Honey, I didn't marry America When I said "I do" and married you I didn't marry Ontario, Canada You asked God for "a man on fire" Burning hot with spiritual desire Intensely passionate for Almighty God Well know this, your prayer was answered The Lord of love far above did not disappoint Your divine appointment surely did come But with it will you not now yield and run? If Jesus truly is the Lord of your life Why then all the demands and strife? Why all of the bickering about your life? I thought you belonged to Jesus Christ? Could it be you still own your life? And if so will you cease to flow and go? To drink, taste, and move in His Spirit? God so loved the world.
Will you heart it? If God then so loved the world, why not you? It is a small thing that He asks us to do.
It is neither grievous, nor burdensome On the contrary, actually it is quite fun! While watering the jasmine vine today The Lord suddenly spoke to gently me Saying, "You're not married to America, Neither did you ever marry Canada.
" My darling it is you to whom I said "I do" Not to a house, car, or geographic country Yet I've attempted to show my love fully By seeking employment through and through Throughout this country to obtain its money To please, pamper, and fulfill my beloved wife Yet the more I try, the less I earn, and more I squirm I've tried repeatedly to quiet these desires inside However they continually come and arise in me To spread my wings and be all that I can be Not to leave, abandon, or go far from thee But to simply be authentic and true to me To do otherwise is utter torment inwardly Neither is it fair to my God and humanity For I have an eternal calling and destiny This you knew full well when you married me This your Pastor and grandma warned you of fully Yet we in our childlike zeal proceeded hastily to marry And happily so because love is swell and we did know However somewhere along the way to God we said no We pulled back the reins, regained control, and withheld Stopped surrendering, yielding, bending the knee in humility Simultaneously therewith left all peace and inner tranquility Although we continued to toil tirelessly and work endlessly However the fruit of our labor produced little honestly Yet we've grown together through conflict most amazingly Dying daily to self humorously, belligerently, and continually We suffered together wrestling through inner pain immensely Nevertheless this season of learning has been most necessary To teach us not to live in self-sufficiency for self-centered me Me, myself, and I - a most empty and miserable existence indeed How can we? When for us Christ endured the cross and did bleed Have we forgotten the joy of our salvation, the great liberation? The glorious divine emancipation for all of God's marvelous creation? Me, I have not.
For this burden I have deeply and forever got.
How to wholly give myself to, fulfill, and bring it to fruition I know not Nevertheless as I see the light, so too must I walk by faith and enter It is needful for me to relinquish control, constraint, and be in the center The center of the Creator's will for my life, no matter the cost to my life Indeed the cost at times is great, living by faith and not walking by sight Certainly I would not hold it against any woman for not wanting this plight Miraculously however for me this spiritual manner alone seems most right Of course I understand others tendency to recoil from such a faith filled fight Battles within and endless mental thought does such a lifestyle often provoke Concerns without number for those who have forgotten what God has spoke But we who take root and anchor in His Word, know the two-edged sword Not always immediately because sometimes promises delay in their fulfillment Yet in due time and in God's time the blessings draw near and mightily appear I therefore can offer you no more in this life than my love, faith, and hope As in my Savior Christ Jesus alone I do joyfully live, simply trust, and cope With trials, tribulations, and burdens many - sometimes countless beyond number Yet I belong to the Lord my God and King as His chosen vessel, a son of thunder For my own life I must not care and fully abandon myself in order to help everyone else Yet through this poem I hope you understand and feel my heart, as well as my dilemma Because I wholeheartedly married God and you, never did I say, "I do" to North America To the United States or Canada, I bow not my knee.
Only to the magnificent Lord of glory Therefore I beckon you to hearken to me, as I prepare to move with the wind of the Spirit When the Lord speaks I shall ever attentively hear and without reservation respond to it Know however I do not demand of you such willingness and obedience to the God of heaven Nevertheless as the Lord did say eventually you will have to be for Him or risk opposing Him Even the great prophet William Branham's family was progressively removed circumstantially Until the prophet hearkened to the mandate to fulfill the great commission and left his indecision Sadly his disobedience and delay cost him his family along the way, which I don't wish for you Hence this word comes forth as a warning to you, telling you what I myself must arise and do Of which way you turn, go, and flow I have no say.
Yet as for me I must yield to eternity today The purpose and power pulling on me from within to awaken, arise, and not entertain lies Neither my divine mission despise despite financial troubles, turmoil, and lack all around The fantastic love and life of God within do mightily abound, providing a triumphant sound The strong roar of Zion full of resurrection power, manifestation, and enlightening revelation Mentally I know little, being unable to fully articulate, but to what I feel within I mustn't hesitate Because this I most certainly know.
Being married to America and Canada is not my fate.
Grab my hand my love and come away with me as together we embark on an exciting journey Let not the nations control, nor have power over thee.
Let God above write our love and life story.