Foosball

Ok, so there's this table soccer game called foosball that I really like to play sometimes, and I used to be pretty good at it. Just thinking back, I remember how intense I used to concentrate on the game and how quick my reflexes were with that kind of concentration. Well, after winning most of the times when I would play, I slowly started shifting towards a more relaxed style of playing. I was just playing the game, and when I started to just play the game, I started to lose it. I started allowing more goals to be scored against me, and didn't score quite as often. Well, earlier tonight I was playing one of my best friends, and he was kicking my butt. The score was like 4 to 9, and it all of a sudden hit me that I wasn't concentrating as hard as I used to. So, I completely changed my mind set and focused really really hard, like I used to do. When I did that, the game took a complete turn. I started scoring and then all of a sudden the score was 9 to 9. It was tied up, and it was game point. Well, I didn't become relaxed again. Instead I kept the concentration and ended up scoring the winning point.

Ok, the reason I told that story was not to show how awesome I am at foosball. Actually the truth is, my friend is probably beating me in wins if you add up all the games we've played each other. But what I really want to say is: if you go towards your goals in a relaxed manner, you may reach them or you may not. But, if you concentrate with everything you have, you can achieve way more than you ever thought you could. So when God reveals to you the purpose for your life, go at it with everything you have, with complete concentration. You'll be amazed at what he can do through you when you give him everything you've got.

Insecurity

If you allow your insecurity to control you, you will never reach your full potential. It's the lack of confidence that keeps you from taking risks, and if you don't take risks, you'll never stretch yourself. And if you never stretch yourself, you'll never improve. It's important to remember that God gave you the exact gifts and talents that he knew you would need to do what he's calling you to do. If you doubt your ability to perform in the situation God has placed you in, then are you really doubting yourself or are you doubting God's gift in you?

Yeah, God just smacked me upside the head with that info and I figured I would share for anyone else who faces self doubt.

Take This Cup

Verse 1:
with your blood you bought my life
with your pain and sacrifice
to you my life I give
I am yours, Lord I’m yours

Pre-Chorus:
hold on, don’t call me there
this is not what I want, I don’t understand
my life is yours but why this part
this call is too big and way too far

Chorus:
take this cup, take it all away
I don’t want to die to myself today
I’m too scared of what may come
but not my will, but yours be done

Verse 2:
as you guide me into your will
by your peace, I’ll know that it’s real
your plans are beyond my mind
who am I, be my guide

Chorus 2:
Here’s my life, I give it all away
take up my cross and die today
I am scared but here I come
not my will, but yours be done

Faithful One

Verse 1:
To know you’re here with me now
my life is so secure
The one who raised from death to life
is strength for me in hard times

Pre-Chorus:
You reign, my King. To you I sing

Chorus:
Your graciousness, oh God, it blows me away
You’ve given everything I have by your grace
and you will never let me go, my God no
Your faithfulness remains forever always

Verse 2:
by faith you’ve always opened doors
as I have grown to trust you more
there’s nothing that can’t be done
You are the resurrected one

Bridge:
You’ve never failed me, never Lord
How could I doubt you, my faithful one

So In Love

Verse:
In you there is life
In you there is joy
In you there is peace
In you there is strength
In you there is hope
In you there is love

PreChorus:
You are God and you are good
I give you all the praise
Glory, honor
It all belongs to you
Your mercy reigns down on me
And your grace abundantly
Your blood has covered all my sins
I’m forgiven, because of you
I’m forgiven, because of you

Chorus:
Lord I’m in love with you
So in love with you
It’s the cry of my heart
And the cry of my soul
I love you Lord, I love you
I’m in love with you
So in love with you
So draw close to me
As I draw close to you
Cause I love you Lord, I love you

Taste of Blue

Verse 1:
Take a look around, and tell me what you find here
waves are crashing down, the darkness overwhelming

Pre-Chorus 1:
you can run away from everything and find
that it is just a single step behind
you now, don’t cry just look into my eyes
and see that everything’s alright

Chorus:
just take my hand and see that everything is changing
a step into a whole new part of history we’re making

Verse 2:
taste the shade of blue, an ordinary work of
one who you once knew, the sand of time is changing

Pre-Chorus 2:
grasp the wheel of life and listen for my voice
I’ll guide you through this storm tonight
don’t doubt the hand, the power you possess
this wall is not too tall for you

Bridge:
what have you done
you think you’ll never let go
you must forgive yourself
and let go

Chorus 2:
you, you run so fast since all your chains have now been broken
alive, take hold of life for now a freedom has awakened

Colors

Verse 1:
The sunrise awoke me as the water scattered the light
The clouds up above me transformed the sky
The rain grew heavy but the sun was still shinning
As colors filled the sky

PreChorus:
But they make me think
The colors that I see
They all point out a different view
A different view of you

Chorus:
It’s the green that makes you come alive
It’s the red that fills your heart tonight
It’s the blue that make the world spin around for you
It’s the violet for your royalty
And the orange that seems to capture me
And the yellow for the treasure that I see

Verse 2:
Everything around me portrays a different light
Different shades of beauty arise in my eyes
The green from the grass that’s growing
And the blue from the sky that’s spinning around
My eyes would be bored now
without the colors all around

Bridge:
Open my eyes, All I see is you, Open my eyes, Colors of you
Open my eyes, And you make my world go round
Open my eyes, Paint my life, Open my eyes, Color me
Open my eyes, I want to see you now