“Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs it down, But a good word makes it glad” Proverbs 12:25.
Oh yeah, good words make a person’s heart glad.
God knows best. His Word is a rock. His Word is a rose. His Word to those who believe and receive Him is as a Coach, coming alongside,
to give a high-five. To say, “Come on, you can do this with Me. Let’s go!”
And God’s Word to a kid’s song is “just” plain fun and can move us forward when we feel stuck!
I wrote this song with a special needs child I had the privilege to teach and work with for many years. A few strums of the ukulele and a few Bible verses to focus on would be our delight for many days together.
For this combination of Philippians 1:6 and 1 John 4:4 we were “changed.”
God’s Word is powerful and can be loads of fun with a ukulele or a guitar. And God gave every human being alive a set of “strings.” So, even if you’re not a kid, find one and start singing some Bible, to increase in faith,
or come to faith for the first time. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” Romans 10:17.
There is only one answer to the dark day we live in, Jesus.
He alone is able to change a heart. His Word is powerful and opens a door of faith in us to hear and receive.
An open, soft heart, is suddenly changed to belief. There is hope as the sun shines through the clouds.
Because faith chases away fear. God loves you. God loves me.
He is there for any who calls on His name. God is able to accomplish all that concerns you today. He is God Almighty.
And, He is love, (1 John 4:7-21*)
He paid your debt in full on the cross. And mine, and the debt of sin of the entire human race.
We can’t save ourselves. (We all need saving.) (Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23. )
Jesus came to save us and to finish the work He has for us. He gives us His Holy Spirit when we receive Him. He is our help. We can be confident in this.
I share this today with anyone who needs a song of truth and hope in Jesus to help chase the dark clouds away and bring a ray of Son-shine, (no matter what is going on!)
If you haven’t opened your heart to Jesus, do it today:
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother 1 John 4: 7-21.
(My song words are slightly paraphrased,) “Being confident of this very thing that he who has begun a good work in you will perform it ’till the day of Jesus Christ” Philippians 1:6.
Being confident in this.
“For He who is in you is greater than he that is in the world.”
“For He who is in you is greater than he that is in the world” 1 John 4:4. (I’m just waiting to record some happy kids with this song.)
Let me know if you are blessed. And “like” the SoundCloud too if you do!
-Toni