A Prayer

Speaking slower than usual
These images keep haunting my dreams
I'm trying harder than usual
But my efforts fail me
I'm bordering insanity

Teach me how to feel what's real
Let me learn to love and heal
Keep me far from the edge
I beg of you

Save me from these turbulent tides inside myself
I'm drowning deep in my sorrows I keep on falling
Pull me back to stand on my own two feet
And never leave me
Just keep me company

Holding longer than usual
My hand's still shaking, I'm tightening my grip and
I'm thinking louder than usual
The world can't contain me
This yearning's too much to defeat

I won't stop, no, won't stop
Until you save me from these
Turbulent tides inside myself
I'm drowning deep in my sorrows I keep on falling
Pull me back to stand on my own two feet
And never leave me
Just keep me company

Teach me how to feel what's real
Let me learn to love and heal
Keep me far from the edge
I beg of you

Save me from these turbulent tides inside myself
I'm drowning deep in my sorrows I keep on falling
Pull me back to stand on my own two feet
And never leave me
Just keep me company.

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Our questions can keep on coming 'til we find ourselves lost inside the maze we created.

Finding our way back can only be achieved when we pray for help. 

I thank God that while I am unable to utter the words, He provided it to me.  

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credits to Walkie Talkies 

A Pure Heart

Ok, we love and worship God. We minister to the brethren in the church. That’s good. We go and make disciples of Christ. Great!

Let’s ask ourselves: Are our hearts pure? Down to the deepest, innermost chamber? What are the stories we confess to our best friends? Feelings we keep to ourselves? Sincerely, are there repressed bitterness? Hate? Lust? Insecurity? Pride? Any speck of the inverse of Galatians 5:22? Unresolved and hidden matters of the heart are certainly not of the Spirit. We tend to think, we are OK for being “religious”, and so “into” church activities.

Remember we can’t just go on burdened with unreconciled heart issues and pretend that we’re in “a whole new world” during praise nights and discipleship sessions. Let David’s prayer in Psalm 51:10 be ours as we seek God’s guidance in our desire for a heart that is pure. A spirit that follows hard after the Lord. 

- O