MUSIC: WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT MUSIC? WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT A SONG?

First line of one of my favorite songs from back in the day when I use to party hearty in the enemy's camp. Don't you just love music? Music that reaches inside you down to your soul and puts you into that place. That place that makes you want to Praise and Worship the GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ALMIGHTY GOD,  CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALL THINGS. When you are in church on Sunday and the Praise/Worship  is happening and it is all about GOD, can't you just feel in your spirit that GOD is there? The Bible says that HE inhabits the praises of HIS people.  Don't you want that encounter everyday, not just in church on Sunday or Wednesday, but all the time, everywhere? I  do. So  I prayed about it and talked to GOD(Prov.3:5-6). The Proverbs state: Wisdom is crying out everywhere, even in the street corners, city gates, high/low places,  everywhere(Prov.1:20-22).  Where ever I am, I am purposefully putting myself in praise/worship mode. I maybe unable to sing at the top of my lungs as I would like (lol) but inwardly I am there.  Not because of what I have or don't have, but because GOD is a good, good FATHER to me. HE loves me!!  I want HIM to know that I am constantly praising HIS Holy name.  The Word said to make a joyful noise unto the LORD all the lands.  come into HIS presence with gladness and singing (Ps. 100). How powerful praise is!!  It's liken to the times when you get a great compliment about something and how you feel on the inside about that compliment.  That is a similarity, not exact. Kick that feeling up 1000 percent and we come close to a better understanding.  Praise is good for us, but it blesses GOD when it is heartfelt to HIM (Matt.15:8). GOD looks on the heart after all, outward-ness means nothing (1Sam.1:6-7)  as it does to people. We have all sorts of great reasons to Praise/Worship GOD.  Just because HE is GOD is good enough, but let's go farther and talk about the benefits package we have as a result of making JESUS Lord.  GOD heals, forgives, redeems, satisfies, puts lovingkindness, tender, new, and unlimited mercy on us (Ps.103). HE gave us righteousness as a gift and an abundance of grace (Rom.5:17). Isn't that wonderful? Doesn't that make you want to Praise GOD right now?  Go ahead!! Let it go sweet thang,   Praise GOD!!!! He is worthy to be Praised 24/7 even in the desert and wilderness of life (Is. 51:3)  I find myself in constant praise mode: at home, at work, in the car, at the store, in the city, in the country, going and coming.  My car is the    rockin-est sanctuary  there is. I have a time worshipping and driving and the keeping of-  the- hands -on- the -steering- wheel thing you have to do while driving.  No worries, I have not ever had a crash, THANK YOU JESUS!!  Praising GOD takes me into a realm outside myself  where GOD is and lifts me into HIS heights. GLORY!!  Suddenly it is  not about me and my issues  any longer. They seem tiny in comparison to the JOY that comes from Worship.  They still exist , they aren't magnified anymore.  I once thought they were so huge and overwhelming.  Guess what?  Not to GOD!!! All things are possible with GOD.  HIS Word tells us to rejoice always (Phil.4:4). That means at all times.  In the sunny and rainy days,  the high and low moments, through the joy and pain of life. When I am in pain, whether physical or emotional, I don't feel much like rejoicing!  Those are the times I cry out (loudly) to GOD and honestly say I don't feel like rejoicing at this moment in time. And GOD knows and cares and understands. HE is our FATHER and loves us!  There are times when the comfort of the Holy Spirit is the only source that can bind a wound. I know 'bout that.  That sweet meditation of GOD and HIS goodness makes me want to sing HIS praises to HIM as long as I live (Ps.104:33-34). I just can't help it music puts me in that mode.  Bless the LORD oh my soul!!!  From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, GOD'S name is to be praised,  GLORY TO GOD!!!  Ps.113. The Bible tells us to Praise  GOD  with every kind of musical instrument and the dance.  I like that!  Back in the day, I would leave the club just before daylight,  partying hearty, staying on the dance floor, booty shaking, rump throwing dancing. ( Today it is known as twerking)Party- over- here- type of thing. That was  in the enemy's camp then.  Now I shake it up a different way  and it's all about THE MOST HIGH!!!! I get my groove on now, wherever, for GOD.  My car be bouncing down the road cause Toby Mack done took me there with "feeling so fly" or "feel it" or "supernatural high" and then  Switchfoot is hitting the beat with " love alone" or  "say it like you mean it", or  " breathe it in"  just to name a few. Then there is  the Hippest Radio station sold out to GOD and HIM only,  AIR 1. Find it on your radio or computer.  It is  'bout it, 'bout it'.  Music helps but if I aint got no music,  I make up songs to GOD.  Look for my original sound track  of: "You are there, I am here" soon. It will win me a Dove, I prophesy (lol).  Just reach down inside and let the meditation of your heart come out as a song. If that meditation is of GOD it will sound like you are a songstress to the ALMIGHTY.  So what would we do without a song?   Look on the inside and make one up!  To HIM alone be PRAISE/WORSHIP!!  God Bless You  Reader!
Psalm 100,  Psalm103, Psalm 150, Phil.4, Romans 5,  Psalm104,  Psalm113.  Jesus is LORD!!

LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING

Love,  love,  love! What a great thing Love is.  No wonder GOD gave  commandment concerning LOVE and it is  the first fruit in the Fruit of the Spirit indwelling  every spirit - filled believer. (John 15:12, 17, Gal. 5:22)  I remember when I was a small child,  mama use to watch a soap opera on t.v. called  LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING.  For those that don't know or have never heard of a soap opera, it is a t.v. program that follows the day to day life and events of characters that resemble our own lives.  Some popular and well known soaps you may have heard of are: All my children,  Young and the Restless, Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital in the daytime and at night: Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Knots Landing,  Dallas - 'reloaded' etc. All these soaps had a theme usually referring to a love situation,  a family situation,  a business situation,  some major problem that weaved a financial thread through it.  LOVE was always involved, some sort of way. As I became an adult,  I watched soaps,  and I got hooked to many especially the nighttime ones.  Dallas and J.R were my favorites.  But I recently  began thinking back to  LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING. I don't remember anything about it , but the title,  and that is what I chose for this blog, the title. When I think of how much GOD loves me  (us) and the wondrous ways HE shows that never ending,  never changing  LOVE it makes me  grateful that I can be LOVED like that,  even through all my faults and failings.  What is amazing in this season of my life is how GOD binds my wounds and  reveals the inner healing right in front of my face. Having gone through a few years of constant set-backs (can you imagine?), GOD has repeatedly shown through it all that HIS LOVE covers it all. I'm particularly amazed at this season right now.  Twice, so far, miraculous events have occurred in my sphere, where I have said out loud, 'this has to be GOD's hand because things don't happen this way, from brokenness'.  Not in the natural, but GOD moves Super naturally in any and every situation, and HE leaves His DNA there tell tailing that it is HIM.  This LOVE is SPLENDID and has many facets.  In Romans 8:35-39, it tells of GOD'S LOVE and that nothing can separate or take HIS LOVE from us.  Much will occur, but as HIS chosen generation, HIS holy nation,  HIS peculiar people,  HE has called out of darkness into the  marvelous light,  we are more than conquerors  through HIM that LOVED us (1Pet.2:9).  Super naturally, GOD has caused my heart to move in a direction I wouldn't  have thought possible.  When I realized it, (which took some doing to even be aware of) I could have turned a cart wheel (that right there would have been a miracle lol). It made my heart leap inside my chest!!!  I began to smile bigger, rejoice longer, with gratitude, praise for revealed, in-your-face, awesomeness!! LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING!!!  1John 4: 16-19 became clear as a glass of clear, water fall water.  To know and believe GOD'S LOVE, that GOD is LOVE and with HIM on the inside (John 14:23)  of me (us) this perfect LOVE destroys fear which has its own posse of tormentors and destroyers.  I am empowered by this perfect LOVE, GLORY!!!  In 1Cor .13:7 it states that LOVE bears, hopes, believes, endures all things. Let me testify right now that I have in the past and still do all that bearing, hoping, believing, and enduring in my life. Not by my might or strength,  but by GOD'S power.  1John4:4.  GOD doesn't love halfway either.  HE is a: all in,  full tilt,  turbo charged,  electrified,  magnified,  bring it,  any distance,  in your face,  no fear here,  just do it,  Bam,  whoop, there it is,  can't touch this,  watch me,  but GOD,  look at GOD,  I know that's right,  booeyow, kind of GOD. WOW!!!!  The bump, bruises and scars, testify of GOD'S amazing Grace  and new, Mercy and Goodness HE   slathers on me daily without measure.   His LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING. It's astounding to me cause I want to be able to  LOVE like that.   I am a work in progress, lol.   When I find myself on the receiving end of this Great LOVE, the results mesmerize me.  At this point in time,  I am walking in the clouds cause it has such a tremendous effect on me.  It is like something you thought was over and done with,  brought back to life again, re-loaded, part 2, next level, come again kind of thing, what, what!!  The phrase "Glory to GOD" takes on new meaning.  I can't say what will happen in the future,  cause I didn't know any of this when I was going through those constant set- backs I spoke of earlier.(Joseph's story comes to mind right here).   All I know and still know is GOD'S ways are higher than my ways and HE has a great plan for me.  To HIM be ALL  Glory, Honor, and  High Praise. AMEN.  Jesus is still LORD.                        Jeremiah 29, 1John4,  John 14, 1Cor. 13,
                                           Romans 8.