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Although not written until December 2001, this song was born in the early hours of a Sunday morning in July of that year whilst I was staying with my mother. It had been a particularly difficult weekend. I woke at about 4am feeling very oppressed, as though the past was trying to hold onto me, and I felt a great sense of hopelessness and helplessness. I tried to pray and couldn’t. I thought about reading my Bible but felt totally unable to do so. All I could do in my despair was to call out to the Lord “Help me”.
Somehow I felt the strength to stand up and I began to speak out loud to whatever was oppressing me that I was God’s child, I had been saved by Jesus’ precious sacrifice on the cross, I was the daughter of the King, and no-one or nothing else had any right over my life. I told whatever it was to leave me alone and I started praising God for all that He had done for me. Soon the most awful oppression I had ever felt was replaced by the most liberating joy I had ever known, and I was jumping on my bed like a little girl – literally jumping for joy. Having been a Christian for 20 years I had often known the presence of the Lord with me, but that morning I knew that He was no longer just by my side but in my heart!
From that day on I began to know true freedom from the feelings of guilt that had plagued me for years. I began to know in a new way that I was indeed a “new creation” - the old life had truly gone and God had made me new because Jesus had paid the price for me.
The tune and the words for this song began to come together a few months later, but the inspirational revelation came that morning, and continues to bless me. Sara Horn 2003
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