My chains fell off

decades of pain carried
stones, chains on my spirit
for hurt, shame, loss,
I was not meant to carry…
 
scales fell from my eyes
washed in blinding light
Your Spirit spoke within me
healing my aching heart…
 
words that I have spoken
a curse over my life
that I was irredeemably “broken”
when God called me “a gift”…
 
my chains fell off
my dungeon filled with light
I am redeemed in love by God
in the sacrifice of Christ…
 
words of the flesh
the lies of the Devil
cannot separate me
from my risen Lord and King…
 
thank You God, Father,
for running out to greet me
lead me in the paths,
the way You have written for me…
 
Heal what remains broken,
in my will, my heart, my spirit,
Finish the work You have started
through the rest of my life…
 
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August 4, 2025
My chains fell off
 
Based on #Acts9:18-21
August 3, 2025
Hymn, “And Can It Be?”,
Based on #Romans11:22
Based on #Romans8:1
Based on #Hebrews4:16
by Charles Wesley
Griggs Memorial Baptist Church
August 3, 2025
I confess my sin
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/08/i-confess-my-sin.html
re:generation, Step 7, Follow, Week 1, Small Group meeting
Based on #Isaiah53
August 2, 2025 Counseling training
“The Nature of True Confession and Repentance”
August 3, 2025
Holding onto Shame
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/08/holding-onto-shame.html
Edited July 31, 2025
Touch my thick scar tissue – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/touch-my-thick-scar-tissue-v2.html
Based on #Jeremiah18:3-6
re:generation, Step 7, Follow, Week 1, Day 5, “Humbly Ask God to Change You”,
Edited August 3, 2025
by grace, through faith – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/08/by-grace-through-faith-v2.html
Based on #Ephesians2:7-10
Based on #Hebrews11:8-19
Men’s Thursday bible study Edited April 13, 2025
Broken – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/broken-v2.html
Based on #Judges6:1-35
April 7, 2025
Re:generation big group meeting
Lesson on Step 3, Trust, by Allan Sherer
re:generation, Step 3, Trust, Week 1
 
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Poetry, God, Christ, Spirit, grace, regeneration, Ephesians 2, Judges 6, trust, sin, confession, repentance,
 
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