Holding On In Faith - Re-Posted

It alone keeps lingering on

When all the rest are done.
It’s long since past that moment when
The bragging rights were won,
And yet it lingers on the branch
Where winter’s left its mark.
The only spark of color in
A world gone grey and dark.
 
It don’t know what its purpose is,
Its plan or its intent,
I only know its message is
Most surely heaven sent.
For I was close to giving up
With nothing left to show,
Until I saw what faith can do
When it will not let go.
 
1 Timothy 1:19
holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.

Standing Fast - Re-Posted

I felt the day close in on me

Crushing me with its weight
Until I realized this fact –
The Lord, my God, is great.
 
The world can’t crush me with its weight,
For He will lift me high.
Upon the rock, He holds me safe.
My Lord is ever nigh.
 
So I’ll stand fast upon the rock
And make my home in Him.
Trouble will have no hold on me,
However bleak or grim.
 
Psalm 27:5
For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.

Find My Path - Re-Posted

I try to soar without a fear,

Letting faith be my guide,
But there are days when I just want

To hunker down and hide.

It’s in those days that I reach out,
My need drives me to call
To ask You to lift me again,

Or catch me when I fall.

And every time I say that prayer,
Humbled by worry’s wraith,
I find You’ve cleared the skies enough
For me to find my faith.
 
Isaiah 57:14
And it will be said: “Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”

Glory, Glory - Re-posted

Sing Glory, Glory to the Lord

And let your hearts be light,
For He still rules this broken world
Through His eternal might!
 
Sing Glory, Glory to the Lord
And lift your praises high.
Though dark clouds seem to fill the world,
His love will light the sky!
 
Sing Glory, Glory to the Lord
And rest within His Grace,
For even night’s most fearsome gloom
Can not long hide His face.
 
Psalm 95:1
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

Lord, Flow Through Me

My mind is barren tonight, Lord,

A desert without thought,
For I have been seared to the brain
By all this day has wrought.
 
Lord, You are like a deep river
That feeds the barren soil
Until it blossoms into joy
That no desert can spoil.
 
Please flow through me, Lord. Let me bloom,
Replenished by Your grace.
Then let me linger on Your shore
Within sight of Your face.  
 
Psalm 105:41
He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
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Hope, in Faithfulness - Re-Posted

I rest my hope upon your word

And look for your return,
For your love is the only thing
I’ve never had to earn.
So I will wait with confidence,
What you teach, I will learn,
And I will hope in faithfulness
For your promised return.
 
Romans 8: 24-25
For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.