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From Matthew 28:20: “And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
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Faith’s Heavenly Sunrise
From Genesis 1:3: “Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.”
Horizon always glows
Light penetrates dark skies
Spirit opens hope’s rose
Raising faith to baptize
Daylight shall never bend
Angelic voices praise
Saints welcome every friend
Sharing faith, peace ablaze
Blessed day never ends
Creator’s light feeds all
Love shall always transcend
Taking faith’s righteous call
Every day always bright
Fields golden and ready
Sunlight’s descending flight
Feeding faith, rock-steady
Mercy flowing downstream
Faith’s heavenly sunrise
Eternity’s light beams
Witnessing Savior’s eyes
From Revelation 22:5: “And there will be no more night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.”
Heaven’s Enterprises
From 2 Peter 3:13: “But, in accordance with His promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.”
Lifetime of building
Man’s labors seem so bold
Smallish enterprises
Growing fragile and old
Christ’s building schemes last
Any cost, He equips
Trusted enterprises
Growing discipleship
Eternity calls
Grace building rescue’s net
Savior’s enterprises
Liquidating sin’s debts
Christ, building for more
Faith’s stalwart cornerstone
Righteous enterprises
Shaping mankind’s backbone
Passionate spirit
Every consuming fire
Heaven’s enterprises
Built, never to expire
This poem was influenced from these words of Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher, Oswald Chambers: “Jesus takes us over for His enterprises, His building schemes entirely, and no soul has any right to claim where he shall be put.”
Hearing Angelic Cheers
From Romans 5:8-9: “But God proves His love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. Much more surely, therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, will we be saved through Him from the wrath of God.”
Trusting God, door opens
Divine plan sharing grace
Believing promises
Forsaking evil’s place
Breaking chains of darkness
Jesus taking man’s place
Dying on cruelest cross
Bringing freedom’s embrace
Stepping forward in Christ
Forgiveness emerges
Sending redemption’s gift
Quelling sinful urges
Restoring place with God
Cross proclaims, “Come to Me”
Erasing lifetime’s debts
Leaving sin, walking free
Delivering God’s peace
Eternity appears
Witnessing empty tomb
Hearing angelic cheers
From John 14:27-28: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. You heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.”
Eternity’s Home
From John 14:2-3: “In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.”
Yes, there awaits Heaven
Eternity’s home calls
Father waits, open arms
Steps without sinful falls
Heaven, Father’s true home
Good Shepherd’s gate, waiting
Believers’ dwelling seat
Beauty captivating
Home of joyful healing
Heaven’s firm foundation
Father’s masterful plan
Peaceful destination
Father lives in Jesus
Son of God lights His way
Heaven never shaken
Sin no longer finds prey
Into Father’s presence
At our Savior’s return
Death forever conquered
Heaven never adjourns
From Revelation 22:1-2: “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.”
Blessings of Assurance
From 1 Timothy 2:3-4: “This is right and acceptable before God our Savior, who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
Believing in Savior Jesus
Eternity waiting for thee
Conquering sinful world with love
Faith opening with Father’s key
Confessing to Father and Son
Both desiring our salvation
Giving up worldly, sinful ways
Life walking to new narration
Guaranteeing future with Him
Faith surrounding unselfish love
Being saved and knowing it’s true
Redemption breathing from above
Blessings of assurance, faith’s rock
Christ saving sinners with shed blood
Walking in His mercy and trust
Love nurturing each flower’s bud
From Romans 10:9-10: “Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart, leading to righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, leading to salvation.”
Greatest Gift
From John 3:16-17: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.”
Imagine receiving one gift
But, never accepting its love
Forsaking Father’s lasting grace
Angels witness all from above
This precious gift brings lasting peace
Why would God’s love remain unwrapped?
Sin continues weaving darkness
Triggering mankind to feel trapped
Spirit moves into heart’s fabric
Cosmic collision stirs within
Christ stepping into this dark breach
Divine love snaps sin’s frail linchpin
For God so loved this fallen world
His Holy Son pays for sin’s debts
Unlocking eternity’s gate
Christ’s mercy saves, without regrets
Now embracing and accepting
Father’s loving gift now received
Trusting in Savior’s greatest gift
Forgiveness, all who believe
From the words of American pastor and Christian teacher, Charles Stanley: “The greatest gift ever given was the sacrifice of Jesus, and all we must do is accept this free gift in joy forever with Him.”
Life’s Balance
From 2 Corinthians 4:8-10: “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.”
Life’s balance totters back and forth
Living one moment as sinners
Other moments walking as saints
Hope springs forth from living Jesus
Just as Jesus Christ has risen
We shall be raised with our Savior
By accepting and loving Him
Eternity calls believers
Resurrection unlocks promise
God’s love shouts from criminal’s cross
Jesus conquers both sin and death
Taking our place, erasing debts
Spirit allows life to grasp hope
Our outer selves wasting away
Inner selves renewed with each day
Eyes cannot see, yet trust in faith
Mercy runs deeper than water
Living Water with purity
Believe in Christ, Lord and Savior
Leading with grace to our Father
From 2 Corinthians 5:1: “For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
Charles Stanley Quote
Reaching a healthy old age is a laudable goal, but nothing is more meaningful than receiving the Savior and the gift of eternity in His presence.
From 1 John 5:11-12: “And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
Garden’s Fountain
From Song of Solomon 4:12: “A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.”
Heavenly garden, locked and closed
Eternal fountain, sealed and dry
Searching, Salvation’s hidden key
Faithless works, blinding sinful eyes
Body, soul, spirit in despair
Soul without spirit, dead to sin
Body without soul, starkest death
Life’s spirit, missing God’s linchpin
Holy Spirit, always at work
Lasting, heart-filled renovations
Infused into life’s coldest heart
Building restored soul’s foundation
Christ choreographs love-filled hearts
Breathing life into each saved soul
Lighting our way to Salvation
Father’s love leads to Christ’s patrol
Arriving at Heaven’s garden
Receiving its eternal key
Fountain flows with living water
Come rest under Salvation’s tree
From Song of Solomon 4:16: “Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden that its fragrance may be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to His garden, and eat its choicest fruits.”
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