On fire - Switchfoot

Tell you where you need to go
Tell you when you'll need to leave
Tell you what you need to know
Tell you who you need to be

But everything inside you knows
Says more than what you've heard
So much more than empty conversations
Filled with empty words

And you're on fire
When He's near you
You're on fire
When He speaks
You're on fire
Burning at these mysteries

Give me one more time around
Give me one more chance to see
Give me everything You are
Give me one more chance to be... (near You)

Cause everything inside looks like
Everything I hate
You are the hope I have for change
You are the only chance I'll take

When I'm on fire
When You're near me
I'm on fire
When You speak
And I'm on fire
Burning at these mysteries
these mysteries...

I'm standing on the edge of me [x3]
I'm standing on the edge

And I'm on fire
When You're near you
I'm on fire
When You speak
(Yea) I'm on fire
Burning at these mysteries...

When The Curtains Close

Who will I be when the lights go down
When the crowd is no more

Who will i be when the stage is clear
When I'm behind closed doors

Who will I be when the music fades
When the fire loses its brilliance

Who will I be when my faith is tested
When my heart faces resilliance

Will I stand will I fight
Will I run to win

Will I buckle will I crumble
Will I compromise again

The truth is, it's all so easy
To conform to the familiar, the average, the pleasing
God give me strength to break the mold
To write my own story and a story untold

Of someone who took a risk to kill the norm
Of someone who helped the hopeless through the storm

Taking on a life of integrity, service, and love
Entertaining angels from heaven high above

Needing you each day to bring strength to this heart
Thanking you for joy that comes with each start

My life is a song to you whom i sing
Composing in rythm with the everlasting King

My life a glass house for all to know
I will be that same man when the curtains close

Escaping Complacency

A few days ago i was in my prayer closet....(which has been my car lately) and i just started praying. The first thing i said was "God thank you for who you are" thats ususally how i open in prayer and has become a habit of mine. Its funny because right after that statement God really checked my spirit. Not like a convicting check, but more like a hey understand what what you're saying kind of check. So many times I say that phrase but do I really take into consideration who God is and why im thanking him for being that?

So me and God had a really nice chat on who he really is in my life. First i thanked him that he has been so good and merciful to me. Forgiving my past and preparing my future. Then i thanked him for being patient with me. For helping me up everytime i fall and for telling me things a million times over before i finally understand. I thanked Him for being a constant in my life. That no matter where i go or what i do he'll always be there with me. I thanked Him for being real to me and that he is more than a diety, he is a friend. I thanked him for the gifts, emotions, passions, dreams, and perfect plan he has for my life and i pray that i use everything to bring him glory and better his kingdom. I thanked him that i am nothing. My life has no meaning if i am not doing his will. I am nothing if he is not in me.

During this prayer time i realized two things. 1. not to become complacent in the way we pray, and 2. Really understand what we are praying and understand the full meaning of the words we say. This average prayer time in my car turned into the realization of who God really was, is , and will be in my life. Thank you God that you have not called me to live an average life, but a life above reproach and of constant refining.AMEN!

You are so intricate...yet so simple

"You search much deeper within, than way things appear, You're looking into my heart"

God thank you that you see my heart, my thoughts, passions, likes, dislikes, motives, and intentions. Thank you that i can rely on Your word and spirit to guide me. Thank you for the authority placed over me. Let me serve and obey them just as i would you, for you have given that authority to them.

God thank you for growth, as much as it hurts i thank you for it. A tree will not bare good fruit unless it is pruned, and so my life in you will not produce fruit unless you cut certain things in my life away.

God i stand on the words you've spoken to me, the words of truth, life, and peace. Etch them into my heart and help me do everything i can to prepare myself for when that time comes.

Thank you for love

Thank you for trust

Thank you fof the assurance i have in you

Yea!