Just let it be.
Listen still
free to sing in Him I wait.
Dancing all the whiles by,
no change I see
but change I feel.
Shifting wind, Ill go with Him,
disturbance pass,
I'm anchored in.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Freedom Song
Pressure, Pressure, go away, you're not welcome anymore, you're not welcome here this day,
no, you're not welcome anyday!!!
Pressure take this trample hard, go now forever, this mind God guards.
A watchful eye to renounce each fret
to me this day I can't let you get.
Pressure now refused hard out,
in His love I'm made strong, in His love I'm made stout.
Against bitter stings of arrows shot,
I refuse to yield like your mat
to rejection met.
I don't have to fight like a man;
It's in His Truth sung like a sparrow's song of freedom flying over head I can stand,
I remain.
Your rain may pour, your rain can hurt,
but it's not able to make me fail.
Not in the way my King would count,
You've not robbed me of a truth I won't too soon forget about.
My King would bless me, He doth redeems me, ever yet holding me, steadfast like His woman tree.
Roots not found in dirt or you, not in the perishable natural-
but in a King Who holds me fast in Truth, in Promise, love, security.
He speaks for me when I can't hear Him,
declaring righteousness and victory, clothed I am forever in His very robes of glory free.
Pressure you're no longer worth this girth to birth your grody word.
I stand claimed, where in my mind His stake remains, and where in reality my truth contains the freedom sounds of breaking chains,
as I apropriate the freedom song, knowing I can't not belong;
His love is for me, Grace cleans me, creates in me His Heart so pure, and I revel in,
still surrender to, love --whereby in His choice, commitment, covenance, I can't be seperated from, nothing can no scheme no blame no harm or game.
It may hurt but you're only dirt. I'm in Him, His constant Palm, where my name was etched,
my life recovered.
No blame, no harm, no shame can come, to keep my King from walking me,
into His life, His freedoms more, which speak in me when I'm so weak, to pray,
"Poppa, YOUR Kingdom come, Your will be done." I will not stand for, nor remain, to lick your stains of bitter bile.
I won't faulter any longer, I won't waiver when God's my Savior.
You keep me strong, God, you keep me fast, in your grip I seek to continue to persist!
When in my sorrow I felt so weak, I listened to His voice so sweet, and heard His love so clearly speak:
"That is finished, it is done!! No more of that bitter gall. My truth for you I will recall. Stacey Lou Hoo, how I love you, you're my winner, you're a keeper. Dance in me, in my heart, and sing your songs and write to me your love so sweet in poems, dreams and dances CRUNK, forever here- stand, swim and drink! I love you dear, forever here. Be here now, steadfast, stand still. I'm here forever, you're my treasure, take my pleasure. Freedom come, freeom reign, freedom sing over missie Senorita.
She will keep my love her rest, she's splended, swifty, of gentleness, Come to me, relax and rest!
With ears to listen at my chest, the whispers heard in each heartbeat, to speak the dancing cries, 'Be FREE my birds, come to me!'
And THAT, my dear's, your victory! Battle won, shout loud and clear!!! : 'I've Won! I've won! I stand in STRENGTH. I'm my King's Warrior Queen!' "
In Him I stand, proud and strong, because in him no wrong may steal me.
To this give ear, for He has Promised, He will keep me, not forsake me.
So in Him I trust, not each digust, that tries to lie, kill, steal, destroy me.
I refuse them, and in His Name hard out rebuke 'em. I'M NOT TO DIE to those this day, but to thrive and live in life abundant-- the gift and promise on which I can rely.
In Him alone I die to rise, yet die to live
forever and a day I may. His Grace redeems me, His death and ressurrection thrive to say, this day and next, that He's secured my stance in Him. Eternity He speaks and says, "I can't hardly wait, can you?! We'll dance and dance and sing and eat, party down to the beat, of angel's songs in loving prose, hand in hand we'll never part."
So for now I stand at His heart,
and His Dove speaks into mine ears,
and I feel freedom's draft in waving banner overhead. No eye has seen, no ear has heard, yet still we know this banner's LOVE.
no, you're not welcome anyday!!!
Pressure take this trample hard, go now forever, this mind God guards.
A watchful eye to renounce each fret
to me this day I can't let you get.
Pressure now refused hard out,
in His love I'm made strong, in His love I'm made stout.
Against bitter stings of arrows shot,
I refuse to yield like your mat
to rejection met.
I don't have to fight like a man;
It's in His Truth sung like a sparrow's song of freedom flying over head I can stand,
I remain.
Your rain may pour, your rain can hurt,
but it's not able to make me fail.
Not in the way my King would count,
You've not robbed me of a truth I won't too soon forget about.
My King would bless me, He doth redeems me, ever yet holding me, steadfast like His woman tree.
Roots not found in dirt or you, not in the perishable natural-
but in a King Who holds me fast in Truth, in Promise, love, security.
He speaks for me when I can't hear Him,
declaring righteousness and victory, clothed I am forever in His very robes of glory free.
Pressure you're no longer worth this girth to birth your grody word.
I stand claimed, where in my mind His stake remains, and where in reality my truth contains the freedom sounds of breaking chains,
as I apropriate the freedom song, knowing I can't not belong;
His love is for me, Grace cleans me, creates in me His Heart so pure, and I revel in,
still surrender to, love --whereby in His choice, commitment, covenance, I can't be seperated from, nothing can no scheme no blame no harm or game.
It may hurt but you're only dirt. I'm in Him, His constant Palm, where my name was etched,
my life recovered.
No blame, no harm, no shame can come, to keep my King from walking me,
into His life, His freedoms more, which speak in me when I'm so weak, to pray,
"Poppa, YOUR Kingdom come, Your will be done." I will not stand for, nor remain, to lick your stains of bitter bile.
I won't faulter any longer, I won't waiver when God's my Savior.
You keep me strong, God, you keep me fast, in your grip I seek to continue to persist!
When in my sorrow I felt so weak, I listened to His voice so sweet, and heard His love so clearly speak:
"That is finished, it is done!! No more of that bitter gall. My truth for you I will recall. Stacey Lou Hoo, how I love you, you're my winner, you're a keeper. Dance in me, in my heart, and sing your songs and write to me your love so sweet in poems, dreams and dances CRUNK, forever here- stand, swim and drink! I love you dear, forever here. Be here now, steadfast, stand still. I'm here forever, you're my treasure, take my pleasure. Freedom come, freeom reign, freedom sing over missie Senorita.
She will keep my love her rest, she's splended, swifty, of gentleness, Come to me, relax and rest!
With ears to listen at my chest, the whispers heard in each heartbeat, to speak the dancing cries, 'Be FREE my birds, come to me!'
And THAT, my dear's, your victory! Battle won, shout loud and clear!!! : 'I've Won! I've won! I stand in STRENGTH. I'm my King's Warrior Queen!' "
In Him I stand, proud and strong, because in him no wrong may steal me.
To this give ear, for He has Promised, He will keep me, not forsake me.
So in Him I trust, not each digust, that tries to lie, kill, steal, destroy me.
I refuse them, and in His Name hard out rebuke 'em. I'M NOT TO DIE to those this day, but to thrive and live in life abundant-- the gift and promise on which I can rely.
In Him alone I die to rise, yet die to live
forever and a day I may. His Grace redeems me, His death and ressurrection thrive to say, this day and next, that He's secured my stance in Him. Eternity He speaks and says, "I can't hardly wait, can you?! We'll dance and dance and sing and eat, party down to the beat, of angel's songs in loving prose, hand in hand we'll never part."
So for now I stand at His heart,
and His Dove speaks into mine ears,
and I feel freedom's draft in waving banner overhead. No eye has seen, no ear has heard, yet still we know this banner's LOVE.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Royal Romance
He is SO FAITHFUL. SO faithful. His eye is on the sparrow!! And His eye never leaves me. He watched me put things before Him that could never fill me the way He does. And He has said, "Let me take that. Come Here." He replaces my heart's clenches with a softening grasp, and ever more His life. His grace of riches in Love. WOW. WOW. WOW. All I want is You, my King. All I want is You. And when yet my desires do fail my heart and commitment ever lasting by YOUR blood, please grasp me with those loving hands and burn me with your passions so gently humbling. May I fall ever and ever at your feet, weeping yet more clean and clean, make me clean and a beautiful aroma like that of a blooming rose in the sweet warmth of summer. I love you.
He walks me hand in hand with Him, He has called me His bride, His crown. His queen who may move His heart, and from whom He desires affections of loving praise and adoration to enjoy. Lord, I choose your robes. I choose your righteousness. Because you have called me to wear them. You placed your love on me. Amen.
I thank you.
LLLOOOOVVVEEEE! :)
He walks me hand in hand with Him, He has called me His bride, His crown. His queen who may move His heart, and from whom He desires affections of loving praise and adoration to enjoy. Lord, I choose your robes. I choose your righteousness. Because you have called me to wear them. You placed your love on me. Amen.
I thank you.
LLLOOOOVVVEEEE! :)
Thursday, March 18, 2010
I just feel like writing again! Another new day today, here on the Great Barrier Island! Today I woke up and Mizuki made scrambled eggs, which we had talked about last night before bed! Just to do something special and different. Mix it up a little bit, yo! And it was so nice of her!
After breakfast feasting we moved on to our work duties. I-chen and Mizuki wanted to be able to go to the garden today, but they unfortunately have not been able to go in a long time because they are always needed in other areas here. Bummer.
So Mizuki and I went to the laundry room and worked on that for a while! Then we had tea break and went back to it. Then we started making beds in a couple of the rooms with a beautiful ocean view. They're called "Seaview 1 and 2." In the middle of that we heard the lunch bell, and went to eat. I got up pretty quickly after lunch to get back to finishing the bed making. I-Chen came and relieved me so I could go to the Prayer Chapel.
Yay for that! I was in need, and she knew it and said, "Go get your heart in peace!" haha so I went. She's so sweet. And there, I did a long awaited homework assignment the Lord gave me through our "Reading God's Word" speaker from my DTS three years ago, Margaret Tooley. She told us on day to make a list of lies we constantly heard in our lives, and then to write the Truth of God to replace it. Replacing lies with Truth. I needed to do this today, because I feel in some regard I'm at a place where I can actually see that there is an attack of lies I can choose to believe, but I'm aware of them. And if I choose not to believe them, I can be empowered by God's Truth to act and live and behave from that faith.
Wow. Kind of revelatory for me in more depth just by writing that out and actually thinking about the big picture. Anyway, so needed. Because God has called me out to grow up more in Him. He has told me to step out to the front lines. How can I do this if I choose to hold back in the dark? I don't have to! He gives us His Truth, and by faith I can hold onto it. And walk out in who He has made me to be.
Eventually Audrey, the chef here, came to the chapel to get me! I was due back at a certain time and didn't show up because I stayed in the chapel, and when she came in we chatted for a bit, and then went back to the kitchen! Mizuke was working on potatoes. Audrey gave me a recipe for Pineapple Pie, and that was my big project for the dinner duty! It was fun! I really enjoyed baking today! And got to do a lot of bowl licking what with whipped cream making and mashed potato helping. :) I also ate a lot of Tim's Chocolate chip and coconut cookies today, fresh baked for morning tea today. haha I'm eating a lot here.
I enjoyed working in the kitchen after dinner tonight and getting to know a couple of the women who live locally here during our weekly Thursday Community Dinner. It was a lot of fun, and good for my soul. Even though I've been quiet, I'm learning not to be so scared to be myself and speak up, because A) no one thinks I'm crazy- we're all in this community thing together and social situations are normal. B) I can be at ease, and it only gets awkward when I feel and act awkward.
That reminds me, someone else once told me how someone once told them that things are only awkward if you let them be or make them that way. Good advice!
God is such an encourager and lovingly moves us to where we can be in Him. Amen! :)
After breakfast feasting we moved on to our work duties. I-chen and Mizuki wanted to be able to go to the garden today, but they unfortunately have not been able to go in a long time because they are always needed in other areas here. Bummer.
So Mizuki and I went to the laundry room and worked on that for a while! Then we had tea break and went back to it. Then we started making beds in a couple of the rooms with a beautiful ocean view. They're called "Seaview 1 and 2." In the middle of that we heard the lunch bell, and went to eat. I got up pretty quickly after lunch to get back to finishing the bed making. I-Chen came and relieved me so I could go to the Prayer Chapel.
Yay for that! I was in need, and she knew it and said, "Go get your heart in peace!" haha so I went. She's so sweet. And there, I did a long awaited homework assignment the Lord gave me through our "Reading God's Word" speaker from my DTS three years ago, Margaret Tooley. She told us on day to make a list of lies we constantly heard in our lives, and then to write the Truth of God to replace it. Replacing lies with Truth. I needed to do this today, because I feel in some regard I'm at a place where I can actually see that there is an attack of lies I can choose to believe, but I'm aware of them. And if I choose not to believe them, I can be empowered by God's Truth to act and live and behave from that faith.
Wow. Kind of revelatory for me in more depth just by writing that out and actually thinking about the big picture. Anyway, so needed. Because God has called me out to grow up more in Him. He has told me to step out to the front lines. How can I do this if I choose to hold back in the dark? I don't have to! He gives us His Truth, and by faith I can hold onto it. And walk out in who He has made me to be.
Eventually Audrey, the chef here, came to the chapel to get me! I was due back at a certain time and didn't show up because I stayed in the chapel, and when she came in we chatted for a bit, and then went back to the kitchen! Mizuke was working on potatoes. Audrey gave me a recipe for Pineapple Pie, and that was my big project for the dinner duty! It was fun! I really enjoyed baking today! And got to do a lot of bowl licking what with whipped cream making and mashed potato helping. :) I also ate a lot of Tim's Chocolate chip and coconut cookies today, fresh baked for morning tea today. haha I'm eating a lot here.
I enjoyed working in the kitchen after dinner tonight and getting to know a couple of the women who live locally here during our weekly Thursday Community Dinner. It was a lot of fun, and good for my soul. Even though I've been quiet, I'm learning not to be so scared to be myself and speak up, because A) no one thinks I'm crazy- we're all in this community thing together and social situations are normal. B) I can be at ease, and it only gets awkward when I feel and act awkward.
That reminds me, someone else once told me how someone once told them that things are only awkward if you let them be or make them that way. Good advice!
God is such an encourager and lovingly moves us to where we can be in Him. Amen! :)
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Goodness
Oh Love! Thank you Lord, for your LOVE! And Faithfulness. His mercies are new everyday. And He is continuing to remind me of His faithfulness and failthfulness in PROMISES.
My time here at Orama is full of God's Promises and fulfillments of promises. Amen! God's Living Water has been spoken over this place, that people would be refreshed by God's Spirit in spending time in His Presence here. Amen! May it be. It is!
God has been answering prayer. I wanted to testify and just give a bit of an update. The only updates are of God's beautiful Loving kindness, breakthroughs and going deeper as His GIFTS IN GRACE. HIM. It's HIM. And answers to prayer!! BEAUTY!
God has been answering prayer. I wanted to testify and just give a bit of an update. The only updates are of God's beautiful Loving kindness, breakthroughs and going deeper as His GIFTS IN GRACE. HIM. It's HIM. And answers to prayer!! BEAUTY!
haha I do have a silly update! I so looked forward to the day that sheep would be grazing up close and personal in the area I hang up laundry, a smallish area in a gated pasture. It finally happened this week! A bunch of sheep, so much bigger and rugged and beautiful, came down as I hung laundry, eating the beautiful grass away! They came walking by and ran across the paved path I stood on. I kept my eye on them just in case sheep charge. I've never heard of them doing that, I took 'em always as quite timid. Needless to say, I enjoyed it!
Blessings!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
First Day Photos
Hostel cat. hehe
sideways, but the beautiful garden outside the hostel
front door view
hostel The Brown Kiwi
my Ponsonby walk
First view of ocean while walking
Sky Tower
I totally made it to New Zealand! :) Amen! Yay!
So I took lot's of photos already and ran the battery dead on my camera! Unfortunately, I packed only the charger and not the cord to plug the charger into an outlet with! :( I have to wait to get either get in the mail or figure something else out!
In the meantime, I do have some photos transfered onto my comp from my first day in Auckland! I was beat! But I managed to get out for a lovely walk after a few hours of SLEEPING.
I had no idea where I was staying when I first arrived, as my plans fell through. So after a few phone calls, I found a backpackers with availability! It was in the Ponsonby area of Auckland! So nice-- outside of the main hustle and bustle of everything, yet still within walking distance!
These photos are of the Ponsonby area and the hostle! A lovely young man GAVE ME his NZ outlet the day I arrived because he was leaving back home!
I spend two nights in Auckland. The second day I went to an island called Waihiki Island and I actually visited two vineyard estates and tasted a little bit- one flight was for free with a voucher I received when walking onto the ferry and the other was a fee per wine, so I only tasted one! Then I dipped in the ocean at a bay and walked back to the ferry stop to go back to Auckland! I had a hotdog for dinner from a vendor that night!
I arrived on the Great Barrier Island yesterday afternoon via VERY LITTLE aircraft! haha I had to wear earphones, and actually had the whole plan to myself and the pilots. It was beautiful over the ocean and I overlooked the blue water, birds, clouds, sailboats, and islands! Gorgeous day!
Arriving here was beautiful and still. It is very quiet here right now as Orama just said goodbye to some guests and currently have only two ladies staying on the property right now to do some treking.
I met my roommates and fellow volunteers last night and we had dinner together at a staff member's home-- he caught a lot of crey fish and knows how to cook because he was a chef in Auckland for a time. So I really enjoyed that meal and my time getting to know the other volunteers!
There are four other volunteers right now, although one girl, Pauline from Switzerland, is leaving on Thursday! :( She is so fun and helpful and funny! I'm sad to see her go already just after getting to know her. I shadowed under her today for my first day of work duties and will again tomorrow! Then Wednesday we all have off. I'm actually going to a dentist on Wed! Please pray for my teeth! I'm having some pain and need help. Anyway, it is a very interesting dynamic! The volunteers are not believers, they don't know Jesus yet. They came with an organization from their countries (Taiwan, Japan, Germany and Switzerland are represented right now!) So I wasn't expecting that, but I am so excited for God's plans anyways! They have been here for many months!
I spent some time in the prayer chapel last night and visited for some prayer again tonight. It has been being built over the last month and a half and is nearly finished. I am so excited for God's plans with that!! I am also really looking forward to the soon-to-arrive worshipers. God brought in another applicant last night, which makes 8 students. They really are hoping for more before finding out if the school will officially go-- please pray for more applicants! Amen. :)
I feel so blessed at God's faithfulness. This place so far has really allowed Him to meet me in the ways I expected, hoped, visioned, and anticipated for these past two and half years since praying to come back. I felt God wanted me to pray and just be with Him! And that is happening, and there have been great opportunities in the stillness and quiet so far! Woo hoo!
I am fighting off moths right now since the lights went out (we're on generators) and the only light is my laptop! So I'm going to go to bed now! I miss my family and my fam and church friends have been very close to me in thought and prayer already. Thank you for covering me with prayer and support. Thank you for reading!
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