SO LONG - Song of the Week
I know it's been a while... But I'm back! I have been doing a lot of "blog-storming" and well, the winner is...
Well, this one, duh! I got a great idea while sitting here listening to my iPod. I'm going to do at least one blog a week and it will be what I am calling "The Song of the Week." Songs comin' straight from my iPod... This week's winner for the song of the week is... SO LONG by David Walker and High Praise.
I fell in love with this song the first time I heard in on his mySpace profile about 3 years ago. The message is real and relevent to us all!
Before I get into the message she gave, I have to give you my favorite part of the song:
"I told the storm SOO LOOONG and the hurt SOO LOOONG; Understand that the road may get rough; and the hills are hard to climb when the going gets tough; in time you'll find God still cares when it seems more than you can bear~; now you can say SOO LOOONG to the storm and rain; SOO LOOONG to hurt, harm and pain..."
Tell the storm SOOO LOOONNGG!
And if you doesn't look like it's moving fast enough, then learn to dance in the rain! DANCE LIKE DAVID!! DANCE MAN! (hummm... that maybe next week's song... maybe) I'm cabbage patching all through my storm - ya'll. (This is another blog... maybe later on in the week...)
There quite few songs floating in the airwaves with similar messages, but this one to me is different because of the Word that was spoken before the choir began to minister. She was speaking of the man at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-16)*...
Amongst all of the people at the pool of Bethesda... "A great multitude of folks... there was one man who stood out from the rest... The Bible says that when Jesus saw him, He knew he had been sick a long time..." Some of you, just like me, have been traveling in through your storms a long time. Pastor Juandolyn ministers to you who are in your storm, who are feeling the heaviness of your burdens, whose pain has become overwhelming, and you are at the point of quitting. What this story gives us is " when Jesus, He takes away all the hurt, all the sorrow, He gives you hope for tomorrow. For the Bible says weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning. And when Jesus shows up He is your very present help in the time of trouble... You can say SOO LOOONGG to the pain, SOO LOONGG to the burdens, SOO LOOONGG to the challenges! Why? BECAUSE JESUS IS HERE!!"
I often get my inspiration from the music I have heard and the lyrics that lay on top of that music and this song and songs like it are great songs to pull inspiration from... This is part of the reason why I stop many years ago from listening to certain genres of music... Music that is empty will leave you feeling empty once the song is over... But songs filled with empowering messages fill you up and when the song is over, they don't leave you... They are there with you to rise up in you when you need them too!
Think about that the next you in riding in your car and you reach for your CD collection or you are flipping through you iPod song library or you are roaming through the 3 radio stations we have left in Atlanta (kidding)... Before you stop and settle on anything, choose wisely what you allow to enter into your spirit, because you don't want hungry again once the song goes off...
Anyway, be filled!
Tiffany
*John 5: The Healing at the pool of Bethesda (American Standard Version)
1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the waters stepped in was made whole, with whatsoever disease he was holden.
5 And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.
6 When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole?
7 The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And straightway the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was the sabbath on that day.
10 So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.
11 But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
12 They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
13 But he that was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in the place.
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee.
15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.
16 And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.
Well, this one, duh! I got a great idea while sitting here listening to my iPod. I'm going to do at least one blog a week and it will be what I am calling "The Song of the Week." Songs comin' straight from my iPod... This week's winner for the song of the week is... SO LONG by David Walker and High Praise.
I fell in love with this song the first time I heard in on his mySpace profile about 3 years ago. The message is real and relevent to us all!
Before I get into the message she gave, I have to give you my favorite part of the song:
"I told the storm SOO LOOONG and the hurt SOO LOOONG; Understand that the road may get rough; and the hills are hard to climb when the going gets tough; in time you'll find God still cares when it seems more than you can bear~; now you can say SOO LOOONG to the storm and rain; SOO LOOONG to hurt, harm and pain..."
Tell the storm SOOO LOOONNGG!
And if you doesn't look like it's moving fast enough, then learn to dance in the rain! DANCE LIKE DAVID!! DANCE MAN! (hummm... that maybe next week's song... maybe) I'm cabbage patching all through my storm - ya'll. (This is another blog... maybe later on in the week...)
There quite few songs floating in the airwaves with similar messages, but this one to me is different because of the Word that was spoken before the choir began to minister. She was speaking of the man at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-16)*...
Amongst all of the people at the pool of Bethesda... "A great multitude of folks... there was one man who stood out from the rest... The Bible says that when Jesus saw him, He knew he had been sick a long time..." Some of you, just like me, have been traveling in through your storms a long time. Pastor Juandolyn ministers to you who are in your storm, who are feeling the heaviness of your burdens, whose pain has become overwhelming, and you are at the point of quitting. What this story gives us is " when Jesus, He takes away all the hurt, all the sorrow, He gives you hope for tomorrow. For the Bible says weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning. And when Jesus shows up He is your very present help in the time of trouble... You can say SOO LOOONGG to the pain, SOO LOONGG to the burdens, SOO LOOONGG to the challenges! Why? BECAUSE JESUS IS HERE!!"
I often get my inspiration from the music I have heard and the lyrics that lay on top of that music and this song and songs like it are great songs to pull inspiration from... This is part of the reason why I stop many years ago from listening to certain genres of music... Music that is empty will leave you feeling empty once the song is over... But songs filled with empowering messages fill you up and when the song is over, they don't leave you... They are there with you to rise up in you when you need them too!
Think about that the next you in riding in your car and you reach for your CD collection or you are flipping through you iPod song library or you are roaming through the 3 radio stations we have left in Atlanta (kidding)... Before you stop and settle on anything, choose wisely what you allow to enter into your spirit, because you don't want hungry again once the song goes off...
Anyway, be filled!
Tiffany
*John 5: The Healing at the pool of Bethesda (American Standard Version)
1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the waters stepped in was made whole, with whatsoever disease he was holden.
5 And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.
6 When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole?
7 The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
8 Jesus saith unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
9 And straightway the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked. Now it was the sabbath on that day.
10 So the Jews said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.
11 But he answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
12 They asked him, Who is the man that said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
13 But he that was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in the place.
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee.
15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole.
16 And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.
Next Week's song... Matthew 28... Start thinking now... How did you spend your Resurrection Sunday?
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