Lay aside self-fulfillment
Take on servanthood
Do the will of God
Exercise enduring faith
Believe apart from signs
Worship in spirit and truth
Develop spiritual vision
Be a sower and a reaper
November 11 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on John 19-21
Key Verse – John 19:11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above…
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HE IS POWERFUL
Praise be to God for He is powerful, upholding us
through His power in our:
Steadfast salvation
Settled stewardship
Supplied satisfaction
Secured sanctification
Successful servanthood
John 20:19-21 Praise be to the Lord for granting us peace:
Always by His affectionate assertion
Abundantly through His affluence
Affirmatively with His appraisal
Absolutely along His attribute
Assuredly amidst His approval
John 21:17 Praise be to the Saviour for
enabling us to love Him according to His:
Truth against fear
Triumph with faith
Testimonies of fortitude
Trustworthiness and faithfulness
Teachings upon His tested foundation. Amen!
November 11, 2024
October 22 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 2-3
Key Verse – Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS GLORIOUS
Luke 2:14 Praise be to God Who is glorious and:
Eternal with His goodness
Enduring beyond His generosity
Everlasting along His graciousness
Enabling through His governing guidance
Empowering by His gentleness midst our gratitude
Luke 2:52 Praise be to the Lord for inspiring us
to increase in His wisdom; so we must be:
Learning from His ways, living in His will
Lifted up by His wins while longing for His waking
Listening to His Word in looking at Him with watchfulness
Loving His work, leaning on His worthiness, liking His workmanship
Laying our lives in His wellness, loaded with His wonders in our worship
Luke 3:4 Praise be to the Saviour for letting us
prepare in His way as we:
Preach His truth of salvation
Perform by His triumphant success
Pray, trusting Him in our supplication
Present our testimonies through His Scriptures
Persevere toward thankful spirituality in our servanthood. Amen!
October 22, 2024
July 4 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 111-114
Key Verse – Psalms 111:2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HIS WONDROUS WORKS
Praise be to God for His wondrous works so:
Great and marvelous
Grand with His might
Gloriously magnificent
Gracious midst His mercy
Generous along His miracles
Psalms 112:1 Praise be to the Lord for
letting us delight in His commandments to:
Prosper our souls
Prompt our stewardship
Prop our spiritual strength
Provide our satisfaction-sufficiency
Press us toward sincere servanthood success
Psalms 113:7 Praise be to the Saviour for
raising and lifting us:
Meeting us in our prayers
Moving us up by His power
Melting our pride with His peace
Maneuvering us through His purpose
Making us productive in His perfect pursuit
Psalms 114:7 Praise be to the Almighty
for His presence that:
Enables our revival
Empowers our reaching-out
Exposes to us His refreshing restoration
Enlightens us against rebukes and reproofs
Encourages us toward rededication’s rejuvenation. Amen!
July 4, 2024
May 5 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 16-17
Key Verse – 1Chronicles 16:8 Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO DESERVES OUR THANKSGIVING
Praise be to God Who deserves our thanksgiving for His granted:
Salvation security against sin’s wages
Sanctification settling our soul’s worth
Satisfaction sufficing our spiritual wealth
Scriptural standard for our sincere worship
Stewardship-seal toward servanthood willingness
1Chronicles 16:11 Praise be to the Lord Who
invites us to seek Him for us to keep on being:
Blessed by His graciousness
Braced upon His greatness
Bonded to His godliness
Bound around His goodness
Beautified with His gloriousness
1Chronicles 17:26 Praise be to the Saviour
for promising to us His goodness while we:
Obey His call
Observe to His commands
Optimize His compassion
Organize according to His calendar
Offer to Him ourselves while to His care, cleaving. Amen!
May 5, 2024
April 26 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 18-19
Key Verse – 2Kings 18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO MOVES US
TO TRUST IN HIM WHO IS THE LORD
Praise be to God for moving us to trust in the Lord:
Directing us toward His will perfectly
Disciplining us through His way protectively
Declaring to us His worthiness-wealth prudently
Delighting us according to His Word’s working powerfully
Defending us against waywardness and worldliness peacefully
2Kings 18:6 Praise be to the Lord Who
ushers us to cleave to Him as we:
Cling to His goodness
Call unto His greatness
Clamor for His guidance
Come to His graciousness
Cheer along His generosity
2Kings 19:31 Praise be to the Saviour for
His zeal that always:
Revives our faith’s strength
Restores our fuel for service
Replenishes our fervor in stewardship
Rejuvenates our flame for servanthood
Reinforces our fixed firmness in supplication. Amen!
April 26, 2024
April 15 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 10-11
Key Verse – 1Kings 10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO PUTS WISDOM IN OUR HEARTS
Praise be to God for putting wisdom in our hearts while we hear His:
Truth of compassion for our salvation
Triumphant calling for servanthood
Tremendous cleansing for our sanctification
Testimony that cheers our stewardship
Trustworthy correction for our steadfastness
1Kings 11:9 Praise be to the Lord Who warns us not
to turn our hearts from Him:
Stirred up by adversary
Stricken with angry angst
Sought through arrogance
Saturated by abomination
Satisfied along arguments
1Kings 11:10 Praise be to the Saviour for enabling us to stay in His will
and to keep His commandments by our:
Faith in His Word
Fervency for His work
Fulfillment toward His ways
Faithfulness in worthy worship
Fellowship around His workmanship. Amen!
April 15, 2024
April 14 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 8-9
Key Verse – 1Kings 8:11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO FILLS
HIS HOUSE WITH HIS GLORY
Praise be to God for filling His house with His glory:
Exposing to us His sovereign worth
Enabling us toward sincere worship
Expressing to us His shining wealth
Empowering us for servanthood and stewardship ways
Emphasizing to us His separation from wickedness
1Kings 8:61 Praise be to the Lord Who exhorts us
to make our hearts be made perfect by Him:
Purified according to His truth
Purged by His teachings
Powered with His triumph
Prepared for His testings
Peace-propped along His touch
1Kings 9:3 Praise be to the Saviour for hearing our
prayer and supplication with attitudes of:
Christ-caused hallowing
Consecrated hopefulness
Conscious hearkening
Chaste heart despite heaviness
Cleansed health of hoisted happiness. Amen!
April 14, 2024
March 31 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 18-20
Key Verse – 1Samuel 18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO EMPOWERS US
TO BEHAVE WISELY
Praise be to God for empowering us to behave wisely for the:
Progress of our spiritual development
Protection of our salvation-status for His delight
Prevention of our selfish demands
Prosperity of our stewardship dedication
Pursuit of servanthood devotion
1Samuel 19:7 Praise be to the Lord Who wrought for us
a great salvation along His:
Gracious satisfaction of governing sufficiency
Generous supply for glad sharing
Great shield upon guarding Scriptures
Guided standards midst girded sanctification
Gospel-standing sanctuary with giving of sacrifice
1Samuel 20:14 Praise be to the Saviour Who
shows us His kindness always:
Secured with His love
Settled upon His laws
Serene because of His lessons
Surrounded by His liberty
Steadfast along His leadership. Amen!
March 31, 2024
March 21 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 10-12
Key Verse – Judges 10:16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO BLESSES US FOR OUR SERVICE
Praise be to God for blessing us for our service that is:
Manifested according to His power against misery of sinfulness
Monitored by His providence, mercy and salvation
Managed through His principles of ministry-standards
Mentored upon His precepts along meaningful spirituality
Master-minded by His productive miracles, so sovereign
Judges 11:24 Praise be to the Lord Who
drives us toward Him for:
Sweet communion in prayer-fellowship
Safe company against perversion and filthiness
Sure commitment to pursue after servanthood-fruitfulness
Settled cause in protective faith
Steadfast choice to practice faithfulness
Judges 12:3 Praise be to the Saviour for
His deliverance we can depend on since it is:
Always timely
Absolutely triumphant
Affectionately touching
Assuredly tested
Affirmatively trustworthy. Amen!
March 21, 2024
February 20 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Numbers 21-22
Key Verse– Numbers 21:3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO HEARKENS TO OUR PRAYER VOICE
Praise be to God for hearkening to our prayer voice:
Delivering us mightily
Dealing with us mercifully
Defending us majestically
Driving us meaningfully
Directing us manageably
Numbers 21:34 Praise be to the Lord for delivering us by His:
Guarding hands toward triumphant servanthood
Guiding holiness of true sanctification
Girding hope along tenacious standards
Goading help with trustworthy strength
Gripping hoisting up against terrible selfishness
Numbers 22:38 Praise be to the Saviour Who puts
in our mouth what we must speak about, which is His:
Word upon prevailing truth
Ways midst powerful teaching
Will along profitable testimony
Work of perfect task
Worth so peaceful against trials. Amen.
February 20, 2024
January 11 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 32-34
Key Verse– Genesis 32: 1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO MEETS US
Praise be to God for meeting us to:
Show us His salvation-surety
Secure us in staying in His safety
Satisfy us against selfishness-sickness
Speak to us about our stewardship of sweet serenity
Settle us in our servanthood from slothfulness
Genesis 32:30 Praise be to the Lord
for allowing us to fellowship with Him face-to-face through His:
Prevailing presence
Preserving power
Persistent peace-provision
Genesis 33:11 Praise be to the Almighty
for dealing bountifully with us by:
Blessing us bountifully
Building us up beautifully
Bracing us upon His boulders of beliefs bravely
Genesis 34:11 Praise be to the Saviour
for letting us find grace in His sight as we:
Stay away from sin-defilements
Seek for spirituality-delights
Settle in saintliness-dwellings. Amen!
January 11, 2024
*2 Timothy 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Evangelist, a Bible-label for work* of God’s empowerment
Victorious for wondrous and glorious reaching-out venture
Asserting that the Saviour anchors redemption-assurance
Nurturing faith, propped well upon rich spiritual nourishing…
Going, guided by the Holy Ghost; with divine light, glowing
Enabled to minister along joyful servanthood example
Lover of the Lord, leading others midst building lives…
I am the fruit; and now endowed with evangelism-influence
Steadfast is my commitment for prayerful winning of souls
Triumphant to tell the Gospel: “Trust Jesus Christ today.”
June 16, 2023
2nd place, "Writing Challenge - E Word" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France; judged on 6/19/2023.
“With sacred status as a forgiven sinner, saved by God with His love, I accept the sacred duty to live for Him.” by the Poet
Sacred indeed is my stewardship* task
Spiritually entrusted by the Lord
Settling me to use granted resources
Sincerely with my best along His grace.
Sacred truly is my servanthood role
Sublimely bestowed with God’s compassion
Strengthening me to reach-out, give and share
Serenely ministering for His sake.
Sacred, too, is my supplication deed
So divine around the Saviour’s friendship
Since communing with the great Almighty
Surely speaks of faith's sanctified status.
Sacred is Christ’s blessing He offers best
Soul of mine does thank and praise Him with zest.
Quatorzain with alliteration
*1Peter 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
April 10, 2023
4th place, "A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE no 1208" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 4/16/2023.
“Soli Deo Gloria*” --- we testify
God Almighty our praises magnify
Midst His mercy and truth that sanctify
Since He by His pardon does purify.
“Glory to God** alone” is our faith’s goal
In ministering with servanthood role
Fulfilling the best along kindness’ pole
Helping build lives, or making someone whole.
God deserves glory for our gratefulness
Thanking His compassionate graciousness
Granting our souls salvation-completeness
Assuring eternal life’s blissfulness.
For the Lord’s glory, we exalt His name
Majestic midst love’s omnipotent fame
Vanquishing hatred of deceitful game
Surmounting selfishness with pride-propped claim.
Giving Christ the glory along trust-flight
Pleases Him in our triumphant delight
Winning bravely over temptation’s fight
Clinging firmly to His mercy and might.
*“Soli Deo gloria” is a Latin term for “Glory to God alone.”
**Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
February 5, 2022
1st place, "Latin Lessons" Rhyme Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Margarita Lillico; judged on 2/17/2022.
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