Author - Clay Corvin

Change is hard
I pay a price
Inside of me
Demands advice

I squirm and complain
Why is this true?
Change is so hard
Is this what I do?

I’m not pretty in change
I’m confused and slow
My heart is panting
Is this where we go?

And then those things
I cannot name
That stands against me
They really cause pain

I want to be at the top
Change puts me low
I don’t know
Others have the show

Ego see is always here
I’m important
I count
Change discounts me

Suffering at His knee
Crying out for help
My soul is stretched
His heart pours out love

He has my attention
Amazingly I grow
All through the pain and suffering
Jesus held my hand

CC 6/4/05

I heard God say
Live this way
It is your strength
To deal with each day

I give you rules
To guide your way
Life with me
Means go My way

So many things
The Father says
I listen and learn
He is life in my head

I focus my life
On the Living Word
Searching His Word
For promises to me

Claiming each one
I journey His way
Confident in living
My life today

Time well spent
Listening to Christ
He knows the future
Like I know the past

Do this He says
As I face this day
I bend my knee
Lord I will do as you say

I will not depart
From God’s Holy Word
I will give my heart
To accepting His love

Today God spoke
As I knelt with Him
Do this He says
Immediately I did
CC 6/4/05

Sit and think
Try to do
Misdirected
How about you?

Wonderful things
In my mind
I’ll get to them
Once upon a time

All my life
I’ve thought away
If I had any say
I’d change to be the right way

Then the Lord
Came to me
I will save you
It’s for free

I took His gift
It changed my heart
Now I did what I couldn’t do
Action happens because of You

Service is just a part of the ride
I’m a servant
In service
To Jesus Christ

He guides my way
I do as He leads
My focus is changed
I serve in Jesus name

CC 6/4/05

Ideas come and quickly go
Striving to be
The one You know
And in the struggle
Comes the Word
You have heard
I am known

Surrender begins the journey
It makes me fear
What will be tomorrow?
Who will be near?

Your hand calms my fear
I am is near
Listen as I fear

The growth is in the action
Taken when I surrender
Out of my fear
I believe You are here
Then I do what calls me near
And growth is the result

Every step into the dark
Every victory of my fearful heart
Takes me one step more along my way
Being able to serve You today

The joy rings within
When victory conquers sin
And I am used again
The Lord’s work wins.

CC 5/30/05

The Plan is you
Complete and true
Straight from His heart
Making a blessing of you

Written before
Foundations were laid
Every detail expressed
Making a blessing of you

Where you are
Is where you should be
Surrender your life
He died on your tree

Judgment begins
By your choice
Refuse His plan
Sacrifice your life

The options are clear
Your were made by love
Listen and hear
He will guide your life

In each one of us
Questions ring out
Has God said?
Can control our life

Throw off the guilt
Stop with the hate
Surrender your life
Before it is too late
5/25/05 CC

All around
Friends in need
Sometimes things
Sometimes thoughts
Prayer makes a difference
Expanding my heart
Giving room for action
By the Lord’s chosen art

Never do I remember
What the moment was
A thought for a friend
Taken to the Lord
Asking Christ for comfort
Or need
For that one my heart sees
Expressing to the Lord

Do not miss your wisdom
Do not discount your strength
You may be the chosen
The Lord uses to bring
Someone in need
Before His throne
Spend time with Jesus
You will belong

The world seeks to dismiss me
It says who am I?
I am God’s child
With His work
By His strength
At His urging
Being used in victory
Before a watching world

CC 5/20/05

Alive to God
That’s what I want
I need to hear His word
I’m God created; Jesus saved and Spirit-filled

David is a pattern
His life a joy to see
In Psalm 18 he hollers out
I will leap for Thee

David leaps for Goliath
Confident of God’s hand
Knowing that this moment
Death was Goliath’s fan

Running from Saul
David does it each day with zest
Never questioning if Jesus loves him
He lives his life under test

Rounding up stray sheep
Meeting Jonathan
Pursuing God
David leapt to live

Always alive to God
Down to earth and dealing with life
David was God’s man
I want to live like that
CC 5/15/05

Jesus comes to where I am
He is looking for me
Living in this place on earth
Christ comes and gives me worth

Jesus has a plan for me
He wants me to know
That where I am
Is exactly the place I should go

All the ages praise Him
He brings meaning for me
I’m not a slave of evil
The Lord has set me free

My unusual situation
Is not something to be spurned
Jesus brings great value and worth
To wherever I might be

He doesn’t circumvent my ways
He works within me
Changing the way I see
And all the things I can be

People all around me
Each one of them count
Jesus sent me to them
To live heaven bound

He doesn’t offer shortcuts
He equips me to stay the course
I belong to Jesus
He embraces me

5/15/05 CC

Jesus came speaking
Words we had not heard
Telling us of heaven
Revealing evil’s plot

Eternal condemnation
For those that stay with self
Eternal friendship with us
If we choose Jesus way

Man is a complex creature
Yet life is very plain
We live today by God’s good grace
Tomorrow never plays

Danger, fears and options
Daily rear their head
My friend Jesus loves me
He gives me a cool head

I’m here on a mission
He told that I count
Victory is within me
As I surrender my account

Jesus speaks His Words of life
They guide me through each day
Steadily heading home to Him
My mission is on the way

He will never leave me
Relationship is His gift
Uniting me to the Father
He will never let me slip

Words of wisdom always hidden
Until Jesus came to share
God loves me forever
Christ is here to stay
CC 5/15/05

You there must beware
Christians are set free
Freedom demands of me
Control the way I live

See the one that comes to me
Angry at the way I do
Listen to their pain
Know their name

Don’t hurt them
Forgive them from the start
People need me
To hear, believe and be

Fragile fools in mental dress
Claiming life
Destroyed at best
Kindness always wins

I don’t have to prove
I cannot abuse
Their fragile life
Bend my knee to self

Serving, living, being
People need the Lord
First they need a hand
I choose to be God’s man

CC 5/15/05