#2024

This song is dedicated to one of my friend's mom who encouraged me to learn this song and sing it! (Elsy Aunty: a.k.a. Amirta's Mom) I was so encouraged by this song and had tears while recording it a few times because of the immense lyrics structured by the original song writer.

Thank you Aunty. God bless you, You know who you are!
I was again encouraged to do this by my friends in Christ Carel & Eibu, God bless you guys!

Is God’s Love What You Need to Change Your Life?
What does it mean when people say God changed their lives? Is God’s love really that powerful?
You may have heard Christians say God has changed their lives or that God is their motivation for doing good things. What they’re really saying is that God’s love makes them want to be better people.
The message of Christianity is that God loves us. He was willing to give His Son to die and take on all the consequences of everything we ever did wrong. He did that to make a way for us to have a relationship with Him.

This type of sacrificial love is life-changing. Not only is God’s love inspirational but God’s love is powerful. He can and does use His power to transform people.

If you want to change your life, having a relationship with God can give you the courage and power to change in ways you never thought possible.
You may ask, “If God’s love is a powerful force for change, why are some Christians such jerks?”
That’s a legitimate question. Christians — like everyone else — are not perfect, but they are forgiven. They’ve experienced an inward change that, over time, will start to make a difference in outward behavior. When you place your faith in Jesus instead of in yourself, you begin a relationship with God. He takes away your guilt and shame. You become His beloved child.

The power to change takes place in the context of this loving and secure relationship with God.

As you get to know God, you begin to take on His characteristics. Your perspective changes because God sees things differently than we do. Being forgiven and loved by God also motivates you to extend this love and kindness to others.

These are just a few changes people see when they start a relationship with God. But imagine: If a relationship with a person can make you want to be a better person, how much more will being a treasured child of God impact your life?

Intimacy with God is available to you. It is as accessible to you as God’s promises. And God’s invitation to you to enjoy intimate fellowship with him is that thing that is putting your faith to the test more than anything else (James 1:2–4).
“Biblical knowledge is far better than gold when it fuels our trust in God. Otherwise, it only fuels our pride.”
The Heart of Intimacy
Intimacy is what we call the experience of really knowing and being known by another person. We frequently use spatial language when describing this experience. An intimate friend is someone we feel very close to; they know us at a deep level. If something happens that damages the intimacy with our friend, they feel distant from us. Or a person who doesn’t know us intimately knows us at a superficial level.

But of course intimacy is not spatial but relational. We all know what it’s like to be sitting right next to a person with whom we feel distant and we can feel close to a person who is four thousand miles away.
What makes us feel intimate with another person? While there are many ingredients to intimacy and each intimate relationship we have has a different recipe, common to all of them is trust. We cannot be intimate with a person we don’t trust.
“What you must trust God most for right now is where he means for you to draw closer to him.”

God wants intimacy with you. Christ has done all the hard work in the cross to make it possible. All he requires is that you believe in him (John 14:1). He wants you to trust him with all your heart (Proverbs 3:5).

Which means his invitation to you to enjoy intimacy with him is the providences in your life that are testing your faith more than anything else. What you must trust God most for right now is where he means for you to draw closer to him.

It is likely an invitation that your flesh wants to decline. But as you read your Bible, do not the great cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1) all agree with James and Peter that the greatest testing of faith is the path to the greatest joy (James 1:2–4; 1 Peter 1:8–9)? And do they not agree with Paul that it is not worth comparing to the joy of knowing Christ and the coming glory (Philippians 3:8; Romans 8:18)?

Intimacy with God often occurs in the places where we must trust him most. Heaven on earth is the inexpressible joy and the peace that surpasses understanding that comes from trusting God wholly (Philippians 4:6–7). For, as the old hymn writer said, “they who trust him wholly find him wholly true.”


Hope you BEND your KNEE..

May The Lord God Change Your Heart Of Stone To Flesh.
Regards
Joel M Mathew