A Heartfelt Understanding

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine (What is this blessed assurance that Jesus is mine? None other than the token given to me, that free gift of the Holy Spirit that dwells within me, that speaks to me, that encourages and at times disciplines me, and that empowers me to do whatever God calls me to do. It is the Holy Spirit that Jesus sent to dwell with me, to teach me, to lead me in all truth, to help me when I don’t know what to pray for as I ought, and whom bears witness in my spirit that I am a child of God therefore enabling me to cry out ABBA FATHER. It’s the “I know that I know that I know” that is imprinted deep in my soul, in my spirit, and in every fiber of my being.)

O what a foretaste of glory divine (those moments when I begin to understand things that I have studied, those moments when I am cleaning up the kitchen or anything for that matter and a song will drop into my heart in the midst of my activity and I will understand what it means)

Heir of salvation (I am a daughter of the Most High God Jehovah, little sister of my BIG BROTHER JESUS CHRIST who is the first born, an heir because of my faith in King Jesus.)

purchase of God (“HE did it just for me” O the sacrifice that GOD sacrificed to allow his firstborn to be so cruelly treated and killed in order to pay a debt that I owed that I wasn’t aware existed until I began to understand HIS WORD and HIS LOVE)

Born of HIS Spirit (I am a new creation in Christ Jesus. The old me no longer exists and the new me that is today is because of the HOLY SPIRIT that dwells within me.)

Washed in HIS blood (So many sins I committed knowingly and unknowingly before having so completely given myself to Christ as HIS maidservant – HIS doula. So unworthy I was and yet Jesus pulled me from my knees, wiped my oh so many tears, and called me not only HIS friend, but HIS baby sister.  I am clean today. I am no longer guilty in the areas that man wants to condemn me – even my Christian brothers and sisters.  Where they condemn me Jesus says that I am NOT GUILTY. What a joy and all of this is because I have been washed in his blood)

This is my story. (This is who I am and why I speak and act the way I do.)

This is my song. (This is the reason why I praise and worship the way I do.)

Praising my Savior all the day long. (It is not about show for me. It is not to infuriate others or even incite others to jealousy.)

This is my story. (My testimony, all the things I went through before getting here.)

This is my song. (The reason I am so passionate about what I do and why I TRY to do what I do with a spirit of excellence.)

Praising my Savior all the day long. (This is the reason why my worship is for real. Ive come too far not to worship HIM.)