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		<description><![CDATA[Compromise. . .  A Promise To slavery      I quietly sit in my peer support class, wishing to do something useful with my time. My tireless mind keeps wandering from one thing to another, it just can&#8217;t focus but inside God authoritatively says &#8220;Open your bible.&#8221; However,my flesh began to fight back. How stubborn could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldiersheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10123901&amp;post=95&amp;subd=soldiersheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="color:#993300;"><strong>Compromise. . .  A Promise To slavery</strong></span></em></p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-99 alignright" title="Chains" src="http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj1/proxydemon_2007/chains_by_live2die69-1.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" />     <span style="color:#d2691e;"><span style="color:#993300;">I quietly sit</span> <span style="color:#008080;">in my peer support class, wishing to do something useful with my time. My tireless mind keeps wandering from one thing to another, it just can&#8217;t focus but inside God authoritatively says &#8220;Open your bible.&#8221; However,my flesh began to fight back. How stubborn could it get, so many excuses to &#8220;save&#8221; my spirit lifting bible reading for another time where it can be more &#8220;personal&#8221;, so many innocent thoughts to keep it for a later time.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="color:#993300;">     In this one</span> soon discovers after some experience into submitting to those minuscule thoughts that you never would read the bible like you so confidently exclaimed to yourself that you would. You began to understand this tactic that Satan uses against you yet still fall into the same hole every single time, you know there&#8217;s only one thing you have to do defeat these recycled strategy. . . Just do it! Just read it! Swallow your flesh controlled pride and humble yourself to the immeasurable strength of God. In a simple prayer to just ask God to help you can get you so unbelievably far, yet even in that you still have to fight yourself, your defiant flesh just to get over the discomfort you might face when you have to confess your energy to destroy your selfish, greedy, and stubborn laziness. Just do it! If you let yourself be controlled, let your comfort decide for you over your heart, over your spirit , over the demanding of Gods will then it will only destroy you before you ever discover that it itself, has to be obliterated.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><strong><em>Rusty Chains, Tightening Shackles and Relentless Bondage</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="color:#993300;">     When you lie</span> in your deceiving comfort, powerless to fight the naturally sinful flesh that has found itself within you from ancient days you begun to experience some very spiritually difficult effects due to your decisions.  You start finding yourself stalling within your relationship with God because you begin to rely on your flesh and less on God to help you get through obstacles since you already have submitted yourself to it before. You begin to feel utterly useless for your routines become ,sadly, predictable. The road you were once paving through  foreign treacherous mountains and distant raging seas slowly becomes a detour to a comfortable place, and yes as times you just take a rest, yet again you end up misusing the comfort you first had the privilege of dwelling in. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="color:#993300;">     You begin to</span> unknowingly run away from the strength given to you from conquering summits of dangerous heights and deserts of hellish lengths. Yours spiritual muscles in a way grow weary and weak from the comfort you soak in and begin to deteriorate, you begin to struggle to rise above the previously simple also easy tasks. Your spirit screams inside, warnings and prophecies,  but one cannot hear,  for the noise and needs of ones flesh to sustain comfort blots it out and keeps it hidden. Your life spirals down and your reliance on yourself to get out of this situation seems the only way though it&#8217;s nearly impossible. You were once running the eternal race with callused earthy feet also divine strength and now on your bare porcelain knees scraping them against the marble pavement of selfishness, laziness and self-deception. You&#8217;re bewildered and so inevitably lost and your flesh. . . Oh how it convinces you that you&#8217;re in control when in all reality you are the figure-head and ,it, the master behind it all. You. . .insufficient, halted and powerless, it. . .dangerous, striving, and altering.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#696969;">     It all begun with a<em> little</em> compromise, and an unknown entitlement to death&#8217;s chains and little by little you begun playing  by its rules and unfortunately losing at its false games.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#696969;">Begun to fall yet never observed what inside you was telling you that you&#8217;re not going to be landing safe.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#696969;">You lie there feeling useless, stuck in the moment, never changed. It becomes dreary and weary as all becomes meaningless, you,  now so fully enslaved.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;"><em><strong><span style="color:#993300;">But it can all</span></strong>  end there and turn completely around, if you would with the understanding of Gods power  say &#8220;NO!&#8221; and like an unshakable stone foundation hold your ground.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;"><em><strong><span style="color:#993300;">If you would</span></strong> remember the unfathomable power God contains in just one drop of it if it were to ever fall into your dry dwindling desert of forgotten strength, it would be more than enough to stand on top of your fears, imperfections and failures stretching to unseen lengths. </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#666699;"><em><strong><span style="color:#993300;">Just fight back</span></strong>, the power you receive from just being able to fight against your flesh is something that gives you strength unheard when you prevail, at first it will take so much will power to try to defeat it , it will take prayer and even fasting at times, but God see&#8217;s your heart and from there you will fly on eagles wings over the valley of death below, and then you will show. The glory of God&#8230; the indescribable glory of God.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">VERSE OF THE BLOG: Romans 8:12-13</span></p>
<p>&#8220;So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="color:#993366;"><span style="color:#800080;"><span style="color:#008080;">Song of the Blog:</span> <span style="color:#808080;">This song when I first heard it stirred the unknown depths of my heart and it only just explains how is just how I feel right now, the chorus breaks my heart because I feel that desperation, I feel that spark within me just wishing to become a flame amidst all the constant searching for His presence&#8230; for God&#8230; and its so heavy, the desire is all-consuming. Holy spirit we are in need of your reawakening&#8230;</span><br />
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		<title>Why?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why. Do you doubt the God you serve! Why do you try to comprehend with your limited potential and heart His limitless strength that makes oceans fiercely sway and part. Why do you find it so hard to get on your knees and just in the depths of your being, cry out a desperate cry, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldiersheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10123901&amp;post=85&amp;subd=soldiersheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#a52a2a;"><strong>Why.</strong></span> <span style="color:#333399;">Do you doubt the God you serve! Why do you try to comprehend with your limited potential and heart His limitless strength that makes oceans fiercely sway and part. Why do you find it so hard to get on your knees and just in the depths of your being, cry out a desperate cry, that echoes louder than anything heard within the crevasses of your heart so broken, so hurt. Why do you try to contain such boundless mercy and grace, whose blood would stain the wood that even then could not keep Him from coming to your embrace.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#5f9ea0;">Why do you fight Him with your hateful words and defiant actions, or run away in the midst of the night afraid of the unworthiness that spills from the tarnished cup you yourself had poured. When He is waiting to say, come as you are,  whether you are kneeling on mountains summits, or dirt floors. Why do spit on the spotless face of true love, yet run to the altar of sacrifice between pagans and idols, instead of living waters flowing from the bible, are they not enough.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333399;"><strong><span style="color:#a52a2a;">Why</span></strong>. . .<strong> <span style="color:#a52a2a;">why</span></strong> . . .<strong><span style="color:#a52a2a;">why</span></strong> do you remain full of consuming pride when you live everyday breathing not your own breathe or living your own life, for you were formed from His divine gentle hands and to Him belongs all you could ever desire or plan. Just get on your knees learn how to die to yourself and live a life led to selflessly clothe and feed all those completely broken and deeply in need. Your heart, your body, and your soul, that is what He desires, He doesn&#8217;t need part of you, He needs you as all you are, submitted to Him as a whole.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#5f9ea0;">Do you truly think you actually understand the indescribable God you serve, the one who scorched the mountains to embers underneath His presence and chiseled the timeless marble earth.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333399;"><strong>No</strong> He doesn&#8217;t depend on you, get that right, you depend completely on Him, for He basks the day with its glimmering rays of radiant light and weaves the still darkness of the glorious night. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#a52a2a;"><em><strong>So stand in awe as He reveals Himself at the dawn of your pain, and unveils Himself at the calling of His name.</strong></em></span></p>
<p>A song with a very powerful ending chorus, this is how I feel right now, this is how I always wish to feel.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA["If this is the life given. . . then I want to live it forgiven, If this is the heart bestowed . . then I want it to beat in surrender to God alone, If these are the eyes received. . . then I want them to see only what God had perceived, If these are my hands and feet that can move with blessed strength . . . then I desire to carry your fire over mountains and hills of impossible lengths, If your sacrifice was out of love then I shall sacrifice my own, for you were blood of my blood."  - Daniel Filippov<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldiersheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10123901&amp;post=62&amp;subd=soldiersheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#808000;">Recently I have had the privilege of experiencing some wonderful but completely serious conversations with many amazing people. In all of those conversations though I have discovered that there&#8217;s something very in common and reoccurring between us.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>What can it be?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#8b0000;">It&#8217;s the fact that many of us have experienced a drifting away from God to an extent that when we look back and study what is different between now and then it becomes discouraging because we discover it happened due to our own selfish fleshly decisions to ignore doing all the that help us strive as Christians to become closer to God.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>What were those materials that formed the strengthening relationship between us and God?</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="alignleft" title="Building Blocks" src="http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj1/proxydemon_2007/Building-Blocks-1.jpg" alt="" width="216" height="310" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#808000;">Well, they were building blocks that were as simple as: reading our bibles, finding time to pray to God, finding time to just      acknowledge God even in the small things received within life, sacrificing our own comfort for others. Yet none of them were taken into consideration as Christians desiring to thrive in Gods presence, will and love. In result we learn, that, Satan utilizes these seemingly small decisions to ignore what our spirits gently tell us to do and shatters the foundations beneath us that kept us at bay from evil and all its many forms: selfishness, self-sufficiency, gluttony, pride, lust, jealousy and countless more .</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>The Result.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#8b0000;">We are left longing to be in Gods presence again, yearning to feel His cup of holy fire wash over our frozen hearts and icy souls. We are left with a feeling, oh so very desperate, to dwell within our Lords courts again because no amount of temporary pleasure within the wickedness of the world could satisfy what God could.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#8b0000;">Only then we understand that this is why we had weakened our relationship with God and fallen away. Because we made Him a routinely thing, something done out of expectations of others and not out of ones own individual love to do what God desires us to do. Because we forget that it&#8217;s a privilege to know God and to serve Him as His vessels and Him, our master. Because we became desensitized to the fact that the very thing we worship and love; God becomes foreign to us, the cross becomes only a familiar symbol of sacrifice and we are left bare wondering how to find ourselves in His courts again. We sit there, reminiscing about how we let this happen and its becomes so very difficult to come back to His royal gates again, on our knees we feel so out-of-place kneeling before Him, on our feet walking we feel distant, alone and unworthy. Sometimes it can feel almost impossible to get back. Satan tries to convince you that you can only get back into His kingdom by achieving some dramatic feats, like making up lost bible time by reading your bibles for hours on end, or automatically getting on your knees and praying for hours to see if you get anywhere.</span></p>
<h4 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#d2b48c;"><strong>In Gods eyes, though, He is saying</strong></span></h4>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#99ccff;"><em>&#8220;</em></span><span style="color:#003300;"><em>Just try your best to live for me again, I don&#8217;t need dramatic extravagance or quantity, I need your honesty in all you do, I need your sincerity in all you plan to achieve for me, or underneath my sight, I need true quality. It means endless times more that this is done rather than you try to impress me with something done out of mind instead of heart.</em></span><span style="color:#99ccff;"><em>&#8220;</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#808080;">That is why sometimes even the simplest prayers and words said to others or from others to yourself can mean so much, can have so much weight to them, and can pierce you deeper than any other blade could go. You know, We all know because nearly all of us have experienced this.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">As we do these things out of our sincere commitment to God with all it required aspects such as completely admitting to God your fears, failures, and imperfections. OUR NEED OF HIM. As we begin to look for more Him than ourselves, we begin to discover and develop who we are in HIM and not who we are in FLESH. It takes an extremely long time to proficiently live and then achieve what God desires for us after its figured out, but, you know, that is what we have a whole life to live for, and even after.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">(Of all that was said one has to remember that works without faith are nothing and faith without works are nothing as well. Also that, you are only able to maintain a relationship with God in the first because of  His pure mercy love and grace towards us. . .nothing else.)</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">In the glory of it all Gods gates open with compassion and a river of love surges through the depths of your soul and you sit there in His courts as He molds you and makes you whole.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808080;">Explained within Isiah 54:8 <em>( &#8220;In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,&#8221; says the LORD your Redeemer.)</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#003300;">Do not be discouraged all whom go through this, you&#8217;re never alone. This is something even the sons and daughters of the holy days had experienced and nearly everyone around you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#d2b48c;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Psalm 84</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#8b0000;">&#8220; <em><sup>1</sup> How lovely is your dwelling place, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   LORD Almighty! </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em><sup>2</sup> My soul yearns, even faints, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   for the courts of the LORD; </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>my heart and my flesh cry out </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   for the living God. </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em><sup>3</sup> Even the sparrow has found a home, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   and the swallow a nest for herself, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   where she may have her young— </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>a place near your altar, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   LORD Almighty, my King and my God. </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em><sup>4</sup> Blessed are those who dwell in your house; </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   they are ever praising you.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#8b0000;"><em> <sup>5</sup> Blessed are those whose strength is in you, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em><sup>6</sup> As they pass through the Valley of Baka, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   they make it a place of springs; </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   the autumn rains also cover it with pools. </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em><sup>7</sup> They go from strength to strength, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   till each appears before God in Zion.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#8b0000;"><em> <sup>8</sup> Hear my prayer, LORD God Almighty; </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   listen to me, God of Jacob. </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em><sup>9</sup> Look on our shield, O God; </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   look with favor on your anointed one.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#8b0000;"><em> <sup>10</sup> Better is one day in your courts </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   than a thousand elsewhere; </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   than dwell in the tents of the wicked. </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em><sup>11</sup> For the LORD God is a sun and shield; </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   the LORD bestows favor and honor; </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>no good thing does he withhold </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#8b0000;"> <em>   from those whose walk is blameless.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#d2b48c;">Here is a song that I think many should just listen to and enjoy.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#d2b48c;"> A personal favorite at the moment.</span></p>
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 My flesh and my heart may fail,
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#800000;">I&#8217;m going through a very challenging and difficult time spiritually at the moment. Everything is confusing, everything need to be done feels as if its a burden. Everything feels out of place, life feels out of place and completely just in another dimension. Its so bewildering to live day after day in this state, and though I feel so far away from God, though I feel as if I have reached a part of the desert that I could have never dreamed to be so foreign and conforming. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800000;">I have something beautiful in this exchange of circumstances from being in a comfortable personal state of Christianity to a state of complete opposites.  What I have found is that no matter how far away you are, no matter how dire your circumstances are, no matter how hard it it is to live through each and every day individually. He is there, He is everywhere, and He will proclaim Himself to be known in every single thing you: see, hear, taste, feel, and think. You will realize that life with God is pointless, there is no need to experiment or try other things because in the end after tasting Gods indescribable goodness, feeling His unexplainable touch, hearing His soothing words, and thinking the way He has always thought.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800000;"> As I am in this desert, God is telling me one thing, and He is not telling only me, this, <em><strong>HE IS TELLING EVERYONE. HE IS TALKING TO ALL OF US, SOMETHING HE MADE CLEAR</strong></em>. He is telling me that we need to Wake Up, that we need to return to the glory God has destined for us, that we shouldn&#8217;t just let our lives be based on comfort and fear of what &#8220;WE&#8221;  are possible of doing, but on the what God can do when you: fight for His righteous justice, when you fight for His holy ordinance, When you fight for His redeeming love, When you fight to protect the very thing that protects you, When you fight to be able to live the life that you are supposed to live. You have a warrior spirit within you, and its so very asleep locked away from its limitless potential. So many people are tricked into the fact that one should remain in ones own sphere of comfort and personally desired circumstances. When one does this, one puts to sleep His spirit&#8230;<em><strong>THE SPIRIT WHICH BELONGS TO GOD, WHICH IS CAPABLE OF THINGS BEYOND IMAGINABLE POSSIBILITIES, WHICH IS CAPABLE OF TURNING DEATH TO LIFE, SICK TO HEALED, ENSLAVED TO FREE, BLIND TO SEEING</strong>! </em> The warrior like spirit that we are blessed with. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800000;">What are we doing! Our generation is so secure in living for itself instead of God, that its killing the very thing that keeps us alive and that strengthens His kingdom&#8230; <em><strong>OUR SPIRITS</strong></em> in service to Him; which God blessed us with the privilege of being vessels for. Yes at times it can get difficult being a warrior for God but He sees your heart in these everyday trials and pains. Some which can be, to keep on fighting though you feel tired, though you feel weary, though you feel isolated sometimes without feeling but God is there, He is listening to every single word and watching every single action.  One can try to hide this spirit as much as possible, one can try to contain it in a personal box. Ones flesh may say there is no need to believe there is God, but that longing in your soul, that part of you that makes you whole no matter how small you make it; will be an undying flame in all of the surrounding darkness of your being.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#3366ff;"><strong>This Means Love: Full Application Of Salvation</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>It has placed within my heart, this stirring intensely raging inside,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Where every single part of me, declares to die and live for His sacrifice,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>And I cannot hide it, I cannot deny it,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>No I can&#8217;t cage it up like a savage animal within the comfort of fleshly desires,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Cannot deface its existence from the surface though tempted from many buyers,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>And It becomes all consuming, and it becomes further assuring,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Of the reality that a warrior resides within freedom, to relentlessly fight for His kingdom,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Wake UP! He cries, it echoes through my being as it does in the ridges of the earth,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Wake UP! He cries, it deeply burns into my spirit rocked by slumber and endless mirth,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>And his armor, before,  gleaming,  broke from its black rust and ancient seaming,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>And his heart begins beating to the pulsing rhythm of the enemies footsteps so deceiving,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Sharpened arrows envelope and blanket the sky,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Stained swords mercilessly dance and collide,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Despite His festering wounds He chooses to live and His soul groans, It desperately moans,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>We are your chosen, We are your chosen!</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>And Heaven replies with monstrous strength unseen and a burning unheard,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Massive mountains melt underneath His demanding presence and spoken words,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Collosal oceans tremble as His loving jealously blazes for the invitation requested,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Infinite skies rip asunder knowing that true love comes to shield the painfully tested,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>And He settles His pierced hands on the warrior&#8217;s heart and prays a word before He departs,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>There he remains perfectly still to realize that only on weary and dusty knees,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Will he be able to confidently stand and peacefully walk against the churning seas,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>Will he able to understand the immense power rushing like rivers in ones soul,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><em>And the Love whose tender heart was scattered into pieces to make others so pure and whole,</em></span></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#993300;">You know, there are times where I stood in hallways at school, and being  almost alone in my endeavors just watched the people stroll by, but  with a different set of eyes. No they weren’t ones of understanding they  were off self-proclaimed judgment. As a brand-new Christian around a  year ago Christian I thought I was so well off and that the rest of the  world is so disgusting and perverted for being the way it is. I saw  girls walk by we shorts too short to even look at, too low to look and a  walk too seductive to even think about laying eyes on. </span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#993300;">I saw kids walk  around in gangs representing the colors of red and blue, Norte, Sureno,  doesn’t matter they thought that were on top and that they were stupid  for living life that way. I saw what looked like college students or  older men pinned against a wall near a liquor store with drugs just  shooting it in their veins, not caring about anything else only that  they wash away their thoughts of pain, as they go insane. Yet all of  this, I saw with eyes of judgment, and one day it was fixed with a  conviction sharply thrown and it pierced deep. As I was sitting on my  bus, headphone on, blocking out the world around me and just dwelling on  my thoughts, I was thinking those same type of thoughts  that moment  and a heard a voice within me, loud and clear. “Who are you! You are not  any different, you’re just the same the only difference is that you  have a savior and they don’t. And what you’re going to continuing  letting others dwell in it as you live your life” When I looked back at  this I begin to write this poem. I really hope you may be blessed by  this and as always I will appreciate any amount of feedback given,  honestly <img src='http://s2.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   God Bless you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><strong>This Means Love: Understanding Not Judgment</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>You and I were skillfully formed like clay, sister and brother,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Yet why do we turn against ourselves, against each other,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>You at times convince your mind that I always love never could I discriminate,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Yet when He walked by with a gun tucked in, ebony skin, building was your unknown hate,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Stop! Did you once think of how He lives constantly dreaming of a taste of freedom,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Instead of having to taste the crusted blood on His lips every time His father beat him, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>And through that His heart hardened, soul barred in, He does what He was taught to do,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>To live life in a gang where others achieve love and security with a lethal bang,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Just to prove that they’re worth far more than dirt to the loyal and royal blue,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>You continue walking in a world so fake, so false, so unfortified,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>And walks by a tanned girl with a click in her heels, body exposed with clothes of promiscuity,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>You’re inevitably disgusted and walk away wondering why, she deserves it you decide,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Yet inside her scattered heart there’s a growing chasm so vast and unbelievably deep,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>That she cries out emptily with salty tears into her pillow, nightmares begin consuming her sleep,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>And waking up on a tainted bed, thoughts of sin dig relentlessly into her heart and dirtied skin,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>All because no one would offer a crumb of love or a drink of comfort to fulfill her rejected soul,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>When a gentleman came, a liar, a thief,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em> Whispered handsomely into her sensitive ears “I have the love you seek to make you whole”</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Easily she was misguided and had no clue to the burning demon alive and underneath,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>As you pull up to a red stop light rain pouring down as a moment to speed home is intervened,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>You watch a lifeless man cursing and bursting in rages as cocaine transforms him into a drug fiend,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>No sympathy or care came, you believed it was His fault, for why would He even dare to try,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Green light you drove away thinking this is life nothing can change but God breaks and cries,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Because that man was a loving husband to his beautiful wife and father of his many beloved children,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>But all he knew quickly disappeared in an instant as an unsuspecting truck crushed them,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Barren, the pain so great inside nothing could keep Him from feeling depraved,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>No one told Him of Christ’s sacrifice for His burdens, now, so roughly engraved,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>He did anything He could to fill the black desolation seeping into His heart,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Drugs his only comfort and fantasy his family kept him instantly away from this reality so dark,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>The house door swung open the storm now in a rage, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>You sit down peacefully and gently turn the bibles page, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Acting like all was ordinary all which was supposed to was achieved and done,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>A voice appears as you read,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>You think this means love!</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>You think judging others will bring peace,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>You stood there in front of your forgotten sisters and brothers,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>When they needed a loving hand to guide and to lead,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>But in your pride you thought that they didn’t deserve My blood,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>That with mercy and grace I poured down on you, </em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Never did I think to judge,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>Because I always knew,</em></span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;"><em>How it was to be spit on, forsaken and shoved…</em></span></p>
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		<title>&#8220;I am.&#8221; He Said</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You heard of Him, you began to seek, you looked in the most majestic temples, looked in the thrones of the mightiest kings, looked for any display or example that would portray Him as the holiest of all beings, Yet you didn’t find Him in the riches of the dying world, didn’t find Him dressed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldiersheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10123901&amp;post=39&amp;subd=soldiersheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>You heard of Him, you began to seek, you looked in the most majestic  temples, looked in the thrones of the mightiest kings,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>looked for any  display or example that would portray Him as the holiest of all beings, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em> Yet you didn’t find Him in the riches of the dying world, didn’t find  Him dressed in the finest garments one could easily distinguish,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em> You  though only the wealthiest of the time could buy His attendance, thought  that only the most fame driven and partially divine could ask for His  wisdom spanning across the ages, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>yet He came with no trumpets blown and  no celebration marking the birth of His decadence, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>yet He came to serve  with compassion unseen and love unknown for written in history’s pages, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>For those who only dreamed of seeing freedom from the death sins they  sown,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>When there was only bitter darkness and seething hatred that  threatened life, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>when there was only disastrous storms that raged at  hope rooted deeply within, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>He came with a gentle hand drawn offering you  sanctuary from the devilish strife,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em> He came with a redeeming voice that  surpassed the thundering howls of demons digging mercilessly into your  skin, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>When you were completely alone and had only desperation pouring  down at the flickering fire of hope you tried to keep alive, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>When you  were without a home and seeking shelter from the distractions you built  towering walls around,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em> The He came drenching the flame with the most  costliest and holy of oil man not even with his own soul could buy,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em> He  came with raging rivers of healing that crumbled all fortifications  which keep you at knees buried to the ground,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>There was none like Him  for in all His majesty He washed in happiness your tainted feet, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>There  was none like Him for in all His holiness He kept you under the security  of His wings,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>There was none like Him for in all His faced insults and  wounds blood they seeped, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>He blessed you still and cried out Father they  know not what they do, </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>so please forgive them and let them see the  display of mercy no could ever bring,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>From your tears of pain,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>From your years of shame,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>From your screams so soaked in devastation,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>And from pleas coated in others condemnation,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>He was formed,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>He was born in your darkness when all was still</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>And He came not with a lion’s roar but a soft whisper,</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;"><em>To say come and be filled</em></span></p>
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		<title>Surrender</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was struggling for days with a poem to write because my heart heavy with something to say and I struggled and fought with God because I just didn&#8217;t understand why I felt like I was getting nowhere why I felt like every single time I did something wrong even though no one may not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldiersheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10123901&amp;post=37&amp;subd=soldiersheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#993300;">I was struggling for days with a poem to write because my heart heavy  with something to say and I struggled and fought with God because I just  didn&#8217;t understand why I felt like I was getting nowhere why I felt like  every single time I did something wrong even though no one may not even  notice I felt like His love would disappear like I had to earn my way  back into His favor or the level I felt was right for Him to accept me  again. I needed life so I went to my bible and read of how regardless of  what you do in life even after you give it away to him. He will never  the less will love you because of who you are and Who He is, it doesn’t  matter what you do, a small sin or big one, His love never rises or  falls. Just as a son may break His father’s trust for taking his car or a  daughter bites the dust for saying things to a mother with a tender  heart, no matter what you are stilled loved for who you are, no what you  do. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;">I know this is something we all struggle with many times, that  everything’s do’s and don’ts; as long as you try your best to not fall  with sincerity in hand when all begins to tumble, He will forgive you  and give you strength to try not to stumble as long as you remember that  surrender to Him is not a sign of weakness or a devastating ending like  many might say it is but a beautiful exchange were all was given to Him  for the glory of His name. Please do respond with feedback or any  corrections you might think I need to make. Sorry for the access rhyming  its just it happens naturally from hours of poem writing. Thank you for  your time sincerely May God keep you and Bless you,</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#993300;">Psalm 73:25-26</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#808000;"><strong>This Means Love : Surrender</strong></span></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#993300;">Known stories of forced surrender ending with sorrowful tragedy,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Lives scattered and never remembered at the aftermath of their happening,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Yet here was a different surrender that none could ever think to believe,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Where it can be the decision that didn’t enslave but set one beautifully free,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">For when one tugged and clenched close His bloodied whipped hands,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Churning crimson waters would erase imperfections of even the roughest sands.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And surging warmth would accumulate bursting open tightened chains,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">To see impurities pour out and completely disappear in His pulsing veins,</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#993300;">For when your heart resided outside of His gentle control,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Desires this life had prescribed tried to convince you of riches and blasphemy,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And all that you thought made you so needless, so whole,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">In his scarred hands were polished clean to reveal a reflection of monstrosity,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Savior! Savior! You cried out with lungs feeling so desperately frail,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">For there was no amount of air inside or outside to fully supply,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Everything required to live and not die like His love if inhaled,</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#993300;">His gracious and abundant love did not account any defiant actions or traitorous acts,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And when it happened He shielded and healed you enough to rescue then hold back,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">All the vile, dire and searing darkness that countered with devilish strength,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And frightened you were by such foreign love which traveled such hellish length,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">That you decided to thrust angry and sharpened words cutting His body and face,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">For in all the years before that you walked blindly in murky pain and muddled tears,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Experienced your heart of desolate earth promises broken which ceased to erase,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">The dwindling amounts of precious hope that was being consumed by all your fears</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#993300;">And then there were devastated nights of reigning darkness whom slaughtered with a grin</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Not even a glimmer or a shimmer of light to guide the way from the countless stars</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Regardless He swallowed your venomous resentment and dooming sin,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And with its breath told and showed you the bottomless depths of His scars,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Suddenly forgotten wells underneath the ground beneath began to break,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And again suddenly at each word His mouth cultivated and perfectly shaped,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Convinced were you of temporary birth in earth below and eternity in heaven above,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">To dwell in the glorious kingdom of His heart forever, never to be severed,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">You finally understood, that, this means love, this means love</span></em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know there are times in my spiritual life and relationship with God where I thought that all will go for me. That: pain will be nonexistent, shame would be belittled, guilt would disappear, strength would be naturally gained, and that I would flourish like a tree by running waters of life (Psalm 1) . [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldiersheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10123901&amp;post=33&amp;subd=soldiersheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#993300;">You know there are times in my spiritual life and relationship with God  where I thought that all will go for me. That: pain will be nonexistent,  shame would be belittled, guilt would disappear, strength would be  naturally gained, and that I would flourish like a tree by running  waters of life (Psalm 1) . But I never took into thought what would be  needed to get there. When I first became a Christian, I had the typical  image of Jesus and how He would make my life countless times better.  Never did I think that there was something that existed called, carrying  the cross. God blessed me with repeated trails and testing’s to see if I  was worth of investing all that He truly had in store for me, to see if  I would stand strong and take the time to build up my foundations  though my bones ached and my heart trembled. I never knew that there  would be times where I would spend weeks dwelling in a spiritual desert  that would cause me to fall on my knees and just want to scream because I  felt like life, every bit of it, was being squeezed out of me. Yet in  all the suffering endured, God showed me something beautiful, how to  give glory regardless of my situation, how to give Him all the praise  though you feel hollow and broken inside. How to proclaim His name  louder than the pain churning dangerously like the oceans tide. He  showed that Christianity, real Christianity, began out of faith not  sight, began out of trusting Him regardless of the hurt that may be  cutting at you like a knife. </span><br />
<span style="color:#993300;">I was shown how great our GOD is, How  great He truly is. You know I woke up the day after the Japan  earthquake. I was like God. Why? Why? Why? Then as I took in the images  of destruction and the bleakness of their situation. A  voice rose  inside, “They will see my glory, the world will see, regardless of what  happens, I will receive my glory whether it’s in something as  catastrophic as this or something as small as a misunderstood word.”  This week as I was studying Luke (6:17-28), I came across a section of  blessings and woes. Upon reading it a little closer, I began to wonder  why those who are suffering would be that blessed in the end and those  feasting and rejoicing with others have their happiness ended. I think I  found out why. It’s because those who suffered, who fasted, who wept,  who were broken, who were poor, will be the ones who were so tested and  tried by their circumstances and life that in end they will be the ones  rejoicing when their foundations endure the obstacles faced. Those who  spent their time, feasting, rejoicing in their own riches and prosperity  under their seemingly wonderful circumstances, those who ignored any  instance to be tested and tried, to live for God and not self, who lived  thinking that their foundations should be lightly implemented, will end  up mourning and weeping at the moment are washed away in the gruesome  hands of Satan.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#72a819;"><strong>&#8220;This Means Love: Glorify&#8221; </strong></span></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#993300;">The wounded world might constantly shake, the bleeding earth repeatedly shatter,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And the majestic heavens might violently quake as all lose grasp on what truly matters,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">But who bestowed man with deep breathes of flowing life,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And whose gently hands firmly held the bewildered souls saturated in bitter strife,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">All around us towering trees can quickly wither and mighty oceans evaporate,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And radiant gold skies can be painted with bloody hues as all cries at what to anticipate,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">But whose tormented body and anguished heart stole the keys of life from deaths charred hands,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And whose priceless scars professed strength and healing to those suffering under evil’s commands,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">The dense ground beneath our feet might rupture and with sounds of rolling thunder split all in two,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">But whose magnificent presence calmed even the untouchable depths of the shifting seas,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And whose countless steps stood steadily still even as the foundations of faith were challenged,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">At every breathe He breathed,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">We can’t touch you or see you but our hearts learned of invisible love so unquenchable,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Only a small flicker, a tiny spark and it grew to a roaring flame repelling the dark so unmentionable,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">All may doubt you in times of accumulating desperation when ones soul cries out weak,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">And all may confidently say that our God is dead how pointless it is for us to seek,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">But whose endless glory was nailed then put openly on display,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Whose stained back was viciously whipped and sides torn,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Whose heavenly light lit the way in the blackness of night where misery was formed!?</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">No! None! Could ever steal the growing hope inside, nothing could ever replicate!</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Such brittle bones can swiftly age and flesh easily disintegrate, </span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">But No! Nothing! Can ever hide the traces of you as creation unified cries your matchless name!</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">Father have mercy for your lost sons and daughters who have forgotten the power you claim,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">As 24 elders and 4 living creatures fearlessly surrender their golden crowns, </span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">At the sacred doors of your burning throne and all reverently bow down,</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color:#993300;">To shout and sing how holy you are despite our bleak circumstances and numbing pains,</span></em></p>
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		<title>A Desired Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walked such a brittle road, Friends fell, hearts failed left and right, Its cracks filled with shattered pieces Of praying desperately every night, That a fire would set free me to believe in desires, Desires that could burn higher and higher, That something would illuminate a path for more than I, Illuminate the heart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldiersheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10123901&amp;post=24&amp;subd=soldiersheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#993300;"><a href="null"><span style="color:#993300;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Angel " src="http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj1/proxydemon_2007/angel.jpg" alt="" width="214" height="319" /></span></a></span><a href="null"></a><span style="color:#993300;">I walked such a brittle road,<br />
Friends fell, hearts failed left and right,<br />
Its cracks filled with shattered pieces<br />
Of praying desperately every night,<br />
That a fire would set free me to believe in desires,<br />
Desires that could burn higher and higher,<br />
That something would illuminate a path for more than I,<br />
Illuminate the heart of a star that lay with another upon the sky,<br />
When connected it was the constellation of the only Father, Spirit, Son,<br />
Just maybe, it could be a constellation burning from more than one,<br />
With light, I reached for where darkness feared to go,<br />
With light, I reached for a destination that I called home,<br />
Never Again Alone,<br />
Never Again Alone,<br />
Because In your ocean that has no ending measures,<br />
In a blue, striking beauty that surpasses forever,<br />
I found the stars, the moon, the sky, and the rivers<br />
In your eyes,<br />
Found everything that our father made up for our lives<br />
Clear to see the single ruby spark,<br />
That painted the ocean with scattering shades of orange, gold, red<br />
A spark that led to an inferno that would withstand everything dark,<br />
Clawed, desperate for everything light,<br />
Because In your voice I found your love that always prevails,<br />
No never thought that with it that our lover of souls, you would fail,<br />
In your voice,<br />
I found everything that’s meant to worship our savior, our Jesus Christ,<br />
Maybe if you knew I wanted to venture into the ocean, into where your voice resides,<br />
I would find the strength that goes beyond what I could endeavor,<br />
Maybe if I knew what you would think, knew that wanted to go with me,<br />
I would find one perspective that fits a place and time,<br />
You decide, you decide,<br />
We both know we won’t live forever,<br />
I hope that you’ll be there to stay for more than just a matter of days,<br />
You changed me for so much better maybe with some of my light I can repay,<br />
I have a heart to share for more than just myself,<br />
I behold a future for My Only Father and someone else,</span></p>
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		<title>Sparks To The Eternal Flame</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My loved ones, my precious friends of which I know as Allie and Lorena. They officially have   changed my life, They forced me to change and to find god deep in my heart. Where i felt like I didn&#8217;t have anything left anymore, as if every robbed me of it , robbing me of everything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldiersheart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10123901&amp;post=17&amp;subd=soldiersheart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#ff9933;"> My loved ones, my precious friends of which I know as Allie and Lorena. They officially have   changed my life, They forced me to change and to find god deep in my heart. Where i felt like I didn&#8217;t have anything left anymore, as if every robbed me of it , robbing me of everything I&#8217;ve done and plan to do. Yet with a spark to the flame i was reintroduced to what I thought that was just something I was to obey and not enjoy. Yet thanks to Them I lived through what now are the biggest and most important moments in my life right now.<br />
Biggest Gratification is to Lorena, I think I would&#8217;ve strolled away from everything that was real love and life (Jesus)if it wasn&#8217;t for her making me realize the truth, the way, the life. :]</span></p>
<p><em>I fi</em><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-19" title="Spark" src="http://soldiersheart.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/spark_by_burntlimbs1.jpg?w=300&#038;h=282" alt="Spark" width="300" height="282" /><em>nd myself alone, breathing every single moment that might make up my future or reach down to play with the past.<br />
A sanctuary is a place I tend to share with myself, when the stars toss their heads and dance across a glistening sky. A home where everything feels right ,This, I lay on my rooftop. Sudden warmth takes place attacking my skin, a fire grew hot and raged violently as the icy needle like wind broke it&#8217;s barriers. Every breathe represented a restless moment consisting of spanning memories, all in which had dug deep into my inner core.</em></p>
<p><em>I often loose myself, my being, throughout the process of just laying there. An evening cold dancing upon my sensitive skin.<br />
Abundant with countless thoughts,goals, desires. It all seeps in like a burning wound that brigs and related measure up, upon stimulating it,that of, which night time does for me victoriously.<br />
Binding the time, I seem to wander past my daily life, past all of the insincere bumps and restrictions contaminating my little plundered path.</em></p>
<p><em>It brings my many conclusions to broadening problems present from before or ahead. As if I had my own personal therapist gratefully standing beside me asking desperately what&#8217;s wrong, what problems are challenging you.<br />
Knowing I get huge quantities of this, in and out of dwelling into my desolate head, most of which was shackled to daily chores, homework, small complaints. Just in general &#8220;LIFE&#8221;.<br />
But outside it all was my home, my sanctified sanctuary. Built from laughs, hugs, smiles, even simple words of support and love. It creates almost a bronze-orange adorned atmosphere. That fed the oil to a raging flame, consuming my mind,body and soul. Oh how warm ,how alive i felt in my paradise.<br />
Simply put.</em></p>
<p><em>Even so many wonder what supply&#8217;s the demand of my heavenly sanctuary. Where a mist embeds dew upon each and every rose, where night time reigns concocting a immense darkening envelope of darkness around me. Where every breathe signals a intense feeling of warmth,peace, and love. Where I can visualize clearly the love, the thoughts, the feelings shared between me and my loved ones.</em></p>
<p><em>Such precious people are able to enlighten every aspect of the term and feeling &#8220;happiness&#8221;.<br />
Everything I am in pursuit of is God, Pursuit of True Happiness, Pursuit of People who care, Pursuit of Real Heartfelt Pure Love, Pursuit of The Treasures God Has In Store For Me.</em></p>
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