1Peter 4:14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.

 

February 22, 2023

Thank God

Praise God

Worship God

Glorify God

 

1Peter 2:20 For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.

 

February 21, 2023

Jesus is

The Word is the source of all words

The Light is before the sun and moon

The Life breathes life into all who live

The Living Water quenches all thirst

 

1Peter 1:21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

 

February 20, 2023

My walk is more like a stumble

with a fear I may take a tumble

Help me walk with careful step

though I wish I had more pep

 

Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.

 

February 19, 2023

A book is more than pages

A book is more than a title

A book is more than the author

A book is more about the reader

 

1Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.

 

February 18, 2023

The difference in the journey

Heaven Jesus is the Water of life

Hell My thirst is never quenched

Heaven Jesus is the Way

Hell I am lost and wandering

Heaven Jesus is the Truth

Hell What is truth

Heaven Jesus provides and sustains

Hell I am hungry and in despair

 

2Peter 1:17 For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

 

February 17, 2023

It is hard to love others

God is love

It is harder to love myself

God is love

 

1Timothy 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

 

February 16, 2023

Boast in myself

I will die

Boast in God

I will live

 

2Thessalonians 1:4 so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,

 

February 15, 2023

I hate myself

God is love

I am hated

God is love

 

1Thessalonians 2:12 that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

 

February 14, 2023

God is love

God does not just love

God is love

God does not just care

God is love

 

Colossians 1:27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

 

February 13, 2023

As hope recedes fear is near

As fear grows anger is near

As anger grows death is near

As hope dies destruction is here

 

Philippians 4:20 ¶ Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.

 

February 12, 2023

When trouble is near

When trouble is here

When filled with fear

When needed are here

 

Philippians 4:19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

 

February 11, 2023

Where are you God

Where can you be

Where I want you

Where I need you

 

Jude 1:25 To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.

 

February 10, 2023

What can I do

What can’t I do

What is good to do

What should I do

 

February 9, 2023

Who am I

Who do I think I am

Who thinks I am bad

Who thinks I am good

Who do I want to be

Who am I

 

February 8, 2023

Why did it happen

Could mean why

Why happen to me

Who did this to me

I must be terrible

Why is so …………..

 

February 7, 2023

I am

Why

Who

What

Where

When

 

February 6, 2023

If I could do it over again

would it be better

would it be worse

I don’t want to do it over again

 

February 5, 2023

Weakness is not bad

Failure is not bad

Pain is not bad

Giving up is bad

 

February 4, 2023

Do not focus on the pain

It will cut you off

It will weaken you

It will empty you

It will destroy you

Do not focus on the pain

 

February 3, 2023

Prayer is my breathing You in my Heart and then You breathing out.

Prayer is a friend enjoying time with a Friend.

Prayer is God finishing your sentence and beginning the next one.

Prayer is unloading my guilt, fear and sin onto He who already bore it.

Prayer is "bringing the pains of earth to heaven’s door."

Prayer is at its best when you run out of words.

Prayer is when You hug me and I can make You smile.

Prayer let's God peel the scales of self from my eyes to see others and their pain.

Prayer opens me to see the glory of God rather than the power of evil.

Prayer let's me touch people around the world with the power of God.

Prayer makes me homesick for heaven, a place I long to be.

Prayer is telling God before anyone else.

Prayer is releasing Gods' holy power into a fallen and broken world.

Prayer is the source of power, grace, love, faith and hope in Jesus Christ.

Prayer is humbly admitting I can't and that I need God.

Prayer is God's way of helping us to love our enemies. It is hard to hate someone you are really praying for.

Prayer is God's attempt to remind me everything He did was so He could walk with me again.

Prayer is despair seeking hope and joy expressed to He who is the source.

Prayer is revealing your heart to He who knows it best.

Prayer is how God makes you more like Him.

Prayer is how you touch the glory of God!

Prayer is sitting in your Daddy's lap!

Prayer in not something a Christian can do but something we must!

Prayer is more than what you do, it is who you are!

Prayer is freedom for the prisoners, healing for the sick, love for the lonely, and life for the dying.

Prayer is our introduction to God and who we really are.

Prayer is how we discover who God wants us to be.

Prayer is my attempt to reach God who already reached out to me.

Prayer is when the Trinity is experienced as I pray to the Father, by the Holy Spirit in the Name and authority of Jesus Christ!

Prayer unites me with those I pray with in an intimate way.

 

February 2, 2023

My body is breaking down

pain ripped and racked

My body is breaking down

weakness my only strength

My body is breaking down

too tired to fear or even care

My body is breaking down

 

February 1, 2023

Glorious God

Beyond time

Creation Artist

Living Love

Living Life

Abundant grace

Glorious God

Beyond time

 

January 31, 2023

The last of the first

the first of the last

Time flowing along

and soon it is past

 

God is timeless

Who created time

God IS before

and after time

January 30, 2023

All we face has been faced by God

All we owe has been paid by God

All we have has been given by God

All our hope must be found in God

 

January 29, 2023

God set all things in order by design

We broke it

Each part a part of the intricate whole

We broke it

Life given to be able to reproduce life

We broke it

Death had no place in God’s design

We broke it

 

January 28, 2023

The first month is almost gone

as days seem to fly or crawl by

Soon a new month will begin

will those days fly or crawl by

 

January 27, 2023

The present is God’s present

God’s presence is a present

Enjoy!

 

January 26, 2023

I fall down

get back up

I fall down

get back up

I fall down

get back up

I get back up

more than I fall

 

January 25, 2023

Have our resolutions died of neglect

if unrealistic they die a quick death

 

January 24, 2023

Fear distorts and destroys a life

leads to hatred of what we fear

our hatred mutates to violence

and violence bring back to fear

 

January 23, 2023

With God we can walk above the stars

as we prepare for life beyond Creation

Physical life melts slowly behind us

as God prepares us to dwell with Him

 

January 22, 2023

Step by step our journey goes

at times it is filled with woes

at times with joy we overflow

as on our life’s journey we go

 

January 21, 2023

Today is a gift from God

and we call it a present