Category: Devotional
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3/19 IAM: Guard(en)ed (Warfare 2 of 11)
The screams were demons / Shrieking from the holy water / That burns evil spirits like acid / While leaving humans unharmed / (Though few realize it)
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3/18 IAM: Passed Over (Warfare 1 of 11)
Outside, I hear screams / As justice is served / With a brutal even-handedness / I look for Jesus. / But He is not here / He is outside / He is both the executioner / And the executed…
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3/17 IAM: UnDead
I am horrified / I look at Him like He is crazy / I’ve seen the movie / Corpses crawling out of graves / Zombies hungering for our flesh…
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3/16 IAM: Victarious (Cityscape 12 of 12)
I un-sing / All the Song fragments / That sustain / And ruin / Our city…
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3/15 IAM: Linking Hearts/UltraSong (Cityscape 11 of 12)
The people above / Were trying to dance / To the music / But kept crashing into those / Who sang a different part / Of the same Song…
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3/13 IAM: Brought Low (Cityscape 9 of 12)
I feel a twinge of fear / Who else is down here? / What is this place under the city? / Why did Jesus let me fall into it?
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3/12 IAM: Bedrock (Cityscape 8 of 12)
Stepping off the rock / Into empty space / Takes a whole different courage…
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3/11 IAM: Re-Established (Cityscape 7 of 12)
I feel a pang / That we are not with Him / But I remember / That He is with us…
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3/10 IAM: Re-Fathered (Cityscape 6 of 12)
I no longer need to beat my tambourine / Perhaps I no longer can / My old fingers too slow to catch / The subtle rhythms / The youth are playing / To align the singing / With the Song of Christ…
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3/9 IAM: Grieved Out (Cityscape 5 of 12)
We were drawn here by Jesus / By His Song // But we got here / By clinging to others / Who sang the same note…
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3/8 IAM: Banqueting (Cityscape 4 of 12)
I weep / As I discover / The notes I thought most discordant / Turn out to be the fundamentals / Of a new chord…
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3/7 IAM: Redeeming Songs (Cityscape 3 of 12)
I can see it happening again / The same divisiveness that destroyed the city / People fighting over which verse to sing / Or which key to sing it in // Because they are obsessed over the Song / Not the Singer // Then I realize / So am I…
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3/6 IAM: Fortified (Cityscape 2 of 12)
I am… in a broken city of broken people / Who are nevertheless the Jesus I need // How can I let them help me / When they won’t let me help them / And they have no clue what we need // Do I?
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3/5 IAM: Full-filled (Cityscape 1 of 12)
The city deserved to fall / Because it was built on lies / Oppression / Division / Hypocrisy // Yet it was beautiful / (If you didn’t look too closely)
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3/4 IAM: Grievously Praising (Riverside 5 of 5)
The Gardens are meant / To equip us / To remind us / To heal us / So that we dare Cross Over…
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3/3 IAM: Opening Up (Riverside 4 of 5)
Jesus yanks the line / So hard and fast / He rips the core of the Apple / Right out of its body // We go sailing over the shoreline / In a beautiful wide arc / Scattering seeds / Thirty / Sixty / A hundredfold…
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3/2 IAM: Un-Self-Sabotaging (Riverside 3 of 5)
He flicks me out of the water / From the shore filled with huddled masses / Yearning to be free / Though they mask it with incessant bickering…
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3/1 IAM: Over My Head (Riverside 2 of 5)
Then I realize / He isn’t floating / Or treading water / Or sinking // But hovering / Just below / (rather than above) / The surface // Why does that feel more unnatural than merely flying?
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2/29 IAM: Stepping Out (Riverside 1 of 5)
Our destiny / It may be the people we need to serve / Or the hope of our own salvation / Probably both / But it only works if we all cross over together…
Radically Happy 