Mighty To Save

A few weeks ago my family visited a different church. As we were walking in, late unfortunately as usual, there were kids standing across the front of the stage singing "Mighty To Save." My wife, recently got a Michael W. Smith CD, A New Hallelujuah, which has the song on it. It is a really powerful song. My daughter, Emma, really loves it. A lot of the times she will say, "Play the song that the kids were singing." Sometimes she and I go for a ride to pick up dinner and we listen to the song and sing the words out loud. What a great feeling to hear your little girl singing a song about the vast greatness of our Lord.

I am trying to imagine the songs the little kids might have liked to sing whose parent decided that because of losing a job, the fear of losing their home, the dreadful thought of not being able to provide for their family led them to believe that life was not worth living and took the lives of their family and then their own life. I keep reading this on the news and I just go numb. It is hard to imagine a person manifesting a fear so great, so horrific that the idea of ending the lives of your little children is the best alternative available.

My God help us who know you and believe in what you have done for us to get off of our rears, to push out of our comfort zones and share the Good News that our burdens are not for us to bare and that you and you alone are the answer that we are all looking for in this world. God I pray that you use us Christians to go out and hug our neighbor who is hurting and comfort the strangers in need. Please Lord prepare us to know what to say and when to say it. Help us to seek out those who are on the verge of drastic measures.

Everyone needs compassion

A love that's never failing

Let mercy fall on me

Everyone needs forgiveness

The kindness of a Savior

The hope of nations

Savior, He can move the mountains

My God is mighty to save

He is mighty to save

Forever, Author of Salvation

He rose & conquered the grave

Jesus conquered the grave

So take me as You find me

All my fears & failures

Fill my life again

I give my life to follow

Everything I believe in

Now I surrender

Shine Your light & Let the whole world see

We're singing For the glory Of the risen King

Jesus,You're the Savior

You can move the mountains

Lord You are mighty to save

You are mighty to save

Philippians 4:13 - I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. He can rise superior to every condition through the strength that Christ gives.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:10-19 It is a good work to succour and help a good minister in trouble. The nature of true Christian sympathy, is not only to feel concern for our friends in their troubles, but to do what we can to help them. The apostle was often in bonds, imprisonments, and necessities; but in all, he learned to be content, to bring his mind to his condition, and make the best of it. Pride, unbelief, vain hankering after something we have not got, and fickle disrelish of present things, make men discontented even under favourable circumstances. Let us pray for patient submission and hope when we are abased; for humility and a heavenly mind when exalted. It is a special grace to have an equal temper of mind always. And in a low state not to lose our comfort in God, nor distrust his providence, nor take any wrong course for our own supply. In a prosperous condition not to be proud, or secure, or worldly. This is a harder lesson than the other; for the temptations of fulness and prosperity are more than those of affliction and want. The apostle had no design to urge them to give more, but to encourage such kindness as will meet a glorious reward hereafter. Through Christ we have grace to do what is good, and through him we must expect the reward; and as we have all things by him, let us do all things for him, and to his glory.