Soothing the Savage Beast

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music” ~Aldous Huxley

You know the ones...

Your ear hears the first few bars and either your toe starts tapping...or your lips starts humming...

Low spirits rise higher

Troubled ones are calmed

A precious memory from days gone by scrolls by

or perhaps it seems as if your soul immediately enters into the presence of the Lord

Praise rises as the melody courses through your veins

Words burst forth to bring glory and honor to the Lamb of God

Does anyone not love music?

Different styles...contrasting rhythms...all types of lyrics...

Another wonderful gift from our Creator

Thank you, Lord!

For the Lord your God is living among you.
      He is a mighty savior.
   He will take delight in you with gladness.
      With his love, he will calm all your fears.
      He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.

Zephaniah 3:17 NLT

This song has been playing on my heartstrings all week, so maybe it is meant to bless someone besides me this weekend...

Linked with:

30 Days of Thanksgiving at Reflections of Grace


and Then Sings My Soul Saturday

Better Than Life – TSMSS

with Amy @ Signs, Miracles, and Wonders

Your love is everlasting
It's an everlasting love
Your mercy is as new
As every rising of the sun
And Your loving kindness
Loving kindness
Is better than life

Your grace is all-sufficient
It's an all-sufficient grace
Your power and Your glory
Are forever on display
And Your loving kindness
Loving kindness
Is better than life

Chorus
Oh, it's better
Oh, better than life
Oh, so much better
Jesus, Your loving kindness
Is better than life

Fairest of ten thousand
Of ten thousand You are fair
And nothing in this world
Could ever measure or compare
To Your loving kindness
Loving kindness
Is better than life

All your ways are just Oh Lord
You're just in all Your ways
And I will lift my hands Oh Lord
With gratitude and praise
For Your loving kindness
Loving kindness
Is better than life

Jesus, Your loving kindness
Is better than life itself
Better than life itself
Jesus, Your loving kindness
Is better than life itself
Better than life

Oh How I Love the Name - TSMSS

with Amy @ Signs, Miracles, and Wonders

Oh How I Love The Name

Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

Those who know Your name
Put their trust in You
There is no other faithful God
So loving and true

Those who know Your name
Put their trust in You
There is no other faithful God
So loving and true

Oh how I love the name of Jesus
Oh how I love His name so sweet
Oh how I love the name of Jesus
No other name means more to me

Oh how I love the name of Jesus
Oh how I love His name so sweet
Oh how I love the name of Jesus
No other name means more to me

Thank You – TSMSS

with Amy @ Signs, Miracles, and Wonders

My little drummer boy informed me this is one of his favorite songs right now...

Thank You for Your kindness
Thank You for Your mercy
Thank You for the cross
Thank You for the price You paid

Thank You for salvation
Thank You for unending grace
Thank You for Your hope
Thank You for this life You gave

There is no one like You
There is no one like You, God
All my hope is in You
Jesus, Jesus

Thank You for Your promise
Thank You for Your favor
And thank You for Your love
And everything You've done for me

There is no one like You
There is no one like You, God
All my hope is in You
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus

To Your name
We give all the glory
To Your name
We give all the praise
You're alive
Our God everlasting
So let Your face shine on us

There is no one like You
There is no one like You, God
And all my hope is in You
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus

Who You Are - TSMSS

with Amy @ Signs, Miracles, and Wonders

	Desperation Band - Who You Are .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

I won’t be satisfied
I won’t be found alright til I find
Who You are

I’d climb every mountain
I’d travel the deepest valley to find
Who You are

You, You cause the lame to walk
You open lips to talk
You’re everything and that is who You are

You, You calm the storms at night
You turn the dark to light
You’re everything and that is who You are

My Savior, my Healer, Redeemer
That is who You are
Creator, my Maker, my Father
That is who You are

Jesus Paid It All – TSMSS

with Amy @ Signs, Miracles, and Wonders

I hear the Savior say
Thy strength indeed is small
Child of weakness watch and pray
Find in Me thine all in all

Jesus paid it all
All to Him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow

Lord now indeed I find
Thy power and thine alone
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone

And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete
Jesus died my soul to save
My lips shall still repeat

Oh praise the One

who paid my debt

and raised this life

up from the dead!

Marvelous Light – TSMSS

with Amy @ Signs, Miracles, and Wonders

Mercy – Hope – Freedom

This week’s posts have been a progression of sorts...

First, the Spirit draws us to the Lord’s mercy seat...where shame, regrets, and brokenness are exchanged for love, forgiveness, and restoration...

Then, our heavenly Father immerses us into rivers of everlasting hope that fill us with that blessed assurance of His constant presence in our lives...

Which brings us to the freedom we have in Christ...no more chains...no more death...

He beckons us to run to Him...

into the Marvelous Light of His glory...

I once was fatherless,
a stranger with no hope;
Your kindness wakened me,
Awakened me, from my sleep

Your love it beckons deeply,
a call to come and die.
By grace now I will come
And take this life, take your life.

Sin has lost it's power,
death has lost it's sting.
From the grave You've risen
VICTORIOUSLY!

Into marvelous light I'm running,
Out of darkness, out of shame.
By the cross You are the truth,
You are the life, You are the way

My dead heart now is beating,
My deepest stains now clean.
Your breath fills up my lungs.
Now I'm free. Now I'm free!

Lift my hands and spin around,
See the light that I have found.
Oh the marvelous light
Marvelous light

Sweep Me Away - TSMSS

with Amy @ Signs, Miracles, and Wonders

This is my song of the week...I hope it blesses you as it has me...

Sweep Me Away

Father, I love Your ways;
You came in Your mercy,
and died in my place.
All I can do is bow,
Because of Your goodness,
and Your sovereign grace.

Then You sweep me away,
Sweep me away in Your love,
where nothing else matters.
Sweep me away,
Sweep me away in Your love,
where nothing else matters.

Tears rolling down my face
Because of Your love,
and Your sweet embrace.
The peace that just overflows
It's hidden I know,
You have been waiting to...

Sweep me away,
Sweep me away in Your love,
where nothing else matters.
Sweep me away,
Sweep me away in Your love,
where nothing else matters.

Sweep me away,
just You and me Lord
Sweep me away
Sweep me away in Your love

Sweep me away, oh Lord,
Your grace it covers me,
Your love it covers me,
Oh God, You cover me.
Your grace it covers me,
Your love it covers me,
Oh God, You cover me.

You Never Let Go - TSMSS

with Amy @ Signs, Miracles and Wonders

When clouds veil sun
And disaster comes
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul

When waters rise
And hope takes flight
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul

Ever faithful
Ever true
You I know
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go
You never let go

When clouds brought rain
And disaster came
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul
When waters rose
And hope had flown
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul
Oh, my soul

Oh, my soul
Overflows
Oh, what love, oh, what love
Oh, my soul
Fills with hope
Perfect love that never lets go
Oh, what love, oh, what love
Oh, what love, oh, what love

In joy and pain
In sun and rain
You’re the same
Oh, You never let go

Riverbed - TSMSS

Many of the blog posts I’ve read this week have been about deserts...dryness...and parched souls...

The waters of the river will dry up,

and the riverbed will be parched and dry.

Isaiah 19:5 NIV

This song came to mind...

Riverbed

I am nothing on my own -

Just a bed of jagged stones

Created by a calloused bitter heart.

The rushing waters of Your grace,

Too boundless to contain

Smooth the roughness of my heart.

I am a riverbed,

Flow through me,

Let the waters of your Word,

Cleanse and set me free.

No stone unturned,

By the power of Your hand,

Lord, I am a riverbed,

In a dry and thirsty land.

The channel of Your love,

Runs as deep as it is wide,

To the ruined broken soul.

The richness of the water’s touch,

Fills the wounds and heals the scars,

The current mends my broken life.

I took care of you in the wilderness,

in that dry and thirsty land.

Hosea 13:5 NLT

with Amy @ Signs, Miracles, and Wonders

The Beauty of Holiness – TSMSS and WOW

"O worship the LORD

in the

Beauty of Holiness"

Psalm 96:9 AMP

Come let us worship the Lord
In the beauty of Holiness,
Come let us worship the Lord
In the beauty of Holiness,
Give him the honor, Give him the praise
Come let us worship the LORD
Let’s give him the Praise

Worship Him, Worship Him
Give My God the honor,
Give my God the Praise
Worship Him, Worship Him
Cone let us worship the Lord
Let’s give him the Praise

with One Heart

with Amy @ Signs, Miracles, and Wonders

The Beauty of His Name – TSMSS

with Amy @ Sign, Miracles, and Wonders

In 1980, my first son was born. That same year, the song I am sharing today was written and recorded.

Being the only child at the time, my sweet baby enjoyed the luxury of being rocked to sleep...and many times with the accompaniment of a song...

Precious lullabies and cherished children’s choruses were included in this mother’s personal play-list, but there were also beloved hymns and uplifting worship songs...

When my baby boy grew into a toddler, afternoon naps still merited mama’s lap, and a soothing song.

Imagine my surprise one day, while I hugged, rocked, and sang, my little one joined in on the chorus of this ballad...

Whew...if that won’t do a mama in, I don’t know what will!

I hope the words of this song bless you...as I reminisce of days gone by...

The Beauty of His Name

words and music by: Lanny Wolfe

Some may wonder where the beauty lies

In the Name I hold so dear.

Well, it’s not just in the way it sounds

As it falls on my ears.

And it’s not just in the way it looks

When it’s written beautifully;

But the beauty of that lovely Name

Is in the power it gives to me.

Chorus:

It’s so beautiful,

The Name of Jesus;

It’s so beautiful,

That precious Name.

If you ask in Jesus’ name,

Anything is yours just to claim.

And I love that precious Name.

At the sound of His name

Every demon has to flee.

For to that Name all power is given

To set the hopeless captive free.

Every sin, disease and sickness

Must bow down to that Name.

And forever more surrender,

For all of time I shall proclaim...

Repeat chorus

And I love,

How I love,

I really love that precious Name.

Came to My Rescue – TSMSS

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Amy @ Signs, Miracles , and Wonders

This past Sunday, the Graceland Band led us in worship with this song I am sharing.

The only thing better than intimate one-on-one worship with the Lord...is watching your child worshipping His Saviour...

Thank you, Heavenly Father!

Falling on my knees in worship,
Giving all I am to seek Your face,
Lord, all I am is Yours.

My whole life
I place in Your hands;
God of Mercy
Humbled I bow down,
In your presence at Your throne.

I called, You answered,
And You came to my rescue and
I wanna be where You are.

In my life, be lifted high
In my world, be lifted high
In my love, be lifted high.

When they call on me, I will answer;

I will be with them in trouble.

I will rescue and honor them.

Psalm 91:15 NLT