Music Pick: Purpose Over Pleasure from Jonathan Traylor
Purpose Over Pleasure from Jonathan Traylor is the perfect theme song for you to embrace as you’re living out your calling and growing closer to God. I first heard the song when Jonathan led worship at Christ for the Nations a few years back and loved the message – that we don’t have time for shenanigans because we’ve got to get serious with living for God and eternity – plus the song is just real catchy and dance-able. Click here to download the song from the album Stones and Giants on iTunes or other platforms.
Dream with God: He Can Do More Than We Can Dream or Imagine Ephesians 3:20
Dream, create and build with God – He has the most wondrous ideas and has solutions to our and the world’s needs. He helps us see life through hope so we can partner with Him to bring light in darkness. He also helps us to trailblaze new paths so the world can become richer because of His wisdom and power working through us.
When we dream on our own we’re limited to our own finite human thinking but with Christ we have infinite even supernatural possibilities and can do all things. I’ve experienced in my life miracles that I could not have come up with on my own when I spent time with God seeking Him.
“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” From Ephesians 3
Dreaming of Love: Relationship Goals Series from Michael Todd of Transformation Church
In part 1 of the Relationship Goals series from Michael Todd, pastor at Transformation Church he breaks down what’s at the heart of our desire for romantic relationships and how we can be more purposeful in our time of singleness. I love Pastor Todd’s delivery and humor as he shares his heart on God’s desire and design for relationships that make them more worthwhile.
Check out more from the series below.
Editor’s Journal: Trust God At All Times and Song Inspiration
We can trust God at all times even in the world we live in today and in the storms of life because we know the One who holds the world has us in His hands when we put our hope in Him. Love is trustworthy always.
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Here’s one of my favorite songs in Haitian Creole: Konfie’m Nan Dieu. The lyrics loosely translate to: Trust in the Lord, know that He takes care of me. In the wilderness or in bad times. The oceans may rise but God holds me firm, my Papa in Heaven will take care of me… .
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. Isaiah 26:3-4 ESV
Help Us to Love from Tori Kelly at the Stellar Awards
I love Tori Kelly’s new song “Help Us to Love” and the message that’s so relatable to the world today – with all that’s going on we need to love! Here Tori sings the song with The Hamiltones at the Stellar Awards.