A LETTER TO GOD!
Dear God,
Usually this is the time I ask you to help me do whatever it is I want to do. This is usually the time I ask you for a financial blessing to get me out of whatever self-inflicted hole I dug for myself. This is usually the time where I think about what I’m going through and try everything in my power to get myself out of it. This is usually the time I call all my friends and family and tell them what I’m going through looking for encouragement or maybe even a cosigner to tell me to keep up the fight and/ or feed my ego.
But this time, I come to you. Since I call myself a writer, I sit here at my keyboard and write my felling down for you. I come to you with what’s bothering me. I tell others to pray, I tell others to put you first, I tell others to trust in you, I tell others to talk to you and pray for guidance in what it is you have for them to do. Today I take my own advice and come to you.
I don’t come to you with prays for financial blessings, a quick fix (although I do need one now more than ever). I am not coming to you with request for material things. I ask you God what is your plan for me. Order my steps and guide my path Lord and point me in the right direction. Help me help myself. I don’t want all these things for myself, but so I can give my wife the security and stability she deserves. So I can be the father my daughter deserves, to be able to be more of a blessing for my family members when they go through their trials and tribulation.
All my life I wanted fortune and fame, I wanted to be star, as an artists and as a writer. I wanted to be the brightest star in the sky. Now while I do still want financial stability and nice things I don’t want them for myself but for my family and to help provide jobs for my friends and the youth. I now you have a plan for me because you have always taking care of me when I was too stupid to take care of myself.
I am on the brink, my health isn’t the greatest, I weight more than I have in my life, my blood pressure and cholesterol levels are too high and that’s just to name a few things going on. But the blessing in it all is all of it is reversible, if I start to make changes now. I know all things are possible through you and while others can’t see it, your will, will always be done.
So today instead of a pity party I come to you and thank you for all I have a reasonable portion of my right health and mind. Thank you for a beautiful helpmate, thank you for a roof over our head another day, thank you for letting me see today, a beautiful day I have never seen before. And while I am no where near where I want to be, I give thanks that thanks to you I am no where near where I used to be. I will no longer give the enemy the power or continue to blame everything that goes wrong on him, I know some things you allow me to go through to strengthen me, to go where you need me to go, to prepare me.
I know, no one can steal my joy, I can only surrender it.
I give thanks that as the songwriter wrote you still hear a sinners pray. I give thanks that even though I have consistently fell short on holding up my end of the deal you have never given up on me.
So today instead of complaining I give thanks, instead of calling all my friends to share my semi depression, I communicate to you. Father God, I just want to say thank you and ask you to get me the strength to do what it is you have for me to do. This is my testimony, gotta run I have much work to do!
Usually this is the time I ask you to help me do whatever it is I want to do. This is usually the time I ask you for a financial blessing to get me out of whatever self-inflicted hole I dug for myself. This is usually the time where I think about what I’m going through and try everything in my power to get myself out of it. This is usually the time I call all my friends and family and tell them what I’m going through looking for encouragement or maybe even a cosigner to tell me to keep up the fight and/ or feed my ego.
But this time, I come to you. Since I call myself a writer, I sit here at my keyboard and write my felling down for you. I come to you with what’s bothering me. I tell others to pray, I tell others to put you first, I tell others to trust in you, I tell others to talk to you and pray for guidance in what it is you have for them to do. Today I take my own advice and come to you.
I don’t come to you with prays for financial blessings, a quick fix (although I do need one now more than ever). I am not coming to you with request for material things. I ask you God what is your plan for me. Order my steps and guide my path Lord and point me in the right direction. Help me help myself. I don’t want all these things for myself, but so I can give my wife the security and stability she deserves. So I can be the father my daughter deserves, to be able to be more of a blessing for my family members when they go through their trials and tribulation.
All my life I wanted fortune and fame, I wanted to be star, as an artists and as a writer. I wanted to be the brightest star in the sky. Now while I do still want financial stability and nice things I don’t want them for myself but for my family and to help provide jobs for my friends and the youth. I now you have a plan for me because you have always taking care of me when I was too stupid to take care of myself.
I am on the brink, my health isn’t the greatest, I weight more than I have in my life, my blood pressure and cholesterol levels are too high and that’s just to name a few things going on. But the blessing in it all is all of it is reversible, if I start to make changes now. I know all things are possible through you and while others can’t see it, your will, will always be done.
So today instead of a pity party I come to you and thank you for all I have a reasonable portion of my right health and mind. Thank you for a beautiful helpmate, thank you for a roof over our head another day, thank you for letting me see today, a beautiful day I have never seen before. And while I am no where near where I want to be, I give thanks that thanks to you I am no where near where I used to be. I will no longer give the enemy the power or continue to blame everything that goes wrong on him, I know some things you allow me to go through to strengthen me, to go where you need me to go, to prepare me.
I know, no one can steal my joy, I can only surrender it.
I give thanks that as the songwriter wrote you still hear a sinners pray. I give thanks that even though I have consistently fell short on holding up my end of the deal you have never given up on me.
So today instead of complaining I give thanks, instead of calling all my friends to share my semi depression, I communicate to you. Father God, I just want to say thank you and ask you to get me the strength to do what it is you have for me to do. This is my testimony, gotta run I have much work to do!
Labels: AJ 'AJ ROK' Woodson, daily devotion
posted by AJ WOODSON at 7/27/2007 08:26:00 PM
9 Comments:
It takes a real man to be able to colorfully articulate and express his struggles and his need for God...life is a tapestry of many woven parts, joy, pain, sorrow, and happinesss. It through Jesus that we have access to God who knows what beautiful quilts our lives will become in the perfect end...when we are tried by the fire and rained down on by the storms of life. Keep the faith because that is only real thing that matters, knowing that if God can see you to it He is also able to see you through it. Your ability to be real is inspiring and demonstrates that you are truly a man of God. Thank you for sharing and I am believing God to work things out for you...the prayers of the righteous avail much and it is through Jesus that we are made righteous.
Best regards and thanking God for your breakthrough!
Justin "Juz" Cooper...someone you have inspired to become the person I am becoming each day.
God bless you!
Hi Son
I like your article/letter.
Glad you realize that you have so much to be thankful for no matter how bad things are they could be worst. And we always have a lot to be grateful for.
God likes when we acknowledge his presence and work in our lives.
He will talk to you,
God bless you
love Mom
Jus
thanx alot sir for ya feedback
that means alot coming from you.
I have watched you grow considerably in your spirituality and your career. And just as I was down it was you this time reminding me to remember God's promise.
keep up the good work, I can see god doin great things through you.
Stay obedient and prayed up.
peace and thank you my brother
thank you mom
I ask God to watch over you and bless you will all you want and more, you deserve it.
And again thank you for being tough on me when i was younger, even if i didnt understand or appreciate it then, I do now.
you were my first living example of faith. thanx for the prayers even when i wasnt praying for myself
love ya first born
cuz,
your letter to God really touched me in ways I can't explain.
To God be all the glory!
I love you man!
I going to forward this to some other cats I know,
what a blessing you are to others for sharing the truth.
Dave
thanx alot cuz
we have both come along way
in our walk in Christ
I appreciate all the support and uplifting conversation we have
it means more to me than you can possibly know
love ya cuz
Hey AJ....
Dont worry about the money...you have a lot of determination, just keep on keeping on...it does seem like people who don't deserve stuff receive it...but I'm convienced that we are all Blessed. I suppose not being envious of all that stuff is a TEST.
Take care
Wow, man. I need to do the same.
thanks for sharing AJ, all the blessings to you and yours
chase
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