"Salvation" - Skillet Saturday 4

This post is dedicated to all the lost in the world who are still wandering around searching for the light.  

(And for all those people who I will continue to argue with about Skillet not being a  christian band. lol. I believe I soft served it hahahaha. Anyways.)  Love this worship song by them!!! So powerful and inspiring!!! Keep spreading the light of  word and Gods gift of Salvation through the most amazing and passionate music!!  Rocking out Jesus Freak style)!!!! ***PANHEADS FOREVER***

5. But He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.  He was beaten so we could be whole.  He was whipped so we could be healed.  

 6. ALL OF US, Like sheep, have strayed away.  We have left God's paths to follow our own.  Yet the Lord laid on Him the sins of us all.    

 ~Isaiah 53.6-7 (New Living Translation)


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~Luke 2.30 (AMP -Amplified Bible)  "For with my [own] eyes I have seen Your Salvation, [Isaiah 52.10]" 


I am one of those people who should count themselves lucky for growing up in a christian home.  But at the same time, I sometimes wish I hadn't because I can't pinpoint on a timeline when and where I accepted Jesus's gift of Salvation for me. I've just known that I loved Jesus from an early age.  I sometimes wish I had a more compelling story to share with people.  While the people with the heart griping stories wish they had been raised in a christian home their entire life like I had.  

My family always went to church on Sundays. It was routine.  We were the picture perfect family for serving and being involved in the church.  I just assumed the majority of people lived their lives the same way.  Going through the church motions, saying all the right church answers, and getting through the rest of the week acting as someone different. 

"All alone, lost in this abyss
Crawling in the dark
Nothing to wet my longing lips
And I wonder where you are
Are you far, will you come to my rescue
Am I left to die but I can’t give up on you"

We all have this longing deep inside of us that leaves us crawling alone  in the dark looking for something more.  People have named it the God shaped hole.  The God shaped hole is something that we all try so very hard to fill with other things besides God.  

Its like our attempts at making a chocolate cake without the chocolate. It can't be done. But we try anyways. Hoping after enough times that we get a flavor that comes close to what we were longing for. 

 But we still choose to take our yellow cake mix time and time again and ( Insert your choice of ingredients here:______________)   hope we'll get different results.  

Money.  Beauty. Popularity. Sex. Drugs. Food. People. Job. 

The List of our combination attempts to make chocolate without buying it are endless. 

During this time frame I found out something that would rock my world. Not in a good way.  I couldn't believe ___________ was happening to me.  I started attaching myself to my close  friends hoping they would fill the hole that was in my heart.  But friend after friend,  None of them could do the job.  I kept getting more and more disappointed wondering if any friends would last forever and if any of them actually cared about what I was going through. 

"I feel you keeping me alive
You are my salvation
Touch you, taste you, feel you here
I feel you keeping me alive
You are my salvation
Hold me, heal me, keep me near
My heart will burn for you
It’s all I can do"

We always had this christian radio station on called WayFM.  I believe music has power like nothing else. Words and sounds do wonders for the soul.  Music was always there and somehow the right songs were always on the radio when I needed to hear them the most.  I started becoming serious about God.  Asking more serious questions. questions that, me being a so called born in church christian should have known the answers to. But I didn't know them.  All those hard questions that nobody, not even your pastor or small group leader had a good enough answer if at all to satisfy you with.  Why did this ____________ happen?  Why was _____________ aloud to make those choices.  Will this ________ ever happen to me? What if_____ it doesn't happen?

"Been out from under who I am
And who I want to be
Held you tightly in my hands
Why are we unraveling
Was it me, will you come to my rescue
Or did I push to far when I turned my back on you

I feel you keeping me alive
You are my salvation
Touch you, taste you, feel you here
I feel you keeping me alive
You are my salvation
Hold me, heal me, keep me near
My heart will burn for you
It’s all I can do"

~Luke 1.77 (New International Version)  "To give His people the knowledge of Salvation through the forgiveness of their sins." 

I wish I could tell you what happened in my life that made me want to get baptized (again, since I was older and could remember choosing it for myself.)  when i was 14-15.   It sounds dumb to say, something just clicked.  I just knew in my heart that God was real.  (Yes I know, some of you are probably going, that's like saying you'll "just know" when you find the one you wanna marry. But I don't "know" the feeling lol. )  Its hard to explain but "you'll know" one day if you don't already. =D   Its like seeing a vivid rainbow, gazing into a starlite sky, watching a breathtaking sunrise/sunset, seeing a little baby and holding it in your arms for the first time.  You see all those things and more, and just realize that someone made it all.  God made the beautiful butterfly's, and the creepy spiders and other misc. bugs you wished he had left out,  and the really cool creatures from the animal planet specials. You see it all and in an instant, you get the feeling. You just know. =D 

I had seen the evidence of his hand all throughout my life and knew I wanted to choose Him for myself.   This was a big step for me!  Choosing God because I felt lead to and because I wanted to.  Not because I had been raised that way and because it was what my family had decided for me to believe.  And Since then my heart is still burning for Him.  Sometimes the flame is huge and seems out of control, while  other times its just a steady burn. Or when certain events happens it seems I'm nothing more than smoldering embers ready for another spark.  But the important lesson in all this is I'm still burning. 

Keeping me alive
You are my salvation
Touch you, taste you, feel you here
Our love will never die
You are my salvation
Hold me, heal me, keep me near
My heart will burn for you
It’s all I can do

Salvation
Salvation
Touch you, taste you, need you
Salvation

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**From the Dictionary - Concordance  in my New Living Translation Bible.

Salvation - Deliverance from the guilt and power of sin.  By His death and resurrection, Jesus brings salvation to the people who believe in Him.  

  

 ~Psalm 27.1 (NIV)  "The Lord is my light and my salvation--- whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my Life-- of whom  shall I be afraid?" 


 ~Acts 4.12 (NIV)    "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved." 

  ~2 Corinthians 7.10 (NLT)   "For the kind of Sorrow God wants us to Experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation.  There's no regret for that kind of sorrow.  But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance results in spiritual death."  

~Hebrews 2.3 (NIV)   "How shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This Salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him."  


 ~Philippians 2.12-13  (NLT)    "Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when i was with you. And now that i am away, it is even more important, obeying God with deep reverence and fear.  For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him." 

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Dear God,  

Thank you much much for dying on the cross for our sins.  I know we are far from deserving, but you see the light in us that we don't often see in ourselves.  I pray that you keep our heart fires lit up for you God.  Thank you so much for all my readers and for this blog.  I'm so excited to see what the future has in store.  We love you Jesus.  In your precious name,  Amen. 

Love, KayLeigh

p.s. yes I know I'm going out of order. 

p.p.s yes its better this way and I really have no clue what I'm doing lol. Just riding this wave God is giving me haha.  See ya next Saturday.  Sorry this was posted so late at nite.  Have a great week! 

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Salvation - Skillet (Video with intro from song 7 "madness in me" included. Lyrics. and bible verse Isaiah 53. 6-7 ) 

http://youtu.be/TSFlB1eyTy0

"Salvation" (Lyrics)

All alone, lost in this abyss
Crawling in the dark
Nothing to wet my longing lips
And I wonder where you are
Are you far, will you come to my rescue
Am I left to die but I can’t give up on you

I feel you keeping me alive
You are my salvation
Touch you, taste you, feel you here
I feel you keeping me alive
You are my salvation
Hold me, heal me, keep me near
My heart will burn for you
It’s all I can do

Salvation
Salvation
(Keeping me alive)
Salvation
(You’re keeping me)
Salvation
(You’re keeping me alive)

Been out from under who I am
And who I want to be
Held you tightly in my hands
Why are we unraveling
Was it me, will you come to my rescue
Or did I push to far when I turned my back on you

I feel you keeping me alive
You are my salvation
Touch you, taste you, feel you here
I feel you keeping me alive
You are my salvation
Hold me, heal me, keep me near
My heart will burn for you
It’s all I can do

Salvation
Salvation
(Keeping me alive)
Salvation

Touch you, taste you, feel you, need you
Give it all just to find you
Hold me, heal me
I will find you

Keeping me alive
You are my salvation
Touch you, taste you, feel you here
Our love will never die
You are my salvation
Hold me, heal me, keep me near
My heart will burn for you
It’s all I can do

Salvation
Salvation
Touch you, taste you, need you
Salvation

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Check out the first three posts in this Skillet Saturday Series!

1.  Rise
http://kayleighryder.blogspot.com/2013/07/rise-skillet-saturday-1.html

2.  "Sick of it"
http://kayleighryder.blogspot.com/2013/08/sick-of-it-skillet-saturday-2.html

3.  "Good to be Alive"

http://kayleighryder.blogspot.com/2013/08/good-to-be-alive-skillet-saturday-3.html

"Rise" - Skillet Saturday 1

 I first listened to Skillet's latest CD "Rise" at their Road to Rise tour in Nashville. After previewing the album with the band,  I knew I had to do a series based off their new CD. 

 Birthing this new series, "Skillet Saturdays"

Skillet's Music first starting changing my life for the better when I heard them for the first time at Winter Jam when they had recently released their album "Comatose".  From that moment on,  I was hooked on their awesome rock in roll music.  Their music was crazy loud! Electric guitars, drums, John Cooper's voice, the works! The song lyrics were amazing! I loved how every song spoke to me in a different way. How I could relate what I was going through in my life with their music.  I've been a faithful panhead ever since :) 

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The world that we live in today is becoming so corrupt. It makes me sick.  All the school shootings. Bombings. Threats.  Parents afraid of sending their children to school, kids afraid of being at school. 

 People feeling like there is no hope in their lives driving them to the point of suicide. Or feeling so unloved that they are willing to self-harm or sell their bodies. 

With everything going on today, you don't feel safe anymore. 

"Everyday you need a bulletproof vest

To save yourself from what you could never guess!

Am I safe today?

When I step outside in the wars we wage!

 Our future's here and now,

Here comes the countdown!

Sound it off, this is the call!

Rise in revolution!

It's our time to change it all,

Rise in revolution!

Unite and fight, to make a better life!

Everybody one for all,

Sound off, this is the call, tonight we rise!"

 We need to Rise up and start a revolution!

We can so much for others if we allow God to use us.

It could be as simple as going up and introducing yourself to the kid in your school who sits by themselves.  It could be smiling at the person in the checkout line. It could be paying it forward and paying for some strangers meal. Random acts of kindness.  Its all the little things that add up and can change someones entire life.  

The darkness will fade because we will be the light!  We have to stand up for what we believe and fight for those who can't fight for themselves.  

 I love the part in the song "Rise" where is says, "Sometimes it's crazy, to fight for what you believe!"

   I find myself in a daily battle fighting to save my heart and body for my future spouse.  Especially these days when people believe its  the norm to go with your hormones.  I tell people I've never kissed anyone and that I'm saving my first kiss until I'm married and people call me all sort of names and give me crazy looks. Whispers that I'll be a nun forever, ect. 

 In my heart, this is what I feel called to do.  I love how the lyrics continue to tell me not to give up, to keep fighting for what I love and believe. 

 "In a world gone mad,

In a place so sad!

Sometimes it's crazy

To fight for what you believe!

But you can't give up,

If you wanna keep what you love!

(Keep what you love)

Keep what you love

(Keep what you love)

Keep what you love

Never give up, no!!!

Rise.

Rise in revolution

Rise.

Rise in revolution

Everybody one for all,

Sound off, this is the call!"

So will you accept this challenge and Rise up with me?

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Skillet "Rise" Lyric Video - (It says it has lryics but it only has a few. Lyrics posted below link)

http://youtu.be/b3jQ0tFqG_0

 Skillet Rise Acoustic @ Road to Rise Nashville  (Link below - From @PeaceLoveSkillet - It was amazing having them perform for us in Nashville!!)

http://youtu.be/e-1iV5WFcwE 

"Rise"

All I see is shattered pieces
I can't keep it hidden like a secret
I can't look away!
From all this pain in a world we made!

Everyday you need a bulletproof vest
To save yourself from what you could never guess!
Am I safe today?
When I step outside in the wars we wage!

Our future's here and now,
Here comes the countdown!

Sound it off, this is the call!
Rise in revolution!
It's our time to change it all,
Rise in revolution!
Unite and fight, to make a better life!
Everybody one for all,
Sound off, this is the call, tonight we rise!

Rise.
Tonight we rise
Rise.
Tonight we rise!

Like a hand grenade thrown in a hurricane,
Spinning in chaos, trying to escape the flame,
Yesterday is gone!
Faster than the blast of a car bomb!

And when the scars heal, the pain passes,
As hope burns, we rise from the ashes!
Darkness fades away!
And the light shines on a brave new day!

Our future's here and now,
Here comes the countdown!

Sound it off, this is the call!
Rise in revolution!
It's our time to change it all,
Rise in revolution!
Unite and fight to make a better life!
Everybody one for all,
Sound off, this is the call, tonight we rise!

Rise.
Tonight we rise
Rise.
Tonight we rise!

In a world gone mad,
In a place so sad!
Sometimes it's crazy
To fight for what you believe!
But you can't give up,
If you wanna keep what you love!
(Keep what you love)
Keep what you love
(Keep what you love)
Keep what you love
Never give up, no!!!

Rise.
Rise in revolution
Rise.
Rise in revolution

Everybody one for all,
Sound off, this is the call!

Rise
Like we're alive
Tonight we rise
Rise
Make a better life
Tonight we rise!

Rise, rise, rise in revolution
Rise, rise, rise in revolution
Rise.

[phone rings]

[Operator:] 911?
[Woman:] There's a guy here with a gun!
[Operator:] Ma'am? Ma'am?
[Woman:] Kids, get under the table! Kids get under the table!!!

[News reporter:] We are getting new reports from all around the globe, showing the highest unemployment rates since the end of World War II. Many are losing their jobs, their homes, and in many cases, their hope.

[Dispatch:] [static police call] Domestic Disturbance in progress [more static]

[Upset parent:] You are such a failure! What is wrong with you? You're worthless! You can't do anything right! I wish you had never been born! 

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