Gene Pinkney, Poetry, A Prayer for Julie Garcia

A Prayer for Julie Garcia

Lord, thank you for Julie Garcia,

Your child, for whom I pray,

To know of the good news of Jesus,

And her full Salvation today.

Let her know that the battles she's waging

Have truly already been won

On that old rugged cross called Calvary

By our Glorious Brother, Your Son.

He has 'led captivity captive'

And pulled out the enemy’s fangs

So that now 'we are more than conquerors,'

Immune to the tormentor’s pangs.

For salvation is more than a ticket

To get us through Heaven's door,

It is freedom, wisdom, and healing,

Prosperity, Peace and much more. (See Eph. 3:20)

For all of the promises in the Good Book

Are 'yea and amen' through His blood,
(See II Peter 1: 3, 4.)

We have but to claim them and lay them to heart

To walk in God's strength as we should.

For we are His children, the sheep of His fold

Washed clean by the Blood of the Lamb

And all that can stop us from stepping out bold

Is to fall for the enemy's sham.

For he is a liar, 'the father of lies'

He is not 'the great I am.'

If we walk in his shadow and with him despise

Our brothers and sisters, we're hurled

On a course that can only destroy good lives,

In the suffering and sin of this world.

So Sweet Holy Spirit, my dear gentle Friend,

Wrap Julie in measureless love,

Let your Peace like a river upon her descend

And heal as it flows with God's Love.

Let your word be her tutor and light her the way

To the truth that will make her free.

To walk in the spirit in Joy every day
A child of the Kingdom to be.

Father, let not one word of this fall to the ground. I stand on these scriptures “ She shall come forth like gold.” “No weapon forged against her can prosper.” and “every tongue that rises in condemnation against her, You, O Lord, shall prove wrong”. For “ there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” “We are more than conquerors through Him (Christ) who died for us,” Julie, meditate on and digest (Isa. 53) (Psl. 103) (Isa. 54, all!) (2 Cor. 9, all) Psm. 91 and 23)(Romans Ch 8, all) 2 Peter, chs. one and two, and any verse the Holy Spirit brings to your mind. Victory is ours in Jesus! But we must claim it to have it. Amen!

Your old teacher, friend, and brother in Christ,

Gene Pinkney (Dec. 10, 2005)