For My Helper

FOR MY HELPER

It wasn’t just coincidence

How I’d always made it though,

I thought I was just lucky…

Now I realize it was You.

Watching over me from a distance

You stayed just close enough,

To catch me when I was falling

When things would get too tough.

The small still voice that whispered

Comfort and encouragement in my ear

The faint glimmer that there’s still hope

When it felt like the end was near

You were the breath of reassurance

There said things would be okay

You were always calling me home

When I’d stray too far away

So to You I give my future

And I welcome you by my side

I will do wherever You lead me

And let Your light be my guide

Lesson for Mom

A LESSON FOR MOM

I sat up with my 4 year old, nursing a fever and holding her tight,

The next morning she recalled, “That was a kind of good and bad night.”

I thought that so peculiar, she’d really been feeling rotten…

Then the Lord reminded me of something I’d forgotten.

Once when I was young I held a thermometer up to a light,

So that I could be the one being cuddled and held tight.

Another time I sprained an ankle and used eye shadow to enhance

The bruise as it was fading and in my heart I’d dance

As I was the ones being showered with Mom’s attention

And I came before her chores, which seemed too many to mention.

It was a time to remember “feeling treasured” in my youth,

It made me feel so special…as if I’d needed proof

Of the love that she had for me deep within her heart

And that I came before everything else, from which she’d seldom depart

And it saddened me to think it took my baby getting sick,

To show me there’s a delicate balance in the routine to which I stick

To all more time for cuddles isn’t slacking at all,

And hugs that last 3 minutes mean more than toys being out in the hall

And stories brought home from schooled, about the events of the day,

Will get my undivided attention so her thoughts have a place to stay.

And I’ll often say “I love you,” as I smile big and look in their eyes,

And they’ll know there is an undeniable love that they can recognize

So with my three girls I’ll spend no less than twenty minutes each

So that it’ll never be for a thermometer that they reach

USE ME

Lord, take what is left of me to use…

Can you find any part that I didn’t abuse?

Maybe something overlooked by the prince of the earth?

Is there anything here in which you find worth?

And He said, “That you seek Me with all of your heart,
 is much more than most and a very good start. 
See I made a promise to protect and to bless, 
all of the people who would address, 
Me as their Lord and Me as their source.

But they have to repent. I won’t take them by force.

So the fact that you eagerly seek out My will, 
means there’s plenty left in you still, 
to help Me establish My Glory on earth, 
to which there is no measure of worth!”

Years of neglect, years of selfish ambitions & abuse somehow seemed to seep in, rendering me unworthy…this was a cry, a plea out to God if you will as a last resort of my intentions for the remainder of my life. The previous was His swift & just response. PRAISE GOD HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER. 

Eve

EVE

When you think about it,

It’s really kind of sad

How Eve was tempted with

Something she already had.

It seemed it wasn’t enough,

That she was supplied…

She needed to feel as though

She helped to provide.

Deep knowledge and great wisdom

Was what the fruit gave

She wanted to be just like Him

Instead of being His slave.

Sounds kind of familiar?

Cause Satan did the same

He wanted to be just like Him

But down to earth he came

To infest and temp the rest of us

He started out with Eve

She already had the knowledge

But she did not believe.

So here we are today,

Still wanting to be like God,

Not realizing it’s how we were created,

I find that rather odd.

We Need a Revelation

 

“For the joy set before you”  

You endured the shame

Oh dear Lord please teach me  

That I can do the same

Hands and feet nailed to a cross  

You managed to set me free

Oh, how small my burdens are  

Compared to Your big tree!

In your anguish and your agony  

You did not complain...

Your mind was fixed, your sight was set  

On that you would obtain

From fulfilling your Father’s wishes  

And finishing your race

You went up to Heaven  

To prepare for me a place

And left with me a helper  

A special part of You

To empower, strengthen, and comfort me  

So I can get there too.

Church Growth

CHURCH GROWTH

Dear Lord it’s time to open the doors

To those who will be led

By your spirit to come to our church.

They come hungry and need to be fed.

They’re searching for some answers

Not theatrics, glitz, and glam.

They need to know the answers

Of Your oh, so perfect plan.

For giving them foundation

On which they can firmly stand

And providing them with a Helper

Who’ll be there to hold their hand.

It’s clarity they’re seeking,

To what would be your will,

For their lives to give You glory

And in Your peace be still.

What they’re needing is a leader

Someone with a pastor’s heart.

Though they’re motives may be true

They simply don’t know how to start.

The process of renewing the flesh,

Setting their pride and ego aside,

The innocence of becoming humble,

And letting Your wisdom be their guide.

As a church we gladly welcome

Those that you will send,

And we will comfort and support them,

If they’re in need of a friend.

But it’s our pastor that they’re needing

To speak into their life,

To guide, correct, and encourage them

With their daily stress and strife.

And so we gladly share him

And pray for our sisters and brothers,

Knowing that next year,

It’ll be them encouraging others.

The Desires of my Heart

THE DESIRES OF MY HEART

I said to God, “Please show me the desires of my heart,”

He replied, “If you will look upward you’ll start

To envision the things outside of your mind…

The things in your dreams you’re hoping to find.”

I said, “I’d always thought I’d live on a beach!”

“My Child,” He said, “That’s never been out of My Reach…

But what I need is for you to be able to grasp

That there is nothing that you could ever ask

Of me that I wouldn’t gladly give

If you required it to live

A life that’s pure and full of hope

Now what can I do to help you cope?”

“Well, maybe a little more of that,

And maybe little less of fat ...and

A little more money can go pretty far,

And it’s almost time for a new car…

But Lord aren’t I sounding greedy,

And shouldn’t I be giving more to the needy?”

He said, “If that is what you feel that you need to do,

You see child, these desires are all up to you.

Whatever you can live without,

Then you will question and you will doubt

But whatever you seek with My Purpose in your eyes

You’ll find no need to rationalize.”

I said, “Okay Lord, so now I get

That all You need is for me to submit

To the desire that is already in my heart

Because that was my purpose from the start.”

Delight thyself also in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Psalm 36:4

Your desire shall be for your husband… Gen. 3:16

Perseverance

PERSEVERANCE

I asked God,

“What happened to that feeling of relief?

It seems that now I’m covered with a sense of dread and grief.”

He said, “If I’d told you that when we first met…

You’d have been much harder for Me to try to get,

But I knew that you could stand

Up to the devourer who walks about your land,

You just need a little pushing

To go ahead and get fully free

So if it’s pressure that you’re feeling

Well that is coming from Me.”

Witness the Blessings

WITNESS THE BLESSINGS

When you get to the point

Where you stop being greedy

Then you’ll reach the point

Where you stop being needy

It’s not mine

To begin with anyway

It’s all His

For me to manage day to day

So before you start talking

About how I give

You should take a good look

At how I live

And witness the blessings

That God has bestowed

On those who give willingly

And not as though they “owed.”

The Enemy

THE ENEMY

When my flesh is in a battle

And out of sync with my spirit

I search for your voice

But it’s so hard to hear it

One minute I’m sure

That I’m in Your Will

The next it’s my own

That I’m trying to fulfill.

TV preachers would say

I was “under attack”

To just send them money

And they’d have my back.

But each of us is tempted

When we are drawn away

By our own lust and desires

Isn’t that what You say?

So now that I know

Who the enemy will be

It will be much easier

Understanding that it’s me