this is our God...

For this reason You are great, O Lord God; for there is none like You, and there is no God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 2 Samuel 7:22

Who is like You among the gods, O Lord? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders? Exodus 15:11

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground...
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

This is our God...

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in loving kindness...For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving kindness towards those who fear Him.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our sins from us. Psalm 103: 8, 11-12

Does every person come to a place on their journey where they stand still and feel completely unworthy of the grace of God? I have. He who sees who I really am...how can He still love me? How can He still want me...
You can sit and sulk in the weight of what you've done with your life, you can turn away and give up because of hardship, or you can get up and you try harder to love Him and want Him.
You learn what it means to push on, to pick up your cross, to run this mighty race with all of your heart, soul, mind and strength.
Before Him you stand in fear, but fearless of the world. Know that this God who stands behind you, He is for you, and He emboldens you and gives you courage to face whatever may come.
With Him mountains tremble...
With Him, seas divide...
With Him, death is conquered...love is moving...love is here. Love has come down to save the world...

This is our God...

"freely You gave Your all for us, surrendered Your life upon that cross, great is the love, poured out for all, this is our God. Lifted on high from death to life, forever our God is glorified,
servant and King rescued the world, this is our God..."~Ruben Morgan-Hillsong Church

This is our God...

He who is majestic in all greatness and authority. Who is intimately acquainted with all of our ways. Nothing is too difficult for our God. The God of the universe, who knows the number of hairs on our head's.

What will it take for the world to know Jesus? What does it cost us?

"We know that we have come to know Him if we obey His commands. The man who says, "I know Him," but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But if anyone obeys His word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in Him: Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did." 1John 2:5-6

"...for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, for better and for worse, in good times and in bad, forsaking all others and being faithful only to You for as long as I live..."
the vows of marriage should also be the vows of eternal commitment to Jesus.

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
and what is the surpassing greatness of His power towards us who believe.
There are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead,
and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rules and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named,
not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head of all things to the church,
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all...~Ephesians 1:18-23

As the real church, the body of Christ, we have a responsibility to live up to the light we have, to claim this world for Christ. To be called followers of Jesus, we're called to love the lost and rescue those who are in darkness.
To love the unloved and the hurting and lonely. To allow the Holy Spirit who dwells within us to touch the broken hearts and restore them to wholeness.
This generation needs to rise up, renounce selfishness and vanity. God is calling us. We need the Kingdom of God to invade this land, to be made alive in the hearts of all.

Do not call to mind the former things, or ponder things in the past. Behold, I will do something now and it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. ~Isaiah 43:18-19

God is all about new mornings. New beginnings. Not wanting His people to dwell on the past and their old sins and what was, but move on with Him. Running with Him. God is a God of new mercy every morning.
I will follow You, all the way to the cross. Where I lay down my life, and pick up Yours. And neither death, no life, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to keep me from His love.
So let mercy reign, as we run this race marked before me, until I see You, because You will come for me...

The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;
and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him,
though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said. 'For we are also are His children'. Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature
is like gold or silver or stone, and image formed by the art and thought of man. Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed
a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man who He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead..."~Acts 17:24-31