Assurance
Embracing
Father’s outlook
Righteousness must lead
Supported with His love
Light
Breakthrough
Leaving
World’s darkness
Righteousness fills spirit
Highlighting journey toward Jesus
Discovering
Guidance
Possessing
Treasured grace
Righteousness offers peace
Father’s eternity of love
Faith
From Acts 2:38: “Peter said to them, ‘Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'”
Sitting at Father’s side Christ, our Savior lives Overcoming darkness Empty tomb proves He lives Trusting faith’s witnesses Christ lights Father’s way Calling for repentance Many baptized this day Transforming fiber’s flesh Christ welcomes each saint Sharing love’s forgiveness Holy Spirit repaints Receiving redemption Christ intervening Teaching with righteous breath Faith accepts spring-cleaning Calling upon His name Christ shares trusted grace Breaking chains of bondage Heaven’s light to embrace
From Psalm 116:12-13: “What shall I return to the Lord for all His bounty to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.”
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.”
Hearing Good Shepherd’s voice
Peace transforms valley’s lament
Flowing with living waters
Greenest pastures present
Forgiving our missteps
Sinless Christ rises above
Transplanting His righteousness
Reclaimed hearts filled with love
Comforting grace descends
Mercy raises goodness strong
Resurrecting faithfulness
Spirit uplifts with song
Leading generous hearts
Fellowship under Christ’s care
Seeking to follow His ways
Hope fills every prayer
Breaking bread together
Believers worship as one
Praising faith in Risen Christ
Darkness shall be undone
From Acts 2:46-47: “Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.”
From Matthew 5:1-3: “When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. And He began to speak and taught them, saying: ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.'”
Christ’s devotion to teaching sprouts
Spirit stirs within, reaching out
God’s people face darkness and mourn
Jesus rises, mercy reborn
Humbleness fills each grateful heart
Jesus delivers life’s fresh start
Righteousness quenches every thirst
Jesus fills hunger, love immersed
Forgiveness offers Living Bread
Jesus leaves Spirit in His stead
Purity in heart brings God near
Jesus offers breath of grace to steer
Peace sown in trusting hearts of man
Jesus offers hope from God’s own plan
Children of God shall overcome
Jesus blesses kingdom to come
Christ’s motivations never cease
Spirit’s fruits cherish joy-filled peace
From Matthew 5:6: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
Expecting
Faithfully listening
Seeking Father’s guidance
Immersed in His Word
Direction
Mentoring
Mercy transcending
Counseling with righteousness
Savior’s grace upon thee
Instruction
Surrounding
Peace forgiving
Promising Calvary’s light
Thorns of sin crushed
Redemption
Jesus
Always first
Easing life’s burdens
Grace fills another moment
Faith
Messiah
Offering light
Mercy’s navigational compass
Comforted through His love
Trust
Savior
Destiny’s truth
Shaping every step
Each worry set aside
Righteousness
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.
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.”
Faith’s redemptive journey
Along this wilderness route
Seeking salvation’s light
Removing seeds of doubt
Shepherd’s constant presence
Along tranquility’s stream
Leading to Savior’s light
Trusting hope’s rising beam
Darkness from long ago
Consumed with enemy’s flesh
Finding merciful light
Rising, peace shall refresh
Wholesome eyesight restored
No longer blind to thy sin
Embracing Savior’s love
Forgiving light within
Father’s Word crystal clear
Righteousness nurtures faith’s way
Leaving darkest shadows
Following light each day
From Ephesians 5:8-9: “For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.”
Discipleship’s
Pivotal investments
Spirit’s motivating breath
Redeeming grace offers transition
Witness
Faith’s
Maturity embraced
With every truth
Purity experienced through Spirit
Righteousness
Salvation’s
Journey defined
Spirit’s guiding light
Altering human nature’s mainspring
Transformation
Jesus Christ is in the Sight-Restoring Business.
From Isaiah 42:6-7: “I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations.”
David Jeremiah (born 1941) is an American pastor and Christian author.
From Isaiah 58:2: “Yet day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of Me righteous judgments; they want God on their side.”
With every sunrise
Seeking to know God’s ways
Beholding His righteousness
Drawing closer to Him each day
Until setting sun
Tasting God’s living bread
Sharing His grace with others
Sewing faith’s fabric with each thread
Throughout each night
Knowing God always near
Mercy rises in darkness
Trusting as His love always steers
Early dawn wakens
Fulfilling God’s glory
Witnessing His blessed light
Writing faith’s renewing story
Sabbath brings delight
Reading God’s divine Word
Praising His Holy presence
Finding peace with everything heard
From Isaiah 58:9: “Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry for help, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’“
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