Now That You're Near

I just finished practicing the pieces I’ll be playing tomorrow with the band.

Four songs in total: Everyday, One Way, Forever, and Now That You’re Near.

Four songs for the Lord.

Four songs that made my day special despite stress at work; despite hang-ups and hassles and regrets in life; and despite a lingering pain that like nightmare recurs to haunt me when I’m most vulnerable and ON the most vulnerable part of me – my heart… naks!

Proof that in the end of the day, there’s always positivity in everything and that it’s a personal choice if we are to count what God provided us or fault Him for what WE ignored to see.

So as I end the night, I want to acknowledge His blessings for me today and I pray:

Lord God, I might fail to see what joyful things You’ve brought to me for I have been more eager to recognize the problems that came along…

…but tonight as I lie to wait another meaningful tomorrow, let me lift to You not what is lacking in me this day but my thanks for how the day has been good to me.

Lord, thank You…

…for the blessing of these fingers so I can play Your songs.
…for the blessing of this voice so I can sing Your songs.
…for the blessing of this talent to share Your songs to others.
…for Hillsong United and the many artists who raised their lives to You and inspire a million others to walk Your path.

Lord, thank You for giving me reasons…

…reason to go to work and be enthusiastic about it despite things that should be bothering me a great deal.
…reason to still love when I was rejected, to still care when I was ignored, and to still give concern when I was unwanted.
…reason to appreciate this day even when it was not at all “perfect”.
…reason to believe that love and life has been good to me today.

Lord, thank You for the gifts…

…gift of friends who share my joys and my pains.
…gift of the people around me who never fails to show me life’s teachings.
…gift of a loving family who are there for me no matter how complicated these things we go through.
…gift of another day in my borrowed LIFE!

Lord God, I have a LOT of other things to be thankful of just for this day alone and thanks doesn’t even worth to amount for all of it. But rest assured that my path, my mercy, my servitude, my everything is to You alone.

Amen.

Now That You're Near

I just finished practicing the pieces I’ll be playing tomorrow with the band.

Four songs in total: Everyday, One Way, Forever, and Now That You’re Near.

Four songs for the Lord.

Four songs that made my day special despite stress at work; despite hang-ups and hassles and regrets in life; and despite a lingering pain that like nightmare recurs to haunt me when I’m most vulnerable and ON the most vulnerable part of me – my heart… naks!

Proof that in the end of the day, there’s always positivity in everything and that it’s a personal choice if we are to count what God provided us or fault Him for what WE ignored to see.

So as I end the night, I want to acknowledge His blessings for me today and I pray:

Lord God, I might fail to see what joyful things You’ve brought to me for I have been more eager to recognize the problems that came along…

…but tonight as I lie to wait another meaningful tomorrow, let me lift to You not what is lacking in me this day but my thanks for how the day has been good to me.

Lord, thank You…

…for the blessing of these fingers so I can play Your songs.
…for the blessing of this voice so I can sing Your songs.
…for the blessing of this talent to share Your songs to others.
…for Hillsong United and the many artists who raised their lives to You and inspire a million others to walk Your path.

Lord, thank You for giving me reasons…

…reason to go to work and be enthusiastic about it despite things that should be bothering me a great deal.
…reason to still love when I was rejected, to still care when I was ignored, and to still give concern when I was unwanted.
…reason to appreciate this day even when it was not at all “perfect”.
…reason to believe that love and life has been good to me today.

Lord, thank You for the gifts…

…gift of friends who share my joys and my pains.
…gift of the people around me who never fails to show me life’s teachings.
…gift of a loving family who are there for me no matter how complicated these things we go through.
…gift of another day in my borrowed LIFE!

Lord God, I have a LOT of other things to be thankful of just for this day alone and thanks doesn’t even worth to amount for all of it. But rest assured that my path, my mercy, my servitude, my everything is to You alone.

Amen.