~ Your Arms ~

Jesus, just the soothing sound of your
precious name rolling off of my tongue comforts me
My whole being is filled with overwhelming love for you
Just as the waves are drawn to the moon,
I am drawn to you
The selfless love that you had shown when you walked the world
Your strength and compassion for others
Oh Jesus, how strong your arms must be
For as the song says,
You did save a wretch like me
The bonds that held me and kept me away from your love
are a distant memory now
For it is only to you that my knee bows
My sweet Savior, My precious redeemer
How I love thee with no limitations nor boundaries of this
world or any other
My heart is yours, forever and ever
When I am feeling cold, I feel your arms around me
When I am feeling deep sadness, your arms are around me
As my walk with you gets a little rough and the road begins to take a sharp turn
I feel the warmth and security of your arms
Oh sweet Jesus, I love you, I love you, I love you
My heart hungers for your presence always
I live my life for you,
It is you whom I obey
Your Love and guidance take me through every single day
The air that I breathe, only has you in it
The food that I eat, are Your words that feed my soul
The energy that my body maintains, is from your strength
,Your wisdom and acts of Love and kindness
Every essence of you has
given me the will to move on and go forth and talk about Christ,
My Savior, My Redeemer,
My Inner Strength, and the keeper of my heart
So, I will go on, and tell all of
the lost that I see about how you Saved me
For it is my hope and prayer, for everyone to feel the love of You from within
to know that you are the only Savior and Lord,
and that oh so warm,
comforting feeling
of being wrapped in your arms

~By TJ~
10/16/01

~Don't Judge~

Please do not judge or call me names
I know that Christians are often the target of many things
He said that we would be persecuted in so many ways for believing
in Him and yes indeed, we have been
Some people just dont understand, that their lives are truly in Gods hands
If only they could open their hearts to Jesus and feel what I feel inside
They would know why I always have that goofy smile on my face
and why I dont follow along with the rest of the rat race
I am here for my Lord and Savior and not anyone more
I do things out of the goodness of my heart, for Jesus,
and in turn, I am blessed in various ways
The next time you choose to judge or say bad things about
a follower of Christ,
Open your eyes, and sit back
Watch the world and notice that there is some
goodness still left out there
When there is a family in need, God helps them, through people
His followers, Christians
He works through us, indeed
I am honored to have him working through me with these very words
It fills my soul with such joy to know that I can make some kind of difference
in this world
Have you ever been in such despair and strife, and said something in the way of God help me?
Thats not an accident, he wants you to ask for His help,
for thats what Fathers do, is help their children
I thank Him everyday for lighting that fire inside me to do all that
I am capable of to spread his message to so many
I Praise Him, Yes I do! Praise God and Jesus too!
Some people may laugh or snicker at the way I get
a bit excited when it comes to Praising my God,
but I do not live for this world and I do not care
what anyone in this world thinks about how I
Praise my Savior
My God is so wonderful and awesome
that I could never in a million
years thank Him for all that he has done
I can only hope that in time, more people will open their
hearts and their minds to how great their lives can be with God in their
hearts
So, for now, I will go on doing my duty as a child and servant of God
I know you will call me a pest, or a nuisance, but
Dont worry about hurting my feelings,
I am only trying to help save you from what this world
has in store
If you decide not to take what I have to say to heart,
That is your choice, but remember
God loves you and is only using people such as myself
to keep you from any forthcoming harm
So for now, I will say God Bless you and may you
humble yourself soon to being able to believe in He who loves You

~Hearts Always Hear~

Do you ever have that feeling of hoplessness?
Like, nobody cares, or ever will?
Then, when things seem like they might be going your way
Something always happens, to set you back another day
Fear,
such a deep, dark, scarey emotion
Yet it always seems to get the best of me at times
Confusion,
equally scarey as fear,
not knowing what to do, where to go, who to go to
Ever lay in bed, right before you feel yourself drifting off into a slumber, and talk to the sky?
Where does that come from?
Some people have little faith, yet still find themselves doing exactly that in times of need and despair
He's always there to help us, always there to listen,
always there to feel our pain.
Our heavenly Father, there with His angels, sent down
in our times of confusion, to whisper words of comfort, love, and hope to our hearts
He may not speak loudly enough for our ears to hear Him,
but our hearts always hear
Thank You Lord, for helping me to lay my head down at
night, close my eyes, and to drift to sleep knowing that everything is going to be fine
Thank you angels for helping my heavenly Father
to look after me everyday

Born Again

I once misunderstood the meaning of being born again
I may have never understood at all
But Jesus, you kept tugging at my heart
and I could not ignore your call

So I knelt down
I cried out, "Jesus save my soul!"
Im sorry that I hurt you, with my unholy
acts
I am ready to walk away from all of that
The tears came rolling down my face as I said , I know you died for me, and
the third day you rose again
So here I am, oh Lord, crying out to you,
inviting you into my heart,
Oh, God blanket me with you

Sweet Jesus, oh how you make me feel
Being born again is just that,
My heart is new,
My spirits new
and my whole life too
I feel like a little baby, when I know youre near
For when I cry "I need you Lord",
Is when I feel you more and more
Ill never forget that night that

I knelt down
I cried out, Jesus save my soul!
Im sorry that I hurt you, with my unholy acts
I am ready to walk away from all of that
The tears came rolling down my face as I said, I know you died for me, and
the third day you rose again
So, here I am Lord, crying out to you
inviting you into my heart
Oh, Lord, blanket me with you

Precious Redeemer, just Hold me,
and Love me,
and guide me the right way
I feel like Im cradled in your arms everyday
I love you, I need you, you are where I wanna be
So someday, I know, Ill be with you eternally

TJ - 11-8-01

~ Invisible Bonds ~

In life there are many things
that our eyes can see
In life there are also many precious
things that we cannot see
Such as, emotions, faith, trust, loyalty
We have invisible bonds that hold us together
like glue holds together something broken
Without the glue, it would be in
pieces
Of our invisible bonds
the strongest one would be
Love
Love holds many people together
Without it, we would fall to pieces
Trust
That bond that makes us feel secure and happy
Without it, we would fall to pieces
Faith
Perhaps one of the hardest bonds to keep
It can be very easy to lose if Trust and
Love arent there to help keep it in tact
Having the bond of faith gives us the feeling
of strength and motivation that we all need to feel
People in this world seem to think
that the things we can see are more important
When we make material possesions and ideals
priority over our invisible bonds
then we slowly start to fall to pieces
Without those bonds in life
None of us would be put together quite right
I know when I lay my head down on my pillow tonight
I have kept those bonds in tact
I hope that when my life is near to its end
that I may look back and know in my heart
that those bonds I did not lack


~TJ~
7/25/01

~Peace over Me~

Dear Lord, I know you are there
I am humbled,
kneeling before you in this
time of great despair
Please God,
hear me as I say this prayer
My heavenly Father,
I have been living my life for You
In all instances,
Your influence shines through
If someone opens their mouth,
only for filth to come pouring out,
I say a silent prayer for them,
and know that you will clean that filth out
O Jesus,
In this day of skepticism,
as my faith holds strong,
People around the world, still say
that your Word is wrong
It pierces my heart, and my soul
to hear such words of doubt
Oh precious Savior,
What has this world come to?
So many people, so much hate,
and it finally came to an act of shear hate
that I know
was the influence of Satan himself
I Glorify Your name Lord,
I want to be submerged by Peace
in my heart
over this grief and disbelief that has
covered our Nation
Dear Lord, I am here for You
Use me as You see fit in anyway
As I pray to You,
I almost instantly feel
that Peace, over my whole being
Over all things, You, Heavenly Father
Always fulfill Your promises to your children
I am here Jesus,
I will be waiting patiently
for You to come when it is time
I am ready,
I have my spiritual bags packed
I am working daily to find and to help
save lost people out there Lord
I praise You, Oh Lord I praise You
for putting the desire in my heart
each and everyday
to go out and minister to people
about You and
Your wonderful Grace
For I will Glorify Your name here on this Earth
Until that
wonderful day, I meet You face to face
In Jesus name I pray
Amen

9/14/01

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