What Jesus Did for Me: He Can Do for You

By Yvonne John

What Jesus Did For Me is the title of my book and the very first poem I wrote. I went through a period of depression, brought on by tormenting voices in my head. At the time, most of the people around me associated the depression with Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D), as it mainly seemed to affect me during the winter months. It wasnt until I became a Born Again Christian that I discovered that the problem was actually spiritual.

During the time that I suffered from depression, I lost all my confidence and self-esteem. I had no hope. I became nervous and fearful and I wanted to give up and die. The voices made me believe that I was no good, I was useless, but most of all, that I was a wicked and bad person. I got to a point where I didnt recognise myself anymore. I had always considered myself to be good person; reliable, dependable, kind, thoughtful, and caring. Suddenly, I was told I was somebody different. This became too much for me to bear. Even worse, the voices told me that God would reject me, He would never love me and He would turn me away if I went to Him. Being raised as a Catholic, I believed that God loved everyone, so I was absolutely devastated when I believed that I was not good enough to be loved by God.

Eight months after becoming Born Again, the Holy Spirit would visit me during the early hours of the morning. He would minister words of peace and comfort to me. This brought healing to my pain. I now feel safe, secure, and significant. I now know that I have purpose to my life. My poems seek to edify, encourage and inspire other readers, and to let them know that Jesus not only changes lives, but He also heals brings peace, joy, hope and comfort into our lives.

My book is written in a poetic style. My poems depict my journey to salvation and illustrate how I have grown and matured in Christ. As you read through my poems you will experience the sense of new hope, strength and joy that God has given me through having a relationship with Jesus Christ. Every one of my poems was Holy Spirit inspired to bring comfort and healing, but many of them also serve as words of wisdom, warning, direction and praise. They also show how God inhabits the praises of His people, and how ones praise can completely change your circumstances around. Allow the Holy Spirit to minister to you as He ministered to me as you read through the pages of What Jesus Did For Me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Dec 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465311276

Yvonne John

I am a mother of three beautiful daughters. I became a Born Again Christian in December 2005. The best decision I have made in my life. I finally have purpose. God has made me feel safe, secure and significant; He has completely changed my life. I have peace and His joy. I suffered 5 years of what I thought was depression, bought on by tormenting voice in my head. I became fearful, nervous, and completely lost all my self-esteem. It was only after I became a Christian that I discovered the problem was spiritual. They are called spiritual attacks.

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What Jesus Did For Me

HE CAN DO FOR YOU

Yvonne John

Copyright © 2012 by Yvonne John.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2011961580

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CONTENTS

To the reader

Acknowledgement

Dedicated to Valerie

PART ONE  My Journey to Salvation

There Are Voices In My Head

It’s So Dark In This Room

Alone

Satan’s Power on The Mind

God Alone

Empty Vessel

A Direct Line

Up She Rises

PART TWO  New Believer

What Jesus Did For Me

My New Song

Hooray, Hooray

My Best Friend

God Knows

Humble Pie

The Morning Prayer

I Know It’s Not Easy

Life

Lord I’m Really Very Happy

Lord Remind Me

Lord, Thank You For My Troubles

No Matter

Spring Cleaning

The Christian Season

I am God

Faith

The Joy Of The Lord

Why Child Why?

Yesterday

PART THREE  Redemption

Blood Washed

Christmas Time (The True Meaning)

Christmas Time

Strong Black Woman

The Way

The Road

The Sinners Prayer

PART FOUR  Maturing In Christ

Don’t Go Under

I Will Not Be Moved

Hold On

Going Back To The Word

The Bible

The Word Of God Inside Me

Woe Betide The Enemy

Well Rooted

Waiting On God’s Timing

They Can’t See You

What Kind Of Christian Are You?

PART FIVE  Praise

Getting Through The Day

Give God the Glory

Give Thanks and Praise

I Have Come

I Will Praise You Every Day

I’ll Sing His Praises

Power in That Name

Where Can I go Lord?

On Fire For God

Salvation Prayer

Scripture Reference

To the reader

From my early teens I always desired to know my purpose and the future of my life so for years regularly visited a palmist. I did not realise by doing so, I had opened myself up to the spiritual world and what the terrible consequences would be.

I believe the problem really started about ten years ago just after my thirty seventh birthday, when I began to think more deeply and seriously about my purpose in life. Why was I here, what was my purpose, was I just here, just to be born and die? There had to be more to life than this. I was unfulfilled and needed to know my purpose in life. My journey began three months later September 2001.

That autumn I began to get the winter blues I felt really sad and quite down, feeling sad in the winter wasn’t that unusual as the gloomy days did tend to affect me, but I would normally be fine after a few days. But this time it was different, it lasted longer and the affects were different. Something about the way I felt about myself began to change. It was quite subtle to begin with, it was this feeling of uselessness, insignificance and being unfulfilled which began to play on my mind. It made me feel quite unsettled.

Anyway the winter past and those feeling of uselessness and being unfulfilled went away for a while. I was fine, I forgot all about the winter blues, but the following winter came, and the same thing happened again. I felt more than just sad or down I felt quite depressed, and those same feelings came back, I had mentioned it to a friend and a couple of my colleagues at work that I was feeling down. They just put it down to Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D).

This was more than just S.A.D painful and hurtful experiences which I buried within me began surfacing, they were making me feel guilty and condemned. I began to have low self-worth. My confidence began to drop. I became sensitive, easily upset and nervous I couldn’t understand what was happening to me. It was very strange as those emotions and feeling only seem to come on during the winter months, as soon as the winter was over, I would feel slightly better. It was like a dark cloud that would settle over me,