June 8 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 29-31
Key Verse – Job 29:2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO PRESERVES US
Praise be to God for preserving us along our:
Trustworthy commitment
True charity
Thankful concern
Tested character
Triumphant Christianity
Job 30:22 Praise be to the Lord for lifting us from:
Derision and disdain
Dryness along distress
Despair midst depression
Desertion during difficulties
Downfall by His diligent, dedicated defense
Job 31:23 Praise be to the Saviour for
guarding us against destruction and:
Trouble with His peace
Travail by His provisions
Tribulations along His power
Terror through His protection
Threats by His precepts as we pray. Amen!
June 8, 2024
May 6 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 18-20
Key Verse – 1Chronicles 18:6 …Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO PRESERVES US
Praise be to God for preserving us by His:
Power ably alerting
Presence always available
Precepts absolutely affirming
Protection attentively awakening
Provisions appropriately abounding
1Chronicles 19:13 Praise be to the Lord Who
lets us do that which is good in His sight as we:
Sincerely fulfill His will
Strongly face worldliness
Serenely find His wisdom
Surely fix our faith upon His Word
Steadfastly flee from waywardness
1Chronicles 20:4 Praise be to the Saviour
for subduing our:
Fears by His courage
Flaws along His corrections
Faithlessness through His compassion
Failure around His cheer so comforting
Foolishness with His commandments. Amen!
May 6, 2024
April 6 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Samuel 8-11
Key Verse – 2Samuel 8:6 … And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO PRESERVES US
Praise be to God for preserving us:
Sealing our souls with salvation-seal
Shielding our service from spoilage
Smiting our sin of selfishness
Supporting our spiritual supplication
Showering our satisfaction with sufficiency
2Samuel 9:3 Praise be to the Lord Who shows
His kindness to us by His:
Mercy to our prayers
Miracles for our plight
Molding for our personality
Mighty moves in our problems
Ministerial moments proving His presence
2Samuel 10:12 Praise be to the Saviour for
always doing what is good to:
Reveal His righteousness
Reward His reapers
Reinforce His resurrection
Revive His ransomed
Rejuvenate His rejoicing redeemed
2Samuel 11:27 Praise be to the Almighty Who
rebukes us in displeasing Him that:
Demands repentance
Damages reputation
Delays restoration
Destroys relationship
Delivers reproach. Amen!
April 6, 2024
If non-stop efforts you take
Success you can make
If you with eager pursue hard
Help comes from the Lord
The more and more you work
God supplies the needed luck
Only by following strict discipline
Glory can be by you surely seen
If your motto is to emerge victorious
Do gladly the task that is laborious
Get pleasure in the performance
Learn and teach great lessons
Let your life be for all an example
Regard living as praying in a Temple
Derive happiness from true toil
This will preserve the holy soil
Teach the World about fine efforts
As that only will fetch real comforts
Hard-work's power, nothing can match
God's attention, hard-work will catch
Just upon honest work if you depend
His merciful hands, God will then lend
With prayer and God, do the impossible
God alone is always kind and reasonable
God can do that which we can't perform
If we rely upon Him, He will stop harm.
Like glass jars
fresh from the canner...
neatly forced into rows
by content and date...
like this are the rows
of carefully calculated,
labeled and catalogued
pockets of my mind
Peaches cannot sit
beside green beans
Soft thoughts cannot
be in with math data
And please, put each file
back exactly where you found it
Out hunting in the woods, late in the fall
I came upon a wild persimmon tree
Strewn all around were reddish-yellow balls
A treasure it had dropped, now mine for free
With empty game bag down upon one knee
Inspecting them to make sure they were ripe
I picked them up and squeezed them carefully
Then on my sleeve, I'd give a gentle swipe
And if there's juice enough to leave a stripe
Then in the bag, how mom would be surprised
At least when I got home there'd be no gripe
Because no squirrels met with their demise
Persimmons make the sweetest of preserves
Especially the ones my mama serves
July 14 2017
Spenserian Sonnet
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squirrels- 2 syllables