Just before I moved to Indiana from Idaho and married Eva, God gave me many songs. Jesus Please Adjust Me was one of them. Kind of appropriate preparing me for my new life with Eva. One Sunday morning on the day I was going into the recording studio in Idaho, I went to a local Nazarene church and as I sat in that pew I cried out to the Lord to please come with me into that studio as I could not possibly do those recordings without Him. The songs were very complex (to me, anyway) and I could imagine having to do takes over and over again. What a nightmare I was imagining!

The Lord heard my prayer and He WAS with me for every single song. All of them were recorded in one take each! Amazing how much confidence the Lord instilled in me that day.

Jesus Please Adjust Me

by Vic Zarley

I'm so upset, I'm so forlorned
Like at Jericho, blow those horns
Please break the walls that I have formed
I trust that's what You'll do (chorus without spoken part)

Chorus:
Jesus please adjust me (every single part of me)
I know you've said, “Please trust me” (it took so long to see)
I do, Oh Lord, I trust Thee (with all that is inside of me)
Will You please adjust me (change and rearrange me) Now?

2. Oh, Father, take me by the hand
I need to know just where I stand
Oh, Lord please take me as I am
With You I'm in accord

Oh, Father, show me what you can
I need Your help to understand
I'm so in need of healing Hands
I'm lost without You, Lord (chorus without spoken part)

3. The Holy Spirit prunes for You
He cuts off what You did not do
And holds what readily stems from You
So closely to our hearts

I love the work that He can do
So I can be a tool for You
I must be pruned, through and through
I ask You, Lord, please start (full chorus)

4.We looked to You to save us all
From our descent, from our Great Fall
From grace, from love, and now You've called
So we no longer roam

Oh, Lord, we give our hearts to you
To please adjust so You can do
Your mighty work, through and through
To bring us all back home
(full chorus twice)

Our Jesus is the only way to a perfect adjustment on this wild planet.
This is a prayer that I've sung many times at the prison and it is often requested.
Don't wait until troubled times come. Sing this song now and make its prayer your own.
He will not force Himself on you but will only come at your sincere desire that He come.
Once you make that decision to pray this prayer, you will experience a tremendous and
joyous peace flood into your heart. You will then know that you made the right decision
and never regret it. Jesus not only wants to save you for an eternity with Him, He wants to
save you NOW. He wants to be an active and viable voice for you that, as you listen for Him,
He tells you quite specifically what He wants you to do. You belong to Him and He belongs to you,
once you've given your life to our Savior, Jesus. There is no other way to go—only with Him. Do it!

When I find good instrumentals to go with my poetry, I am grateful. Often the music synchronizes with the poetry in a supernatural way by ending exactly when the poem does. It blows my mind (a phrase you older folks will understand). For you younger folks, it amazes me! I Wear My Sin is one such poem whose music, by Jason Shaw of Audionautix.com entitled "Boogie Woogie Bed," fit perfectly.

The topic is an important one, also. We can't hide our sin of gluttony. It appears as rolls of flesh in conspicous locations on our bodies. If the habit of eating too much has got us by our tongues and won't let go, we can only look sad and shrug our heavy shoulders and cry into our dirty napkins. But, most certainly God can help us extricate ourselves from the clutches of this demonic habit. The poem ends with the understanding that we are eating too much in order to cover up something else. It is best to praise God and He will enable us to be free!

I Wear My Sin by Vic Zarley

I wear my sin A cloak of fat I rationalize This and that More goes in Than out's my stat I wear my sin A cloak of fat Sit me down It's time to eat All through the day This move repeats Until I can't move From my seat Sit me down It's time to eat O, Lord, what am I Eating for Until I can't get Through the door Where will this lead me To what shore? O Lord, what am I Eating for? Stop I say, Oh, stop it please The food I eat Is such a tease I think I'm full Please pass the cheese Stop I say Oh, stop it please

Don't leave me in this Fatty mess I'm eating more, Not eating less I notice when I'm Getting dressed Don't leave me in this Fatty mess What's next for me Please pass the meat Did you hear? Must I repeat? Don't kick me out Into the street What's next for me? Please pass the meat What do we really Hunger for? What do we need Down to our core What do we crave Need more and more What do we really Hunger for? Give me manna From the Lord Give me all I Can afford Fill my heart With love adored Give me manna From the Lord

Then I shall dance My fat away My mouth so full Of praise that day There's nothing more I'll need to say For I shall dance My fat away I praise you, God Till I am led I praise you, God And I am fed No food I need It's You instead I praise you, God And I am fed That's all I need No more, no more Please pass the praise You're looking for I will neglect You Nevermore That's all I need Forever more I give to God He gives to me I just mistook Materially God gives to me All my needs I give to God He gives to me