Thursday, February 7, 2013

Poem: The Visitor by Nicholl McGuire

The Visitor
 

They said she was strange,

‘cause she told them, “Things have to change.”

 
No one knew her by her first name

She didn’t have too much fame.
 

She had a message from the Lord

The kind that cut like a sword.
 

She claimed she was gifted

Like flour she was sifted.

 
They didn’t want to hear what she had to say

Told her to go to the back and pray.
 

She tried to talk to them about God’s will.
They were worried about church positions that she might steal.

 
Fearful she would take attention away from The Man

They told her to sit down and gave her a fan.
 

When would she be allowed to speak?

Baptized in the spirit at a nearby creek.
 

But she didn’t go to church enough, give enough

or know enough people.

So outdoors she went and just stared at the steeple.



 
The Holy Spirit may use you to stand before a large audience to speak a word, but there may be those that will work very hard to keep you from saying what you know that God has placed upon your heart. Allow them to test you and always keep your ear to the Lord. The difference between those that hear from a god and those that hear from the one true God is that one group is saying things to appease self while the others are giving messages that either uplift, warn, or strengthen the church and it usually isn’t a “feel good” message.

Pray for a discerning spirit so that you are not pushing the right person away from you while keeping the wrong person near.

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