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Who could forget what happened on that unsuspecting and sunny day,
when no visible clouds drifted over the Twin Towers?
Little after midnight, the cool rain adds to the melancholy
of the descending angels; and I join them in prayer to remember the tragedy!
This should be a day of remembrance, not of hatred for the ignoble acts
the wicked committed, but would God accept unkindness instead of merciful deeds?
They called it another day of infamy,
and like Pearl Harbor we were taken by surprise;
that was an attack aimed at the military,
but on September 11 the terrorists attacked the civilians!
It seemed like lightning striking down sturdy trees,
and then fire broke out with smoke trails of a thousands feet;
" O my God! ", every employee screamed...quickly running down
the stairs engulfed by fire...causing an indescribable chaos everywhere!
" Take my hand, I will lead you to safety! " the firefighter said to the coughing woman.
" Hold onto my arm! " the policeman yelled out to the frail man,
who had dropped his eyeglasses and couldn't see!
Every firefighter and policeman acted like them, rescuing many without fearing death;
and hundreds of them, that awful morning, never returned home alive...
what a tragedy for their families that watched in horror and couldn't help!
Who wouldn't remember the courage of their noble and willing hearts?
And furthermore, who wouldn't engrave their valorous names on plaques and monuments?
Up above, by the gates of Paradise...Christ and His Father awaited them to accept their souls;
while archangels surrounding God's throne, sung hymns that humans couldn't sing...
those hymns that all the earthly heroes will sing with them when Heaven mourns again!
Their portraits, pictures and memorabilia hang above the fireplaces,
and on the decorated walls of the victims' homes, precincts and firehouses;
how could anybody take them down as they were worthless items?
Prize them more than gold or diamonds, o friends grieving that tremendous loss even today;
don't hate those who caused you sorrow and unbearable pain, be forgiving and show mercy...
as God does toward us; o friends remember your heroes for their valor and sacrifice!
My poem is dedicated to the victims and survivors of the September 11 attacks on America.
Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci
“Hear, O Israel: the Lord your God is one Lord!”
This is what was spoken by the true and only majestic one.
To a people whom He had hand chosen,
And all He wanted in return was a people to love, this is how it all begun.
And how He could just speak things into place with His Word.
When you think about the days of creation,
It testifies to the astonishing power of His Word,
Which later on would take on another relation.
The Hebrew words are El, Elah, or Elohim,
This is the name that SOME knew Him by.
Another Hebrew name that comes to mind,
Elyon meaning “God the highest”, some knew until they died.
Another Hebrew name is Adonai meaning “master”,
Telling me that I am to respect, worship and pay homage to
But always knowing that there is only one true that can be called Master.
We were made to adore, reverence and exalt Him,
This is the whole purpose of man.
But to which one can adore reverence or exalt,
If I am seeing more than one on hand.
The very first commandment tells us,
“Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.”
Which lets me know that there can be more than one,
But only one can I serve TRUTHFULLY!!!
El Shaddai was another Hebrew name He had
Which signifies almightiness or “All-sufficient”
Then we have the Hebrew name El Olam “Everlasting God”
Which goes along with one of His characteristics which is “omni-present.
“JEHOVAH” is another one of His many names which means “I AM THAT I AM,”
He was known as “JEHOVAH-JIREH” to some, “JEHOVAH-NISSI” to others.
because He is our peace and He is always present,
Being not only a provider but also a banner as a Father to His brothers.
“JEHOVAH-SHALOM” to some, “JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH” also,
because He is our peace and He is present always.
Whatever the occasion called for is what they called Him,
But His “SAVING NAME” had not been revealed yet until the right days.
but I want to as ask you this with all sincerity,
For us in this “Grace Dispensation” where do we stand.
For if you notice after the “Day of Pentecost,”
All things were done in His impressive “SAVING NAME.”
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God,
“…and the Word was made flesh” and dwelt amongst us just the same.
I leave you with a question of thought, if Jesus was not Almighty alone,
Then when was God manifested in the flesh…Received up in glory taking the name?
Form:
a woman who had been crippled and infirm for eighteen years long
had a chance encounter with Jesus who healed and made her strong
that woman had been in bondage she was bound up in her life
now on the road to freedom touched by the hand of Jesus the Christ
there are many forms of bondage that bind us up and hems us in
physical, psychological and spiritual are just three of them
physical bondage is to be restrained be it in jail of a relationship of abuse
psychological bondage is to be caught up in stuff which we can't mentally refuse
like when the cel phone is closer to your hand than the word of God
in bondage to technology with your head and not your heart
but spiritual bondage is the strongest for it binds up your heart, mind and soul
it's when the devil has taken up residence and is now in total control
it constrains you so much that it obliterates your identity
unrecognizable to the world, your friends and your family
bound up to your detriment where you can see no way out
limited in your vision of what true freedom is all about
yet that crippled woman understood that what she needed to do in her life
was to continue to go to the house of God and pray for the healing touch of Christ
for eighteen long years she returned to that temple day after day
believing in her heart that God would somehow make a way
now set free from her infirmities able to walk upright
standing before the Savior her burden now free from sight
so to whom or what are you bound? what is it that hinders you in life?
you need to follow the roadmap to freedom by seeking the Lord Christ
just don't get caught up in pity parties hold fast to what you've prayed
straighten up and set your eyes on God as you travel on your way
you've been pardoned from your sins by the power of the blood
you're now a child of Abraham wrapped up in God's love
the roadmap to freedom from disgrace to dignity
the roadmap to freedom no longer in spiritual obscurity
for God has stepped into the midst of your situation and taken control
no longer bound up not broken by sin for He has made you free and whole
with loyalty, love and devotion that crippled woman was no longer bound
standing tall, touched by the hand of God true freedom in her now found
how does anyone go from being good to being great?
what is required in order for someone to elevate?
to be an agent or an angel of the Lord our God
to have been designated because of the righteousness in your heart
blessed to be a blessing when you answer God's call
from ordinary to extraordinary on your faith now standing tall
pressed into service and now affirmed by the Holy Ghost
moved beyond your comfort zone to where you're needed the most
in the process of transition increasing in your faith
accelerated from just good into someone who is great
whenever God speaks to you He will make mention
of what He requires of you and what are His intentions
He will use you as a conduit to carry the currency of His word
to tell people the gospel truth the likes of which they've never heard
and when God compels you to move forth you won't need a map nor a GPS
just follow His directions as your journey is the true test
just don't worry about the where, the when, the what, the how nor the why
as long as you Who's in control and that on His word you can rely
and wherever God leads you it will be some place for the better
just make sure you follow His heavenly navigational system to the letter
blessed to be a blessing to faith your way along
just don't wander down unmarked roads that may steer you wrong
you're now a faith walker and not just a faith talker
to let your passion for Christ be first and foremost in your life
to let your trust and belief in the Lord God be the thing that jump starts your heart
and now motivated by the Holy Spirit you will come to find
that the word of the Lord God has completely saturated your mind
blessed to be a blessing to go from good to great
fired up, pumped up and passionate in your faith
to aspire with the desire to be a blessing to your sisters and brothers
to motivate and not hesitate in making disciples of others
to go from good to great blessed to be a blessing
to adhere to the instructions that the Lord our God is stressing
willing to step out on faith and leave all you know and possess
trusting in God to guide you and in turn by Him to be blessed
going from good to great by increasing in your faith
blessed to be a blessing by the goodness you now demonstrate
(~)
There was a story of a man-
who wrote from the heart.
With pen in hand he cut-
through worldly waters-
absent of all, but his faith.
(~)
He wrote:
(~)
He-comes-in-the-morning ... !
(~)
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~
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"I-
am the wick He is the light ... .
His majesty surrounds all of Him-us-
I reach ... ! The chains from my pen bind me ... .
Lord help me! Why oh why ... ? Would you die for me ... ?
Teach me Lord brake-me Lord,
make me Lord again" ... ?
Help me know ... ?
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So it ensued they shunned him:
in my busy world I stopped by and read it! it supported me ... .
I mean I really studied it in comparison to mine. The lives I see, the history, of what I have felt, believed.
That you cannot hear, see it yourselves. I haven't heard, seen of a faith such as this in quite a long time.
Where and what people were you doing and where were you at, yourself at
your lowest moment, when God came to you if you haven't asked Him yet?
This man is weak within because of this "Powerful" I feel with his God in the absence of self.
How many of you would spill there "life's''" "guts" on to page?
For all like some of you to read? Be "bashed' for this! No your fear has held you fully, kept you from this.
Maybe people He, Our God must truly hurt for him, given the conversations. For you, for me.
So he is not of the greatest writers, but what an effort. It was written through something greater I feel, for
you and me.
It was for me a greater expression of faith, yes ... faithfulness in something other than himself I know now
he has expressed through his belief.
I know given my own fears, doubt, pain, It seems I could have never have expressed what he so plainly now
has put to page.
Seemingly as you have shown him what he feared. All given still I feel knowing myself in my own life the
torture of all this kind of bantering,
coldness of words, echoes of his our world. His words he still gave I feel, knowing this, without a thought of
himself.
~ Yes, I'll set here with Him and with you, but only for a moment... "
Yes talk some alone with you and Jesus! " Of my many dreams.For my new, and expanding family,
and for me,and for Jamie, (((and the many a sorted thing,))) and yes I reckon. ~
~ To run off laughing still I just might go off alone again in time to wrestle with the wind.
(((Oh but no, really...))) In my honesty, and my abandon and in the gentle advance of my heart,
I say to you. For this is to be considered as well. ~
~ In a while I reckon. (I'll want to go back in to help Ma and real soon, and of this I'm sure.) ~
~ To set the table for dinner, and fold, a small lot of the laundry, it is my honest hope this time while I play
and roll and jump around on the ground some for a
moment with my two teenage children and our little Jamie, our young one, and feed my tiger fish and then do
some of the rest of my chores,
and so I have found through God and through the sweet nature and e'er-gentle heart beating well within Him.
~
~ It is to be mine, this! my greatest fortune! ~
~ To have a happy home now and the better part of my fancy set free. For so beset and living in the honest
way-beside-me ... .
By one! The tenderness given to me through the nature of His perfect goodness, perfect Grace. ~
~ Gods' love has finally found me, but still wandering, will I always be! Down along that leafy road. Perusing
along, out amid the mighty
structures of the spruces with Jamie and the honey humble bumble bee, bumbling on by beside me, and
never will I forget these. ~
~ As back when as to cast them... I set my thoughts of this day with my family and with him... Aloof the
songs of the wind while in love I ran about and
chasing them with the many little jumpy grasshoppers. (Always ever ginger in their joy!) ~
~ As they carried in their way for me, and within their spirited hands. My hope of this day! One I have found
with them,
and in view of God and in the ever perfect way, ( of all of this, (His natural beauty!)) ~
~ Yes Jamie could be seen, and as God is the one who has granted me this time to be alone with him.
~
~ Shown to me here, as it is one now known by me to be the very beauty of His generous
character. The one
seen shining, on the no truer notions of his.
Known now by me as well to be alive, and well, and faithfully thriving, and willingly evolving within the
generous opening, of his tiny little heart.
The one telling the story of the sweetness of His simple passion and desire for God and of the peaceful
utterance and perfect example.
(For all to embrace...) Of his selfless humility, and being myself in love with God and being overwhelmed and
forever touched by this and by His presence. ~
~ So in awe of Him, and being so relieved. I begin to cry... As in an new way I begin again, to marvel, and
again. I am left here... In complete abandon. ~
~ And so... so amid this tender moment with Him... I arrive home with family and little Jamie here today. The
very same way that I left, and so I reckon... ~
~ I reckon I'll go out, about a small bit to roam and wander for a while and dream of this glorious life. ~
~ Yep! The one that is being sown for me and so very sweetly proposed, through the love of God,
the one I have faithfully and wholeheartedly accepted now, and have been honestly granted I find! (((
Here.)))
Amidst the precious love of my two wonderful children and gracious wife, ( and amid the ever fervent and
fledgling hope and
certain and ever endearing honestly tender, peaceful offering of His. ) Given to us all through the grace of His
greater insight and loving ambition. ))
As we all hope and patiently pray and await the perfect beauty! Of the wondrous blessing and promise...
Of the glorious birth of our little one Jamie, our new born child. ))) ~
~ Or maybe, maybe come to think of it," I'll just quietly set here some and whittle awhile,
and talk some more with you and our generous Lord today amid the beauty of the season.
For a time... (and yes, and I say,) as I do know it will be for me " but only for a spell ".
As I think of my fondness for him, and ponder the many splendid visions of
hope I have with them and with God. ~
I Know Some Have Been Hurt
By What Others Say and Do … ( Rom. 8: 22 )
But In All Fairness God,
They Are So Wrong To Blame You
For Deceit and Treachery ( Gen. 4: 5-10 )
Is Courtesy Of Men ( Eccl. 7: 29 )
And Those Rebels That Started It All ( Gen. 3: 1-7 )
Hurled Us Into Grief and Sin ( Rom. 5: 12 )
They Took God’s Loving Gifts ( Gen. 2: 8 Rev. 4: 11)
(And In Honesty, So Do We) ( James 1: 17, 18 )
And Then, Tried To Steal More ( Gen. 2: 16, 17 )
(More Than Fruit From Tree)
Was It Out Of Want ? …
No, It Was More Like Greedy ( Gen. 1: 29 )
“Our” First Human Parents Were Selfish (Gen. 1: 28 )
And Now, All of Us Are Needy … ( John 3: 16 )
Needy For Kindness and Good-Health Re-Storage
Needy For Security, Needy For Porridge
Needy For Mercy, Needy For Courage
The Reason I Write This … We’re Needy For Knowledge
That’s Why, Souls Go To War
That’s Why, We Steal and Kill
Why The Lies, Envy and Fear … ?
They Don’t Know Who or What’s Real …
Ever Since Adam and Eve’s Fall
We’ve Looked For Someone To Blame ( Gen. 3: 12, 13 )
But We Are Wrong To Blame God (He Called) ( Gen. 3: 8, 9 )
… And It Is Our Own ‘Crying-Shame’
Even Now, God Gives Us Care
God Gives Sunlight And Rain ( Matt. 5: 45 )
By God’s Grace, He Lets Us Live
He Is Not The Blame For Pain ( Eccl. 7: 29 )
See … If Someone Slaps My Face
I Won’t Say, It’s God’s Fault
It’s In That Person’s Heart ( Matt. 15: 19 )
(And In Mine, If Back, I Fought) (Matt. 5: 39 )
God Says, Love One Another ( Matt. 22: 39 )
God Says, Treat Each Other Right ( Matt. 7: 12 )
God Says, Fear Not The Darkness ( 23rd Psalms)
For God Gave Us, “Love-Son-Light” ( John 3: 16 )
(Part 1 of 2 )
Lord help me to do
Designed me to do.
Lord help me to walk,
Through the confines,
Of Satan's strategies,
Victoriously with virtuosity.
I love you Lord: I know
You are here with me.
I want to listen to self
But I know in self I
Want gain true wealth
In You or do what You
Want me to do. I have
People depending of Your
Strength working through
Little old me.
I need You: I am in pain.
People are making drastic,
Attempts to put shame,
To my name. People,
Are out there trying,
To defeat me and coming,
In droves to test me out,
To see whether I'll fight back,
Or let You attack.
Lord God in Your word
You stated" For we wrestle,
Not against flesh and blood,
But against principalities,
Against powers, against the
Rulers of the darkness
Of this world,
Against spiritual wickedness,
In high places.
Lord ,God, give me strength,
To keep on walking when
The devil tells me to watch
My back, when I already
Know that You have it.
Lord God give me strength
To keep smiling when the
Devil makes me cry.
Lord, God, give me strength,
When the devil sets a trap .
That I have to trample
Over in victory to really
Show that you live in me.
Shower your joy on me,
For the joy of You Lord,
Is my strength.
Lord God help me to,
Walk, run, sing, shout,
And live on in the way
You want me to live.
For me to give in the way,
You want me to give.
Lord, God, give me strength,
For my spiritual swag
Will not lag or drag
But have pep and
Tell others that life
In You is better than
Life itself.
wrote 12-11-10
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Ephesians 6:12
"The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation." Psalms 118:14
"Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face continually." I Chronicles 16:11
anger is not always a sin
if it's righteous indignation
Biblically anger is that emotion which often compels
us to change our ways so we won't wind up in hell
anger is acceptable as self-defense of others or moral principles are on the line
but an anger that is self-serving is a sin all of the time
for it tends to leave hurt, it tends to leave pain and it tends to leave devastation
selfish anger leads to misplaced affection and/or displaced aggression
it produces feelings of strong displeasure and/or antagonistic behavior
the rage and resentment which goes against the very teachings of Our Savior
the physical effects of selfish anger carry the spirit of unforgivingness
but righteous indignation is the thing that we all need to stress
to be displeased with the way that others are being treated
to be upset over oppression, suppression and the way people are being defeated
we need to handle our anger in way that God can take control
and understand with a change of heart we now have a Biblical goal
to be honest in our communication in the way that we talk
to stay calm in the midst of the storm is the way to walk the walk
to attack the problem and not the person who is in the midst of the trouble
to attack the sin and not the sinner who is in the midst of the struggle
and above all in the spirit of kindness and love we need to act
and never allow the enemy to cause you to over-react
the Bible states "be not hasty in holding resentment in"
you need to let go and let God show you the way to win
don't let the danger of anger ever put you on a defensive attack
recognize God in all things and you'll stay on the right spiritual track
for the enemy will try to use and abuse you and have you disconnected
from the power supply that is Our God which has you spiritually corrected
as anger seems to always rests in the bosom of fools
so never let the enemy attempt to take you to school
so don't respond, don't resent and above all never over-react
stay calm, stay focused on the sin and never let the danger of anger distract