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I CAN NOT BE SILENT ANY LONGER
There comes a point in one's life where they must make a decision. One that will make a significant impact in not only thier lives, but the lives of those around them. For if they do what the Spirit has told them to do, then generations may be saved. Otherwise, if they do not do what the Spirit has said, then the generations that follow may never know how Jesus Christ impacted them and saved their souls from an eternity without God. So, here we are standing at the crossroads...the fork in the road. Can you picture it?Let me take you there...
The day is dark and dreary with the sky filled with clouds. The rain has been steadily beating for hours, as you try to find the motivation just to get out of bed. Slowly you push away the covers and head to the restroom to splash water on your face, when you are suddenly met by your reflection. You stare at the creature in front of you with bedhead and weary looking eyes. You begin to wonder how in the world you could have ever gotten to a place where you looked like this. Then suddenly, you hear a voice from within your heart...it is that sweet voice reminding you of the Word of God that you took time to study and hide within your heart. It says PRAISE ME. Your human nature begins to fight within you stating how in the world could you praise God when you know that you have messed up in life. PRAISE ME. The Spirit says it again. The tears form in your eyes as your heart is broken at your reflection. PRAISE ME. You have a decision to make....will you make it?
In this day of age, it is easy for people to give into the depression spirit. The days seem dark....nothing seems to be going right....and sin keeps knocking you down. Dreams that were once your motivation to get out of bed are now faded into the sands of time. Yes, at one time you knew that God gave you the dream to preach, to write, to go from good to great, to be a father, to live for Him wholeheartedly; however the reality of life seems to differ from what these dreams promised. Now as you look in the mirror, you see the faded dreams and are brokenhearted, yet the Spirit says to PRAISE HIM?
Rather confusing to understand, but only because one does not recognize the power of the Spirit. For when we praise God, we get our eyes off of ourselves and our situations and circumstances and place them where they need to be...on HIM. When we begin to praise God in the midst of the darkness that surrounds us, then we allow God to ignite the fire within us that will illuminate the path (direction) that He wants us to walk down. When we begin to praise God while we are locked up in the prison of death with chains of sin, then we allow Him to supernaturally break the strongholds holding us back. When we begin to praise God when we are down and discouraged, then we do not fall into the temptation of being still and becoming silent.
In the darkness...he hides
In the stillness...he cries
In the silence...he dies
My friends, the above poem was given to me a few years ago, when I was going through a storm of my life. The only thing that I wanted to do was to lay in the darkness and be still and silent. Recently God has been placing this back on my spirit because I found myself growing silent again and looking at my own reflection and not Him. So, today I stand at the fork in the road mentioned above, and by this PRAISE REPORT, I have decided to do what God has instructed me to do....I CAN NOT BE SILENT ANY LONGER. I must write. I must share. I must praise.
I thank God for delivering me out of the chains of sin and darkness. I thank Him for being that eternal light that radiates away my fears. I thank Him that even though I can not see fully the path that is in front of me, that He is directing my path. In Him is hope and love and life. In Him is strength for the weary. In Him are the dreams that we thought we once destroyed. In Him...I will place my trust...my hope...my life. So now I praise Him. I can not grow silent...for His love must be shared to the ends of the world.
~ Jeremy Daniel Crouch~ |
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| May 12, 2008 |
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Write on, brother! |
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| May 12, 2008 |
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| Awesome! |
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| May 12, 2008 |
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| JDC - Write brother, write ! |
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| May 12, 2008 |
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| Great Post Jeremy - keep them coming!!!!! |
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| May 12, 2008 |
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| Thank you all for reading and commenting! I pray that you all are doing well. Glad to be back! Jeremy |
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| May 13, 2008 |
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| Yeaaaa Jeremy.I am so glad to hear that.Praise the LORD.As I was reading this blog it took me back to a time when I was in the same mess.Thenk GOD there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that light is Yeshua our beautiful savior. |
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| May 13, 2008 |
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This is an especially great thought, Jeremy! Thanks for obediently putting it down for us. I was afraid I was missing your blogs....now I find out you haven't been writing any....boy do I feel better! lol
(love ya man!) |
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| May 13, 2008 |
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Sharon, I too am glad that God radiates the darkness!
Mike,
Bro, I am glad you responded! Yes, I am back now.
Jeremy |
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| May 13, 2008 |
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| Well done! May God guide our feeble and faulty hands together, so that we can encourage each other along this scary and blessed path. |
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| May 13, 2008 |
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Thanks for the comments! |
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| May 14, 2008 |
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Keep writing and praying. Writing is such good therapy, and we're here for here you!
Love,
Joey |
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| May 14, 2008 |
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Joey, Keep reading and commenting!
~Jeremy |
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| May 20, 2008 |
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Lara,
So true...for when we give in....when we give up...when we shut up....we limit what God can do in our lives....resulting in DOUBTING God.....which is SIN...and we all know what SIN does...it kills us. |
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| October 25, 2008 |
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Jeremy, I just sent this to my pastor. I am the mother and wife of suicides. I went into a deep depression afterward and have been battling it over other things recently. I got up this morning and wrote no ordinary Saturday. I had again decided...yes decided....to go on...and do His work...and reading this just harmonized with what was speaking in my spirit from His Spirit. You are richly blessing me. juanita |
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| October 26, 2008 |
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| God used you in your obedience to touch me this morning. I was just clicking around on MyChurch and found this after a night of weeping over my self contempt. I know that my look at myself last night was in order that I might surrender the shame and contempt and move forward as you said in your piece so beautifully to the things he has called me to do. One of them is writing... and guess what I found on My Church this morning... two pieces about writing for Him. HE is an awesome God! I thank you for writing about your experience and giving God the chance to touch me through your writing. Be encouraged brother and continue to write. Who knows how many you will touch? Robin |
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| July 23, 2009 |
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| You are gifted bro. Seriously! |
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| July 24, 2009 |
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I had forgotten that I wrote this..... God just gave me another part of the poem....just now.... In the darkness we run from In the stillness we ignore the silence we forget The truth that God exists..... |
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| July 24, 2009 |
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