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Today’s song is “Jesus Can” performed by Austin French
“’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart. I will be found by you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.’”
Jeremiah 29:11-14 (NIV)
Today let us focus on giving God praise, honour, and glory for His continued grace, mercies, and goodness. To help us do this, our weekly song will be “Jesus Can” by Austin French.
Although we often feel like Austin, confused, defeated, conquered by the circumstances of our lives or the circumstances that surround us, we can sing and praise God that we have the certainty that we are children of a loving, gracious, merciful father. Our mighty God repeatedly turns our broken lives and broken dreams into victories through the blood of Jesus.
Yes, we all live in this broken world, but we can know for certain that our God is more significant than our sins, bigger than the sin or any evil that surround us, and bigger than any situation we find ourselves in or confusion we battle.
Yes, Jesus can find, save, and change the sinner, the fallen, the lost, and Jesus can find, save, and change me and you,
Glory hallelujah God does this every day; he takes our pain, worries, and scars and turns our story into a testimony that shines light of His goodness and glory.
In Christ,
Lou-Anne
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Jesus Can
Lyrics
Picture this, an eight year old kid growing up in Georgia
Having a hard time with the world that he was seeing
Coming home from school
Scared to death and always wondering
What kind of mood his dad would be in
That kind of home can do a number on you
Mom and dad broke up, and I guess I broke too
I grew up thinking nothing good could ever come
From a story like mine
But who turns a broken dream
Into a life redeemed?
Who can turn your worst defeat
Into your victory?
Who saw me where I was
And led me where I stand?
My life is living proof that only Jesus can
Everybody’s got that hurt they wished that never happened
Everybody’s got that pain they wish they could undo
But wounds become scars and scars become stories
And when it comes to the story of you
Who turns a broken dream
Into a life redeemed?
Who can turn your worst defeat
Into your victory?
Who saw me where I was
And led me where I stand?
My life is living proof that only Jesus can
Only Jesus can save me
Only Jesus can change me
Only Jesus can take me
From lost to found
Hallelujah, I’m singing
There’s no stealing my freedom
He picked up all the pieces
Look at me now
Who turns a broken dream
Into a life redeemed?
Who can turn your worst defeat
Into your victory?
Who saw me where I was
And led me where I stand?
My life is living proof that only Jesus can
Oh (ooh, ooh)
Oh, thank You, Jesus (ooh, ooh)
Come on
Only Jesus can save me (ooh)
(Only Jesus can change me)
Only You can change me, Lord
(Only Jesus can take me) ooh
From lost to found
There ain’t no stealing my freedom
My life is living proof that only Jesus can
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Jonathan Smith / Matthew Joseph West / Austin French
Jesus Can lyrics © Be Essential Songs, Combustion Five, Third Story House Music
May we grow together in the love of Christ to reflect upon the mercies and blessings upon our lives, to feel the presence of God’s living Holy Spirit through worship to sing, pray, laugh, dance, cry, but mostly to praise our Lord and Father as we were indeed created2praise.