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| Blessed Registered user Username: Blessed Post Number: 19 Registered: 1-2007 |
This is the first that I have had time to write and share my thoughts about the weekend. This was my first FAF weekend and it was awesome. It was so neat to meet many of the forum members and also lots of people who shared a similar past to myself. A number of people including Colleen have shared some of their memories on the forum since the weekend but I would like to talk about the music. Being a musical person myself I was especially moved by the music that we did each session. On Friday evening the worship team chose My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less, In Christ Alone, Amazing Grace and Knowing You. I have sung all of these songs many times before but there was something very special about singing them with a group of 100 or more people who had shared my past and now were trusting in Christ Alone. I saw many tears and also many shouts of joy and applause as the truths that we were singing gripped all of us. There were times that I just couldn't sing because the emotion was so great. I just copied the words to In Christ Alone. When we sang the last verse people shouted out in joy and clapped. It was unbelievable. It truly was a taste of what we will experience someday in glory. In Christ alone my hope is found He is my light, my strength, my song This Cornerstone, this solid ground Firm through the fiercest drought and storm What heights of love, what depths of peace When fears are stilled, when strivings cease My Comforter, my All in All Here in the love of Christ I stand In Christ alone, who took on flesh Fullness of God in helpless babe This gift of love and righteousness Scorned by the ones He came to save 'Till on that cross as Jesus died The wrath of God was satisfied For every sin on Him was laid Here in the death of Christ I live There in the ground His body lay Light of the world by darkness slain Then bursting forth in glorious Day Up from the grave He rose again And as He stands in victory Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me For I am His and He is mine Bought with the precious blood of Christ No guilt in life, no fear in death This is the power of Christ in me From life's first cry to final breath Jesus commands my destiny No power of hell, no scheme of man Can ever pluck me from His hand 'Till He returns or calls me home Here in the power of Christ I'll stand Blessed | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 5445 Registered: 12-2003  |
Blessed, I agreeóthe music was overwhelming. I just never "get over" the amazement of singing these songs on THIS side of knowing Jesus! These songs are completely newóand I agree, it was beyond words to sing them with dozens of others who share my past and also my joy in Jesus. This freedom God has brought to us after years of bondage in invisible chains leaves us forever altered. We will never be the same. Praise God! Colleen | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 541 Registered: 9-2006  |
What it does too us when we realize Gods amazing grace, what joy, what peace when the load is removed from us saving ourselves, when we lay our lives both now and for the future at the feet of Jesus. I am really weepy this morning, I have been shedding tears since I got up at 3:AM this morning. How strange it would seem to some to see a 66 year old man, sitting, praying, reading the Bible, writing and weeping, hair sticking out in all directions but I don't care!! Oh the Joy, contentment and peace he brings. River |
