Bountiful Insight (Elfchen Series #252)

Acceptance

Embracing

Journey ahead

Trusting Father’s input

Spirit’s faithful, guiding light

Wisdom

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Cultivation

Gathering

Precious seeds

Father’s wisdom sown

Harvesting His timely grace

Truth

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Reassurance

Savoring

Positive outlook

Taking righteous steps

Empowered with Father’s wisdom

Contentment

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Mercy’s Steady Hand (Elfchen Series #250)

United

Standing

With Jesus

Encouraged to forgive

Making peace with past

Together

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Revitalized

Nourishing

Faith’s strengths

Capacity to forgive

Maturing in spiritual waters

Growth

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Trusted

Receiving

Father’s counsel

Acts of forgiveness

Filling with His light

Grace

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Charles Swindoll Quote

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When you worry about what you don’t have, you won’t be able to enjoy what you have.

From Matthew 6:25:  “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?”

Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.

David Steward Quotes

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I truly believe delegation begins with trusting others–followed by letting go.

The hardest thing to do is take that first step to overcome fears and self-doubt.

David Steward (born 1951) is an American businessman.  

Promised Grace

From Psalm 118:1:  “O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His steadfast love endures forever!”

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Christ shall endure forever

Witnessing His steadfast love

Forgiveness heals brokenness

Righteousness flows from above

 

Christ journeys to Calvary

Bringing man’s darkness with Him

Sin’s valley of death’s shadow

Light waiting at heaven’s rim

 

Christ becomes faith’s cornerstone

Yielding to Father’s design

Truth waiting at Roman cross

Sacred blood pays every fine

 

Christ foils enemy’s insults

Shedding eternity’s wrath

Love borne, no matter its cost

Promised grace reveals faith’s path

 

Christ builds heaven’s trusted bridge

Rising from now empty tomb

Passion’s flames light mercy’s quest

Brought forth into Father’s room

 

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From Psalm 118:19:  “Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.”

Charles Swindoll Quote

But by faith I see God and, inaudibly, I hear Him on a regular basis, reading Him written in the events of my life–whether it be the crushing blows that drive me to my knees or the joyous triumphs that send my heart winging.

From Matthew 28:20:  “And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Charles Swindoll (born 1934) is an American pastor and Christian author.

Faithful Obedience

From Acts 5:29:  “But Peter and the apostles answered, ‘We must obey God rather than any human authority.'”

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Energized through God’s Word

Timeless blessings of grace

Called to journey in faith

Savior’s peace to embrace

 

Enter body of Christ

Spirit shall never rest

From sunrise to sunrise

Faith overcomes each test

 

Faithful obedience

Accepting divine will

Glory to God above

Mercy flowing downhill

 

Faith trusts with confidence

Tomorrow shall brighten

Christ walks ahead of thee

Life’s burdens, He lightens

 

God’s gift of repentance

Kneel at Calvary’s tree

Forgiveness from above

Savior’s blood sets us free

 

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From Romans 6:4:  “Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.”

Scripture’s Conversation (Elfchen Series #244)

Renewer

Faithfulness

In teaching

God’s Word deepens

Each fiber of understanding

Uplifted

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Cultivator

Righteousness

In teaching

God’s Word nourishes

Grace fills another heart

Trusted

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Pathfinder

Truthfulness

In teaching

God’s Word guides

Faith’s very next step

Witnessed

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Ernest Hemingway Quote

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Time is the least thing we have.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist.

Everlasting (Elfchen Series #243)

Faith

Patience

Rejoice always

Embracing each moment

Trust in God’s promises

Answering

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Always

Courage

Faithfulness leading

Mercy opens door

God’s refuge of light

Unflinching

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Presence

Grace

Deepest love

Acceptance with humbleness

God’s passion for life

Forgiving

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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.