Song Time - Be Lifted High

This song came together in about 4 days.

It's a simple song that aims to exalt the Lord.  Hope you love it.



Be lifted high, God almighty
Be lifted high, Savior of the world
Be lifted high, God almighty
Be lifted high, Savior of the world
Be lifted high

No eye has ever seen
No ear has ever heard
No mind can concieve
All the wonders of Your love

Glory to the Lord almighty
To the one who was and is and yet to come
Joining with all of the heavens
and all of creation
"Holy is the Lord"

Here's some song notes that hopefully help deciphering what I've written here:
- The middle section references 1 Corinthians 2:9-10.  In it I'm trying to communicate the greatness of God's love.  That however great or incredible we have seen, heard, or understand God's love to be, it cannot compare to what God's love really is.

- A lot of times I sing songs that I have no idea what it means.  I just sing it cause it sounds nice.  So the part "to the One who was and is and yet to come"...yeah.  I didn't really understand that.  So I did a little researching and God is known as the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.  He was there when the world began, he came to us as Jesus, and will come again for us one day.  It's kinda funny that I need to research the meaning to my own songs. Anyway, just being real with you.

- I did have an issue with the "all of the heavenS" line.  I thought about changing it to angels or something like that, but Psalm 19 says "The heavenS declare the glory of God..." So if it's in the bible, it can be in my song.  In that line though, I just wanted to encompass all things we think of as heavenly: angels, heroes of the faith (like Moses, David, Noah, etc), all of those who have past on...that we join with them in our praise.

Song time - Oh My Soul (the rewrite)

I've heard it preached/taught before that David was commanding his soul to praise God (in Psalm 103:1NASB).  That despite the hardships and difficulties we encounter (or bring upon ourselves), God is worthy to be praised and we need to remind ourselves of that...we need to sometimes command our soul to praise the Lord.

So here is the 3rd re-write of this song.  I think it is finished...
(Also I kinda messed up while singing it, but I'm too lazy to fix it up...and it doesn't sound THAT bad.)

Anyways...here we go again.

Oh My Soul

Oh my soul

Oh my soul

Oh my soul

Praise the Lord

He is good, He is good

and His love forever endures

He is peace, He is peace

Comfort for all who are in need

He is hope, He is hope

Like the dawn comes our Savior

He is God, He is God

Glorious, Sing my soul

sing now

Holy is the Lord

Holy is the Lord

Let everything within me

respond to all my eyes see

through the veil of faith and the living Word

Holy Spirit come let me see the hope

That I have in You

You alone are worthy to be praised

Forevermore

Hallelujah Hallelujah

Song Time - Revived (3/9/12)

Changed up the song a bit.  I like it a little better than the other version.  Hope you do as well.

REVIVED

breathe in me
Your breath of life

breathe in me
Your breath of life

And I am revived, filled with Your life

Consumed by the power of Your great love

Your mercy Your grace

My redemption from shame

My sin's washed away and I am made new

In You

In You

the deaf will hear

the blind will see

the lame will rise up

the captive will be free

And we are revived, filled with Your life

Consumed by the power of Your great love

Your mercy Your grace

Our redemption from shame

Our sin's washed away and we are made new

In You

In You

If you 'like' the song, you might 'like' my FB page, too...right here.

Thanks...See ya next time.

Song Time - Revived

UPDATE: changed this song a little bit. You can find the updated version here.

So just wrote a new song...
Calling it "Revived".
Just a simple prayer to the LORD.
Let me know what you think! (but be gentle please)
Here's the lyrics...

breathe Your breath of life

breathe Your breath of life

breathe Your breath of life

into me

(into me)

And I am revived, filled with Your life

Consumed by the power of Your great love

Your mercy Your grace

My redemption from shame

My sins washed away and I am made new

In You

In You

the deaf will hear

the blind will see

the lame will rise up

the captive will be free

Oh Lord we hear You

Oh Lord we see

Oh God we rise up

For You have set us free

And we are revived, filled with Your life

Consumed by the power of Your great love

Your mercy Your grace

Our redemption from shame

Our sins washed away and we are made new

In You

In You

So there it is...
I'm just trying to write songs because all I want is for us to be able to sing and give thanks to our Savior.
Hope it connected with you in some way...hopefully a good way.

If you 'like' the song, you might 'like' my page, too. I have a FB page here.

Thanks...See ya next time.

Song time - Be Still

wrote this song going through a rough patch in my life...it's about trusting that even though everything seems to be crashing down around me, I need to make time to stop and realize the LORD is there and He is God.

BeStill(082311DEMO) by jaredmiyamoto

Chorus

I will be still   I will wait here

For You to come O LORD

For You to come

Verse1

(&) save the day, rescue me once again

speaking to me words of hope

& peace, driving away all I fear

PreChorus1

In the valley of the shadow

I will find my strength in You

(Chorus)

Verse2

(&) take my hand, I am reaching out to You again

I have tried to make it on my own

but failed. I am weary and in need of rest

PreChorus2

Like the prodigal I must confess

Only You can fill this emptiness, so...

(Chorus)


Bridge

In the valley of the shadow

I will find my strength in You

Like the prodigal I must confess

Only You can fill this emptiness, so...

(Chorus)


Let your light shine.....

Song time - For You So Loved

...based off of John 3:16

  ForYouSoLoved(81111)DEMO by jaredmiyamoto

Verse 

Oh God, for You so loved the world 

that You sent Your only Son to die upon the cross 

the sacrifice for all 

 That whoever would believe 

Would gain eternal life 

For our sins are washed away by the blood that flowed from Him 

Our Savior Jesus Christ 

Chorus 

LORD You gave everything to show 

Your great love that rescues evermore 

Forever I will praise Your holy name 

For You alone are God Savior of the world 

Worthy to be praised 

Bridge 

God of mercy and grace I pray forgiveness fall like rain 

as I give my life to You Holy Spirit make me new 

& wash away my shame 

And I will join the angel's song 

singing, "Holy is the LORD" Forever and always for all of my days 

I will worship You my God 

Let your light shine.....

Song time - I Love You LORD

This song is just talking to the LORD about what He has done in my life and my response to Him.

ILoveYouLord(81811DEMO) by jaredmiyamoto

Verse

I come before You LORD  For You have made my heart to see

Your unfailing love is pouring out on me

Your mercy saved my soul Your grace it makes me clean

And I'll worship You my LORD, forever I will sing

Chorus

I love You LORD

and I will praise You with my whole heart

for my life is Yours

I love You LORD

may Your name be exalted

in all of the earth

Bridge

to the one who's saved my soul

to the one who makes me whole

to the one who redeemed me

to the one who sets me free

to the one who reigns on high

to the one who gave His life

to the one who's always faithful

O LORD my God I'll praise You

Let your light shine.....

Song time - Holy Is the LORD

This is just a simple song that I wrote to express my heart in what some call "worship". A prayer of sorts.

HolyIsTheLord(81111)DEMO by jaredmiyamoto

Verse

We praise You God above all things 

Savior of the world The King of kings 

We bow our hearts before You now in awe 

We gather here O LORD to seek Your face 

Let Your glory fall here in this place 

As we worship You with all our hearts 

Chorus

We cry out holy is the LORD 

We cry out holy is the LORD 

Bridge

Let Your glory fall here in this place as we worship You 

Let Your glory fall here in this place as we worship You

Let your light shine...

Song time - You & I

To those of you who read the blog from time to time, you probably have heard this one already. But for those of you who have just started reading...this'll be new. I just uploaded another song.

It's called You & I and basically I wrote this for Tiana. Just to say that I love her and I always will love her no matter what lies ahead. Thanks for reading and thanks for listening!
- J

YouAndI(81111)DEMO by jaredmiyamoto

Death In His Grave

This is one of my favorite songs from John Mark McMillan. Death in His Grave speaks about the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus in a way I had never heard before. Have a listen:



Recently John Mark blogged about this song and gave a line by line commentary. I was super stoked to hear that he was doing this...and when he posted it, I was not disappointed. If you're interested, here's the link. For me, it is really eye opening to see the actual depth of this song. I love it even more. Hope you do, too.

-J

p.s. 4/22 I kinda wish I could've been there in that little crowd when they were doing this video. Even in the back, that would've been good enough. I also realize that I would have been the only non white person there. That would've been cool, too.

Song time

So here's the song I wrote for my wife (Tiana). I have a few reservations about putting this up. But I called this blog stories, notes, & songs...so I gotta put up a song at least once.  Actually maybe at least twice cause songs is plural.  DOUGH!  BTW do you know how hard it is to put up a song w/ just a media player?  Well whatever the answer, it's too hard for me.  It's weird that you can post a video which has pictures AND sound, but you can't just upload an mp3 (just sound) easily to blogger.  You might be asking, well why didn't you just use the camera on your computer?  Well, I would say to you that I have a phobia of that.

One more thing, just want to give the photo credit to my friend: Mel Canite...thanks Mel! (@Mel, I'll remove the pic if you want me to) AND w/o further ado...

Did you hear where I messed up?  (The lyrics are here) AND I don't know what I was doing there at the end...I get nervous easily.   Haha.

(Love you, Tiana)

You & I

These are some lyrics to a song I wrote for my wife a couple years ago.  The title isn't that original, but I think the song itself isn't that bad.  I'll try to get a video or recording of it up some time.  But until then, it's just this:

You & I

In the beginning it was just you and me / you and me

Trying to do things right / learning how to love each other

Learning how to treat each other right

And though some people said we wouldn't make it very far

They didn't know what we had & we still have it

It's just a little thing called love

(and) If love is all we'll ever have

we'll be alright / cause love is all we'll ever need

You & I will always be / no matter what may come

no matter what may come

You & I will always be / no matter what may come

no matter what may come / just wait & see

Now as we go down this road together / you & I

We gotta help each other on / cause there'll be times in life

When we get tired

And we've seen our share of ups and downs already, you & I

But through the good and through the bad / one thing has never changed

One thing has stayed the same