animal has The intricacies of the human body and its functions How some have different color hair and others freckles The intellect and creativity and special gifts we have And how no two people are exactly the same The beauty of a sunrise and a sunset every day He created and designed all of that with just words Do you know that He set His only Son to die for you That He loves You enough to send Him to take your place Our sin hindered us from ever being in His presence But Jesus conquered both sin and death So that we could live with Him for eternity He offers grace and mercy when we are far from deserving Offers a love that has no conditions or boundaries Wants us to know Him on an intimate level And pursue His

Why do I feel the need to stick my fingers in everything I say I trust You and yet I keep sticking my two cents in Who am I to say what’s right for me and my life I can only see what’s in front of me and nothing else But God You know all things and are everywhere Who else can I trust when You’re the only One The only One who wants to give me a hope and a future The only One who chose to die in my place To give me a second chance when I’m far from deserving And rescue me from sin and the death that it brought Forgive me Dad for my nearsighted vision When I can only see what’s in front of me Open my eyes to see my lacking and loss And run to the arms of the One in charge O Lord You have a perfect track record Your faithfulness will never run out on me Cuz You’ve never changed and never will In my fear I turned to doubt and fear And I tried to just do it all on my own But I fell flat on my face failing yet again Cuz I need You more desperately t

In the morning as I see the beauty of Your creation arise I am reminded of the uniqueness of Your design The sun only comes up when You tell it to wake up And disappears when the day is ready to be done Every sunset is a new painting with different patterns It’s magnificence screams the only name that matters It captures my heart and I can’t release my gaze Cuz by the beauty of its design I am amazed Every night the moon pokes out to say hello Mostly it’s a sliver or a half but sometimes it’s whole But it shines bright to shed upon us some light And it lights up the sky with the stars in the night I look up above and remember Your goodness And how much you love each and every one of us Hard to fathom the complexity of the God of all But regardless of understanding to my knees I fall Your glory illuminates both the night and the day Leaving us breathless with no words left to say

I am thirsty and You give me drink I sip from the river of Your delights Absorb the love You pour over me My dehydrated heart is refreshed Another moment here Another second near Overflow through  I want more of You Longing for You as a deer to water Craving intimacy with my Father Yearning with passion for You And just another sip of You I hunger for Your love like bread You feed both my heart and head  Devoted to Your will above all In reverence to my knees I fall