Michael W. Smith – Page 5

Spiritual Nourishment: ‘Thy Word Is a Lamp Unto My Feet’

leeduigon(patty)April 8, 2017

I happened to listen to Amy Grant’s introduction to this worship song, and it struck me that being a Christian performing artist–a Christian artist, mind you, using one’s art to deliver God’s message–carries with it a burden that cannot be shouldered lightly. People are going to tell you their troubles. And you’re going to wind up praying silently, “O Lord, what can I say? What can I tell this person? And what if I say the wrong thing?”

Thy Word Is a Lamp Unto My Feet, taken from Psalm 119, is one of my very favorite worship songs, here performed by Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith. Now it’ll be with me all day–and I don’t mind at all.

See you when I get back from the nursing home.

‘Agnus Dei’ (Lamb of God)

leeduigon(patty)February 5, 2017

Agnus Dei, by Michael W. Smith, comes straight out of Chapter 4 of the Book of Revelation: “Worthy is the Lamb.”

Requested by Susan.

Yes! ‘Our God is an Awesome God’

leeduigon(patty)January 17, 2017

Yeah, I know I’ve posted this several times before–but how would you like to see 50,000 people singing this at the Inauguration ceremony? Not scripted, not planned: the hymn just breaks out. Like a volcano. Like “Let there be light!”

Crank up the volume, boys and girls. Our God is an awesome God!

Oh, Yeah! ‘Our God is an Awesome God’

leeduigon(patty)September 14, 2016

Among the wisest things I’ve ever heard in my life was a very crisp one-liner delivered by a woman on a Christian panel talk show, many years ago on our local Christian radio station.

Asked “What do you do?” when days are dark, your faith is tested constantly and you can just feel it being worn away, when you just don’t seem to know much anymore, what do you do–

“Sing louder,” she said. I’ve never forgotten it.

Our God is an Awesome God is one of those things you may wish to sing louder. It’s been in my head all morning, and I’m glad.

Praise! ‘Our God is an Awesome God’

leeduigon(patty)August 6, 2016

This is the hymn I woke up with today, which I sang to myself this morning on my bike–a song to strengthen the soul, and give courage: Our God is an Awesome God, here performed by Michael Smith in concert with the whole audience joining in.

Youtube says “comments have been disabled” for this page. Probably it’s because this video makes atheists gnash their teeth and levitate.

But this is what it makes me think of:

God is sovereign over all of His creation, and everything in it.

The wicked are exalted in this age. They walk and talk and do whatever they please, in great pride and power.

But they are only grown as great and proud as God Himself has permitted, and they will endure not one minute longer than He has ordained.

The day and hour of their destruction is already marked on God’s calendar.

For our God is indeed an awesome God.

By Request, ‘Grace’

leeduigon(patty)June 14, 2016

I decided not to wait for tomorrow, after all, to post this worship song. There might be somebody out there who needs it. Like me.

So, at Linda’s request, here is Grace by Michael W. Smith.

Think about this. We are blind to God; but Jesus Christ gave sight to the blind. We are deaf to God’s word; but Jesus made the deaf to hear.

He still does these things. Just ask.

By Request, ‘Above All’

leeduigon(patty)May 31, 2016

Running a little late today–but before anything else, and by reader request, here’s a praise song: Above All, by Michael W. Smith.

By Request, ‘Shout to the Lord’

leeduigon(patty)May 26, 2016

Michael W. Smith deserves a curtain call after Awesome God, so here, by poplar demand, he is with Shout to the Lord, accompanied by clips from the film, The Gospel of Matthew.

I could not bear to contemplate the cruel brutality of the Crucifixion if it were not followed, three days later, by the unquenchable glory of the Resurrection. He is risen! Christ Pantocrator, Lord of All: King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Forever. Forever. Forever!

By Request, ‘Awesome God’

leeduigon(patty)May 25, 2016

Thanks, Linda, for requesting this–something to get the enemy’s knickers in a twist–Awesome God, sung by Michael W. Smith with lots and lots of backup from a whole auditorium full of God’s people. Turn up the volume on this one!

If I may use one of those military metaphors that drive namby-pambies crazy–cut loose with the heavy artillery, boys and girls! Our God made the heavens and the earth, and sent His Son to save us. What can their gods do?