When in a desert of life, Who/what does your heart pant for? ~Kim-Evinda

Monday’s Message

More often than not, when going through a struggle we get pretty focused on the struggle instead of the One who can guide us through the struggle.
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Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and Trench Classes United. Today’s message is a great poem of pleas in a struggle.

Lord, I long for You
I desire You
I crave the intimacy that I know can be there
 
                Yet I sit here and stare
                Into the endless abyss
                Of deception
                and myths
 
Making me believe
I am no good for this
 
                I don’t wake early
                I feel the guilt
                Agony
                and despair
 
Because I care
 
                and I know there is something better out there
                Yet my human ways
                Of watching netflix
                Staying up late
                And choosing sleep
                Over the most important thing I will ever need
Gets to me
Eats at me
 
                I want to be better
                I desire to write this letter
                Not because it’s easy
                But because He sees me
 
He sees my heart
He sees my home
 and He knows
Without Him
I lose all hope
 
So where do I go?
Where do I run?
and how do I become a person of such
Discipline
and desire?
When all I feel
Is thrown in the fire
 
                Despite the guilt
                Despite the shame
                I have no one to blame
                and my God is the same
                Yesterday
                and today
                His forgiveness remains
                and though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
                He is with me
                Standing next to me in the furnace of fire
                Helping me rip out my hearts fleshly desires
                and making me change
 
The days ahead are dark
and I have no room for guilt
I have no time for shame
 
                The time to get right
                Is right now
                For soon every knee will bow
                and every tongue will confess
                That Jesus Christ is Lord
                and I attest
                That nothing but His love
                and His Word will be left
 
So I will stand
Against the powers of this present darkness
Praying life into this heart
Until I can truly embark
and rest in His grace
 
For day by day
We are slain
and it us up to us to choose
Who we let win the game…


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