Just Learning

Please bear with me Father as I am just learning to pray out loud

I figured this was the best way to say a prayer to a crowd

I have always prayed silent like others much too proud

Too proud to praise in the name of Jesus out loud

Please bring us back home Father

Instill in us the word which is our backbone

Because in this time of spiritual warfare

We're comfortable in the middle

Others on their own

For 35 years I was lost

Did not realize depression I was running in the dark

You showed me the light rising behind the cross

As you took my life away I screamed and I cried but

I understand you were showing me why

Carrying me to the way

Now I thank you Lord for my life today

And I will pray for tomorrow

Through the bad times as well as the good

Help me be heard and understood

I ask you to judge us all by our hearts

And not by our mistakes

See that we get a breakthrough

However long it takes

You teach us to Honor our Father and Mother

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

You teach women to respect their men

And men to love their women

But so many of us have gone astray

Doing wrong for so long that we've forgotten the way

I know I do not always do the right thing and I ask you to forgive me

Help us see that violence is not the remedy

And as you want us to do pray for our enemies

So I pray that you open our eyes

Give us the anointment to recognize

The Devil and his lies

I pray that you allow our spirits to be born

Grow strong, move on know right from wrong

Continue to praise, pray, show full faith for faith replaces fear

And when there is bad weather, we know your love is here forever

Because there is something better after here and not everyone will go

So I ask you to forgive them, just like me and hope they will see

For me as long as I can, as long as you permit me

Please give me the strength I need to be

Continue to bear with me and thank you for letting me see

The love you have for me

AMEN