Help Wanted BLUES (song for Dieting Blues!) - by DianaDee Osborne

FEBRUARY 28
"HELP  WANTED!  BLUES"  song    (Album:  Amazing  JOY 'n' Choices)   
Song location:   http://DianaDeeOsborneSongs.com/Songs-2008-2012.php
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Song Story:  THE  MUSIC:   

       This entire song was built upon a single, accidentally-found  chord.  

I never have found the chord in my own chord books.   

Whatever,  it’s a cool chord FULL of conflict, which is exactly what Paul describes in Romans 7 as our human nature—

even when we dearly want to serve and reflect our wonderful God, we keep doing things we know hurt God, or keep missing doing things we know God wants us to do.
Paul concludes Romans 7 with a version of WOE IS ME.  

But God gives us hope through Paul in the first two verses of Romans 8… 

our salvation is not from our own works, but in depending on  God to help us   do what is right.  But we must ask God for help.
      With thanks to Johnny Kyle of J & T Studio for his amazing guitar work!

      Dedicated to The Understanding God, 17 July 2010

LYRICS

I need Your help, God.    I don't want Your help, God.
I  DO  need Your help, God....  just to really want help!
This sin is much fun.   Help me, God   or I'm done.
Romans chapter Seven:   I like sin.......   Please help!
I don't do what I want to do.  I don't do what I want to do.
And I do things I don't want to.  And I don things I don't want to.
God, who can deliver me from this body of death?  
          Only You!  Only You!
God, who can deliver me from temptations to sin?   
          Only You!  God, please do!

INTERLUDE READINGS
First Corinthians 10: 13

No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man;

 but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation 

will also make the way of escape, 

that you may be able to bear it.

James 1:  13- 14
Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; 
for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.  

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by 

his own desires and enticed.

PRAYER
LORD GOD,  Help me to remember this passage... Help me to remember that
I'm NOT  helpless, like I often feel, 
   for You the God of this Universe offer to help me.  
I am so out of focus sometimes, Lord God.  
So enticed by lovely little foods,  intriguing things to buy, 
by TV and internet including Facebook, Twitter, other social media, 
to distract me from my problems... 
but that also distract me from You.   
I NEED Your help to follow You, to obey You,  
to WANT to obey You.  
Please help, I give You permission to help -- 
I surrender my will to you of my own desire.  
Most of all, I want to please You.  
And I pray this fearfully, lest I later tell you "I changed my mind, go away."  
Please never listen when I give in  to that temptation, LORD God.  
I want Your help!
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