But Mostly Lord, We Thank You For...

Yesterday many from our church family had the privilege of witnessing 26 baptisms, 

listening to 26 declarations of faith in Jesus in a language foreign to us in dialect 

but familiar to us in praise. 

Hallelujah!

One line stands out to me still as I reflect on the day; a line in a prayer,

"but mostly Lord, we thank You for Your Son, Jesus Christ"

because believers know there is no other name whereby we must be saved and
 without faith in Him it is impossible to please Him!

Oh, what a glorious reason we have for Hope,

for waking up each morning and pressing on in spite of all that life seems not...

Jesus reigns, victorious over sin and death!


1 John 5:13-14
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

…for courage to step forward

Into Time’s Great Unknowns

For kindness of new morning

To polish stepping stones

We thank You for each season

Filled with favors from high

But above all, Hope’s Reason

Your love and grace supply

…for bread to feed the body

For Word to feed the soul

For mercy heaped on mercy

While age to ages roll

For loved ones to come home to

For rest when toil is done

But most of all we thank You

For Jesus Christ, Your Son

For harvest’s holy humbling

For mysteries of prayer

Where words, oft frail and fumbling

Climb earth-to-heaven’s stair

…and there You release Something

That faith alone can see

Your peace past understanding

Through Truth that sets us free

For blessings that we hold, Lord

We offer songs of praise

For more than we deserve, Lord

You overflow our days

But then we think how beggared

Each earth-blessing would be

Without Jesus who suffered

And died at Calvary

…to purchase mankind’s pardon

To triumph over death

To grant to living’s burden

More than mere-breath-to-breath

…to put Your worth within us

Where hallelujahs swell

With thank-you God, for Jesus

Who saves our souls from hell

© Janet Martin

 Galatians 3:26
You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

(doesn't this promise move you to humble tears of joy and worship?!)
Doesn't this promise move us to forgive others as He forgave us; fully?!)

What Jesus puts within us
Nobody else can give
Love's holy, highest purpose
In every day we live! 

1 Peter 1:3-6
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.