It’s a truism that you get what you pay for
Or vote for or ultimately what you deserve…
But when we pay illegal immigrants
To stay in five star hotels with pre-paid debit cards
And the homeless to just hang out with food stamps,
Cash handouts and Obama phones
What do we expect will happen
But for the problem to grow!
And so we watch a nation crumble
Under the weight of its own excesses
Fueled by bleeding hearts,
With blood collected in taxes
And just poured into the streets
And down the drain.
Where does it end you wonder,
Wherever the sewer takes US.
(9/7/25)
Categories:
enabling, city, humanity, sick, society,
Form: Narrative
December 9 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Ephesians 4-6
Key Verse – Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US
TO COME IN THE UNITY OF THE FAITH
Praise be to God for enabling us to come
in the unity of the faith while we:
Press on toward His perfection
Pursue along His proven principles
Progress by His prodding prosperity
Perform through His powerful propelling
Pray to Him according to His purpose and plan
Ephesians 5:1 Praise be to the Lord
for letting us follow Him in:
Walking along His truth
Working for Him triumphantly
Worshipping Him with thanksgiving
Waiting for Him with our tenacious trust
Watching and witnessing for Him with worthy testimony
Ephesians 6:17 Praise be to the Saviour for
helping us with good will, doing service while:
Filled with His fulfillment
Flourished by His faithfulness
Festive along His fruitfulness-flow
Freed through faith in His fervency
Framed upon His fortified foundation. Amen!
December 9, 2024
Categories:
enabling, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
November 30 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Corinthians 9-11
Key Verse – 1Corinthians 9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US
TO LIVE OF THE GOSPEL
Praise be to God for enabling us to live of the Gospel:
Dedicate to His cause
Delighting in His compassion
Directed and driven by His call
Dedicated with devotion to His commission
Diligently determined along commitment’s constancy
I Corinthians 10:31 Praise be to the Lord
for instructing us to do all to His glory:
Enduring hardness
Exalting His highness
Evangelizing the heathen
Earning with honesty and honour
Edifying the hopeful midst healthy hoisting
1Corinthians 11:1 Praise be to the Saviour for
helping us become His followers since we are His:
Soldiers standing upon His standards
Servants steadfast by His supreme sovereignty
Stewards settled through His sufficient sustenance
Soulwinners sharing His salvation-security midst spirituality
Students searching the Scriptures with His sanctification. Amen!
November 30, 2024
Categories:
enabling, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
November 15 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Acts 9-10
Key Verse – Acts 9:6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US TO ARISE
Praise be to God for enabling us to arise for our:
Steadfastness by His settled salvation
Strength along His satisfaction-sufficiency
Sturdiness through His support to our supplication
Security with His sanctification-seal by His Scriptures
Stability against shakiness due to suffering and sadness
Acts 9:15 Praise be to the Lord for choosing us
as His vessels to:
Bear His name
Build other by His news
Blossom with His nurturing
Bloom through His nourishment
Become blessings along His nursing
Acts 10:15 Praise be to the Saviour for cleansing us toward:
Devoted prayer-dependent deeds
Dedicated purpose-directed desires
Determined progress-designed delights
Diligent performance-driven disposition
Decisive peace-dominated developments. Amen!
November 15, 2024
Categories:
enabling, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
November 5 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on John 5-6
Key Verse – John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US TO WALK
Praise be to God for enabling us to walk while making us whole:
Propelling us for progress
Perfecting us along practice
Pardoning us from perversion
Providing for us midst poverty
Protecting us against perdition
Promoting us toward prosperity
Performing in us through His power
John 6:29 Praise be to the Lord for
His works toward our:
Salvation so secure
Sweet supplication
Sanctification that is sure
Shaping midst His stability
Strength upon His sturdiness
Steadfastness in His settlement
Sufficiency along His satisfaction
Support sustained by His Scriptures
John 6:69 Praise be to the Saviour
for He is the Christ Who:
Touches our tears of toils
Turns our trials into triumphs
Treats our trust against terrors
Tests our truthfulness with truth
Trains our tenacity midst temptations
Teaches our testimony despite travails
Thwarts our twists toward thanksgiving. Amen!
November 5, 2024
Categories:
enabling, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
October 27 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 12-13
Key Verse – Luke 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US
TO BE RICH TOWARD HIM
Praise be to God for enabling us to be rich toward Him:
Laying treasures in heaven
Leaving troubles of helplessness
Loving Him with His triumphant hope
Lighting testimony of health’s happiness
Living for Him with thanksgiving by His hoisting
Luke 12:42-43 Praise be to the Lord for helping us
to be His blessed servants:
Delighting in His work while worshipping Him along His wonders
Deciding according to His Word against wicked worldliness
Depending on His direction midst His watchfulness
Doing His will and discerning His ways
Dealing well by His wisdom
Luke 13:13 Praise be to the Saviour
for straightening us so we can glorify Him and:
Grow by His grace
Glow in His goodness
Give through His generosity
Go along His greatness-grandeur
Gear-up toward His guided governance. Amen!
October 27, 2024
Categories:
enabling, bible, blessing, faith, god,
Form: Alliteration
October 6 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 13-14
Key Verse – Matthew 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US TO HEAR HIM
Praise be to God for enabling us to hear Him:
Following Him by faith
Focusing on His faithfulness
FIeeing from fearfulness-fright
Fighting fretting and frustration-failure
Fixing upon His firm foundation with fervency
Matthew 14:14 Praise be to the Lord for
helping us, being moved with:
Governing commission
Gracious compassion
Guiding calmness
Generous care
Gripping call
Matthew 14:31 Praise be to the Saviour
for reproving us of our doubt:
Settling us upon His Scriptures
Securing us around His sovereignty
Saving our spirituality from shamefulness
Setting our shaky status by His sure standards
Satisfying our soul with His sufficiency’s solution. Amen!
October 6, 2024
Categories:
enabling, bible, blessing, character, faith,
Form: Alliteration
September 13 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 46-48
Key Verse – Ezekiel 46:43 Likewise the people of the land shall worship… before the Lord…
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US TO WORSHIP HIM
Praise be to God for enabling us to worship Him with:
Trust in His truth
Thankfulness for His treats
Triumph along tests and trials
Tirelessness through His tenderness
Testimony about His tenacity against our tantrums
Ezekiel 47:23 Praise be to the Lord for giving us inheritance of:
Greatness along compassion grants
Graciousness with His caring guidance
Gloriousness with His constant generosity
Goodness amidst His continual comforting gear
Gladness to combat cheerfully crippling gloominess
Ezekiel 48:35 Praise be to the Saviour for
being there in our midst for our:
Protection by His providence
Provisions in His purposive plan
Power with His perfect performance
Peace along His presence and pursuits
Prosperity according to His progress-propelling. Amen!
September 13, 2024
Categories:
enabling, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
The phone rings and I know
That you will beg for money
The amount is always too small
Too telling of your situation
It’s easy to believe lies cries
From red high eyes
I despise the disease
That holds hostage
Your humanity as you’d steal
Lie kill to support your habit
At some point you will
Have to face your demons
The reasons you use
Are too many and too few
And I am tired simply tired
Of trying to save you from yourself
It’s not that I don’t care
I am painfully aware
That you do not
Not enough to trust
Tough love and stop
Holding us hostage
Ripping our hearts
For a snort a sip a dip a puff
All because you can’t get enough
I’m done being the blame
For your emotional abuse game
Gaslighting and the insane
Behavior
Only the savior can save
I’m done enabling
Categories:
enabling, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Long was I forced to do for us both,
Now, all I want is you.
How can my heart understand what it does,
Yet, still have that be true?
Categories:
enabling, heartbreak, lost love, love,
Form: Quatrain
With God’s enabling, I can do His assigned gracious mission
To bring the lost to the Savior Who can transform them from sinning
To fulfil my part to share the Gospel*, with His compassionate constraining
And help build lives for His glory along His great commission.
I thank God for His heavenly and divine enabling
Despite my weakness, He works for my character-development
Amidst troubles, He comforts me with His tranquil merriment
In my struggles’ wounds, He fights for me, granting triumphant healing.
*1Timothy 1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry.
June 14, 2019
Categories:
enabling, blessing, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Annoying, these crises of goals,
ending with sweet words which consoles,
although a punch could do.
So let us stuff them full of sweet,
until they can’t stand on their feet.
Watch as their plans fall through.
Categories:
enabling, happiness, life, loss, work,
Form: Tail-rhyme