Jimmy Needham "Clear The Stage" Official Lyric Video

I came across this video last night. I didn't really think too much about it, just knew I liked it. This morning I had just whisked my beloved children out the door to the bus, for the LAST day of school! We start year round homeschooling on Monday!! WOOHOO!! Pray for us!!! :) As I came back in I felt the Lord tell me, "choose ye this day whom ye shall serve!" I knew it was scripture but, I didn't realize it was Joshua 24:14-15!! WOW! I really like what it says here in this version:

Joshua 24:14-15English Standard Version (ESV)

Choose Whom You Will Serve

14 “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness.Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

I like what it says: serve him in sincerity and in FAITHFULNESS! 

I will be honest with you; whoever, is reading. I've been doing the minimum to get by. I've been reading and praying a little in the mornings and then going back to bed! I figured I owed it to myself. I have been keeping up on the house and laundry pretty well, so figured I better while I can; come Monday my naps will be over!! I only got about 4-5 hours of sleep last night (my fault) and I was going back to bed this morning after my usual little routine. But, I'm so glad spoke to me this morning! Choose whom ye will serve today! Serve Him in sincerity and FAITHFULNESS! 

I'm so thankful the loving, merciful and correcting hand of the Lord!! Aren't you!!? The Lord has done a great and mighty work in my life and is my testimony! I'm not the same person!! The Lord still has His work cut out for Him, but praise God I'm not where I used to be!! I'm so thankful the revelation, wisdom and understanding He instills in us!! 

I have this song on repeat this morning!! I have a feeling it's going to be on repeat for some time after. 

Let's clear the stage of our heart and mind!! Let's worship Him!! It's more than  a song!! We must not worship something that's not even worth it! Clear the stage, make some space for the one who deserves it!! Anything I put before my God is an idol!! Anything I want with all my heart is an idol!! Anything I can't stop thinking of is an idol!! Anything that I give all my love is an idol!! Cause I sing all I want to, yes I can, sing all we want to-and still get it wrong!! Worship is more than a song!!! Clear the stage, and set the sound and lights and place, that's the measure you must take to crush the idols!!!! Shine the light on every corner of your life until every lust and pride and lies are out in the open!! Read the Word and put to the test the things you have heard until your heart and soul are broken!!! 

I want nothing more than to please my Lord, Jesus! I am desperate for His hand, leading and guidance! I can't do it without Him! I've tried!! I've put other things in place of Him!! I've messed up and fallen plenty!! I'm so thankful He never gives up and forsakes us!!! I am so undeserving of ALL He has done and is doing for me!! I am weepingly-humble when I think about what the Lord has done for me!! He is so faithful and just to forgive! He knows what we need more and better than we do! He is all-knowing and omnipresent!! There is nothing my God can not do!! 

I pray that the Lord will break me! I pray that the Lord will send me through the fire again! I want to be and do more for Him! I know He has more for me and it's up to me how far I will go. How much am I willing to let Him come in and work and reshape and mold!? I have to be faithful too! 

I have seen the Lord answer my prayers! Prayers I have prayed for YEARS! It doesn't matter how long it takes praying for something or someone...don't give up! Don't stop now!! You've come too far to turn back and give up now!!! That's what the devil wants is to take the fight out of you! Oh and it's going to be a fight! But greater is He that in me, than he that is in the world and God is fighting for us!! We don't have to fight alone!! You don't have to do it on your own, you can't!!! Stop trying to fix it on your own!! Resist the devil and submit to God!! 

Oh God, break me of anything that breaks you! What breaks your heart, break mine! Help me to love, listen, care and see like you do!! We have to lay down our own desires! We have to crucify the flesh and keep it down!!! 

No matter what we go through here all that matters is keeping our relationship faithful with the only one who can and will save us!!

Be faithful to Him!!! Everyday we will be a better person and more fruitful if we will serve Him each day!!