Abundant Life

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From Isaiah 55:3:  “Incline your ear, and come to Me; listen, so that you may live.  I will make with you an everlasting covenant, My steadfast, sure love for David.”

Filled with thirst and hunger

Listen to God’s trusted Word

Promising to fulfill daily needs

Lifetime’s path no longer blurred

 

Raining from heavens

Spirit quenches every thirst

Living water flowing ever more

Sin’s darkest journey reversed

 

Sown with God’s mercy

Harvest of grace now ready

Bread of life feeds His new covenant

Life’s navigation steady

 

Praises poured with joy

Heavens bursting, full of song

Mountaintops joining valleys below

Abundant life comes along

 

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From Isaiah 55:10:  “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater.”

Charles Stanley Quote

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Adversity is not only a bridge to a deeper relationship with God, but it’s also the path to freedom, healing, and maximum usefulness.

From Hebrews 12:11-13:  “Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.  Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

Praising God’s Greatness

From Psalm 145:8:  “The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”

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Blessing forever, God above

Kneeling, bending every knee

Praising His greatness, Amen!

Justice sown from righteous decrees

 

Breathing with hope’s newfound freedom

Witnessing God’s mighty moves

Praising daily in worship

Mercy arrives, His Son approves

 

Riding donkey, comes humble King

Tasting His merciful grace

Praising faith’s new covenant

Heaven’s goodness, let all embrace

 

Commanding nations, take notice

Setting every sinner free

Praising repeal of darkness

Throughout earth’s many lands and seas

 

Sounding faith’s endless trumpet

Protecting with blessed light

Praising God’s lasting greatness

Eternal daylight covers night

 

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From Zechariah 9:16:  “On that day the Lord their God will save them, for they are the flock of His people, for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on His land.”

A. B. Simpson Quote

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God is ever wanting to add to us, to develop us, to enlarge us, to teach us more and more.

From 1 Peter 5:10:  “And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.

A. B. (Albert Benjamin) Simpson (1843-1919) was a Canadian-born pastor, theologian, and Christian author.  He founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

Oswald Chambers Quote

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Every time we have gone back in spiritual communion it has been because we have impertinently known better than Jesus Christ.  We have allowed the cares of the world to come in, and have forgotten the “much more” of our Heavenly Father.

From Matthew 6:30:  “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you—you of little faith?”

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher.  Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons.  Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST.  I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.

Facing Another Hour

From Colossians 3:2:  “Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth.”

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Temptations swirl all around

Feeling peace turning sour

Life spinning out of control

Facing another hour

 

Distractions overwhelm hopes

Setting each one aside

Wisdom’s courage reaches out

Becoming journey’s guide

 

Darkness fading before Light

Seeing evil no more

Character nurtured with grace

Aiming for heaven’s shore

 

Blessings from Father above

Warming each heart with praise

Courage flowing from wisdom

Lasting spirit ablaze

 

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From the words of British writer and lay theologian, C. S. Lewis:  “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.”

Charles Swindoll Quote

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God works by simply stepping into our ordinary day of life and saying what He wants to say.  It’s a meat-and-potatoes kind of proposition.  Here’s what needs doing, and you’re the person who’s going to do it, “so let’s get after it.”

From Proverbs 8:22:  “The Lord created me at the beginning of His work, the first of His acts of long ago.”

Children of God (Elfchen Series #159)

Fulfilling

Hungering

For Father

Whole heart prays

Finding Him always near

Faith

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Witnessing

Coming

To Father

Focusing on Light

Following His trusted wisdom

Peace

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Assuring

Gathering

With Father

Restoring tomorrow’s hope

Climbing up mercy’s steps

Love

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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.

Oswald Chambers Quote

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In looking back we cannot tell why we did certain things, we did them according to the spontaneous nature of His love for us.

From Romans 5:5:  “And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.”

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher.  Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons.  Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST.  I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.

Charles Inwood Quote

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When God is going to do a wonderful thing, He begins with a difficulty.  When He is going to do a very wonderful thing, He begins with an impossibility.

From Psalm 46:1-3:  “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.  Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult.”

Charles Inwood (1851-1928) was an English-born pastor who spent 30 years in itinerant ministry with missionary work on five continents.