3.25.2011

Radio Dream Machine


Radio Dream Machine
By Mariah Barkley
--A song

C-callin', c-callin', c-callin', c-callin'
All peoples out onto the stage
Black and white, young 'n grey
Not ashamed of our faith

Five six seven eight
Mountains dwarfed
And valleys short
As these people
Movin' forth
Callin' ev’ry boy and girl
Let’s go out and change this world

C-callin', c-callin', c-callin', c-callin'
All peoples out onto the stage
Black and white, young 'n grey
Not ashamed of our faith

Drop, stop, lock 'n dance
There is a fire
In our bones
It’s burnin' forth
The light is show’n'
Callin' ev’ry boy and girl
Let’s go out and change this world

C-callin', c-callin', c-callin', c-callin'
All peoples out onto the stage
Black and white, young 'n grey
Not ashamed of our faith

One two three four
Hungry for your Spirit, Lord
Give us more, let us know
Where you’re movin’ us toward
When you’re movin’ us forward
We’re ready, yeah, we’re ready

Five six seven eight
Mountains dwarfed
And valleys short
As these people
Movin' forth
Callin' ev’ry boy and girl
Let’s go out and change this world

Let’s go out and change this world
Hear the mighty sound unfurled
On your radio dream machine
Let’s pick it up! Let’s make a scene!

Callin' ev’ry boy and girl
Let’s go out and show this world
We’re not shamed by our faith
We are the voice of the saved
We’re callin’ ev’ry boy and girl
All the peoples of this world

Let’s shake it up! Let’s make Him proud!
His Spirit poured upon us now!

C-callin', c-callin', c-callin', c-callin'
All peoples out onto the stage
Black and white, young 'n grey
Not ashamed of our faith

On your radio dream machine


>:D
I had fun writing this one...not my first song but the most upbeat one.

--MovingGirl

3.12.2011

Living an Epic Life

Had a good cry last night. Sometimes there are no words to express sorrow and grief, but I believe God hears those silent prayers too.
I believe that when Jesus wept, it was the same sort of wordless emotion. Nothing else to do but weep. While he may have done other things, the Bible chooses to show that emotion. It doesn't say he prayed, it doesn't say he spoke, or gave some clever words of comfort. Nope. He wept. And I know the Father heard his tears.
Heard his groans and anguish. Anguish.
It feels like a broken heart, or the sorrow of losing a loved one.
Sometimes, I think tears are more powerful than words. And I wonder if God stops to listen just to them.
Because we are coming to him with something that we cannot express, but that we know he can understand.
And even when my heart breaks, he's there with his warmth that says "Mariah, beloved, I hear your heart."
It's those moments that help you to realize you can go on, that you can survive the onslaught of whatever is thrown your way. That you can stand firm because God the Father is there with his warmth and his comfort to hold you when it gets hard.
And my day goes on. The night continues. I get up in the morning, get ready, stop by kaladis to get my coffee, and go to work. A normal day, in which nothing has changed, and yet everything has. It feels surreal to watch people laughing and carrying on like normal. It makes me wonder why I live everyday like that. Why I live with the knowledge of a God who is greater and live like I don't.
I want to live in such a way that people look at me and see someone else, someone they long for. Jesus.
I want to live like my life depends on someone greater. Like I live for something grander. Epic. Majestic.
What everybody seeks in their fantasy worlds and their movies and books and comics and dreams. I live like that in reality because of a God who is fantastic and beyond imagination. I live in a world and a story more epic than LOTR. And I am an important character in the story. I am Frodo. I am Sam. I am filled with the love of Jesus Christ and nothing, no earthquake, no disaster, no normal, dreary day can ever ever make him any less. 
I want to live in love with Him. So that when people ask me about my purity ring, I can tell them I am holding out for God's man for my life and until then and after God will always be my first lover, my first friend, and both this ring and the next will symbolize my relationship with him.

My heart breaks for Japan. But my heart knows that God is on the move, and I want to be ready, to stand prepared for what he is calling me to. No matter what.


--MovingGirl

3.11.2011

Japan

So closely following my post about Egypt is this one.

Woke up this morning with no knowledge of the earthquake that occurred sometime last night in Japan.

Found out through various facebook stats and twitter updates. Many friends and family friends I know are in Japan or know someone close there.

Then I found the link to BBC's coverage of the tsunami and earthquake...

I cried. Cried and cried. I was devastated. 8.9. 8.9. 8.9.

I quivered.

My heart hurt, not sure how to feel, what to pray. You'd think you could think of something in this sort of situation, but there's a shock and numbing that comes. All you can do is watch, occasionally cry, and groan.

I don't know what to think. I want to be there. I want to help.

God, I don't care too much about the why, I understand we live in a fallen world and I trust in your grace and mercy, but I do want to know why now. I'm trapped here with my life, school, work, the house and a semester that still has eight weeks to go. There is no room for movement in my life right now. No possibility, opportunity, or option to go. To help. Even if I have nothing more to offer than my heart and my hands.

"No matter what, I'm gonna love you
No matter what, I'm gonna seek you
I know that you could find a way to keep me from the pain
but if not, if not, I'll trust you, no matter what."


--MovingGirl

3.04.2011

Egypt

With everything that is going on in the middle east right now you can hardly check your email without something popping up in an ad, news report, or chain letter. Not that I get chain letters, I was trying to be inclusive.
Anyway, as a curious citizen of a country that has some claim to a need to follow these events, and as a Christian, I did some research. I get the emails from Generals International and have followed up on the words they have been sending, and listening to several Morningstar Ministries videos and newsletters discussing it. And the conclusion I come to is this:
Something is happening in Egypt that has been predicted, not just recently, but for thousands of years. The Bible discusses a time when there will be a highway and an altar in Egypt. Here:

Isaiah 19:19-25. KJV
 19In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
 20And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
 21And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
 22And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
 23In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
 24In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
 25Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

So if that isn't cool, I came across another prophecy about Egypt that I'd forgotten about in the book Journal of the Unknown Prophet. Because I am too lazy to check out copyright laws (and I always feel obligated to) I am just going to basically paraphrase instead of posting the whole thing:
Egypt is commissioned by God to carry his message to their people. His people. And there will be a great outpouring in Egypt and the Arab countries that will "rise in the streets and behind closed doors, and a great rush of My Spirit shall roar and my gospel shall yet be proclaimed." (Journal otUP; pg. 143).
I'm personally excited to see the good that will come from this, to see the Savior that will arise for Egypt to save them from the oppressors, and I am honored to live in a time when I can be praying for these people, and for the fulfillment of God's word.

It's just cool.
And Israel. I never realized how many people believe that the Western church has replaced Israel...where in the world do they get that idea???? I just don't understand it. Maybe I'm weird like that and it just won't sink in but I believe God when he says Israel is his nation, his people. And that when he says everlasting he means everlasting. I am absolutely for the defending of Israel, the protection of Israel, friendship with Israel, and pure support of Israel. I'm nineteen years old. A student. Living in Alaska. With my family. Churched all my life. And in love with God. I want my heart to love and desire what he desires. And Israel is his Chosen. His CHOSEN.

--MovingGirl