Christian Chat

[heartathome]

@PeppyPatti It's nice to meet you! 

[DownMoreThanUp]

@PeppyPatti Good seeing you here as well.

i hope you will feel at home and among friends.

An invitation to The Chosen.

God's Love will not take or will
you to conform to rules or demand
which imprison, enslave, burn or harm you.

God's Love will not pervert what's Good
The Lord loves truthfully Wise and Good.
True Love was, is and always will be Good!

In God's Love you are free to be right!
In His love everything is good proper and kind.
He loves all who love good and true to rule!

His Love is caring, providing, and sharing.
His Love always enjoys and protects good life.
His love rules even when bad life has being in us!

Hear Jesus call - 'Come join up with us all!
Leave whatever ties you down and be free
loving good life with all God's own to be.'

To the rest in your heart God's asks
how long will you tarry in the darkness?
Please leave such bad existence within.

For life must not, no never should, or would, or could,
be forceful, rude, prideful, arrogant, selfish, lustful
or otherwise be untrue to God's loving truth.

Neither should life be hurting or ill,
hungry, oppressed, despised, hated
or otherwise have existence in wrong.

Please hand your Bad Life over to Jesus
Humbly ask for His Good Life back in return
and go love God, self and neighbour with Joy.

The Church knows that Jesus is coming soon
All bad life will be our shameful past then,
so please leave your bad life while you can!

Love

[Appleblossom]

Thank you very much for your tags @DownMoreThanUp @heartathome @PeppyPatti @tyme @ENKELI @avant-garde @Dimity @Shaz51 it really helps me to feel included as a person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGektpTIYqo 

I was looking for another video, celebrating a version of alleluia we did this week, but there was only a version on Facebook, which the forum prefers not to share. Found this, seems rich and relevant. Anyway I am feeling short of words, but I will try and watch it. Don’t mind me a bit of good British writing.

[ENKELI]

@Appleblossom thanks for sharing that, I love Jennifer Saunders and of course Dame Judi so I am going to see where I can watch the whole thing.

[heartathome]

@Appleblossom @DownMoreThanUp @ENKELI @PeppyPatti @tyme @Shaz51 @avant-garde @tyme 

I did a program with a Baptist church called The Wounded Heart in 1997. I can't believe this was nearly 40 years ago! This is a poem I wrote after that. God is good! ❤️

@REDLINEZ750 This is a piece of my poetry that you may or may not be interested in. I wrote it out here because it's about me and God. 

A Wounded Heart

A wounded heart, I look ahead

my expectations clear

A few struggles I'm bound to have

but nothing there to fear

I've done some healing and I'm okay.

It's behind me in the past

I'm feeling good and think I'm fine

when we begin to start

The second week, there is a change

Something new begins

Anxiety and fear start to grow

A churning wipes my grin

Facing the battle opens more

The truth I realise now

is covered to deceive myself

I don't know why or how

Could my family be a part?

Did anyone really care?

Rage is now on the loose

Imperfections hard to bear

Shame: My failures can't be seen

I will justify or hide

God is stripping protective layers

of contempt, deceit and lies

Contempt: I will never hurt again

Control will take its place

To face the needs, I have within

requires something they call grace

I want your acceptance and your love

But I doubt you'll get through

So much garbage covers me

I'll hurt you if you do

Powerless: I can't live with that

Control my hardened shell

Not good enough, I will reject

but demand from you as well

Ambivalence is a confusing thought

A mission to be liked

But hurt and rage lurk within

and causes me to fight

Betrayal: Yes, I know it well

To trust means pain for me

Protection is a mighty block

I distance all I see

My style of relating is all so clear

Disfunction is my life

Layers of hardness peeling back

Under the Surgeon's *****

Repentance - give control to God

It's just so hard to do

To be alive and feel and care

Means starting something new

Bold love: I thought my healings done

But see it's just the start

I'm open now for God to heal

this broken, wounded heart!

[REDLINEZ750]

@heartathome  that my Christian sister is power of Christs love, his gift of redemption, pain of exi and the  truth of hope through Faith written beautifully.

It's so hard to find a place of worship centred on scripture any more even with my less than basic  knowledge of new testament I hear the pulpit  driving we are saved by works not faith.

If faith is strong,  works are part of trying to  live  more like Christ anyway and that pleases God but it's not getting you lifted at rupture. 

It's sad and I have to go back and read passages everytime because educated theoligy and clearly the written scripture are willingly false preachers, it makes me doubt what I believe and every time I'm reminded it's not even what I believe it's what is written in scripture 

Sometimes I ask  where it' says that and get treated like I'm at school and teacher knows best..

I'm not a good man, I poke the bear  knowing how furious they get, (some can't even hide when I ask where it says they have authority to preach an interpretation of  what God says instead of what's written.

By now I'm usually impressed  by the clear demonstration of them knowing    passage number and verse better than me so i apologise admit I will go home open my NIV and look at a few things highlighted because it has been a long time since I did.

I mean I thought it said something about spreading gift of redemption and salvation from the crucification  of Christ and not to argue with fools. 

Not everyone will spend eternity in the kingdom of heaven. God knows his children yet only  way to  God is Through Christ.

Would you like me to put your tpoem n A4 format  and put really nice  biblical and themed imagery relating to what's on the particular page?

i would follow your guidance where you'd like page breaks  for pause and emphasis?

I already have the programmes for my ebook and I would enjoy collaborating with you  over forums to compliment what is a remarkable writing!

please consider, i will post something and tag you to give you an idea  it would not over power your words and id like to do i

[heartathome]

Not yet @REDLINEZ750. Thanks for the encouragement! This is the first time I've written it out for anyone and am nervous about changing it. I'm anxious that I've even put it up! I do like the idea, but can we wait a bit. I have a few poems. I have a 'book' of like 178 pages. It's my journals although I haven't written in them for a long time. I like it raw and real. My OCD won't allow for much change either, but I'm interested in what you could come up with. If someone says a scripture to me and it feels twisted; I ask for it in black and white! I've been in what is described as a cult and feel like I've gone backwards (or back slidden as they would say) since I left. I used to study the bible a lot more back then and the church (note I said church) was everything to me. I keep to the basics now. Jesus is my Saviour and I'm doing what I can to help people, as Jesus would have done, until His return! Most of the people I know aren't believers. I do go to a healthy church and bible study. The bible study teacher shows me scripture in black and white and also explains the meaning of the Hebrew or Greek language as well as the culture back then. He's also a psychologist. Believe me. I keep them all real. I'm the only vaper or smoker.  As I tell people, I'm here to love, not to judge! 

[DownMoreThanUp]

@heartathome That is so very personal nice and well said. i resonated with every line.

Your last verse spoke the best i reckon,

"Bold love: I thought my healings done

But see it's just the start

I'm open now for God to heal

this broken, wounded heart!"

So well said Bold love!Jesus brought me that getting to know Him, replacing it with the rule of unfaithful love in my heart not knowing Him, but only about Him through my religion.

@REDLINEZ750 @ENKELI @Appleblossom @PeppyPatti 

Jesus is such a good healer!!! For He can make good life come even out of bad life suffered, such still always amazes me seeing in my life.

The rebirth that takes place in my heart - time and again - because He is so lovable to know in my life. 

His Light Out Of My Darkness.

Finding Jesus in my darkest night,
is essential to escape the pit,
when despair and godforsakenness reign.

Me hurting the place called the skull,
where the destroyer carries the sceptre,
crucifying my truth with those lies ruling.

Lord open my eyes so i can see,
my darkness does me not blind,
my gloom reveals Your marvellous light!

For Your love overcomes my deepest fall,
i see Rider riding on His white Horse,
His Sword of Truth restoring what is broken.

Please Lord let me birth true self,
Me finding life in your truthful love,
then born in Your truth i will be.

(The Word of God births us New Life. Isaiah 54, 1 Peter 1:23-25)

[heartathome]

@REDLINEZ750 @ENKELI @Appleblossom @PeppyPatti @avant-garde @Shaz51 

@RebelliousAngel I'm not sure if you're into the Christian chat but wanted to include you. 

I'm glad you could relate. Thank you @DownMoreThanUp 🤗

I was a bit scared putting it out there, but I like to keep it real. I'm pretty open about my mental health struggles and have been for a number of years. God has brought me out of some terrible situations (from my poor judgement and decisions) and He has been able to turn something wasted into something worthwhile, where I can relate and help others who have been through similar. Don't get me wrong. I still struggle living with myself! I'm my own worst enemy. My mental, emotional and spiritual growth won't stop until I pass. 🙃

[REDLINEZ750]

@heartathome no pressure entirely your decision, i have posted some on threads here i just dont remember where except for most recently @rav3n tagged me into one.

i relate so well to how unsettling it was to do it.

during the decades not actively writing  i always had flow in my mind and i have a mental construct through therapy i trusted my psychologist enough that she found it. its the void and its where i hid my teenage self from the world when survival demanded  mean ,ruthless with no emotional expression of the welcoming kind to others.

i preserved the kind boy with a lens that saw rainbows and unicorns in the constructed void where he was safe from monsters and all rhyme would go to inward to him not outward.

This is i believe what stopped me from being cold to Christs love when God presented me with the necessary events that allowed me the time needed without  society's distractions for me to have discernment.

no doubt would be in what i way i went and no return id say looking back.

TW: Mention of abuse 

Content/trigger warning

He knew i had taken all i could endure and made sure my next choice was not made without knowing his presence, until this point id only heard what people said in "Church" and on ymca camps them same people would say i deserve what they would expose me to, im a sinner, gods wrath is sent through disciples, they were quite impressionable and was taught these people are everything thats good in humanity.

see the respect and regard they get by people, no one listened or saw me anyway i was just a misfit troublemaker and they knew it.

There was only me & the perverted ever knew why i was deemed uncontrollable child before i was 10. never spoken of in detail and never will.

turned out with God being real and omnipresent he knew too.

he wanted me to choose the next path knowing his truth not the churches.

 it is clear had been walking toward eternal torment without knowing the gift of love forgiveness, and salvation. only 

told im a sinner and deserving  gods wrath taught  mosaic law.

i had no idea of new testament and God knew that and saw  my heart, he knew what was never spoken he knew i did not believe and he knew the boy was being forgotten in the void and i will forever praise his name for his blessings. 

i  am certainly flawed ,may always backslide  and i struggle to please him and live in his image yet he knows my heart is true and i believe he is again presenting me shelter from this world and its ways through this right now.

im on SANE in a forum where i feel safe and im reminded of his love and presented the strength of belonging to his family in an environment i can be reached .

Praise the Lord and this is gods house every communication by post from the moment he willed you to post your poem and the strength to do so has been his hand touching our lives i believe.

AMEN

a rare few times i put words on paper for grieving , apology or love i would destroy once message had been delivered to intended person and purpose of inspiration was met. 

so i do understand and i am sorry if i caused you ant discomfort or anxiety i too only shared with other what's been seen on these spaces.

Thanks @moredownthanup for your post i had been a little worried i was going to receive criticism if anything and you know you have a real talent of expression through poetry while spreading the word as well. 

i wont go back and read  this as i will probably delete so much and feels like i shouldnt if still reading hope wasny yoo painfull an experience 🙂