"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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Want to Win Skillet's new CD Rise? Enter my Instagram contest! 

How ya enter:

1. Snap a pic of what your sick of  

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*I'll be featuring some of my favorites every Saturday on my blog until the contest is over :) 

*This contest will end when I finish the Skillet Saturday Series.  The Winner will be picked randomly and if the contest goes well I'll pick more than one winner! So plenty of time to win! :D Spread the word, share it, like it,ect!  So excited to see your photos!!!! 

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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

Saturday Survey: Response to "What is your favorite Worship Song?"

So here's my response to Saturday survey: "What is your favorite worship song?"

My favorite worship song is "How He Loves".  Now it was hard for me to narrow it down to just one song.  But the more I listened to my list of top faves I knew this was my favorite worship song.  I remember hearing this song for the first time and just crying as I listened to the words. My God was jealous for me.  Exodus 34:14  New Living Translation "You must worship no other gods, for the LORD, whose very name is Jealous, is a God who is jealous about his relationship with you."   God cares about every detail of our lives. Even the details that don't seem important to our family and friends. He cares about our desires and our passions. Our jobs and love lives.

I think I shed tears almost every time I hear this song played. Either at church or on the radio. David Crowder Band does my favorite version of How He Loves.  Just thinking about God's love and how overwhelming it is.  He accepts us just the way we are. He knows us better than anyone ever will. He knows the number of hairs on our head.  Luke 12:7  New Living Translation  "And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows."

"If his grace is an ocean, then we're all sinking!"  When he forgives us, our slate is washed white as snow. He keeps no records of our wrong doing.  No sin is unforgivable.  I love losing myself in worship during this song. Raising my hands and praising God for saving me. Even on the days, and especially on the days where I don't feel very Godly. I know How He Loves me. How He loves You.
 

 Link to "How He Loves" - David Crowder Band with lyrics below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWgeUrD4MHI&feature=share&list=PL16E7E48233B79E49 

Lyrics to How He Loves:

He is jealous for me,

Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us oh,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

Oh how he loves,
Yeah, He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves.

And we are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If His grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.
And Heaven meets earth like an (unforeseen/ sloppy wet) kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don't have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way...

Oh, how He loves us oh,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all
How He loves

Yeah, He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
Oh what love

Yeah, He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us so.

Read part one of Saturday Survey Here:

http://kayleighryder.blogspot.com/2013/01/saturday-survey-what-is-your-favorite.html

Thanks so much for reading my post and checking out my blog. I will be posting a picture or writing at least 1-2 a week.  I now have a facebook page for my blog. Yay! You can like my page and get updates through facebook at the link below.   (Thinking of starting a twitter account for blog?? You can folllow me on twitter @NxtLeft)  Can't wait to hear your feedback and hear your favorite worship songs.  Blessings and have a great weekend! ~KayLeigh

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Saturday Survey: What is your favorite worship song?

 
So tell me, what is your favorite worship song(s)?  Do you have a favorite worship band/ artist?  Something you sing at church, or maybe your favorite uplifting song on the radio.  I want to hear your favorites.  I'll respond Saturday ( Jan 26th ) with my answers to this survey.  Since I'm a lover of music this will be hard for me to narrow down my favorites. Haha.

I hope you all have had a good week and that you all have a great weekend!

Love, KayLeigh

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If you liked this post then check out this post:  Lift Me Up - Afters/Worship Wednesday1

http://kayleighryder.blogspot.com/2012/08/lift-me-up-aftersworship-wednesday1.html