{"id":768,"date":"2014-09-02T21:39:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T01:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=768"},"modified":"2014-09-03T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T12:03:17","slug":"worship-wednesday-with-every-act-of-love-by-jason-gray-jason-ingram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Worship Wednesday – With Every Act of Love by Jason Gray & Jason Ingram"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Your kingdom come. <\/span><\/span>Your will be done, o<\/span>n earth as <\/span>it is<\/span><\/i> in heaven.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0– Matthew 6:10<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In downtown Richmond, Virginia, you will see people standing on corners with cardboard signs. The signs tell stories of veterans needing jobs, homeless\u00a0begging food, the down-and-out asking for spare change. Signs made out of pieces of cardboard held out to the drivers stopped at intersections. Those of us in the safe insulation of our vehicles size up these requests and wonder if they speak to real life. Do these sign-holders\u00a0look needy enough? Is it real destitution born out of hardship thrust on them or is it out of circumstances they brought on themselves? We try not to look into their eyes as the seconds tick by before the light changes to green, and then we accelerate past them and our discomfort fades as they do in our rear-view mirrors. God forgive us.<\/p>\n

There have been times I’ve responded with some money, or staples from a grocery store trip, or some food from the order I just placed at the drive-through window a block away. Still, a little money or food or conversation or prayer only scratches the surface of what must be going on in the lives of people willing to stand exposed, with a cardboard sign, on a city street. Responding in any way that “leans in”\u00a0is at least moving in the direction of Kingdom living…Kingdom building…but we must not stop there.<\/p>\n

Jason Gray explains\u00a0how he came to write the lyrics of this song, “The Gospel is clearly a theology of deeper engagement and restoration and redemption\u00a0….Yes, the Kingdom will come, but the Kingdom is coming, day by day, moment by moment, and that we’re invited to play a part in that Kingdom coming, right now, right here, with every act of love we do…With every act of love, we get to be a part of God’s Kingdom coming. I love that.”<\/p>\n

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Dear God, help us to know and practice authentic love for You and for “the least of these” whoever they are. Also we pray that we\u00a0 infuse every moment of our lives with the love You’ve given us. Given not just for our pleasure but\u00a0meant to bless the nations – our own children, and these whom You know and love on the streets of our cities…and in places far from us, but not far from You. Give us wisdom, God, and hearts like Yours.<\/p>\n

Reaching out to\u00a0the poor and displaced can be complicated, but we all were poor and displaced, and God reached out to us. My prayer is that we wrestle with this daily in a way that stirs our hearts to prayer and surrenders our hands and feet (and finances) to a good and generous God. If we build margin in our lives for the needy, God will grow capacity in us to serve them in ways that bring them the Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Worship with me…<\/p>\n

With Every Act of Love<\/em> [Lyrics]<\/a>\u00a0– lyric video below<\/p>\n

Sitting at the stoplight
\nHe can’t be bothered by the heart cry
\nWritten on the cardboard in her hand
\nBut when she looks him in the eye
\nHis heart is broken open wide
\nAnd he feels the hand of God reach out through him
\nAs Heaven touches earth<\/span><\/p>\n

(Chorus)
\nOh – we bring the Kingdom come
\nOh – with every act of love
\nJesus help us carry You
\nAlive in us, Your light shines through
\nWith every act of love
\nWe bring the Kingdom come<\/p>\n

There’s silence at the table
\nHe wants to talk but he’s not able
\nFor all the shame that’s locked him deep inside
\nBut her words are the medicine
\nWhen she says they can begin again
\nAnd forgiveness will set him free tonight
\nAs Heaven touches earth<\/p>\n

God put a million, million doors in the world
\nFor his love to walk through
\nOne of those doors is you
\nI said, God put a million, million doors in the world
\nFor his love to walk through
\nOne of those doors is you<\/p>\n

Oh – we bring the Kingdom come
\nOh – with every act of love
\nJesus help us carry You
\nAlive in us, Your light shines through
\nWith every act of love
\nWe bring the Kingdom come
\nWith every act of love
\nWe bring the Kingdom come
\nWith every act of love
\nWe bring the Kingdom come<\/p>\n

Publishing: \u00a9 2013 Centricity Music Publishing, Nothing Is Wasted Music (ASCAP) \/ Sony-ATV Timber Publishing, Open Hands Music (SESAC)<\/p>\n

Writer(s): Jason Gray, Jason Ingram<\/p>\n

With Every Act of Love<\/em> – Official Lyric Video<\/a><\/p>\n

Life Will Have the Final Word<\/em> album by Jason Gray<\/a><\/p>\n

Story Behind With Every Act of Love<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Derry Prenkert’s Notes from 2014 Global Leadership Summit – Brian Loritts on God’s intent for the Church in doing good<\/a><\/p>\n

Baptist Global Response to the Tragically Displaced<\/a><\/p>\n

Jason Gray Music<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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