If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
Proverbs 16:7: “When the ways of people please the Lord, He causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.”
Leo (Count Lev Nikolayevich) Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer. Many consider him to be one the world’s greatest authors of all-time.
From Psalm 23:1-3: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters; He restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for His name’s sake.”
Through life’s foggy mist
God’s mercy filled
With eternal peace
Feeling trust build
Darkness to light
God’s spirit flowing
Faith’s quiet brook
Leading and knowing
Greenest meadow calls
God’s deepest love
Creation’s wings stir
Flying above
No greater warmth
God’s grace melts away
Life’s icy outlook
Kneeling now, let’s pray
One heart transformed
God shall never rest
New day’s promise
Seeking another quest
From 1 Chronicles 29:12-13: “Riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all. In Your hand are power and might, and it is in Your hand to make great and to give strength to all. And now, our God, we give thanks to You and praise Your glorious name.”
Don’t be addicted to approval. Follow your heart. Do what you believe God is telling you to do, and stand firm in Him and Him alone.
From 2 Corinthians 5:9: “So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him.”
Joyce Meyer (born 1943) is an American Christian author and speaker.
From Micah 6:1-2: “Hear what the Lord says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. Hear, you mountains, the case of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the Lord has a case against His people, and He will contend with Israel.”
Speaking to His wayward flock
God issues new covenant
Echoing across valleys
Scaling each lofty mountain
Hearing God’s divine message
Called, accepting His challenge
Following with trust, grace speaks
Stepping from darkness to light
Watching from heaven above
God’s righteousness brings justice
Sowing seeds of repentance
Turning man away from sin
Praying for God’s forgiveness
His Rock, man shall climb in faith
Seeing empty tomb’s mercy
Walking every day with Christ
From Micah 6:8: “He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?”
Questions
Seeking help
Father never forsakes
Faith carries us through
Answers
Waking
Each morning
Day’s agenda reset
Grace sustains another soul
Living
Hearing
Daily prayers
Mercy brings patience
Father’s glory shall shine
Believing
This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.
Never forget, when you have lost your faith, when God is no longer real to you–go back. Go back to the last place you saw Him. He will be waiting for you there.
From Isaiah 30:18: “Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.”
Martha Williamson is a television producer, who is best known for her contributions as the head writer and executive producer of the award-winning television series, “Touched by an Angel.”
From Ephesians 6:10-12: Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His power; put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, for our struggle is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
Evil waits in shadows
Always ready to pounce
Bending each tender rose
Courage fills every ounce
Darkness plays upon fears
Adversary arrives
Filling each heart with tears
Courage always survives
God’s armor shall protect
Against wicked’s arrows
Standing tall and erect
Courage never narrows
Bold light shines from above
God harbors faith’s stronghold
Sending grace, filled with love
Confidence grows and holds
Oh, God of Salvation
High upon solid rock
Blessing life’s narration
Confidence grasps bedrock
Shouts of joy, praising God
Hope now breathes, without fear
Walking on mercy’s sod
Confidence always near
From Psalm 27:1-2: “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh—my adversaries and foes—they shall stumble and fall.”
From Psalm 92:1-2: “It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your steadfast love in the morning, and Your faithfulness by night.”
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Awesome God
Watching over us
His lasting, eternal Creation
From Heaven
His sovereignty covers
Always faithful in devotion
His greatness
Prevails over all
As the Most High
Standing above
His wisdom proclaims
Past, present, and future
His work
Scatters His enemies
Bringing gladness and joy
Our Father
Assuring, unselfish love
Reaching deeply into souls
Heavenly Father
Standing tall forever
Above any and all
Our Rock
He stands mightily
Each and every day
Forever awesome
His transforming power
Offers gift of Grace
Always upright
For the righteous
His path to Salvation
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Originally published February, 2020.
If I am united with Jesus Christ, I hear God by the devotion of hearing all the time. A lily, or a tree, or a servant of God, may convey God’s message to me.
From 1 Samuel 3:10-11: “Now the Lord came and stood there, calling as before, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ And Samuel said, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening.’ Then the Lord said to Samuel, ‘See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make both ears of anyone who hears of it tingle.'”
When our top priority is to please God with our life, we can expect treasure in heaven.
From Luke 12:20-21: “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”
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