Grace Rules and Nice Songs with Horrible Lyrics

Just finished reading Grace Rules by Steve McVey and it is one awesome book. Just want to type down some of the sentences that struck me. There are more but I feel that I want to take special note of these few...

Abiding in Christ simply means living each moment totally depending on His life within us to cause us to be all that He has called us to be and to do all that He purposes for us to do. Don't make this matter of abiding complicated; it simply means that we choose to let Him do the living through us at every moment of our lives.

A man who has been broken of confidence in himself yet has absolute confidence in God is one who can be entrusted with power to perform wonders. When grace rules, miracles happen!

God has already made you holy. You don't have to try to be holy in order to become holy. You already are. We desire to live holy lives because He has made us holy.

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Each chapter has a prayer at the end and I really love this one in the third chapter which I have tweaked a little.

Dear Daddy God,

Thank You for giving me righteousness in Jesus Christ. Renew my mind so that I might begin to see myself as You see me. Transform my thoughts to conform with the truth of Your Word. I acknowledge that You have made me totally righteous in Christ. Cause me to walk in the truth of my identity even when I don't feel like a righteous person. Your life has permeated my being, Lord. By faith I believe it-make it real in my emotions in Your timing.

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I came here to find Him and yet He was already here and He ran toward me.

r

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I just hate it when songs with nice melodies have such absurd and unedifying lyrics. Sometimes when I sing them I realize that I should not be even saying out some of the stuff because they can be quite morbid or depressing.

Sadly, that is the case for the nice song "Fall For You" by Secondhand Serenade. At the expense of sounding cheesy or even possibly incomprehensible I have taken liberties with the original lyrics and changed them to my own pleasure...

Fall for You (JG's lyrics)

Best thing about tonight is it's You I'm finding

I've come to know that you have found me long before

And now I understand there's no point trying

For you know me well right down to my core

I'll hold my breath

Because tonight will be a night

That I will fall for You over again

I'll never change my mind

I will live to see much brighter days

I know it's true

Because a friend like you is wonderful to find

You are wonderful to find

This is not what I expected

I always thought that my own strength will play a part

I thought on my own I was stronger

I may have failed, but you have loved me from the start

So I'll hold my breath

Because tonight will be a night

That I will fall for You over again

I'll never change my mind

I will live to see much brighter days

I know it's true

Because a Friend like you is wonderful to find

Wonderful to find

I'll breath in so deep

Breath you in, I'm yours to keep

I'll hold on to Your words 'cause they're not cheap

And remember you tonight while I'm asleep...

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MetalMelon suddenly still has at least an hour of power left. =)