This week’s a bit different, because what I’m sharing isn’t actually a song. It’s from Jeremy Camp’s Live album in 2009. And it’s the part where he takes a break from singing and talks to the audience.

There’s a Scripture that I love because it shows me how much God loves me in spite of who I am and we were talking about it today. We were doing a bible study and we were talking about it. It’s in John. It says that God demonstrates His own love to us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. So that means he knows everything about you, He knows everything about me and He still loves us.

I think its one of those things where (I’m saying to) God lately in my heart, Lord please, I’m tired of myself, I’m tired of so many times trying to build up my little kingdoms that I have here.

You see the thing is we are not here at all, at all to build our kingdoms.We are here solely for the purpose of building the Kingdom of God. That’s it, that’s it.

Lord, I want to do whatever you want me to do. Surrender my all unto you … I look at what’s going on … and my heart like never before has been urgent, has been desperate for this generation. 

There’s a lot of distractions, almost numbing us to the fact that we are in desperate need, in desperate need of a Saviour. Because we have filled ourselves up with so many things of this earth. There’s a generation out there, there are people out there that are hurting, that are broken.

We’re called to reach out, each and everyone of us. Matthew 5 says that you are the light of the world, let your light shine among men, they may glorify you Father in heaven.

And this song is called Speaking Louder Than Before, and we all know that actions speak louder than words. When you’re serving someone, loving someone, showing them Christ, speaks volumes.

And you guys, read your bibles. Read your bibles. This is not just our Christian duty, this is the word of God. In Hebrews 4 it says its living and its active. I mean it’s doing something in out hearts.

Surrender all, surrender all. Before he can work through you he has to work in you. Fall more in love with Jesus, so you can tell the world more and more about your saviour and how he is.

I like how Jeremy starts with sin and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Then he moves on to the application which ties in nicely with the album Speaking Louder Than Before (2008).

But, as I reflect on my journey of learning application, I wonder if Jeremy got the order wrong. The last paragraph was the starting point for me. God worked in me first. And that was through simply reading my bible a lot. And now that I am so in love with Christ I can’t help but see distractions, shine a light and show others Christ.

Jeremy is a big inspiration in my life, and his words here are no exception. Even ten years after they were spoken, I still feel their relevance. I don’t know what more to say, except get his Live album for yourself. I’ve probably left out half of everything he said on that recording and Jeremy fleshes out much of what I’ve recorded here.

Speaking Louder Than Before – Jeremy Camp