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New devotional website: Love's Rest

I just officially launched a new devotional website, called Love's Rest.  check it out lovesrest.wordpress.com.  I will be posting my devotional writings, poetry, photography, and songs there on a weekly basis.  It is pretty much my "soaking" site!

I will be splitting time between blogging here at Light Amp News and over there at Love's Rest.  Love's Rest definitely has a different style, flavor, and atmosphere from Light Amp.  I think you'll enjoy it!  Feel free to subscribe to the feed, and be nourished in your spirit!

New CD release! Tears of Joy : instrumental soaking worship by Samuel Liu & Shujen Chen

On Sunday, November 23, 2008, my new instrumental worship CD was released!  This CD, titled, "Tears of Joy," with me on electric violin and my friend Mrs. Shujen Chen on keyboard, is probably the best soaking album that I have done.  The whole session was recorded live in a continuous flow, and everything was spontaneously improvised.
In the middle of the set, the Holy Spirit led us to launch into a spontaneous arrangement of "Nothing but the Blood," and at that moment the entire soaking set went up to a higher level in the Lord.  You would have to hear it and experience His presence for yourself.

If you would like to buy the CD, it's $10 plus shipping.  Just contact me and let me know how many you want to get.  Below is my official "notes" on the album, and the explanation of the Cover Photo (above).
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Tears of Joy is Samuel and Shujen’s second collaborative album, recorded in October 2008, two years after My Offering.  Recorded at Soaking in the Father’s Love Weekend at Word of His Grace in Bothell, WA, Tears of Joy is one continuous live soaking session.  Following the orchestration of the Holy Spirit, the music was entirely spontaneously improvised.  The violin and the keyboard flowed as one river, carrying the listener into deeper intimacy with Father God.  Even the pivotal track “Nothing but the Blood” was unplanned.  The heartfelt arrangement of this classic hymn by Robert Lowry can be only attributed to the Holy Spirit.

    Samuel explains the title, Tears of Joy.  “When this album was recorded, I was in the midst of five weeks of deep inner healing.  During this time God flooded in and ministered to my past wounds and hurts.  Embracing me through the brokenness, pain, and suffering in my life, His love brought healing and restoration, and I am set free to be!  So what you hear in Tears of Joy is my heart responding to Jesus in gratitude.  The music imparts healing and thanksgiving, joy and peace, and ushers you into the rest of God.  And truly, those who sow in tears will reap in joy.  ~Ps 126:5”

About the Cover Photo:
the children and their teacher out in the Russian countryside.

It’s a picture I (Sam) took on my first mission trip in 2000.  These beautiful children were orphans and street kids in St. Petersburg, Russia, rescued by the local Christian orphanage I was serving at.  I had the privilege to befriend them and share with them the love of God.  I took this photo in the final days of my month-long trip.  I don’t know where these children are now, but whenever I look at their faces in the picture, God brings back memories and tears of joy.

Samuel’s websites: lightamp.com , myspace.com/samliumusic
Shujen’s website: www.wwgmusic.net (Chinese)

Special thanks to: Brent Thompson, Bill & Linda Boone
Mastered by: Jeremy Reimherr
Produced by: May Ridaliste

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Track Titles:

1). Tears of Joy
2). Rising
3). Playful Procession
4). Free to Be
5). Nothing but the Blood
6). Rest
7). Longing for Him
8). Discovering
9). Everlasting

Soaking in His Presence Weekend, 9/11-13...

...at my church, Word of His Grace, with Darrin & Daphne Clark from Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship.  I will be attending.  Below are the registration info:

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Thursday & Friday night at 7 pm, 9:30 am, 2 & 7 pm Saturday
Registration is $49 single, $89 couple.

Register online at www.tacf.org or call 866.500.0003
Weekend Topics
§ What is soaking?- Soaking is intimate time spent with Jesus
§ Hearing God's voice – Learn how to discern the voice of God vs. the voice of the enemy or your own thoughts

§ Father heart of God - This teaching will bring you into a deep revelation of the love of God as your Father
§ Intimacy with God – Learn how to cultivate intimacy with the Father so that you are able to run into His arms and let his love soak into your heart
§ The power of the Cross – See what Jesus went through and how much he suffered to pay the price for our sin
§ Performance - Learn how to walk in your inheritance as sons and daughters and not as orphans
§ The importance of forgiveness – Learn how to receive the freedom that comes as you forgive those who have hurt you

§ Contemplative prayer – Learn how to live out of your spirit not your flesh