I Got Grit!

G – R – I – T

Hey!  You know me!

I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

When you look at me,

Tell me what ya’ see.

G – R – I – T

Hey!  You know me!

I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

It’s time to spit

‘Dis rhyme

And open ‘da eyes of ‘da blind.

G – R – I – T

Hey!  You know me!

So,

G – give it up for

R – right thinkin’

 I – I ain’t even blinkin’ cause ‘dis boat ain’t eva’ sinkin’!  I’m

T – totally committed to success

And purpose in my heart to be my very best!

I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

Yeah, I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

Are you hearin’ me?

Ain’t nothin’ but love stearin’ me.

I’m dedicated

Cause mediocre is overrated!

I got a GRIT perspective

My tolerance for doubt is defective

Life is my education

And I’m a part of a GRIT generation

‘Dat’s why I’m hastenin’ my steps

And givin’ no less than my very best

My greatest aim

Ain’t riches and fame

 It’s becoming ‘da best me

I can possibly be!

G – R – I – T

Hey!  You know me!

So,

G – give it up for

R – right thinkin’

 I – I ain’t even blinkin’ cause ‘dis boat ain’t eva’ sinkin’!  I’m

T – totally committed to success

And purpose in my heart to be my very best!

I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

Yeah!  I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

I must confide

I’m not satisfied

With followin’ ‘da crowd

Where my unique fingerprint isn’t allowed

I move to the beat of a different drum

Cause I believe in ‘da power of one

One person with GRIT

Can throw a mean hit

Force negativity to get

And inspire an entire army to neva’ quit!

So, tell me!  Do you got GRIT?

Then help me spit

‘Dis rhyme

And open ‘da eyes of ‘da blind.

G – R – I – T!
Hey! You know me!

I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

Yeah!  I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

G – R – I – T

Hey!  You know me!

So,

G – give it up for

R – right thinkin’

 I – I ain’t even blinkin’ cause ‘dis boat ain’t eva’ sinkin’!  I’m

T – totally committed to success

And purpose in my heart to be my very best!

I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

Yeah, I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

G – R – I – T

Hey!  You know me!

I got GRIT, and GRIT don’t quit!

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Abba's Heartbeat

Abba Father, Abba Father

I cry out to You

In the name of Your Son, Yeshua

Hear my cry.

Give me Your heart

Let Your heart beat through me

Give me Your eyes

Let Your eyes see through me

Give me Your Spirit

That I may draw nearer to You.

Teach me to pray

The Words that You say

Teach me to love

Teach me to love more like You

Teach me to hear

Let me hear Your voice clearly

Teach me to see

Let me see as You see

Teach me to be

Your heartbeat

Teach me to be

Abba’s heartbeat

In the Earth.

Abba Father, Abba Father

I cry out to You

In the name of Your Son, Yeshua

Hear my cry.

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Letters from Abba: "Worship Me in Spirit and in Truth"

Beloved,

          I cherish you, my beloved.  Regardless of the state of your heart, mind and position in life, I cherish you the same.  Come to Me in these times of struggle and wrestle with Me over the greatest wrestlings of your soul.  For it is only when you encounter me in Spirit and in Truth, and wrestle with Me just as you are that you are transformed into the person that I created, designed and ordained you to be on Earth as it is in Heaven.  You can be 100% real with Me.  Do not be afraid to encounter me in a state of nakedness and vulnerability.  For it is such an encounter that I desire with you and that you so desperately need the most.

          I seek those who worship Me in Spirit and in Truth.  Yet, few truly understand what that means.  I AM Spirit and must be encountered spiritually.  I must be pursued spiritually, although I AM encountered by and in earthen vessels or tents of meeting.  I AM Truth and must be encountered truthfully, although I AM encountered by fleshly beings with many layered disguises.  Every being desires to be fully known, fully accepted or received and fully loved.  Yet, such knowledge, acceptance and love is only found in Me.

          It is to such a journey of intimacy with Me that you have been called.  It is the Way of Truth and Life.  It is a narrow Way, and few truly find it.  In fact, even fewer choose to walk or live it.  Will you walk this narrow path of Truth and Life with Me?  I await the true joy, peace, prosperity, contentment and fulfillment that lies before you on this path.

                                                                                         Your Loving Abba

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Letters from Abba: "Wisdom Concerning Relationships"

My Beloved,

          I impart wisdom into you, so that you may BECOME and BE who you are in essence, meaning who I created and ordained you to BE in Me.  Every relationship depends on the type of soil each person has or rather the condition of their heart.  Remember the parable of the seed and the soils.  At times I ordain a relationship between two people with stony soiled hearts, which causes it to be nearly impossible (All things are possible with Me.) for them to receive Me (My Word) into them through their relationship to one another.  Understand that in essence this is the purpose and function of relationships, that you may behold, receive and know Me as I AM, and thus behold, receive and know yourselves and one another as you truly are in Me.

          The more each person receives Me, the more I transform their hearts, and they are able to receive one another, because each person in the relationship (that is ordained by Me) truly is a Word sent from Me to bring about transformation according to My purpose and will.  Each encounter, whether acquaintance or intimate in nature, plays a part in the prophetic art and apostolic process of your BECOMING and the other individual's BECOMING the essence of who I created you and them to be in Me.  Remember, I turn all things, even the apparently wicked and evil aroud for the good of those that love Me and are called according to My purpose.

          So, what should you do when it appears that a relationship has gone sour?  First, look back to the beginning of that relationship.  Do you see My hand in your first encounter?  What was My original intent of that relationship?  Paul said, "I have finished my course."  Has the relationship finished its course?  Only I know the answer to this question.  So, you must seek Me on an individual basis to know if each relationship has finished the course that I set for it.

          In the case of "Till death do us part" relationships, you must cross the Jordan together as Elijah and Elisha did.  You must die together.  Die to all else except My Word, Will and Way, so that you may truly live in Me.

          In the case of a relationship that has run its course, you must give thanks for the relationship and the way that I used it in both of your lives.  Choose to part or separate in peace and with continued love for one another, even as one does when a cherished loved one passes away.  You hate to say good bye and it is with great sorrow you must part from one who has passed away.  Yet, your love for them does not die with them.  So, ought it to be when a relationship with one living has run its course.  Though you both still live, you are separated from the other, if not completely, then from the way you were once connected before.  Sometimes, the relationship has not run its course, but it has only changed its course.  In this case, you must seek My face to know the new course that I have chosen for you, them and the relationship.

                                                                            You Loving Abba

 
         

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C. Love's New CD Release

The CD is available here:  http://clovestrictlyspoken.com/index.php/store.html

To God be the glory for the release of C. Love's 3rd CD.

The primary message of C. Love - Anthem of the Bride is one of prophetic worship and intercession.  It reveals an intimate discourse between Yeshua (Jesus) and His Bride similar to the discourse between lovers in the Biblical book, Song of Solomon.  Several of the songs represent the voice of Yeshua, the Bridegroom, calling forth the revelation, sanctification and apostolic and prophetic becoming of His Bride.  Yet, the majority of the songs represent the pursuit and longing of Yeshua's Bride for greater intimacy with Him.  The prophetic voice that rings forth through these songs is the worship and adoration of Yeshua and a desperate lament, "That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead" (NKJV, Philippians 3:10-11).

Letters from Abba: "I Call You Forth"

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          I CALL YOU FORTH into the fullness of your character as you were created, designed and breathed by My Spirit and through My Word before the foundation of the world.  I CALL FORTH the total reset and restoration for which Yeshua died and raised from death to establish within and through you and all of My beloved new creation. 

          For in your weakest moments, you are strong in Me.  In your most damaged state, you are healed in Me.  In your solitude, you are near to Me.  In your singleness, you are married to Me.  In your barrenness, you are fruitful in Me.  You are never alone and never far from Me.  For you dwell in My heart, which is Yeshua, My Word.  You dwell with me and await the awakening of your spirit to SEE beyond the natural into the reality of your spiritual existence through which you have already died and have risen to new life . . . through which you have already entered into  the hope of eternity . . . through which you have already BECOME who I created and destined you to BE in ME!  I AM your Abba Father.  Therefore, you can boldly declare, "I AM, Therefore, I am."  And you can boldly declare, "I am just as I am . . . Just as I AM created me to be . . ."

                                                                                            Sincerely,

                                                                                            Abba

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Deliver Me from 'da Leaven of 'da Pharisee!

Step to 'da mic

Show 'em what cha got

Let Yah's breath 

Flow through your wind pipe

Ready or not

Let's go!

It's not even what

But WHO ya' know

So, let it FLOW!

Some folk don’t know how to pray

Cause they’re thinkin’ what to say

Just open your mouth

And thank Yah for another day

Thank Him for showin’ you a better Way

Think back to da’ day

When you were dead in your sin

And you thought your cover up was a win

Thank Yah dat’ now you know HIM

Open your mouth and begin

To praise HIM

Yeshua taught us to pray

He told us exactly what to say

“Abba in Heaven

Deliver me from ‘da leaven

Of ‘da Pharisee

Deliver me from the worst kind of heresy

Believin’ ‘dat my religious works

Will quench my spiritual thirst

‘Dat feels like it’s ‘bout to burst!

Believin’ I’m ‘da best, and others are ‘da worst

Abba in Heaven

Deliver me from ‘dis leaven

Of the Pharisee

Deliver me from ‘dis worst kind of heresy

Spiritual PRIDE

When I’m ‘da reason ‘dat Yeshua died!

I’m ‘da reason for His nail scared hands

I’m ‘da reason ‘dat He was treated like less than a man! 

I’m ‘da reason for ‘da scars in His feet

I’m ‘da reason ‘dat He got BEAT!

I’m ‘da reason ‘dat His blood shed

And ‘dat ‘da grave became His bed

And ‘dat’s not all

I’m not ONLY ‘da reason for His fall

I’m ‘da reason ‘dat Yah raised Him from ‘da dead!

‘Dat’s right!  I’m a partaker of the Livin’ BREAD!

Yet, I use His gifts to draw fans

And boldly declare ‘dat I’m more than a mortal man!

In fact, I’m blessed and highly favored

Yet, I don’t even know how to love my neighbor 

Abba in Heaven

Deliver me from ‘dis leaven

And teach me how to seek first

‘Da Kingdom of Heaven!

Deliver me from ‘da leaven of religion

Release me from ‘dis terrible prison

Help me understand ‘dat I’m not saved, 

'Cause of my decision

You’re the ONLY One Who really KNOWS me

And STILL You chose me!

In spite of my hypocrisy

In spite of my demented Pharisaical philosophy

Thank you for openin’ my eyes to see my vanity

Cause Your Word says,

 ‘Dat you died for ALL humanity

Abba in Heaven

Thank you for deliverin’ me from ‘dis leaven

Of ‘da Pharisee

Thank you for deliverin’ me from 

‘Dis worst kind of heresy

When You opened my eyes to SEE

And opened 'da Door to set me FREE

I began to build up ‘dis knowledge

And I boasted ‘dat I didn’t learn ‘dis stuff in college

But I spent years studying my Hebrew roots

And I know stuff the famous preachers 

Only wish they knew

When I should REALLY only seek to know YOU

I like to point out every mistake

I like to demonstrate

How every other form of Biblical faith is fake

Except my own

Cause I’m full grown

I’m grafted into Israel

And partake of the water from Jacob’s well

When in truth, I’m blind without maturity

Caught up in Israel’s false sense of security

The seed of Abraham is not enough

‘Dat’s why Yeshua called ‘da Pharisees’ bluff

Yet, just like ‘da scribes of old

Who were formed in a doctrinal mold

I just regurgitate

What I heard some rabbi or preacher state

Then I wait

With the ammunition in my gun

Come to think of it,

Not one single soul has been won!

Oh Abba in Heaven

Thank you for deliverin’ me from ‘dis leaven

Of the Pharisee

Thank you for deliverin’ me 

From 'dis worst kind of heresy

Then when you opened my eyes to SEE

And you set me FREE

From denominationalism

I began to see a color prism

I learned about the apostolic and prophetic call

And I took my place on the Wailing Wall

Yet, even ‘dis truth has been distorted

And so many true callings have been aborted

Forgive me for following a “movement”

Teach me how to truly REPENT

You died and rose again

So, ‘dat mere mortal men

Could begin

A true apostolic revolution

You revealed ‘da SOLUTION

To be ‘da Gospel of Your Kingdom

‘Dat every nation could become

ONE Under Yeshua

If only they knew ya!

But instead, we’ve proclaimed

Our own name

And advertised the way to riches and fame

And You keep crying out, “Apostles and Prophets!

Just STOP IT!"

"I’ve called you to the Covenant of Ahava

And Yeshua taught you to just call me, 'ABBA!'”

Here I am, Abba Father

Fill me with Living Water

Make me a true disciple

Show me how to LIVE the Torah of ‘da Bible

Teach me true humility

Not to rely on any human ability

But to offer up my total availability

So, ‘dat Your LIGHT I can finally SEE

And You can shine through me

So, 'dat I can BECOME ‘da TRUE ME!

Oh Abba in Heaven

I’m DONE with all religious leaven

I only want YOU

I only want to be made brand NEW

To walk in the footsteps of Yeshua

And one day hear, 

‘Come!  Cause I REALLY knew ya!”

Beyond your confession of faith

You actually walked THROUGH ‘da Narrow GATE!

You walked with Me through your ups and downs

You helped OTHERS to become UNBOUND!

Truly in you, Ahava has been found!’

Oh Abba in Heaven

Forgive me for every form of leaven

Of which I’ve partaken

I’ve been SORELY mistaken!

Thank you for ‘dis moment in which I’ve AWAKENED

To ‘da TRUTH

About YOU!

To the Path of true LIFE I now hasten

Carrying my Living Water filled basin

Emptiness, oh basin of my spirit

You no longer need to fear it

Echoes of religion, may I never again draw near it!

For the glories of Heaven, I now hear it!

I boldly proclaim

‘Dat I’ve found NEW LIFE in Yeshua's name 

Now is ‘da time

For me to end ‘dis rhyme

Now it’s YOUR turn

To spit ‘da fire ‘dat burns

In you

But remember, it must first burn YOU!

Step to 'da mic

Show 'em what cha got

Let Yah's breath 

Flow through your wind pipe

Ready or not

Let's go!

It's not even what

But WHO ya' know

So, let it FLOW!

© 2016 Christine Lombard; All right reserved; Use only with permission