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Perseverance in Prayer

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From Matthew 5:6:  “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”

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Just as Jesus teaches

Praying to Father above

Asking in humbleness

Relationship filled with love

 

Blessed are those who hunger

Seeking truth’s fulfilling hope

Thirsting for righteousness

Father tightens up faith’s rope

 

Patience shall be required

Waiting for Father’s reply

Following Spirit’s light

View from eagle’s wings on high

 

Perseverance in prayer

Knocking on heavenly door

Searching for life’s answers

Father fills faith’s inner core

 

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From Luke 11:9-10:  “So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.  For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.”

Monday Memories: Called to Sow

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Sower scattering any seed

Wildly without any foresight

God scatters His Word as planned

His aim, truthful in its flight

 

Called to sow His righteous seeds

Following a living light

Sharing of God’s Holy Word

Walking in Jesus’ delight

 

These efforts shall bear His fruit

Quenching the rich, fertile ground

God adds the living water

Patient, His trust to be found

 

Not every seed shall bloom now

Some will lie quiet and wait

Just as a pine cone pauses

Holds seeds for their proper fate

 

Spreading God’s Word to others

Using our freedom for good

Allowing Spirit to work

Sowing for Him as we should

 

Sharing love and forgiveness

Lord’s eternal Word aligned

Taking blessed, scattered seeds

Harvesting fruit of all kinds

 

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From Isaiah 55:10-11:  “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, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”

Originally published July, 2020.

Charles Stanley Quote

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We must look at the greatness, promises, and purposes of our God as revealed in His Word, because divine truth is our anchor in the storms of life.

From John 14:26-27:  “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I have said to you.  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.  I do not give to you as the world gives.  Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.”

A. W. Pink Quote

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Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude–an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

From Jeremiah 17:7:  “Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose confidence is the Lord.”

Arthur Walkington (A. W.) Pink (1886-1952) was an English Bible teacher and Christian writer.  Following his death, many of his writings were well-received by readers.  This turnabout established him as an influential evangelical author.

David Jeremiah Quote

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If your mind is filled with the Word of God, then it can’t be filled with impure thoughts.

From Proverbs 30:5:  “Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.”

David Jeremiah (born 1941) is an American pastor and Christian author.

Elizabeth George Speare Quote

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The Messiah is not imagination.  It’s the truth.  It is promised.

From Isaiah 11:1:  “A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of His roots.”

Elizabeth George Speare (1908-1994) was an American writer, who specialized in children’s historical fiction.

Single Voice

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Facing overwhelming odds

Single voice stating its case

Stepping out from shelter’s light

Today, darkness loses race

 

Standing alone with courage

At last, time for change arrives

Trampling down twisted darkness

Today, faithful light survives

 

Clinging to truth’s conviction

Multitude of pain erased

Extinguishing all darkness

Today, humble light embraced

 

Understanding life’s purpose

Human rights boldly proclaim

Recalling depth of darkness

Today, light forgives all blame

 

Learning from history’s past

Actions taking direct route

Offering nation new light

Today, darkness falls—no doubt

 

History has amplified the single voices shown below as a testament to taking a stand, respecting the value fellow man, and putting others above self.  Top left and moving clockwise:  1989, Tank Man stopped tanks at Tiananmen Square in China; 1877, Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrendered to American cavalry near Bear Paw Mountains in Montana Territory; 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her front seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led peaceful protest during India’s Salt March; 1945, Anne Frank used her diary’s voice as her final witness of living under the brutality of war.  (All photos courtesy of Pinterest)

Abundance of Hope

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For all who thirst

Come to blessed waters

Now follow carefully

Every son and daughter

 

Listen with care

Abundance of hope waits

Covenant’s faithful love

Key found to Heaven’s gate

 

Witness David

Leadership born in him

All for Father’s glory

Faith’s light shall never dim

 

Truth from Heaven

Look toward Savior’s grace

No longer forsaken

Trust brings us to His place

 

Return to God

Leave each unrighteous thought

Sin’s indictment erased

Messiah’s blood has bought

 

Embrace His way

Mercy looks upon earth

Thorns transformed into blooms

Anchored at Spirit’s berth

 

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Hope in Godliness

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From 1 Timothy 6:6-8:  “Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it, but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.”

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Waking to another day

Spurning Father’s safety rope

This world demands perfection

Without Heaven’s faithful hope

 

Feeling pressure with each step

Witnessing ungodliness

Imperfect world falling apart

Father’s hope in godliness

 

Slowing down journey’s high speed

Pausing to count each blessing

Hope pursues His righteousness

Father’s truth now addressing

 

Discovering contentment

Filling hope with timely grace

Senseless desires abandoned

Father’s peace comes to embrace

 

Cherishing Oneness in hope

Sending trusted Light to bear

Forgiveness from divine Rock

Father’s Son shall truly care

 

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From 1 Timothy 6:13-14:  “ In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in His testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep the commandment without spot or blame until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Faith’s Transforming Journey (Elfchen Series #209)

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Learning

Impulsiveness

Trap’s set

Leaping without looking

Ignoring God’s trusted light

Darkness

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Revealing

Patience

Nourishing faithfulness

Resisting enemy’s temptations

Walking with benevolent Father

Comforted

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Seeing

Illuminating

Spirit’s breath

Hearing Savior’s truth

Evil’s voice fades away

Disciplined

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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.