Experiencing
Father’s love
Tender mercies given
Washing away each transgression
Forgiveness
Trusting
Father’s promises
Righteousness nourishes faith
Eternity’s wealth of knowledge
Wisdom
Witnessing
Father’s presence
Never feeling forsaken
Grace creates clean heart
Renewal
Facing each mountain
Pausing, take time to refresh—
Energized to climb
Daily feast waiting
Feeding every cheerful heart—
Laughter’s nutrition
Warmed with lasting joy
Cold feelings evaporate—
Welcoming sunrise
From Psalm 51:10-12: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.”
Just as farmers plant
Placing faithful trust
God’s mercy shall grant
From earth’s blessed crust
Mankind’s wayward thoughts
Filling sinful acts
Tender grace be caught
Truthfulness unpacked
Steadfast Spirit stirs
Creating clean heart
Joyfulness unblurred
Fresh beginnings start
God’s love envisions
Taking in His peace
Hope’s assured vision
Life’s renewing lease
Old ways put away
Hanging from Lord’s cross
Bridge lighted each day
Faith brings us across
From Ephesians 4:21-24: “ For surely you have heard about Him and were taught in Him, as truth is in Jesus, to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Planting
Faith’s seeds
Watered with grace
Nurtured with righteous spirit
Harvesting
Replacing
Empty promises
God’s living truth
Spirit opens His Word
Transforming
Stumbling
Darkened missteps
Kneeling at Calvary
Savior opens eternity’s light
Rising
What you can’t go through on your own, God will help you fly over.
From Isaiah 40:31: “But those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
Woodrow Kroll (born 1944) is an American pastor, Christian author, and radio host. He has written over 50 books on the Bible and Christian living.
When affliction strips away every crutch, one has only the Lord to depend upon. Though some people are destroyed by that kind of situation, others are built into undaunted believers.
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.”
Why does God lead us through desert places? That He might humble us, that He might test us, and that the true condition of our hearts might be revealed. There’s nothing like the desert to help you discover the real you.
From Ephesians 4:21-24: “For surely you have heard about Him and were taught in Him, as truth is in Jesus, to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
From Luke 15:31-32: “Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.'”
Marking calendar
Making this His day
Back on course with God
Kneeling now to pray
Forsaking darkness
Finding blessed light
Immersed in God’s Word
Hearing truth so bright
Growing in God’s grace
Worshipping with Him
Each precious moment
Walking in rhythm
Returning back home
Living in His peace
Promised Christ’s coming
Bringing life’s new lease
From 2 Peter 3:17-18: “You therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, beware that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.”
Zion’s
Labor pains
Father delivers mercy
Drink deeply with delight
Rejoicing
Spirit’s
Overflowing stream
Father’s grace bestows
Faith flourishes, hearts rejoice
Reassuring
Comfort
Like mother’s
Rejoice with Jerusalem
Father reigns high above
Loving
From Isaiah 66:12-13: “For thus says the Lord: I will extend prosperity to her like a river and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you shall nurse and be carried on her arm and bounced on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
From Romans 12:1-2: “I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Imperfect humans
Walking darkest trails
World twists upside down
Christ calls, without fail
World crying out with
Endless, empty claims
Filled with dead end thoughts
Christ drowns looming flames
Noisy distractions
Countless temptations
Follow His footsteps
Christ’s supplications
Waking to darkness
God’s will lights each day
Struggling with life’s sin
Christ bridges the way
Share genuine love
Holding fast to good
Serving the Father
Christ transforms driftwood
Zealous in spirit
Rejoicing in hope
Walk with humbleness
Christ’s love helps us cope
Marked with our Lord’s truth
Walk with Christian steps
Soul and mind renewed
Follow Christ’s footsteps
From Hebrews 6:19-20: “We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain, where Jesus, a forerunner on our behalf, has entered, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”
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