Monday, August 9, 2010

"I'll Play For You"


This song Play for you by Seals and Croft is an old one. I do have much to share about this song. In 1994 I woke up in the month of April at around 3.00 am and I had a dream I set among 10 or 12 musicians and this was the music.



Yes I was amused with this song but the musicians played it more beautifully than I had ever heard it. We were set up on a rugged large slab of concrete with broken cracks and if you didn't watch your step you would fall because of the disposition of the cement. However as this music played I was one of those musicians. 

I found this odd also because I did not know how to play an instrument. My grandfather was inducted into the Georgia Country Music Hall of Fame and he has passed away now. Ralph Nelson, My dad played several instruments but the guitar was his favorite choice. My father played guitar and I was lured to this like nothing in my life.

I did not give it much thought at the time because it was a peaceful cradling dream. As we looked across the concrete we were an island and we were surrounded by nothing but sewer. That was really a strange analogy. It was a quiet and peaceful sobering event but I didn't quite understand the symbols of the smashed concrete and the sewer that surrounded the sewer island.

This dream stayed in my mind most of my life. In 2006 my father Robert Nelson passed away from lung cancer. Quite a grip for me to handle his death because of his music and during this critical period of my life, the Lord led me to the guitar. This was a comforting way for me to deal with my Father's Death. God provided a way for me to cope with these things.

 Yahweh led me to write, this was not something unusual or out of the ordinary because I had written journals for years through periods of my life to help me along the way. Me, yes it was a huge help, reading and writing and feeling the presence of the Holy Spirit but not knowing it was truly not meant for me. Only for a season.

I was led to other Christian writers and we became deeply committed in friendship with many things in common and the thankfulness we had felt in how he had moved through our lives. As I grew in the word and spiritual maturity, the Lord was revealing more to me and the closer I drew to him , the more I could feel his presence working in my life.

There was a push, and a longing and a path that was being laid out in front of me. It became quite clear that Yahweh was leading me to share things about how he could get us through impossible circumstances if our faith and love was applied towards him. I was now being brought to another level of understanding the love of Yahweh. When we are totally dependant of this faith through Yeshua it doesn't stop there, it becomes a mouth piece of what we have seen, what he has done through our lives and our testimonies are what bears witness to others that he still lives and he was truly risen from the dead.

Yes salvation of Yeshua is a gift of his love for each one of us but there is something even more precious in this transition of time because through this transformation we decrease and he is to increase taking our eyes off our selves and pouring out the blessings of our lives as an example. A light that bears his witness. We become students in a process but once we are moved passed this level it flows outward to testify of him towards others.

There was something that was bringing me to a new place in my faith. It was time for me to move and I could not hold the Love of Yahweh anymore in my heart without the overflow. I decided to reach out more through friends and family on online networks to restore old friendships and family ties. This was something I needed to do as I had been isolated from most of these people for well over 8 years or more because of the shame of the failures of my life. Most of everything had fallen apart and what could I share that hadn't been totally humiliating. I was healing and relationships were being restored.

I was asked to start a page online for our fellowship by a Pastor, it was then that the Holy Spirit took over my life and I begin to live a total unashamed life completely in Yeshua.


It was a moment that changed everything about me. God spoke to me and said why can you share your faith with this fellowship but can't be open with your friends and family. I was very humbled by this but It led me into a deep repentance because I had been ashamed and was still wearing masks afraid of what others might think. Fears of the past and times before that I was humiliated and beaten for having such a desire for Yeshua. I didn't want to have to face these things again. There were questions that came up. What would my brothers and sisters think and the friends I had gone to school with that knew me? All these things came against me.

The truth that Yah revealed to me was to shine through and be who he intended me to be. No one really knew this part that I kept hid for so many years. As I had gone back to Networking with friends and family I laid all of these fears at the feet of Yeshua and said I will be obedient for you to do through me anything to glorify you. Me became last and I stepped out in a higher faith level. Putting myself on the line, my reputation now belonged to Yeshua and he told me very clearly. I will use your harm to bring good.

From that moment forward I was lead to others that ministered to me and polished my weaknesses. Many Saints sent to me to sing praises and that ministered to me in many ways. I laid down my pride and felt the convictions and the areas I had to release in order to be his servant. I was corrected, I was tested and I began to learn about discernment and to learn what is truly good and evil. These bad things I was still holding onto were being broken. My life was being humbled and he was ministering to me though others in a way I never knew. Bringing so much revelation and I was decreased and no longer cared of my reputation or my past any longer. It became less important of the aspirations of what men thought and more important of how Yah was seeing me.

Giving over to the Holy Spirit to guide your life is not an easy one when we have been not been able to trust but these faith steps would increase and more of Yeshua was being revealed to me. There were soon two and three that were bearing witness of his revelations and we were experiencing these things together. I was dying to self and taking on Yeshua day by day. There are many people I have shared these experiences with, even some of those old friends from school and some of my family.


Amazing through all of these blessings YAH was pouring out over this last year, there were never questions of what religion are you. We aren't religion. We are the Children of Yah that follows his son Yeshua.  What a huge miracle to know I had all these disciples of Yeshua as my intimate friends to share. This is true fellowship, one I never experienced. We now have become teachers, those with compassion, those who are healers and intercessors for a divine purpose that support each other through online ministries as the present time is so close to his return.

All of these people that I share and have bonded with are voices of Yahweh. They each have used all creativity HE has given them as recording artists, screen play directors or authors and bloggers, musicians, poets, shofar blowers and dreamers and dancers. This dream was a look into my future. We are living in desperate times and the anger is increasing and the love of Yah has waxed cold. I am in the World, but not a part of the world. I see death and destruction and lost one of my friends that was killed for his faith in Yeshua in Pakistan. We are watching the World but our cares are not upon it.

These are the people that refuse to keep Yahweh in a box. These are the people that are laying themselves on the line, that aren't afraid to share there weaknesses to build themselves up in the likeness of Yeshua and to learn of his love and to shine in this dark and present world. These are the ones that don't seek to accuse and condemn. These are the ones that understand and have compassion of the unbelieving people in the world. These are the few that have overcame impossible circumstances while the world was telling them they would never overcome. These are my brothers and sisters, the warriors for Christ that would be willing to lay down there lives for him no matter the cost and they are doing all that God has given them to bring forth the Love of Christ.

The world is dying and passing away. Looking at the world I see now. These people that have transformed my life through allowing Christ to work though there life transcended to me opening up the full working of the Holy Spirit that can not lie. These people didn't help me. It was Christ working through them. We don't glorify in ourselves, it is nothing of what we do but the power of the Holy Spirit to take us to the feet of the cross and live as the disciples did and to bring a light into the very darkest of places.

I see these standing shoulder to shoulder, each representing an instrument of Yeshua being used in the broken concrete, and the sewage of the world, of all the politically corrupt, the deceivers and lovers of the world. We will continue to bring hope and encouragement to this infested world through Yeshua we will rise. This dream has now become a reality that is so clear.

We are standing upon brokenness, and we are looking out into a huge discouraging world. The waste of all the blessings we once knew. It is passed now. The world is dying but we are rising. We don't fear the dark places, and we don't fear the destruction of the World. We have something to share and that is Christ and we will play for him, write for him, teach for him and shine in his glory through this passing age. We are standing upon the broken concrete looking across miles of the sewage from the effects of turning away from Yah, but we will be music and we will be at peace and we will shine the love of Yeshua through out the days that are left.

This was no dream but this is my life and the life of my friends. Be a player, you have harm, Christ can turn it all to good. You can be an instrument that passes across the earth and brings forth a beautiful and soundly word to the lost and dying world. God has given you the ability to do this. He willed you and created you and knew you before you were born. The Holy Spirit will equip you. He wants you to stand with us on the broken concrete and play for him.

Join the body of Christ. Be blessed and stand strong in your faith.





1 comment:

Cherie Denna said...

Standing with you always...arms locked, my beloved sister. ~ Romans 10