Selflessness

SELFLESSNESS

When you love someone enough to die for Him

That is when you’ll truly begin

To live the kind of life that Jesus led,

Serving one another instead

Of thinking of yourself and all that you lack

As though you’re a victim or “under attack.”

Jesus was tempted when He was most weak.

Yet to the rocks He did not speak.

He withstood the temptation and passed the test,

By serving His Father and not His flesh.

And this He did as an example for me,

A lesson in life if I’m to be free,

Free from my flesh, deceived and disturbed,

There thinks it’s not getting what it deserves.

If I can realize that Jesus has fought

These same voices…then I ought

To be able to kill my flesh as well

Cause if I don’t, it’ll take me to hell.

Peace Be Still

PEACE BE STILL

Why am I fighting to hold onto “me”?

Am I so defined by this identity?

That I need to prove I am my own

Person with thoughts that are seldom shown?

Who really cares what I think anyway…

Do I just need a place for my thoughts to stay?

If they’re not from God then why do I care

If they’re expressed, or should I dare

Say something to someone I shouldn’t have said

Just to get a thought out of my head?

If I can’t get myself to submit

To my own spirit so that I can quit

Battling my flesh to be free…

Then how will I ever get rid of me??

There is Godly order to how we should live

A “first” sacrifice that we should give

It is our own flesh that we must kill

Lest we be constantly fighting our will.

A spirit that grows weary, a flesh that’s in pain

Neither one winning, yet both playing the game.

A rising up of the flesh that should be dead,

A fight against pride within your own head.

In order to say “PEACE BE STILL”

There is a person that you must kill…

It’s the part of you, you “think” that you know

That God needs you to kill so that you can grow.

Rest in Peace.

REST IN PEACE

Lord let me lie down

Without any regret

Let there be nothing

About this day

I’d choose to forget

No could of’s or should of’s

No what if’s or didn’ts

No wish I hadn’t said thats

No need for repentance

No if I’d only’s

No wish I could erase

No if I’d’ve done that’s

Nothing to take the place

Of praising you and thanking You

For a day well spent

Within the comfort of your guidance

And your spirit that you sent.

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The Other Woman

         

Okay!

 

    

Dear Lord…

        

Let Go…

Do you have any unforgiveness

That you can’t seem to let go?

Is your life full of bitterness

That’s stopping up the flow?

Of the blessings, truth and mercy

God’s trying to get through?

If you cannot forgive others

Then He cannot forgive you

You’re living your life without Him

Selfish and all alone

As though “you” were all that mattered

And in your heart He’s found no Home

He’s called your name before

I’m sure you’ve heard Him once or twice

But His Voice was drowned by your anger

In a heart that was as cold as ice

He wonders how you could doubt Him

And the love He has for You

He’s sent His Word to help you

And His Spirit to see you through

The trials and disappointments

That you have faced on your own

Were never intended for you

To go through all alone

That’s a choice that You made

When you stopped up the flow

With the anger and unforgiveness…

He now wants you to “LET GO” 

 

“For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.”

Matthew 6:14-15

Born to Be Blessed

Do you realize that you were born to blessed?

God has given you this life as a test

To see which guy you’ll work for

To see which side you’ll choose

He doesn’t say “I knew it!”

If you should start to lose…

His desire is to bless you

He wants to get you through

This life that He has given

As a precious gift to you

He’s given you His Peace

He’s given you His Son

There’s nothing that you did

That He can’t make “undone”

So when things start to happen

That you really can’t explain

And the lack that you’ve been feeling

Begins to turn to gain

That’s a sign from God

That you’ve entered into His Rest

And the reason that He put You here

Is that

HE WANTS YOU TO BE BLESSED!

He’s got all the Answers

When I was growing up

We had a magic 8 ball for a toy

You would shake it and ask it questions

(usually about a boy!)

Flip it over and an answer

would ‘pop up’ for you to view

and if you liked it

then you’d ask it something new.

But if you didn’t like

the answer that you’d gotten,

you’d say that it was broken,

you’d say that it was rotten.

Or you’d change the question just a little

as if to play a trick…

But boy that little 8 ball,

to its answer it would stick.

Then you’d shake it harder and harder

and ask it over and over again

and if you still didn’t like what it was saying

then you’d pass it to a friend.

As this was brought to my memory

I found it sort of odd,

that this is exactly the way

we sometimes treat our God.

He gives us all the answers

that we need to hear

but we shake our heads and say

“the answer’s just not clear.”

We think that just because

we don’t like what He is saying,

we can ask Him over and over again.

Only God is NOT playing.

He’ll only put up with

Our stubbornness for a season.

Then He’ll cause us some real pain

for which we’ll find no reason.

He’ll make it hurt just hard enough

To bring us to our knees.

Then wait for us to cry out

“Lord help me would you please?”

“Your strength is in your spirit”

He’ll say “Your flesh is oh so weak…

P.S. next time try to listen

When you ask for me to speak.”

The War Within

When my spirit's in a battle, against my flesh at night,

And each one is trying to prove that he's right

Oh what a pity party I have got in my head.

I hear so many voices, I don't don't even know what I just said

One minute I find you and rest assured in your care,

And the next I turn to seek you and find you're not there

See you don't want any part of someone with a double mind

Who says they're searching for answers but there won't be any to find

Until they realize that there’s honor in being chastised by you,

And there's a higher calling you're trying to get them to.

Will they buckle under pressure and put up a defense wall?

Or humble themselves to correction so they can fulfill your call?

Lord there is a crown of glory awaiting for their head,

If they can just push through and seek your wisdom instead

Of battling the voices that dance within their mind

All the answers to their problems I'm sure that they will find.

By Diana Marsh