New Spoken Word

With the help of my man Steve Murphy, just got done with a new spoken word for the next series at Seacoast. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsAPQYfJ1KA

In Christ,

Russo

Spoken Word Video

Check this video out and let me know what you think…

http://vimeo.com/6300906

Uprising

The time is now and the revolution has begun….for too long have we been silent….for too long have we held ourselves back…..for lack of another way to say it I must relay it simply and without hesitation….my words are plain and full of reason….I speak of treason against the prince of hatred and discord….let my words pierce and strike a chord…..this is an uprising, an insurrection against evil powers that be…don’t take it from me…the word is near you…the word of faith we are proclaiming….if you confess Jesus with your mouth and believe in your heart that he was raised from the dead….you’ll be saved….the path of righteousness has been paved…the road is narrow and hard…the gate beckons the chosen and faithful children of grace who are tired of settling for this worldly place…are you ready? Are you ready to fight with all of your might? Are you ready to throw off all that entangles and hinders you from experiencing life and peace….do you hear the call of revolution? The world is dying and crying….its imprisoned and enslaved…they sit under the authority of a dark prince….and since we’ve been saved we must advance and take the chance and risk it all to honor the call….this is the sound of history in the making….this is the sound of uprising

One Prayer

At first there was life, community and peace….brother to brother….neighbor to friend….sin enters the picture, life meets a dead end……hatred abounds, sin astounds and captures the many…unity is broken….people war over a penny…..mass fragmentation even throughout the church chaos increases and selfishness divides….Oh Lord please provide a soul where truth abides…..Jesus enters and revival occurs…..2,000 years pass and truth still stirs…..a rising revolution is coming….and then it occurs to a few to step up the game…….the generals unite…..they unite for a fight to change the plight that in the hearts of many truth will ignite.

 

One Prayer

Heaven’s Jewel

“God, you are great, through your Son you overcame the crimson stain of all my sin…the light of your presence surrounds me as your love trickles down…mending a broken heart…replacing ashes with a crown…what grace, what love, what glory divine…All I have is yours…all the doors of my heart not in part but in whole may the God of the universe heal my soul….with light speed I roll through trial and storm….even though I see no form or force, its clear that this man has been placed on a course of righteousness and love from the one above….the gentle lamb, the heavenly dove….what grace what power in sin’s dark hour…you took a weed and created a flower…a destiny of death flipped upside down…Jesus I love you…Jesus I praise you and with all that I am O Lord let me raise you to Lord of my life…cut my pride with a knife….come pain, come strife, come hell, fire and rain….God, you’re my king and its my privilege to sing to you and exalt you with joy…everything I am I now choose to employ to raise a banner of love and carry it all through the earth…it’s the birth of a new day…let God’s people say…part the ocean and sea…let the mountains bow down for the Lord God Almighty and may the trump sound…sinners repent and turn to the one….heaven’s joy….heaven’s jewel…God’s only begotten Son”

 

 

Written by Chris Russo

Desperation

The task seems too great to relate or consider….the time has come to pull the trigger….yet we find ourselves standing in front of insurmountable odds and giants of the unseen world…..we feel hurled into a fight we know nothing about….now is the time of desperation when counting on God is no longer an option it’s a must…trust cannot be manufactured….it must be born and implanted…Throughout time a battle has existed and persisted…..the casualties are numerous and cannot be listed or counted but they shall not be discounted… we’ve been endued with supernatural ability and power to capitalize on this our final hour….our moment has arrived and it is divine….the moment is here and its yours and its mine….what direction shall we take….how shall we proceed…..to begin with we must humbly concede that our understanding cannot contain or maintain the scope of the task….we must not mask our frailty or weakness for it will be used as strength in the eternal hands that carry out the eternal plans that crash into human existence from a dimension unseen…..the eternal dream proceeds and arrives……it dives into our imagination from the source of all life….dear Savior let it convict us like a knife…let it rip out our pain and strife….let it bring revolution and victory to the hearts of your precious children…sons and daughters of grace….let it reconcile creation to behold your face that all may know the secret place where you dwell….our hearts swell with praise as our hands raise to bring you fame and renown….our crown we lower and cast at thy feet….again and again we repeat our thanks….our story of your glory!

The future

I’m a work in the making…I’m moving forward with light speed…I have a seed of greatness embedded in my soul and Christ’s story must be told…I am choosing to step out of the box and be bold for what I believe…I receive the future destiny that God chose for my life…even though the road demands pain and strife along the way…my choice is to pay the price…I’m not playing, I’m not rolling the dice…my victory is certain because it is based upon what’s been done in the past which determines my future…therefore I am confident of greater things, better things…amazing moments yet to be made….the enemy has been played and that’s why I stand….I’m a work in the making and yet I’ve already been made new….Jesus, my present and my future are all for you!

The past

Who I am has a lot do with where I’ve come from and who I’ve been….I am both sinner and saint…allow me to paint a picture of my identity….I have conflict within between the person I was and the person I want to be…sometimes it’s painful and difficult to see…I have so many aspirations and so many hopes and dreams…sometimes I feel like life is on track….other times it seems to be busting at the seems…some people put me on a pedestal and think I’m better than I am…some look down at me and judge…they say I don’t have a plan….I know God sees the future and has it all in his hand…sometimes I feel alone in this dark land….I know Jesus is my rock, my fortress, my strength……I don’t know the depth of his love, nor it’s distance or length….I am a believer, a child of the King….it is in this truth alone that I find my joy to sing.

The Movement

Check out this link and then see what you think of this rendition of it….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XldsbLGV1xM

The movement of the church started 1,975 years, 5 months, 4 days, 12 hours, 8 minutes, 25 seconds ago…….blood has been spilled…prophets have been killed and yet still the church burns and turns hearts upside down through the victory of the one who gave his life and put his soul under the knife so we could experience freedom and love from the one above……40, 41, 42, 43……the enemy rages and fights like a lion…forever lying and deceiving but the prayers and testimony of the saints spurs the movement forward…we’ve come too far to stop…we’ve run too long to drop or to settle for anything less than victory….his victory and not ours…the hour is coming near for all knees to bow and all tongues to acknowledge the reign of the King…..let the prayer of the church bring heaven to earth for the birth of a new day…..1,2,3, 4……the movement grows and no one knows the day or the hour…so pray for heavens power to consume and fulfill until that day when the clock runs out and the world realizes what the story’s about.

God is about resurrection

One thing that I’ve been learning about the Lord lately is that he is about resurrection. So many times my prayers seem to go unanswered and my personal resources seem to diminish and desperation starts to set in. Once I’m in that place of desperation I begin to call out to God more and still nothing seems to happen. It is when I feel that perhaps nothing is going to happen that I begin to see the hand of God at work. It is also in those times when I see God work that I know that it had to have been him. When I reflect on those times and think about them, I begin to see what may be a divine strategy. When things don’t happen the way that I want them to initially, I start to wonder if God is dropping the ball. It is in those same times that part of me is still relying on Chris Russo to save the day. Once all hope has been lost in myself and I truly begin to believe that God is the only hope…he moves in such a way that I know it’s him. I’m not trying to advocate some formula but what I am saying is that God is no fool. For as long as we want to spin our wheels and trust in ourselves, he is ready and willing to allow us to do that. If he came through in a moment when we were only half-heartedly looking to him…perhaps we woudn’t believe it was truly him when he helped us.

God wants to get the glory in your life but he is unwilling to share it with you. I advocate that you pray big prayers and expect big results…God-sized results. Just please don’t think that God is going to operate on your time table and in the fashion that you think is best. He is adamant about getting the glory and he is the only one who is worthy of it.

 

So what do you do….

1. pray big and Christ centered prayers

2. work hard as you attempt to follow God’s will

3. wait on the Lord to add his extraordinary to your ordinary and miracles will happen!

You see, God is about resurrection. He raised Jesus from the dead and his goal is to raise us from the dead as well. That does not necessarily mean physical death…it can mean a lot of things. The reason that God is about resurrection is because who else could be given credit for resurrection than God himself. It is not that God is some glory hog in the way that we would think of a human who always wanted the credit for stuff. God knows that the only peace that we can find in this life is through knowing him and that doesn’t come easy. Why would we even want to know him if we had it all together? This means that God may sometimes allow or even cause hardship because….resurrection and life waits on the other side. I’m only beginning to learn this lesson but I thought I’d share what I was learning.

 

Have a great day and God bless,

Chris

 

Chris