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Music Monday: Set Me As A Seal

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This Matt Maher song is based on the text of the Song of Songs:

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.

Song of Songs 8:6

Set me as a seal on your heart
Set me as a seal on your soul
As strong as death is love
Unyielding as the grave
Nothing will quench its flame
Nothing will quench its flame

Set me as a seal on your heart
Set me as a seal on your soul
As strong as death is love
Unyielding as the grave
Nothing will quench its flame
Nothing will quench its flame

Kiss me, my love thats unique
Beyond my lips
You intoxicate my being
With the fragrance of your presence

How beautiful you are, my darling
Show me your face, let me hear your voice
Sweet as the dew in the early morn’
Like a lily among the thorns

I looked for you, the one my heart loves
I looked for you, did not find you
Searched through the night
Until I rested in your sight
Now I will never let you go’

Cause you have stolen my heart
My sister, my bride
You’ve stolen my heart
With one glance of your eyes
Your lips so sweet, adorned with honey
My hands, they drip with myrrh

Music Monday: Forty Days

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Since it’s forty days until we say, “I do”…

Forty days to wander
Forty days to die to self
Forty days to grow stronger
As faith breaks open the gates of hell
The jubilee is over
But grace is far from gone
In the hearts of the faithful
Broken on the wheels of love

‘Cause in the desert of temptation
Lies the storm of true conversion
Where springs of living water drown and refresh you
And as the Jordan pours out change
Your true self is all that remains
Where springs of living water bind and break you
Bind and break you

Forty days to remember
The Paschal Sacrifice
Forty days to discover
His passion calls us to new life
The jubilee is over
But mercy’s far from gone
In the arms of the Father
As the wayward child comes home

‘Cause in the desert of temptation
Lies the storm of true conversion
Where springs of living water drown and refresh you
And as the Jordan pours out change
Your true self is all that remains
Where springs of living water bind and break you
Bind and break you

Bind and break you
Bind and break you

Music Monday: All the people said “Amen”…

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I’ve been on a Matt Maher kick recently…

[Verse 1]
You are not alone, if you are lonely
When you feeling frail, you’re not the only
We are all the same, in need of mercy, to be forgiven and be free
It’s all you got to lean on but thank God it’s all you need

[Chorus]
And all the people said Amen
And all the people said Amen
Give thanks to the Lord for His love never ends
And all the people said Amen

[Verse 2]
If your rich or poor, well it don’t matter
Weak or strong, we know love is what we’re after
We’re all broken but we’re all in this together
God knows we stumble and fall
And he so loved the world he sent His Son to save us all

[Bridge]
Blessed are the poor in spirit
Who are torn apart
Blessed are the prosecuted and the pure in heart
Blessed are the people longing for another start
For this is the Kingdom
The Kingdom of God

Music Monday: Lead me home

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This past weekend I was serving at the Stubenville San Diego youth and young adult conference. As a result of this, I’ve heard a lot of Matt Maher songs over the past few days…

Thank you for the cross
Thank you for your love
The perfect sacrifice of praise to God above
Thank you for the gift
Thank you for the price
Of losing everything to gain eternal life
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

Thank you for your joy
Thank you for the pain
Of longing for peace
In my suffering
Thank for my hunger
For my poverty
That I would fall into the arms of mercy

Every road leads back to you
Every journey lies in you

So lead me home, my lover, Savior
Lead me home, my Master, Redeemer
Lead me home and I will rest in you

I praise you when I’m broken
I praise you when I’m lost
That it would keep me honest
In need of you alone
I praise you for the past
For the mess of sin
That I would never want to turn from you again

Music Monday: Christ is risen!

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I have a standard Easter morning playlist to cover the drive from home to Church, the culmination of which is a song by Matt Maher where he echos the words of the Early Church… “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling death by death…”

Let no one caught in sin remain
Inside the lie of inward shame
We fix our eyes upon the cross
And run to Him who showed great love
And bled for us
Freely You’ve bled for us

Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with Him again
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave

Beneath the weight of all our sin
You bowed to none but Heaven’s will
No scheme of Hell, no scoffer’s crown
No burden great can hold You down
In strength You reign
Forever let Your church proclaim

O death, where is your sting?
O hell, where is your victory?
O church, come stand in the light
The glory of God has defeated the night
Sing it, o death, where is your sting?
O hell, where is your victory?
O church, come stand in the light
Our God is not dead, He’s alive, He’s alive…

Music Monday: Drawn to you

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Here’s the single released last week from Audrey Assad, “Drawn to you”:

All my devotion is like sinking sand
I’ve nothing to cling to but your sweet hand
No clear emotions keeping me safe at night;
Only your presence, like a candle light.

After everything I’ve had
After everything I’ve lost
Lord, I know this much is true
I’m still drawn to you.

I pour out my sorrows like a precious oil
I kiss your feet, Lord, with a holy joy
My tears an offering of my highest praise;
Your eyes say ‘welcome.’ I receive Your gaze.

After everything’s been said
After everything love costs
Lord, I know this much is true
I’m still drawn to you

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