Soul Cries

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The name “SOUL CRIES” came from the Lord after I had asked this question of a precious ten-year old boy with mild learning and behavioral problems. I had joined with members of his family to counsel and pray for him. I asked him, “what would you ask Jesus for if you could?”. His first response was perhaps like yours, something temporal. “You mean like a bike or something like that”, “he asked”. “No” I answered, “something that Jesus only can do for you”. He thought long and hard before his heart wrenching answer came. He only wanted one thing from the Lord. “A friend”, he said. To this boy, that was the cry of his soul, his heart. This moment became an experience of heartbreak for me as I choked back the tears as his family and I prayed and asked God to send him a friend and healing for him in the issues he encountered in the difficulties of his everyday life. In obedience to the Lord, this family moved to a small town with a smaller school system with his needs met in a better way. The Lord gave him comfort in answer to his prayer, and the Lord heard his broken heart and pain. The Lord heard his soul crying out for help as the Lord allowed me to hear it as well. I did not know at the time that this would lead me into a new awareness from the Lord for myself and that His wish is for the Church to awaken ourselves to those around us. There is an urgency He has for us to become more aware to the soul cries of the lost and hurting around us.

WE, AS INDIVIDUALS, ARE NOT ABLE TO GO TO THE WHOLE WORLD, BUT WE CAN WAKE UP TO OUR OWN WORLD, TO THOSE ONLY WE CAN REACH IF WE SURRENDER AND PREPARE TO HEAR. (Acts 1:7) Sin is taking its toll on the world, even among His own people. The time has come for the Church to become “salt and light”, preparing ourselves to be ready and fit for service. We all know that the darkness is dispelled by the light of one little candle. We can become that light wherever we go when we are committed to Him and His call to us to be that light. Salt is something that brings flavor to whatever it touches – meaning we are to become more palatable to those with whom we come in contact throughout our daily walk. Salt is also a preservative. It shows that our presence – the Church – is responsible to help hold back the rot and pollution from completely taking over, especially within the parameters of our own little world. Our life is light and salt to someone who is near us and is watching. (Matt. 5:13-16)

We all still pray for this wonderful boy and his growing and learning to deal with things as they come along - Jesus became his best friend. Little did I know that in that experience, praying for him, that the Lord would use this to teach me about a SOUL CRY! Just as I was able to hear the cry of this young boy’s soul, the Lord showed me that His heart is breaking as He hears the soul cries of all of those that are in emotional pain or in bondage to sin and its results. He hears the soul cries of a lost, hurting and dying world. Out of that day, the Lord gave me the name SOUL CRIES and led me to the desire to write this book. He showed me how He grieves over the lost, the lonely, those living out their lives in quiet desperation without Him. They do not know that their soul is really, just crying out for Him. My heart broke as I wept, my heart aching with His, mourning over the souls that are hanging in the balance. The burden to write this STUDY BOOK

Chapter 2 line 1 thru line 17

A Soul Cry comes from the soul of man when they do not know what God sent His son to do. They do not know that when their spirit is empty it causes the soul to cry out. (Isaiah 53:5-7) The soul cry can be a simple longing for a friend as I described before, or emptiness and longing that is unexplainable - something in us that feels incomplete, something missing. In truth, it is a longing for GOD. We can have the emptiness of a Soul Cry at any age. Some just never know, as in my ten-year-old friend’s situation that Jesus could help satisfy the longing and emptiness he had. Jesus wanted to answer his soul cry, because He cares and wanted to sooth and heal the pain of his soul cry. HE created us to have fellowship with Him no matter what the age. Many miss the gift of salvation that HE died to give them. The lost, or even a hurting backslidden Christian, may never recognize they have a problem because they have never heard the truth of the plan God had for the soul and the spirit of man. In emptiness, man reaches out to fill themselves with other things. Some things are not sin, as sin goes, but trying to fill this emptiness with anything but GOD’s Spirit will never work. It will not fill the void. When we fall into deep sin, the cries of the soul get more desperate because sin is bringing destruction to the soul and body and that will bring destruction to our spirit. The Lord is very urgent and serious about the Soul Cries of the lost. It is why He came to die for our sins to be forgiven – for everyone – if they know how to pray and receive it.