Make Slow O LORD (Psalm 70 Remix), by DianaDee Osborne

MAKE SLOW  O  LORD  (Psalm 90 remix)
"How Firm a Foundation"                    SUBSCRIBE  

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Song Story: 

The 150 Psalms were all sung in David's time.   I have been praying for more music to bring people back to worship God with His original song gifts.  

While researching Psalms, I found that David repeatedly prayed "Make HASTE" as he prayed for deliverance: 38:22, 40:13, 70:1 (twice, which is why that's the source for this song), 70:5 
(plus "make no tarrying" in NKJV... I smile each time I see that wording), 
and then there's  71:12, and 141:1.  I simply began considering David's OTHER many prayers to God and words from God like Psalm 49:10 -- WAIT on God.

Consider:   God...
(1)    loves us
(2)    knows what He's doing.... and therefore
(3)    knows the right timing....

 so why  would we demand our own timing for deliverance? 

I wrote this song as God guided me to remember....

TRUST in the Lord... Proverbs 3: 5-6   Often we learn something from trials, or the solution is not yet prepared. 

A prime example is DiDoReflections.com

God did not "make haste" to give me song gifts when I first asked... Far from it! Years!
He waited for me to learn some lessons,  and for the time when it was right for me to
--  accidentally' find Strong Tower church where I met 
--  the producer of not just one but both DiDoR studios, 
--  where I met the Spanish translator, 
--  where I heard the sermons on the Prayer of Jabez that led me to pray, and more (see tab "About Us" and the song story for "Third of Despair and Hope"). 

There's no need to beg God to "make haste",  when  HIS timing is knowing if  it's best to  "Make Slow." Dedicated to God our Foundation, 20 November  2010

LYRICS

1

Make slow, O Lord, to deliver me. 
Make slow to help me lest I drift from You and stop
turning to You when I need help.   
    Be my Rock, Whom I must call    “Lord!”

2Psalmist David was great but His Psalm 70 is
NOT a prayer You'll hear from me, for I trust
in Your right Time to give me Your help.   
    Be my Rock, Whom I must call    “Lord!”

BRIDGE
Yes!     I do want a happy Life!                     
Yes!        I want freedom from all strife!          
Yes!              I want money,  and long life!            
       But I want God more than anything.             
                     so Make slow, O Lord, my Lord.        
 
3 
O let all who seek You rejoice in You, Lord.  Help us
love You continually................  Help us
trust Your right Time to give help.
    Be our Rock, Whom we must call    “Lord!”
 
4 
Make FAST all who seek You.  
Give us faith in Your Word.  Strengthen
us to just trust You lest we drift from You and stop
turning to You when we need help.   
    Be our Rock, Whom we must call    “Lord!”

CHORUS  (hymn based on   “How Firm a Foundation”,
        melody by John Rippon, Public Domain, CCLI #107816

How firm a foundation God always provides to
those who stand on God as OUR only Guide.  He
strengthens us, helps us to take a firm stand in
God's holy righteous, all-powerful hand.   [repeat]

God's SUPPORTING WORDS:

Psalm 5:11 NKJV,  "But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You; Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them; Let those also who love Your name Be joyful in You. For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous; With favor You will surround him as [with] a shield."

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I Do Love You LORD (song), by DianaDee Osborne

I  DO  LOVE YOU,  LORD  (1 John 4)
                PATTERN   10 - 15 - 20         SUBSCRIBE  

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Song Story:  THE  MUSIC:

There's nothing “interesting” in this song's  story.
            But there's plenty of  “amazing”  in it.
            First of all, of course:  God's amazing LOVE, described in the lyrics.
It began with a morning prayer right before I was going to go work on a different song.
Well, that's not quite the beginning:  I had been praying for some Latin sounds to add to the many varied music styles, so that people could see it is God and not me empowering this music with such a variety of sounds.

           On this day, I just sat at the studio keyboard and begin tossing in bit of loops and adding my own piano and bass and guitar stylings until this worship song “erupted”.... with love, to our Lord.   Oh, and I never did get time that day of song gifting to add flourishes to the older song:)  

Dedicated to Our God Worthy of Love!  20 July 2011.  A “lost song” sketched in a notebook 15 August 2009.

LYRICS

1

I  DO LOVE YOU, LORD!  For the God You ARE....
not just for Your gifts,  with my thanks to YOU
for sending Jesus, Your only Son, to
DIE on that Cross for me....
    First John 4,  verse 10.

2

I DO LOVE YOU, JESUS, for You are God's Son.
God abides in You, and You are in Him,
and I do say that before the World, with
THANKS that God lives in me.
    First John 4,  verse 15.

3
I DO LOVE YOU LORD,  for You first loved me.
Help me love all people.  I love God unseen.
Dear Jesus,  perfect me to show
Love, to show YOU   throughout this World.
    First John 4, verse 20.

God's SUPPORTING WORDS:

Album:  Amazing Provider  'n'   Patterns 

First John 4, New King James Version:
10    “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins....

15    Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

20    If someone says 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has NOT seen?”

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Chemo Prayer, by DianaDee Osborne

RECORDED NOVEMBER 2013

CHEMO  PRAYER        SUBSCRIBE  

This FUTURE song's Draft Lyrics (music not yet completed) is subject to change.

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Song Story:   Lyrics written in 1/2 hour, guided by God to write a comfort song, after praying ….. Dedicated to our  God who Loves us through this Life and our Next, 26 August 2013

LYRICS

MOVEMENT  1

1
I'm
really, really sick, LORD,   _and / really, really tired. _ _ I'm
really, really wondering  _what's   / going on inside. _ _ _
Is this chemo that's so sick'ning / killing the cancer in me? _ _ Will
I feel better _ ever? _ _ If  /  so,  how soon,  _ please? _ _ _

2
Just the thought of moving, LORD _ /  really sickens me. _ _ And
just the smell _ just the thought of / food _ nauseates me. _ _ _
Is this chemo that's so sick'ning / killing the cancer in me? _ _  I
need Your help _  waiting _ trusting In  / some way, you'll heal me. _ _ _

MOVEMENT  2

3
I KNOW Earth is not forever _
I believe Your Bible _ Truth. _
I KNOW You had power to keep mis-  
takes out of Your Bible _ Word. _
Simple logic says that God who 

made this universe _ has a
fully True Word. _ So I'm worth Your 

John 3: 16 love. _ _ _                               LINK    

4
I KNOW  I won't live forever. _ 
This chemo may help _ me. _
I KNOW if you don't heal now, you 
still love and still help _ me. _
Simple logic says that God who 
loves me like First John_ says _              LINK    
can be trusted. So I praise God 
who'll save now or John 14's way. _         LINK    

God's SUPPORTING WORDS:

“Let your gentleness be known to all men. the LORD is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.... I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.  Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.  I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me.” -- Philippians 4: 5-13 selections NKJV... a COMFORT from God  to you.

JOHN 14, starting at verse 1.  JESUS is speaking:
"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions;  if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, [there] you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know. Thomas said to Him, 'Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?'
            Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." .....
[NOTE:  THIS IS LOGICAL.... 
ONLY YOU  REALLY KNOW YOU.  
ONLY GOD KNOWS GOD.  
JESUS IS GOD--- SO HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS GOD.  (John 10:30)].
" ......   Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?"

NOTE -- the Latin for "seen"  is the same word used for video (TV), to SEE.   
AND   the Latin for "I and the Father are one"  is literally translated "I and Father, ONE we are."  The verb is plural.

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Are We Jeremiah? by DianaDee Osborne

ARE WE  JEREMIAH?        SUBSCRIBE  

This FUTURE song's Draft Lyrics (music not yet completed) is subject to change.

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Song Story:  THE  LYRICS:  Song Story.  Lyrics written in 1/2 hour after praying about Jeremiah Chapter 2.

Dedicated to our  God, 26 August 2013

God's SUPPORTING WORDS:

“Thus says the LORD:  'What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, have followed idols?.. Has a nation changed its gods, which are not gods?... Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid; be very desolate,' says the LORD.  'For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns – broken cisterns that can hold no water.'”    -- Jeremiah 2: 5, 11a, 12-13 NKJV....   a Warning from God  to people & His Churches today

LYRICS

1 
Jeremiah did not know _ / when he was a teen _ that _
four decades after answering God's call / he'd still be _ _ weeping. _
            (rest for 2 measures)
 
Jeremiah _ wept   for people _ / despite people's _ _ mocking. _
He refused to change or hide _ / God's words that could _ save them. _
He depended only on God _ / to give right words _ through him. _
Jeremiah obeyed _ God _
 What about you? _ what do you choose? _

Chorus
Are we Jeremiah for God?      
Will we take a stand? _ _ _
Will we gladly suffer for God?    
Will we weep for them? _ _ _
Will we obey Jesus in His         
Matthew book's last verse? _ _ _
Will we endure all we must to     
tell them how to escape Sin's curse? _

2 
Jeremiah as a youth _ spoke what God said _ to speak. _
forty years after answering God's call / he still chose _ obeying. _
    (rest for 2 measures)
 
Jeremiah _ wept for God, _ / at how people _ _ hurt God. _
He refused to water down _ / God's law of what's wrong and right. _
People mocked and persecuted. _ / He spoke God's truth _ of sin. _
Jeremiah spoke God's warning Truth _ / no matter how they hurt him. 

REPEAT  CHORUS

 
3
God calls Jeremiahs today,                     
 calls us to speak His _ Truth. _               
Will you answer God's call to this?           
             _ _ Will God's Church? _ _ _        
    (rest for 2 measures)
 
Will we choose to weep for God _ 

at how people _ _ hurt God? _
Will we choose to water down _ 

God's law of what's wrong and right? _
   Yes, they'll mock us, call us names _ 

   even say we're not Christian _        
             Will we, will our church obey God? _ 

             Stand on God's TRUTH at all cost? _ 

Chorus
Are we Jeremiah   for God?      
Will we take a stand? _ _ _
Will we gladly suffer for God?    
Will we weep for them? _ _ _
                 Will we obey Jesus in His         
                 Matthew book's last verse? _ _ _
                 Will we endure all we must to     
                 tell them how to escape Sin's curse? _

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Snowflake People, by DianaDee Osborne

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Song Story: 

                This song written for children shows how people are ignorant of God's Truth when they are prejudiced based on gender, appearance, so-called “IQ”,  race......
when they don't realize that God plans children long before they are born.... and that
God considers EACH child, each person, SPECIAL to Him.
So.... this song was written for children, but God has guided it to be for us all.

    It has been my deep joy over ten years to teach things about God, with His help, to high school and college-age youth.  I don't think as fast and deeply as I would prefer -- I think “in patterns' -- so God gives me ideas like parables for understanding.  One of my favorites is to send each youth a large plastic snowflake ornament each Christmas with a card that says the words that are crafted into this song.  Crafted by Creator God's Holy Spirit.

That explains verses 1 and 2.   VERSE 3's Song story:  
       I created all the music tracks except vocals in my home studio, and I “accidentally” added an extra verse complete with the final winding-down cool guitar riffs. 

      Since I didn't want to change the music project, I prayed for wisdom for what to do with Verse 3.   Immediately the concept of another draft song I'd been working on came to mind:  That we people readily accept that cats and dogs and cows and whatever have interestingly different colorations that do not make one cat better than another, for example. 

   --  So why are we humans so stupid about racism? 
             (And “stupid” is the nicest word to put in print.)
    --Why do we humans value people based on appearance?
    -- Why do we humans say people with high IQ 
               or different skills are “better”?

    It's my prayer that God will use this song not only
to help each child, of any age, to realize how much that he or she is worth to God.... 
but also how much EVERY person is.... no matter the color.  And how God planned each of us since  before we were even born.         -ddo

Dedicated to Life-Giving Jesus, 15 March 2012

LYRICS

1
God made you different, and different is good.
Thousands of years could not make one more “you.”
God made you special ---  and others are, too.  For
Thousands of years, God has loved every person.

CHORUS
Like zillions of snowflakes, there's JUST ONE YOU.
Psalm One-Hundred-Thirty-nine --- GOD formed YOU  like         [Psalm 139]
NO ONE ELSE ever.  
God loves you!    ...................  God loves  you    [ fill in your name here ].

2
God made ME different, and different is good.
No one else ever has God made like me, too.
God made ME special --- and others are, too.
God loves me forever,   and God                CHORUS

3
We're different colors, and different is good.
God the Creator made his people one world.
God made us special.  We're brothers and sisters.
Whatever our color, God made us all special, too.    CHORUS

God's SUPPORTING WORDS:

“You [God] formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and THAT my soul knows very well.  My frame was not hidden from You 
when I was made in secret and skilfully wrought 
in the lowest parts of the earth. 
Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. And in your book they all were written, the days fashioned FOR  when AS YET there were none of them.”
  -- Psalm 139: 13-16 NKJV.

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Evil Isn't Naughty, by DianaDee Osborne

EVIL  ISN'T  NAUGHTY             SUBSCRIBE  

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Song Story:  THE  LYRICS:   

 I was just praying when I awoke.... and this title phrase came to mind as I was praying for help with a continuing sin that society calls normal and harmless.... but God
doesn't. Those sins God calls “more than naughty” include

- gossiping  (even in church under the sweet name of "prayer concerns")
- envying other people's nice things,
- love of big savings accounts,
- fear of getting the credit card bill from over-shopping,
- dumb arguments (see the books of Titus and Timothy for many examples),
- “evil suspicions” that also happen in churches,
- obsession with “knowledge” - when it *appears* to disagree with God's Word (True knowledge does not.) .... these are especially First Timothy 6 things.
 AND TOP OF THE LIST --
- questioning God's Love after all He's done for you.

Song Story:  THE  MUSIC:    
I went to my home studio and begin playing anything. Then  hit the Transpose button
to quickly change the key from C minor to D minor because many pianists are unfamiliar
with Cm and its related odd chords in the scale.
            The (very  much) hardest part of writing this
song is probably the same that most preachers have.....
            they have only 20 minutes to get  across a message in a typical 60-minutes-and-we're-outta-here church schedule's sermon.  In a song, there's a max of about 5 minutes, with so much of God's word to share!
And so much care needed to not use any mis-leading wording
just because there aren't another 2 hours to pull in scriptures
to explain the concept more fully in a single song!

Dedicated to Protector LORD God, 15 August 2013

LYRICS

READING 1 (before verse 1): 

JESUS READING THE PROPHECY OF HIMSELF in the
Temple as He began His ministry: Isaiah 61.
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me,
Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to
the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the
captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound...” Isaiah 61 ...

We are captives by our CHOICE 
if we refuse to see that evil is not a vague philosophy. 
Evil isn't naughty. Evil isn't  just  mischievous,   like a child.

1      (sung)
 When will our perception of 
what evil really is
match GOD'S perception, 
seeing through Truth of what evil is?
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READING 2: 
JESUS SPEAKING this TRUTH early in His ministry:
John 8:44, about Satan: “...the devil... was a murderer from the beginning, and does
not stand in the truth, because
there is no truth in him... He is a liar and the father of it.”

2      (sung)
 Evil is NOT naughty-bad.
It's murdering, spitting fury that YOU live.
John 8:44, Jesus said Satan is REAL, 
wants to destroy you.
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READING 3:
JESUS CONTINUING warnings about Satan being real: John 10:10.
“...the Thief... Satan... does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have
come that they may have life, and that they may have it more ABUNDANTLY.”

3      (sung)
Jesus said in Luke 10: 18,              LINK
Satan was cast from heaven, 
                   FOR GOD HAS POWER!
John 10: Jesus said, verse 10 --- 
                             HE  BRINGS LIFE. 
Satan steals, kills,destroys.
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READING 4:
“God tells you through James 4: 7 and 8, when Satan is trying to deceive or HURT you, RUN to God. Pray for the Ephesians 6 weapons He promises you, that YOU choose to use.

LOGIC says that Jesus is telling you the Truth.
Those who die for you
WON'T  LIE  to you.   Simple LOGIC.   

4    (sung)
 Evil is NOT naughty-bad.
It's murdering, spitting fury that YOU live.
John 8:44, Jesus said Satan is REAL, 
wants to destroy you.
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READING 5
How do we know Satan is not just another 
parable figure but is real?
Because only real beings can fall from heaven.

AFTER the 70 people Jesus had sent to spread his word had returned rejoicing that
DEMONS fled when they used Jesus's Name, Jesus replied:
“ I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”
That's Luke 10:18.
In the next verse he speaks of the Garden of Eden where Satan was cursed by God to
stay in the serpent form Satan chose. Jesus promised,
“I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice
because your names are written in heaven.”

In other words, You do NOT have God's power over EVIL
if you have refused to pray Romans 10:9
and to humbly choose Jesus as your LORD 
whom you will obey.

God's SUPPORTING WORDS:

John 8:44  NKJV:  "... the devil....  was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own [resources], for he is a liar and the father of it"

James 4: 7 and 8, "Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded."

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You're Chosen, by DianaDee Osborne

YOU'RE  CHOSEN 
First John 4:9-10;  John 3:16                 SUBSCRIBE  

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Song Story:  THE  LYRICS:

The song lyrics were written in moments at the altar ....
The music pattern developed as I searched for “heavenly” guitar chords while looking up from under God's huge trees one warm February afternoon. 
This has become one of my favorite "worship solo" songs to sing.
It was written to comfort  people who cannot quite believe that, 
in John 3:16,   GOD  really  means THEM,  chosen by God to be His loved one.

Concept:  We blithely, unthinkingly  let John 3:16 
“roll of our tongues”   if we've heard it a lot.  
Many of us can quote it while thinking about what we'd like to go get for lunch.  I'd been praying for a song especially to help people who don't think they're “worthy” of God to realize that God chooses them anyway.   (Not one of us is “worthy” of God.) 

          I'd also been doing a lot of Old Testament studies along with James 2:5 and Romans 11, which show that indeed, God chooses all.  As Second Peter 3:9 says,
God wants ALL people to be saved. 
And thus these simple song words “just came” to me  as I thought of the amazement:  God --Who Created All --loved and chose us even before we knew He exists (I John 4: 9-10).

WARNING:  God's love does not "save you from hell."
Deuteronomy 30: 14 on "But the word [is] very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.  16 "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,... 17 But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them,  "I announce to you today that you shall surely perish..."

God's love offers you the way OUT of hell...
see Romans 10: 9 prayer  to be saved by accepting the price Jesus paid for your sins....
but your destination of LIFE with God or hell after you die 
            (and there's a 100% chance you will die unless Jesus returns soon)
is YOUR choice.  
God chose you.  But --  Deuteronomy 30:19,
God begs you to choose Life by choosing Jesus as your LORD.

Dedicated to Amazing God Who WANTS Us,  1 February  2011

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LYRICS

1
We're      all chosen.  We're part of that World we
quote in John 3:  16............                                              Scripture Link
 God sent His Son to the World with His Love.  And
WE  are the World  Jesus loved.
    We are God's Chosen.  First John 4, Verse 10:                               Scripture Link
    Before we even knew God, God chose us with His Love.   REPEAT

2
You are chosen.  You're part of that World we
quote in John 3:  16.................
God sent His Son to the World with His Love.  And
YOU  are the World  Jesus loved.
    YOU are God's Chosen.  First John 4, Verse 10:
    Before you even knew God, God chose you with His Love.  REPEAT

3
No matter your thoughts,  No matter your fears,
You are chosen by God.
No matter your thoughts,  No matter your fears,
You are chosen by God.  

4
He begs you to choose Him:  Deuteronomy 30: 19.                              Scripture Link
Jesus calls, “Choose Me as your Lord.”
He begs you to choose Him:  Deuteronomy 30: 19.
Jesus calls, “Choose Me as your Lord,  
                             as I chose YOU.”             

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God's SUPPORTING WORDS:

“In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.  In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. .”  --First John 4: 9-10  NKJV

2nd Peter 3:3 and on:  "....knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of creation." ...But the heavens and the earth [which] are now preserved by the same word [Genesis 1], are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men....
10- But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.


GOD CHOSE YOU IN HIS LOVE TO RECEIVE HIS OFFER OF 
             THE ONLY WAY TO AVOID HELL.                   
DEUTERONOMY 30:19.... The choice is now yours whether to pray Romans 10:9
and accept God's Gift of life.

(Why is Jesus the only way to know God?  Because Jesus *IS* God.
Simple logic --- YOU are the only person who knows YOU, right?  Same for God. Logic.)

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Psalm 4 Sleeping Guitars, by DianaDee Osborne

PSALM  4  SLEEPING  GUITARS             SUBSCRIBE  

ALBUM:      Amazing  Psalms 'n' Promises

Song location:   http://DianaDeeOsborneSongs.com/Songs-2013
 

This song has 2 forms:  A quiet ACOUSTIC version, and a STORM version.   
      Lyrics and music sheet for the two versions are identical, with different stories.
      (The Storm music sheet is "condensed".... does not include all the Storm's orchestration!"
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Song Story:  THE  MUSIC:   

for the acoustic guitar version:  
The short answer to how I wrote this song:      I don't know. 

    I sat at the controller keyboard in my home studio and just started playing "anything" as flute music, seeking an Asian style.  I'm not sure how close I came to that goal!  But then I kept layering in the quiet background track notes -- "Solo Star"  and "Droplets".  Then the "droplets" track name gave me the idea to add some rain.  I love to sleep with rain outside the window, so it fit the concept of Psalm 4 as "Sleeping."   Then I added some orchestration..... 
    BUT this is NOT the story's End: God provided a SECOND song, for Psalm 4!

    I somehow goofed when pasting in tracks for the melody for verses 3 to 5.  I didn't realize this until I got to studio the day after I wrote the song.  So while my producer mixed the song "Indolent Christians,"  I pulled out my guitar, calculated the chords, and practiced this song in the other room.  As soon as he finished,  we recorded my guitar... on my travel guitar that I keep in my vehicle, since I hadn't planned to record & didn't bring my good guitar.  Then we recorded my singing, I played my bass sliding that I love so much, and Claxton added some chimes.... For a more quiet version of God's Psalm 4, perhaps written similarly to David's music on his harp in a meadow while the sheep listened....

Dedicated to The Only Provider of Safe Sleep, 9 May 2013

LYRICS

1
O God of my righteousness,    have mercy on me!  .....
Hear me when I call, O God.  In my distress, You relieve.  ......
    PSALM  4 --     With God, my LORD,  I sleep  in Peace.

2
How long will they give me shame,  love lies about me?  .....
How they love such worthlessness!  But God sets apart the godly.....
    PSALM  4  --  In God alone,  I sleep .... in Safety..........

3
God sets apart the godly:  “Don't sin when angry.”  ....
Meditate on God in bed.  Rest, be still with Him.   Sleep.
    PSALM  4 --     With God, my LORD,  I sleep  in Peace.

4
Offer God your sacrifice  of    righteousness.....
Put your trust in The LORD God,  and He'll shine His face on you.
    PSALM  4  --  In God alone,  I sleep .... in Safety..........

5
Many mock,  “HEY --- WHERE'S YOUR GOD ?!” 
    My glad heart shows You. ....
I will lie in peace and sleep.      You alone, God, give safety.
    PSALM  4 --     With God, my LORD,  I sleep  in Peace.
    PSALM  4  --  In God alone,  I sleep .... in Safety..........

God's SUPPORTING WORDS:

PSALM 4:                                             (New King James Version)
To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

How long, O you sons of men, Will you turn my glory to shame?  How long will you love worthlessness  And seek falsehood?   Selah

But know that the LORD has set apart for Himself him who is godly; The LORD will hear when I call to Him.  Be angry, and do not sin. Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.    Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in the LORD.

There are many who say, "Who will show us any good?" LORD, lift up the light of Your countenance upon us.  You have put gladness in my heart, More than in the season that their grain and wine increased.

I will both lie down in peace & sleep;
                    For You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

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Squeaky Wheel Praising, by DianaDee Osborne

SQUEAKY  WHEEL  PRAISING  (COUNTRY)         SUBSCRIBE  

ALBUM:      Amazing Grace 'n' Tears

Song location:   http://DianaDeeOsborneSongs.com/Songs-2008-2012.php

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Song Story:  THE  MUSIC:

This song was one of God's very first song giftings through me.
Written before I had the idea to put a Song Story at the end of each music sheet!

So I'd have to go way back in my journals.... this "might" have been in #1 of 
my leather-bound journal series (I just started #22, 5 years later; 375 pages each. God's empowering,  Ephesians 3:20-21).

But, as I recall (without searching out the story at this time):
This became my first song emphasizing God's scripture references so that
I could remember WHERE to find all God's promises!
May it also help you!

Dedicated to our Lord, 5 October 2008.

LYRICS

CHORUS
LORD, help me praise you like a squeaky wheel that

irks that devil so    (... he'll go).  Help

me to sing "I GIVE YOU THANKS"  and

praise You even 

          though I'm squeaky,

               sometimes creaky, 

YET still raising "LOVE YOU"  praising!

   
VERSE 1                <Hebrews 13:5, John 14:18, Nehemiah 8:10 >
When  I hear sad and  lonely thoughts,    

I’ll praise You “even though.”
John 14 says You’ll never leave --        
You’re my Friend and much more.

When I hear tired and weary thoughts,    
 I’ll praise You “even though.”
Your gift of Joy’s the strength I need--        
Neh’miah 8 : 10 says so,  And so,   <CHORUS>


VERSE  2   
When I hear “Don’t forgive them!” thoughts,  
I’ll praise You “even though.”
Self-pity’s fun.  But You said “None        
who grudge  are  graced” – First John.

When I hear worried,  fear-filled thoughts,    
I’ll praise You “even though.”
You’re my Supply.  I don’t know why   <feeding 1000s; Good Shepherd>  
I doubt John 6 and 10,   And so,               <CHORUS>            

VERSE  3                                          <James 1:5, Philippians 4:13>
When I hear  “I’m so STU-PID !!!”  lies,     
I’ll praise You “even though.”   
You promised in James 1:5 and            
Proverbs 3:5 “Ask Me,”

When I hear   “I can’t  DO this !!!”  lies,     
I’ll praise You “even though.”
Phil 4: Thirteen says You give strength   
 to me for ev’rything,    And so,                     <CHORUS>   

VERSE  4                                         <John 3: 17>
When I hear  “God’s so un-fair  !!!”  lies,    
 I’ll praise You “even though.”   
MY sense of fairness comes from You.        
You understand far more.

When I hear  “God’s a cruel god !!!”  lies,  
I’ll praise You “even though.”   
If  You weren’t loving, kind, and good,    
You’d zapped me long ago!  And so,  <CHORUS>  

VERSE  5                              <Psalm 103,  Romans 8:15-38, 1 John 1: 7-10>
When I hear  “God’s won’t forgive  !!!”  lies,      
I’ll praise You “even though.”   
Psalm One-O-Three and more promise            
You’ve cast my sins afar.

When sins and mistakes haunt my thoughts,    
I’ll praise You “even though.”
You forgive and bring good through them,    
Romans 8 says this and more:    <TO  BRIDGE>

BRIDGE      MELODY SHIFTS UP EACH TIME:

<Bible VERSES>  :
Romans 8
<15-16>        <... that>     You’re  my     Dad.   I        need     not     fear.    When
<38>             I         call     You,   You    will      draw   near.    You   

<1-4>           set       me     free     from   sin      and    death.  When
<5-11>         my     mind’s    dark,   You   bring  me    breath.  When


<12-13>      I          let      Your    Spi-     rit         lead    me,    You’ll
<14-15>     make   all      these  wrong thoughts leave  me.   So 


<17-18>      what    if       life’s   not      al-       ways    “fun”?  You’ll
<19-25>      pro-        vide    joy     for       a-        ny        one     who 

SLOWER    asks......................    and    so...          Lord,
                                                                                          <to CHORUS>

TAG only after last chorus
             You deserve  much more! 

God's SUPPORTING WORDS:

“For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher
than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”   -- God,  Isaiah 55:9 KJV

©2008 DianaDee Osborne (all material), all rights reserved. FREE personal usage; see website.

With thanks to BlueLetterBible.org  for providing God's Word in easy-to-research format.