tear me open

my flesh from my spirit

my body from my soul

sinew from bone

split me wide open

tear me open

empty my self

fill me with you

let me be ready

emptied of my self

the old cast away

my demons, my sins

empty, to be prepared

ready to share, to witness

to pour out in love

empty, to be ready only

open to your blessing

the Spirit indwelling

fill me, fill me. . .

tear me open

make me ready

to be filled with love

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edited March 29, 2014

tear me open

edited March 17, 2014

tear me apart – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/tear-me-apart-v2.html

new March 15, 2014

tear me apart

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/tear-me-apart.html

new March 15, 2014

rip me apart

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/rip-me-apart.html

edited March 15, 2014

Saturated Believing – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/saturated-believing-v2.html

edited March 15, 2014

saturate my heart – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/saturate-my-heart-v2.html

March 15, 2014

saturate my heart

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/saturate-my-heart.html

song and worship led by Kim McKay White

https://www.facebook.com/kim.m.white1

https://twitter.com/klwhite1962

at Gifts of the Holy Spirit Conference

https://www.facebook.com/Empoweringlife/posts/10153974953055372

https://www.facebook.com/events/1517598561799553

http://www.empoweringlife.org/upcoming-events.html

Empowering Life Ministries

https://www.facebook.com/Empoweringlife

http://www.empoweringlife.org/

March 14, 2014 and March 15, 2014

led by Lois Flewelling

https://www.facebook.com/lois.v.flewelling

Houlton, ME

&

March 14, 2014

-          breach my walls

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/breach-my-walls.html

-          invade my body

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/invade-my-body.html

-         as water through a membrane

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/as-water-through-membrane.html

-          wash through me

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/wash-through-me.html  

-          may your love fill me

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/may-your-love-fill-me.html

Ephesians 4:19b (The Voice)

“God, may Your fullness flood through their entire beings.”

Philippians 4:13 (NRSV)

Ephesians 3:14-21

“The Love of Christ” (NCV)

(but read in The Voice bible)

Upper Room Daily Devotional

“The Strength of God’s Presence”

http://devotional.upperroom.org/devotionals/2014-03-14

https://twitter.com/URIntlMin/status/444367600278315008

by Mabel Marin

https://www.facebook.com/mabelitamarin

for March 14, 2014

read March 14, 2014

Upper Room Daily Devotional

for March and April 2014

http://devotional.upperroom.org/issues/mar-apr2014

&

edited July 14, 2012
“Like our mother’s womb”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/like-our-mothers-womb.html
July 18, 2010
“Surrounded by God’s Love”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/07/surrounded-by-gods-love.html
&
Matthew 3:13-17
Romans 6:3-5
Isaiah 40:28-31 (Call to Worship)
Worship Theme: “Baptism, the First Sacrament”
and sermon, “Even Jesus Could not Do It Alone”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
July 18, 2010
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

&

August 21, 2005 11:00,

Saturated Believing

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/08/saturated-believing.html

based on Romans 12:1-8

and the sermon "For God’s Pleasure".

by  the Reverend Joel Guillemette,

Wesley United Methodist Church

Concord, NH

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