Hearing
False promises
Enemy in darkness
Truth no longer hidden
Jesus
Embracing
Faithful whisper
Leaving transgression’s darkness
Showered with daily grace
Jesus
Witnessing
Mercy’s forgiveness
Redemption’s Holy covenant
Hope transforms all darkness
Jesus
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.
God invites us to come directly into His presence by way of His own dear Son.
From John 14:6: “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”
W. Phillip Keller (1920-1997) was born in Africa as the son of missionary parents. His life’s mission would allow him to become a world citizen as a photographer, agronomist, and Christian author.
Whenever we search out biblical truth about Christ–and we find it in Leviticus as well as in Luke–we are turning our leaves toward the light.
From Leviticus 24:1-4: “The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. Aaron shall set it up in the tent of meeting, outside the curtain of the covenant, to burn from evening to morning before the Lord regularly; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. He shall set up the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly.'”
David Jeremiah (born 1941) is an American pastor and Christian author.
The simplicity of the Gospel gives what the complexity of human wisdom promises but never delivers.
From Micah 6:8: “He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?”
John MacArthur (born 1939) is an American pastor and Christian author.
From Micah 6:8: “He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
Filled with mercy and love
God’s Word becoming flesh
Grace and truth, Christ proclaims
Spirit comes to refresh
God’s message resonates
Resist dark temptations
Gives grace to the humble
Receive His salvation
Believing in Jesus
Saved by “Amazing Grace”
Love transcends from above
Light shines upon each face
Doesn’t look for our faults
Our Lord never keeps score
His grace given freely
Loving us, evermore
Transformation through faith
Raising life from the dead
Unfathomable love
By grace, and blood Christ shed
From the words of American pastor and Christian author, Charles Swindoll: “Grace operates apart from the response or the ability of the individual. Grace is one-sided. Grace is God giving Himself in full acceptance to someone who does not deserve it and can never earn it and will never be able to repay.”
Originally published October, 2020.
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.”
Hear this, all who thirst
Come to these still waters
Blessed with Father’s grace
Every son and daughter
Hear this, leave darkness
Only this light to seek
Return to Father
Step beyond earthly creek
Hear this, feast awaits
Steadfast love to behold
Cling to Father’s Word
Leave wilderness, be bold
Hear this, come to Me
Lasting peace to embrace
Love in Father’s heart
Salvation’s truthful place
Hear this, Savior lives
Walk no longer in fear
Trust in Father’s plan
Heaven’s path becomes clear
From 1 Corinthians 10:13: “No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing He will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.”
Too many times we miss so much because we live on the low level of the natural, the ordinary, the explainable.
From Psalm 77:14: “You are the God who works wonders; You have displayed Your might among the peoples.”
Vance Havner (1901-1986) was an American pastor and Christian author. During his many years of service to the Lord, he preached throughout America.
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
From 1 Corinthians 13:4-6: “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.”
John Stott (1921-2011) was an English preacher and Christian theologian. During his years in the ministry, he was one of the leaders of the worldwide evangelical movement.
From Psalm 68:4: “Sing to God; sing praises to His name; lift up a song to Him who rides upon the clouds—His name is the Lord—be exultant before Him.”
Singing with praises to Father above
Filling high heavens with jubilation
Forgiving every stumble through His love
Writing righteousness on heart of each nation
Leading His people toward mercy’s light
Forsaking darkness, hidden far below
Washing away sin, with snow very white
Living where river of peace always flows
Leaving wilderness for greener ridgetop
Quenching faith’s thirst with living water
Sowing His grace among each fertile crop
Blessing family, each son and daughter
Hearing Father’s truth, spoken through His Word
Raising up eternal hope, undeterred
From Psalm 68:35: “Awesome is God in His sanctuary, the God of Israel; He gives power and strength to His people.”
Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.
From Psalm 18:2: “The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”
D. L. Moody (1837-1899), also known as Dwight Lyman Moody, was an American evangelist and Christian teacher. He is frequently credited with inspiring modern mass revivalism.
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