Lord, I need You

Today, as I sit down to add to this blog and also journal about my present situation, I am reminded again, as God my Father always does, of how much I need Him and how He is always there to lift me up by my lifting Him up in praise. As the song playing now says:

You are my vision, O king of my heart
Nothing else satisfies, only You, Lord
You are my best thought by day or by night
Waking or sleeping, Your presence, my light
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November 27, 2015

Worship: Stay and Wait by Hillsong

“Stay And Wait”

Who spoke the Earth and sky to form
Who sets the sun and calls the dawn
Who breathed me out of dust to life
With the will to trust or run and hide

I will stay should the world by me fold
Lift up Your name as the darkness falls
I will wait and hold fast to Your word
Heart on Your heart and my eyes on Yours

Who loved me through my rebel way
Who chose to carry all my shame
Who breaths in me with endless life
The king of glory Jesus Christ

I will stay should the world by me fold
Lift up Your name as the darkness falls
I will wait and hold fast to Your word
Heart on Your heart and my eyes on Yours

God of wonder and God of grace
Let my soul stand always to praise You
Fix my eyes on Your perfect way
And I’ll never look back

I will stay should the world by me fold
Lift up Your name as the darkness falls
I will wait and hold fast to Your word
Heart on Your heart and my eyes on Yours

Who lifts the poor and heals the blind
Who trampled death for all mankind
Who stands for all with arms stretched wide
My King forever Jesus Christ

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Witness: Well it’s been two days since I have entered anything. Yesterday was Thanksgiving. First Thanksgiving alone. I had to get up and cook the entire dinner myself because my daughter wasn’t feeling well. I say alone, but that isn’t exactly true. What I was speaking of, was the fact that my wife of over 37 years was not present to celebrate with me. She always cooked the meal. Therefore, even though I celebrated with my daughter and her family, there was a sense of being alone and incomplete. “It is not good for man to be alone”, said the Lord and so He gave him a wife and the two “became one”. While we remain one in the eyes of the Lord, I still feel incomplete without her presence.

As if to add to the stress, my son-in-law, who prayed at the Thanksgiving dinner about how thankful he was for his family and me, and who laughed with me this morning, by the afternoon was yelling at and abusing my daughter. As I texted with him, it became apparent that he was slipping again back into the pit from which the Lord had rescued Him from. It was an all-out frontal attack by the enemy of our souls on my daughter and me. As I write this I don’t know what the outcome will be. As it stands, he wants my prayers because he is confused and my daughter wants him out of the house because she is tired of the abuse and his constant mood changes. I am weary myself both physically from lack of sleep and emotionally because of all that has happened in my life this year. Nevertheless, the Lord is faithful to me. I have been crying out to God asking Him to speak to me. I yearned for the earlier days of this year when the Lord spoke to me often using Scripture, song, circumstance or thought in my mind. I finally realized that the Lord was meeting me in my need at the time, but now He was letting me go, figuratively speaking, and allowing me to exercise my faith and trust that He was still walking with me in spite of His seeming silence. As I wrote this portion I wondered where the Lord was taking me, because I did not know what I was even trying to say tonight. I just began writing (or typing actually), it was then that Chris Tomlin’s lyrics jumped into my conscience. The song “I Need Thee” was playing in the background and these words began to register with me.

Lord, I need You, oh I need You
Every hour I need You
My one defense, my righteousness
Oh God, how I need You

Again, my Lord came to my rescue with the words I needed to hear. I read the words to a portion of the song of worship which says:

I will stay should the world by me fold
Lift up Your name as the darkness falls
I will wait and hold fast to Your word
Heart on Your heart and my eyes on Your

As I come to the end of journaling for today, the song playing says:

Speak to me, Word of God, speak to me
Speak to me, Word of God, speak to me
I come alive, I’m alive when you speak to me
I come alive, I’m alive when you speak to me

Even so, speak to me Lord and guide me. You are ever with me when life seems like heaven or hell. As the song playing now says:

Where you go, I’ll go
Where you stay, I’ll stay
When you move, I’ll move
I will follow you
Who you love, I’ll love
How you serve I’ll serve
If this life I lose, I will follow you, yeah
I will follow you, yeah

Amen!