Oh My Jesus, My Immanuel God Is With Us ~Original Keyboard Instrumental & Vocal Meditations For The Christmas Season

Praise our wonderful Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for blessing me with another Christmas album to share with you for this holy advent season as we celebrate the wonder surrounding the birth of our Lord.

The tracks on my latest release are more like a musical meditation reflecting the Christmas story when the album is considered as a whole unbroken composition. The songs are best listened to in sequence and meditated on while reading and praying through the Gospel stories related to the birth of Christ.

The Lord gave me a beautiful worship song for this album. It is simply called “The Jesus Worship Song”.

Very often I don’t know what to pray for even as the scriptures attest: “In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, Romans 8:26- NASB1995

Though I often don’t know how to pray as I should, yet the Lord helps me pray the simplest, most unfailing prayer: the humble prayer of Jesus’ holy name.

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus… name above all names, a prayer that is always according to the will of God that ever brings glory to the Father. For Jesus said, “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.” John 14:13-14 NASB1995

May I ever sing it, ever pray it, for it glorifies the Father, it honors my Savior who died for me to redeem my soul.

My Lord will ever pray God’s will for whatever my need, and His prayers are always answered according to His will…oh praise Him for His gift of this beautiful prayer song.

For even as I am praying Jesus’ name, Christ’s Holy Spirit is within me praying according to the Father’s will, as I worship my Lord. I know He knows how to pray even when I don’t.

“… but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”~ Romans 8:26-27 NASB2020

Some of God’s children will say the song is a “vain repetition…” (*see Matthew 6:7)

But truly anything is a vain repetition if it is done for God repeatedly and yet the heart is not in it. For then it is as dead and lifeless as a sculpted praying angel.

What are vain repetitions? What is a vanity?

Something performed without meaning.

If I am praying to God in church or my quiet time, and my heart is on lunch, or social media, my work, or myself, then my prayer is a vain repetition.

For I am repeating this religious ritual over and over and it is in vain that I am drawing near to Him with my lips, yet my heart is far from Him, for so the Lord Jesus said to the Pharisees.

Anything I do repeatedly with an empty heart toward God is a vain rhyming pattern or a binding chain that means nothing and leads no closer to Christ, but is in fact leading us farther from Him. For my heart is somewhere else. It’s not on Him.

He sees and knows if my heart is serving Him in truth or is a charade.

But when we pray to the Lord in Spirit and in truth, with a humble pure heart, our prayers are heard. Even when we do not know what to pray for.

“For this reason also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” ~Philippians 2:9-11 NASB2020

The Lord is honored when we exalt His beautiful name in prayer, in worship, in every way we can!

May we proclaim His name throughout the whole earth and of it never be ashamed!

May our Lord and Savior be ever glorified! May we pray to ever love Him more and more, now and forever!

And may this prayer of His Holy Name be on the lips of all His children who like me, may not know how to pray sometimes.

The prayer song of His Holy name is a beautiful gift from Him.

For Jesus Christ is the Gift of the Father!

“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”

2 Corinthians 9:15 NASB2020

In Jesus’ name amen.

Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father,

May Thy Holy Son be ever glorified through the songs You blessed us with this Christmas on this album, thank You so much! Please ever draw our hearts closer to Thee, to love You more and more, now and throughout all eternity.

I love You, In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

To preview the Jesus Worship Song and all of the Christmas songs on Oh My Jesus, My Immanuel follow the link to my Hear & Now music website at the following link:

https://suzannedavisharden.hearnow.com/oh-my-jesus-my-immanuel-god-is-with-us-original-instrumentals-vocal-meditations-for-the-christmas-season

Peaceangelsong Oh My Jesus, My Immanuel God Is With Us ~Original Keyboard Instrumental & Vocal Meditations For The Christmas Season, Album Notes by Suzanne Davis Harden Through The Indwelling Risen Lord Jesus Christ, Inspired by His Holy Spirit, To The Glory of God the Heavenly Father, In Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen. Copyright © 2023 by Suzanne Davis Harden All rights reserved.

Original Video Painting

Featured ~ Suzanne Davis Harden

God So Loved The World ~27 seconds

God So Loved The World is a 27 second scripture painting video the Lord blessed me with this past Saturday October 21, 2023.

After suffering from a severe migraine the Lord encouraged me to paint a picture of Christ with the crown of thorns, to remember that He’d once suffered violent pain in His head too when He died for all our sins. He understood my suffering and was with me. As I painted I felt His presence comforting me.
He gave me the scriptures in this video to meditate on after I felt better and could create this project ~~which I pray will encourage everyone as much as it has encouraged me, in Jesus’ name, amen.

Credits:

The Art software I used to paint the picture on my IPad is an app called Sketchbook. I used Adobe Software to add the animations and desing the graphics; I used IMovie to assemble the video and then Picollage to create a border around it.
😊 ~~I just discovered PicCollage could even create videos! What fun!

I have been too hampered with migraines to make many videos lately so am excited when the Lord does enable me with the grace to make one not only to comfort and encourage me, but to share with His children!

May this effort bless you all and remind you of His great love and sacrifice for each of us, especially if you are in a challenging situation, shadow valley, or suffering pain.

May all who read this know that you are ever in the Lord’s prayers. For the Bible says that Jesus is always praying for us at the right hand of His Heavenly Father every day and night, and He knows our every need, and His prayers are always answered according to God’s will at the right time. The Lord loves each of us as if we were the only child He had to love. He has no special favorites, for all are His favorites, In Jesus’ Name amen. 🙏🏽❤️💕

Painting video © Suzanne Davis Harden Accomplished Through The Indwelling Risen Lord Jesus Christ,Inspired by His Holy Spirit, To the Eternal Glory Of God the Father, In Jesus’ Holy Name, At whose Name Every Knee Shall Bow, Every Tongue Confess
That Jesus Christ Is Lord Forever and Ever, Amen.

God Will Be Waiting

Featured ~ Suzanne Davis Harden

Most people assume that when someone becomes a Christian that their lives will be a glorious paradise afterwards.

That it will be as if Christ had come and whisked them off to Heaven and they will henceforth have no more troubles in this life.

But my walk with the Lord has been just the opposite.

And from my study of scripture, the Gospel teaches that Christians should expect suffering as a normal part of their journey with Christ.

One is either called to suffer or to serve those who are suffering.

There are no two ways about it.

Jesus said, “And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after Me, is not worthy of Me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for My sake shall find it.” Matthew 10:38-39 KJV

All God’s children are equal and the Lord has no favorites.

Jesus said, “““…You are all equal as brothers and sisters…Whoever serves you like a servant is the greatest among you. People who think they are better than others will be made humble. But people who humble themselves will be made great.” Matthew 23:8-12 ERV

I live with an autoimmune illness that causes me to suffer from chronic daily migraines. These have been all but unbearable in the past few months. But for the grace of my precious Savior, I could not survive them.

When Christ saves a soul, it is not to take us out of this world, but to help us overcome it through His power, strength and grace.

Only Christ’s presence within me enables me to survive through the darkness of this illness.

Any artist or photographer who works primarily with graphics or photography software will be familiar with a function known as the invert tool that reverses an image from light to dark.

During severe migraines all of the light goes out of my heart and it’s as if I have been transposed into a shadowland of darkness.

I cry out to Christ to reverse me back into His world of light and love where there is peace, hope, and joy.

For in the inverted world of darkness there is no joy, hope, or peace, only intense suffering and pain.

Oh Jesus, I pray! Guard my heart from the world of darkness in this place of trouble and fear and pain.

And Jesus comes and holds my hand. He is with me in the storm and guides me safely through.

For His Word promises, “…Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Psalm 23:3-4 KJV

And He keeps every promise forever. Psalm 146:6

He promises “… I will never leave you; I will never run away from you.” Hebrews 13:5 ERV

“Be strong and be brave. Don’t be afraid of those people because the Lord your God is with you. He will not fail you or leave you.””

Deuteronomy 31:6 ERV

God brings the soul who trusts in Him through their trials.

He has proved Himself faithful time and again as my saving strength.

No amount of prosperity, fame, money or anything material will purchase peace, joy, or health.

If one comes to Christ seeking Him for material blessings they will be sadly disappointed. For He is not found in secular things that can be lost in the blink of an eye. I lost my health in an instant and my world was upended in the prime of my life. Never would I have suspected that I would lose something I had taken so much for granted.

Christ is a spiritual God who will be there for the soul even when they have lost everything else in this world.

For the world and everything we see around us is passing away, and when it is gone, God will be there waiting for every child who believed, hoped, and trusted in Him all along.

Jesus said, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 KJV

In Jesus’ name, amen.

This is a prayer poem that I made this morning in my journal after suffering from a horrible migraine. Once the Lord got me through the storm He helped me make this graphic so I could share this prayer. I pray He will use it to bless others who suffer through the shadow valleys as I do, in Jesus’ name, amen.

In Jesus’ Name (Prayer Poem)

Featured ~ Suzanne Davis Harden

Illustrated Prayer poem…In The Name of Jesus about the importance for Christians to hold on to the name of Jesus as taught in the scriptures

Whatever you do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus…Colossians 3:17

Illustrated original Scripture paintings ~ each scripture points to the importance for Christians to hold fast the name of Jesus according to God’s Word.

Prayer to ask God to help us learn through personal study of the Scriptures that God would teach us why we should keep hold of Christ’s name.

Peaceangelsong, Original Illustrated Prayer Poem and Scripture Paintings, (Poem and Images) Copyright ©️2023 by Suzanne Davis Harden through the Indwelling Risen Lord Jesus Christ, Inspired By His Holy Spirit, To The Glory of God The Father, In Jesus’ Holy Name, All Rights Reserved.