The Sword Fight

The Lord has communicated a promise to me. I'm holding on to this promise by faith. Feelings and circumstance haven't matched up to this faith, for most of this journey . This is an analogy the Lord gave me almost 2 years ago, when I was battling to believe feelings and circumstance, instead of faith in what the Lord had told me.


I have a sword and armor on.
The sword I'm fighting with is, fact and faith.
My opponent's sword he's fighting with, is feelings and circumstance.
Feelings and circumstance keeps fighting me.
I'm battling to surrender to him, but I refuse!
I start fighting harder and swinging my sword
very aggressively .
The sword of the Spirit is the word of God, I thought. (Ephesians 6:17)
So to win this sword fight, I have to think:
'What are the facts?'
The facts are, what God has TOLD me.
What I know to be true to what God has spoken to me.
And God does not lie. (Hebrews 6:13-20)
The fact is, I need to trust God's voice,
and not surrender to feelings and circumstance! (Hebrews 11:1-3)
So after an intense fight,
I finished feelings and circumstance off with my sword.
I had quite the sword fight this morning,
Thank you God that fact and faith won!!!


Romans 4:18-21

Who against hope believed in hope, that he (Abraham) might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

{19} And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

{20} He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

{21} And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Wounded Ones

This poem is about the past, of tug- of -wars that went on inside me. The Lord was pulling for me, but I had to choose which side I was going to be on. I've known wounded ones, with no where to go,
I must help them out, through their unfortunate woes.
They make you feel gorgeous with the right things they say,
they enter your heart, and they consume you all day.
Their empathy is strong, it makes you weak,
they got you good, and there's no one else you seek.
It feels so good, could this be true?
God says no, he's not for you.
He's got a hold on you, you gotta let go,
But what will he do Lord, where will he go?
I'll take care of him, he'll be okay, hold my hand, lets walk the other way.
My feelings say yes, but God says no,
I must decide, which way to go.
The battle is strong, it's at it's high,
it hurts so bad, that I start to cry.
I have to choose, I've been through this before,
last time I chose feelings, but not anymore.
I know from the past, when feelings got her way,
it caused so much destruction, with not just me to pay.
So I reject my feelings, I know this is right,
I walk by faith now, and not by sight.
I trust you Lord, I'll hold your hand,
so You can guide me into, my promised land.

When I look back, I'm SO thankful for all God's "No's". Because now I know, that all along, He had something better planned for me!


Jeremiah 29:11
For now I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.