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FALLEN
tag:stayblessed.ning.com,2010-01-18:2917072:BlogPost:36050
2010-01-18T05:03:29.000Z
Ann Banks
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Can someone, please, tell me how to get back up again?<br />
Can I reach high enough to grab the Master's hand?<br />
Is it possible for me to turn from my wicked ways?<br />
Will I be found worthy to give God all the praise?<br />
Can anyone tell me how to forgive myself<br />
When I have cheated on Him who is faithful, to please somebody else?<br />
How could I defile this vessel that He had made clean<br />
After He had forgiven the sin, the iniquity, and the evil He had seen?<br />
How could I open my mouth and entertain the vanity of…
Can someone, please, tell me how to get back up again?<br />
Can I reach high enough to grab the Master's hand?<br />
Is it possible for me to turn from my wicked ways?<br />
Will I be found worthy to give God all the praise?<br />
Can anyone tell me how to forgive myself<br />
When I have cheated on Him who is faithful, to please somebody else?<br />
How could I defile this vessel that He had made clean<br />
After He had forgiven the sin, the iniquity, and the evil He had seen?<br />
How could I open my mouth and entertain the vanity of someone's word<br />
Once I believed the preaching and teaching that I have heard?<br />
Why did I sit once more in the sinner's seat<br />
After communing with the Father and kneeling at His feet?<br />
Can you, please, instruct me how to get back up again?<br />
Can you lead me once more to eating from His hand?<br />
Can you, please, help me when it is me I must forgive<br />
So that my flesh will die and my Spirit man can live?<br />
Can you help me past the reproach brought to my Heavenly Father's name?<br />
Can you help me to recover and never be the same?<br />
Can you help me turn from the way I have behaved<br />
So, that others may see me and know that I am saved?<br />
Will you teach me once more how to bring Yahweh glory<br />
So that my life is a witness of the Messiah's redemption story?<br />
Can you teach me how to repent of what I have done,<br />
In the afresh crucifixion of God's Only Begotten Son?<br />
Can you tell me how God could possibly hear my cry?<br />
When asked, "How could you have fallen?" I do not know the reason "Why?"<br />
My Spirit is grieved with the desire to do the Father's will.<br />
How can that be when I can no longer hear Him say, "Be still?"<br />
I find myself in misery because I miss His loving touch.<br />
How could I have left Him when I love Him so very much?<br />
Poet: ANN BANKS<br />
Copyright ©2010AnnBanks<br />
INSPIRATION:<br />
A discussion concerning the destiny of a<br />
fallen saint who dies without repentance.
MICHEAL JACKSON SLEEPS IN PREPARATION FOR BURIAL
tag:stayblessed.ning.com,2009-06-26:2917072:BlogPost:18487
2009-06-26T02:00:00.000Z
Ann Banks
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My condolences do indeed go out to the Jackson Family. Being a huge Jackson 5 fan as a child, and completely taken with the Thriller, Moon Walk, and Billy Jean Era, I found myself shedding unexpected tears when I heard the news. It was shocking to me, but I heard God say, "Compassion; not because he was a star to the world, but because he was a soul who was loved of God."<br />
Yes. We do weep with those who do weep…
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My condolences do indeed go out to the Jackson Family. Being a huge Jackson 5 fan as a child, and completely taken with the Thriller, Moon Walk, and Billy Jean Era, I found myself shedding unexpected tears when I heard the news. It was shocking to me, but I heard God say, "Compassion; not because he was a star to the world, but because he was a soul who was loved of God."<br />
Yes. We do weep with those who do weep indeed and rejoice with those who do rejoice.<br />
Micheal has left this physical life and entered into a state of which we know not.<br />
His opportunity has passed. His decisions have been made. Everything is now final.<br />
You are still here. What will you do and whom will you choose the world or Christ?<br />
The word of God says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Having no right to judge mankind, I pass no judgement. Micheal (like all of us) was a breath breathed from God. For those who are ready to place him in either Heaven or Hell, remember, "In that great day, MANY will say unto Him, 'Lord, Lord, have I not. . .' and He shall in return say unto them, 'Depart from me ye workers of iniquity for I never knew you..'"<br />
God is King of Kings, and sits on the Most High Thrown.<br />
Jesus is Lord of Lords, and he sits at the right hand of God making intercession for mankind.<br />
Micheal was and remains a soul who made his choice; he is gone.<br />
Whom will you choose?<br />
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Much Love In Christ,<br />
God's Anointed<br />
Missionary Ann Banks<br />
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