Bride's Song

 “We’ll Come Running” is a song based on Hosea, Chapter 11.  This song written by Len Douglas and June Schuldt parallels the journeys of Israel and the United States of America.   Israel, God’s chosen nation and America who chose God.  America chose God when the Puritans came to the shores of North America and established covenant in this land with the settlers and with God through the Mayflower Compact in 1620.  Both nations have a stormy history of numerous times falling away and then returning to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.    This song takes the narrative of God’s relationship with Israel as expressed in Hosea, Chapter 11 and develops a dialogue between God and His people.  It is a dialogue of history, intent and question.  It is a dialogue that requests an answer from God’s people.   In Verse 1 Israel/America is called by God.  God has a divine destiny for these nations and as a result the enemy has plans to d...

  Len Douglas, worship leader, musician and songwriter gave me this song to record in 2019.   Len, his wife Gail, our friend Marcia and I are an Intercessory Worship Team, Incense Rising.  We meet to worship, pray and plant God’s desires for our region through decreeing His Word and prophetic song.   Last year Len had been meditating on John 20 and Mary Magdalene’s encounter at the empty tomb on the day of resurrection.  This song is filled with a depth of emotion; of loss, then surprise and unspeakable joy.  “We seek the one we love so such, we brought the spices for a final touch. It’s an act of worship, in our own way but His love was greater and He couldn’t stay.”   Later in the song the lyric changes to, “He brought the spices for a final touch.” That resurrection morning the women came with their precious spices for Jesus.  It was their act of love that compelled them to go with their spices to the tomb that morning.  At that...

    One day while Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of religious law were sitting nearby. (It seemed that these men showed up from every village in all Galilee and Judea, as well as from Jerusalem.) And the Lord’s healing power was strongly with Jesus.  Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a sleeping mat. They tried to take him inside to Jesus,   but they couldn’t reach him because of the crowd. So they went up to the roof and took off some tiles. Then they lowered the sick man on his mat down into the crowd, right in front of Jesus.    Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the man, “Young man, your sins are forgiven.”    But the Pharisees and teachers of religious law said to themselves, “Who does he think he is? That’s blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!” Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts?    Is it easier to say ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Stand u...

  In Luke 4:14-30 we read about Jesus returning to His home town of Nazareth.   He had just begun His ministry after being tempted in the wilderness for 40 days.   He returns to Galilee in the power of the Spirit.   Jesus went to the synagogue on the Sabbath and read from the scroll of Isaiah. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering if sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. The people in the synagogue were impressed by Jesus command of the scriptures and marveled at his words.   They requested a display of the miracles they heard about in Capernaum but Jesus does not respond to them as they expect.   Instead, He begins to speak the truth about the present state of things in the Israel and the crowd was enraged and tried to throw Jesus off the cliff.  What hap...

  Are there times in your life you feel like God has abandoned you?   Prayers seem to be unanswered and heaven appears to be silent.   You wonder if you can take another loss, disappointment or crisis in your life.    In the middle of it all you ask yourself, “how did I end up here?” In the book of Ruth, Naomi, Ruth’s mother- in- law finds herself in that place.   She left Bethlehem in Judah with her husband and two sons during a time of famine seeking better provision in the land of Moab.   He husband, Elimelech died and Naomi’s sons married Moab women.   After 10 years both sons died and she was left a widow with her daughter- in -laws in a foreign land.   They were her only family in Moab and being a widow in their time in history was truly a crisis.   They had no one to protect them, no means of support and were at risk of starving if they did not find others husband or family to reside with.   There is much more to Naomi’s ...

  Mark 4:35-41 This has been a difficult season 2020 and now early 2021. Not only has it been a year of dealing with COVID-19 but everything in our world seems upside down. What is good is labeled evil, what is evil is considered good. If you don’t agree with what is popular, you are canceled. Executive orders are at an all time high and freedom seems to only belong to the lawless. As an intercessor my heart was weary. Intensive prayer had been going on for over a year. I was irritable and didn’t want to hear anyone’s opinion on anything. I sat doing a jigsaw puzzle in our house by the lake. As I tried to forget about the stresses of life I just got more angry. I heard in my spirit, "get in the bottom of the boat." I knew that voice was Jesus. I tried to ignore that voice and continue to entertain my frustration but the voice came again, "get in the bottom of the boat." I knew what the LORD was showing me if I continued to entertain these negative thoughts they woul...