It's monday again, and I continue my devotional series but I'm going to leave 1st kings for a little while. Yesterday I sang a song from Jeff Deyo called "Jesus I surrender." This morning I'm going to explore that song what it means to me and look at the scripture verse Jeff based the song off of.

Here's the chorus:

Jesus, I surrender
I draw nearer
I fall down
Master, be my Savior
Be my shelter
Be my God

One of the observations I've had is that the farther I get away from God many things seem to fall apart. Songs that remind us to surrender give us a great chance to come close again to God and remarkably the life issues that you were struggling with begin to work themselves out. When I was singing this song I was thinking of returning to the very throne of God, the most logical thing to do when coming to the throne of God after a long time away would be to fall down in worship. Many people on sunday had chosen to come to the front and fall down to the lord, for them I see a great passion and if I see it for sure the Lord sees much more. The chorus continues to say Master be my Saviour, this is a great cry to the Lord it says I'm sorry for disobeying you or simply ignoring you, please save me. He then continues to say be my shelter which speaks of habitation, I don't want to live apart from you, I want you to be my God which is my everything.

The scripture verse that Jeff based this song from was:

Psalm 5:7 (The Message)

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7-8 And here I am, your invited guest—
it's incredible!
I enter your house; here I am,
prostrate in your inner sanctum,
Waiting for directions
to get me safely through enemy lines.

to find out more about Jeff Deyo visit http://www.jeffdeyo.com/

Thank you Lord for your servant Jeff I pray that you bless him with strength health and peace for him and his family.

Lord I also pray that you would fill our congregations with inspiration from heaven to write and pen beautiful songs that will touch many generations.