Judges 19-21

What evil dwells in this heart.

In God’s kingdom thrown out.

Destroy corruption is the plan.

Wickedness in this sinful man.

Root out this terrible disgrace.

Not right to be in this place.

Kill and totally destroy.

Win the battle with a decoy.

Just a remnant left.

Must build again so not bereft.

To try again with this man.

So needed to fulfill God’s plan.

Mark 11:27_23

The religious question who Jesus is?

When afraid to answer they will miss.

What he would say.

What he did tell us on this day.

Psalm 43

I come before his majesty.

Before his holiness bow the knee.

Seen as my only desire.

Set my heart a blazing fire.

As I know and glorify him.

He alone my righteousness in.

Judges 17-19

Everyone did what he thought was right,

in his own sight.

Followed inclination of heart,

when needed a new start.

When following the wrong master

This led to disaster.

Knew their God of power.

Yet trusted their own high tower.

Crumbled and failed again.

Causing more trouble and pain.

Again, rescued his special people.

Feeling so hopeless and feeble.

O how they needed a King

They could do anything.

Mark 11:22-25

A tree that should bear fruit.

Illustrate church that is mute.

Believers with good news.

Not able to fill the pews.

Faith that can move a mountain.

The power we can count on.

Believe and it will happen for you.

God’s strength we must tap into.

Psalm 47

Come clap your hands everyone

At the coming of God’s Son.

Know now we can defeat.

Put enemies at our feet.

By God’s amazing powers,

Promises now are ours.

Allowed us to win.

All praise to Him.

Listen: Deaut:15-17

The Lord has come to bless.

Especially when we say, yes!

To all that he does say.

To follow in his way.

The blessings he gives to you.

Must give Lord his due.

Will at your very core.

Have concern for the poor.

You have been set apart,

To reveal the Father’s heart.

Always to be sure,

To avoid the impure.

Remember always celebrate

He who controlled your fate.

Listen Mk:7:1-13

Be careful to not despise.

Tradition important in your eyes.

To distort what you know is true.

Just so it does suit you.

Not what the Lord does say.

Just suits your selfish way.

Listen: Ps. 37

Once young now I am old.

Or so I’m always told.

Now come to really know.

He protects from every woe

That I may generously give.

In this blessed life, I live.

Born so special, now just a hopeless slave.

Impossible situation, that only God could save.

What disaster. Then we see him intervene.

Hope comes as we watch the unfolding scene.

Those who oppress are mourning their great loss.

We are totally protected. The Lamb now pays the cost.

God rescues us amazingly and takes us on our way.

A special people now, All would agree really is our day.

They say go away from us, we see you are on this mission.

We leave their world behind, we follow this amazing vision.

But then confronted by this sea, that we could never wade

The world we left behind says, aha a mistake was made.

Amazingly a path was opened, and we walk right through.

Leaving those who would destroy us, all in a stew.

We dance and sing our God is for us, we say with so much glee.

Then we come across this desert place. oh dearie, dearie me.

Where is God now? No water, bread, or meat to hand.

However are we going to make it, to our Promised Land?

Again we see Him once more provide for us on our way.

Then he tells us now, now you must listen, to what I say.

To be a special people you cannot live as others do.

For me to bless and keep and make of you, something new.

Oh yes we said, we want to be like that. It is a special day.

We know we can do whatever you ask. It will be all okay.

Then feeling all alone, that amazing leader, long ago last seen.

Desperate we look for something, something on which to lean.

Then checking out the Promised Land we are filled with fear.

Oh woe is me. how can we overcome? Does God not care?

So, on this roundabout desert journey , we must travel on.

To banish all those doubts. It is God alone we can depend upon.

Only then can we enter and conquer that amazing Promised Land.

Confident to win each battle. With God we make our stand.

This story of Moses, and the struggles of those Israelites of old.

Not unlike the life we each lead when coming into God’s fold.

Convinced of newfound freedom we set out with so much glee.

Then unexpected strife appears, we thought we’d never see.

The “Promised Land” seems a long way off, such a distant hope.

We lose our faith in God, we silently complain, we cannot cope.

This lesson all must learn, for God knows what’s in our very heart.

This journey into promised land is just beginning, just the start.

For first we must learn that our God is with us, in everything we do.

It is then we cross the border into something special, something new.

Prepared to fight those giants that presently live deep within our soul.

Now having learnt real strength, it is God who makes us whole.

Now a special people who have a special mission in this our life.

When all around us we see a world of misery, abuse and strife

Amazing how all before us gives way, as in God we now can see.

A broken world that only God can heal. Oh Lord now….. send me.

Asaw Miller