Every Day
Right from the opening “ooo’s,” you know it’s going to be good. And when that first chorus hits, you can’t help but sing along:
Every Day
New Single From PEOPLE & SONGS Releases On Leap Day, 2020
Right from the opening “ooo’s,” you know it’s going to be good. And when that first chorus hits, you can’t help but sing along:
I gotta sing out a new song
Until my heart sings along
I’m gonna lift up a true praise
‘Cause You make me glad
So I will rejoice
Every Day…
“Every Day” is the latest single from PEOPLE & SONGS, released (ironically) on February 29, a special day that only comes around once every 4 years.
Wesley Nilsen, vocalist and bassist for PEOPLE & SONGS and one of the song’s co-writers, reflects, “Psalm 96 says, ‘Oh sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord all the earth! Sing to the Lord, bless his name, tell of his salvation from day to day.’
“My salvation story is not always the first thing on my mind when I wake up in the morning, or even the central meditation of my heart throughout the day. But that’s to be expected; as humans, we’re all distractible and forgetful. I have to choose to obey the command to ‘sing a new song!’ My salvation isn’t a thing of the past; every day there is some new way that Jesus is working in me. He’s always leading me deeper in the new life I was born into. Like the chorus of this song says, I have to sing UNTIL my heart agrees with the truths that are being sung. That’s how I choose joy and stay thankful for what He’s done and what He’s doing!”
The third verse begins:
I tried to do life on my own
It left me empty and alone
I needed You to come and fill me...
Mary Grace, who sings lead on the third verse, says, “I love that reminder. We need Him to completely fill every space that we have tried to fill with lesser things. God longs to inhabit every part of our lives. He gives new life. He restores. He is redemption.
“It was such an honor to sing on this song with my good friends Wesley Nilsen and Kaden Slay,” continues Mary Grace. “I love the power behind the words ‘I’ve gotta sing out a new song until my heart sings along.’ Training our souls to sing in spite of what we feel is such a good skill to practice as a believer. I pray that this song helps you to lift your head no matter the circumstances and sing out your very own song to the only worthy King.”
“Every Day” was written by Wesley, Charity Gayle and Jairus Withrow, and recorded at the 3rd annual Turn Up The Lights worship festival in La Porte, Indiana last October. The purpose of Turn Up The Lights is to unite churches and entire cities in lifting up the Name of Jesus. “It’s stunning to realize that what began here in 2017 has quickly spread to various parts of the United States,” said Jennie Lee Riddle, founder of PEOPLE & SONGS and Turn Up The Lights. “This year we have seven festivals scheduled across the country.” For more information, go to turnupthelights.org.
Charts for “Every Day” are available on the People & Songs web store.
Also available on SongSelect. https://songselect.ccli.com/Songs/7145985/every-day
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He Is Right Here - Devotional
It’s easy to medicate ourselves with routine, escape, and any other thing we think might help ease the pain; intentionally and unintentionally. Maybe it’s because we don’t feel worthy, or maybe we’ve just blown it. Maybe we’re just actually afraid of intimacy with God.
He Is Right Here
By Kaden Slay
Are you feeling extra human today? Need someone bigger than you today who can handle your world full of cares? Do you need someone who can answer the cause of your prayers? It’s easy in moments of vulnerability and pain to distance ourselves and even pull away from God, if that’s possible. It’s easy to medicate ourselves with routine, escape, and any other thing we think might help ease the pain; intentionally and unintentionally. Maybe it’s because we don’t feel worthy, or maybe we’ve just blown it. Maybe we’re just actually afraid of intimacy with God.
But here’s the thing: in reality, that’s all God wants with us. It’s the reason He created us. To love and be loved by Him. He doesn’t need us, but He wants us. He wants to draw close to us. To have relationship with us. God’s desire is to draw close enough to us, to enter into our hearts, to fix all of the problems we think we have to handle on our own.
But that requires us to be vulnerable. Flesh does not want to be vulnerable. Vulnerability eats at our pride and the closeness makes us feel uncomfortable. But for the healing we need to take place, we have surrender some things: our pride, our will, our need for control. But with the surrendering of these things comes the surrendering of a few other things as well. We get to lay down all of those heavy things we carry. All of that sorrow, all of that regret, the burdens, the guilt, the bitterness, it all goes onto the shoulders of the one Person who is strong enough to carry it all: Jesus. It’s not too heavy. You’re not too heavy. He is right here to handle everything you’re not big enough to carry.
One Thing I've Learned - Devotional
Like that prodigal son I had always read about, I took what God had given me and ran as far and as fast as I could only to waste it all on things that I was sure would make me happy. I made my bed in a wasteland, and man, did I lay in it...
One Thing I’ve Learned
By Kaden Slay
There was never really a time in my life where I didn’t believe in God. I grew up the son of a Missionary who would later become a Pastor. I knew the Word, I heard the stories, I sang the songs. I had two faithful, God fearing parents who taught me right from wrong. But when it came right down to it, although I believed in Him I did not believe Him or know Him. I had relied solely on the Light in others to get me through my own darkness . A season of physical illness, a heartbreak, a few wrong friends were all it took for me to turn around and find myself completely stranded in a self-made wilderness. Like that prodigal son I had always read about, I took what God had given me and ran as far and as fast as I could only to waste it all on things that I was sure would make me happy. I made my bed in a wasteland, and man, did I lay in it.How often do we, the Sons and Daughters of God find ourselves leading lesser lives? Princes and Princesses, living as beggars, eating with pigs? So scared of their mistakes that they’re willing to settle for less than everything God has promised them. For me the trap was the need to be right vs. righteous. I would have much rather hid my sin (my pride prefers to call them mistakes, but my heart knows it’s sin) from everyone than admitting the truth. I would have rather slowly died. It was mortifying to tell the truth. That’s pride. It kills.
But the all-sufficient grace of God is relentless.
“I can never escape from your Spirit!
I can never get away from your presence!
If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I go down to the grave,you are there.
If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night—
but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.” PSALM 139: 7-12
Where can we go? Where can we run? I say from experience that there is NO WHERE. He is not a man that He would lie. It’s easy to want to hide and let ourselves believe that we have gone too far. But Psalm 103:12 tells us that we are not defined by the things we once did. God takes them as far as the east is from the west, and when He does that, it’s no longer ours to carry, it’s no longer our’s to see, it’s no longer our’s to deal with. Fighting with our past is redundant because it’s undoing what God has already done. The Lord is a good Father, faithful to love and to give. We don’t deserve it, we could never earn it, yet it’s completely given unto us. All we have to do is receive it.
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The Mercy Of Jesus - Devotional
Maybe your life is exactly what you want it to be. Maybe you have everything you need, but you feel like there's something more.You need an anchor. A guiding light. Something to hope for.
Mercy of Jesus
Devotional By Kaden Slay
When I think about the Mercy of Jesus, it always brings me back to what could have been. What SHOULD have been. My heart was broken, my body was tired. Apathetic and bitter. I had no hope or faith left to believe in anything. Maybe that's the boat you're in. Maybe you've lost something you once held dear and now you're lost in a wilderness. Maybe your life is exactly what you want it to be. Maybe you have everything you need, but you feel like there's something more.
You need an anchor. A guiding light. Something to hope for.
You're not alone, and you never have been. You're not blind, your eyes are squeezed shut for fear of seeing what could hurt. Your heart is numb now. Get up. Look around you. Those burdens you're dragging around? That heartbreak? That guilt from past mistakes made? That fear of what may come? That sin that's separating you from God? That deadness deep inside you? That's all too heavy for you to carry and impossible for you to make right. Turning your head away won’t solve it and it's too broken for you to fix alone. But you're not alone.
All of us, even believers, have let flesh carry us to a place beyond what we ever intended. We do the things we don’t want to do, and don’t do the things we want to do. (Romans 7:19) We all sin, we all fall short. There is no exception. But we’ve been given the invitation to a new life with Christ. We are to set our sights on the things of Heaven and turn away from lust, greed, revelry, malice, all the things that eat away at what we know is right. In God’s mercy we our dead to these things and are made alive in Christ Jesus. (Colossians 3)
Jesus took the full weight of all the sin, shame, and guilt upon Himself on the cross. Then He died the death that our sin was dragging us all toward. Then, 3 days later, He rose from the grave proving that once and for all He had conquered death, Hell, and the grave. We were all destined for that punishment. That's what SHOULD have been. But, Jesus thought you were worth it then. He sees you worth it now.
The wages of sin is death. But because of what He did, every ounce of sin and regret you carry is no longer yours to bear. We're ALL in need of a Savior, all you have to do is being honest about it with Him and let Him in.
Turn to Him. I prayed a prayer one day when I found myself desperate to be clean, desperate to breathe. Hungry to live. I've never been the same since. It went something like this:
"Dear Jesus, I know what I've done. I know that you've seen it all. I know that I've ignored you. I'm broken beyond worldly repair. So I will relinquish all my control. I've lost all control. I give up my right to justify my behavior and act based on how I feel. I ask that you would please forgive me for it all and give me a new heart and a future. I want to trust and follow You alone as my Lord and Savior. I want You to be my God, this moment now and forevermore.
Amen."
For the believer, there is a new grace and mercy to lean into every morning. For the unbeliever, the door is open to life and life more abundantly with a Father who loves you more than anyone on this Earth ever could. The Mercy of Jesus covers us all.