Do you?

Do you ponder the deep things of God?
Does your mind wander away and abroad?
To His knowledge so vast,
Of His ways far from ours,
Do you fathom these things while you work on the chores?

Do you calculate the cost?
Does it matter He rescued you when you were lost?
To the ways that he searched
How He calls out in dreams
Do you grasp what it cost him and all that it means?

Do you know His cost is free?
Do His gifts become yours if you only believe?
To heal your wounds and serve you still
His blood is the price the healer paid
Do you see He's by your side to give you aid?

Do you thank Him day by day?
Do you wonder how the planets stay in place?
His written word is always reassuring
To reassure the soul He answers prayer
Do you know the Lord is always there?

Psalm Style Praise

My soul is is at rest in You my God my Savior
From You I purchased salve for my eyes and into my hand it fell
A free gift like the rest
For You give without return
You have opened my eyes to the schemes of men
You graciously answered my plea for discernment
You said "Ask of me wisdom"
In faith I asked
In Your faithfulness O God
You heard my request, my cries for mercy
I have been faithless
but You O God are faithful
In You I put my trust
I will drink Your water
I will buy Your food
I will purchase your salve
Without money and without Cost
Oh God of mercy, God of love

Sea the Gift

The breeze blows warm the salty taste
across the sand and greets my face
Inhaling deep, so thrilled to be
on vacation at the sea!

The sand is crunching underfoot
massaging every hurting crook
At night it's cool and soft and plush
Walk awhile, escape the rush

Listen, it's the waves my friend
rolling out and tumbling in
Low tide, high tide, there's a beat
Constant moon driven heavenly treat

These gifts of God are yours for free
Just pack your car
Drive to the sea!!

Twilight Prayer

In the darkness of the night when nothing else is stirring
This restless body is awake and restless thoughts are whirring

An extra hour none can add by life's anxieties
Our dear Lord has promised that in life's perplexities

Still the tossing turning hours Have rocked and rolled the bed
Until awakened wandering a book or verse is read

A chapter from the book of God brings comfort in the night
It brings the tangled mind to God unties and brings to light

Thank you once again dear Lord for staying by my side
Whether it is one am or early eventide

To God In All His Glory

To God, who is faithful
To God, water in a dry and weary land
To God, merciful and kind
To God, seeker of lost souls
To God, friend in loneliness
To God, the heart's cry for help
To God, powerful God
To God, listener
To God, patient God
To God, harvester of souls
To God, perfecter
To God, author of life
To God, giver and provider
To God, healer
To God, redeemer
To God, lovely and beautiful
To God, varietous and exciting
To God, intriguing
To God, divine
To God, eternal
To God, complete
To God, dependable
To God, sovereign
To God, glorious
To God, love
To God, everything

To God be the glory forever and every, Amen!!

Abide With Me Always

Abide with me in the morning
I wrote these morning verses one morning when I arrived at work.

Abide with me, fast rises morning sun
The daylight brightens; Lord now help me run.
When in my path, the rocks and pitfalls be.
Oh thou my strengh, my shield abide with me.

Abide with me, without you I am lost
Though persecution comes at greatest cost
Heavenward we look, for there our treasures be
In every moment Lord, Abide with me.

Abide with me, my comforter Divine.
In all decisions, Holy Spirit shine.
Thy precious truth, like salve for sight shall be.
With all thy armor Lord, Abide with me.

Verses to the tradition hymn, Abide With Me

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide
When other helpers fail and comforts flee
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away
Change and decay in all around I see;
O though who changest not, abide with me.

I need thy presence every passing hour.
What but thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?
Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.

I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if thou abide with me.

Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Oxygen - A prayer for my mother

Breath of life
Fill her lungs with currents of air

Bread of heaven
Fill her with appetite to sustain every breath

Great physician
Heal her and take away her fear and pain

To Him who can do infinitely more than we can imagine, be glory.
In Jesus who is all things,
Amen

Complete Forgiveness

O Dear Lord,
You've led me to the quiet place
Where I can almost see your face
A dark and secret closet space

Here I meet you and I see
You'll love me to eternity
I don't feel compelled to be
anyone but just plain me

I come confessing my great sin
And the predicaments I'm in
Life is in a tailspin
Oh what a mess of things I've been

I need your absolution Lord
The price you paid I can't afford
Apart from you I am a loss
Your separating good from dross

Not me you see but look to Christ
The one, the only sacrifice
Amen, Amen I say no more
I close my eyes, swing wide the door

Come in Dear Lord and cover me
Then all my flaws are hid in Thee

Eternal Perspective

Thinking eternally...

Rev 3:12 "Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name."
Rev 4: 2-7 "..a throne stood in heaven with one seated on the throne. And He who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and Carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow, that had the appearance of an emarld. Around the throne were 24 thrones, and seated in he thrones, were 24 elders, clothes with white garments with golden crowns on their heads. From the throne came clashes of lightening and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God. And before the throne, there was as it were a
sea of glass, like crystal.
1 Cor 2:9 "But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him."

Thank you that our treasures are hidden with you God and that noone can take them away. Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage, for the facing of this hour, for the facing of this hour.

In the Mighty name of Jesus,
Amen!

Watching Praying Waiting

Still watching for Christ's return.
Still waiting.
Serving
Waiting.
Praying.
Watching.
Waiting...

Will a day be like 1000 years ?
Oh Sovereign Lord. You know.

Strength to Pray

Heavenly Father,
Give me the strength to pray. Amen.

I will not turn from the right or to the left.
Only show me the way.
Light my path.
Your words are light.

Amen and Amen

God of grace, and God of glory, On Thy people pour thy power. Crown Thy ancient church's story. Bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, For the facing of this hour For the facing of this hour.

Joshua 1:7  "Only be thou strong and couragous, that thou mayst observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper, whithersoever thou goest.

Follow Close

Follow close and cling so tight
Times will come with darkest night
When leaving gaps and traveling far
Will frighten you and seem bizarre.

I know the one who will not lie
He teaches truth
He is not sly
He will not ever lead astray
He ever always lights the way

This Jesus is the one I know
His Holy Bible told me so
His little child I will be
And love him to eternity

Who Am I?

I only know myself in You
My identity is tied
to the loving perfect one
who changed me from inside

His Spirit is within
My eternal friend
Never far His temple dwells
Within my very tissue cells

I am my Father's girl
And He is my whole world
I treasure who and what I am
bought with a price, his blood, His plan

I am fully known
And my life is not my own
I walk the path my Jesus trod
I am a child of Most High God

Hey Jeremiah, Need a Lift?

Jeremiah down the well.
Tossed in mud.
Deep and stuck.
All alone and out of luck.

Dark, alone that man of God.
Faithful to His call.
With ropes came Ebed-Melech.
God was in it all.

(Jeremiah 38:7-13)

Nothing happens in this life that gets past God. Patient endurance. That's where it's at. God has our front, back and middle. Even when it seems dim, His anchor holds within the veil. Jeremiah must have meditated a lot in his ministry. Trusted that in all the chaos, God reigned.

Keep us ever faithful till the end Lord.
In Jesus,
Amen

Pray Twice. Sing Your heart Out.

"A hymn is a prayer twice prayed". Martin Luther said it and was apparently restating a quote from St. Augustine. How true though. Sing to Jesus. Write your own or pick one from the saints. They've gone though it before us :) When the words don't come, sing your heart out.


Jesus Lead Thou On
Cento by Christian McGregor,
1723-1801

Jesus lead Thou on, till our rest is won.
And although the way be cheerless, we will follow calm and fearless.
Guide us by Thy hand. To our father land.

If the way be drear. If the foe be near.
Let not faithless fears o'etake us. Let not faith and hope forsake us.
For through many a woe. to our home we go.

When we seek relief; from a long felt grief.
When temptations come alluring, make us patient and enduring.
Show us that bright shore, where we weep no more.

Jesus lead Thou on till our rest is won.
Heavenly leader, still direct us. Still support, control, protect us.

Till we safely land, in our father land.

Christmas Shopping List

Shopping List (For the person who thinks they have it all):
Revelation 3:18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
1. Gold refined by fire

1 Peter 1:7 These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Zechariah 13:9 "And I will bring the third part through the fire, refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested They will call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, 'They are My people, 'And they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

2. White clothes

Revelation 3:5 He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

3. Eye salve

John 18: 31-32 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Luke 4:18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has annointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are opressed.

** Cost: All Gifts are FREE **
Isaiah 55:1 Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
Jesus said "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28