Κύριος Notes

Adoration

Majesty (Here I Am)

Here I am humbled by the love that you give
Forgiven so that I can forgive

Here I stand, knowing that I'm your desire

Sanctified by glory and fire
Now I've found the greatest love of all is mine

Since you laid down your life

The greatest sacrifice

Majesty, Majesty

Your grace has found me just as I am

Empty handed, but alive in your hands

Majesty, Majesty

Forever I am changed by your love

In the presence of your Majesty

Scripture Reflections Luke 11:45-46

45One of the experts in the law answered him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also."

I know there are times when I need to hear what I do not want to hear. The words hurt and the message cuts right to the heart, but the cutting is the only way to heal the infection. Were You insulting the scribes and Pharisees? You were telling them the truth.

Help me to hear your truth Lord Jesus not as an insult, but as a complement to my desire to listen to you and obey. You love me enough to tell me the truth even when I don't want to hear it or even when it hurts.

46Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.

Lord Jesus is it real easy to tell other people what they need to do. How they need to pull the load...how much of a load that they should be able to carry...where it put the load when they are done.

It is much harder to lift the load and to help carry the load until we reach our destination. Preacher, don't just talk...you also need to walk, with a load in your hands.

Jesus you are the example. You told me of sin and through you death offered a means of forgiveness.

Lord Jesus in this day help me to speak truth in love. Help me in the situations that I find myself in to be an example of your grace and goodness.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

Majesty (Here I Am)

Here I am humbled by your Majesty

Covered by your grace so free

Here I am, knowing I'm a sinful man

Covered by the blood of the Lamb
Now I've found the greatest love of all is mine

Since you laid down your life

The greatest sacrifice

Majesty, Majesty

Your grace has found me just as I am

Empty handed, but alive in your hands

Majesty, Majesty

Forever I am changed by your love

In the presence of your Majesty

Here I am humbled by the love that you give
Forgiven so that I can forgive

Here I stand, knowing that I'm your desire

Sanctified by glory and fire
Now I've found the greatest love of all is mine

Since you laid down your life

The greatest sacrifice

Scripture Reflections Luke 11:42

43"Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

Lord Jesus there are always the questions of motives when it comes to doing your work. Not so much what I do, but why I am doing it. Is it to be noticed? Is it to be known?

The pharisees were concerned about appearances and being seen as a part of the movers and the shakers n their community. My value comes from You Lord Jesus not who I know or what I know but because of unmerited grace poured out on the cross.

44"Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without knowing it."

The idea here is that the grave is unclean and unmarked resulting in those who unknowingly walking over it are ceremonially unclean and unable to worship. Instead of being leaders who help people find their way toward God, these men are putting up road blocks hindering people from connecting with God.

Instead of being people who could instruct and lead people toward grace these men were unknowingly and without warning leading people further away from God.

Lord Jesus--Lead and guide. Don't allow me to be a distraction from grace.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

What A Friend I've Found

What a friend I've found

Closer than a brother

I have felt your touch

More intimate than lovers

Jesus, Jesus

Jesus, friend forever

Scripture Reflections Luke 11:42

42"Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.

Lord Jesus giving to your kingdom does not make any difference if there isn't a basic commitment to honesty and justice. Giving is important but not as important as justice.

I am thinking that the conversation got very quiet at this point in the dinner party. There may have thoughts in the mind of the host..."my this isn't going well." Lord Jesus remind me that sometimes I don't need to be comfortable...that there is power in dissonance and there is a need you put within me to be real.

It is just like me at times to get the little things right and to just miss the most important things of all. Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic yet again...It is not always easy to sort out the mountains from the mole hills on planet Earth Lord Jesus.

I have a feeling that there was that still small voice that was shouting within these leaders of the law as they were foreclosing on widows houses...that this just isn't right.

Lord Jesus save me from the mole hills and help me to see the mountains. You are the kind of friend that will not let me lean over mole hills and mutter about the height...you correct me and give me the eyes to see the mountains that need to be climbed.

Do it again today Lord Jesus.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

Shine on Us

Lord, let your grace, grace from your hand, fall on us.
Lord, let your grace, grace from your hand, fall on us.

That we may be saved, that we may have life,
To find our way in the darkest night, let your grace fall on us.

Scripture Reflections Luke 11:37-41

37When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. 38But the Pharisee, noticing that Jesus did not first wash before the meal, was surprised.

I wonder if you didn't wash on purpose Lord? Invited to dinner...for polite conversation? The more that I walk with you the more that I am aware not every situation of life is a teaching moment in my walk with you.

I invite you Lord Jesus into my day, I will not expect polite conversation of dinner small talk. I need you direct intervention and guidance. Polite small talk with not help me.

39Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. 40You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? 41But give what is inside the dish to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.

There are times when you need to confront my hypocritical behavior Lord. I don't like it. I don't always hear it the first time, or the even the second time, but I desperately need to hear your feed back. Lord Jesus you have permission make the corrections when needed.

Take My Life
How many times have I turned away?
The number is the same as the sand on the shore
But every time you've taken me back
And now I ask you do it once more.
Please take from me my life
When I don't have the strength to give it away to you
Please take from me my life

When I don't have the strength to give it away to you Jesus

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

Shine on Us
Lord, let your light, light of your face, shine on us.
Lord, let your light, light of your face, shine on us.

That we may be saved, that we may have life,
To find our way in the darkest night, let your light shine on us.

Scripture Reflections Luke 11:33-36

Jesus is our light in a dark place
33"No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

Lord Jesus light up my heart. Fill in all of the dark empty places with your grace and love. Help me to see the places that need your light...that I would avoid looking at...the dark corners of my soul that only you really know about.

34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness.

The eyes of those You were teaching could not see the truth of the message even when the evidence was right in front of them. They saw only what they wanted to see. Lord Jesus help me to be open to all that you would have me to see.

35See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. 36Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you."

Completely lighted...all of the darkness gone all of the empty places filled. Holy Spirit work in this heart...work in this church...work in this community.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

The wind of this world

Can push us around

Folding us up

Backing us down

But here in the dark

I’m not alone

So come with your strength

And carry me home

Scripture Reflections: Luke 11:29-32

29As the crowds increased, Jesus said, "This is a wicked generation. It asks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.

There comes a point when denial of the work of God must be dealt with in a frontal confrontation. Denial becomes rejection of the message when confronted with the truth and there is rejection. Lord Jesus these people saw with their eyes the dead raised and the sick healed, they saw the poor preached to...they saw the signs of spiritual life surrounding them...the demons cast out with a command...and yet they looked for a sign.

These same people could have been blessed and yet were called wicked. The turning point was the fact that they saw but did not understand...they heard but choose not to obey.

Lord Jesus when am I hear the words but not understanding? I would like to think that I am somehow qualitatively different than this people who saw you work and did not understand it...and yet there are ways that I am just as seeing and yet unbelieving.

I am aware of your work in my life, I think I want you to work my way and you kindly and gently insist to be allowed to work in your way and in your time frame. Lord Jesus work as you see fit.


30For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation.

The ultimate sign was to come when you came out of the grave. For those who had chosen to hear your message the resurrection was the realization of all their hopes. For those who had rejected it was their worst nightmare realized.

Remind me again and again that the end is never the end when you are in the mix of my life. By the power of your resurrection I can find new life in the middle of situations that appear to be hopeless.

31The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now one greater than Solomon is here.

To hear you message and reject it is a fearful thing. Solomon was just a wise man and Sheba travel to hear his wisdom...to hear and to understand. Your message of God's grace is so much more transforming than just wisdom.

32The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.

Jonah was a preacher on the run angry and resentful of the fact that God had called him, yet the people repented. Lord Jesus your preaching did not have immediate impact...it cost you your life, and in your death and resurrection the church was born.

In the face of truth of your message I realize that you speak truth into my life each time that I spend time thinking and reflecting on your word at work inside me. If you could use a prophet that was on the run and resentful then you can use me today right where you find me.

Oh great light of the world
Fill up my soul
I’ll never mend here
So come make me whole
Oh great light of the world
Come to im-part
The light of your grace
To fill up my heart

Lord Jesus by your light alive in my heart. Help me to listen to your message today and live it out today.

Κύριος Notes

Adoration

Oh great light of the world

Fill up my soul

I’ll never mend here

So come make me whole

Oh great light of the world

Come to im-part

The light of your grace

To fill up my heart

Scripture Reflections: Luke 11:27-28

Who is really Blessed?

27As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." 28He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."

I like to think of the people of the time of Christ as somehow more blessed to have seen you Lord Jesus while you were on the earth. They saw and heard you preach and teach. I am sure that you were a great speaker and to have heard you voice...

The reality was the people of the crowd did not have the knowledge that I have. They saw things from the street level with no view or understanding of what they were seeing, except some of the discerning few. You summed it up well:

Matthew 11:13-17

13For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. 14And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. 15He who has ears, let him hear.

We have to have ears that are tuned to your voice. We have to be willing to hear and accept that prophecy fulfilled is seldom in real life like we expect it to be in the imagination of our souls.

Let me hear what you have to say even if it makes my soul grow in the hearing...even if the hearing shatters my little dreams of what I think should be hurts. Lord help me hear the words of life.

16"To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: 17" 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;we sang a dirge and you did not mourn.'

The reality is even if you were aiming at fulfilling my expectations of how you should work...it would just not be possible...I am so changeable and fickle at times...it would be a train wreck. So that is why I need to progress beyond just the milk and get into the meat of what you would have me integrate in my life. Each time I am able to hear the tune you would play in my heart...I grow in the hearing

So back to the question of who is really blessed?

That women in the crowd would have like to have been the Madonna...(the real one that is not the twentieth century version) but the real blessing is to be able to hear your word and to be able to live out some approximation of obeying it. In fact this was a word of prophecy...if I am able to hear your word by the work of the Holy Spirit and I obey with all that is within me, then I will be blessed.

Lord Jesus bless me indeed...give me the grace and endurance to live out your word in this day within the mess of life that I find myself living in. Help me to have ears to hear your truth and the grace to obey it.