Faithful - Music for August 21

I told myself that I was going to start posting consistently on my worship blog. Hmmm. Maybe that will start this week. Maybe.....

I love the text of tomorrow's choir anthem, "Faithful." It was written by Chris Tomlin, Christy Nockels, Ed Cash and Nathan Nockels. https://christynockels.com/

Verse 1
Faithful forever You are faithful
Father to the fatherless
You uphold the one who feels forsaken
You are faithful God

Psalm 10:14 NIV

But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 68:5 NIV

A father to thefatherlessa defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

Go to http://www.crosswalk.com/ and do a search for "fatherless" and you'll find a lot of scripture that instructs us to defend the fatherless and widows. Here.... I'll do it for you - click here

fatherless

Here's what James has to say about the fatherless

James 1:27 NIV

 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Here's a quick little sermonette for you. 

For us to be like Christ we need to care about the things that He cares about. A fantastic way to care for, defend and to be a father to the fatherless is through adoption and foster care. 

If I had started this post before late on a Saturday I would give you a lot more information about adoption and foster care. I'll try to get my sweet daughter, who is adoptive mother of three and foster mother to one, to write a post for me. Or I'll ask her for some links to her blog posts to add to this post.

I can tell you from a Papa's point of view, adoption and foster care is AWESOME.

Other songs for tomorrow include

To God Be the Glory

Majesty

Prince of Peace

I Will Rise

Great Music - Great Truth

Your singing - I should have posted this before I posted Silent Night in Japanese - yesterday was super! What a fun song! And what a great text. I hope you keep track of all those times when God shows His faithfulness to you. You need to do that so when you're up against a difficult time in life or things seem to be falling apart, you can look back and say, "you know... God showed me this time and that time and another time how He takes care of me and brings me through the tough times in life - or gives me grace and peace to keep going, so I know from experience that He has never failed me, so I choose to trust Him today and not worry and..." well, you need to word that for yourself, but I think you see what I'm trying to say.

Have a wonderful week. I'll be looking for all of you Wednesday night!

I think this picture says exactly what I am trying to say.