Check out the YouTube video version at:
http://youtu.be/jJalPK0sDgU

Jason and I play in a praise band in our church and our band leader, Annette, tries to pick songs that fit our Pastor's sermon. A couple months ago, Pastor Don was giving a sermon based on part of the Sermon on the Mount from Matthew 5:43-48 were Jesus tells everyone that we need to love our enemies.  Annette and the rest of us in our band racked our brains to come up with some songs we could do to compliment the sermon and we weren't having much luck. I was divinely inspired to write this song two days before the service and sung it that Sunday. I took the lines of the verses almost word for word from Luke 6:27-28, 31, & 37.


Rick Barrett - Love Like YOU Do

Please check out the YouTube video version at:
http://youtu.be/D-YQ9hFKe4g

This song is dedicated to all of the "prayer warriors" in our church and through out the rest of the world. Thanks you all for your prayers.

I know there are many conversations about God that many people uncomfortable...such as the concept of Divine Intervention...so some of you get ready to squirm. I can assure you (as many before me have claimed and many more in the future will claim) that I did not write this song, that I was merely a vessel for which it was passed through me and onto the paper in front or me.

Prayer warriors of the world, these are the prayer concerns I sent to our congregation today that served as inspiration for this song. Please pray for my friends if you got something out of this song.

I have a friend at work, Sherry that I have asked for prayers in the past due to her breast cancer. I should note due to prayer that her tumor shrunk BEFORE she started chemo and that prayer and chemo have continued to shrink her tumor, but I am resending a prayer request again because Sherry just sent me a text that her father just had a heart attack; Sherry requests that we "pray that God will do what's best for him". Please pray for Sherry, her father, and their entire family.
 
I have two best friends and one of them, Marty, I mentioned at the Thanksgiving Eve service. My other best friend, Jim, has a sister Nancy who is in her 40's that has cancer throughout her body and the doctors have given her 10 weeks to live. Nancy has loving husband and two young children that are pre-teens. Please pray that Nancy has minimal physical and emotional pain and that if it God's will that she may be live well beyond the 10 weeks given to her and even take Nancy's cancer away if it is in His plan. I got to see Nancy and her family yesterday including Jim and Nancy's father who is in his mid 80's (Jim and Nancy lost their mother to cancer several years ago) and their family is blessed with grandchildren who truly love to be around their parents, aunts and uncles, and their grandpa. Jim also has a lot of stress because he teaches in the inner city in the area. Most of that stress comes from the violence, drugs, and racial tension among Jim's students (the school is roughly a 1/3 white, a 1/3 African-American, and a 1/3 Hispanic-American and unfortunately the racial tension exists). Jim has at times almost unbearable pain from his teaching job and Nancy's cancer happening at the same time. Please surround Jim, Nancy, the entire family with your prayers. Also please pray for our schools, our principals, our teachers, and our students. Also please pray that racism and prejudice may be something that someday only exists in the history books of our students in the future.

Thanks,
Rick Barrett

Hebrews 4:16
16 Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. 

Ephesians 6:10-18
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 
 18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people. 

Matthew 6:6
6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Rick Barrett - Prayer Chain

I love God, my girlfriend, our families, our friends, our music, our art, and of course posting my and all of my friend’s music. Together with one of my best friend’s Martin T. Roberts we formed our first band THE CAGE in 1980. Later I joined the band VAN GOES in the mid eighties which featured Martin, his brother Slim Ray, my other best friend James (Jim) Schmiel, and our good friend Brad.

Later I was blessed to be in a Christian rock band ARMOR OF LIGHT aka ARMOR OF LIFE with my great friends John, Jason, and Marvin. I was also in several praise bands that featured these friends.

One of my best friend’s Jim Schmiel, whom I mentioned above, passed away in November 2020. It had been devastating to me not having Jim to talk to and I think about him daily. I have posted many of his songs and will continue to do so as well as songs by my other best friend Martin (Marty) T. Roberts.

I hope to my collaborate with my other best friend, my girlfriend Barb, one of these days too.