It was one of those weird nights when you just cannot fall asleep, Monday the 26th of May 2008 to be exact. As I recall there was nothing special about the preceding or following day(s) that should cause such unrest.
I have a habit of winding down when I lay down to sleep with recollections of the past day and with praying regarding events past and future and this usually takes anything up to an hour. Given this practise the time tossing and turning was put to good use and I prayed. A seriously weird thing occurred while praying and it was like my hands and feet were ablaze! I had a recollection of a prophet that tried to stop talking about God causing his bones to feel like they were lit on fire.
The memory of this stayed with me until the morning which it always doesn’t. This caused me to dig out the Bible passage talking about burning bones and sure enough Jeremiah 20:9 talks about this exact event.
A couple of days prior to this Terhi had mentioned that she could do with subjects for worship songs and if I had any I should pass them on to her. With this in mind I had a look at the broader context of Jeremiah’s ignited bones. And the following popped out from the Bible text:
- God has deceived Jeremiah
- God is stronger than man
- God’s word causes ridicule to Jeremiah
- Jeremiah attempts not to speak of God
- There’s fire shut up in the bones of Jeremiah caused by not talking about God
- Jeremiah leaves persecutors to the Lord
- Praise the Lord!
As soon as I put these thoughts down I sent them off to Terhi expressing that they could/should be turned into a worship song as per her request.
Nothing really happened on this front until 14th of July when I woke up to rhythmic antiphonal singing that caused me to get up, walk upstairs and write down what I heard. After I had gone back to bed, prayed about this and fallen back to sleep I woke up again repeating the same thing over with a different line.
I spent the following day combing over Jeremiah 20.7-13 and trying to come up with similar antiphonal lines I wrote down the previous night. I came up with 16 lines and in the process of doing so I altered the original two and for the life of me I can’t recall what they were. I wrote one or more lines from each of the verses with the exception of verse 12 which talks about having vengeance on enemies. For me it just didn’t go down well with the Christian principle “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” laid out by Jesus. This however changed after we went for some inner healing ministry in Spain and the fact of us being in a war regardless of whether we are Christians or not became more real. The fact that the enemies of all human beings are real and they desire nothing but our utter destruction and despair stopping at no means to accomplishing this made verse 12 go down very easily and added a line to the text. Here is what I wrote:
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You have deceived me, I think When I cried out, shame I am deceived, I know When I spoke, violence I will not mention Him, I tried Burning in my heart, You are I cannot walk away, I hope I will not speak of Him, I said Shut up in my bones, like fire I will not walk away, I pray Will I halt, be enticed Sing unto the Lord, I say You are with me mighty one, terrible Study my cause, I plead My enemies will not prosper, ashamed The Lord has delivered me, I declare Praise the Lord!
Now we just wait if Terhi would rearrange the lines and drop the ones that can’t be sung and make music to the words. Then we will see whether it will become a worship song that carries an anointing of the most high God.
