It's supposed to be a safe place to fall, Where you walk in with your shame and walk out whole, Bring in all your burdens and get help, Love God and love your neighbor as yourself, But now we hide all the brokenness we feel, Do we hurt the ones that Jesus wants to heal?
I still think about it, I say I let it go, But when those four walls fall, They can crush a faithful soul, I used to be so trusting, I hung on every word, Thought I found my family, cnd then my whole world turned, When I felt that church hurt, So hard to put into words, Feeling stranded, abandoned, Thought we would end up with heaven on earth, Instead of this church hurt, We found ourselves down in the dirt, cll of us imperfect people under a steeple, Just trying to do God's work, cnd then there was church hurt.
It's the hardest thing to give away And the last thing on your mind today, It always goes to those who don't deserve, It's the opposite of how you feel, When they pain they caused is just too real, Takes everything you have to say the word, Forgiveness, forgiveness, It flies in the face of all your pride, It moves away the mad inside, It's always anger's own worst enemy, Even when the jury and the judge, Say you've got a right to hold a grudge, It's the whisper in your ear saying set it free, Forgiveness, forgiveness, Forgiveness, forgiveness, Show me how to love the unlovable, Show me how to reach the unreachable, Help me now to do the impossible, Forgiveness, forgiveness, Help me now to do the impossible, Forgiveness, It'll clear the bitterness away, It can even set a prisoner free, There is no end to what its power can do, So let it go and be amazed by what you see through eyes of grace, The prisoner that it really frees is you, Forgiveness, forgiveness, Forgiveness, forgiveness, Show me how to love the unlovable, Show me how to reach the unreachable, Help me now to do the impossible, Forgiveness, I want finally set it free, Show me how to see what your mercy sees, Help me now to give what You gave to me, Forgiveness, forgiveness, Forgiveness, forgiveness.
In the eye of the storm, You remain in control, And in the middle of the war, You guard my soul, You alone are the anchor, When my sails are torn, Your love surrounds me, In the eye of the storm, When the solid ground is falling out from underneath my feet, Between the black skies and my red eyes, I can barely see
When I realize I've been sold out by my friends and my family, I can feel the rain reminding me, In the eye of the storm, You remain in control, In the middle of the war, You guard my soul, You alone are the anchor, when my sails are torn, Your love surrounds me, In the eye of the storm, Mmm, when my hopes and dreams are far from me And I'm runnin' out of faith, I see the future I pictured slowly fade away, And when the tears of pain and heartache, Are pouring down my face, I find my peace in Jesus' name, In the eye of the storm (yeah, yeah), You remain in control (yes you do, Lord), In the middle of the war, You guard my soul, You alone are the anchor, When my sails are torn, Your love surrounds me (Your love surrounds me), In the eye of the storm (in the eye of the storm).
Lord I come, I confess, Bowing here, I find my rest, Without You, I fall apart, You're the one that guides my heart.
Lord, I need You, oh, I need You, Every hour, I need You, My one defense, my righteousness, Oh God, how I need You, So teach my song to rise to You, When temptation comes my way And when I cannot stand, I'll fall on You, Jesus, You're my hope and stay.
Proverbs 3 verse 5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
1 Peter 5 verse 6-7: Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Matthew 11 verse 28-30: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Psalm 46 verse 10: He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
John 14 verse 1: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God[a]; believe also in me.
In everything we see here, we can see how when we let go of hurt and how our past doesn't define us, we see how God gives us the strength to keep on going and become stronger.
Don't let your past define you, destroy you, or defeat you. Let it strengthen you.
My past is what I've been through, it's not who I am. It has helped mold me, but it does not define me.
Leave who you were. Love who you are. Look forward to who you will become.
In these quotes we see how God loves us for who we were called and made to be and who we will become as His Children because of His plan for us and once we leave who we were thought we were supposed to be because of the Enemy trying to tell us that lie, we really realize that what you or I have been through is not who I or you, yourself is because it's only helped mold us but it doesn't define myself or you as God's Child. If we let our past hurts or current hurts, hurt us, destroy us, define and defeat us, then it will never strengthen us, it will only give us hurt and we will keep blaming sometimes what we wish we could change but cannot change, not on our own, because this is where we see the strength come in, the strength to let God take over and fight that battle for us, so that God can achieve the victory.
Let us go this week in realizing that we are a Warrior in Faith, Warrior in Christ and Not Alone.
Finally, let us remember in how God is always going to be our refuge and our strength in it all.
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