Things Beyond My Understanding

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.    Proverbs 3:5

Way beyond my understanding.

All i know is

It was a miracle

And the miracle was a gift.

Delivered to crumbling doorstep

Outside my sagging door locked tight

Nailed shut.

Yet breached,

It sat inside on rotting floor

Shining to be opened.

To be believed past unbelief

By miracle, not my work.

Gift

It is salvation wrapped in grace undeserved.

The gift of faith to see hope once unseen.

A new heart unchained

Full with compassion

And repentance like a switching wind.

Heart to feel abundant love long unfelt

And eyes to see as i am seen

Then others too, the same.

And mercy, charity, a call to pray

A heart to sing, a heart to worship,

Hands to raise.

All unwrapped and taken out,

When gift, upon gift, inside gift, given

Then took away all fears and doubts

Healed my aching soul complete

And full and whole and more and more

A heart to tell of  gifts and Glory

Of  His Great Love,

And gratitude, a heart of thanks,

I thank you JESUS, thank you LORD!

That You should care for me,

To give me gifts,

Rebuild my house,

To give Yourself.

Miracles beyond my full understanding.

But nothing is beyond Yours!

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A Step of Faith

Not long before I took my first step of real faith, my Lord sent me a messenger who graciously gave me this quotation:

“Nothing before, nothing behind; the steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath.

John Greenleaf  Whittier

 

The ideas I found in that sentence so resonated in me that it was instrumental in my taking the first steps of faith.

I can only hope that this message will have that same effect on any special someone who may be staring into the void.

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In Desperation, I Prayed (Poem)

Todays foray into the world of  rhyme:

“In desperate prayer for someone else,

I brought the Lord unto myself.”

I so hope that i authored this and didn’t unwittingly and unintentionally steal it.  Sometimes one incorporates, subconsciously, obscure words one has seen, into one’s own thought processes.  Has anyone out there heard or seen it before?  I’m pretty sure it came from me because i worked on it!  If i didn’t originate it, maybe God wanted me to bring it back because it is an important concept.     I can’t find it after much searching on the Net.   I intend to post more on this subject, but for now, ponder the deep truth embedded in those two simple lines. Read more, here.

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I Aspire to Inspire

However I rely on the help of the Holy Spirit.  Without His help, my aspirations are worthless and  my own inspiration is fleeting.  I thank Him for the grace He lavishes upon us writers.  I thank Him for the readers He sends.  Without good readers, a writer is like a musician playing in an empty auditorium.  So thank you, good Reader, for visiting and reading here.  It means a lot to me. =)

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The Basic Christian Library

"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. This is fundamentally what Christianity is all about.

"The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel. Another converted atheist presents His compelling case for believing in Jesus.

"Left To Tell" by Imaculee Ilibagiza. This profound work is her own extraordinary story of endurance, discovery of the Holy Spirit, grace, healing, and an astonishingly compelling account of the necessity for forgiveness.

Compelling Christian Fiction Reads

"The Circle" 4-book series by Ted Dekker.
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"This Present Darkness" and "Piercing the Darkness" by Frank E. Peretti. Tales of spiritual warfare from a unique perspective. Stirred a small controversy, but sold millions. What are we Christians afraid of? Hey, it's fiction!

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