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Make an Album with Seth Abram Bible

Friends!

For as long as I've been striving to humbly play music there have been many encouraging voices telling me I should do it for a living and record a cd. The whole time it's been very clear to me from the Lord that I wasn't supposed to put "all my cards" on the music table. Yet. Until A couple months ago I wrote a blog informing all of you of my decision to leave staff at GCC.

That was the starting point to the new path that Sarah and I believe we are being led down now as we seek and trust and put our faith and complete hope in Christ. That was the first outward change of obedience in what He'd been stirring in my heart for years. The Lord's word over my life that had previously been "stay, wait, learn," changed to "this wait is over, go." I heard Him say that it was time. Time to go all in and move forward in this new adventure.

So I really believe this is us, the Bibles, in obedience to His will and call on our lives for the next season of transformation. I believe He calls us all to the things that are bigger than us, the things that we literally can't do without Him. And believe me, I'm lost without Him in this.

This new direction is bigger than any other things He's called me to yet, though I've seen and felt His equipping in the past with similar things, so we have much confidence!

We've never ever been more excited about the future.

Which is why I want to inform you now that my first studio recording is in the making, and very soon! Which is also why I am writing this post. I need YOUR help!

Here are just a few ways:

Prayer. Seriously, I only want to make this cd if it's going to reach people, and stir in their hearts, and inspire and move them. And whether or not I'm singing a song about my wife or life or the Lord, I don't want the music to just be strictly melodies and rhythm. I want there to be His hand and power in every one of the tracks.

Pray for:

• Our time in the recording studio- Pray that such an intricate process involving musicians, sound engineers, producers etc. will run smoothly, quickly and with purpose.
• Distribution- As the CD is completed, pray that the Lord will open doors to distribute the album far and wide.
• Shows- Pray that each show will be filled with people and every word I speak will be encouraging and life giving.
• Sarah and I- We're newlyweds! and we really need the grace of God to continue on this crazy and exciting journey.

Finances- The recording is going to cost upwards of $20,000 and without the backing of a record label, we have to come up with that on our own.

Shaun Groves says "there really is no such thing as an independent artist," and I agree with Him. This is a partnership between you and I.

I'm so largely dependent on you! We've made it really easy to give online, by utilizing a website called kickstarter. It gives us 75 days to raise half of the project's budget, $10,500. We will only receive the money if the full amount is pledged. The deadline is February 3, 2011, the same day that the money would be deducted from your account. To give, visit our website:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/473758709/make-an-album-with-seth-abram-bible

Friends, thank you so very much from the depths of Sarah and I's hearts. We thank you for your support and love and care and encouragement. We honestly can't do this without you.

Seth Abram Bible

"Made For Me"

Just finished this new song:

Let me know what ya think of the lyrics, i'd love some feedback!

Something waiting for is worth my time
I'm breathing in this simple little rhyme
To remind myself and speak to this heart of mine
Must keep away from this nominal line

Oh it's not that i can do what's right
Most the time, I'm in a fight
The war inside waging for life
Let me drop the weight of my pride

This is the sunshine on my skin
This is the calmness from within
This is the strength inside my chest
This is the making of new rest
And i can see
That this was made for me

No more hiding from what satisfies
Now that i know i actually was
Let this be a lesson to my eyes
And move my blood because
Seeing is belief

My lack of trust is retreating
I'm loosing life and love's gaining
The darkened parts begin leaving
I'm pouring myself out singing

In You there's joy for me
My heart says believe
I know i have needing
For reasons not seeing
So here's my heart pleading
You'd use my everything

"Enlighten" w/ video

Look in my eyes can you see my fate?

Poke some holes and will I deflate?

Beat me down oh will I just break?

Am I just hot air just second rate

If you could see thru my body's state

Would you see my hearts just a fake?

And it's all that I can take

I won't let the world mistake

We were made by the One who made the sea.

Look inside, i feel it deep within me.

I'm crying for wisdom beyond all my years.

Here I am, made for truth, come enlighten me.

Don't let me be less than what I need

To be a part of opening eyes that seek

And let it be known the strength is in the weak.

I will give all my breathing for

Showing the One deep inside my core

My heart is beating for the sake of Knowing more

Fill me up with what's true

Swallow me whole and make new

Pour Your Spirit into me

You're what satisfies this life

You're what breaks me of this pride

There is nothing more I want to see

Than You

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Leaving the GCC staff...

In about an hour, word of my leaving staff at Granger Community Church will happen.

So below are some thoughts and hopefully answers to any questions anyone may have.

On my own volition, I've chosen to leave the staff at GCC.

After listening and hearing, and hearing and listening similar words that have lined up with what the Lord told me before I moved to Indiana, I know the decision of leaving staff to be in line with His will for the next phase in life and what He's calling Sarah and I to next.

Let me give you a little context:

I moved to Indiana over 3 years ago for the purpose of getting better at what I believe I'm on earth for. I knew that my time in Indiana would be a season for specific growth in which I knew I'd look back on 10 years from now and know that a lot of who I am is because of those few years in Granger.

The experiences and lessons I have learned while being on staff are invaluable. I have been blessed to work alongside some incredible worship leaders and draw from their wisdom and understanding of what it means to lead God's people in worship. I have worked on a one of a kind, truly amazing team (the Granger Student Ministries Staff) that taught me how each individual brings strengths to the table, and the unity of those strengths truly is expanding the Kingdom. Working with GSM put hands and feet to the truth that I had known but hadn't seen in that depth of action. Watching the students grow in their understanding of what it means to worship the King taught me more than I could have anticipated. I got to be a part of their walk with the Lord, and that is a privilege beyond words. I got to be a part of students experiencing the Living Christ and His grace and mercy and life-changing power, and those moments will forever be some of my most memorable experiences.

It took a very strong and clear word from God to know that it was time to take my next step and leave such and incredible family of believers. While my heart is heavy to leave a church staff I love so deeply, I can move forward because I am more than confident in what God has called me to next. It's because of this confidence that I feel the backing and support of the staff I love so much. And it's because of both my confidence in Christ and the GCC staff's support that I can say that I've never been more excited about the future and all the mind blowing things I believe the Lord has got in store.

After Sarah and I get married this Friday, we will be living here in a season of preparation for the next chapter of our lives. We will still be very much a part of Granger Community Church while we remain here. No matter where the Lord takes us in the future, GCC will always be a place we come back to. We love GCC and are totally behind the vision of the church and the ways it's sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ locally and globally.

Lastly, Sarah and I very much desire and need your prayer support as we make this transition. Thank you so incredibly much for making this experience better and infinitely more rewarding than I could have ever hoped. I love you all immensely.

Pursuing Him at all costs,

Seth Abram Bible

"Listen Now"

This is a song i just finished. It's an honest song. It's all about embracing the truth that there can be good within pain if we have perspective and the right eyes to see. It's a song from my heart that believes that God is with us fully in everyone of our struggles if we let Him be.
The song speaks of His promise of never leaving or forsaking us. And how we can come out of the fire looking more like Him.


And the waiting list is long
And my patience seems to've gone
And it seems like You've been wrong
And I've not been very strong
For far far too long

Circumstance has blinded me
All I see is what's bleeding
How I'm longing to be free
Let go fear of misery
And believe

Would You give me eyes to see
The glory around me
And I'll give You more of my heart
Would You give me ears to hear
Your voice inside me
And I'll give You more of my heart

And I'm learning this new sight
Is for those who've lost the fight
And the ones who cannot bare
There is rest that's been prepared
And the truth is there is light
so...

I look up to see Your face
Waiting for the words You'll say
For my heart knows there's no other way
I reach up for Your embrace
And find strength within Your grace
And I know that You're with me in this place

Listen now, it beats for You
Listen how, it beats for You
Oh this heart is pleading for You now

Tonight's Prayer

PSALM 86 -

"Hear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Guard my life, for I am devoted to You.

You are my God; save your servant who trusts in You.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.

Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to You.

Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my cry for mercy.

In the day of my trouble I will call to You, for You will answer me.

Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord; no deeds can compare with Yours.

All the nations You have made will come and worship before You, O Lord;

They will bring glory to Your name.

For You are great and do marvelous deeds; You alone are God.

Teach me Your way, O LORD, and I will walk in Your truth;

Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.

I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever.

For great is Your love toward me; You have delivered me from the depths of the grave.

The arrogant are attacking me, O God;

A band of ruthless men seeks my life— men without regard for You.

But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,

Slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

Turn to me and have mercy on me;

Grant Your strength to Your servant and save the son of Your maidservant.

Give me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame,

For You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me."

Father we want to desire You above all. Don't let us look to the right or the left, not for fear of what we might see or be tempted by, but because we have eyes to see what really brings peace and joy and fulfillment and meaning and purpose. And so we keep our eyes fixed upward because we know more than anything that we were created to live lives of surrender, of a continual giving up, of a holy weakness in order to find them truly and more abundantly in You, our perfect creator.

Remind us just as You said that if we seek first Your kingdom that all we need will be given; and how the most important commandment of loving You w/ everything that we are is not because You "need" us, but because You want us and You know that our wholeness is based on how much of ourselves we give away; Father because You know that we need as much of You as possible in order to be truly satisfied. Remind our hearts that they were shaped for the purpose of worshipping You!

Lord, would You turn our eyes from the worthless things of this world and give us life in You and Your word. Keep us aware of Yourself in us, around us, and in all good things. We look to You Father, our Creator and redeemer, our Savior and Lord, our Friend and greatest Hope.

HELLO LOVELY

My Newest song!

A Sneak Peak

Here is a sneak peak of the new Hillsong Live album coming out in the next few months.

http://vimeo.com/11485918

On The Radio

A bit of my quite enjoyable time at Pulse FM...

http://www.mynameiscorey.net/2010/04/seth-bible.html

My Fiancee

So there's this girl I met a few years back...

I sat down on a chair in a warehouse full of people and looked up to fix my eyes on something so beatitful it marked me like nothing ever has...

I was blown away at the words of intensity and passion for Jesus Christ coming from the mouth of this girl. I was in mouth dropping awe of her seriously stunning beauty. I knew that I had to meet her because I realized that I had never seen or heard another girl anything like her, ever...

Since that day, the day that my heart and brain spoke with each other the truth of this incomparable woman, next to Christ, I've never wanted anything as much as I've wanted her.

Fast forward a few years and a really long story of intense goodness and beautiful redemption to one day a few months ago when my greatest hopes came true as the girl of my dreams said yes to marrying me... SHE SAID YES!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I've never in my life been more excited about the future!

Never Ever.

If you haven't met or seen her yet, here she is pictured above. She is the greatest picture to me of grace because I don't deserve someone like her, my future wife,

SARAH ELIZABETH ROSE RASMUSSEN.



Honey, I love you w/ all I am for forever and won't ever stop seeking you, or Christ w/ my whole heart so that He may increase my heart's size giving me more and more strength to love you better and better as long as I have breath in my lungs. I cannot wait to marry you!

Upcoming SAB Show

Hey friends!

Wanted to let you know that I am playing a show this coming Friday at the South Bend Chocolate Cafe, March 12th @ 7pm and would so love to see you there!!

Let your friends know and come enjoy some original music of mine played by some good friends and I.





PEACE

STOLEN

Sorry the sound quality isn't the greatest...

BOOKS i'm reading

Run with the Horses - Eugene Peterson


Sacred Marriage - Gary Thomas


The God of Intamacy & Action - Tony Campolo/Mary Albert Darling


Ancient-Future Worship - Robert E. Webber

WE'RE ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!

Now offering guitar lessons!!!

Please e-mail me at sbible@gccwired.com for more info.

...Only taking 9 more students.

Download the new Angels & Airwaves album here for free!!!

http://modlife.com/angelsandairwaves/love

April 10th 7:30pm

I'm Opening For Lincoln Brewster!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=287391229550&ref=mf

FUNNY CATS!!!