The Power of God's Word

42, 5-2, SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS, (Scheduled 2/4/2022)

Today’s theme, hmmmmmmm

Healing our faith

Thoughts from being with a baby

A day in my life

The power of God’s word

They are all found in Living In God’s Rhyme except the last one which has not been published.

Discussion:

Have We Seen, Have We Heard, Are We Healed (Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 47)

“Though seeing, they do not see,

though hearing they do not hear or

understand.

In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah;

You will be ever hearing but never

understanding;

you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

For this people’s heart has become

calloused;

They hardly hear with their ears,

and they have closed their eyes.

Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

hear with their ears,

understand with their hearts

and turn, and I would heal them,”

Matthew 13: 13-15

The heart keeps the body alive

Pumping blood through our veins

So in living we might thrive,

We might live without bodily pains.

But when calloused our heart becomes,

We seek wealth

Instead of health.

Our days become totals of our sums.

Our hearing, our sight

Do not hear or see the fight

As we run from the light

Into darkness.

This world has forsaken the light.

Living with our adulterous gods of money and sin,

Never knowing what should be right,

Never knowing that tomorrow we may not win.

We believe that the easy road leads to pleasure

As we follow our heart to find the treasure,

The satisfaction of believing we are good,

Not knowing we never really understood.

Have we heard someone speak

That as mere mortals we are weak?

Has someone ever taken our hand

And lifted us up to stand?

Has anyone asked you to listen, to look

At your yesterdays and todays to see what you took,

To see that we have no gain

For what we cause in a world of pain?

Someone please shout,

Shout the world about

About God’s saving grace

As we have we run this race.

Be healed,

Your fate sealed

By believing

And receiving

The Son

Of the one

And only God

Who loves us all.

Please,

Hear His call.

Reflection on Have We Seen, Have We Heard, Are We Healed”

Near the end of God’s Rhyme I noticed that the poetry was changing. There was more of the pain we cause God. I should correct that, more of the pain I cause God. It culminated with the last poem I wrote for the book, Broken Hearted. It was about how throughout Old Testament and New Testament history we have broken God’s heart. I think that God Still Rhymes has that in it also. In writing the third book I am finding that I am being led to continue that theme, that and the need for God in our lives, so that our hearts will not be broken at the end of our days.

Discussion:

Another Day Today (Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 59)

Not an unusual day,

But I’m glad it’s over.

There’s not a lot to say

Except the day lost its way

About a third into its hours.

Thankfully it didn’t turn sour.

Driving home, seeing the clouds

And thinking, as usual, aloud,

With the threat of rain

There were patches of blue.

There were more than a few.

It made me think of a refrain

From a song

From a time long

Beyond the past,

Time that did not last

But is reborn every day

As to the Lord I pray.

Today when I looked at the sky

I knew there was a reason why,

I finally was glad

For the day I had,

Before I saw the blue,

Before I once more knew

That God is always there,

That he always does care.

When I am otherwise

Occupied with my time,

When I feel the seas rise,

At the end of the day

He always finds a way

To share with me his rhyme.

There is beauty in every day

And at the right time

He shows me the way,

Every day, all of the time.

Discussion: This could have been written about most days.

Inspired By Babies (Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 137)

There are long times and short lines,

Times of rhymes and times without,

But throughout time we have much to learn

As when they cry, when they laugh our heads turn.

I have seen the birth of five,

Felt their first breath,

I heard their first cry,

Never did I ask why

Until now.

This I know,

They are a miracle.

We may be at the end,

But they continue the circle

Of birth,

Rebirth,

Death and

Resurrection.

Babies are one of God’s rhymes,

Rhymes written in free verse,

No two the same, but still they are one,

A gift from God forever in time.

We go out of our way to talk to them,

To hold and comfort them with a smile.

We will do this forever, not just awhile.

And as they are broken we will help them mend.

A gift from God, these little ones,

All his children, daughters and sons.

In their birth we find our worth

In our Father’s love as we live on this earth.

Each newborn baby is special in God’s sight.

Then we are reborn and made righteous in his sight

If we accept the sacrifice made by his Son

For our life of sin and the wrong we have done.

But, do we ever look at our neighbor

Or the stranger we see on the street?

Do we ever think to stop our feet

Just to ask, “do you know your savior?”

If we can look at a newborn with awe and wonder,

Why do we see others and only see thunder?

Will lightning strike if we talk to a child

Who with added years seems less mild?

When does God’s awe and wonder end?

He breathed life into the first man, Adam,

Of whom we all are offspring.

We are all created by the Breath of Life.

That person on the street with clothes tattered and torn

May be that newborn whose life is now worn,

Tattered and worn out by a world of doubt.

Do we not see the awe and wonder inside the clothes?

God loves us and wants us to be with him.

A God of care and wonder created us all,

From that newborn we all grow in our sin.

Like a newborn that life tattered and torn

Cries in the night, needs a loving embrace,

We are called to comfort God’s lost children,

To give them our hand, to help them stand tall

So with ears opened they hear God’s call

Reflection on Inspired by Babies

I finished typing this to a waking baby’s cry. I typed as I wrote.

Discussion:

His Spoken Word (Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 16)

In the beginning

How powerful is God’s word?

His word is spoken to us

Through the scriptures,

Through answered prayer,

Through communion with him,

In the quiet and the confusion.

His word is Holy for He is Holy.

How powerful is God’s word?

Through his word the Heavens

And the earth, the universe,

Were spoken into existence.

That being so, his word can shape

And mold these earthen vessels of clay

Into sons and daughters

Who will inherit joy everlasting.

Today

By the Word that created all

He has seen his creation fall,

Yet he sent the Word, his Son,

To speak the words, ”It is done.”

For him, a thousand years is as a day,

As a day is as a thousand years.

Has it been only days in his time

That we have been living in fear?

We have caused the pain,

We have caused the strain

That has left a stain

Even as it does rain.

But as always through his word

He speaks to us in words of love.

But our vision has been blurred

Because we do not look above.

Yes, we have shut the doors,

Doors to our sins, to our souls,

When we should be opening the door

And inviting God and his word into our lives.

If you haven’t, please do it today.

The fragrance of salvation, a gentle breeze

That refreshes us through the open door.

The open door, the only way.

May God heal your pain, your suffering, your fears.

May you let Him heal your soul for eternity.

Reflection on His Spoken Word

On the drive home from work one day I thought of writing about pain, the pain that so many of us have gone through and are going through today. It was going to be written with someone in mind. When I got home, I got out my Study Bible and started looking up verses about pain and then sorrow. None seemed to fit the emotion I wanted to write about. Then there was that gentle hand again guiding me. I found a small piece of notebook paper marking the first page of John’s Gospel. On it was the beginning of a poem I had written a couple of years ago.

Discussion:

Now the unpublished gem. One poem, 2 sections, two titles, one hope.

OUR DAY

Do everything through Jesus.

He is the one who sees us,

The One who knows our heart,

Even before our day does start.

Follow His way

And through our day

We shall see His face

In those we meet

On the city street

Or the wooded trail.

His love will never fail.

LEAD ME

Jesus, lead me

Where I do not see

So that I may be

More than just me,

But become we.

6/14/21, tcarter

Discussion:

Closing Prayer

If you give

Him the times

As you live

His word rhymes

And don’t forget, “We are the Kings kids and you will never get rid of us for we are His with Jesus.”

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