A Tribute to a friend (written 12/03/12)

Tonight as I stare at a flickering candle

My mind takes me back to the place of the battle

A fight I have fought and have lost… so many times before

A fight that fixes heart to heaven, and face to floor

 

Yes I’ve read the end…… and I know we will win

But tonight my heart’s heavy and I’m worn quite thin.

Jesus your word and your words, they bring hope like “greater works than these.”

 

I shall live and not die.  For this valley is mine, and the shadow belongs to the God of most high

Fear no evil my child, He says with a smile, I will lead you to pastures, above storms and through trials.

Love is a weapon that can’t be ignored, so tonight I declare the illustrious works of The Lord

 

Leaving part of my heart in an oncology floor room

Christmas for family is just a touch from the Bridegroom

Gifts don’t mean much when the scales of life weigh too far

So take the fear of the tomb, this mere mortal Cocoon and rapture our hearts to where the butterflies bloom

 

Yea they’ve read the end, and they know we’ll win

But through tears, and labored breaths and there’s little comfort within

Jesus your word and your words, they bring life like “you shall not die but live”

 

He says you shall live and not die.. For this valley is mine, and the shadow of death is crushed by my life. Fear no evil my child, He says with a smile, I will lead you to pastures, above storms and through trials.

Love is the weapon that can’t be ignored, so tonight you will declare the illustrious works of The Lord

 

Just two days ago you invaded this place

To set captives free with light, mercy, and grace

From God’s throne, to a manger to the cross and a grave, back to Your Throne with Your blood IT IS FINISHED

 

Father says I wrote the end, so take heart my friend

The cost was the cross and never again….There’ll be no more tears, pain, sorrows, or sin

You shall live and not die, and never again……

Never again

 

I shall live and not die….For this valley is mine, and the shadow belongs to the God of most high

Fear no evil my child, He says with a smile, I will lead you to pastures, above storms and through trials.

Love is the weapon that can’t be ignored, so tonight we declare the illustrious works of The Lord

 

Jay Frier

It's all Yours Lord

The excitement that fills my heart now when I look in the mirror is the fact that I have absolute peace in the perfect presence of Savior. I no longer strive or try to “order” my own footsteps in this treacherous world, but rather have such contentment that God has a plan, and no matter how much it varies from the Etch-a-Sketch I have conjured up in my tainted heart I know it is the best plan. Always far more awesome than anything I could have dreamed of, or architected in my little brain, and He delivers it at exactly the right time for maximum gratification for both of us!!!! Daddy I want that, and I want it NOW is generally our frame of reference for almost everything in life, and He longs to give us the desires of our hearts, and when our hearts are more about seeking the giver rather than the gift we are coming into alignment with His Grace. I now trust Him with my physical health, business, lingering consequences of poor choices, my spirit/soul mate, because they all have been threatened, under attack, or completely obliterated over the last year and a half, and I had no options but to Trust HIM. It was all out of my control, and spiraling towards the crust of the earth at 900 miles an hour, and I just had to sit in a puddle of “me and Him” and say….. You got this? A friend and I prayed with a woman yesterday who does not know The Lord in a hospital in Nashville who is about to pay the ultimate price for poor choices as her Liver and Kidneys are shutting down, and it brought my heart to one of my deepest places despair and true humility as I prayed for Jesus to heal, deliver, and save, and at the same time looking at her jaundice filled face, and thought….. for the love of God there goes Jay Frier. I trust Him for it all, and have no intentions of trying to make it happen for myself again. His plans ROCK!!!

Power of Grace

I feel the power of God’s Grace and Mercy today like sweet spring rain when the sunlight and blue skies are just at the tip of your fingertips. We all have the ability and capacity to see deep in other people’s hearts if we will only discern the lenses through which we gaze. I think this is why God ask us to view this world, and the wounded souls that we are trudging through it with through spiritual eyes. The more I see in someone’s else’s pain the more emphasis and light it reveals on my own wounded soul. Then and only then does my heart cry out to The Father of Lights to allow me to be Jesus if for only that second or encounter. Transparency vulnerability, and humility will usher the very essence of love into the deepest trauma, and while it may not “fix” the situation, it will be part of the reflection that God will use to show the light that was emerging at the end of that tunnel. I know He has done this for me over the last year and a half, and I am a changed man. My spirit still has some work to do in the area of physical warfare, but Jesus is working that out  as well.

 

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.