Tag: Deliverance

Forever Found-Translation

Bound by eternity

(We have to go-even in death)

Ties ever strong

(Can’t be broken)

Keep pulling forward

(The future)

To farther along

(Can’t stay where we are)

Forever guided by our expansion of more

(Always wanting more-never satisfied)

Needs ever filling

(Trying to appease desires)

Needs never met

(Falling short of the goal)

Comparing the two

(Loosing faith in ourselves and others)

It’s not over yet!

(There is still time)

Taking and giving

(Selfishness and caring)

Replacing the void

(Emptiness of soul)

Time never spent

(Not even trying)

Hurts to avoid

(Fear of rejection)

Eyes toward the future

(Must keep going-don’t look back)

Seeing no end

(Eternity is forever)

Mortals walking

(Humanity as a whole)

Souls to ascend

(We will all stand before God)

Lost in the darkness

(Can’t find the way)

Calls to the light

(We want to see)

Ever trying

(Helping as we can)

Doing what’s right

(Even when we don’t want to)

Heaven eternal

(Final destination)

Granting the dream

(Fulfillment)

Finding the river

(Living Water of Life)

Of mercy’s sweet stream

(Forgiveness)

Cords of compassion

(Unconditonal love)

Eternity bound

(Saved by grace for all time)

Forever forward-Forever found.

 

 

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I am the one

I am the one who did not return to say “Thank You.”

I am the one who mocked in my ignorance

I am the one who spit in His face

I am the one who pulled out His beard

I am the one who scourged Him

I am the one who nailed Him to the cross

I am the one who gambled for His robe

I am the one who denied Him

I am the one who betrayed Him

Yet He did not judge but loved.

I am the one who sat at His feet and cried her tears of gratitude

I am the one who pressed through the crowd

I am the one who was to be stoned when caught in my disgrace

I am the one who was a blind beggar but now can see

I am the one at the well who was given ‘Living Water”

I am the one who was dead but now my mama cradles me

I am the one who was a lunatic but am now in my right mind

Because He did not judge but healed.

I am the one who knelt at an old-fashioned altar

And accepted Him as my Savior and Lord

I am the one who daily brings my love and offerings of praise

I am the one who is set free from my past

I am the one who  will not taste  God’s eternal wrath to come

I am the one who is His Bride

I am the one who will ride the ‘white horse’ across the skies of heaven

I am the one He died for on cruel Calvary

I am the one who believed John 3:16-‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’

I am the one who the Great I AM calls His Own

I am the one who is the beloved of the ‘Beloved’

Because He did not judge but saved.

 

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In The Presence

In the presence of my Dear Friend

No sin can stand-all torment ends

Forever grateful to walk this way

His Resurrection power has come to stay

Battles have been fought to set me free

Defeat is no longer a choice for me

Anger and hate have met the mighty Foe

Rejection and self-pity have been told to go

Rage went on down it’s tormenting road

Shame had to release it’s terrible hold

Oh! Wonderful Risen Glorious King!

Let the anthems of Your praises ring!

Beautiful rapture fills my soul

By Your mercy I’ve been made whole!

It is finished! It is done!

In the Presence of the Holy One!

 

 

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How Long?

How long will you torture yourself  inside

For things that have gone wrong?

How long, from Him, will you try to hide?

Oh, how long will you allow the thought

You’re not worth the try?

How long will your loved ones

Weep their mournful cries?

How long will you walk

The roads of hell this way?

Oh, how long before you

Finally kneel and pray?

How long until you listen to your heart?

How long will it take to ask

For a brand new start?

How Long? Oh! Wandering lost soul!

How long before you return to the fold?

How long will you blame God and others, too?

Oh, how long will you put off

The things you were meant to do?

How long will you stay so wrong, so wild?

Oh, how long before you realize,

To God, you are still His child!

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There is a Way

Proverbs 14:12-15- 12. There is a way which seemth right unto a man, but the end there of are the ways of death. 13. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. 14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. 15. The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. (KJV)

       Today after I returned home from a wonderful church service, I went next door to my neighbor’s house to visit while my husband downloaded some pictures from the camera onto the computer.  My neighbor and I were talking about how sweet the Spirit moved this morning and as we were talking I felt the Spirit hugging me which is what I call it when every fiber of my being is alive with witness to something that is being said or done. I mentioned this to her and she told me about a time when she was a little girl that she first experienced Him touching her. Her Daddy was a preacher and preached the ‘fire and brimstone’ messages of the day.  She said she started having a few nightmares then she prayed and they went away. She told me about one she had when she was six years old.  She was in a huge room full of light and on one wall was a small door. She opened the door and went into the next room which was smaller than the first and had an even smaller door. She opened it and passed into the next room which was smaller still and had another small door. The next room was even tinier than the previous one and that door was the smallest of all but she opened it. It scared her so bad because she knew even at that young age that this was hell! Then she woke up. Now this dear lady is 84 years old and the nicest, sweetest person you could ever know who has been through so much in her life but she still walks with God every day. This story so witnessed to me because I understood that this symbolized our walk with God. When we are where we should be there is the Light but as we take that first step away from God our lives get smaller but we chose to open the door for whatever reason or excuse in most cases  Then we are sorrowful and in heaviness’ but we call it ‘depression’.  If we continue to step farther away (backslide) by going through other doors (or our own ways which leads to death) our existence is even more oppressive with life being smaller. Finally we may reach the point of no return and our way that we thought as the right way takes us straight to hell! To come back to the Light would mean having to swallow our pride and repent! I opened a lot of these doors in my walk away from God at certain points in my life but by His wonderful mercy and abiding grace He accepted me back as like the prodigal ‘I came to myself and returned to the Father’s house. ‘The prudent man looketh well to his going’.

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Gracious Words

Gracious words floating on the air

Caress the heart that has grown cold

Spoken with much love and care

Welcoming the young and the old

“Come unto Me and I will give you rest.”

“Mercy and Grace I will bestow.”

“My promises are always for your best.”

“Simply because I love you so.”

Listen dear people across this land

To the truthful Word He speaks

As He extends a nail-scared hand

To every precious soul He seeks.

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I—And YOU

I held out my hand to YOU

And YOU took it.

I cried out in pain to YOU

And YOU eased it.

I offered my empty heart to YOU

And YOU filled it.

I gave my love to YOU

And YOU embraced it.

I confessed my sin to YOU

And YOU forgave it.

I delivered my soul to YOU

And YOU saved it.

I handed my marriage to YOU

And YOU blessed it.

I sent up my thanks to YOU

And YOU welcomed it.

I lifted my praise to YOU

And YOU received it.

Oh! LORD JESUS! This YOU have done for me!

Thank YOU from the depth of my being!

LOVE, Karen

 

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Did You?

Did you help when someone needed you?

Go that extra mile?

Did you do what you should do

To turn their tears into smiles?

Did you lighten someone’s heavy load?

Chase their blues away?

Did you smooth out their bumpy road?

Bring sunshine to their day?

Did you love someone’s hurts away?

Erase their trouubled minds?

Did you heal their broken heart someway?

Or was compassion hard to find?

Did you do what was asked of you?

No matter what the cost?

Did you save a soul from hell today?

Search for the one that was lost?

Did you do what Christ would do?

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Into the Light

the paths we take

may not always be right

sometimes they take us

into the dark night

We stumble-we fall

trying to find

our way

back to the light

we search-we seek

for someone to lead

some one to take us

into the light

we tremble-we cry

and don’t know why

life won’t help us

back to the light

we reaped-we sowed

by taking the wrong path

so we humble ourselves

we repent-we get right

for only God knows the way

out of the dark night

He has the eternal sign

that simply says

 “Just follow the Light.”

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Bible Study I

I first started a Bible study group because the preacher who had been coming to the senior citizen housing decided there was not enough participation from the tenants to keep coming. Now I have a real problem with this because what if that last Gentile soul lived there and would possibly have gotten saved which would have ushered in the coming back of Jesus?  Just my opinion! I moved into the senior housing after my husband of 34 years had went on to glory.  There were so many nice people who lived there but now they didn’t have anyone to teach the Bible studies. My dear friend and angel which God had sent into my life after I had lived there about six months thought it would be a great idea if I taught the Bible study. I had taught God’s Word before and throughly loved the thought of doing this again. Since I lived in the building, I was always on sight so to speak. I was so excited to be teaching again because I love the Word of God and teaching what revelation I gleaned by the Holy Spirit from the Word  so others could understand and love Him too.

I began the Bible Study with prayer and praise music. We then read Psalm 119:1-8, 1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. 2. Blessed are they who keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 3. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. 4. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. 7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgements. 8. I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. (King James Version). God’s Word is the very life of God because it proceeds from His very Heart. This is so vital for people to understand.  When God speaks something it will happen! It has happened! It will continue to happen! His Word is living truth, alive with promise and is still creating what He has spoken. How amazing is this revelation! Yet, we in our tiny finite minds limit Him with our thinking and lack of faith in His Word. Jesus Christ is His Spoken Word. God speaks only the truth and we can stand on that firm foundation as told to us in the Scriptires. We can believe His Word totally! This Truth is verified in John 1: 1-5, 14, 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2. The same was in the beginning with God. 3. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. 4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 14. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (KJV). Jesus was and is and will always be the Spoken Word of God filled with the heart, soul, mind, and Spirit of the Living God.

In the beginning as God was saying, “Let there be light! His precious Word (His Son, the Light) was birthed, being issued out by the eternal voice of His Father into the darkness of this world and dispelling it to the outer reaches of the universe. Genesis 1: 1-5; 1.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.(KJV) Today the scientific greats have discovered ‘darkness’ in the universe that they can’t explain. It is I believe this darkness that had to back away and make room for the Light of Day! Just like the darkness of the earth had to recede when the created light came so does the darkness in our souls when the revelation of the Light of Jesus (The Word), along with the moving of the Holy Spirit upon the spoken Word of God, comes into our minds to reside in our hearts..  Romans 12:12 says, And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and perfect will of God. (KJV))Our minds must be renewed from the old ways of thinking (in some if not most cases,todays ways of thinking) that were created in our thought processes over the course of our lives. I believe it is called, ‘set in our ways’. The Father wants us to open up our hearts and minds to receive His Son by understanding His Word and accepting Him as Lord and Savior of our lives. II Timothy 2:7- Consider what I say, and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.(KJV) He wants us to have the very best He has for us yet we shun the leading of the Holt Spirit Who would lead us into the knowledge of The Word. Why? I don’t know! But I want too. So we will travel down this road together if you want to stick around. What started out as a small Bible study will continue on in some variations as we glean insights from God’s Word and guidance from the Holy Spirit.

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