I love the song, "Your Great Name", after being in Zambia for so long and not really learning any new worship music, this is one of the things we have most enjoyed. I think I have a new favorite song every week. The other day I told a friend that I had a "new" favorite song and she asked what it was. After I told her the name, she said, "Ok, but that song is like two years old!". So, excuse me if this is an old song to you, but to me it's new and I LOVE it. Anyway, as I was singing at church today, God brought the faces of the boys into my mind and I had such a joy in my heart because of them. One of the verses says:
The fatherless, they find their rest
At the sound, of your great name!
The sick are healed, the dead are raised,
At the sound of your great name!
Jesus, worthy is the Lamb that was slain for us
The Son of God and man
You are high and lifted up
And all the world will praise your great name!
God's great name has done excatly what this song says for our boys in Zambia. The world said they were fatherless and had no life, but God has given them a home, food and school opportunity. Their rest! They were sick with disease and pain and addiction. They were dead to emotion and a future and hope, but God has raised them up. Somebody shout with me and sing the chorus because Jesus is so worhty and has done such great things. My soul magnifies the Lord!
In Zambia we have very important exams at the end of the 7th, 9th and 12th grades. It's really like the SATs in that they determine if the student can move to the next grade and what type of school he can attend. Well, thanks to His great name, ALL of our seventh graders passed this exam this year! To GOD be the glory!
Thanks for reading and keep praying for the Kakabalika boys in Lusaka, Zambia!!
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