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Tests and Delays Are you being tested Persevere Are you stuck in delays Persevere Delays and Testings form in us a  tenacity  to walk on water through every difficulty we'll ever face Delays are  inevitable It is a powerful tool used to produce endurance and To develop character in us, His elect Even in times of urgent prayer Delay may come He's looking for transformation to come Transformation to take place in our heart He's looking for us to trust Him To trust Him past the point of safety Beloved, it's not that He is reluctant to answer  It's the perfecting of our faith  He is after He vindicates those who cry out Those who cry out "Day and night" Luke 18: 7 & 8 "And shall God not avenge* His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge* them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith

Choose Me Don't let my weakness  Hide me On the stage of my world Show off your  strength Where all can see And be drawn to you Your  amazing love Captures our heart Take away shyness This fear of the world And catapult me forward Turning my weakness to strength For when I am weak  You show yourself strong Keep my heart humble To fear only you To walk in your knowledge  And bask in your truth Choose me in my weakness  Show yourself mighty   When the world calls out to me I'll walk the other way But when I hear the voice of wisdom I will run toward her Pour out your Spirit Lord And cover me with your strength You've chosen me in my weakness It is here I'm made strong Just one glance Just one touch Just one word Beloved,    Let us not give the devil credit for our limitations that actually come from God. When Moses couldn't speak with confidence God said to hi

Death Death wants to swallow me up  Take me back   I refuse to go Death is not a place for the living  The grave is not for me I have a race to run  I will condition myself  To run strong  Run far I will not get short winded I focus on the prize Oh that I would not go down  To the grave once more It is not a place for the  living breathing victorious saints Someone I loved  Has left this world They finished their race And collected their prize So I ask O death, where is your victory?  O death, where is your sting?   1 Corinthians 15:55

Carried Home Inspired by Him The ministry of healing is like A Nurseryman and His workers He hires many  and  Trains them all  Some to plant Some to prune Some to inspect All are trained to spot at risk and diseased plants,  And when found   Know how to treat and care for them Upon reaching maturity Plants are prepared for shipping ( to be   placed in the world to beautify ) Sometimes though No matter how much effort Is given to relieve a plant from suffering  The Nurseryman decides to remove it  From the others Carries it home with Him Where He can enjoy its beauty Beloved,  There are times He just wants to take His kids home. This does not mean we ever neglect doing what He's trained us to do. In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; …they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. -Mark 16:17-18 Blessings,  Terry 

 My Heart is His Tablet  Jesus is the  author Hold still Write upon my heart Lord Jesus  You are t he author and  finisher of my faith My heart is your tablet  So Write Write Write  Write ground shaking Earth shattering Mountain moving faith I need it now There is  suffering of the  brethren There is a disease named death But you Jesus You  are t he author and finisher of my faith I will see  what faith will do You say it moves mountains You say it's the  substance of what I hope for You say it's the  evidence of things not seen My faith sees what is not there "MOUNTAIN MOVE" Be cast into the sea Where you can be seen no more It is written "All things are possible to him that believes It is written I believed and therefore I spoke It is written ...Faith is the substance of things hoped for ...Faith is the evidence of things not seen Oh God

Life ~ Beauty ~ Fading ~ Revealing I was as a flower Found in the grass of the meadow Springing up for all to see The beauty of my colorful petals Caught the eyes of all passing by But Just as the flower fades and the petals fall Am I My petals fade and fall to the ground The stamen is revealed Covered in the pollen of my life Waiting for the Spirits breeze To catch it in the air Blowing and dusting all the precious souls Drawn to my meadow It's your Spirit  That births in us the very character of God Please God Let it fall on those around me  Nothing of myself Just the dusting of your Spirit Amen His Blessings, Terry Dedicated to Pastor Farris Whitehead 03-09-1949 To 09-01-2013 Your pollen fell on many Thank you for loving me so unconditionally

Do Not Look Back When God moves do I move with Him Forward into greatness is where He'll take me if I'll just follow What has He told you beloved Has He called out to you in the night hours "Arise" "Sit with me" "Let me tell you what I have planned" "I have something to say to you" Has He moved you from a dry and dreary land  to a place called glory When God moves us to an unknown place  He will send help He knows it's a land you've not visited  Take the hand of  provision Take your family too And linger not God is moving us to safety Away from destruction As in the days of Lot He sent angels in the form of men They took Lot His wife  And his two daughters They took them by the hand  Out of the city  before it was destroyed "Escape for your life" "Do not look behind you" "Nor stay anywhere in the plain"

Untangled lines Catch Fish Read John 15:1-14 Sometimes the cares of this life get me tangled into a knotted up ball.  As the day gets going, I sometimes find myself unable to reach the plan set before me. And I hear "Take Heart - There is hope" We took our very young grand sons fishing And they were so excited... It didn't take but a few minutes before their fishing lines got so tangled that papa had to cut them off and start over. In John Chapter 15  Jesus is saying that He is the true vine and that His Father is the vine dresser. Immediately upon reading this I realize God, my Father, wants to prune every branch in my life that is tangled up and choking out the productive branches. Because they are keeping me from being connected to the vine, which is Jesus. I think it is interesting that this scripture refers to us as branches and Jesus as the vine. It is habit for vines to grow and twine themselves around something, which in th

God Is Love If God is love Then the only way I can love is to let God in Let Him totally consume me  To the point of surrendering all Surrender sin unforgivingness temptations weaknesses Cry Out Cry out like never before I want you God I want more of you Cry out until  I become full of Him Your kingdom come  Your will be done The unforgivingness I hold against myself Will keep me locked up Locked in chains and fetters I will not be able to move and flow in His Spirit If God is love  Than the only way I can love is to let God in And When I do Nothing else will be able to co-exist in His all consuming presence Blessings, Terry un for giv ing  | ˌənfərˈgiviNG | adjective not   willing   to   forgive   or   excuse   people ' s   faults  or wrongdoings :  he was always a proud  and   unforgiving   man . •  ( of   conditions )  harsh ;  hostile :  the  moor  can be a wild and unforgiving place in ba