THE LIFE AND THE WITNESS

DEAR ONES; TO THOSE WHO HAVE FAITHFULLY ENCOURAGED ME TO ADD TO "SHEBET' THE PSALMS OF MY HEART... I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO VISIT "THE LIFE AND THE WITNESS WHERE I AM NOW SHARING ON THE NING NETWORK... AGAIN, THANK YOU, EACH ONE...........jOY

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LORD, THIS MORNING AS I SIT BEFORE YOU...I'M ALL OUT OF WORDS, THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO SAY...IF I SAY I LOVE YOU, I FEEL HELPLESS TO LOVE YOU AS YOU DESERVE...iF I DESIRE TO PRAISE YOU...NOTHING CAN PRAISE YOU ENOUGH...ALL I CAN DO IS SURRENDER THE VESSEL THAT I AM, THAT YOU HAVE CREATED, AND ASK THAT YOU USE ME AS YOU WILL...I lOVE YOU LORD

LORD, I THINK OF WHAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE, WHEN THERE WAS SO LITTLE NOISE TO DISTRACT THE MIND FROM REALLY GETTING QUIET...
NOW...EVEN WHEN IT'S QUIET, THERE'S A NOISE THAT YOU CAN STILL HEAR IN YOUR HEAD...THIS GENERATION IS PLUGGED INTO NOISE...PHONES, TELEVISION, THE INTERNET, EVERY IMAGINABLE INVENTION OF MAN THAT MAKES NOISE CROWDS OUT YOUR STILL SMALL VOICE...AND THEN WHEN ONE TRIES TO PRAY AND FELLOWSHIP WITH YOU, THE VERY THOUGHTS OF OUR HEAD ARE AT WAR WITH OUR HEARTS DESIRE TO BE QUIET BEFORE YOU.

BUT NOW, IN THIS VERY MOMENT, I GIVE YOU MY FULL ATTENTION, AND IN SPITE OF ALL THE NOISE IN MY HEAD, I FIX MY HEART UPON YOU. I ASK YOU TO QUIET THE STORM, AND COMMAND THE WATERS TO BE STILL...IF YOU ARE WANTING ME TO GROW UP AND DO THIS MYSELF, IN YOUR NAME...THEN TEACH ME LORD...TEACH ME TO DWELL IN THE SANCTUARY OF MY HEART, WHERE YOUR KINGDOM IS BEING ESTABLISHED, UNOBSERVED YET MIGHTY IN IT'S POWER...BY YOUR SPIRIT, BY YOUR WORD...LET IT BE SO..