I Came Here For a Reason

I Came Here For a Reason

I Came Here For a Reason

I came here for a reason,
This is my time and season,
And on you I’m believing,
So let Christ move through you.

Remove all that does hinder,
Unto Christ now surrender,
Let no thought be deceiving,
I know I’ll be made new.

Bob and Charlotte Torango

Let the Holy Spirit flow through you continually.

Let the Holy Spirit flow through you continually.

Let the Holy Spirit flow through you continually.

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If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. ~ 1 Peter 4:11

Assumptions and worldviews can never move in the power of the Holy Spirit to do the works of God. You may say the right words, but they have no transforming power without the flow of the living Christ in them. You may do all the right things, but they will be dead works unless Christ does them through you. Remain under the Anointing. Let the Holy Spirit flow through you continually. When you speak as the oracles of God, you speak the living Christ. When you speak by the Holy Spirit and someone listens to you, they receive the Logos and Rhema of God. That’s how faith comes to them. The same is true of the work you do. Walk in the power and authority of God. It’s yours. Christ paid for it. You have no way to do anything of spiritual value in your own power.

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You may say the right words, but they have no transforming power without the flow of the living Christ in them.

You may say the right words, but they have no transforming power without the flow of the living Christ in them.

You may say the right words, but they have no transforming power without the flow of the living Christ in them.

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. ~ 1 Peter 4:11

Assumptions and worldviews can never move in the power of the Holy Spirit to do the works of God. You may say the right words, but they have no transforming power without the flow of the living Christ in them. You may do all the right things, but they will be dead works unless Christ does them through you. Remain under the Anointing. Let the Holy Spirit flow through you continually. When you speak as the oracles of God, you speak the living Christ. When you speak by the Holy Spirit and someone listens to you, they receive the Logos and Rhema of God. That’s how faith comes to them. The same is true of the work you do. Walk in the power and authority of God. It’s yours. Christ paid for it. You have no way to do anything of spiritual value in your own power.

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I BEAR MY CROSS AND I KEEP PRESSING IN

I BEAR MY CROSS AND I KEEP PRESSING IN

I BEAR MY CROSS AND I KEEP PRESSING IN

The plans that Jesus has for us are good,
And He controls all things.
Whatever happens, I can see His Hand,
His work, accomplishing.

I bear my cross and I keep pressing in,
And long to be set free from sin,
With Jesus as my constant, faithful friend,
Right from the start and to the end.

Let patience have her total, perfect work.
Complete Your work in me.
The trumpet sounds and I can hear the call.
I long for liberty.

I bear my cross and I keep pressing in,
And long to be set free from sin,
With Jesus as my constant, faithful friend,
Right from the start and to the end.

The things we suffer as we live each day,
Aren’t worthy to compare.
To glory that the Lord creates in us,
The splendor He prepares.

I bear my cross and I keep pressing in,
And long to be set free from sin,
With Jesus as my constant, faithful friend,
Right from the start and to the end.

Bob and Kathy Stenson, Freeware. Use it freely.

I Bear My Cross and I Keep Pressing In

Christ doesn’t want you to base your thinking on assumptions, presuppositions, or your worldview.

Christ doesn’t want you to base your thinking on assumptions, presuppositions, or your worldview.

Christ doesn’t want you to base your thinking on assumptions, presuppositions, or your worldview.

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You stand in His presence. You enter into His presence with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. The fear, or deep respect, of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. There, in His presence, you listen to His voice. You become sensitive to His leading. When His faith comes, you yield yourself to His faith and allow Him to say His words and do His works through you as you yield the members of your bodies to His righteousness.

Christ doesn’t want you to base your thinking on assumptions, presuppositions, or your worldview. He wants you to know Him. He wants to speak to you through His creation, the ministries in each member, the Bible, spiritual gifts, and any other means of divine revelation He chooses to use. He wants you to acknowledge Him in all your ways. He tells you the Bible is His word, His utterance, without error. He explains the meaning of the Bible and His creation to you. He confirms the reality of His being. You don’t need assumptions.

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. ~ 1 Peter 4:11

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I AM REDEEMED!

I AM REDEEMED!

I AM REDEEMED!

I am redeemed!
I am saved!
I’m a child of the King!
I have left my past behind me,
For His blood has washed me clean.
So I am walking in the Spirit
Filled with Jesus through and through.
Old things have passed away, praise God!
Now all things are made new.

Bob and Kathy Stenson, Freeware. Use it freely.

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You must let Christ flow through you continually.

You must let Christ flow through you continually.

You must let Christ flow through you continually.

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Christ wants a relationship with you. He doesn’t want you to try to reprogram your fleshly mind so you don’t have to stand in Christ’s presence anymore. Christ doesn’t want you depending on your own mind no matter how accurate your worldview might be. You can’t reform your fleshly nature anyway. The flesh must die. Christ wants to live in you and do His works through you. He wants a connection continually forever. He wants a meaningful relationship with you. Here’s how He talks about it:

For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. ~ Jeremiah 2:13

You can’t store the Spirit of God, but you try to store it in your cisterns. Your cisterns are creeds, religious forms, or rituals. Your cisterns are theologies, credentials, buildings, or organizations. Your cisterns are worldviews, learned precepts, or preconceived ideas. You must let Him flow through you continually. Your God is a flowing stream. He will be a Fountain springing up within you if you yield to Him. He’ll provide your credentials in Christ. He’ll correct what you’ve learned or established as your worldview or theology. He’ll show you what came from Him and what came from some other source. He’ll direct every aspect of His church in gifts, ministries, operations, offices, and orders. Through Scripture, He’s already given you clues as to how He’ll do this.

Creeds and confessions can act as a firewall against heresy for those who don’t know Jesus Christ. The Bible does the same. Those who don’t listen to the voice of Christ don’t have Christ as a foundation. They may sing “On Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand.” However, they stand on the creeds and confessions rather than Christ. They know about God. They don’t know God. That being said, the Holy Spirit can speak to you through the creeds and confessions just as He speaks through the Bible. You need to know Him. Knowing about Him isn’t enough. You need to cut off the influence of the ungodly.

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You can’t store the Spirit of God

You can’t store the Spirit of God

You can’t store the Spirit of God

Christ wants a relationship with you. He doesn’t want you to try to reprogram your fleshly mind so you don’t have to stand in Christ’s presence anymore. Christ doesn’t want you depending on your own mind no matter how accurate your worldview might be. You can’t reform your fleshly nature anyway. The flesh must die. Christ wants to live in you and do His works through you. He wants a connection continually forever. He wants a meaningful relationship with you. Here’s how He talks about it:

For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. ~ Jeremiah 2:13

You can’t store the Spirit of God, but you try to store it in your cisterns. Your cisterns are creeds, religious forms, or rituals. Your cisterns are theologies, credentials, buildings, or organizations. Your cisterns are worldviews, learned precepts, or preconceived ideas. You must let Him flow through you continually. Your God is a flowing stream. He will be a Fountain springing up within you if you yield to Him. He’ll provide your credentials in Christ. He’ll correct what you’ve learned or established as your worldview or theology. He’ll show you what came from Him and what came from some other source. He’ll direct every aspect of His church in gifts, ministries, operations, offices, and orders. Through Scripture, He’s already given you clues as to how He’ll do this.

Creeds and confessions can act as a firewall against heresy for those who don’t know Jesus Christ. The Bible does the same. Those who don’t listen to the voice of Christ don’t have Christ as a foundation. They may sing “On Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand.” However, they stand on the creeds and confessions rather than Christ. They know about God. They don’t know God. That being said, the Holy Spirit can speak to you through the creeds and confessions just as He speaks through the Bible. You need to know Him. Knowing about Him isn’t enough. You need to cut off the influence of the ungodly.

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I AM DEAD TO THE WORLD

I AM DEAD TO THE WORLD

I AM DEAD TO THE WORLD

I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I walk in love and joy and peace–the Spirit sets me free.

I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I’m crucified today with Christ, the cross has set me free.

I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I meditate upon my gifts and on my ministry.

I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I am dead to the world and the world is dead to me.
I cannot see the darkness for His light is all I see.

Bob and Kathy Stenson, Freeware. Use it freely.

I Am Dead to the World

Christ wants a relationship with you.

Christ wants a relationship with you.

Christ wants a relationship with you.

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Christ wants a relationship with you. He doesn’t want you to try to reprogram your fleshly mind so you don’t have to stand in Christ’s presence anymore. Christ doesn’t want you depending on your own mind no matter how accurate your worldview might be. You can’t reform your fleshly nature anyway. The flesh must die. Christ wants to live in you and do His works through you. He wants a connection continually forever. He wants a meaningful relationship with you. Here’s how He talks about it:

For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. ~ Jeremiah 2:13

You can’t store the Spirit of God, but you try to store it in your cisterns. Your cisterns are creeds, religious forms, or rituals. Your cisterns are theologies, credentials, buildings, or organizations. Your cisterns are worldviews, learned precepts, or preconceived ideas. You must let Him flow through you continually. Your God is a flowing stream. He will be a Fountain springing up within you if you yield to Him. He’ll provide your credentials in Christ. He’ll correct what you’ve learned or established as your worldview or theology. He’ll show you what came from Him and what came from some other source. He’ll direct every aspect of His church in gifts, ministries, operations, offices, and orders. Through Scripture, He’s already given you clues as to how He’ll do this.

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You can’t store the Spirit of God or His Wisdom.

You can’t store the Spirit of God or His Wisdom.

You can’t store the Spirit of God or His Wisdom.

Christ wants a relationship with you. He doesn’t want you to try to reprogram your fleshly mind so you don’t have to stand in Christ’s presence anymore. Christ doesn’t want you depending on your own mind no matter how accurate your worldview might be. You can’t reform your fleshly nature anyway. The flesh must die. Christ wants to live in you and do His works through you. He wants a connection continually forever. He wants a meaningful relationship with you. Here’s how He talks about it:

For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. ~ Jeremiah 2:13

You can’t store the Spirit of God, but you try to store it in your cisterns. Your cisterns are creeds, religious forms, or rituals. Your cisterns are theologies, credentials, buildings, or organizations. Your cisterns are worldviews, learned precepts, or preconceived ideas. You must let Him flow through you continually. Your God is a flowing stream. He will be a Fountain springing up within you if you yield to Him. He’ll provide your credentials in Christ. He’ll correct what you’ve learned or established as your worldview or theology. He’ll show you what came from Him and what came from some other source. He’ll direct every aspect of His church in gifts, ministries, operations, offices, and orders. Through Scripture, He’s already given you clues as to how He’ll do this.

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I AM A STEWARD OF THE MINISTRY OF GOD

I AM A STEWARD OF THE MINISTRY OF GOD

I AM A STEWARD OF THE MINISTRY OF GOD

I am a steward of the Ministry of God.
I am a steward of His Temple.
He is filling me with Power both to will and to do.
I am a steward of the Ministry of God.

You are a steward of the Ministry of God.
You are a steward of His Temple.
He is filling you with Power both to will and to do.
You are a steward of the Ministry of God.

We are all stewards of the Ministry of God.
We are all stewards of His Temple.
He is filling us with Power both to will and to do.
We are all stewards of the Ministry of God.

Bob and Kathy Stenson, Freeware. Use it freely.

The ministry has nothing to do with the flesh. Your ministry is Christ in you working through you. In the Bible, a ministry is service or a person in service. Every member of Christ the body has and is a ministry.
Today, some people use the word “ministry” to mean a corporation or organization. That’s not the meaning in this song.

I Am a Steward of the Ministry of God

When you pray for wisdom, God doesn’t give you a bucket of wisdom.

When you pray for wisdom, God doesn't give you a bucket of wisdom.

When you pray for wisdom, God doesn’t give you a bucket of wisdom.

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The Flowing Stream

When you pray for wisdom, God doesn’t give you a bucket of wisdom. Wisdom doesn’t work like that. Wisdom is a flowing stream. Wisdom is the Person of Jesus Christ streaming through us. The problem of the double mind becomes obvious when a Christian talks about something like the history in Genesis. When they talk about the Creation or the Flood, they might say something like the following:

Atheists and deists observe the same things we as Bible-believers observe. Here’s the difference. Atheists and deists hold worldviews different from ours. Their worldviews deny the validity and truth of Scripture. Our worldviews affirm the validity and truth of Scripture. We presuppose the Bible is God’s word. We presuppose the Bible is without error.

Christ wants a relationship with you. He doesn’t want you to try to reprogram your fleshly mind so you don’t have to stand in Christ’s presence anymore. Christ doesn’t want you depending on your own mind no matter how accurate your worldview might be. You can’t reform your fleshly nature anyway. The flesh must die. Christ wants to live in you and do His works through you. He wants a connection continually forever. He wants a meaningful relationship with you. Here’s how He talks about it:

For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. ~ Jeremiah 2:13

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The Flowing Stream of Wisdom

The Flowing Stream

The Flowing Stream of Wisdom

When you pray for wisdom, God doesn’t give you a bucket of wisdom. Wisdom doesn’t work like that. Wisdom is a flowing stream. Wisdom is the Person of Jesus Christ streaming through us. The problem of the double mind becomes obvious when a Christian talks about something like the history in Genesis. When they talk about the Creation or the Flood, they might say something like the following:

Atheists and deists observe the same things we as Bible-believers observe. Here’s the difference. Atheists and deists hold worldviews different from ours. Their worldviews deny the validity and truth of Scripture. Our worldviews affirm the validity and truth of Scripture. We presuppose the Bible is God’s word. We presuppose the Bible is without error.

Christ wants a relationship with you. He doesn’t want you to try to reprogram your fleshly mind so you don’t have to stand in Christ’s presence anymore. Christ doesn’t want you depending on your own mind no matter how accurate your worldview might be. You can’t reform your fleshly nature anyway. The flesh must die. Christ wants to live in you and do His works through you. He wants a connection continually forever. He wants a meaningful relationship with you. Here’s how He talks about it:

For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. ~ Jeremiah 2:13

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How Would One?

How Would One?

How Would One?

How would one try to study God to understand His glory?
The wise have learned to seek His face as He unfolds His story.

How would one learn about the King who made this world we live in?
The wise all meet the King of kings and know by walking with Him.

How could one know about the Lord not wanting His direction?
The wise all let Him lead them on into His own perfection.

How could one try to make up God by human mind’s conceiving?
The wise all seek Him and His Word with faithful heart believing.

Bob and Kathy Stenson, Freeware. Use it freely.

When you obey the Holy Spirit and deny your fleshly nature, your fleshly nature dies.

When you obey the Holy Spirit and deny your fleshly nature, your fleshly nature dies.

When you obey the Holy Spirit and deny your fleshly nature, your fleshly nature dies.

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Redemption, Set Free

Besides having Christ formed in you, you also need the Holy Spirit to purify you. When you obey the Holy Spirit and deny your fleshly nature, your fleshly nature dies. You’re purified and set free. Redemption refers to setting a slave free. God is setting you free from your carnal, fleshly nature. We have been slaves to the fleshly nature, but the fleshly nature is dying. Your fleshly nature is dying. Many Christians try to improve the fleshly nature, but that’s an exercise in futility. It’s equivalent to trying to bring light to a room by sweeping out the darkness. Darkness doesn’t sweep. You must turn on the Light. Light does away with darkness since darkness is the absence of Light. Your flesh must die. Your fleshly nature is going away little by little as the Light shines. You’re redeemed as a slave set free. The Holy Spirit builds up Christ in you as your flesh dies. Your flesh dies by the Holy Spirit being active and alive in you. Your flesh dies by the Holy Spirit doing the works of God through you.

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. ~ Romans 8:3-4

Redemption, Set Free

Redemption, Set Free

Redemption, Set Free

Besides having Christ formed in you, you also need the Holy Spirit to purify you. When you obey the Holy Spirit and deny your fleshly nature, your fleshly nature dies. You’re purified and set free. Redemption refers to setting a slave free. God is setting you free from your carnal, fleshly nature. We have been slaves to the fleshly nature, but the fleshly nature is dying. Your fleshly nature is dying. Many Christians try to improve the fleshly nature, but that’s an exercise in futility. It’s equivalent to trying to bring light to a room by sweeping out the darkness. Darkness doesn’t sweep. You must turn on the Light. Light does away with darkness since darkness is the absence of Light. Your flesh must die. Your fleshly nature is going away little by little as the Light shines. You’re redeemed as a slave set free. The Holy Spirit builds up Christ in you as your flesh dies. Your flesh dies by the Holy Spirit being active and alive in you. Your flesh dies by the Holy Spirit doing the works of God through you.

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. ~ Romans 8:3-4

HOW WE PRAISE YOU, LORD ABOVE THE HEAVENS!

HOW WE PRAISE YOU, LORD ABOVE THE HEAVENS!

HOW WE PRAISE YOU, LORD ABOVE THE HEAVENS!

How we Praise You Lord above the Heavens!
How we seek to see You face to face!
How we long to know Your mighty Power!
How we need to know Your mighty Grace!
Yes, we yield! We give ourselves completely!
Give Your Grace–Oh! Jesus, now impart!
Power to obey the King of Glory!
Multiply Your Grace in every heart!

Bob and Kathy Stenson, Freeware. Use it freely.

How We Praise You, Lord Above the Heavens!

Consider what a responsibility you have to speak only God’s words by God’s power.

Consider what a responsibility you have to speak only God’s words by God’s power.

Consider what a responsibility you have to speak only God’s words by God’s power.

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The Word that God speaks is the Living Word. Consider that God created the entire universe in all its complexity and glory by speaking the Word. The first chapter of John tells you the Word was in the beginning and God didn’t create anything without the Word. Of course, that Word is the Logos, the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Psalm 51:10 says, “Create in me a clean heart, oh Lord.” The word “create” is translated from the word “ktizō.” This is the same word that’s used in the New Testament to discuss God creating the world. When God speaks, His Word has creative power. Consider what a responsibility you have to speak only God’s words by God’s power. Consider the impact if you do.

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