{"id":4389,"date":"2020-09-30T16:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T21:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2020-09-30T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T21:31:36","slug":"take-the-ashes-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/30\/take-the-ashes-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the Ashes Lord\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/h6>\n
Sitting in sackcloth and ashes\u2026<\/h6>\n
My heart cries out to thee\u2026<\/h6>\n
Take the ashes Lord and return to me\u2026<\/h6>\n
All that has been stolen, let repentance rise to thee\u2026<\/h6>\n
Prostrate and undone, waiting to see\u2026<\/h6>\n
All of your glory Lord, I cry bitterly\u2026<\/h6>\n
Let the winds blow the ashes of my sins into the sea\u2026<\/h6>\n
Take the ashes Lord, for I am guilty\u2026<\/h6>\n
Your blood flows to set me free\u2026<\/h6>\n
Take the ashes Lord, take all of me\u2026<\/h6>\n
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust<\/h6>\n
Jesus, it is in you I trust\u2026<\/h6>\n
Take the ashes of a broken, contrite heart<\/h6>\n
Restore my soul, shine your light into the dark,<\/h6>\n
Places of regret and unbearable sorrow\u2026<\/h6>\n
Where, I let you down,<\/h6>\n
I wore unbelief as a tarnished crown<\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n
Arise, shine my little one, your ashes are replaced<\/em><\/h6>\n
With beauty and forgiveness<\/em><\/h6>\n
Come and sip the new wine, Come to me and taste\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
To see that it is good, your old life erased\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
No more tears, no more sorrow<\/em><\/h6>\n
Rising on the morrow, is joy, unspeakable joy\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Death has no more hold on you<\/em><\/h6>\n
There will never be a sting\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
I will take the ashes child and throw them to the wind\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Into the furnace of my great love I will send\u2026as a sweet-smelling savor,<\/em><\/h6>\n
To the Father on His throne\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
He will answer, my child, welcome home\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill September 30, 2020<\/h6>\n
Isaiah 61:3 The Passion Translation<\/em><\/h6>\n
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    Isaiah 61:3<\/u>\u00a0Or \u201cbeauty for ashes\u201d or \u201ca garland (of flowers) or headdress.\u201d There is an interesting wordplay in the Hebrew text. The word for \u201cbeauty\u201d is phe\u2019er,<\/em> and the word for \u201cashes\u201d is epher<\/em>\u2014simply the moving of one letter. God has the power to change and move things around in our lives to make them into something beautiful. See Rom.\u00a08:28<\/u>.<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
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    Isaiah 61:3<\/u>\u00a0Or \u201cjoy, gladness.\u201d See Heb.1:9.<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n
    Isaiah 61:3<\/u>\u00a0Or \u201c(robes of) mourning.\u201d<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n
    Isaiah 61:3<\/u>\u00a0Or \u201ca splendor-garment.\u201d<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
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    Isaiah 61:3<\/u>\u00a0Or \u201cthe spirit of failure.\u201d The Hebrew word for \u201cheaviness\u201d\u00a0(keheh)<\/em>\u00a0comes from a root word for \u201cdark, dim, obscure, colorless, gloom.\u201d<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n
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    Isaiah 61:3<\/u>\u00a0The oak, a hardwood tree, was used to make yokes for oxen and symbolizes strength, might (or mighty men), stability, conviction, uprightness, resoluteness. This could be the\u00a0Quer-cus calliprinos,<\/em>\u00a0also known as the Palestine oak. There is a Palestine oak not far from Hebron that has been estimated to be 850 years old. \u201cOaks of Righteousness\u201d points to a godly, spiritually mature people who will know the righteousness of God and walk in it. Jesus, the Tree of Life, multiplies himself in us so we become trees of righteousness. A Tree became a forest.<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sitting in sackcloth and ashes\u2026 My heart cries out to thee\u2026 Take the ashes Lord and return to me\u2026 All that has been stolen, let repentance rise to thee\u2026 Prostrate and undone, waiting to see\u2026 All of your glory Lord, I cry bitterly\u2026 Let the winds blow the ashes of my sins into the sea\u2026…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-18N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}