Ep.9 - Bonus

00:00:00.040 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Grace Point official, just the official unofficial Grace

00:00:11.280 | Point podcast. Bonus episode. Here we go. Yeah, so we're gonna do something a little different

00:00:16.560 | today. Wanted to sort of take a break from I don't know, talking about just different issues and

00:00:20.760 | things. And how are we describing this, Steven, we're calling, you know, how like MBR has a tiny

00:00:26.880 | desk concert. Maybe we'll call it the Lifetime Table Concert because we're sitting at a Lifetime

00:00:31.360 | Table Concert. But yeah, we just wanted to, you know, both of us, we led praise. My career was

00:00:37.120 | very short. But yeah, and we like singing, we like worship. And I figured it would be good to

00:00:43.600 | kind of end this season by just taking it back to basics. And by basics, I mean, just take it back to

00:00:48.800 | back to God, back to the gospel. Yeah, we've been talking about like church,

00:00:53.360 | we're gonna talk about our experiences, things like that, which has been good and has its place. But

00:00:57.040 | just felt like, man, we gotta, let's just bring it back to God. Let's, let's sing to God. Let's praise

00:01:01.440 | Him. It's all about Him, right? Anyway, so we're gonna share a couple Bible verses and just play a

00:01:07.600 | couple songs. Yeah, so we each picked one verse and one song that we wanted to share. So you want to

00:01:12.400 | start us off, Stephen? Yeah, so I picked 1 Peter 5:6-7. "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty

00:01:18.480 | hand of God, so that at the proper time He may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on Him because He

00:01:23.760 | cares for you." I chose this, I mean, recently I've been reading Humility by Andrew Murray, and that book

00:01:31.280 | always gets me, reminds me how proud I am, reminds me how arrogant I am, just thinking that I don't need

00:01:38.640 | God, thinking that my significance lies in what I do and how I perform and things like that. And just

00:01:44.160 | thinking like, anything that humbles me, anything that reminds me that that's not it, that my fundamental

00:01:48.880 | posture to God is that I need Him, that my fundamental posture towards God is that I'm just made in His

00:01:54.480 | image, I'm just literally, I'm a reflection of Him, and that it's not about my performance, it's not about

00:02:01.200 | my significance found in what I produce, but it's just, I am a vessel, I am an instrument of God, right?

00:02:07.600 | And just sort of aligning myself back to that reality, that that is the relationship between

00:02:14.800 | me and God. I'm just the creature, He's God, right? He's the Creator, and that gives me a lot of peace.

00:02:21.440 | That is what puts me in the place where I can cast all my anxieties on Him. There's a lot of stress,

00:02:26.160 | a lot of worries in life, especially when you're church planting and stuff like that, but

00:02:29.920 | that's when I really realign back to that reality. I'm just the creature, and He's the Creator.

00:02:34.880 | Yeah, that's when I remember that God cares for me, and I can cast all my anxieties on Him. And so

00:02:40.480 | that's why I chose the song that I chose, Same God by Elevation Worship. Yeah, it's just, God, I need you,

00:02:47.760 | you know, so. All right. How about you? I picked, well, my verse was Revelations 21:1-5, kind of a big

00:02:56.960 | chunk, but let me read this for us. It says, "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first

00:03:01.040 | heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city,

00:03:04.720 | New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I

00:03:09.680 | heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, a dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell

00:03:14.240 | with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. He will

00:03:18.000 | wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, and neither shall there be mourning,

00:03:22.720 | nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. And He who was seated on the throne

00:03:27.680 | said, Behold, I am making all things new." And I picked that verse because, yeah, it's just, it's easy to get

00:03:34.880 | caught up in what's going on in this world and in our lives and to feel like that is the end-all be-all,

00:03:41.040 | you know? And I love this passage because it reminds me, no, there's a greater reality. And,

00:03:45.760 | you know, I mean, I think one of the toughest things in life is, uh, relationships, you know,

00:03:52.240 | and the people who, um, you know, frankly, that are for whatever reason, um, not on good terms with

00:04:00.320 | anymore, you know, whether that be, yeah, people who are not at our church anymore because they left

00:04:05.200 | on, you know, they left with hurt and anger, you know, or whether that be, you know, I think back to

00:04:11.520 | the old BBC days and my friends who were on the other side of that split. And just to remember,

00:04:16.400 | like, I think it gives me perspective to remember, you know, one day we're all going to be in heaven,

00:04:20.080 | and we're all going to be friends, and we're all going to be around the throne of God,

00:04:23.120 | worshiping God together. And that gives me a lot of hope, and it helps keep things in perspective,

00:04:28.640 | right? Let's, uh, let's love each other here. So it's not awkward later. Okay.

00:04:32.240 | That would be my word. Um, so, uh, my, the song I picked is what a day it'll be.

00:04:38.560 | Uh, it's a kind of a little known song. It's by a guy named Greg Ferguson.

00:04:42.080 | Uh, but it's a song about heaven. And, um, yeah, so we're just gonna, we're gonna give this a shot.

00:04:48.720 | Um, yeah, we're just gonna sing. Just gonna sing.

00:04:50.720 | And, uh, join us if you would like. And, uh, yeah, let's do it.

00:04:56.400 | I'm calling on the God of Jacob

00:05:16.800 | God, whose love endures through generations.

00:05:24.000 | I know that you will keep your covenant.

00:05:32.480 | I'm calling on the God of Moses, the one who opened up the ocean.

00:05:45.600 | I need you now to do the same thing for me.

00:05:52.240 | Oh God, oh God, I need you. Oh God, my God, I need you now.

00:06:00.240 | How I need you now. Oh, I need you now. Oh, rock, oh, rock of ages.

00:06:09.120 | I'm standing on your faithfulness. Oh, your faithfulness.

00:06:25.600 | I'm calling on the God of Mary, whose favor rests upon the lonely.

00:06:38.240 | I know with you all things are possible.

00:06:45.440 | I'm calling on the God of David, who made a shepherd boy courageous.

00:06:56.800 | I may not face Goliath, but I've got my own giants.

00:07:04.800 | Oh God, oh God, I need you. Oh God, my God, I need you now.

00:07:13.360 | How I need you now. Oh, I need you now.

00:07:17.920 | Oh, rock, oh, rock of ages. I'm standing on your faithfulness.

00:07:27.600 | Oh, your faithfulness. Oh God, my God, I need you. Oh God, my God, I need you now.

00:07:40.160 | How I need you now. Oh, rock, oh, rock of ages. I'm standing on your faithfulness. Oh, your faithfulness.

00:07:58.720 | You heard your children then. You hear your children now.

00:08:18.640 | You are the same God. You are the same God.

00:08:25.200 | You answered prayers back then, and you will answer now.

00:08:32.240 | You are the same God. You were providing then. You were providing now.

00:08:45.600 | You are the same God. You are the same God.

00:08:52.160 | You moved in power then. God moved in power now.

00:08:59.040 | You are the same God. You are the same God.

00:09:05.120 | You were the same God. You were a healer then. You are a healer then.

00:09:12.640 | You are the same God. You were the same God.

00:09:18.640 | You were the same God. You were the same God.

00:09:32.160 | Oh God, my God, I need you. Oh God, my God, I need you now.

00:09:40.080 | How I need you now.

00:09:45.360 | Oh, rock, oh, rock of ages. I'm standing on your faithfulness.

00:09:54.240 | Oh, your faithfulness. Oh, your faithfulness.

00:09:59.200 | Oh, God, my God, I need you. Oh, God, my God, I need you now.

00:10:07.200 | Oh, I need you now.

00:10:12.400 | Oh, rock, oh, rock of ages. I'm standing on your faithfulness.

00:10:21.600 | I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:10:50.560 | Oh, rock of ages. I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:10:55.520 | Oh, rock of ages. I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:10:59.520 | Oh, rock of ages. I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:11:03.520 | Oh, rock of ages. I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:11:05.520 | Oh, rock of ages. I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:11:07.520 | Oh, rock of ages. I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:11:09.520 | Oh, rock of ages. I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:11:11.520 | Oh, rock of ages. I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:11:13.520 | I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:11:18.480 | Oh, rock of ages. I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:11:20.480 | Oh, rock of ages. I'm calling on the Holy Spirit, almighty river, come and fill me up.

00:11:22.480 | In heaven's own harmony. The sweet release from all your darkest fears.

00:11:29.440 | The sound of laughter that's been lost for years. You'll never cry another lonely tear.

00:11:39.440 | As your sad heart finally, finally sings, hallelujah. What a day it will be.

00:11:51.440 | Hallelujah, what a day it will be. All those angels that you've never seen.

00:12:06.400 | To know right behind the scenes. Will at last have reached their goal.

00:12:14.400 | All those angels that you've never seen.

00:12:19.360 | Just watch the Father laugh and smile, lifting up His joyful child.

00:12:27.360 | And hear the hosts of heaven singing a sweet and soulful angel choir singing hallelujah.

00:12:41.360 | Hallelujah, what a day it will be. Hallelujah, what a day it will be. Hallelujah, what a day it will be. Hallelujah.

00:13:00.360 | Hallelujah, what a day it will be. Hallelujah, what a day it will be.

00:13:13.320 | Here and now and the in between. We could write it off as an impossible dream. But it's more than a dream to me.

00:13:27.320 | Hallelujah, what a day it will be.

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00:15:17.120 | Amen.

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00:15:19.120 | Amen.

00:15:20.120 | All right, well, as always, thanks for joining us on the official, unofficial Grace Point podcast.

00:15:27.120 | And we will see you next season.

00:15:33.080 | We will see you next season.

00:15:35.080 | We will see you next season.