Here you will find the Poetry and Prayers that I write, and access links to the traditional Gospel songs and Hymns of the Christian Faith of which I am a member.
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I Sowed In Tears - Repentance For Sin Was My First Seed He Sowed In Tears - Suffered for Jesus Christ In Deed But in The Day The Dear Lord Appears We Shall Not Shed a Grieving Tear Nor Shall We Bow Our Heads In Abject Fear! We Both Will Reap With Unalloyed Joy Along With All The Faithful Man, Woman, Girl, Boy! Whether Still Living or Having Faithful Died Nothing Will Keep Us From Eternally Praising Jesus Christ - The Living Lord The Lamb Who For Us Was Crucified! Our God IS Faithful Our God IS Just And, Whether Living Blood or Even Once Before Dead Dust Our God Will Deliver The Saint's Reward To All To All, That Is That He calls The Just!
The Word of God is The Looking Glass By Which We Know That We Are Sinners Who Sin The Glass Itself Can Will Not Save Us But It Plainly Shows The Trouble That Sin Has Us In! The Word Of God Also Points To The Way of Salvation Free To All Who Will Acknowledge Their Plight It Gives To All A Sure Way To Glean Repentance If We Would Not With The Holy Spirit Fight! For Cleansing The Word Of God Points Out Our Need Of The Life-Giver The Holy God, The Word Himself, The Lord Divine The One Whom All And Sundry Must Appease OR Be Permanently Removed From ... At The End of Time's Line. No Amount Of Judicious Self-cleaning Can Will Make One Justified In The Lord We Must Appeal To The Captain Jesus Christ - The Savior The One With Whose Holy Spirit We Must Be In One Accord!
We Must Not Be Forgetful Observers We Must Read The Word Honor The Lord, and Obey We Must Take To Heart The Word of The Master And Not Just Look, and From Ourselves Toss It Away!
I Met The Tongues! Truly Red Ones Indeed Language is Their Specialty, and Variety is their Speed! There was Vitriolic There was Sarcastic There was Majestic Tongue There was Foolish There was Frantic There was Dynastic Tongue Then, Lo, and Behold Before I could Make a Sound I Heard, Felt and Shivered As Fiery Tongue made Everybody Move Around! There was Iniquitous There was Impious There was Bad-Talk Tongue There was Tamed There was Tempermental There Unruly Tongue And in a split second of our Meeting Bitter and Envious were making Me Frown! There was Sweet-Talk There was Girl-Talk There was Pillow-Talk Tongue There was Jest There Restful There Messy-Talk Tongue, but The Worst of this Lot Was a Devilish Dude Who Prided himself on His Talk being Crude! There was Vile There was Vilifying There was Educated Tongue There was Silly There was Sad There was Putrid 'N Proud Tongue The Mother was Dastardly Their Daddy was Untamed Their Grampy was Discordant And their Granny was called That Tongue Full-A Hate! There was Boastful There was Blasphemous There was Potty-Mouth Tongue There was Naughty There was Nasty There was even Long-Talk Tongue But The ones that Impressed me Were Old Blessing and Caring-Talk Praying and Truthful-Nice Tongue Who Cleaned up for them all Ever watching for where Wicked Wild and Just-Wrong Tongue would fall! Some Tongues are a Handful - Many have Strayed Away! From The Words of The Master Some have Simply Walked Away Forgetting, E'en Ignoring The Truth on The Way That Blessing and Cursing Shouldn't come from The Same Tongue Walking Truly Walking On The King's True Pathway!
I Can't Understand My Son - and I gave Birth to him! So ... How can I Understand Almighty God Who is as Visible as The Rushing Wind? I Don't Understand God And I am Not Even Going to Try For I Know - with Certainty That with Wings, I am Going to Fly Away Far Away From Struggle Want, Hate, and Greed and Death For I Know The God Which Sacrificed His Son for Me Has to Love Me! Love Me, Indeed! So ... When I'm Feeling Used Abused, Refused Sad, Neglected Tired, Unloved And Needing to Cry And Sneeze and Wheeze I Pray, and Thank God for His Love, and Mercy And Beseech Him to Come - Soon - for Me For I'm Begging: "Lord, Please?!"
My Conscience Is Not a Commodity To be Bought and Sold to Eat Bread! My Conscience IS My Director to Get Me Home Safely So that I won't End Up Eternally Dead! My Conscience Does Not Belong To The Civil Authorities The Church Authorities Nor god on the Earth! My Conscience is My Gift from My Creator He who Made The Heavens and The Self-Same Earth! I Exercise My Conscience! It is not Fat, Lazy, Greedy, on Sweetness Overfed! It is Lean! It is Clean Led by The Holy Spirit - not The Evil Machine And Cannot be Begged, Bought, Bartered for Ease, Money nor Pastures Green!
You can't Fool the Master He Gave you your Mouth He is the Redeemer AND He is your Friend AND He'll Either be your Judge OR your King It's your Choice ... at The End! Think About your Life! Can you Save your Own Soul? Can you Extinguish Hell's Fires When you get Thrown Out The "Door?" Salvation is Free To All who Will Believe And Trust on King Jesus His Heart on their Sleeve! Rather to be Chosen as Soldier or Sacrifice Makes No Difference to us for When He Comes we Fly Home to His House - To Mansions of Rest To Live with The Eternal Eternally Blessed! I am In on Jesus' Action I will in The Strife Fight And if I am Chosen to Say: "Good Night!" Well?? "Good Night!" In Jesus I Know No Fear! With Jesus I Fear No Fright! Jesus Christ IS My Lord and My God, and He's Already Saved Me from Sin's Blight! I Shall Awaken - Remade Righteous In Flight, and I will See My God As One of His Own! My Rest will Sweet! My Light will be Glory Bright! I will Sing through Endless Ages In Eternal Day, for There is No Night - Nor Worry, Nor Care - There!
"Divide! Divide!" "But, why?" "Can anyone answer that question?!" "So that we may conquer them!" "Very gooood! And for that perfect,perfect, answer Distrust, you get first chance at them!" So went The Meeting of The Destruction Delegation - Divide & Conquer Command. "Wow! Those Christians don't stand a chance!" "Do not try to get them to leave their churches - Join their churches! Join their committees! Be their Best Friend! Be their Girlfriend! Be their Boyfriend! Be their Mother! Be their Father! Be their Brother! Be their Sister! Be their Guide! Be their Leader! Be their Teacher! Be their Preacher! Be Whoever, Whatever, Wherever, Whenever you need to be, or to do, to Accomplish The Task!" "I liiiikkkke!" said Falter "Wherever they go - you go! Whatever they do - you do! But ... Do not forget to go The Extra Mile! Give The Friendly Smile! Be kind to The Child AND Beguile! Beguile!" "Niiiccceeeeeeeeee!" said Randy, Rowdy, Rambunctious and Ribald in unison. "People, this is no different from a bloody war! We can't go back home, and it is our job to make sure that they can't go home either!" "Yeahhhh!!" said Okay-But "We won't get them all but WE WILL GET A LOT OF THEM!! "Becauseeee ...?! Why?! How?! Wha...aat?!"
"BECAUUSSSSSSSSE: 1. Humans love to be told how wonderful they are!
2. They love to be told that they are better than everybody else, and 3. They love to know they know something by nobody else does! And, get this! 4. They really love to have something that nobody else has to brag about!" "Gooood to knnooooww! said Mendacious.
"People!! You must: 1. Appeal to their Vanity!
2. Appeal to their Greed!
3. Stroke The Ego!
4. Pat them on The Head! In short, go for Overkill!"
"And when they are leaning on your shoulder Feed then The Swill And they'll eat until they fall down Dead from Overfill!" "I really, really, like that!" said Tempted-to-Touch.
"Feed them so they can't think straight and make "The Decision" for You Know Who!
Promise them the World!
Give them a quick Twirl!
Give them a few Pennies
And hear them as they Purr
And Perform
And Run Around
Doing as we Bid
Never Realizing that
For them, we don't give a Fig!" "Niiicee!!"
"It's all about The Numbers!
We must get our Numbers High
Don't ever Forget
He is Coming and
We are going to Eternally Die!"
"He loves these Silly Humans!
They are His Pets
And that very reason gets Boss-man upset!
So, let's get to it
Let's have a Harvest Let's have a Harvest Galore Let's make Boss-man Happy Let's bring down those Humans for Certain Sure! "Yeeessss!! Yeeessss! Yeeessss!!"
Dear Ones: Since God loves us, Satan hates us with a Passion Refined by Time and Experience. Satan is not our Friend! Satan will rob us of our Peace! Satan will try to make us Release our Hold on our Salvation, and he will do it by sitting next to us at our Church Services, and even in our very homes! Don't look for Satan at The Gin Joint - he has no need to go there! Look for Satan where God's People Meet: Look for The Self-righteous Look for The Puffed-up Look for The Grossly Opinionated Look for The Holier Than Thou Look for The Greed-actuated "Saint" Who Must Always Have Preeminence, and Look for Master Mouse of Mindful Manners to whom everyone willingly, wittingly and "wisely" defers. Look for Satan in The Kindly Teacher of "Truths" taught with Worldly Passion and Vain-glorious Purpose! Look for Satan in The Strikingly Handsome AND Honestly Homey AND Winningly Wonderful AND Borderline Beautiful and Bumptious AND Soulfully Saintly Sellers of Profane Symbology and New Age Truths. Look for Satan in ... Self!! Remember, if we are not looking at Jesus Christ, we are seeing Satan! - There is No Middle Ground! Remember, Satan, Sin and Self all begin with "S" and their fates are all the Same! Let's give none of them a toehold!
In The Midst of Grave Illness "It Is Well With My Soul!" Was The Song of My Heart! I Sang it Every Day Upon Awakening For It Dispelled The Thoughts of The Night Dark! For Months My Song Gave Me Comfort For Months It Got Me Through The Day Until That Fateful Morning When I Plainly Heard My Savior Say:
"Is it Really Well With Your Soul
As You Sing Every Day
Or
Are Those Just Words
That Let Your Voice Be Heard
And
Something You Like To Say?"
Though Stunned, I Continued Singing My Voice Cracking now:
"Though Satan Should Buffet
Though Trials Should Come
Let This Blest Assurance Control
That Christ Hath Regarded
My Help ... less ... Es ... tate
And ... Ha ... th Sh ... edd ...
Hi ...sss ... Own ... Bl ... ooddd
For ... Myyy .. Ss ...oo ..."
And, Oh, How The Tears Flowed ... I Looked Through The Open Window Raising My Eyes Up Toward Heaven And Acknowledged The Question:
The Words Are Important - They Are The Song Of My Heart
I Love Me My Jesus - From Him I Won't Depart
I Am A Work In Progress - I've Made Many Mistakes
But Where It Comes To The Love of Jesus - I Am Not A Fake ...
Jesus Promised To Be My Shepherd - I'm A Sheep
Sometimes Sheep Go Astray ...
BUT ...
Jesus Christ Knows This Heart
And He Is With Me - I Know He Cares! Soooo ... I Inhaled Deeply - A Shuddering Breath And With The Love Of God In Me I sang:
"It is We ... lll
With My So ... ull
It is Well ... IT IS WELL
With My Soul
Lord, Jesus, Hold On To Me
Help Me Hold On To You
Lord, Have Mercy On Me ... " Dear Ones: The Words of The Songs And Hymns Of The Faith Are Not Just Words! If They Were Just Words, The Holy Spirit Would Not Have Inspired The Apostle To Pen The Immortal Words Beseeching Us To Comfort Ourselves And Others With Psalms, Hymns And Spirituals Songs! I Say Ourselves Because What Purpose Is Served By Our Comforting Others With Songs Which Are Of No Comfort To Ourselves?!
Listen! Really Listen To The Words Of The Old Hymns Which Speak Of Overcoming Adversity Traveling To The City Trusting God For Provision, and Testifying Of Grace Bestowed Merciful Pardon Received Enduring Peace Provided Hope for Glory Sustained Daily Mercies Displayed Wholehearted Faith Grounded Comfort Everlasting Joy And Deliverance, And More! What Is Your Testimony? Please, Look Within And Encourage Yourselves And The Brethren By Sharing Your Stories Of Battles Fought And Victories Won, And Being Won As You Say With Conviction:
I Read My Bible Last Thing Before Bed And Sleep like a Baby - Nothing to Dread My Sleep is Peaceful - No thing can Bring Fright For The Word of God IS My Living Light! Sometimes I Go On Grand Journeys Crossing Great Seas Sometimes I walk In A Splendid Garden Among Beautiful Trees!
BUT ...
Ever So Often There Is A Program Interrupt And I Must Face Some Challenge Before I Can Wake Up! I Have Met The Dreaded Dragon The Beautiful Snake Selling for Pittance The Demonically Glorious Prosperity Stake To Be Had If I would Only Admit That Jesus Christ Is A Fake! By Denying The Master I Can Receive Sin's Pleasures and Rewards
BUT ...
Because I Love Jesus I Cry: "Jesus Christ Is My Lord!"
AND ...
Before I Can Even Own It I've said My Prayers ... Yet Again And I am Gently Snoring "Thank God for Jesus! Amen!"
God sent Me on a Mission! I said: "Sure, as long as You Come Along!" Then I thought: "That Statement was Unnecessary!" And started walking, singing a Happy Song! Many are The Called! Few are The Chosen! God uses The Willing Those be Salvation Broken Providing The Equipment Making The Way, and There is No Fear that can Derail The Mission Even if we Stumble and forget to Pray! Jesus is My Pilot! The Spirit is My Stay! God is My Father, and I will do What and How He Says! I am not Forgotten I walk with True Friend With Holy Angels Encamping Ready to Defend! No matter what may Assail Me No matter The Stumbling Blocks Jesus Christ is The Shepherd And I am a Sheep in His Flock! I Pray in Faith for I am a Believer Willing Prepared Ready to Work, and I will not Turn Aside Even if Woe Betide For Jesus, The Captain My Commander Is Ever by My Side!
I met a little Magpie Stepping prettily as she went She walked across the Window Sill And then she daintily bent And picked up The Shining Object And ... away she went! Ding, Ding, ding!! Light Bulb Moment:
God Gives Us The Good
BUT
We Go After Satan's Grubs!
We Steal, Beg, Borrow, and Covet Shiny Non-beneficial Pyrite (Fool's Gold) And Cast Off The Off The Scale Pure Gold of Heaven Because it does not have The False Glow and Cheap Sheen That Sin Artfully Supplies!