Tag: chains

will not give up

by ekoileman, posted in poetry, writing

I have dealt with spiritual things all my life.

when they know what buttons to push, they push them relentlessly

and hard.

when the buttons they can push are fewer, and you are about to break

free, they push those buttons harder, and relentlessly.

I will not give up. I will not surrender

to my flesh. I will not give up.

I am bought for a price.

I know my value. It is beyond,

what I can conceive.

I will not give up, I will seek

my King.

I will pursue the cross and

the price that was paid for me. I will not give up, though

I fall in the mud and slide back covered

in filth. I learn better the chains that hold me, and I see

better where they are attached.

I will not give up to the process.

I am in the process of being made good I will not end that early.

In the name of Jesus

by ekoileman, posted in poetry, writing

Make these chains less than dust.

May these walls be Rubble soon

Walls that contain

Walls that constrain

strongholds in my mind

the devil has claimed this room he

thinks it’s his.

he thinks

it’s his way in

the gap is

sealed

it’s being cleansed.

Being scrubbed in the blood of the lamb

the chains that hold me down will be less than rubble soon

Chains unbroken

by ekoileman, posted in poetry, writing

They clink and rattle

they pull and strain

the heat to melt them burns my skin, It seems

I shake and scream

I know they dissolve

there are more there than I thought

they’ve wrapped me tight

Yet they break

they will not hold me forever.

I am bought with the blood of the Lamb.

I am covered

the blood soaks through

me and the chains

the binding dissolves

repeated sin strengthens them

my strength alone strengthens them

Rely on the blood

rely on His strength

rely on the blood of the Lamb

rely on that strength