PHILIPPIANS 4-6
PHILIPPIANS 4-6
Count all those blessings
You’ve been given
Be it soul thankful
Of your all delivering
No fretting on yesterdays
Or now tomorrows
Abba Father doesn’t clean you sorrows
Let you be gratitude received
Fill your heart for all that God has done
For you and me
Focus on your blessing, not your struggles
Our Father Originator of all
Promises and blessings
Let you be gratitude received
Fill your
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philippians, appreciation, celebration, encouraging, god,
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Press On To Win Your Spiritual Prize - Philippians 3: 12-14
Be humble in your personality
knowing the prize set before you
humanly speaking it seems impossible
but God is calling what you are to do
Perfection can't be found in this life
so make no claim to have done so
but make it your constant aim
that godly traits to consistently show
The Apostle here speaks plainly
that Christ Jesus held him true
to follow
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philippians, bible, faith, spiritual,
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Within Philippians
I am looking at the perils of retirement.
Retirement will not be the end of the road.
The road now leads to a new beginning.
A beginning of a rebirth of some kind.
Some kind of a new version of myself.
For myself, I have a tendency to rush to finish tasks.
My tasks now can focus on
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philippians, best friend, bible, change,
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For To Me To Live Is Christ - Philippians 1: 21
For to me to live is Christ
here the apostle Paul speaks in faith
showing who he believes upon
this true confession he indeed saith
What does this mean for you?
where is Christ in your life?
give the highest place to the Lord
where God cuts through His knife
Hold not to the pleasures of life
for it can't satisfy your inner being
the
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philippians, death, jesus, life, me,
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God's Holy People - Philippians 1: 1-2
The apostle Paul God's holy servant
addresses God's chosen holy people
speaking with true royal authority
looking to God from His holy steeple
God here speaks to His very own
all of those God regards as saints
draped in the shed blood of Christ
the righteous badge God has known
The people of God are His elect
chosen before the world began
in faith endowed
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philippians, god, people, spiritual,
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At the Name of Jesus Every Knee Shall Bow - Philippians 2: 9-11
God as our heavenly father reigns
for He is God alone like no other
His son, God has exalted high above
for Jesus is God, to look no further
God's only begotten son Jesus Christ
has received from His father a name
one that is above every other name
to be high overall fulfills God's name
At this great and awesome name of
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philippians, christian, jesus, spiritual,
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Viewpoint
Your viewpoint can be comforting,
Or your viewpoint can be troubling:
Either comforting as a safeguard,
Or as troubling as a canard.
A safeguard tunnels Saints through sin.
A canard tunnels sinners through spin.
Though God created man upright,
He schemes to hide sin from the light.
With idols in front of their faces,
The Lost stumble in dark places.
Seeking a number of oracles,
Swells
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philippians, anxiety, bible, encouraging, god,
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God's Plan For Your Peace - Jeremiah 29: 11, Philippians 4: 6,7
There's a confidence to gain
from looking to God on high
for assuredly His promise's rise
upon your soul it will never die
God has plans for all His own
these plans are set eternally sure
never to harm just to prosper
providing a future hope set to endure
Many a saint has known such peace
from trusting in this sovereign Lord
His promises are
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philippians, bible, god, peace,
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Slave King
When time became full
He became empty
Slave King Messiah
Adam's clemency.
The lion of Judah
Laid down as a lamb
Pietre Rebukes
This inhuman plan.
That night, this bread,
His flesh broken and torn
His blood spilled, drained
The wine of new dawn.
His body in tatters
Laid in the tomb.
The cloths laid aside
This tomb his new womb.
Victory rises;
So death is no more
The flesh of the lamb
will
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philippians, christian, jesus, religious,
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Lights In the World -Philippians 2: 12-18
Here the apostle Paul speaks to exhort
the beloved of the Lord to be his light
for this world needs the living gospel
God's His own to obedience so right
The Lord's free gift of salvation has a price
Jesus paid that price on Calvary's cross
His obedience there for us to follow on
to neglect His inspired word is our loss
Remember
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philippians, gospel, light, world,
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Be Worthy of the Gospel of Christ -Philippians 1: 27-30
Learn well to live a life of pleasing
to God and the blessed Christ His son
not just to the pleasure of man
but go circumspectly forever to run
Show your life in a worthy manner
that Christ's gospel would appeal
so whoever would look upon you
would see Christ as the real deal
Be sure to be always standing firm
filled constantly with
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philippians, bible, christian, gospel,
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Have No Anxious Thought -Philippians 4: 6
In this world full of anxieties
there seems no way of escape
our minds so full of anxious worry
this world has lost all its shape
In the midst of these times
God calls us to take a listen
to be hearing Him and His word
speaks resoundingly to the Christian
Don't be anxious about anything
yes you heard right truly anything
there's no need
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philippians, anxiety, god, spiritual,
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Knowing Resurrection Power -Philippians 3: 10
What does it really mean to know God?
yes God in all his perfect state
the creator and sustainer of all things
he who always has been so great
This Jesus who rose from the dead
has the power to resurrect a new order
one that reveals divinity so bright
it's fully inward never near the border
Jesus suffered so much on the
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philippians, christian, power, spiritual,
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Philippians Two Twelve
"...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,"
meaning, you're alone physically, find a way out;
do all you can humanly, it's all the same thing
yet the Lord is with you, never without.
When faced with such terrible dilemmas
quickly turn to the Lord, for He hears thee;
though the problem faced are all fracas'
I made it through, oh!
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philippians, bible, christian,
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Humility Shown In It's Purest Form - Philippians 2: 3-8
The truest evidence of real humility
is displayed in Christ Jesus the God man
who followede His own scripture counsel
ambitious conceited self must life ban
Willfully giving others your full count
holding to self no good thing
put others interests before your own
true displaying godliness this do bring
This God like mind comes from Christ
receive in Christ Jesus only for you
to
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philippians, bible, christian, spiritual,
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