God Wants to be Glorified

ATLANTA - A storm crashed through the Southeast and brought up to an inch of rain in parts of drought-stricken Georgia, but forecasters said the storm likely did little to ease the state's historic drought

"The ground probably sucked it all up," said Vaughn Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Peachtree City. "The ground is so dry, I seriously doubt if any of the lakes rose any."


More than a quarter of the Southeast is covered by an "exceptional" drought — the National Weather Service's worst drought category. With water levels low, many Georgia residents are under conservation orders — such as a ban on watering lawns.

The rainfall came two days after Gov. Sonny Perdue led a prayer service on the steps of the state Capitol to beg the heavens for an end to the drought.

Remind Me Again, Lord

It's Morning, Jesus
Remind me again, so that I stay on mission.
Why did you come?

I came to restore a broken creation in order that my Father might have glory.
I came to honor my Father.
I came to reveal the honor of the Father.
I came to exalt God the Father.

I came demonstrating the Father's love and stedfast covenant
I came to to reveal the wrath of the Father against sin, and so honor Him.
I came as the sacrfice for sin.
I came as the burnt offering.
I came as the lamb of God.
I came as the Passover Lamb.
Whoever believes in me, who ever accepts and abides in my covenant, will never die.


I came to proclaim release to the captives
I came to give sight to the blind
I came to build a people to scatter salt and light to fufill the mandate to cultivate the earth
I came seeking those lost to the covenant
I came seeking those who had wandered from the covenant
I came to give a new covenant

I came as a demonstration of the way, the truth, the life
of a covenanted people with a covenanted God
I came to restore the lost house of Israel
I came to build my church
I came to a new covenanted community
I came as a Shepherd for the names's sake of my Father.

Amen

Evening Examination

It's Evening, Jesus
Examine me, three personed God.
Did I do you proud today?

Refusing the Mandate of the Garden

It's Morning, Jesus

By the truth of your Word
By the light of our own history
By the evidence of your works
Show us ourselves.

In your covenant with Adam you gave a mandate:
"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth." (Gen 1:28)
And even when man failed you, you still sent him
out of the garden to accomplish your task in a broken world.

But when the evil became so great, you were sorry you had
made man (Genesis 6:6) and decided to blot out the creation
with a flood.

Yet Noah found favor with you, O God, and you saved him and his
family, and in your covenant with Noah (Genesis 9:1) you said, as you
said to Adam, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth."

But now, here we are again, Lord, with rebellion in Noah's sons.
This distant grandson of Noah, named Nimrod, builds a city, and a whole
city, a whole culture, turns against you.

Rather than fulfilling the mandate of the covenant, "be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth", they hold up in Babel, and decide to build a name for themselves.

We come to you this morning, Lord, as a covenanted people.
As you made a Covenant with Adam, with Noah and then with Abraham, so you
have made a Covenant with us.

Reveal to us how we wander.
Reveal to us the temptations that rob us from fulflling your mandate.
Strengthen our character, renew us in our purpose, and find us made stronger by every test.

In Jesus name,
Amen

It's Morning, Lord God of the Covenant,

You give me all things in my life and you can take them all away,

By your hands my life may be governed.

I totally and completely offer everything to you.

All that I have in my life is yours, for you are the only one for me.

All that I am I give to service for you and your will.

For the only things I need I already have that is You!

I am yours to do with as you will, as you choose fit to use.



Amen