Have you ever had a time in your life when you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that God was working in your life in such a special, only for you way? Well, a couple weeks ago God did that for me and I’d like to share with you what happened.
I was home alone for the weekend. My hubby had the twins with him on a youth hunt so I was driving to church by myself. I was DEEP in thought throwing questions around to God. I was asking Him this deep question I had been pondering. “What would happen in my life, God if I TRULY believed what you said about me?” “Would my life be drastically different?” Then I’m digging deeper, “God, how do I marry reality, which is really who I am with living the way you say I am?” At the exact time I’m wrestling with all this I hear a song on the radio I’ve never heard before. It grabs my attention because it’s talking about everything I’m wresting with. The chorus of the song was I am redeemed and I don’t have to live in a prison because I’m already free. Within seconds of realizing the song on the radio I come up over a hill and see these HUGE storm clouds with a beautiful double ended rainbow. I was sooooo moved I quickly pulled off the road to snap a picture on my phone. (Please forgive me if you were the car behind me because I was caught up in the beauty of the moment.)
I really wanted to know what that song was and the station didn’t say. I even tried looking it up on the radio station with no luck. I asked God to please bring that song to me again and I went about my day.
Fast forward two weeks. It’s a Wednesday morning and I’m having my quiet time and the topic is Hearing God’s Voice. I’m really trying to be obedient when I hear Him and not try and talk myself out of it. While I’m reading about something unrelated I felt like God asked me to look up the song Redeemed (my song from above) so I do and sure enough I find it in iTunes. I buy the song and go about my work. On Wednesday’s I don’t usually work but that day I was really considering it since I wouldn’t be able to go in on Thursday my regularly scheduled day, but I really felt God tell me NO don’t go. Now, I argued a little bit because money is tight and I didn’t want to give the money up, but I obeyed and didn’t go. I was doing some work on the computer and felt like God said, Barb, look up the words to that song. So I did and I spent a considerable amount of time in tears and thanking God for doing the words of that song in my life. After I was done, I went to Facebook and I’m not lying but this is the very first thing in my feed:
Haunted by ghosts that lived in my past
Bound up in shackles of all my failures
Wondering how long is this gonna last
Then You look at this prisoner and say to me “son
Stop fighting a fight it’s already been won”
I am redeemed, You set me free
So I’ll shake off these heavy chains
Wipe away every stain, now I’m not who I used to be
I am redeemed, I’m redeemed
All my life I have been called unworthy
Named by the voice of my shame and regret
But when I hear You whisper, “Child lift up your head”
I remember, oh God, You’re not done with me yet
I am redeemed, You set me free
So I’ll shake off these heavy chains
Wipe away every stain, now I’m not who I used to be
Because I don’t have to be the old man inside of me
‘Cause his day is long dead and gone
Because I’ve got a new name, a new life, I’m not the same
And a hope that will carry me home
I am redeemed, You set me free
So I’ll shake off these heavy chains
Wipe away every stain, ’cause I’m not who I used to be
I am redeemed, You set me free
So I’ll shake off these heavy chains
Wipe every stain, yeah, I’m not who I used to be
Oh, God, I’m not who I used to be
Jesus, I’m not who I used to be
‘Cause I am redeemed
Thank God, redeemed

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