Um let's see...God, Jimmy Buffet, Paul Simon, Steven Curtis Chapman, P.I.D., Delerious?, Matt redman, Chris Rice, Billy Buchannan who by the way has a "myspace", Tommy Brown, and I'm sure there were many others but I'm to tired to think of them at the moment!
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I don't like this Question. I once had a Lady who came in to a coffee house I was singing at and swore I was Darius Rucker ("Hootie") from Hootie and the Blowfish. Some say Third Day's Mac Powell. I dunno...Whatchoo think?
"Dead Man's Find" Released on May 8th 2006. There are two options for purchasing through the mail:
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Omar is an independent Christian artist whose music and lyrics speak to the deliberate and delicate side of God. With a blend of soul, funk, rock, and acoustic pop, Omar's debut CD, "Dead Man's Find" was released in May, and already has produced 2 smash radio hits, "Love You More" and "Dead Man's Find", which can be heard on Christian radio stations across the country.
How are you doing? Has 2007 been a good year for you so far? Let us know what's going on in your life. We're one big family here, right? Our desire for you, Omar K. Alley, is that you engage 100% of your effort in the pursuit of holiness. Oh and remember, you're not a sinner, you're a saint if you know Jesus. Our prayer is that we would let God; rule, reign and roam freely in our lives. Let us know if you would like us to come out to your area.
Have you ever been just sitting there and all of a sudden you feel like doing something nice for someone you care for?
THAT'S GOD talking to you through the Holy Spirit.
Have you ever been down and out and nobody seems to be around for you to talk to? THAT'S GOD wanting you to talk to Him.
Have you ever been thinking about somebody that you haven't
seen in a long time and then next thing you know you see them or receive a phone call from them?
THAT'S GOD. There is no such thing as coincidence.
Have you ever received something wonderful that you didn't even ask for, like money in the mail, a debt that had mysteriously been cleared, or a coupon to a department store where you had just seen something you needed, but couldn't afford?
THAT'S GOD knowing the desires of your heart.
Have you ever been in a situation and you had no clue how it was going to get better, how the hurting would stop, how the pain would ease, but now you look back on it.
THAT'S GOD passing us through tribulation to see a brighter day
Do you think that this comment was accidentally sent to you?
NO! I was thinking of you!
Dear God...
I know you're watching over me
And I'm feeling truly blessed
For no matter what I pray for
You always know what's best!
Just want to let all of you indie gospel recording artists know that we are currently accepting full-length CD projects for submission for the 2007 En Sound Music Awards. Please not teh your project MUST be properly packaged with barcode. Please visit: http://www.ensoundentertainment.com/promos/esma1.htm
and also: www.myspace.com/ensound as I will be posting information there as well.
Week 14 is here of the Bible study from “The Prayer of Jabez, Breaking through to the Blessed Life” by author Bruce Wilkinson. I pray that it blesses you.
In His Handz, Shawn (S.E.A.L.S. Ministryz Founder)
Consider the natural progression from more blessing to more territory to the need for supernatural power. When Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations…and lo, I am with you always” (Matthew 28:19-20.) He was bestowing on them both an incredible blessing and an impossible task. Into all the world and preach? Certainly a disaster in the making! After all, he was commissioning such unreliable cowards as Peter, who had already proved that a girl by a campfire could get him to deny he’d ever heard of Jesus! Yet when He sent the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8), Jesus touched these ordinary believers with greatness, and filled them with His miraculous power to spread the Gospel. In fact, you’ll notice in Luke’s account that the phrase “filled with the Spirit” is often linked to a consequence: They “spoke with boldness” (see Acts 4:13, 5:29, 7:51, 9:27). Only God at work through them could account for the miracles and mass conversions that followed. When we ask for God’s mighty presence like Jabez and the early church did, we will also see tremendous results that can be explained only as “from the hand of God.” What strikes me about the early church was that believers continually sought to be filled by God (see Acts 4:23-31). They were known as a community who spent hours & even days in prayer together, waiting upon God & asking for His power (see Acts 2:42-47). They were longing to receive more of God’s ”hand”—a fresh spiritual in-filling of God’s power that would turn impending, certain failure into a miracle & make their extraordinary assignment possible. When was the last time you petitioned God regularly & fervently, “Oh, put your hand upon me! Fill me with your Spirit!”?
"If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive."
~Mother Theresa
In every moment, we have the opportunity to choose forgiveness over resentment.Choosing forgiveneness means choosing freedom and liberation from the past.
May today be the day where you clean your heart and soul of those feelings,
May you be blessed , and know that you are loved beyond measures.
with much respect
**~RaK~**
Week 12 is here of the Bible study from “The Prayer of Jabez, Breaking through to the Blessed Life” by author Bruce Wilkinson. I pray that it blesses you.
In His Handz, Shawn (S.E.A.L.S. Ministryz Founder)
Total dependence on God truly sets us up to look like a fool & a looser if we don’t turn to God for help. Yet it is God’s plan for his most-honored servants. Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like Jabez & you & me. How? We’re forced to cry out with Jabez’s third desperate plea: “Oh, that Your hand would be with me!” With that, we release God’s power to accomplish His will & bring His glory through all those seeming impossibilities. Notice that Jabez did not begin his prayer by asking for God’s hand to be with him. At this point, he didn’t since the need. Things were still manageable. His risks, & the fears that go with them, were minimal. But when his boundaries got moved out, & the kingdom-sized tasks of God’s agenda started coming at him, Jabez knew he needed a divine hand-& fast. He could have turned back, or he could have tried to keep going in his own strength. Instead, he PRAYED. If seeking God’s blessings is our ultimate act of worship, & asking to do more for him is our utmost ambition, then asking for God’s hand upon us is our strategic choice to sustain & continue the great things that God has begun in our lives. That’s why you could call God’s hand on you “the touch of greatness.” You do not become great; you become dependent on the strong hand of God. Your surrendered need turns into His unlimited opportunity. And He becomes great & will do great things through you. This is what your Father’s hand is like. You tell him, “Father, please do this in me because I can’t do it alone! It’s too big for me!” And you step out in faith to do & say things that could only come from his hand. Afterwards, your spirit is shouting, God did that, nobody else! God carried me, gave me the words, gave me the power--& it is wonderful!
Week 13 is here of the Bible study from “The Prayer of Jabez, Breaking through to the Blessed Life” by author Bruce Wilkinson. I pray that it blesses you.
In His Handz, Shawn (S.E.A.L.S. Ministryz Founder)
God’s power under us, in us, surging through us is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness. “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, ,” wrote Paul, “to think of anything as being from ourselves,” wrote Paul, “to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant.” (2 Corinthians 3:5-6). Tragic as it might sound, the hand of the Lord is so seldom experienced by even mature Christians that they don’t even know they are missing it & so they don’t ask for it. Many of them don’t even know that it exists. They think of it as something reserved for prophets & apostles, but not for them. As you’d expect, when these believers arrive at points of certain failure, they tend to come to the wrong conclusion: I’ve gone too far; I’ve ended up in the wrong place. And since I already have all the resources I’m going to get, I need to exit fast! Jabez by contrast, was so certain that God’s hand upon him was necessary for blessing that he couldn’t imagine a life of honor without it. Let’s look more closely at the meaning of his prayer. The “hand of the Lord” is a Biblical term for God’s power & presence in the lives of his people (see Joshua 4:24 & Isaiah 59:1). In Acts, the phenomenal success of the early church was attributed to one thing: “The hand of the Lord was with them, & a great number believed & turned to the Lord” (Acts 11:21). A more specific New Testament description of God’s hand is “the filling of the Holy Spirit.” The churches growth bears powerful witness to both the necessity & availability of the hand of God to accomplish the business of God.
I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure, a loop called Confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies,
caution lights called Family. You will have flats called Jobs. But, if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, insurance called Faith, a driver called Jesus, you will make it to a place called Success.
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