I found in an old email a poem that I’d
forgotten about that I wrote in response to a sermon by David Fleming about
five years ago.
The
Tools Needed
It is
tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it
were a nail.
Abraham
Maslow
More than repair
Can You repair a broken heart?
A shattered heart?
A numb heart?
I believe You can,
And on this I'll stand.
Be the tool needed, Lord.
Far exceeds any damage
Life can be damaging
Yes, it can
Many have been hurt
By the hands of man.
Emotions are painful
When we feel there is no hope
Can You far exceed the damage,
And help us to cope?
Be the tool needed, Lord.
Immeasurably outweighs
Will this repair outweigh the pain?
Can it help restore families again?
More than repair
Means more than I can dream
Or even imagine.
Be the tool needed, Lord.
More than repair
You can
More than repair
You were always there
But we thought you didn't care
We felt like the nail
Under the hammer
But we believe that you can more than repair
This damage called life.
Be the tool needed, Lord.
Jesus, deliver us from strife
And bring back love again.
More than repair
The hearts
I care about.
Be the tool needed, Lord.
Donna Collins Tinsley
From an old blog: Jesus More Than Repairs
I've decided I want to spend the rest of my life
writing something concerning these words posted below. David Fleming has been
preaching this message for years now and it comes from Romans 5:15. When he
grasped the true goodness of God doing this, he has preached the message that
"God is so good to me." It blesses everyone who hears it.
He more than repairs,
Far exceeds any damage,
and immeasurably outweighs
"God is so good to us," says Pastor
David Fleming* from Tulsa, OK
As Brother David preached some years back at
Family Worship Center, I felt that the Lord was saying that many people are
living with an "orphan spirit." It affects how they perceive the love
of our Lord and the love that is available from other people. They can't even
receive that love because they are so bound up in the lies that the enemy of
their soul throws at them continually. Lies, such as:
You're not good enough.
No one loves you.
You're a bad person (or insert mom, dad,
husband, wife, child).
You're never going to have what you want.
No one is ever going to forgive you.
What you have is not enough.
God doesn't treat you fairly.
God will never answer your prayers.
Your family doesn't treat you fairly.
Your life is worthless to others...
And on and on and on, the enemy taunts you and
there really is no one except the Lord God Almighty that can come in and do the
work in your soul and in your broken heart but Him.
That's what David Fleming felt like for years
when he felt abandoned by God when his father died when he was a teenager. The
enemy taunted him for years until some years ago when he began to meditate on
the word of the Lord, and the verse Romans 5:15 especially. The joy that this
verse has brought him is so evident that it overflows to the audience and makes
us all happy.
It actually made me want to do "The happy
dance." It can make you feel like you have found your happy place, too.
Now I will remind myself of this often and go back and research and meditate
this verse in different translations.
Yes, it is true for all of us that our story
isn't finished. vet, Do you have prayers that you’ve prayed for years
concerning loved ones? Don’t give up! Press on in prayer. It may be darkest
before the dawn of the answer.
The free gift immeasurably outweighs what we
have gone through when waiting for our breakthrough. More than repairs, more
than repairs, more than repairs all the hurts, abuses, damage and loss of
relationships that you may have endured here on earth.
What Jesus did for you on the cross more than
repairs all of these things. Praise His holy name, we have an awesome savior
and He is our Father-figure, actually our true Father. We have no excuse to
continue in an orphan spirit. We rebuke the enemy who taunts us with this
spirit and we say that no more will we listen to lies.
Declare over yourself as Pastor David did who
God is and He will declare who you are. A child of God. A beloved child of God.
He is the tool needed for your life.
*
flemingministries.org/
https://www.covenantlifecc.org/the-life-of-god-david-fleming/
http://mystory@flemingministries.
The
Tools Needed
More than repair,
Far exceeds any damage,
Immeasurably outweighs
Romans
5:15
God
has been so good to me.
Romans
5:15
...the
free gift that carries to us through Christ FAR EXCEED ANY DAMAGE done to us by
Adam's fall (Lovett)
Justification
surpasses Adam's transgression in the quantity of its effects. Adam's
transgression brought universal death. The free gift of justification in God's
grace and Christ's kindness MORE THAN REPAIRS this in blessing (Hudson)
God's
free gift IMMEASURABLY OUTWEIGHS the transgression...(Weymouth)
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