He loves us through those dark cloud-covered times AR

Monday Message

Have you ever watched a battlefield scene in a movie and found yourself
rooting for a certain character, or a certain group of characters?

Thanks so much for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and
Trench Classes United. Today’s poetic message I can just hear in a sort of
rap song, reminds us that the mind is a battlefield but…When we look up
and remember Who can lead us to victory, we can make our
escape…safely.

Messy heart
Messy home

Where is my abode?
Where is my love?
My light that once shone?

I no longer know
and I pray

and I seek
Trying to believe
In that girl I used to be

But no longer is she

Dead and gone
Sayonara
So long

For this isn’t a fairy song
But a battle that rages on
Tired

For so long
So tired
So wrong

Buried deep
In the day to day
Forgetting the reason
I even pray

Giving up
Giving in

To pockets of bliss
Momentary sin
As I tear down this temple of His
No longer a place the Holy Spirit desires to live

At least that’s what i tell myself
As my mind races and spins

From confusion
To doubt
To anger and shouts
What is this even for or about?
I give up

I give in
Down on my knees
Praying again
For something other than this cup I’ve been given

and I look up at the full moon in the sky
Shining bright no matter the hour of the night
and wonder why?

Phasing through every season
and cycle of life
It still shines

Because it’s gift
Is light

Not power or might
But simply to shine

Reminding us all
That our God is the God that holds time

Nothing on this earth
Of value or of worth
Has ever been mine
But given to me
By the One True Vine

For He is all power
All glory
All might
Loving me still through
This dark cloud covered nights

“And I thought how [gloriously and honorably] I would set you among My children and give you a
pleasant land, a goodly heritage, the most beautiful and best [inheritance] among all the nations! And I
thought you would call Me My Father and would not turn away from Me…A voice is heard on the bare
heights, the weeping and pleading of the sons of Israel, because they have perverted their ways, they
have [eagerly] forgotten the Lord their God. Return, O faithless sons, [says the Lord, and] I will heal your
faithlessness. [And they answer] Behold, we come to You, for You are the Lord our God.” - Jeremiah
3:19,21-22