Peace doesn’t come until we lay it all out before God and then let God do what only He can do, while doing what we can: even if it’s only praying.
From Philippians 4:6-7: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
From Psalm 25:4-5: “Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long.”
Praying for His guidance
Seeking His protection
Always worth waiting for
Seeing God’s perfection
Living steadfast in faith
Trusting His Holy Word
Always worth waiting for
Grasping mercy’s password
Teaching about life’s kindness
Guiding with compassion
Always worth waiting for
Witnessing God’s passion
Bearing life’s suffering
Receiving Spirit’s fruit
Always worth waiting for
Loving God, taking root
Knowing His divine plan
Forgiving darkest ways
Always worth waiting for
Walking with God each day
From Galatians 5:22-23: “By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.”
We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when its is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
From Psalm 62:5-6: “For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.”
The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.
From Genesis 15:5-6: “He brought him [Abram] outside and said, ‘Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then He said to him, ‘So shall your descendants be.’ And he believed the Lord, and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness.”
This poem is designed with every three verses using a modified Haiku format (with the first and third verses rhyming). The verses alternate between God’s exhortations (the odd verses) and our responses (the even verses).
From the words of American pastor and Christian teacher, Charles Stanley: “We can trust God because He works all things together for His good and just purpose.”
Sharing grace-filled love
Crafting His divine message
Caring from above
Sowing lasting seeds
Trusting Father’s sacred Word
Following His creeds
Blessing through faith’s way
Teaching us His righteousness
Molding lives each day
Accepting God’s grace
Believing His Holy way
Living in His space
Freeing from sin’s net
Writing life’s newest chapter
Changing heart’s mindset
Walking in new light
Stepping onto hope’s worn path
Feeling life take flight
From Proverbs 3:5-6: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.”
God has a time for everything, a perfect schedule. He is never too soon, never too late. The when of His will is as important as the what and the how.
From Galatians 4:4-5: “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.”
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.”
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. Remain spiritually tenacious.
From Psalm 46:10: “Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations; I am exalted in the earth.”
God has charged Himself with full responsibility for our eternal happiness and stands ready to take over the management of our lives the moment we turn into faith to Him.
From Psalm 146:5-6: “They will recount the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works I will meditate. They will proclaim the might of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.”
A man sins who wishes to receive more from his neighbor than he is himself willing to give to the Lord God.
From Matthew 7:12: “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
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