Are You Weeping?
By Susan Vaughan Shumake
April 21, 2020
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Psalm 56:12-13
“I am under vows to you, O God;
I will present my thank offerings to you.
For you have delivered me from death;
and my feet from stumbling,
that I may walk before God
In the light of life.”
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Are You Weeping? By Susan Vaughan Shumake
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Are you weeping LORD Jesus, when Your Spirit is grieved
as You watch while Your children are slowly deceived?
Do You sigh as a mourner, who mourns for the lost,
while You see Your own sheep pay a desperate cost?
They are losing their lives, giving in to disease
as they pray not for healing, but only for peace.
They have lost all their faith in “the God who heals men,”
saying yesterday’s Wonders were only for then.
They no longer believe in the Wonders and Signs
that You Sovereignly did within Biblical times.
And they say that those gifts You dispersed to Your sheep
were for only a few, and for them not to keep.
For the Words of Your Power have been somehow misread,
and the babes are then taught from those sadly misled.
The whole of this teaching is the fruit of a lie
and because of this fruit there are people who die.
LORD, we claim all the Power that You have to give.
For we know that in You, we may reign, not just live!
At the moment You died, by Your blood we were sealed,
our sins all forgiven; by Your stripes we were healed!
And the Power which raised You to where You now sit
was meant also for us, if we’d just ask for it.
For time has gone by, it seems ages have passed,
yet the pool is untapped because no one has asked.
Father, pour out on us Your Incredible Might.
Pour upon us Your Spirit that we might Win the Fight!
Let Your Healing begin through the vessels You’ve made,
for it’s time that we build on the groundwork You’ve laid.
Let the Blind see again and the Lame start to walk!
Let the Deaf hear the sound of the Mute as they talk!
Let the Faith of a Child raise the sick from their bed!
Let the Voice of a Warrior call men back from the dead!
Let the Body of Christ prove Your Power and Word,
and let Faith follow quickly when Your Message is heard.
Through the Oneness of us, Your Temple will Stand,
and the Works we will do will be that of Your Hand.
And all Glory and Honor will be given to You,
as the world sees the Signs and the Wonders we’ll do.
And Your children who doubted will no longer say,
“The Spirit of God does not move today!”
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