Exulting over being brought by God to a new place of faith, and yieldedness.

From Jesus to those suffering for Jesus.

This is one of a growing number of songs I have written about my experience with Jesus convicting me of pride.

As you hear the words of this song about the Israelite year of jubilee, remember that Jesus is our jubilee, and he's permanent.

This is about a situation in which I was sent to a fellowship by Jesus, to build them up in their faith in Jesus, and they didn't want me there, and were too interested in their Christian public image to say so.

This song is about God answering my need in a place of deep discouragement.

Jesus sends us out as unadorned clay vessels in the hands of God. Any virtue present is not our own, it is God in us, and so we go forward feeling vulnerable, and humble, knowing god will have to fill our vessel (very often only at the last moment) if the need we are faced with is going to be served. In this place of trust in God we are freed from the selfish concerns of credentialing and of having others see us in a certain light. And because we are not covering ourselves with the mantle of our own making, God covers us with His anointing, his empowerment. If you want God's power to flow through you, don't cover your self with any righteousness, or sufficiency, or credential but Jesus. This is the death of our pride, and it leads to God fulfilling his purpose for us, with His power. Ultimately, this will even empower us to physically die with Jesus, which many of us will be doing in the days not far ahead.

This is a spoken word poem, put to some music. The poem is about me being healed of the insane perception of certain situations, caused by terribly wounding events in my past. I was picturing the school grounds, with the forest green painted steel, and large areas of treed, and grassy spaces that gathered around my elementary school in Grand Rapids Michigan. The aging fighter is the mentality of fear that is about to be defeated in me, by God’s abundant grace and the honey tongue of Jesus speaking the words of conviction, and healing that I need. This was the symbolized account of an event that actually happened.

I wrote this song about some extended time of spiritual oppression that God carried me through. It occurred at the time that the tsunami wrecked the lives of thousands in the Indian Ocean region and I used that deeply affecting scene as the imagery for the waves of fear, and doubt that threatened to drown my consciousness at that time. I had gone through a test of faith that severe since I was a teen. During such a onslaught of disorienting fear, and doubt, one can only hold ones breath, and hope in God to save. Thinking things out at such a time does great harm, because it is ones thoughts that are being used to oppress. At that time, I realized I must relax my mental struggling, and seek to orient myself to God, in the hopes that I would be able to make my way to the surface (sanity, objectivity) in time. God, of course, came through, in a big way, and I have a great sense that I am far more prepared to face the coming days of world-wide tribulation. I believe many of us have, and are, and will undergo similar experiences with God. I can tell you, from experience, God will save (though it will not look like He’s going to at the time you are going through this).

A Song from Jesus to His followers (Not all believers care to, or know they can be, followers). For those of us who do follow Jesus, we hear him saying these intimate, joy-filled, things to us.