Pour My Love On You by Phillips, Craig and Dean from Let My Words Be Few

Last Holy Week, I was rummaging my song books to find a song to sing at our family retreat. I didn't know there were so many good songs that I wasn't listening to. So what I did was to find the song in Youtube to hear the generally feel and melody (since I have the pieces anyway.) One of the songs that I heard was this song "Pour Out My Love On You." I immediately developed a love for this song since it talks about loving our God to the extent of our abilities.

I recall in the book of Matthew the story of the woman who had a precious and expensive perfume in her possession. And yet when she had an encounter with Jesus, she was willing to break the perfume bottle and pour out the contents on Him. Other people saw her action as very rash and not prudent. They thought why waste such a good and perfect bottle of perfume when it could buy food to feed the poor. But Jesus replied, "She has done a good thing for me... and wherever this gospel is preached, what this woman had done will be spoken in memory of her."

Here's the lyrics of the song:

Verse:
I don't know how to say exactly how I feel
And I can't begin to tell you what your love has meant
I'm lost for words
Is there a way to show the passion in my heart
Can I express how truly great I think you are
My dearest friend
Lord this is my desire
To pour my love on you
Chorus:
Like oil upon your feet
Like wine for you to drink
Like water from my heart
I pour my love on you
With praises like the perfume
I lavish mine on you
Till every drop is gone
I pour my love on you
Is there a way to show the passion in my heart
Can I express how truly great I think you are
My dearest friend Lord this is my desire
To pour my love on you
Repeat Chorus
Here's the mp3 version:

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Here's the Youtube version:


Hope you can show your love for God in your own way!

When God Ran by Phillips, Craig and Dean from Restoration

This year, I've decided to take voice lessons from a professional voice teacher and one of her assignments to me is this song. When we we're rehearsing this song, I was dubious of myself. I was thinking if I could really sing out this song as the song requires a big vocal range due to the low notes at the beginning and high notes in the chorus. I didn't really focus on the lyrics till I got home and reviewed the song.

The song is about the story of the prodigal son based on Luke 15:11-32. (I actually wrote a devotional based on the same passage which I will post next time.) But more than the focus on the son, the song focused on the father (God) and how he received his returning son (us) with anticipation, excitement and open arms.

Did you know that it was not customary for men to run in those days? But here is a father, not minding the customs, not minding the eyes of his peers, who is eagerly waiting for his son and ran when he saw his son from afar. This is true love.

Here are the lyrics:

Verse 1

Almighty God, the Great I AM,

Immovabe Rock, Omnipotent, Powerful, Awesome Lord,

Victorious Warrior, Commanding King of Kings,

Mighty Conqueror, and the only time,

The only time I ever saw Him run

Chrous

Was when He ran to me, He took me in His arms,

Held my head to His chest, said "My son's come home again",

Lifted my face, wiped the tears from my eyes

With forgiveness in His voice, He said,

"Son, do you know I still love you?"

He caught me by surprise when God ran.

Verse 2

The day I left home, I knew I'd broken His heart

And I wondered then if things could ever be the same

Then one night, I remembered His love for me.

And down the dusty road, ahead I could see

It was the only time - it was the only time I ever saw Him run.

Chorus

Was when He ran to me, He took me in His arms,

Held my head to His chest, said "My son's come home again",

Lifted my face, wiped the tears from my eyes

With forgiveness in His voice, He said,

"Son, do you know I still love you?"

He caught me by surprise as He brought me to my knees

When God ran - I saw Him run to me

Bridge

I was so ashamed, all alone and so far away.

But now I know He's been waiting for this day.

Chorus

Was when He ran to me, He took me in His arms,

Held my head to His chest, said "My son's come home again",

Lifted my face, wiped the tears from my eyes

With forgiveness in His voice, I felt His love for me again

He ran to me, He took me in His arms,

Held my head to His chest, said "My son's come home again",

Lifted my face, wiped the tears from my eyes

With forgiveness in His voice, He said, "Son", He called me Son

He said, "Son do you know I still love you?"

He ran to me and then I ran to Him

When God ran

Here's the mp3 version:

Here's the Youtube version:

I hope this reminds you to also forgive others.