Revelations 12: 11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives to the death."
In these past weeks, I have been faced with trials and the one verse that has kept me going is (and i am going to state it in my own style) "I overcame all _______ (trials, circumstances, unfortunate turn of events) by the blood of the lamb and the word of my testimony". I got so into it i started singing the marymary song "can't give up now". Sometimes things don't always go the way we plan, sometimes we've had things all figured out in our heads we can't imagine anything going wrong, and out of the blues we experience setbacks that could marr our plans. It is so easy to lose hope when in the dark, so much that we do not even see that scarlet rope that has been let down for us to hang on to.
I overcome all things by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of my testimony. (say it over n' over again, and don't you dare stop believing it)
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
THY WILL BE DONE
hey guys, i know it's been a month since the last post and i apologise. This post is a major one for me because a lot of it if not all is based on stuff i passed through in the past few weeks....
That's the 7th verse of a hymn by Charlotte Eliott "My God, My father while i stray". I heard this first on good friday at my church service, and this was the only verse that struck me....coincidentally the minister made us sing this verse three times. And I thought back to Jesus' prayer before his crucifixion and the bit where he went "not my will, but yours...'. I did not realise that in the weeks to follow, i would be tried on these very words. This is a period where a lot of people are expecting things.......not like we dont always, but now especially, there are a lot of expectations concerning admissions and finals....and so on. For me it was with my admissions, i knew i wanted to go and somehow i honestly did not think anything would go wrong with that...but guess wat?....things went REALLY wrong. At a point i thought all the schools i applied to were against me and it seemed like i was just piling up all them rejection letters. I could not believe it, i was so angry with everybody...especially God and i hated hearing "dont worry, you're smart, you'll get into a school, no doubt"....i especially hated hearing "Just pray that God's will be done"......i was just thinking, when exactly will that be? when there are no more schools left?
The one night while it was raining, i was sitting in the dark listening to the radio....and Martina McBride's (i love her by the way) song, anyway, was playing....that was all it took for me to admit defeat...i couldnt fight God (maybe other can but i cant)....and so i just started talking, told him i was tired of being mad and sad...i just wanted to get into a good school....no the right school. Remember the 3 minutes relief thing i wrote about sometime ago....well i felt relief, i poured it all out and just said.... "you know what God, just take me where you want me to go...cuz i know wherever it is, it will be the right place"
Well now, how do i feel?...Hopeful, the hard part now is making a choice...cuz he has prepared a table before me..such that i do not lack..i cannot be needy.
So people whenever you're in a fix...remember to let his will be done. Can i get a Halleluia somebody?
http://www.martina-mcbride.com/lyrics/anyway.shtml
Renew my will from day to day;
Blend it with Thine and take away
All that now makes it hard to say,
"Thy will be done."
That's the 7th verse of a hymn by Charlotte Eliott "My God, My father while i stray". I heard this first on good friday at my church service, and this was the only verse that struck me....coincidentally the minister made us sing this verse three times. And I thought back to Jesus' prayer before his crucifixion and the bit where he went "not my will, but yours...'. I did not realise that in the weeks to follow, i would be tried on these very words. This is a period where a lot of people are expecting things.......not like we dont always, but now especially, there are a lot of expectations concerning admissions and finals....and so on. For me it was with my admissions, i knew i wanted to go and somehow i honestly did not think anything would go wrong with that...but guess wat?....things went REALLY wrong. At a point i thought all the schools i applied to were against me and it seemed like i was just piling up all them rejection letters. I could not believe it, i was so angry with everybody...especially God and i hated hearing "dont worry, you're smart, you'll get into a school, no doubt"....i especially hated hearing "Just pray that God's will be done"......i was just thinking, when exactly will that be? when there are no more schools left?
The one night while it was raining, i was sitting in the dark listening to the radio....and Martina McBride's (i love her by the way) song, anyway, was playing....that was all it took for me to admit defeat...i couldnt fight God (maybe other can but i cant)....and so i just started talking, told him i was tired of being mad and sad...i just wanted to get into a good school....no the right school. Remember the 3 minutes relief thing i wrote about sometime ago....well i felt relief, i poured it all out and just said.... "you know what God, just take me where you want me to go...cuz i know wherever it is, it will be the right place"
Well now, how do i feel?...Hopeful, the hard part now is making a choice...cuz he has prepared a table before me..such that i do not lack..i cannot be needy.
So people whenever you're in a fix...remember to let his will be done. Can i get a Halleluia somebody?
http://www.martina-mcbride.com/lyrics/anyway.shtml
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