ALBUM: Amazing PEACE 'n' Passion
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Song Story: THE MUSIC:
The hardest part of this early song from LORD God was the title...
that "S" in the first word is not in the old hymn...
I'm not sure why I added it.. but I've always felt it was what God wanted.
My guess is that it's a word reminder that we don't just pray during a few minutes but for ALL of them...
The next hardest was
the SADNESS behind the song as I wrote. The song was written while
thinking about a young woman I'd known for years who became paralyzed at
age 18 because she didn't take a moment to fasten her seatbelt so many
years earlier.
And the SADNESS knowing how many people I DEARLY love... deeply care about, my friend (and you know that I mean YOU) just "can't find the time" to study and see the LOGIC
that's woven throughout the Bible, calling us to just look and think and pray for wisdom....
LOST moments now. I am sad but to a tiniest degree of how GOD is SAD when we won't
take the moments to seek for Him. For God repeatedly PROMISES...
If you seek Him, You Will find him. (See the song TRUTH SEEKERS PRAYER for scripture references.)
ORIGINAL Song Story:
The beginning of this song is somber, created (literally “in moments”) as
I remembered a teen whose life changed forever, crippled in one moment because she was not wearing a seatbelt while a teen driver was changing radio stations.
* Children drown during the very few moments their caretaker was distracted.
* Quick decisions have more impact than we ever dreamed.
So many moments of despair... when we must choose
whether to blame God or to turn to Him for comfort.
And...... so many moments of despair that we ourselves cause without meaning to --
not saying “I care about you” or “I'm sorry,” or
not bothering to even flash a small smile at someone who is hiding despair and hopelessness. Not noticing our few careless, pain-causing words spoken in a moment of gossip we didn't plan, didn't mean to say.
Yet MOMENT BY MOMENT, God is beside us,
willing to forgive whatever the wrong thing we did or said, the moment we ask.
Willing to comfort and help us as we
deal with the natural consequences of our moments
that follow through their course, even after He forgives us.
Eager to to say “Yes, My child!”
the moment we invite Him into our life's remaining moments.
Chorus is based on the song “Moment by Moment” by Daniel Whittle and May Whittle Moody (Public Domain, CCLI 68924)
I remembered a teen whose life changed forever, crippled in one moment because she was not wearing a seatbelt while a teen driver was changing radio stations.
* Children drown during the very few moments their caretaker was distracted.
* Quick decisions have more impact than we ever dreamed.
So many moments of despair... when we must choose
whether to blame God or to turn to Him for comfort.
And...... so many moments of despair that we ourselves cause without meaning to --
not saying “I care about you” or “I'm sorry,” or
not bothering to even flash a small smile at someone who is hiding despair and hopelessness. Not noticing our few careless, pain-causing words spoken in a moment of gossip we didn't plan, didn't mean to say.
Yet MOMENT BY MOMENT, God is beside us,
willing to forgive whatever the wrong thing we did or said, the moment we ask.
Willing to comfort and help us as we
deal with the natural consequences of our moments
that follow through their course, even after He forgives us.
Eager to to say “Yes, My child!”
the moment we invite Him into our life's remaining moments.
Chorus is based on the song “Moment by Moment” by Daniel Whittle and May Whittle Moody (Public Domain, CCLI 68924)
Dedicated to our ever-With-Us Lord, 29 October 2009
LYRICS
1A moment in time -- That's all it took --
not buckling a seatbelt. Who knew that it would
change our lives forever, that ONE moment in time.
2
A moment in time -- That's all it took --
adjusting car music. Who knew that it would
change our lives forever, that ONE moment in time.
Chorus (CHORUS based on old hymn)
Moment by moment, I'm kept in His love.
Moment by moment, I've life from above.
Moments or sorrow God did NOT bring me!!!
Yet moment by moment,
God is beside me.
3
A moment in time -- That's all it took --
ONE moment of sin -- who knew that it would
HAUNT MY LIFE forever, that ONE moment in time.
Chorus
Moment by moment, I'm kept in His love.
Moment by moment, I've life from above.
Moments or sorrow God did NOT bring me!!!
Yet moment by moment,
God is beside me.
4
A moment in time -- that's all that it takes --
such heart-breaking pain from our moments' mistakes.
Who knew that they could change our lives forever,
those ONE moments in time?
5
A moment in time -- that's all that it needs --
not stopping our gossip, not sharing "good deeds."
Who knew that they could change THEIR lives forever,
those ONE moments in time?
Chorus
Moment by moment, I'm kept in His love.
Moment by moment, I've life from above.
Moments or sorrow God did NOT bring me!!!
Yet moment by moment,
God is beside me.
ENDING (WITH JOY!)
A moment in time -- That's all it that it takes! to
tell God you're sorry and want Him as your Lord!
That moment in time, spelled in Romans 10, verse 9
will begin joy-filled moments with God --
a lifetime, of peace from trusting moments with God
for all time!
God's SUPPORTING WORDS:
“Lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen. ” -- Jesus, in Matthew 28:30b (last verse in King James Version)
Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (full verse, in New Living Translation)
“I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure.”
-- Psalm 16: 8-9 KJV [OUR choice.... God does not invade our moments un-invited. --DDO]
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