“IT IS FINISHED. TAKE MY SPIRIT.”

“IT IS FINISHED. TAKE MY SPIRIT.”

Be Real With Jesus

By: Sheridan Ann Gay

²⁶ A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (Ezekiel 36:26-27 KJV) ~¹⁰ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.¹¹ I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.¹² But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.¹³ The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.¹⁵ As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.¹⁶ And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.¹⁷ Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.¹⁸ No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. (John 10:10-18 KJV)

~THERE ARE HONESTLY NO WORDS THAT I CAN EXPRESS IN THIS MOMENT IN THANKING YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE FROM UNCERTAIN DEATH BECAUSE YOU TOOK MY PLACE AT THE CROSS…RIGHT NOW, I AM SO MOVED WITH TEARS STREAMING DOWN MY FACE BECAUSE OF HOW YOU GAVE YOUR LIFE FOR ME, SO I CAN LIVE A FULL LIFE AND TELL YOUR STORY IN HOPES THAT OTHERS WILL CHOOSE TO BELIEVE OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR ALL OF US…AS I SHUT MY EYES, I CAN LITERALLY SEE YOU ON THAT CROSS WITH THE CROWN OF THORNS ON YOUR HEAD AND TEARS STREAMING DOWN YOUR FACE BECAUSE OF THE PAIN AND AGONY YOU SUFFERED FOR DAYS, AND YOU ASK ABBA FATHER, “WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?” THEN, I SEE WATER AND BLOOD LEAKING OUT OF YOUR BODY, AND YOU GIVING YOUR LAST BREATH SAYING, “IT IS FINISHED. TAKE MY SPIRIT.” AGAIN LORD JESUS, THANK YOU FOR LAYING YOUR LIFE DOWN FOR ME AND MAKING IT EASY TO WHERE I CAN COME AND SPEND ETERNITY WITH YOU IN PARADISE BECAUSE YOU ARE MY LORD, MY GOD, AND THE ROCK OF MY SALVATION IN WHOM I LIVE TO SERVE EACH DAY THAT I AM IN THIS PLACE. IN JESUS, AMEN