My heart was far from You

Isaiah 6:5 - I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.

Job 42:5-6 - I have heard of You by the hearing of the ears, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php?t=lb&n=33
My heart was far from You.
My worship was not true.
My lips were honoring Thee
But I was so empty.
Lord, help me! Have mercy!
Lord, now deliver me!
All else is vanity.
You are reality!

Traditions are a lie.
Mere practice can't satisfy.
No matter how hard you try
Inside you feel so dry.
Lord water me! I'm so thirsty!
I come to drink of Thee.
You are the Spirit of life
To free me from all strive.

The doctrines and the creeds
Have never met my needs.
The letters have killed me dead
My need is Living Bread.
Lord, feed me! I'm so hungry!
I come to eat of Thee.
Your Person now I can take.
The Living Word partake.

I need You desperately
To get You into me!
I drink You as the Spirit, Lord,
And eat You in the Word.
I'm satisfied! And You're testified!
There is no lack in Thee.
You are the river and the tree,
My feast eternally.

Oh, sanctify us, Lord!

You therefore shall be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Mathew 5:48)

Be full of compassion, even as your Father also is full of compassion. (Luke 6:36)

...We know that if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is. (1 John 3:2)

Pray according to God's intention. (Don't pray according to your idea.) Pray so that God will make us the same as He is. Pray so that God will gain His many sons as God's glorious expression - the church.

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/1135
1. Oh, sanctify us, Lord; now add Thyself to us,
In our experience, Thy Person spread in us,
That in reality the church be glorious,
O Lord, do add Thyself, we pray.
* Oh, sanctify us, Lord, today;
Lord Jesus, You're the only way.
We take Your Person, Lord;
Oh, spread Yourself abroad.
Oh, sanctify us, Lord, today.

3. O Lord, do nourish us; You are the food we need;
As we are eating You, we'll be transformed indeed;
We're fully satisfied as on Yourself we feed,
So nourish us, O Lord, we pray.
* O Lord, do nourish us today
As all our self You wash away.
Not only purify,
But fill and satisfy;
O Lord, do nourish us today.

5. Lord, make us glorious, by all Your inner work,
Not glory for ourselves, but glory for the church;
That You may have Your Bride, thus ending all Your search.
O Lord, do work on us, we pray.
* O Lord, do work on us today!
To form the church Your glorious way.
Oh, spread Yourself in us
Till we are glorious;
Oh, make us glorious, Lord, today.

Dear Lord, Thou art my best love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAJkezuz650&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlM0yRndVM0&feature=related

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/351
Dear Lord Jesus, Thou'rt my best love,
Thou hast fully captured my heart;
None in heaven nor on earth is like Thee,
With Thy beauty none can compete.
When Thy voice first came to my ears,
To my heart entered words most dear;
All past loves and seekings decreased for Thee,
All my boasts have now disappeared.

• Who'd compare with Thee, so fair and comely?
  Who'd compare with Thee, so sweet and lovely?
  Only Thou art worthy my love to win,
  O Lord Jesus, How I love Thee!
  
  No more I who live, No more self-deceit,
  No more in the self-world indulged to be,
  Deeply now I know only Thou'rt my love,
  My best love is none else but Thee!

我深知祢是我惟一所愛
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/351c

主耶穌祢是我至愛，祢奪取了我這顆心，
天地間無何可與祢比擬，祢全然美麗無可比。
當祢聲音給我聽見，柔聲細語在我心中；
前所愛、所求，都因祢消減，我所誇的今都成空。

（副）
世間有誰像祢如此美麗？世間有誰像祢如此甜蜜？
只有祢是配來得著我愛，主耶穌我深深愛祢！
不再照己意不願再受欺，不願再沉迷於己的天地；
我深知惟有祢是我所愛，我惟一的最愛是祢。
(FTTJ 05)

Best love for the Lord

Loving You, Lord's all I'm living for;
Loving You, Lord, to the uttermost.
Lord, forgive me if I've left my first love,
That's the bridal love to You.
You are more than any one I love.
You are more than anything I have,
Even my dear self; nothing can compare
To my beloved Bridegroom.

• I give You the first place in all things by faith.
  Let nothing take Your place in all my heart.
  Infuse me with Yourself abundantly
  'Til we meet, dear Lord.
  I'll love You with the best love.

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/107

Here is a lovely recording at youtube.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP7Hg478_qE&feature=related

Read the following to strengthen your understanding of this hymn:
http://online.recoveryversion.org/FootNotes.asp?FNtsID=8681
http://online.recoveryversion.org/FootNotes.asp?FNtsID=6217
http://online.recoveryversion.org/FootNotes.asp?FNtsID=6069

Immanuel - God with us

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive and will bear a son, and she will call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23)

Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you all the days until the consummation of the age. (Matthew 28:19-20)

Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His peoples, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. (Revelation 21:3)

Christ is Immanuel - God with us. He is our Savior, Redeemer, Life-giver and indwelling Spirit. Actually the content of the entire New Testament is an Immanuel (Matthew 1:23; 18:20; 28:20, Revelation 21:3), and all the believers in Christ, as the members of Christ, are a part of this great Immanuel, the corporate Christ. which will consummate in the New Jerusalem. (2010 Summer Training, Message #5, II.G)

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/63
1. Christ is God incarnated,
Born according to God's plan
To bring divinity, into humanity,
By mingling with man.

Christ is God incarnated,
He became the Son of Man;
A man of flesh yet without sin,
Accomplishing redemption,
He was a perfect man.

* And He shall be named Jesus,
And called Emmanuel,
Hallelujah! God with us,
In man He came to dwell.

2. Christ is God incarnated,
How wonderful! How marvellous!
Incarnated so that He could
Live inside of you and me,
He's mingling now with us.

Christ is God incarnated,
He became the first God-man.
Oh! How glorious!
Now He lives inside of us,
Fulfilling God's great plan.

Partakers of God's nature

(1) Then a sprout will come forth from the stump of Jesse, ...

(2) And the Spirit of Jehovah will rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah.
(6) And the wolf will dwell with the lamb; And the leopard will lie down with the kid, ...
(7) The cow and the bear will graze; ...; And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
(8) The nursing child will play by the cobra's hole, ...
(9) ... For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah, ... (Isaiah 11:1-9)

Because the church life is a foretaste of the coming age, what will happen in Isaiah 11 should be among us today as a foretaste; among us there should be no "wolves", "leopards", "bears", "lions", and "vipers". (2010 Summer Training, Message #7, II.H)

We were wild, self-centered, individualistic, rebellious, ambitious, independent, and negative, but now we have become partakers of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). The Potter (Isaiah 29:16, Romans 9:21) is shaping us up to be meek, obedient, peaceful, joyful, pleasant, life-giving, harmonious, Christ-centered and Body-conscious. Awesome!

http://www.hymnal. net/hymn. php/ns/290
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgHChEH-Uvk
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/290c/gb=1
1. Your love and beauty has drawn me;
To run after You lovingly.
In Your chambers I am brought,
Nourished by You, dear Lord.
* My Beloved, I belong to You.
My love, you're so beautiful.
We're the same in life and in nature,
United in love forever.

2. I partake of Your nature divine,
I enjoy Your divine life to shine.
Renewed in submission sweet,
Rise up with You to meet.

3. Viewing You like a dove uniquely,
Trusting You singly as a lily.
Transformed and built up to be
Your rest and joy wholly.

4. Let us go to the fields, my Beloved,
Working here with You, Lord, in love.
Your queen longs to be matured,
And hopes to be raptured.
* Set me as a seal on Your heart,
In Your love, keep me—ne'er apart.
Lord, make haste, I long for Your coming,
Come quickly, Beloved, we're waiting!

Here is the Chinese version: http://www.hymnal. net/hymn. php/ns/290c

Great Light - Great Salvation

(2) ...Upon those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death Light has shined. (3) You have multiplied the nation; You have increased their gladness; ... (4) For You break the yoke of their burden And the staff on their shoulder, ... (Isaiah 9:2-4) ...那些住在死蔭之地的人，有光照耀他們。你使這國民繁多，加增他們的喜樂；...因為他們所負的重軛和肩頭上的杖，就是欺壓他們之人的棍，你已經折斷...

When God in Christ as the Spirit shines in us,
darkness is expelled;
our real condition is exposed;
all the germs are killed;
we are healed;
we are enlivened;
we are released from our bondage;
we are supplied, comforted and encouraged;
we are revived, restored, and reconstituted;
even we are becoming light! (Matthew 5:14, Ephesians 5:8, Revelation 21:24)

O how great His salvation!
(A little overflow from the 2010 summer training, Message #6)

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/1065
1. O how great His salvation!
O how great His salvation!
O how great His salvation!
Jesus saves me now!

* Jesus breaks every fetter!
Jesus breaks every fetter!
Jesus breaks every fetter!
Jesus sets me free!

4. I will sing Hallelujah!
I will sing Hallelujah!
I will sing Hallelujah!
Jesus shines in me!