how about posting something like the next step, how to turn those low expectations into high ones, and and how to reach those expectations.

I would appreciate if you posted more about music and the way it can affect our life.

Thank You.

I’m standing out today
in the freezing rain
I want to get wet

Splash Your cup of reality
all over, all over me
Wake me up, Father
so I can see,
so I can feel
so I can breathe
so my heart will beat,
really beat,
I’m dyin’ in this heat,
this stagnant air
of compromise and unbelief
this lukewarm atmosphere
thriving in earthly cares and fears
I’m so sick and tired of this
O God, forgive me I’m so agitated,
so frustrated, so moved in anger
there’s so much sin
this culture pulls and prods-
this culture is dead, dead within
Where is the Father’s love?
Have we no compassion?

so many are sick and lying
on stretchers waiting for answers
the old, the young are crying
my heart is starting to canter
gallop away, gallop away
take me far away from this place
I can’t stand this anymore,
all these people- not knowing why
or why they’re living for
this meaningless wealth deludes
this emptiness even in food
I don’t know how or what to do
but all I know, Father, is I’m looking to You

You are wisdom, You are hope
and You are all I want to know
Fill my heart- the devil, you flee!
Father, splash Your cup of reality
Living water make me feel
in this world of illusions, Your Word is real
Open up my eyes to all the unseen
break my haert and pick me apart
make me new, to live in light of eternity

this culture ensnares, this culture enslaves,
Father, please bless me with- a holy rage
holy discontentment that souls are walkin’
in imprisonment- living in cages, living by phases
this culture is wagin’ a war in my soul
so many walking into hell, at a leisurely stroll
Well, I’m not going to waste this life on me
Lord, prune me from the ambition, the pride, and the greed
Please give the courage, please, to march into darkness
with Your fire blazing- take the lead
planting Your Word- in hearts- Your seed
Your presence consuming me,
this fire in my bones
this fire in my bones
all creation is moaning, the rocks groan
Where are God’s people? sons and daughters areise
today’s the day of salvation, it’s harvest time
the field is ready, and God’s callin’ out loud
O Father forgive us, we’ve looked back at the plough,
our hearts are divided, are we even saved?
the fruit of our lives isn’t there
our way is wide- our hearts depraved
we’re enslaved! we’re enslaved to the cares and ways of men
oh I hate the praises, the hypocrisy- here we go again

there’s a way that seems right to men, but is not
it leads to death, destruction, and a great many, a great lot
will go in this way, multitudes astray
they forget, they forgot- Christ and the cross
Oh Father, this pride of life, this lust of eyes, this lust of flesh
O God, I cannot tolerate it.
I hate this sin that entanges my steps
all would be hopeless but for Your righteousness
Oh, I hunger and thirst, my soul, despair not
Jesus is truth- He is all I got
He is all I want, He is all I need,
world, I’m not your friend, don’t look to me.
Christ is my Friend, He is my Master,
He is my Love, we’ll live happily ever after

I must die that He live in me
I wish God-hating, corrupt, vile hearts
so wicked indeed, would rest at the Father,
repent and believe!
mourn over their sin, oh church- weep, weep!
how beautiful are the feet that go out and preach
and reach out to the starved, and the stolen, and the satanists
and reach out to the marred, and the scarred, and the antagonists
all the hungry and the homeless
and the ignorant and the fools
the prostitues and the millionaires, the abused, the abused

Sinners turn to Jesus!
winners you have lost
Oh Father, I’m a wreck
I’m a ruin- I am not
these material things are choking out joy
these diamond rings, these trinkets and toys
I want You God, You alone
I want to be with You, I want to go home

I don’t belong here, Holy Spirit I praise You
I thank You that You roam with me
in this wilderness, whem I’m misunderstood
and so incredibly confused
people work to eat and to eat to live
they live to die, and then, is that it?
oh how I wish that after death
there’s nothing more
just a heaven, just reincarnation
something other than
the divine horror
hell
I know is so real, so close, Judgment Day
Oh Father I don’t know what to sing, what to say
Your Law will silence lips-
no one will be able to justify themselves
my heart is torn, I ring the alarm bell,
I grip Your hand, ever so tightly
Show me Your love, Father, that i may walk uprightly
and love Your commands,
and meet Your demands,
empowered by Your Spirit, in Your I can stand
in You the sky is blue
my hope isn’t in this world
You are forever, in You I can face the hurls,
the insults, the temptation,
oh all is but loss- everything is fading
Your voice is resonating
burn away the dross

Your Words shake me,
I tremble in fear,
Your love is so great,
we have no idea,
we’re so blind to our own sinful state
I hate how the world is so desentizied,
to sin, to evil, to the dark, bleak, lies
They know no shame, no guilt anymore,
their consciences are seared,
wrath follows them in the long corridor,
gnashing of teeth, and wailing- it’s just as I feared
oh all these crowds with no shepherd,
no one to steer them into truth, into peace, into love-
the only solution must come from above

Keep me heavenly minded-, God
Keep me in You
my heart’s constantly wandering
singing rhythm and blues
discipline me, make me like Your Son,
that I would live in harmony, with You, as one
Show me compassion- I knowest it not
only from Your example, with Your blood Iw as bought,
oh Father, forgive me- I forgot.

I’ve judged, I’ve been so thankless and proud,
Forgive me Lord for denying Your voice, and not
denying myself
forgive me for being silent as if I agree,
with everything and anything- all the sing around me,
forgive me for being bitter and cold
oh Lord for harbouring sin and for not doing as I was told,
for walking in rebellion and flaunting disobedience
for not being bold and for not submitting to Your call,
the sin of ommission

Thank You for Your grace,
O God, for Your mercy!
You’re so refreshing in this world of cursing
I leave my old life, the old way behind
You are my vision, my source, my guide
I love Your and so I’m steppin’ over the line.
Self die away, Jesus, abide in me EVERYDAY!!!!
I cannot live without you,
Living Water, I’m Your daughter
Please may my life be
a living sacrifice, whollily for Your glory

all for You, Father, all for Christ- all for Him
He is so worthy, forsake all
and embrace the grim,
the naked, the scik and what the world regards as disgusting
the rejected and the lonely
the weak and the hard-hearted
the starving and the dumb-
oh how are we so numb, to HIS touch???
when we will we ever, ever WAKE UP???

Wake up you sinners,
stop in striving in good works,
you’re not good at all,
you won’t believe how worse
how filthy, how needy- you are
Jesus is knocking, and telling you to depart
depart from evil in the fear of the Lord
stop fighting Your Saviour, surrender your swords
surrender in the love, the love of His arms
He holds out His hands,
while you cause your own harm
sticking out your tongue in His face
O He is so holy, He is not tame
Seek Him while He is near,
call on Him while He may be found,
what is your life?
peer into wisdom, look around
decay and pollution, you are mist
God’s creation- in His hands
why do you make your own short-sighed plans?
you fail to see that God is and always will be

FLEE FROM THE LUSTS OF YOU!!!
AND CAST YOURSELF- YOUR ENTIRE BEING
INTO HIS LOVE!!!!!

Jesus is the only way!!
the only name given under heaven by which
men are saved.
Wake me up, God, I am dry
enlighten my senses to walk by your side,
O grief is heavy- sorrow, tomorrow instead?
Mourning in the morning wasn’t my intentions
God Your plans, not mine, I hide in Your wings
all I am is Yours, You are mine.
Thank You. for eternal life.

Blogs about the importance of living life in light of eternity and sharing one’s faith, preaching the gospel- and particularly about hell would be awesome. Jesus talked more about hell than He did about heaven and everyday it’s said roughly around 150,000 people die. A guy from my school just died last week and every second it’s said two people die. I think it’s so important to be actively sharing the gospel with every person possible- because God loves every person and if they die in their sins they rightfully and justly go to hell- and God showed through Jesus that this is not His will…He’s not willing that any should perish but that all should have eternal life.. Thanks again for this site- so cool!!! When God reminds me I’ll be in prayer for this and I really wanna read that book now- “Do Hard Things for God”.

Hey Emily, I read what you wrote and I think that it depends on your motives. It’s definately okay to just e-mail people or be on facebook for fun, but what if you looked at the bigger picture and thought about what you can do on facebook for God? My sister used to have a Xanga site (similar to facebook/myspace) and she commented on friends’ posts and put pictures up, but she also wrote about things she was struggling with or a verse in the Bible that really struck her for some reason. Or a few of my friends were sending Bible verses to me and some of their friends on e-mail and it was really encouraging. Anyways, that’s my opinion. I hope it helps.

Thanks so much, Alex and Brett, for the Rebelution!! It’s so encouraging!!

Laura

One question that I have always thought about was concerning the netowrking websites myspace and facebook. What are your thoughts concerning the use of these websites? Do they relate to “doing hard things” or are they a mere “time waster” or “conforming to the world”? I would love to hear your thoughts.

Emily