Everything's Gonna Be Alright Thursdays - Trust in the Lord

Vessel Upon the Waters

By: Arianna Scriptsmith

She sails upon the water's rage
A storm is tossing her from her way
But she carries on the vessel of sight
Going on by works and her own might

In this storm, she turns back to Yaweh
her crew cries out "He shall remember us, surely!"
The crew is tossed to and fro
I cling tight to her stern to hide from what I don't know

The water hits me trying to knock me off
I swallow salt water until I choke and cough
I cry and shout, "Oh, Have I been forsaken?
Covered by my guilt, shame and sin?"

But in my doubt what is this I hear?
A still small voice in my ear
"I have not forgotten you, My child
Let go of the stern, and you'll walk on the waves that are wild!"

In trust and reliance I release my grip
For I know that His catch shall not slip
Falling down into the ocean wave
I sink a little but rise on this impossible path to pave

I walk on the water, for in my faith I stand
With One who constantly has my hand
It is clearly time to serve El Shaddai!
It is time to trust My Adonai!

As the vessel of the world sinks beneath
I realize her time was so very brief
And as I look up, the clouds pull apart
The sun rays through for a beacon of truth to touch my heart...

"This is my command-be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." 
~Joshua 1:9

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The Hurt & The Healer --Everything's Gonna Be Alright Thursdays

Warrior Healer

By: Arianna Persephone Scriptsmith

Look at your reflection in the mirror, my sweet

Make a decision, with head held high

Shoulders back, choose a path

You're a warrior, they often say

Wipe away those tears, I know she's dead

But, you couldn't save her, so moving on

March ahead, you'll pull through

Remember who you're fighting for it's not about you

Trust The Lord with all your heart

It's about Him, so glorify His name

Remember there's a plan through it all

You'll not always be in the storm

Await His revelation, the light will shine through

And-- wait what is that?

A rainbow is overhead

Remember Yaweh's promises are ever true

Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Finding Your Beauty

The Mirror Lies (REVISED!)

If I told you who I was

I'd only know this to start;

I love to seek for the good in things

And adventure is my goal

I know that my heart mourns of things

In ways uniquely known

A joy arrayed in His light

To shine to the Hope of all

I know that what calls me forth in faith

Visions, dreams, music, and love

Colours and sounds in the world

I've often spoke with them alone

I am a child who lives life in sorrow

But, not all can even see

I have a simplicity yet a mystery about my life

That baffles the world and even me

They call me odd, mad and stupid

A fool, insane, posessed

But, I prefer to call myself unique

A mystery behind a veil

I am like a corridor of puzzles

Which has yet to be unlocked

Each day I find something new and hidden

And it comes to heal my heart

So, essentially I am a healing detective

I seek and venture through my world

Can't stay in one spot for long

For I long after spreading His word

I love to travel and wish I could more

I know my curiosity at times

Breaks me down to fear

But if I sought after the Lord again

These words would be fullfilled in me;

"The ones who seek shall find

The ones who ask receive."

Well in that light I choose to hope

That Christ with bless the Seeker in me

--A Seeker in Me by Arianna Persephone Scriptsmith

Everything's Gonna Be Alright --Face Your Doubts

I'M HAVING DOUBTS ABOUT GOD --Sammy Adebiyi

Fear vs. Courage --a talk with the Father

By: Arianna P. Scriptsmith

I lay on the ground, weeping heavily and shaking in my ripped shirt, on the floor. My tears pooled in a puddle on the tiles. I shuddered there as if cold.

"Why do you cry my child?" a soothing, still voice came over me as if a hand lay a warm blanket over me.

I looked up to the ceiling, with tears staining my cheeks, "Oh, Father, I am afraid."

"What is it that you are afraid of? Have I not commanded you not to fear?" the voice responded to me, in a voice of kind rebuking.

I tensed up, as if preparing for something unpleasant, "I-- I am afraid, because I am not able. I fear that I will hurt the brother I care for. I back him up... but, I'm afraid that I'll fall back down. I'm afraid I'll just be another one of that long list of people that fought by his side... and became a traitor I--"

Something like a loving embrace took me by surprise as I heard Him whisper in my ear again, "Child, don't be afraid. I AM with you. You will surly not fall back with me by your side. Rest, with your heart at peace. For I have not given you a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. Be still, and know that I AM God. I am everything you need in the next battle and the next and the next. Just rely on Me and not your own understanding. Peace I give to you, child, sleep."

Did It Matter Anyway?

By: Arianna P. Scriptsmith

Here I am, as I claw my helmet off

Throwing it to the floor, and dragging my feet to lie down

Raking my fingers through my hair I groan in bottled up rage

Sighing and shutting my eyes to the scent of my crisp sheets

There I lay, broken and tattered down in a field

The gold blades of tall grass, blowing in the breeze

I crawled through the tall grass, to a laughing stream

Dipping my bloodied hand into the cool carressing flow

I weep right there and moan, "Lord, did it matter anyway?"

A gentle hand was placed on my back as the Voice I loved spoke

"Let me ask you another question, and I hope you will hear

Did it matter when I, on the cross, cried out the payment done?

What of when those 40 days and nights I walked the wilderness rebuking Satan to go?

Tell me if it mattered at all when I took the form of a babe?

But, of course, it mattered... and so does your fight for Me.

Don't give it all up, for this, when trials will bring endurance

You can make it, by my Spirit, so don't fret anymore.

Take My strength, for you are weak, and I will raise you up."

Opening up my eyes again, I was in the dark of my room

Looking to my feet, I sighed, and bent to bear my helm

Topping it upon my head, I straightened up, full height

Marching out of my room, I pulled out the blade and stopped

A shadow looked into my eyes, unwavering onto it's non-form

I stared it down, fearlessly and drove the sword into it's head

Light pierced in the room, blinding my deathly eyes

Just in time to bring back sight, enough to see the demon gone

"It takes time, pain...and a lot of it." --Daddy

...And that requires that you turn and face the fears/doubts/etc. and ask your questions, don't be afraid to not know.

"Lord, bolden my daughter and my wife when it comes to prayer, bring out their voices in courage. so that they dont worry about what anybody think... that they'd be strong and courageous and end this spirit of timidity." --Daddy

Everything's Gonna Be Alright --What Your Faith Means

 

I wish I knew what came next. I hear the ending is good and beautiful, and have so much hope that it is so... but, I see the chaos of the moment and I wonder could a happy ending ever come of this? They say faith is the opposite doubt. But a wise man has told me that faith is not the lack of doubt. If we didn't doubt ourselves in our faith he would actually be worried. Even a child, who trusts their father fully may doubt. And the Lord says we must have the faith of a child. We must come as little children. But even children have their doubts. It's natural. It's human. When running tongues spread rumors of daddy, they turn to look... They try to defend, yet they fall... Words can hurt. You know that silly childhood rhyme? "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" well, when the words are said and the fists fly, the broke bones will have long since mended, words tend to take longer to heal. And once you hear the rumors spread that can harm a relationship, and it can cloud your faith with doubt. Likewise words that are painful for you may indeed cloud your thinking.

You want to look at the world differently... You want to have hope. You don't want to be scared to believe. You want to hold the light. But, when the venom is injected and you are on your face, how can you not feel crushed? You fear you will be rejected, because you cannot imagine a loving Christ, when the Christians play pretend. You want to have doubtless faith and believe it with all your heart, you want to believe love is here, and mercy really can heal the scars. But the mouths run on, and the ones you thought would be there were not. You feel like you cannot be forgiven, and fear that there really might be something somewhere else... Perhaps you could find love wiith the Wiccans. Your daddy says he's seen Satanists with more grasp love than Christians. Perhaps, you could find it in Islam... The love can't be here.

"But have I not always been faithful?" you ask yourself. "Have I not kept His utmost 2 commandments to love with my all? Have I not proven myself faithful?" My daddy has told me once, "If I called you a chair, would that make you one?" So, being without faith cannot be so. Why do I believe everything I'm told by people? Have I not proven by my deeds that I am faithful? Are the fruits of the spirit not before me? Then why do I not want to see it? Well, the answer is very simple...

I am downtrodden. And I am crushed. But does being broken make me faithless, when the hurt comes out with questions? By no means can I say that is so. For faith is no emotion. Emotions are emotions. And they waver like the tide... but, if a child of God cries, and wonders why they don't see God, how can you tell them that it is faithlessness? In Luke 7:18-35 John the Baptist, the one who baptised Jesus and saw the Spirit descend as a dove, heard the Father speak pleasure of His Son, in prison...in the trials and tribulation, he asked the very question that is the first thing you let out of your mouth if Jesus was who He said He was... Jesus rebuked him, yes... but gently, lovingly, and then turned to the crowds and defended him... What does that tell us about faith? --Arianna P. Scriptsmith Courage in Silence - "Faith"
  

01/09/2014 DAB Transcript

Everything's Gonna Be Alright Thursdays -- Look Up and Rise

2 ^[a]Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. ² So I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide it is and how long it is.” ³ And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him, ⁴ and said to him, “Run, speak to that young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited ^[b]without walls because of the multitude of men and cattle within it. ⁵ For I,’ declares the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire ^[c]around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”

⁶ “^[d]Ho there! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have dispersed you as the four winds of the heavens,” declares the Lord. ⁷ “Ho, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.” ⁸ For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After ^[e]glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the ^[f]apple of His eye. ⁹ For behold, I will wave My hand over them so that they will be plunder for their slaves. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me. ¹⁰ Sing for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion; for behold I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” declares the Lord. ¹¹ “Many nations will join themselves to the Lord in that day and will become My people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. ¹² The Lord will ^[g]possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
¹³ “^[h]Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord; for He is aroused from His holy habitation.” --Zechariah 2

 Last night, I went to my church's first Wednesday service. And the one who spoke was speaking on this chapter in Scripture. And his prophetic words inspired this post;

1. -Stop looking down. Look up. - Measuring line - how have you come this year? Quicken yourself! Don't slip back to the pit you were in before the fight. -You'd look back on the year and beg the Lord not measure you, because you have not come far and you know it, if you allow yourself to slip too far.
2. -Where are you going? - are you falling down too deep? Hasten! Make a change! Be it!
5. Wall of fire - "I WILL protect you on every side, your front, back, left and right with a wall of fire as I did will my children, as I delivered them from the Pharaoh."
7. -escape the daughter of Babylon. Rise! God loves the children of Zion, he cares that you are held captive! Come out!

Rise Up and Give it all.

 Paladin's Creed

By: Arianna Scriptsmith

As I lose heart and fall to my knees

In the midst of the battlefront

I can only cry and plead for You, my Shield

And I'll reach out to You,

For I depend on You, my King

Please, I beg You, do not pass me by

Abba, Abba, The One who is in Heaven

Holy are You, Adonai

May Your kingdom come

And Your will be done on this world as it is in Heaven

You set a table for Your child

In enemy territory, You feed us bread

You provide for us, on our journey of joyous pain

Peace is given us, and courage will rise

We let our warsongs rise unto You

As incense we sing our march

Give Your children the living bread to sustain our walk

And we will walk for You

Forgive us our sins as we forgive our fellows

And we will love our brother with no hypocrisy

"El Shaddai, El Shaddai," my soul cries all the while

You are always by my side

You fight for Your children

You raise us up as a troop in the battlements

So, we stand as one for You<

Adonai, Adonai, be our Rescue from the devil's wiles

We know that You'll come to us if we call upon Your name

Lead us not into temptation's wake

But bring us up gently with Your loving hand

So I will cry out in a loud voice with my brethren

"El Shaddai, El Shaddai, train us up for war,

And receive us home in our victory within Your own"

Immanuel, be with us all

For Yours is the kingdom and all power and glory

The battle belongs to You, Adonai

Everything's Gonna Be Alright Thursdays --There's a Purpose

 

A few years ago, I began a weekly inspirational video post on Thursdays called "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", for people, like me who needed a small reminder of why they were here. I would also add stuff, words of encouragement, quotes, stories, poems, songs, etc. to accompany it. So, I'm starting it back up, so I may help others while working through my own doubts.

For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;^[b]
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,When as yet there were none of them. Psalm 139:13-16

A Knitted Scarf

By: Arianna Scriptsmith

Intertwining in a word of hope
For a world that is dark and hopeless
A scarf made from living yarn
A word to drive all hate away

Looking at that small section, lies;
A letter formed from black and red yarn
You stare deep, and form a word
Words that push Me away

"How are you to know what it says
When all you see are lies?" I ask.
"When you look in the mirror
And see what you aren't"

"Any word can be formed with these
Four letters in my Word
"But only one word can mean;
That I cherish you, as you"

The scarf winds down through history
Repeating my L-O-V-E
In many colors that you;
Can't see as you that sees one

A living and breathing scarf
That feels the pain of doubt
The brokenness of hating
And from the fall of the world

Give me your life, My love, child
Fill the world with My light
And in the darkened world
And you shall reflect my light

Intertwining in a word of hope
For a world that is dark and hopeless
I knit Myself a scarf
And wrap it around my child