Biblical and other support for those Hurting badly!

Poster0 · Aug 21, 2015

One of the biggest hindrances to my stability is thinking that i am separated from God. I feel very much alone at times. Hope however tells me that no one is truly alone if they bow down to God with a contrite heart, because God is faithful and full of mercy. I think many people feel alone and its not good for our mental health. Religion may cast me out, and this world may cast me out, but the door of hope is always open to a weary soul. That's what Christ is all about, he has come to comfort the weak and weary, the lowly and the forsaken. I believe if people like us would join together in agreement to walk in faith together then we will never be alone. Christ taught us to love each other as he loved us, that's the key to finding our purpose in this life i think. I'm apart of something greater than myself. Im a part of a group of people who suffer from a common struggle, and so im not alone. Im belong to the fellowship of hope. I am weak but the Lord is strong. I am foolish but He is wise. I am dead but he is alive. All i must do is abide within the hope of salvation that he promised. I may fail at times but that doesn't matter because hope is not something we see, its something we wait for. I will wait until i die if need be.

Romans 8:24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

Jeshu · Aug 21, 2015

Poster0 said:
One of the biggest hindrances to my stability is thinking that i am separated from God. I feel very much alone at times. Hope however tells me that no one is truly alone if they bow down to God with a contrite heart, because God is faithful and full of mercy. I think many people feel alone and its not good for our mental health. Religion may cast me out, and this world may cast me out, but the door of hope is always open to a weary soul. That's what Christ is all about, he has come to comfort the weak and weary, the lowly and the forsaken. I believe if people like us would join together in agreement to walk in faith together then we will never be alone. Christ taught us to love each other as he loved us, that's the key to finding our purpose in this life i think. I'm apart of something greater than myself. Im a part of a group of people who suffer from a common struggle, and so im not alone. Im belong to the fellowship of hope. I am weak but the Lord is strong. I am foolish but He is wise. I am dead but he is alive. All i must do is abide within the hope of salvation that he promised. I may fail at times but that doesn't matter because hope is not something we see, its something we wait for. I will wait until i die if need be.

Romans 8:24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

Yeah I relate to that very much, the lies surrounding us keep us separate from God, and then we don't realise that our triune God has life in suffering as well, and we feel lonely and forsaken. however look what an incredible victory over suffering Jesus demonstrate on the cross. His misery brought forth good unto all!

When I realised that then i humbly asked Jesus to share His good life with me and He has, and is doing that, and will continue to that.

What joy when my inner misery began to bear fruit - can the desolate places bloom? Yes indeed!

When the accuser floods us with our sins then we can find safety in the wilderness if we stay in God's truth. He takes good care of us.

Isaiah 35
The desert and the parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom;
it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
they will see the glory of the Lord,
the splendor of our God.

Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees that give way;
say to those with fearful hearts,
“Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you.”

Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Then will the lame leap like a deer,
and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert.
The burning sand will become a pool,
the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.

And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness;
it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean will not journey on it;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
No lion will be there,
nor any ravenous beast;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there,
and those the Lord has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Alma Moore · Aug 21, 2015

Flower478 said:
((((Jeshu))))
Jeshu did you ever experience OCD Scrupe along with your depression?

Thank You!

Thanks for all your poems on this thread, but especially I thank you for "The Beggar Of My Existence". I am going "to place it" right under my heart.

Blessings!

Jeshu · Aug 21, 2015

No I don't think so, but I have suffered from compulsive thoughts and sins, for years I was convinced that I would end-up in hell because I couldn't control my thoughts and suffered from addictive sins.

Today I know that looking at my sin doesn't bring me salvation but condemnation, I am much better of looking at Christ instead and let His Word of truth free me from my compulsions and unconquered sin.

Poster0 · Aug 21, 2015

Jeshu said:
Yeah I relate to that very much, the lies surrounding us keep us separate from God, and then we don't realise that our triune God has life in suffering as well, and we feel lonely and forsaken. however look what an incredible victory over suffering Jesus demonstrate on the cross. His misery brought forth good unto all!

When I realised that then i humbly asked Jesus to share His good life with me and He has, and is doing that, and will continue to that.

What joy when my inner misery began to bear fruit - can the desolate places bloom? Yes indeed!

When the accuser floods us with our sins then we can find safety in the wilderness if we stay in God's truth. He takes good care of us.

Isaiah 35
The desert and the parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom;
it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
they will see the glory of the Lord,
the splendor of our God.

Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees that give way;
say to those with fearful hearts,
“Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you.”

Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Then will the lame leap like a deer,
and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert.
The burning sand will become a pool,
the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.

And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness;
it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean will not journey on it;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
No lion will be there,
nor any ravenous beast;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there,
and those the Lord has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Its interesting that you seem to interpret Isaiah 35 in a completely spiritual way as apposed to a carnal, natural way (for lack of a better term). I really don't know how to interpret such things but i do know that we are taught to look at the unseen things as apposed to the natural things of this world that we do see. The scriptures (Colossians 3) teach us that we are dead and our life is hidden in Christ in heaven, not earth, and therefore we should look to heaven where Christ is seated at Gods right hand, and not on earth. According to that teaching i can agree with a spiritual interpretation of things. ITs actually edifying to think in this way (for me anyway) because it strengthens my hope in the things that i do not see. I often wonder why others seem to have it so easy while i have it so hard, and it makes me think that i must be cursed or something, and that is the way that the enemy wars against me. He tries to take away my hope by making me feel cursed. However according the scripture i should not focus on this life but instead heaven above. The Apostle Paul talks a lot about the things that are unseen. He says faith is the evidence of things not seen, and according to colossians 3 those things are not seen on earth, and so that knowledge helps me when i don't see things in this life. MY hope is in heaven, not earth. I'm grateful for any happiness i may find and i do seek it, and do find it, but this world is not without trouble and i do experience times of great hardship with my struggles, and so i should focus on heaven above, focusing on the unseen things as Paul teaches us.

Jeshu · Aug 21, 2015

Poster0 said:
Its interesting that you seem to interpret Isaiah 35 in a completely spiritual way as apposed to a carnal, natural way (for lack of a better term). I really don't know how to interpret such things but i do know that we are taught to look at the unseen things as apposed to the natural things of this world that we do see. The scriptures (Colossians 3) teach us that we are dead and our life is hidden in Christ in heaven, not earth, and therefore we should look to heaven where Christ is seated at Gods right hand, and not on earth. According to that teaching i can agree with a spiritual interpretation of things. ITs actually edifying to think in this way (for me anyway) because it strengthens my hope in the things that i do not see. The Apostle Paul talks a lot about the things that are unseen. He says faith is the evidence of things not seen, and according to colossians 3 those things are not seen on earth, and so that knowledge helps me when i don't see things in this life. MY hope is in heaven, not earth. I'm grateful for any happiness i may find and i do seek it, and do find it, but this world is not without trouble and i do experience times of great hardship with my struggles, and so i should focus on heaven above, focusing on the unseen things as Paul teaches us.

Yes I understand all of Scripture spiritually much more so than literally.

1 Peter 1:23

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

The Word taught me to understand Jesus as the sower. Born of imperishable seed - through the living and enduring Word of God. To have life in the Word is awesome for The Word is enduring, and so all that has life in me needs to enter His Rest, my whole inner world of being.

Isaiah 27:12
In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.

How awesome it is to be gathered by Christ. When The Word sets you free from your tormentors, then you will begin to understand how spiritual and prophetic The Word truly is. Revelation 19:10

The Flying Scroll brings true freedom within our hearts brother.

Zechariah 5:1-4

I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.

He asked me, “What do you see?”

I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished. The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’”

Jeshu · Aug 24, 2015

Faith's Night - Dark Times.
Dragon's breath - Satan's spit
igniting fidelity - burns faithfulness
souls burning - hearts alight
frying transgression - roasting sin
hellish moments - hot times.

Malefic accuser - Nasty tongue
attacking repose - assaults safety
vehement iniquity - fiery wrongdoing
pardoning aught - unforgiven
obliterating grace - no mercy.

Faithful conceal - Believers hide
agonising sorrows - terrible grief
confusion prevalent - troubling thoughts
anguish ensuing - fear attacks
lowly remainder - few left.

False prophet - Lying suggestions
hollering loudly - screaming voice
verity retreating - truth dies
overpowering treachery - honesty destroyed
guidance warped - directionalless.

Procuring sinfulness - Sin labours
reproach litigates - guilt accusing
Repentance baulking - unstoppable wrong
reviving evil - revisiting wickedness
grave astuteness - terrible trouble.

Loathsome kings - Horrible rulers
destruction reigning - spiritual devastation
inducing chaos - increasing unrest
inner turmoil - upheaval within
warring heart - soul aching

Lawlessness guzzles - Unfaithful decisions
intoxicating lifeblood - robbing logic
faith deceased - trust dies
wrong feasting - sin parties
spawning Sheol - Hell awakes.

Surprisingly detect - Amazed to see
profane Beast - blasphemous god
outlawry attacking - attacks wrongdoing
devouring physique - eating flesh
cauterising spirit - burning ego.

Angelic ferocity - Heavenly power
anger enkindle - furiously
laying waste - wipes out
ruining Babylon - control dies
Chosen laudatory - life celebrates.

Seeing Scripture - The Bible
execute justice - in fairness
deriving trueness - finding truth
exposing hearts - baring intent
chastising minds - correcting views.

Christ Within - Truth rules
light dawning - loving life
passing darkness - lies leave
truth triumphant - Jesus won
eternal celebrations - hallelujah!

Poster0 · Aug 24, 2015

I have been meditating on walking in the spirit and putting on the armor of light. I wonder if they mean the same thing? I think perhaps they do but im not really sure. They both have to do with walking spiritually, and they both mean that we must put on humbleness, kindness, gentleness, and that we avoid strife and worldly concerns. Its interesting that the scriptures sometimes tell us to put these things on and to put bad things off, and to walk in some things but not other things.It seems like a choice that we must make..

Poster0 · Aug 24, 2015

Poster0 said:

Jeshu · Aug 24, 2015

Poster0 said:
I have been meditating on walking in the spirit and putting on the armor of light. I wonder if they mean the same thing? I think perhaps they do but im not really sure. They both have to do with walking spiritually, and they both mean that we must put on humbleness, kindness, gentleness, and that we avoid strife and worldly concerns. Its interesting that the scriptures sometimes tell us to put these things on and to put bad things off, and to walk in some things but not other things.It seems like a choice that we must make..

Walking in the Spirit reveals God's mind to us

1 Corinthians 2:7-16
No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—

these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?

But we have the mind of Christ.

And so yeah knowing the truth we can refuse to have life in bad spirituality and have life in the Spirit of Truth instead.

Check for yourself and see if you have life in any of the following,

hate (apart of hating evil)
doubting God or His Word
judgemental spirit
dishonest (apart of lies to protect human life)
greed
selfishness
arrogance
loveless spirit
hopelessness
misery
despair
unbelief
lust
perversion
unfaithful
untrue
unjust

If so then you still need to be saved in those parts of your life.

Now how can we stop being a greedy person by ourselves? Or isn't true that The Word needs to save us from a greedy spirit - time and again - and grow us a generous spirit instead?

So it is true for all of us in sinful life - not God's own - turn into God's own - when we empty our lives of sin and let The Word of God dress us anew.

Galatians 6:15

Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.

let us strife after that!

Poster0 · Aug 24, 2015

Jeshu said:
Yeah we can refuse to have life in bad spirituality,

Check for yourself and see if you have life in any of the following,

hate (apart of hating evil)

doubting God or His Word

judgemental spirit

dishonest (apart of lies to protect human life)

greed

selfishness

arrogance

loveless spirit

hopelessness

misery

despair

unbelief

lust

perversion

unfaithful

untrue

unjust

If so then you still need to be saved in those parts of your life.

Now how can we stop being a greedy person by ourselves? Or isn't true that The Word needs to save us from a greedy spirit - time and again - and grow us a generous spirit instead?

So it is true for all of us in sinful life - not God's own - turn into God's own - when we empty our lives of sin and let The Word of God dress us anew.

Galatians 6:15

Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.

let us strife after that!

I agree that we must strive for being spiritual. Who isn't greedy though? Who has sold all that they own and given it away to the poor? When i judge myself i use Acts 2 as my guide. I don't measure up to that example. Who can say that they have followed the example recorded in Acts chapter 2?

Jeshu · Aug 25, 2015

Poster0 said:
I agree that we must strive for being spiritual. Who isn't greedy though? Who has sold all that they own and given it away to the poor? When i judge myself i use Acts 2 as my guide. I don't measure up to that example. Who can say that they have followed the example recorded in Acts chapter 2?

Let us follow The Spirit of truth and dump spirituality that is opposed to God's loving truth living inside of us and we will become more and more like Jesus was - a truthfully loving person.

Poster0 · Aug 28, 2015

Jeshu said:
Let us follow The Spirit of truth and dump spirituality that is opposed to God's loving truth living inside of us and we will become more and more like Jesus was - a truthfully loving person.

Amen.

Jeshu · Sep 2, 2015

I just want to thank Jesus at the moment, thank Him for helping me out the last few days. I'm feeling so much better right now. It was dark and dead the last few days. Yet strangely it seemed like I was walking in a graveyard within myself, but then I saw that this is where once all these bad feelings oppressed me, and it is deadly silent, just the memories remain - the remains of evil wrong - serving a good purpose - His praises from my heart to well.

Ezekiel 38
“Son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord. I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the Lord.

“‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel. It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord. This is the day I have spoken of.

“‘Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel. They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign Lord.

“‘On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east of the Sea. It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog.

“‘For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I display my glory will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign Lord. People will be continually employed in cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and, along with others, they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground.

“‘After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search. As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon Gog, near a town called Hamonah. And so they will cleanse the land.’

“Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan. At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,’ declares the Sovereign Lord.

“I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them. From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God. And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.

“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name. They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid. When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Poster0 · Sep 2, 2015

Jeshu said:
I just want to thank Jesus at the moment, thank Him for helping me out the last few days. I'm feeling so much better right now. It was dark and dead the last few days. Yet strangely it seemed like I was walking in a graveyard within myself, but then I saw that this is where once all these bad feelings oppressed me, and it is deadly silent, just the memories remain - the remains of evil wrong - serving a good purpose - His praises from my heart to well.

Ezekiel 38
“Son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord. I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the Lord.

“‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the Lord am the Holy One in Israel. It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord. This is the day I have spoken of.

“‘Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel. They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign Lord.

“‘On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east of the Sea. It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog.

“‘For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I display my glory will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign Lord. People will be continually employed in cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and, along with others, they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground.

“‘After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search. As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon Gog, near a town called Hamonah. And so they will cleanse the land.’

“Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan. At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,’ declares the Sovereign Lord.

“I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them. From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God. And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.

“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name. They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid. When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Amen brother. I have memories do that to me as well.

Tempura · Sep 2, 2015

Some snippets of lyrics (and song links) from one of my favorite musicians, Sufjan Stevens. Music has always been powerful and a source of beauty for me. These are some of my favorite spiritual songs, and I've shed many tears while listening to these when I have been in need of encouragement. I hope you enjoy them and find inspiration.

--------------------

I'd swim across Lake Michigan
I'd sell my shoes
I'd give my body to be back again
In the rest of the room

To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you

You gave your body to the lonely
They took your clothes
You gave up a wife and a family
You gave your ghost

To be alone with me
To be alone with me
To be alone with me you went up on a tree
To be alone with me you went up on the tree
I've never known the man who loved me

- To Be Alone With You

-----------------

I saw a sign in the sky:
Seven swans, seven swans, seven swans
I heard a voice in my mind
"I will try, I will try, I will try.
I will try, I will try, I will try"

He will take you
If you run, he will chase you
He will take you
If you run, he will chase you
'cause he is the Lord

- Seven Swans

---------------

Then there came a word of what he should accomplish on the day
Then Peter spoke, to make of them a tabernacle place
A cloud appeared in glory as an accolade, they fell on the ground
A voice arrived, the voice of God, the face of God, covered in a cloud

What He said to them, the voice of God: the most beloved Son
Consider what He says to you, consider what's to come
The prophecy was put to death, was put to death, and so will the Son
And keep your word, disguise the vision 'till the time has come

Lost in the cloud, a voice: Have no fear! We draw near!
Lost in the cloud, a sign: Son of man! Turn your ear!
Lost in the cloud, a voice: Lamb of God! We draw near!
Lost in the cloud, a sign: Son of man! Son of God!

- Transfiguration

Jeshu · Sep 2, 2015

Tempura said:
Some snippets of lyrics (and song links) from one of my favorite musicians, Sufjan Stevens. Music has always been powerful and a source of beauty for me. These are some of my favorite spiritual songs, and I've shed many tears while listening to these when I have been in need of encouragement. I hope you enjoy them and find inspiration.

--------------------

I'd swim across Lake Michigan
I'd sell my shoes
I'd give my body to be back again
In the rest of the room

To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you

You gave your body to the lonely
They took your clothes
You gave up a wife and a family
You gave your ghost

To be alone with me
To be alone with me
To be alone with me you went up on a tree
To be alone with me you went up on the tree
I've never known the man who loved me

- To Be Alone With You

-----------------

I saw a sign in the sky:
Seven swans, seven swans, seven swans
I heard a voice in my mind
"I will try, I will try, I will try.
I will try, I will try, I will try"

He will take you
If you run, he will chase you
He will take you
If you run, he will chase you
'cause he is the Lord

- Seven Swans

---------------

Then there came a word of what he should accomplish on the day
Then Peter spoke, to make of them a tabernacle place
A cloud appeared in glory as an accolade, they fell on the ground
A voice arrived, the voice of God, the face of God, covered in a cloud

What He said to them, the voice of God: the most beloved Son
Consider what He says to you, consider what's to come
The prophecy was put to death, was put to death, and so will the Son
And keep your word, disguise the vision 'till the time has come

Lost in the cloud, a voice: Have no fear! We draw near!
Lost in the cloud, a sign: Son of man! Turn your ear!
Lost in the cloud, a voice: Lamb of God! We draw near!
Lost in the cloud, a sign: Son of man! Son of God!

- Transfiguration

Thanks for sharing. Isn't great how Jesus uses good music to guide and comfort us?

Tempura · Sep 2, 2015

Jeshu said:
Thanks for sharing. Isn't great how Jesus uses good music to guide and comfort us?

It absolutely is. Music has always been the most powerful form of art to evoke emotions for me. For long, I didn't like christian music, because most of it seemed so fake, but through Sufjan Stevens and even Nick Cave, I've found many beautiful and powerful spiritual songs. They're not afraid to venture into the darker and more difficult areas either, and there's that certain sense of honesty present.

Oh, and "O Holy Night" has become my favorite Christmas song. And Matthew Ryan's beautiful version of "Little Drummer Boy" in a minor key. It's great to find real beauty in songs about Jesus. If I ever write a pure gospel song - I have some that are in that direction but not fully - I'll be sure not to force it out with pretense, but instead with passion.

Jeshu · Sep 4, 2015

Darkness Reigning

When The hour of darkness reigns.
“Where is your God”, they sneer.
Casting their nets of doubt and fear.
Isolation is their jail of presence within.
Happily trading your weakness and your sin.
Oh how they enjoy your every fall or slip.
As your fallen reality is their strongest grip.
Building in your heart their own life form.
So depravity of being is your daily norm.
Now see them fight to retain their place.
Trying to keep away God’s loving grace.
By showing you their godless hold inside.
You in their slimly pits to smite.
Influenced by their dark and godless thrash.
Your light of day took quite a crash.
But remember wicked rule is a very short reign.
For you Christ’s light will surely shine again.

Jeshu · Sep 8, 2015

Victory is what Jesus' loving truth brings!
Victory over darkness - He brought understanding and perspective
Victory over doubt - Once I knew who Jesus was I have never doubted Him again.
Victory over unbelief - Unbelief perished once Jesus was revealed.
Victory over lies - The Word of God exposes them all!
Victory over hopelessness - Faith in God's love - Jesus Christ - brings me hope.
Victory over despair - despair is the cry for the wicked - Plant God's Word in it, despair is very fertile soil!
Victory over guilt - Jesus took my guilt away and set me free to be a saved sinner.
Victory over shame - Jesus suffered all our shame, it is not wise to raise that from the dead.
Victory over the world - my whole life in worldly straitjacket was numbered to go. A whole new identity!
Victory over accusations - the dragon is in the pit he dug for me, unbelievable deep, but I don't feel sorry for him.
Victory over fear - He casts out my fear time and again and saves me from its destructive force time and again.
Now still victory over sin?
Not until the day I die - I got flesh haven't I?
I need some dirt to grow the good seed in,
doesn't mean I've got to eat it though,
much rather the produce of the good seed.
Keeping things in perspective.
In Jesus name I ask.
Amen.

Romans 6
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace

Biblical and other support for those Hurting badly!

Well-Known Member

Bought by His Blood

Active Member

Bought by His Blood

Well-Known Member

Bought by His Blood

Bought by His Blood

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Bought by His Blood

Well-Known Member

Bought by His Blood

Well-Known Member

Bought by His Blood

Well-Known Member

Noob

Bought by His Blood

Noob

Bought by His Blood

Bought by His Blood

Similar threads