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Backslider
Sin took away your Holy Spirit
Sin took away my Will
Sin took away my Praying
Sin took away my Fasting
Sin took away my Tithing
But Sin could not...

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Categories: backslider, africa, allah, arabic, bible,
Form: Free verse



The Backslider
The backslider stepped into the chapel like an angel,
Outwardly, he is full of piety,
Inwardly, he is only a pity.
True bliss left him, even purity and...

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Categories: backslider, abuse, addiction, adventure, anger,
Form: Light Verse
Backslider
6 foot 7 makes self sufficient
Drums pavement clink clanking walking barefoot 
On Puddles of thought dried to subsistence
Carelessly focusing on how not to look

Indecisive ones...

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Categories: backslider, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Backslider
The Backslider
By: Tom Wright
2/17/99

Do you follow a path
encumbered with weeds?
have they seemingly appeared
from your planted seeds?

Are the tracks you once followed
now faint and dim?
Becoming tracks...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backslider, god, sin,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Squeaky the (Poor) Church Mouse
Squeaky and his buddies resided somewhere deep within the church's organ.
That elusive rodent was the bane of the pastor, The Reverend Doctor Morgan!
The reverend almost...

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Categories: backslider, funnyprayer,
Form: Rhyme



The Greatest Thing This Side of Heaven
THE GREATEST THING THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN

The greatest thing this side of heaven is not all the flowers that grow,
Though they be so fragrant and...

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Categories: backslider, gospel, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Sin Is a Sin Is a Sin Is a Sin Is a Sin Is a Sin Is a Sin
You have to confess, I know you won't believe this;
Most preachers/teachers preach and say;
It was Eve whom cast and cause the  "original SIN ";
But...

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Categories: backslider, dark, depression, encouraging, forgiveness,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Satisfying Me
June 21 Scripture Meditations Based on Proverbs 14

Key Verse – Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a...

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Categories: backslider, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Opinionated- and Its Eyes--
Opinionated- And It’s Eyes---


I awoke and flung my mind soul in the heaven
What could there be more purely seven?
'It's that lordship,' I muttered;
And am I...

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Categories: backslider, analogy, anxiety, assonance, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member I Come Before You Holy
And the ancients come before you;
       And the people sing alleluia;
       As the...

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Categories: backslider, celebration, character, christian, god,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Very Much
Often I stand and I think about time;
Sometimes I sit here and I wonder why;
Why, is there so much hatred and lying;
Why, are there so...

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Categories: backslider, appreciation, celebration, dedication, faith,
Form: Blank verse
The Fire
The dread been telling you
And you hypnotized by high fashion society
And you backslider calling yourself celebrity
The dread been telling you
Dread things to come coming now
A...

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Categories: backslider, allegoryfire, fire,
Form: Verse
Who I Am
You wont find me with my bible sitting in the first row 
You’ll sometimes find me lifting my hands just to put on a show
I...

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Categories: backslider, confusion, happiness, life, life,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Am Birth I'Ve Been Born Again-
I was a Backslider hell ridden
Now I am born again been forgiven
O saved that I am, no longer a slave to my sins
Free that I...

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Categories: backslider, analogy, appreciation, endurance, forgiveness,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Walk Director and Guide
August 21 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Hosea 11-14

Key Verse – Hosea 11:10 They shall walk after the LORD…

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY...

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Categories: backslider, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things