DAUGHTER_OF_ELYON

Words and Music by Michael Card

WORDS AND MUSIC BY TRENT REZNOR. (Johnny Cash version of lyrics)

This song is intense, as intense as Job's grief. I imagined the faithful man, after everything he loved was taken from him, and his wife said "curse God and die" sitting down in the ashes to wait for the Lord. He had become a living sacrifice, and all that was left was for the fire of God to fall upon this broken and willing vessel.

Cover, song written by Jason Upton

Is America Lost? I'm going to do what I can by having the courage to sing and show the truth as best as I know it.

Lost my little sister last year, 11-11-23, less than a month before her 40th birthday. We used to sing together before life pulled us apart. I woke up one night to a heavenly light filling my room. I wrote this song and recorded it in one sitting. Love you, Sarah.

COMPOSER PHILIP WESLEY

FOR SARAH

A song written by Rich Mullins. I grew up listening and singing along to his music. I sing this in the original key of E major.

Prophets carry the burden of the Lord, the word of the Lord. This is a song about reformation of the prophetic ministry, and a return to the Testimonies of Jesus. We are not only judged by the accuracy of our words, but by our heart position before the Lord. The truth will set us free.

This is an amazing song written by Chris Burns. I had a dream recently where I was singing this, leading worship in the little meeting room/library of the Baptist Church I attended as a child in Swanville Maine. It was a very prophetic, and personal dream. In the charasmatic church of my infancy and young child hood I learned about the power of God and the gifts of His Spirit. And then God sent us to the Baptist Church, completely cessationist, so I would learn the Wisdom and Understanding of God, the great Psalms, and how to read Scripture. I was reading the chords of the sheet music on my keyboard in the dream, hence the C7 Chord in this song from my dream. I walked away from this experience with a revelation on the Personality of God-everything is personal with God. satan doesn't make house calls, and that punk angel does, it is very rare. God visits our dreams every night. God wakes us with new mercy morning by morning. God leads us in our wilderness to humble us because humility is one of the greatest spiritual weapons we have, and we leave the wilderness leaning on the arm of our Beloved, Jesus Christ. God still knows how many hairs are on your head. Trust Him. ❤️

The anthem of Abolitionism.

This is an older song I wrote, in the midst of a painful exodus from a Church I had been serving as worship leader at. The chorus is from a song I had written for the church, but the verses came spontaneously from my human spirit to my God in Heaven. This is who God is to me.

During a time of intense spiritual drought and self-doubt, I heard the Spirit of the Lord asking me to write a Love Song. In the midst of this mission I was praying with a dear friend and she was talking out the Jesus Movement anthem, Love Song. There are no coincidences in God, only the sovereign hand of God guiding us in the "bright darkness of faith" (Brennan Manning).

I wrote the chorus during a spontaneous time of worship at church. I can still remember the heavy weight of God's glory in my spirit as I sang this melody. The verses came later after meditation on David's Psalms, and waiting in prayer.

I heard the Lord asking me to "Come up here, my Beloved". The imagery in the beginning is from Jesus Parable about the poor man Lazarus. The rich man is satan. God is calling us out from under the devil's table, away from living on the crumbs that fall from the systems of this world of which satan is prince, to be seated at God's Table.

A rebuke for those who use politics to empower and enrich themselves in governments of every kind, and a meditation on Paul's description of the reward of the faithful in Hebrews. Though weeping endures for the night, joy comes in the morning.

I wrote this a couple of years ago during an intense encounter with the Holy Spirit. This is inspired by Tortured for Christ, by Richard Wurmbrand, and by the brave Followers of Jesus in captive nations.

I wrote the chorus to this song while I was leading worship at a local church. I guess you could say I've about lost my faith in every construct of man that I used to cling to, and all that remains is the incorruptible, unchanging conviction that whatever I do, whatever I say, if I fall or stand, speak or keep my silence, sin or hit the bulls eye by God's grace-God has pledged an eternal vow to never leave nor forsake me, to love me for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, in riches and poverty. That is all I have left. When I read Genesis now I don't read it from the critical mind of a person trying to prove that God exists. God has already placed the knowledge of His reality in my heart. I read it by the grace of God's law which is written on my heart of flesh: Oh taste and see that the Lord is Good! It's funny I still say "He" and the only corporeal forms God has ever appeared to me in is light, and water, and wind, and a ladder stretching to heaven, a figure burning, fire falling, the writing on a supernatural tabernacle, and... a woman who visits me in my dreams to show me things that only a mother can teach. But I say "He" because I will not call God it, and "He" speaks of an order. And the Divine Triune is a Divine Order that the ancient Peoples, like the Celts, understood. God has never abandoned humanity for a solitary moment. If God were to turn His head away, we would cease to breath, to awaken, to be. And in the hidden face of God revealed in Jesus Christ we find a humble God who wins an eternal victory for us, when He places his feet on the mount of olives (Gethsemene), the mountain splits in two (zechariah). I don't know what Gethsemane you are facing today, that lonely dark night of your soul. But reach out to Jesus. The star that falls that I sing about in this song is Satan and its influence. That system of abandonment and separation from God is the system of the world, it's a system of hell. As a Christian Universalist I can tell you that I believe, and have had multiple divine encounters that have cemented my belief in this, that the only purpose of suffering is to lead you to the Garden of Gethsemene where, for the joy set before Him, Christ received the marriage cup. And from His pierced side on Calvary the new Creation, His Bride, you, my beloved Brothers and Sisters- You were reborn. You belong to God and no power in heaven or hell or on earth can ever separate you from the Love of God that is in Christ Jesus the Lord. That, Beloved one of God, is the Gospel. And when it was preached, before Jesus even died on the cross, our Lord said "I saw Satan falling like lightening from heaven, the star of the morning." So our Lord watched that star fall, but He turned and caught your heart. So you will be with Him where He is, and nothing, not your will or the will of man, or the will of the devil, can change that truth.

For anyone who feels like God has turned his back on them. For anyone who feels that the trials of life prove that God has abandoned them. For anyone who thinks that Heaven is closed to them. Take courage, my Friend.

A MEDITATION ON THE MOTHERLY NATURE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD. While I understand the controversial nature of that statement, I must confess I can only testify to what I have experienced. Rich Mullins once said he didn't have a problem with how the Catholics revere Mary. What bothered him was how humans fail to revere one another. The Holy Spirit has appeared to me in multiple dreams as a woman. In every dream I encounter a woman who is so familiar to me that I at first mistake her for my mother. But as I interact with her, I become aware that she is while familiar, not my mother. In the first dream I was given: a book was shown to me. The book had multiple events from my life that I am very ashamed of. In this heavenly book, these events were transformed into priceless works of art (in dreams you often have knowledge and understanding imparted to you by God). After I had viewed the entire book, this woman closed the book and looked at me and said, "Brittany, We are so proud of you. We can't wait to see what you will do with the rest of your life." For three days I was in a state of supernatural ecstasy. The dream imparted a supernatural knowledge of the pleasure of God in my existence. Even in my wandering and shortcomings, God has remained madly in love with me. Though the rapture of that supernatural visitation has completely faded, and I can scarcely remember the pleasure of it, this visitation has marked my life. God loves you and me with an unconditional and cherishing love. God is intimately familiar with every aspect of our lives, and treasures every memory of us in His heart. The closest understanding we might have to that is the love of a mother.