If ever the darkness consumes you Reach out a hand and open up your Eyes!
Cause i'm right here as the darkness Falls away and the tears subside
The God you thought was not there Was beside you the whole time!
When the boat you sail on, forgets To catch the shore, and the sea Seems to swallow an insignificant You
As your tossed about as helpless as the sand in the sea.
I ask you my child "what is holding You there , if you are holding tight To me?"
Saturday, July 9, 2011
We are crying out to the father from a dry and lonely Place
We are needing a fresh filling, love poured from his Heart
Come and fill us father, quench this dry and Wounded soul
Dry the tears of our aching hearts, and never let us Go
Fill us with your presence, we need to know your Touch
Trembling lips are thirsty, shower us with your love
CHORUS:
ohh we are crying out to the father
from a dry and lonely place
flood us with your mercy,
ohh cover us with your grace
Oh, immerse us with your goodness, soothe this Parched and tearless place
Draw from your wellspring , bring a fresh Annointing God!
repeat chorus x2
Lorey M. Mcconnell
5/26/11
4:07 pm
Monday, July 4, 2011
THANK YOU GOD!!
I am so thankful for the teachings of Gods word that says to bite your tongue and let the Lord fight your battles! whooo -hoooo ..that means the devil is a LIAR and noone or no thing can defeat me! thanking GOD for what he has done, is doing, and will do in my life , and for prompting me to listen for his voice no matter what the enemy says and who he uses to say it!..THANK YOU LORD FOR DISCERNMENT! thank you father for the peace that comes in knowing you in a way that no man can understand! THANK YOU FATHER FOR TEACHING ME TO LEAN NOT UNTO MY OWN UNDERSTANDING, because the flesh is weak and our mind cannot understand your wisdom! PRAISE YOU GOD for making a way out of no way, for breaking the chains that held me captive, the chains of fear, doubt, self reliance,oppression,insecurity...I GLORIFY YOU GOD and i reject every teaching that comes against your word, teachings of self reliance, because your word says we can do NOTHING without you!, teachings of philisophy that come in direct conflict with your word!..THANK YOU FATHER GOD for allowing me to be a vessel for your word when you see a time to use me and not when i see fit!. THANK YOU LORD for instilling in me a humble and gentle nature that has replaced a hard heart and a closed mind! PRAISE YOU for sparing my life as your son gave his!...IN THE CENTER OF MY WORLD IS MY ANCHOR IN YOU! AND THRU ANY TRIAL , TEMPTATION, STORM, RAGING ATACK AND EVERYTHING THAT COMES AGAINST ME ..MY ANCHOR HOLDS AND MY FEET ARE ON SOLID GROUND! I HOLD TO YOUR WORD AND TRUST YOU WITH MY LIFE BECAUSE YOU ARE THE GIVER OF THAT LIFE!..PRAISE YOUR NAME !
Saturday, May 7, 2011
"UNTITLED"
I was thinking about how Jesus is the author and the sculptor of our lives and how he knows every facet of our being..i was struck with the thought of him , the artist, and how he can create in us a masterpiece that will glorify him! The other thought is how with one wave of his hand he can erase any doubt , frustration , worry, and pain we may encounter. The beauty of that is also this point... that same hand forgives us of sin in our lives with a single brush stroke...What an awesome God we serve!!...enjoy the masterpiece he has created in you!!
Jesus paint the hues of the color of my life
Filling in the grey, with touches of light
If i could be with you as you color up my life the Questions i have would be so many..
Like how did you know that just yesterday that My heart would break? You added a little color, And somehow lost the grey
And when this morning i had given up on Dreams that i would not see, you touched my Heart with words of red and told me who I'd be. And times i thought i had it all, and i could Not Be reached, was it you that caused the pride To blurr? With one swipe i was on my knees!
Jesus paint the hues, the colors of my life, filling In the grey, with touches of light
What will my tomorrow bring? Your smile will Not reveal.. With a gentle hand your brush Pauses.. and you look at me.
Lorey M. McConnell
4/28/11
12:28pm
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
HURTING HEARTS
Hearts are broken every day, lives torn apart by greed
Emotions run high in the lives we live, but tell me what we really need.
Faith and love are the ways or life we all are taught to live
But words of hurt and anger make it hard to give.
Understanding that should open the door to communication and love
That was created for us by the father above.
He understands, he loves, he knows our fear and our pain.
There can be be no excuses to hurt someone when you know
In who lies the blame.....
Lorey M. McConnell
March 1997
I have been having conversations with a friend over the past several days and realized how much a simple word or two can change the whole feeling of a day..if we speak words of encouragement we are encouraged ourselves, if we speak harsh words of accusations and anger we become the accused and the angered..speaking blessings into someones life will resound in blessings in our own life.Speaking negativity will bring negativity back to us!.what will we choose to be today? will we choose to be responsible for our emotional speaking? once words escape our lips we cannot reel them back in..i have been so guilty in my life of speaking words that have been less than a blessing and for that the tone of my own day was set! why you ask? well its simple..most of the time when we have spoken with an edge to our voice and have hurt someone we know it instantly..oh i know some of you will say not always!! but yes we do! you know it because of the expression on the face of the one your talking to changes then their body posture changes and pretty soon you feel it in the pit of your stomach..and then if you know the Lord you hear it " you should not of said that". here is the real issue, do u walk away from the conversation knowing you have hurt someone and say nothing or do you stop yourself and say wait a second i have to correct myself i used a bad tone or hurtful words and i want to apologize to you..how we handle it sets the way our day will go from that moment on..we leave the conversation taking with us the feelings about it, good or bad.
If we have chosen to let the Lord lead our thinking, tone and words expressed the blessings we speak will carry over into a positive disposition within us after we leave the moment! However if we begin to allow the flesh to speak thru us and offend or hurt someone then we carry into our day that negativity we have just released on another..it will manifest itself in our attitude, our walk, our thinking and how we view other situations around us..pretty soon we find ourselves angry and we try and say you don't know why! But we do know why..its guilt!..Because we have chosen not to address our sin we have compounded the problem!..I have been doing some careful looking at how i address people and what i am speaking into their lives and i see where i need improvement and where i have succeeded..so i challenge you today...will you be a speaker of blessings and encouragement or will you be a passer by and allow your emotions to rule your words? being careful what we speak knowing that those words can be a blessing or a curse upon us and whom ever we speak to! ..i pray that God allow me to be a blessing and an encouragement, and i ask that he make me wiser in my choice of words and seal my mouth to words that will hurt and the attitude that comes with it! Amen!
Emotions run high in the lives we live, but tell me what we really need.
Faith and love are the ways or life we all are taught to live
But words of hurt and anger make it hard to give.
Understanding that should open the door to communication and love
That was created for us by the father above.
He understands, he loves, he knows our fear and our pain.
There can be be no excuses to hurt someone when you know
In who lies the blame.....
Lorey M. McConnell
March 1997
I have been having conversations with a friend over the past several days and realized how much a simple word or two can change the whole feeling of a day..if we speak words of encouragement we are encouraged ourselves, if we speak harsh words of accusations and anger we become the accused and the angered..speaking blessings into someones life will resound in blessings in our own life.Speaking negativity will bring negativity back to us!.what will we choose to be today? will we choose to be responsible for our emotional speaking? once words escape our lips we cannot reel them back in..i have been so guilty in my life of speaking words that have been less than a blessing and for that the tone of my own day was set! why you ask? well its simple..most of the time when we have spoken with an edge to our voice and have hurt someone we know it instantly..oh i know some of you will say not always!! but yes we do! you know it because of the expression on the face of the one your talking to changes then their body posture changes and pretty soon you feel it in the pit of your stomach..and then if you know the Lord you hear it " you should not of said that". here is the real issue, do u walk away from the conversation knowing you have hurt someone and say nothing or do you stop yourself and say wait a second i have to correct myself i used a bad tone or hurtful words and i want to apologize to you..how we handle it sets the way our day will go from that moment on..we leave the conversation taking with us the feelings about it, good or bad.
If we have chosen to let the Lord lead our thinking, tone and words expressed the blessings we speak will carry over into a positive disposition within us after we leave the moment! However if we begin to allow the flesh to speak thru us and offend or hurt someone then we carry into our day that negativity we have just released on another..it will manifest itself in our attitude, our walk, our thinking and how we view other situations around us..pretty soon we find ourselves angry and we try and say you don't know why! But we do know why..its guilt!..Because we have chosen not to address our sin we have compounded the problem!..I have been doing some careful looking at how i address people and what i am speaking into their lives and i see where i need improvement and where i have succeeded..so i challenge you today...will you be a speaker of blessings and encouragement or will you be a passer by and allow your emotions to rule your words? being careful what we speak knowing that those words can be a blessing or a curse upon us and whom ever we speak to! ..i pray that God allow me to be a blessing and an encouragement, and i ask that he make me wiser in my choice of words and seal my mouth to words that will hurt and the attitude that comes with it! Amen!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Mark 14:32-42.. ARISE THE TIME HAS COME! MY BETRAYER IS HERE~
Peter, James and John walked the way to Gethsemane with their trusted friend Jesus. They were instructed to sit and wait while Jesus went to pray...
Because of deep distress and horror he knew he must soon face he said "My soul is crushed with grief".....
What is it you were dreaming as you layed in deepest sleep?
Were you dreaming of your Savior in his time of need?
As your eyes were growing heavy when you were keeping Watch
As you drifted in the in between , Did you think about the cost?
Did you realize in hours he would be led away, as he was praying
And in sleep you lay?
With sleepy eyes he woke you, were you ashamed and scared to find
The savior of the world gazing..... standing there?
As he continued praying, and you again in sleep, unaware of what
Was coming as he was on his knees
Simon Peter, James , and John you were his closest friends, and as
He came to you the third time , he knew it was the end.....
With sleepy eyes he woke you were you ashamed and scared? , as
The Savior of the world was led away leaving you standing there~
LOREY M. MCCONNELL
6/30/04
Because of deep distress and horror he knew he must soon face he said "My soul is crushed with grief".....
What is it you were dreaming as you layed in deepest sleep?
Were you dreaming of your Savior in his time of need?
As your eyes were growing heavy when you were keeping Watch
As you drifted in the in between , Did you think about the cost?
Did you realize in hours he would be led away, as he was praying
And in sleep you lay?
With sleepy eyes he woke you, were you ashamed and scared to find
The savior of the world gazing..... standing there?
As he continued praying, and you again in sleep, unaware of what
Was coming as he was on his knees
Simon Peter, James , and John you were his closest friends, and as
He came to you the third time , he knew it was the end.....
With sleepy eyes he woke you were you ashamed and scared? , as
The Savior of the world was led away leaving you standing there~
LOREY M. MCCONNELL
6/30/04
Thursday, March 24, 2011
~~~~~UNTITLED~~~~
FROM TIME TO TIME I WILL BE SHARING WITH YOU SOME POETRY AND WRITINGS THAT WERE GIVEN TO ME FROM A WAY EARLIER DATE..I PRAY THAT THEY BRING YOU CLOSER TO THE FATHER...This poem was inspired by a release of guilt and pain i had carried some time back and had learned thru scripture that we dont have to carry any of it!! for it was taken on my Jesus upon his crucifixion, and death..every stripe, every bruise, every painful step he took was for you, and me ..~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I complain to you my father about the problems of the day
I struggle with the words of men , and the words that they say
I utter my dissapointment to you, my closest friend
yet
I cry bitter tears flowing without end
I tell you God in Heaven the desires of my heart
I tell you of dissapointments,in deeds i have a part
I pray for sweet forgiveness for all that i have done
I ask for you to bless me with love i dont deserve
I know i am a sinner, and i know i am ashamed
I come to you my God, broken and to blame
I pray please forgive me, and wait on your reply
Knowing in my heart that you see far more than i
I complain to you my father and forget who's in control.
If not for your love for me, i would be left alone.
To you i give my inner self , to you i give my all
I lay everything at your feet , and begin to let it go
I cry ABBA FATHER! for i've nothing else to say When all is closing in on me with the trials of the day
And then as i am crying you come and rescue me
Telling me " My child , my child, where did you Think i'd be?"
" Did you think i was not here when angry words Were said, and where did you think i was when you Hung your head?"
" I hear your prayers to me , and i know that you Complain, i know about your bitterness, your hurt, And your shame!"'
" I see the the way you stumble, and i'm looking as You fall , remember i am your father, and wait upon Your call!"
" You always want your father , when you are failing Fast, but where were you when you heard me speak In times gone in the past?"
" Come to me my precious one and we will sort this Thru, again i am your father, and i'm looking out For you!"
" Trials come and they go yet it remains the same, Listen to me , your father, as your dealing with your shame!"
Lorey McConnell
7/9/2004
I complain to you my father about the problems of the day
I struggle with the words of men , and the words that they say
I utter my dissapointment to you, my closest friend
yet
I cry bitter tears flowing without end
I tell you God in Heaven the desires of my heart
I tell you of dissapointments,in deeds i have a part
I pray for sweet forgiveness for all that i have done
I ask for you to bless me with love i dont deserve
I know i am a sinner, and i know i am ashamed
I come to you my God, broken and to blame
I pray please forgive me, and wait on your reply
Knowing in my heart that you see far more than i
I complain to you my father and forget who's in control.
If not for your love for me, i would be left alone.
To you i give my inner self , to you i give my all
I lay everything at your feet , and begin to let it go
I cry ABBA FATHER! for i've nothing else to say When all is closing in on me with the trials of the day
And then as i am crying you come and rescue me
Telling me " My child , my child, where did you Think i'd be?"
" Did you think i was not here when angry words Were said, and where did you think i was when you Hung your head?"
" I hear your prayers to me , and i know that you Complain, i know about your bitterness, your hurt, And your shame!"'
" I see the the way you stumble, and i'm looking as You fall , remember i am your father, and wait upon Your call!"
" You always want your father , when you are failing Fast, but where were you when you heard me speak In times gone in the past?"
" Come to me my precious one and we will sort this Thru, again i am your father, and i'm looking out For you!"
" Trials come and they go yet it remains the same, Listen to me , your father, as your dealing with your shame!"
Lorey McConnell
7/9/2004
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