Episode 191 is a re-run of my first episode which began April 24, 2021

Leaving the Grandstand World

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Please enjoy a re-run of my very first episode which began April 24, 2021.
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What a splendid prayer the title to this chapter is! I want FAITH. I'm rubbed until I'm raw with the sandpaper of this world. I'm rubbed until I'm bleeding all over my Bible. God's Word appears to have no power. But, with faith, I hear it has unlimited power. I WANT faith!

The world gives me bedsores from sleeping in its ways. Its ways inhibit, blindside, drown my spiritual sight. Is there no respite from this world's crushing blows? It constantly reminds me I'm powerless, I'm of no value; it says that Jesus’s "Bread of Life" is filled with toxic gluten when, by faith I know His bread is sweet and kind and sure and strong! I want Faith to the extent that I never forget that.

How am I supposed to see the reality of my spiritual journey with eyes so blinded by the world's dark view that embeds itself deeply into my life, my values, my beliefs! I do not want my beliefs to be so influenced by this world's strangling fingers. No, I say, No, I repeat, NO, I scream!

Let God's words be true and all from men, a lie! Take my trembling hand, oh God, and lift me out of this abyss of sorrow. I don't have to stay here, do I? I don't have to be a victim, do I? I'm free to fully embrace my personal savior, my heavenly Knight, my wonderful Jesus. I'm perfectly free to deny this world's "truth" and know only the heavenly "Truth" (with a capital T) that sets me free. Increase what little faith I have, Lord.

By His stripes I wasn't healed in the past. By His stripes I'm not healed in the future. By His stripes I'm healed NOW. It is done!! Praise God, it is complete. Oh, mind, I beseech you to engage in the truth as found in God's word--and know that what Christ did, is done. Praise God, it IS done! In perfect joy and amazing grace, I am able to see beyond appearances, see beyond desperate circumstances and look straight into the loving, light-filled eyes of our savior, Jesus Christ, who, while walking this earth 2000 years ago, healed most everyone who came into contact with Him.

I want faith! Oh, Lord, somehow, I need to erase what the world has told me is true. It lies. These are not white lies, but the blackest lies possible. Lies that mock any faith I'd extend to God. Lies that detest the supernatural, lies that cower at the light of God, lies that say, "There is no one to rely on but yourself. You are lower than a worm but you're all you've got. Don't fool yourself.”

“I want faith! Lord, take a shovel and dig deep as I am dwelling six feet under this earth, but my eyes are opening to Your majestic and holy presence. I, who am coffinized in this earth, can hear Your shovel digging deep, scraping away the pebbles and clods and mud that stands between where I am and You, Lord. Come, Lord Jesus. I'm told You are here and I'm told You are with me--but I'm buried in the muck and mire of this earth and, changing analogies, I'm stuck in thorny weeds that constantly prick me and make me bleed. Help me turn away from this nightmare, Lord. Save me from these thorns. I want faith in You! Now, Lord!”

The truth can make me free, but my mind has accepted too much earth--too much world. I've been in a News coma. I've listened to the world's news to the detriment of the "Good News" and the Good News, the Gospel, is sitting too far back in my bookshelf. I can't reach it. The only way I can get a grip on it is with faith. I want faith, Lord.

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1. Episode 191 is a re-run of my first episode which began April 24, 2021 (00:00:00)

2. Jesus Please Take Us from This Grandstand World (00:03:01)

3. A Prayer Can Change the World (00:05:55)

4. Jesus Removes the Blocks (00:10:02)

5. I Want Faith (00:14:12)