April 30 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 5-6
Key Verse – 1Chronicles 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS INTREATED OF US
Praise be to God Who is intreated of us because we:
Trust in His grace
Thank His generosity
Teach by His guidance
Toil for His gloriousness
Triumph along His greatness
1Chronicles 5:26 Praise be to the Lord Who
stirs up our spirit for:
Service with humility
Separation along honesty
Sacrifice against haughtiness
Stewardship with helpfulness
Surrender that honours Him midst holiness
1Chronicles 6:15 Praise be to the Saviour for carrying us away from:
Worldliness that breeds sinfulness
Weariness that builds up slothfulness
Waywardness that braces stubbornness
Wealthiness that brags about selfishness
Worthlessness that is branded with shamefulness. Amen!
April 30, 2024
THE AFRICAN CHILD
Do they have dreams?
Dreams of riches, connecting bridges
Of healthiness, of wealthiness
Of emotional wellness?!
Do they actually dream?
Of a future beyond their noses
Of fancy cars, of lofty houses
Would they ever wake up, if at all they sleep?
How could they dream?
Under leaking roofs they sleep
Getting less, but from foreign tip
Hard mats, empty stomach they sleep
Do these dreams come easily
When one's sleep is decided
By the silence of a gun
Or the heat from the sun?
I hope not,
Yet they sleep
Hoping that one day, maybe one day
Their resilience will pay.
The river you need is just beneath if you can dig below
The money you sole desire is just inside of you only if You can work it out
The heaven you desire is in you create it out
The wealth of the world is for the souls of the universe Yet the souls that think within the world never live Close to wealthiness.
Turn around to see all your dreams as they surround You like ripe mangoes waiting for you to pluck them
does a rich man sink
with his fellow citizens when
his native land sinks,
OR does he move to
a more promising country
with his abundance?
fellow citizens,
rich men find worthy ground
for their wealthiness