YOU INVADED ME

Why does your heart hurt?
Why is the pain there?
Who gave it permission to be invaded?

It was I
It was I

Just let me move, I need to walk
Sitting silently in its dark
The sky’s the same?
Did my name change?

Playing a mystical game with my heart
Bright yellow/red/orange, darken moon dry tree
Abstract art of my invaded heart

Here alone in my thinking,
It was I?
It was I?

Lesson need not repeating, rethinking it all
That invaded place, seal with sign of your face
Yes I see!
Stay with me, until the Son break through your storm

What did you?
What did you say?
Until the Son break through my storm?
Well, well why is it warm?
There’s no trace of me.

Your invasion, you invaded me.

-by Terence Efrem Gray Sr., 5.0v

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Proverbs 4:23

TO MY CHILDREN (My Father's Day Letter)

No one can remove you from my heart; no one but God see's the room you all hold. You all are gifts; having your own souls.

When I talk to God about each you, I can never finish (truly I can't start), seeing over the tears, my heart just races.

Father God said if you think it --- He'll know it, than I could feel him wipe my tears away.

I said; Father, is that how you feel about us? Looking closer, I saw a tear drop. No one will know or measure a soul. Son my love is too wide, it’s too-deep-to contain, so we both wept until I dropped, and how I understood, to this very day.

So when I look at you now and you see a tear in my eye, for no reason at all. Your dad’s love is too deep and too wide for you all; just wipe it away.

You all are loved. You're my gifts the giver gave! You to me and me to you; you all know of this love (from a child you were told).

You played Church and had fun. Called it Father Day love.

So, I am Dad possessed, with his love, but if I see a tear I won’t say a word. I'll know it was Dad; we all are surrounded in his love. It's the room you all hold because my children, no one can remove you from my soul.

Love Dad!

A SELAH MOMENT: A REMINDER OF YOUR VALUE NOW!

Don’t argue with me, it’s final.
Hey don’t forget, you are precious in the sight of God.
I won’t take it back!
Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life. Isaiah 43:4

Yes! It was, The Cross....You are loved…Terence Sr.,

DON’T GIVE UP!

A wife, mother and advocate of Selah. She is filled with the Wisdom, knowledge and love of the Word of God. Her Ministry is saturated with the power of God. He has annointed and appointed her to pray and work with women young and mature who are struggling with life issues.
God has given her great revelation into relationship problems. She is a fighter as you will soon witness. Her marriage to the same person has endured over 28+years. She is a career woman (Full Time), a lover of sports, fast cars and traveling --- all while attending Rhema Bible College. As she will tell you, her greatest accomplishment is mothering her two sons' (oldest just graduated from High School).

Selah, take this moment to help me thank Mrs. Peggy Ann Dickerson for her support and for sharing her powerful testimony of love.

It is so easy in life to just give up and throw in the towel. It doesn’t matter if you are throwing in the towel to a marriage that is not going your way, to a job where there are conflicts with co-workers/bosses, school with teachers/peers who don’t like you, or even to a baseball/football game with bad calls.

Life just doesn’t seem fair some times.

Let me take you back in time (approximately 18 years). I was approximately how old?
Well we won’t go there (I’m a female and that’s my prerogative). But, my husband and I were trying to have a baby.

We had been married about ten years and had been trying to have a child the whole time.
Every now and then we would play the blame game. “It’s your fault” “No – It’s your fault because you’re shooting blanks.” There were many miscarriages as well. In the midst of all this, God must have a sense of humor because for some crazy reason women who were trying to conceive would always come to me for prayer.

I would pray for them and next thing you know, I am receiving a phone call, “Guess what? I’m pregnant.”

Well one day I was thinking about the prayers prayed and the women and their babies.
I was happy for them and at the same time very sad for myself.

There was such an emptiness inside of me. I so longed for a child of my own. My husband would not adopt (So that was out of the question). For me – I didn’t care – I just wanted a child.

I asked God “why”? when I prayed for other women they would conceive but when I prayed for myself nothing happened. It just did not make sense except that I really had a lot of compassion for them and could feel their pain (relate to what they were going through).

I was reading in I Samuel Chapter 1: about Hannah and her desires to conceive. I could totally relate to her situation.

The story of Hannah touched my heart and I prayed and told my God that if he would open my womb to conceive, I would dedicate that child to him and he could use that child for his work and glory.

But not only that, I would still love him and not be upset if it were his desire for me to not have children.

Shortly, after that prayer, God opened my womb so that I could conceive (Pregnancy is the most incredible experience ever). Feeling that child move inside of you is so awesome.

While pregnant, I would each evening rock my baby in the rocking chair and read the bible out loud to my belly and pray for my baby and praise God for the gift he was giving to me.

God blessed me with an awesome son. From the day he was born he has brought total joy into my life.

Every time I look at him, I see him as a wonderful gift given to my husband and I from such a loving God who really does hear your cries in the middle of the night.

My son is now 17 years old and has just graduated from High School (Did I say he is wonderful). I am so very proud of him.

He received Jesus as his Lord and Savior on his own when he was in middle school.

He is built like a football player and played football in High School but also has a gentle spirit with compassion for others who are hurting and I know God has wonderful plans for his future (Did I say he is; Ok..ok…lol).

In sharing this experience (to be honest). I could have become very bitter and not prayed for those women who were going through the same thing. I could have slipped into a depression. I could have had some major pity parties, or even became angry with God.

But I chose to Praise God through the storm. Selah, keep the faith and do not give up.
There was a wonderful blessing waiting on the other side.

Giving up is easy and that is what the enemy wants us to do. I don’t give up on anything because I believe Christ doesn’t give up. I wouldn’t want him to give up on me and throw the towel in.

Stay strong and persevere; Selah!

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You are truly God's best and for that I'm so grateful for you taking the time to stop by.
Selah is a family friendly Blog, a place on the internet and intranet to relax with a hot cup of tea and enjoy an uplifting message of faith, hope and charity.
My name is Terence Efrem Gray Sr.; I invite you to read my profile (on the blog) to learn more about me.

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A follower of the blog since established is a 17 year old who has just recently graduated from High School.

This blog shares life experiences from various individuals in hopes of imparting wisdom to those deep in the valley who need encouragement to reach the mountain top. Lessons learned can be a blessing to others.

You will enjoy messages from (Writers and Poets) such as:
• Ms Renee D. Ferguson, Writer & Poet
. Mrs. Peggy Ann Dickerson
• Ms Cassandra Fonseca, Poet
• Evangelist Rabia Rehmat, Writer
• Mr. Terence Efrem Gray Sr., Writer & Poet

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Mr. Terence Efrem Gray Sr.,

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DONT GET IT TWISTED

Our God is amazing. He wants you to come to him on your terms. The forty question list before you come to him is pointless. Listening to people who tell you, you got to get it together before you go to him is worthless. Trying to change your life on your own before you come to him is madness. He will never reject you, he can’t. He would be rejecting himself. He could not cast you out, he can’t cast out himself. He will by no means say you are not important, worthless or insignificant. He gave his life to create a permanent link between God and man. He is the Christ, he is the only one named Jesus! ...SELAH!!!

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