THE RISE, & THE REDEMPTION!

By Reese Kemp

YOU MIGHT TRY TO WRITE ME OFF AS HISTORY WITH YOUR BITTER TWISTED LIES!
YOU CAN KICK ME DOWN WHILE I AM ALREADY DOWN, BUT WHILE I AM STILL IN THE DIRT I WILL RISE!
DOES ME BEING HAPPY WITHOUT YOU UPSET YOU, & MY HAPPINESS HAS YOU FILLED WITH GLOOM?
IS IT BECAUSE I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, & ANGELS LIVING IN MY PRAYER ROOM?
YOU MAY SHOOT ME WITH THE CURSING OF YOUR WORDS, & YOU MAY CUT ME WITH THE HATE IN YOUR COLD EYES!
BUT I WILL BOUNCE BACK UP LIKE A ROUND BALL, & LIKE JESUS I WILL RISE!
OUT FROM THE WILDERNESS OF PRISON, DRUGS, VIOLENCE, GANGS, & SHAME!
BACK FROM DEAD OF A PAST THAT WAS ROOTED IN PAIN!
"I WILL RISE!
MAYBE YOU WANTED TO SEE ME BROKEN WITH A BOWED DOWN HEAD & LOWERED EYES?
MAYBE YOU WANTED TO SEE ME DESTROYED AS MAN WITH TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY EYES?
DOES THE BOLDNESS OF MY CONFIDENCE UPSET YOU, DON'T YOU TAKE AWFUL HARD?
BECAUSE I WALK LIKE I GOT PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ALMIGHTY GOD!
I WILL NOT BE BROKEN, I WILL NOT BE TURNED AWAY, WHEN IT'S TO COLD TO BREATHE, & TO DARK TO PRAY!
"I WILL NOT BE BROKEN!
I GO TO FAR SOMETIMES, BUT THEN I GO FURTHER STILL, TIME STARTS TO RUN OUT, & LEAVES A VOID NONE CAN FILL!
THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN SAY TO HURT ME WITH YOUR SHARP TONGUE!
THROUGH THE WISDOM OF SPIRITUAL EYES I WATCHED YOUR WORLD COME UNDONE!
"I WILL NOT BE BROKEN!"
I WON'T BE TURNED AWAY, WHEN IT'S TO COLD TO BREATHE, & IT'S TO DARK TO PRAY!
I HAVE COME TO FAR TO GIVE UP NOW, OR TO BE TURNED AROUND, I WILL NOT BE BROKEN!
"I WILL NOT GO DOWN!"~
I BEEN KICKED WHEN I WAS DOWN, I BEEN SLAPPED IN THE FACE, I BEEN BROUGHT WAY DOWN TO THE LOWEST PLACE!
I BEEN LIED TO, SHAMED, I HAVE BEEN DISGRACED!
I BEEN EX COMMUNICATED FROM A HOLY PLACE!
I BEEN PERSECUTED, SLANDERED, & I BEEN LEFT FOR DEAD!
FOR THE TRUTH I STOOD FOR, & THE THINGS I SAID!
"BUT I WILL NOT BE BROKEN, & I WILL NOT GO DOWN!"
I BEEN HOMELESS ON THE STREET, & I BEEN LEFT IN THE COLD!
I HAD MY DREAMS HELP UP, & HAD THEM SHOT FULL OF HOLES!
I BEEN LAUGHED AT, I BEEN MOCKED, & AT THE BUT OF EVERY JOKE!
I BEEN LIT UP IN FLAMES, & I HAVE GONE DOWN IN SMOKE!
I BEEN STABBED IN THE BACK BY OWN JUDAS KEEPER!
I BEEN BETRAYED BY SOME OF THE BEST PEOPLE PLEASER'S!
"BUT I REFUSE TO BE BROKEN, & I REFUSE TO STAY DOWN!"
"I ROSE FROM THE ASHES, & TRADED IN MY ASHES FOR A CROWN!~
NOW I'M BACK WITH A VENGEANCE!".................LOL~

(JEREMIAH 15:10-21) Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!
I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them does curse me.
The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with your remnant; verily I will cause your enemies to entreat you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
Your substance and your treasures will I give to the spoil without cost or price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land which you do not know: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
O Lord, you know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; do not take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD GOD OF HOSTS.
I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, nor did i rejoice with them; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with a righteous anger.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Therefore THUS SAYS THE LORD, If you return, then I will bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouthpiece: let them return unto you; but you do not return unto them.
And I will make you unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the Lord.
And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.