WHEN HE COMES...

Poem By Angeline M Duran Santiago

When he comes, and he will, 

he will come to bring confusion and lead you astray.

When he comes, fear and torment are his sidekicks

and he comes with his bags filled with tools of destruction.

When he comes, he comes against you and never for you,

he comes to defeat, to discourage, to disarm you,

to catch you when you're not watching,

To tempt you, deceive you, entice you

and destroy your dreams,

to break your beautiful plans,

to plant fear and desperation in your heart.

When he comes, he hands grip at your throat,

his fingers curl around your heart,

To convince you are nothing and never good enough

When he comes, he rarely comes alone,

Hunger, Pain, Sickness, Depression, and Brokenness are present

make you fall and keep falling into sin.

When he comes, he comes letting you know he represent darkness

and there is no light in him, never will be, never can be.

When he comes, his delight and joy is to imprison you

He rejoices to keep you bound in lies, sadness and poverty of spirit.

he, he, with a lower case h comes to wrap you in a web that holds you until 

He, He who I will gladly write with an uppercase H, a capital letter H,

When HE comes, He shows up to destroy the work of darkness.

When HE comes, He comes to set the captives free,

He comes and commands fear and depression to be gone, immediately!

He, HE who created all that my eyes can see comes and commands

every work of darkness to be broken and speaks life to the deadness in your life.

When HE comes, He breaths into your life and all things are new

When HE comes, He brings light, joy, organizing and restoring your life,

He begins to speak YES and AMEN to every dream, 

every hope and desire to do greatness.

When HE shows up, the other one, 

the one who can only claim to rule in darkness,

Well, he has to go.

Satan cannot abide in Yahweh's presence.

Satan cannot remain where God has shown up with all HIS power and might!

Darkness has to let go, get it's grip off of you 

Run, leave, disappear and stay away!

HE is greater, more wonderful and more powerful.

If the enemy of your soul has shown up then open the door to the Lord of Hosts

Open your heart and let the King of Glory 

rise up and enter into the home of your heart.

When HE comes, everything changes.

There are blessings, joy, strength and so much more.

But, you won't know until you command darkness 

to leave and invite God into your life.

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I WILL and I CHOOSE

The house is quiet. The kids are still in their nests. Outside, the neighbors are being kind enough to keep it down this morning. Sunshine is softly pushing through my window blinds and land upon my uncovered feet. 

Softly, I rise to push the curtains to the side, welcoming the warmth of the morning sun. A few birds jump on the sidewalk searching for breakfast and my mind begins to plan breakfast for my trio as well.

This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it!

I will declares a choice. 
Throughout this sun kissed day, I choose JOY!

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!

We will states a union of choice.
Not only today,but daily, I will help my family as we walk under God's love and grace.

I will rise up and seek you this morning. Without you in my life, there is no reason for birds singing a wake up song each morning. If I don't have You, the sun's caress each day is only a bother.

So, I choose to trust in You for all my needs. I choose to worship You in all I do. I choose to find and see the joy in your creation. 

            I will.
            I will.
            
            I choose.
            I will rejoice!

Hello, My Name is Regret

I wait on You, Lord, and as I do, you give me hope.......

       I sit here, with all these pillows, thinking. When your mind starts wandering, it’s a dangerous thing. You start to see all the things that are wrong. All your failures and mistakes pop up and say, “Remember me?” The things you should have done or not, replay in the back of your mind like a DVD stuck on replay. You see visions of tiny specs of time filled with regrets. No matter what you do to change their effect on your present, it seems hopeless. You hear the voice that says, “Hello. My name is regret, misfortune, defeat, failure and discouragement.” 

       I sit here thinking about all the things that are wrong, the things that are missing, and what a struggle I am having just to get through the motions of getting things changed. I don’t know how to change things and make life a little normal again. I turn to You Lord, and I wait. In You I hope.When one voice says, "Regret" there is another voice, if we choose to hear it that says, "Hope, Trust, Believe."

 Have you ever wondered if God looks at our lives and wonders how we allowed ourselves to become crippled and frozen in time? Of course He doesn't. He knows how we got to the place of slowly dying and He stands back to wait for us to recognize our deteriorating condition, to see if we will wake up from this ghastly rotting smell in ourselves and do something about it. It’s not until we realize that we can’t get out of our coma without calling on the name of Jesus that we can begin to walk again, baby steps, and see our depressive condition come to an end.

I don’t know where you are. Maybe your life is an amazing walk of faith and everything in your life is perfect. Maybe you don’t even believe in God and feel life just keeps getting better. You can’t imagine this bleak picture I paint here before you of regrets and failure because you don’t have any. And, it is also possible that you do understand where I am coming from. I believe with all my heart that God is working all things in my life for His good and that He is in control when I have lost it all. Like my brother Tito says, "He is still on his throne...." Do you realize that God is working it all for your best, too and that He is on your side, right now?

       This is His will. That we will surrender to Him and seek Him in such a way that we would know His will. Lord, I desire above all other things, to know your will. I yearn to walk guided by your hand. Let my days and my times always be before you. Remind me that I am yours. Remind me that you've taken the past and placed in the depths of time, as far as the East is from the West and that you remember it no more. Remind me and help me see that there is Victory when we wait on You and walk after You.

Do not go crazy trying to figure out what’s wrong and why I've written all this today. Please. It is my desire to have a place to share because maybe I’m not the only one that feels this way. It doesn't mean I've lost my faith or my hope. We all face regret and today I am facing mine, all of them. I deal with them this way. I write and allow you into my thoughts through this blog. Maybe you have regrets, too. 
Perhaps like me you feel washed up at times and think you will no longer get to do something meaningful like you once used to. Find your purpose in His Word and in His Presence. Begin today. Begin now.That is where I am turning to with greater hunger than before. I hope you can do the same.

For today, I place all my dreams in His hands. If I ever rise up to do anything again, the Lord be glorified. If I don’t ever get to do the things I thought I was supposed to do, the Lord be glorified.  And, if my life is to experience something new, and it is just to be still before Him, the Lord be glorified, still.

WILL YOU STAY DOWN FOR THE COUNTDOWN?

Have you ever felt like giving up? Have you thought of quitting?

 Perhaps you have been in a place in your life where you felt like you were cornered and there was no way out but down, as the knockout blow came and you felt yourself plummeting downward, waiting for the final count down. 3, 2, 1……..You know the words that come next, don’t you? You said them in your mind as you were looking at the numbers. I refuse to finish the countdown. I just can’t do it.

You see, I know what it feels like to be in a desperate situation where your world has crumbled at your feet, nothing is going right, and as the world goes on without you, all your heart knows is defeat.

Defeat over what didn't happen or over how things played out in your life.

Defeat and despair over the situations that have appeared before you and there is nothing you can do quickly enough to change any of it.

Defeat that reminds you how everyone expects more from you and these words should never be uttered from your lips, but you have held them in your heart.

Defeat that knocks you so hard, that you head hurts, your body aches, and you feel without the strength to get up again.

So are you and I going to stay down for the final countdown?  Are we going to hear the bell that declares our situation is greater, stay down, knock out, don't get up and fight?

There’s a referee calling out your name and giving you his hand, saying, “Get up!”

Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

There is a lawyer, an advocate, standing before you, saying, “Let’s walk through this together.”

Psalm 9:9 The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Can you trust in God and believe that what you are going through will not be forever? Have you felt like throwing in the towel, like they say, and not trying anymore? Please don’t. Can we believe for restoration together?

Romans 8:6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

I can speak boldly for I have been in that dark place of doubt and wondering if anything would change for me. At times, I just wondered if my prayers would even pass my bedroom ceiling. Today I need to remind you that there is a reason to go on, to believe and keep holding on. God is not done with you or with me. The answer is coming. You help is on the way. The solution is around the corner. Assistance has been sent your way. Angels have been dispatched to your side to watch over you so you don’t lose heart. God’s Spirit is not gone. He is there. God is not done with any of us. Believe the best is yet to come. We have to keep our faith in His Word. It's the only way.

Your comments are always welcomed. Be blessed.