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My Little Light
By Ed Vasicek
1. A little speck of light in a dark, dark world.
A drop of water in a sea of desert.
How can the pennant of my life unfurled
Truly honor the One I serve?
Refrain:
Faithful in little is what He asks of me.
My Jesus can rule this pot of clay.
Faithful in little is what I want to be,
Not a big light, just a constant ray.
2. The nation all around me is sliding down a chute.
The church has turned away from His Word.
So many tares mask between the wheat.
So many heartbreaks at the judgment seat.
Repeat Refrain
3. I cannot save the world, I can save none at all.
But Jesus can use me to reach my friend or boss.
When God prepares hearts, the Spirit comes to call.
And soon another disciple takes up his cross.
Repeat Refrain
Ending
Lord, keep my little light shining!
© 2016 by Edward J. Vasicek
Permission is given to use these lyrics freely, as long as the author is mentioned if these lyrics are published.
The Sincerity Song
By Ed Vasicek
1. The heart is a deceitful liar --
Your heart and my heart too.
I think I have good intentions,
But only sometimes do.
My sins are not just what I do,
Or how I fail to follow through.
My sins are how I warp the truth --
I am at the center, not You.
Refrain:
Lord, despite my sinful complexities,
You love me as I am.
You sent our pure Lord Jesus
To atone for impure sin.
You washed me, cleansed me, clothed me;
You humble me day be day.
You teach me not to trust myself--
You help me find the way.
2. I remember the wrongs done to me,
But not the wrongs that I do.
The short end of the stick, it seems,
Is always mine – it seems so true.
Lord, help me see my lying heart
At least as much as I can take.
Its dastardly insidious lies,
Always proving me right.
Repeat Refrain
3. I justify myself to others
And to my conscience as well.
I must revise reality
To make myself seem swell.
“I know I am not perfect,”
I declare in false humility.
I just think I am less to blame
Than those with whom I disagree.
Repeat Refrain
3. I create schemes in the back of my mind,
Feign attempts to obey and comply.
I put up a good show for others to see,
But I cannot hide from His eye.
Lord help me see my insincerity,
And get a good dose of myself.
Create in me a deep suspicion
Of the lies that come from within.
Repeat Refrain
4. Two battling inclinations I feel
Tugging at my soul in different ways.
My heart attempts to make them one,
By adjusting the books to myself.
I'd rather be ugly and honest,
Than good looking in my own head.
If to my God I want to be close,
I must swallow the truth: full dose.
Repeat Refrain
Bridge
Such a liar am I.
Who would have guessed?
But we're all the way –
From the worst to the best
Repeat Refrain
© 2015 by Edward J. Vasicek
Permission is given to use these lyrics freely, as long as the author is mentioned if these lyrics are published.
Shabbat Shalom
By Ed Vasicek
Shabbat Shalom, enter his rest.
Shabbat Shalom, Messiah confess.
Shabbat Shalom, Cease from your works
Shabbat Shalom, Find rest for your soul.
The woman flames the Sabbath candles as a type of Sabbath mime --
Teaching us a woman would birth Messiah, for Israel and all mankind.
Shabbat Shalom, peace for your soul.
Shabbat Shalom, He makes you whole.
Shabbat Shalom, forgiveness of sin.
Shabbat Shalom, a new heart within.
As HaShem finished all His creation, so Messiah finished our redemption –
His self-sacrifice brought us salvation, Messiah atoned for all our sins.
Shabbat Shalom, enter his rest.
Shabbat Shalom, Messiah confess.
Shabbat Shalom, Cease from your works
Shabbat Shalom, Find rest for your soul.
© 2015 by Edward J. Vasicek
Permission is given to use these lyrics freely, as long as the author is mentioned if these lyrics are published.
Becoming People of the Book
By Ed Vasicek
[Note: this is appropriate for Messianic Jews and evangelical Christians, but written with evangelicals in mind]
1. There's a famine in My Kingdom,
But not of bread nor wine,
The famine is My Holy Word
The Book of My design.
2. Man lives not be bread alone,
But by My holy Word.
Why do they play religion?
These infants should have grown!
Refrain
Why do they call My people to sprint, when I tell them to marathon?
Why do they imbibe broken cisterns, not the waters of the Son?
Can't they tell my Spirit from their own adrenaline?
How tragic: My children are ignorant of the Word!
3. Discipleship means study,
Offers neither glitz nor glow.
If you don't master the written Word,
Your Master you won't know.
Bridge:
A revival here, a movement there, look, come and see!
A song that touches hearts, a moving video or three.
But discipleship and renewing the mind?
That's for cold fish in the sea.
4. Trash the fads and movements --
Get off the world's hook.
Let My people be as they should be:
People of the Book.
© 2015 by Edward J. Vasicek
Permission is given to use these lyrics freely, as long as the author is mentioned if these lyrics are published.
A Simple Prayer
[Note: this is not a Messianic song, per se, but useful for many congregations].
By Ed Vasicek
1. Lord cleanse our hearts,
Many idols are entrenched.
Jesus’ blood
Can cleanse repentant hearts.
2. Lord, feed your lambs.
Give us an appetite for You.
For your Word.
Help us hunger after You.
Chorus (sung after even verses perhaps)
A simple prayer,
To the God of grace and mercy.
Our Leader firm. Who brings order from disarray.
His plans are sure. No other guides our journey.
I love him more, through stormy and bright days.
3. Lord, fill your lamps.
By your Spirit brighten us.
Take our lives,
Help us walk by faith in You.
4. Lord, help control
Our passions and our pride.
Conform to you,
For evil rages in my heart.
5. Lord help us live,
One at church, home and world.
Only one of me,
Not duplicity but love.
6. Lord, send the light
To those open to your truth.
Far and near,
To the ends of all the earth.
7. Lord Jesus come
To rapture and to reign,
On Zion’s hill,
In Jerusalem
8. Lord of all,
New heaven and new earth,
New Jerusalem,
Our destiny of joy!
©2013 Edward J. Vasicek Permission given to freely use in any form as long as lyrics are credited to the author.
Simcha for Yeshua's Birth
By Ed Vasicek
1. To an Almah would come Emmanuel,
so did Isaiah prophesy.
When the time of Messiah was upon us,
Almah Miryam would bear the holy child.
Refrain:
Let’s have a Simcha for Yeshua
As we feast and celebrate his birth.
We make ourselves merry for Emmanuel
We sing, shout, and feast in our mirth.
2. Off to Bethlehem to register
Augustus must have his Roman tax.
Caravanning from all remote spots
David’s offspring filled it to the max.
3. Time for the Messiah, time for labor.
Poor Miryam and Yosef needed space.
The Inn was filled with strangers,
A stable became the house of grace.
4. The Alma, Miriam, and Yosef,
Were shocked by the knock on the door.
What stories they heard from the shepherds!
So many miracles, what more?
©2012 Edward J. Vasicek Permission given to freely use in any form as long as lyrics are credited to the author.
Revering the Name of Yahweh
By Ed Vasicek
1. Yahweh is glorious
Yahweh is King.
Yahweh is victorious,
His praises we sing!
2. Revere His sacred Name.
Say it still the same.
We have Yeshua’s righteousness
Baruch Ha Shem, we bless.
Chorus (suggested every two verses and at the end)
He is the self existent One.
He brings into being
All that is or that will be.
Every breath
Is a gift from Him
Height and depth and space and time.
Amen and amen!
3. Yahweh is loving,
And His love reached me.
Yahweh is holy,
The darkness must flee.
4. Yahweh has saved me,
From sin and the curse,
He sent Yeshua,
The curse to reverse.
5. I bless Yahweh,
Yeshua, my Lord
I bless Him Elohim,
And my knee I bend.
©2013 Edward J. Vasicek Permission given to freely use in any form as long as lyrics are credited to the author.
The Mezuzah Song
By Ed Vasicek
1. I am a living Mezuzah,
The Law roosts in my heart.
Stone to flesh, B’rit Hadassha
Yeshua, the missing part.
Refrain
Yeshua! Yeshua! We rejoice in you!
Messiah descended to earth for us.
Yeshua! Yeshua! We worship you.
Emmanuel, Elohim with us.
2. Alive and filled with shalom,
Fruit of the Spirit, hessed.
No more a wanderer, at home
The Ruach blew life from death.
3. Oh you my people Israel,
Goyim far and near.
Messiah opens his arms for all,
As a compassionate shepherd cares.
©2012 Edward J. Vasicek Permission given to freely use in any form as long as lyrics are credited to the author.
The Galactic Blueprint
By Ed Vasicek
Before the Milky Way glowed,
Or the galaxy was founded,
Before the earth was carved out,
Or the blazing sun rounded,
You loved me!
Before the orbits were charted,
Or Saturn's rings designed,
Before the comets darted,
Or gravity could bind,
You knew me!
Before the solar winds blew,
Or the moon patrolled as guard,
Before beautiful Venus boasted,
Or gypsy asteroids wandered,
You chose me!
(possible bridge or simply eliminate)
There was a time when there was no time,
When the continuum was not.
Yet God had plans before that time,
Even though then time was not!
©2008 Edward J. Vasicek
Permission given to use in any form as long
as lyrics are credited to the author.
Shema Israel
By Ed Vasicek
Shema Israel, our Lord is One.
Shema Israel
David's promised root has come
Shema Israel
Yeshua is His Name
Shema Israel,
Forever He will reign.
Shema Israel, our Messiah Atones
Shema Israel,
Our sins He has born.
Shema Israel,
Child of Abraham receive
Shema Israel,
Let your open heart believe.
Shema Israel, Our nation will arise
Shema Israel
Onward to Zion for praise!
Shema Israel,
Adonai's Tanakh confess
Shema Israel
Jacob's children to bless
©2008 Edward J. Vasicek
Permission given to use in any form as long
as lyrics are credited to the author.
The Yom Kippur Ribbon
(based on Zechariah 12-14 and the Talmud)
By Ed Vasicek
Devout Jews mourned their many sins,
The bull bled for Aaron's family.
To where God would meet that man,
Incense masked the Seat of Mercy.
The sprinkled blood, the bull sacrifice,
To cleanse self, wife and daughter.
For Israel's sins he cast the dice
One goat for life, one to slaughter.
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