I Bawled like a baby

Sunday was Resurrection Sunday the day my Savior Jesus Christ rose from the grave and conquered the grave and defeated death! This to me is the most amazing thing ever! 1^st off the fact that he loves me so much that He died for me and paid the price for my sins an innocent man who did no wrong to anyone. When He walked this earth He lived a sin free life He loved (and still loves) everyone He was a servant, a leader, a friend (the best friend you will ever have), son, and most of all my SAVIOR! 2^nd He took the worse beating anyone could ever image for me!  He was publicly shamed for me! He had nails driven through His hands and feet for me!  He bleed and died for me! 3^rd He conquered the grave for me so that I may have eternal life! He restored me to my Heavenly father so that we may have a relationship! He gave his all that I may have life more abundantly!

Ok I say all that to say this Sunday at church was a tear fest for me! First off they song one of my favorite songs at church Beautiful Exchange by Hillsong (I L.OV.E. THIS SONG).  They song it as a duet & I was like yes that is my song (yes MY song) while the couple song they played scenes from Passion of the Christ of Jesus being crucified and beaten on the large screens. As they sang the song I stood up and lifted my hands to worship my Holy God! Well the song goes on I begin to cry and am just over whelmed by his love and presence! I have only felt this way a few times in church I can probably count them on one hand. I know that my God is much more than a feeling and His love and presence is always with me but there was just something about yesterday’s service I nearly cried from beginning to end. I am just going to give you a few of the lyrics and tell you what they mean to me then I will post all the lyrics bellow and you tell me what some of them mean to you.

  The first verse says so much

“You were near
Though I was distant
Disillusioned I was
Lost and insecure

Still mercy fought
For my attention
You were waiting at the door
Then I let you in

Trading your life
For my offenses
For my redemption
You carried all the blame

Breaking the curse
Of our condition
Perfection took our place”



I accepted Christ as my savior at a young age but I know I was distant from Him many times in life He was always right there waiting on me but I would be running to friend or just plain old angry and bitter at life and did not turn to Him. I had dissolutions of myself thoughts that disagreed with what/who God says I am. He was always there always loving me when I did not love myself He is always pursuing me! Revelations 3:20NIV says “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person and they with me.” Once I let Him in accepted all that He did me I was freed from insecurities, blame guilt and anything else that is associated with the fall of man. He redeemed us! He took traded all of our bad stuff for all of His Greatness! This brings me to tears to know this great love!



Chorus:
When only love could make a way
You gave your life in a beautiful exchange



Only TRUE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE could do this for me for the entire world whoever wants it! Jesus gave His wonderful, sin free, and healthy life for us so that we could live! He took our sins our sicknesses, insecurities, and shame… (Which He had none of) and replaced them with FORGIVNESS, HEALING/HEALTH, He gave us IDENTITY in Him. There are not enough words to say how beautiful this exchange is He gave us His strength for our weaknesses



I think I am going to do a second blog on the rest of the lyrics because the more I listen to the song and read the lyrics the more I see. I would love to know what the lyrics mean to you post a comment or email me at sorayajb.thoughts@gmail.com



LOVE ALWAYS

SORAYA

Joshua 1:5 NIV “⁵ No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.



BEAUTIFUL EXCHANGE BY HILLSONG

You were near
Though I was distant
Disillusioned I was
Lost and insecure

Still mercy fought
For my attention
You were waiting at the door
Then I let you in

Trading your life
For my offenses
For my redemption
You carried all the blame

Breaking the curse
Of our condition
Perfection took our place

Chorus:
When only love could make a way
You gave your life in a beautiful exchange

My burden erased
My life forgiven
There is nothing that could take this love away
And my only desire and sole ambition
Is to love you just the same

Chorus:
When only love could make a way
You gave your life in a beautiful exchange
When only love could break these chains
You gave your life in a beautiful exchange


Bridge:
Holy are you God
Holy is your name
With everything I’ve got
My heart will sing how I love you

My First Blog YAY ME!

Ok it's my first blog ever in life. I have been wanting to blog for a while well since the beginning of 2011 lol. So I do not proclaim to be a writer or a grammar professor so there will be grammar errors and spelling mistakes. I am going to write from the heart on a range of topics from my hair to my faith just about things I love and am passionate about. Usually things will fall in these five topic areas Social, Spiritual, Physical, Economics, Mental these are the five areas that we all deal with. I am not sure how often I will update my blog I am going to shoot for once a week (but don't hold me to that).

Just a little back ground on me I am Soraya J Brown (of course). I love life! God has brought me so far and no one really knows how far he has brought me except for Him (I will talk about my story in this blog). I am who I am where I am because of Him. God has given me the most amazing family, friends, & church. I attend the most LOVING church in the entire world Faith Chapel Christian Center this is where I developed my relationship with Jesus and not just have fire insurance. Come Visit us one Sunday or Wednesday for service you can also check us out online www.faithchapel.net.  My biological family is amazing even though they are a little goofy (that’s put nicely) I would not exchange them for anything! My chosen family (friends) is a group of awesome on fire people for God. I know most of my friends from 1 of 2 places church or The Basement. I am a part of an awesome move of God here in B’ham & across the world called The Basement check it out at www.thebasementonline.com. The people here are world changers and on fire for God and I am so glad that I met them and that they are a part of my life. Ok that was just a brief (and I mean brief) summary of who I am and what goes on in my life you will read much more



Love always Soraya