James at Home

Child I give you my heart I give you my soul I give you all you need today So, carry my word Carry it to the cross of Christ Carry my word to the people Carry me into your day.

When I was young, I laid down my life for you Lord I gave my all in surrender to you my King Yet now I’m old and my life is precious to me I still lay it before you in surrender to my Lord So as I find you and seek your hope filled love I am blown away by who you are And in this place of triumph isn’t it wonderful to love Isn’t it an asking and knocking spirit to seek my face? Surely your love oh Lord my God is beautiful to behold Cos I am in awe of you Yet I call on my love and it is enough for a card of grace It says, I love you my God in every way.   Photo by  Atharva Patil  on  Unsplash

  As I opened my door, I saw you standing there I opened it wide and said come in As you were alone, I knew I had to come in too And while it was a local affair, there was hope installed So, while it was hopeful, my peace came too Cos free to love me is your destination Free to love me is Heaven So I carry your love on my hand as a reminder Not a ring or a note, but an inscription of who you are to me Now I wait till your love is ready to show me Whole and ready you want to be Yet I take your broken pieces and make them a meal for me I am an answer to prayer I am an open door to God’s throne I am an open door to freedoms escape from this world’s system of hateful speech Yet I call you up to me, you need to choose life.   Photo by  Jordan Wozniak  on  Unsplash

  I was lost amid the emotional turmoil of life When he saw me standing there alone I saw him taking my hand and there he held me close And while I waited, I knew he had a plan to prosper me Cos even in the pain I was heard from Heaven’s gate Cos even in the pieces of fragment I knew his name Hosannah in the highest would come

  Coming to you Lord with a broken spirit I cry because you are kind to me I laugh because of its absurdity Yet you carry me Yet you saw my heavy weight of sin And knew I couldn’t come in Yet saw my love Yet you saw my hope coming And alleviated all my fears So, I lift my praise to you And find hope in hearing your name Photo by  Aaron Burden  on  Unsplash

  For who will make me a bed Who will open the door Who will overcome Cos who in this place is ready Cos I am. Photo by  Vivek Doshi  on  Unsplash

I was walking and realized I’m not alone I was talking and came to a halt I was aware of love and freedom Yet I was also aware of destruction and great trial So, I carry in me a voice I carry in me a choice The voice and the choice align in love And that place is found here at the cross of my love Photo by  Greg Rosenke  on  Unsplash

  The piece of my word I give you is lust of flesh; pride of life and God’s grace are coming to destroy all who believe. So, guard yourself against all sin, big or small and you will survive it.   Oh Lord my God come enter into our suffering again to heal our land. We are worried and need you.   What a joy you are to me to believe me. Photo by  Christopher Burns  on  Unsplash

  I woke early and went to the lounge to settle down to rest before you, Lord Yet my heart was open to the world and it’s turmoil and I cried out, Father save me And in this place of rest I lay there alive only by one thing, your love So I give you my hand today Lord I open your word for a look into the very thing you gave It is life, you instrument the change in me to give you praise, cos in you alone is life. You alone hold the very key to my heart You alone are my Father who cares for me in a way that I can barely contain Because you alone receive the glory, you alone receive the prayer of my heart It cries out for loving kindness and glory pertains to it Because you see me now, I can rest. I can reside in your soul, body pertaining to grace. I can give you all that I am I can trust you that your heart will securely give me what I ask for in you That in this place of great love you would securely present our request before you Lord That I would again be found in grace before you...

  I was walking toward Heaven when I fell I was engaged in a conversation when I remembered my sin So I took time to say sorry and regret filled my heart I knew I needed forgiveness and repentance I knew my heart was sad and God had convicted my spirit so that I would say, God, I need you Yet not I but God come Cos I am not alone, he is with me Cos not I but Christ alone, he is with me So I wait here today for a place of refuge Cos I wait here to say Christ alone my hope is found Photo by  lilartsy  on  Unsplash

  For who made the stars in the sky? Who made man? Who made the Heavens? I did, says the Lord I did for you to live.