The Anthem
I can hear the footsteps of my King
I can hear His heartbeat beckoning
In my darkness He has set me free
And now I hear the Spirit calling me
He's calling wake up child it's your turn to shine
You were born for such a time as this
He's calling wake up child it's your turn to shine
You were born for such a time as this
Such a time as this
And I can hear a holy rumbling
I've begun to preach another King
Loosing chains and breaking down the walls
I want to hear the Father when He calls
He's calling wake up child it's your turn to shine
You were born for such a time as this!
(x4)
Such a time as this
This is the anthem of our generation
Here we are God, shake our nation!
All we need is your love,
You captivate me!
(x4)
I am royalty, I have destiny,
I have been set free, I'm gonna shape history!
(x8)
I'm gonna change the world! (x7)
- Jake Hamilton
We sang this song in Church today and when it's telling us to wake up; that it's our time to shine, I just kept thinking about my favourite quote, and then some of the things that John Eldredge talks about, re: our glory and "shining"....
So my favourite quote is:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."
a return to love - Marianne Williamson (Known best from when it was used by Nelson Mandela in a speech, also partially quoted in both Akeelah and the Bee and Coach Carter)
"The glory of God is man fully alive" - Saint Irenaeus, quoted in 'Waking The Dead' by John Eldredge...
"The deeper reason we fear our own glory is that once we let others see it, they will have seen the truest us, and that is nakedness indeed. We can repent of our sin. We can work on our "issues." But there is nothing to be "done" about our glory. It's so naked. It's just there -- the truest us. It is an awkward thing to shimmer when everyone else around you is not, to walk in your glory with an unveiled face when everyone else is veiling his. For a woman to be truly feminine and beautiful is to invite suspicion, jealousy, misunderstanding. A friend confided in me, "When you walk into a room, every woman looks at you to see -- are you prettier than they are? Are you a threat?"
And that is why living from your glory is the only loving thing to do. You cannot love another person from a false self. You cannot love another while you are still hiding. You cannot love another unless you offer her your heart. It takes courage to live from your heart. My friend Jenny said just the other day, "I desperately want to be who I am. I don't want the glory that I marvel at in others anymore. I want to be that glory which God set in me."
"Finally, our deepest fear of all . . . we will need to live from it. To admit we do have a new heart and a glory from God, to begin to let it be unveiled and embrace it as true -- that means the next thing God will do is ask us to live from it. Come out of the boat. Take the throne. Be what he meant us to be. And that feels risky . . . really risky. But it is also exciting. It is coming fully alive. My friend Morgan declared, "It's a risk worth taking."
-- John Eldredge in "Waking the Dead", pp 87-88
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." - John 10:10 NIV
So this was just on my heart .... so be encouraged!
"It's your turn to shine!"
I can hear the footsteps of my King
I can hear His heartbeat beckoning
In my darkness He has set me free
And now I hear the Spirit calling me
He's calling wake up child it's your turn to shine
You were born for such a time as this
He's calling wake up child it's your turn to shine
You were born for such a time as this
Such a time as this
And I can hear a holy rumbling
I've begun to preach another King
Loosing chains and breaking down the walls
I want to hear the Father when He calls
He's calling wake up child it's your turn to shine
You were born for such a time as this!
(x4)
Such a time as this
This is the anthem of our generation
Here we are God, shake our nation!
All we need is your love,
You captivate me!
(x4)
I am royalty, I have destiny,
I have been set free, I'm gonna shape history!
(x8)
I'm gonna change the world! (x7)
- Jake Hamilton
We sang this song in Church today and when it's telling us to wake up; that it's our time to shine, I just kept thinking about my favourite quote, and then some of the things that John Eldredge talks about, re: our glory and "shining"....
So my favourite quote is:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."
a return to love - Marianne Williamson (Known best from when it was used by Nelson Mandela in a speech, also partially quoted in both Akeelah and the Bee and Coach Carter)
"The glory of God is man fully alive" - Saint Irenaeus, quoted in 'Waking The Dead' by John Eldredge...
"The deeper reason we fear our own glory is that once we let others see it, they will have seen the truest us, and that is nakedness indeed. We can repent of our sin. We can work on our "issues." But there is nothing to be "done" about our glory. It's so naked. It's just there -- the truest us. It is an awkward thing to shimmer when everyone else around you is not, to walk in your glory with an unveiled face when everyone else is veiling his. For a woman to be truly feminine and beautiful is to invite suspicion, jealousy, misunderstanding. A friend confided in me, "When you walk into a room, every woman looks at you to see -- are you prettier than they are? Are you a threat?"
And that is why living from your glory is the only loving thing to do. You cannot love another person from a false self. You cannot love another while you are still hiding. You cannot love another unless you offer her your heart. It takes courage to live from your heart. My friend Jenny said just the other day, "I desperately want to be who I am. I don't want the glory that I marvel at in others anymore. I want to be that glory which God set in me."
"Finally, our deepest fear of all . . . we will need to live from it. To admit we do have a new heart and a glory from God, to begin to let it be unveiled and embrace it as true -- that means the next thing God will do is ask us to live from it. Come out of the boat. Take the throne. Be what he meant us to be. And that feels risky . . . really risky. But it is also exciting. It is coming fully alive. My friend Morgan declared, "It's a risk worth taking."
-- John Eldredge in "Waking the Dead", pp 87-88
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." - John 10:10 NIV
So this was just on my heart .... so be encouraged!
"It's your turn to shine!"
