THE ONLY WAY OUT OF DARKNESS

The Secret Place...a place where only my thoughts and inspiration is a galaxy unto itself before the Light of God's fellowship.
Where do my thoughts come from?
What is it that inspires me...
Somehow a word gives power to create...
and for me it creates Light...
and the Light frees me from the darkness...
I am no longer alone...
The Light goes before me...and I will not turn and go back into the darkness...
There is peace in the Light...there is Hope in the Light...There is Rest in the Light...
Not the light of knowledge...not the light of man's wisdom...not the light that turns to darkness...
But that Day Star that rises in the soul...
Where the Creator commands, "LET THERE BE LIGHT"
A Knowing...
It is the Spirit Word...the very Breath of God...
He alone can bring your broken heart, your broken spirit ...perhaps broken in mind and body... helpless and hopeless...
just reach out and ask Him to lift you into His Light...
Your life may be void and seem to have no purpose...
I'm not going to try to convince you that you've believed a lie...but you have...
or prove to you that what I'm saying is the Truth...
But I have told you of the Truth...He is the Truth...He is the Way...the Light and Life Eternal...
It's His work to draw you to Himself...and just now, I ask that He do that...
Are you willing to turn and walk into His Light...Are you willing to accept the fact that He has paid the price for you to be set you free from the powers of sin in your life?..
He does not blackmail you with condemnation of your sin...to get you to become a proselyte...
He only stands before you in the Holiness of who He is and offers you the only way out of Darkness...To free you from the penalty of death...because of the sin of disobedience that required a blood sacrifice to be free of the penalty...
Not the sacrifice of animals, or human life, or payment of any kind...
it would not change your heart...or deliver you from the BONDAGE OF THE HUMAN NATURE...
Only HIS SACRIFICIAL BLOOD which He shed on the cross of Calvary was sufficient to deliver us from this bondage...
IT WAS LOVE THAT PAID THE PRICE!
All you have to do is SURRENDER...
All you have to do is Confess...that He is Lord, that He is King, that You are His, as unworthy as you may feel, as filthy as you may feel, as numb as you may feel...as hopeless as you may feel...
Call out to Him..."Jesus, Jesus, Jesus."
Then wait...believing that He wants to take you as His own...to make you brand new, and give you the power of His Holy Spirit Word, that you may become a son or daughter of His...
Your works won't do anything for you...what you think you know, won't do anything for you...begging, pleading, crying, cursing,
Just let go...He sees your heart, He knows your mind, your motives, your ego, your emotions, your excuses...
All He wants, is you...to Love and be a part of the Life that has always been in Him from the beginning...
A Life He wants you to want...
A Life He wants you to choose.............................jOY

WHEN HEALING COMES

Apr 26, '10 7:30 PM for everyone

LORD, I WANT TO BRING BEFORE YOU THOSE WHO ARE REACHING OUT FOR HEALING IN THEIR LIVES...
THOSE ON BEDS OF SICKNESS, THAT FIND IT HARD EVEN TO PRAY, THEY HAVE BECOME SICK EVEN IN THEIR HEART AND MIND, THE SOUL AND SPIRIT...FEELING NUMB, DISHEARTENED, AND IN SOME CASES, JUST DON'T CARE ANYMORE.

I COME AGAINST THE ENEMY OF THEIR SOULS WHO DESIRES TO DESTROY THEM...WHO BEATS THEM DOWN WITH LIES AND PAIN AND HOPELESSNESS...
COME TO THEM..."NOW"...EVEN NOW LORD...REACH DOWN IN YOUR MERCY AND GRACE...IN THIS THEY WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE GOD...BECAUSE THEY ARE HEALED, YES...BUT MORE TO THE POINT...THAT THEY ARE LOVED AND NOT FORSAKEN...
FOR THOSE WHO MUST SUFFER AFFLICTION...BE THEIR COMFORT, LET YOUR FAITH REMAIN IN THEM TO STRENGTHEN AND SUSTAIN THEM...
SURROUND THEM WITH ANGELS OF MERCY, AND TRUE COMPASSION...
LORD SURROUND THEM WITH YOUR EVERLASTING ARMS...AND THE JOY OF YOUR PRESENCE THAT WILL INFUSE THEM WITH THE STRENGTH OF EAGLES, THAT THEY MAY WALK AND NOT BE WEARY, RUN AND NOT FAINT...
YOU ARE OUR HEALING LORD...AND THOUGH YOU SLAY US, YET WILL WE SERVE YOU...FOR YOU ARE THE GOD OF LIFE! HERE IN ME, AND FOREVER MORE...AMEN

IF YOU COULD SEE WHERE I CAME FROM

LORD, THANK YOU FOR THIS MORNING...THANK YOU FOR PREPARING MY HEART AND MIND TO FACE THIS DAY...I AM AT YOUR MERCY TO RECEIVE YOUR GRACE...

EVEN IN MY WEAKNESS, YOU CALLED ME TO LAY BEFORE YOU MY HEART

YOU ENCAMPED ABOUT MY SOUL AND SPOKE IN A STILL SMALL VOICE

YOU ALONE HAVE RENT THE VEIL OF MY HEART AND MIND

THE WIND OF YOUR SPIRIT BLOWS THERE FREELY

COMING AND GOING AS YOU WILL

YOU SHOW ME THE PATH OF LIFE

AND IN YOUR PRESENCE IS FULLNESS OF JOY

AT YOUR RIGHT HAND ARE PLEASURES EVERMORE

YOU FEED ME THE BREAD THAT THE WORLD KNOWS NOT OF

YOU, MY LORD ARE THAT LIVING BREAD

ALL GIFTS AND PROPHESYING WILL CEASE

AND THOUGH I UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES

IF I DO NOT HAVE MY BEING IN YOU

I AM NOTHING

EVEN IF I HAD ALL FAITH AND COULD MOVE MOUNTAINS

WITHOUT YOU, I AM NOTHING

FOR IN YOU ALONE I CAN BEAR ALL THINGS

BELIEVE ALL THINGS

HOPE ALL THINGS

ENDURE ALL THINGS

ALL ELSE WILL CEASE AND FADE AWAY

BUT YOU, MY LORD, REMAIN

YOUR WORD REMAINS FOREVER

YOU ARE THAT LIVING WORD

YOU DWELL IN MY HEART

I LONG TO KNOW YOU

EVEN AS I AM KNOWN

TO PUT AWAY ALL CHILDISH THINGS

AND STAND PLEASING IN YOUR SIGHT

THANK YOU LORD FOR WALKING WITH ME THIS MORNING

FOR CAUSING ME TO MEASURE HOW FAR YOU'VE BROUGHT ME

IN THIS JOURNEY OF FAITH, THIS JOURNEY OF LIFE

FOR REJOICING TOGETHER OVER SAINTS MADE PERFECT

FOR THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES WHO REJOICE AND GIVE

PRAISE BEFORE YOUR THRONE

THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTY OF YOUR FINISHED WORK

FOR APPOINTING TO US BEAUTY FOR ASHES

THE OIL OF GLADNESS FOR MOURNING

A GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS;

THAT WE MIGHT BE CALLED THE TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

THE PLANTING OF THE LORD

THAT YOU MIGHT BE GLORIFIED MY LORD

YOU ARE THE VINE

I AM BUT AN EXTENDED BRANCH OF YOU

FROM AGE TO AGE THE SAME

THAT I MIGHT BEAR FRUIT UNTO SALVATION

FOR AS THE EARTH BRINGS FORTH HER BUD

AND AS THE GARDEN CAUSES THE THINGS THAT ARE GROWN

IN IT TO SPRING FORTH; SO YOU MY LORD GOD, WILL CAUSE

RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PRAISE TO SPRING FORTH BEFORE

THE NATIONS.

I AM "NOW" CENTERED IN YOU

RELYING ON YOU

LISTENING TO YOU

WAITING ON YOU

SPEAK LORD, EVEN AS YOU WALKED WITH ME IN YESTERDAY'S GARDEN

YESTERDAY'S GARDEN....

I WALKED THROUGH YESTERDAY'S GARDEN

I'VE WALKED THERE MANY A TIME

NOW IT'S LIFELESS AND EMPTY

WHERE WEEDS AND POISON IVY CLIMB

YET THE ECHOS OF SONGS THROUGH THE AGES PAST

THOSE SWEET HALLOWED HYMNS OF PRAISE

REVERBERATE STILL ALL AROUND ME

IN SO MANY CHERISHED WAYS

"PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW"

STILL RESTS UPON MY TONGUE

I HEAR IT STILL WITHIN MY HEART

IT NEEDS BE EVER SUNG

SUNG WITH HALLELUJAHS

SUNG WITH GREAT AMENS

SUNG WITH GLORIOUS LONGING

WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS

SO I'LL LISTEN ER SO CLOSELY

TO LOVE'S SWEET, FAMILIAR REFRAINS

AND THANK THE GOD OF HEAVEN

AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN

AS I WALKED IN YESTERDAY'S GARDEN

I WALKED AND TALKED WITH HIM

AND REMEMBERED YESTERDAY'S BLOSSOMS

THAT BLOOMED THERE JUST FOR HIM

THEY TOLD OF THE OLD, OLD STORY

OF JESUS AND HIS LOVE

THEIR PRAISES, STILL TRIUMPHANT

NOW IN HEAVENLY REALMS ABOVE

THOUGH FLOWERS FADE BEFORE ME

THEIR FRAGRANCE FILLS MY DAY

EVEN THROUGH DESERT WASTE LAND

THOSE GARDENS OF YESTERDAY

I'LL LISTEN EVER SO CLOSELY

FOR LOVE'S SWEET MELODIOUS REFRAIN

AND THANK THE GOD OF HEAVEN

AGAIN, AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

LORD YOU ARE THE JOY OF MY SALVATION

LORD; LET YOUR JOY REMAIN IN ME__THAT MY JOY MIGHT BE FULL.

NOT THE JOY OF HAPPINESS AS WE KNOW IT. BUT THE JOY THAT WAS YOUR OWN__

THE ABSOLUTE SURRENDER TO YOUR FATHER, THE GIVING OF YOURSELF TO DO ALL THAT HE HAD CALLED YOU TO DO. EVEN IN WAITING, EVEN IN NOT KNOWING, BUT IN TRUST AND FAITH.

TEACH ME THE MEANING OF THIS JOY MY LORD. LET MY HEART REJOICE IN YOUR WORD, THOUGHT AND THE WAY OF YOUR PERFECT WILL__WITHOUT LEANING TO MY OWN UNDERSTANDING AND REASONING OF THINGS.

IN HEALTH, RELATIONSHIPS, FINANCES, OR SUCCESS__LET ME NOT MEASURE MY JOY IN THESE EXTERNAL HAPPENINGS, BUT IN COMMUNION AND RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU MY LORD.

I AM SO EASILY SELF-CONCIOUS__AND AS ONE HAS SAID, "A SANCTIFIED PRIG. OH LORD, EVEN MY GOD LET IT NOT EVER BE SO.

LET MY LIFE BE LIVED JOYOUSLY HID IN YOU. NATURALLY BREATHING IN YOUR SPIRIT, WALKING IN THAT SPIRIT, AND BREATHING IT BACK OUT IN UNCONSCIOUS JOY UPON OTHERS.

"PEACE BE STILL"

Lord, I'm as still as I know how to be.
Open my eyes that I might truly see,
that knowing you is not how I feel.
Feeling will never make you real.
When I am empty there echos in me,
sighing and groanings my feelings
can't see...
Goanings that press to be ever heard.
But no human language has a word.
So look my Lord on this yearning heart,
who has come to be quiet
and set apart...
"Be still", you've commanded,
Now I obey.
Make me still like the storm
you commanded one day.
That I might know truly
on bended knee,
That Faith is the substance
of what I can't see.....JEL

How often I have had great hunger or desire to do something and to be absolutely incapable of action upon that set thing, either by being physically, emotionally, or spiritually bound in such a way, that would render me helpless.

Lord, only in your fullness will I ever be able to fully appreciate and experience with confidence and grace, the faith that comes from your love and mercy.....It is your Holy Spirit revealing you in my heart that stirs the hunger, that brings forth the desire, even when I may feel spiritually bound......it is the call to worship, not to confess defeat...It is the time for rejoicing...as You soften my heart in the "Secret Place.".....

Lord, I believe that there are sounds that fill the heavens, that the human ears cannot hear....and it is the sounds of myriads of angels and heavenly hosts....the sounds of countless saints made perfect, along with those whose hearts ever sing the praises of your Majesty, power and grace...

Change us Lord, from glory to glory, even to your image....Transport us Lord, as we learn to walk in your Spirit into heavenly places....Heal us and restore us....conciliate us as your "New Creation"... we long to walk, worthy of you Lord....at one with you....glorifying you...ministering unto you....Teach us by Holy Spirit, the deep worship of you that satisfies your own longing.....even as the Bride longs to satisfy her Groom.......................

Let Your Word Lord dwell in us richly, in all wisdom; as we teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts to you Lord.
Colossians 3:16 / KJV