43,5-3, SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS, (Scheduled 2/11/2022)
Today is an unpublished day again. All, but the last one, were posted on the God Still Rhymes Facebook page.
Let’s start with a poem written in 2017.
“Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will keep you from the trial that is going to come to the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.” Revelation 3:10 (NIV)
After being led to re Revelation again, I wrote this verse on a sticky note. I knew that there is a poem in it. But what I wrote after still I am wondering, wondering why I wrote the words down. Later I think that I understood even though I still wonder why these words came after the verse above. Confusing, right? Somehow I wrote NO FAITH WITHOUT TRUST. I mentioned this in an earlier post and I can see how this has played a big role in my life.
NO FAITH WITHOUT TRUST
As I look back at the miles,
Seeing the tears and the smiles,
Having stirred up so much dust,
Why did I think that I must?
I do believe all that you have for me
And I know that who I am you see,
That you have plans for what I should be.
That you want us to be we.
Was it the centurion that Jesus asked if he had faith,
Faith that his child would survive and live?
To which the man replied, I have faith,
Show me how to believe.
I don’t know about you,
But that is me.
I have faith that God’s word is true,
That his promises are real.
He has changed me, I am made anew.
I have on my heart his seal.
But there are times I feel left out,
When I have doubt
About what he has planned,
About where with him I stand.
I sometimes wander about.
My faith, what is it
As I try to make it fit
Into the ways of the world
As at night I lay curled,
Curled up in a ball
Waiting for his call.
On one of my good days
We had a talk, God and me.
I had taken the time
To read of his ways.
I think he was pleased
That I had taken the time
And in the time it was me,
It was me that he seized.
He told me that my faith,
Though ever growing,
Would never be what it could
If I didn’t trust.
I need to trust when I am fearful,
I need to trust when I am tearful,
I need to trust in the good times
And when there are no rhymes.
If I truly accept the death of his Son
For my salvation, my redemption,
For his promise of eternity,
Then I need to not just believe.
I need to trust that he
Is in control always,
And in all ways,
No matter what I see.
He loves me,
He blesses me,
And as my trust in
His promises,
His word grows
My faith will also.
The conversations will never end.
tcarter, 6/27/17,
Discussion:
HIS GRACE
Having heard God’s call
The apostle Paul,
Hearing God’s Voice
Was able to rejoice.
Having faced the day
We prepare to pray,
Asking God to deliver us.
It is then in Him we must trust.
When we ask for God’s grace
In this world we face,
Do we trust it is done
And the battle is won?
He has said His grace is,
It is here in the present time.
We’ve asked and so He gives
In that moment our needed rhyme.
He is
We are
We asked
He gave
At the moment we ask
To be relieved of the task
The answer to our prayer,
His grace is now there.
We must believe
That we receive
In faith to know
That it is so.
Ask and receive His grace.
We are only human in this place.
We at times close our eyes,
But as we pray He never denies.
HIS GRACE IS SUFFICIENT,
His grace is a prayer away.
A few days later:
If we pray in His will,
What is pleasing to Him,
He will answer our pleas.
He knows our needs.
Whether today or another
When the answer is revealed,
Know that there is no other
By whose grace we are healed.
When we say Amen
As our prayer ends
We will know
It is so.
8/5/19, 8/7/19, tcarter
As I have done before, two poem is one; two poems, two titles, one theme.
Discussion:
LATE ONE NIGHT, EARLY THE NEXT MORNING
The beating heart
Where does it start
That very first beat
The miracle feat
The beginning of living
The beginning of giving
In a world so torn
One can be reborn
Can be redeemed
As the world seemed
From the life one lives
By the grace God gives
The beating heart
Where does it start
In the rebirth
That claims our worth
In the resurrection
That is the correction
Of the times we stray
From God’s grace filled way
Even in my sin I know
That if I am to grow
In God’s grace
In this race
It is him I must follow
His words are not hollow
They are holy
It is he only
Who can save my life
From the daily strife
I live to regret
Of the daily fret
I do fear
As I hear
His spoken word
What I have heard
Often with tears
Over the years
Salvation he is giving
From the life I am living
Every moment I must accept
Never, not ever shall I reject
His constant love for me
In in all that he does see
More than a sinful man
Trying to understand
6/1/18, TCARTER
Discussion:
This next poem was supposed to be read on a previous podcast of unpublished poems, but wasn’t. It was on the last page of the show notes. When I finished reading the previous page I turned over two pages instead of one. It happens when one ages.
WITH GOD
I rise in the morning to the shining Son,
Knowing that the battle of the day has been won.
I stretch my arms
Knowing no harm
Will come my way.
So I do pray
A prayer of praise
For the life He did raise
After a death on the cross.
My life no longer a loss,
My sin defeated,
Not to be repeated;
Once for all
Hearing His call.
As I have believed
I have received
The hope of forever,
Knowing that never
Will He forsake me.
Now with you, Lord, I am we.
Lord, you know my story,
Yet I live in your glory.
Through the gift of your grace
I will finish the race.
2/16/19, tcarter
A phone poem to end today’s journey
THE ROAD
I say do not go where you do not know.
Where the way is bound you may not be found.
But we travel this road with our heavy load.
Before journey’s end find yourself a friend,
One who is true, knowing God’s view.
Though you may find the road does wind
Through sand and thorns and rising storms,
As you hold His hand you will understand
The peace of His way as you daily pray.
Before the setting sun you will rejoice in His Son.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. He gave His for yours
and mine. It is through Him that we will see the face of God.
10/12/2021, 10:36 pm, 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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