Jesus, THANK YOU for this man. I need someone to sound like me NOW. He SOUNDS like me !!! I saddly have a crippled tongue, spiritually, I'm practically mute... I almost only function in written form about You. That's why _I_ love music so much... it speaks for me, often. So, he SOUNDS like me, not in the delivery of the actual message, but in his spirit, in his calling out for reverance. He sounds like he's NOT dissing music, but the regimented, droning, dead-earred 'practice of music-ing,' as well as the irreverant compilation of lyrical content. I struggle to find voices that are true in content.... there's always a lyrical taint, a line here or there that wreaks of taint. I've had it with the sound of the 'let's mix it up with the world.' He SOUNDS like me !!! Which means, he's got ears for Your Spirit, ears in his heart.... thank You for that giftedness in him, Jesus. I am surrounded too much by the DEAD HORSES of my past and past choices to share myself with the wrong people who trod me underfoot. I have been pouring myself out on the ground around too much death for too long. The sound of him makes me pick up my eyes and listen with my heart and spirit. LET HIM BE TRUE, please. Please, bless him, Jesus. Grow him into continuing grace under Your Spirit's protection. He's so new to me, that I don't want to believe in his teaching, yet.... I'm afraid of my own weak-hearted taint, these days. I'm stuck. Forgive me for the great sorrow that comes from me having placed my faith in any man. Your Spirit, Your Life, Your Mercy, Your Grace... only these have ever been worthy. Amen.
If there is any chance, I would love to have some resources of his sermons. He sounds so true to me. Truth is, I have an over abundance of seed that You have entrusted me with already. I really don't need more seed, I need fruitbearing. I'm feeling overburdened with seed. This man has an exhortation in his teaching that pushes toward fruit-bearing and pillar-of-cloud following that I want to hear more of. I've been frozen by the waiting on a friend, who betrayed me, and I am dying in that waiting. If the dying is a good thing, like the going to seed before fruitbearing can occur, then so be it. But if the dying is the 'spirit of mourning' that can come on us when we refuse to move on in Your will, then move me. I TRIED to move on in obedience, last night. I DID the unwelcome thing that You asked me to do three weeks ago, in faith, and it caused me more hours of tears, so far. I don't KNOW why You keep pushing me that way.
BE the Joy my spirit feels under his teaching, Jesus. I watched the COLLISION CONFERENCE broadcast of his teaching twice, from Irving , TX. I wish I had a CD of that. It fed my spirit, truly. I know You are not dependent on him, on any worship music or on me to feed me. I AM dependent on YOU, Jesus. I want to move forward. I DID what You asked, even though I don't understand. I have no peace until I do the last thing that You require from me. PLEASE set me free, Jesus. I'm just not built like the rest of them on this rock I abide on. I can't BE cold. I can't be lukewarm... I can't pretend. I want to be free, FREE ME. HEAL ME, please.
Originally Posted by Wayward One ~ AlterBridge
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If there is any chance, I would love to have some resources of his sermons. He sounds so true to me. Truth is, I have an over abundance of seed that You have entrusted me with already. I really don't need more seed, I need fruitbearing. I'm feeling overburdened with seed. This man has an exhortation in his teaching that pushes toward fruit-bearing and pillar-of-cloud following that I want to hear more of. I've been frozen by the waiting on a friend, who betrayed me, and I am dying in that waiting. If the dying is a good thing, like the going to seed before fruitbearing can occur, then so be it. But if the dying is the 'spirit of mourning' that can come on us when we refuse to move on in Your will, then move me. I TRIED to move on in obedience, last night. I DID the unwelcome thing that You asked me to do three weeks ago, in faith, and it caused me more hours of tears, so far. I don't KNOW why You keep pushing me that way.
BE the Joy my spirit feels under his teaching, Jesus. I watched the COLLISION CONFERENCE broadcast of his teaching twice, from Irving , TX. I wish I had a CD of that. It fed my spirit, truly. I know You are not dependent on him, on any worship music or on me to feed me. I AM dependent on YOU, Jesus. I want to move forward. I DID what You asked, even though I don't understand. I have no peace until I do the last thing that You require from me. PLEASE set me free, Jesus. I'm just not built like the rest of them on this rock I abide on. I can't BE cold. I can't be lukewarm... I can't pretend. I want to be free, FREE ME. HEAL ME, please.
Originally Posted by Wayward One ~ AlterBridge
Take them back to the start
Let the purest of heart
Know their worth is still spoken
Let the purest of heart
Know their worth is still spoken
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