"This is what You do, You make me come alive"

Origin: "This is what You do" by Bethel Music.

   "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"-2 Corinthians 5:17.   YES! This is what He does, ladies and gents! This song highlights the most important truth in all Christianity! God has made us alive! He created life and it's only through him that we can be alive again. And the more we wander away from the life of Christ, the more we die from the inside out yet our greatest weakness lies in that we consider our failures the very dead end of our road and never fail to recognise that it could be our enemy whispering thoughts in our ears!

   We are not normal beings, we are defined by who we are in Jesus Christ, we are a 'chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.' 1 Peter 2:9. We are the branches of his vine and the members of Christ's body. We are NOT defined by our darkness or by what surrounds us, we are not defined by our friends or families, and the greatest trick there is that Satan can pull on us is to make us fake our identity and search for it in this materialistic world. Well played but we're not that easy to get, we are not what the world dictates. We are what the living word of God says we are, no matter how far we run, as Christians, God will never give up on us and He will provide a way when we're lost. His helping hand is always there waiting for us to jump and grab it to be lifted up!

   This is how it goes in our lives, we are dead to sin. It can no more affect us, but hard times will come and we'll start questioning God and ourselves. But God says that the past is forgotten and hard times will no longer be found in Him because the moment you ask for it, you get a fresh new life. Being a Christian guarantees a life-changing process in Jesus Christ when we accept Him as our personal saviour. We are children of the light and we're not of darkness. We are protected and we are covered by the blood of Jesus Christ 'And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.' 1 John 5:14-15. So I pray and ask for a new life to whoever needs it and searches for it, I pray for renewed lives and forgotten pasts because it is only through You, Jesus, that we can be encouraged and move on despite the war this world declares on us. I pray for waves of mercy and grace and for people to be carried away by these waves to places they never thought they'd reach. I pray for wisdom and for tender hearts that they may see Your face and presence in all that surrounds them because this is what you do! You make us come alive!