Showing posts with label spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spirit. Show all posts

Monday, August 1, 2022

Awed Altar-call







Countless crowds throng beaches the world over, 
where front-row, no-charge seating to the greatest show on earth,
 draws young and old to behold the heaven's declaring the glory of God..

Psalm 19:1-4
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
2Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3Without speech or language,
without a sound to be heard,a
4their voiceb has gone out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.c

For what may be known about God is plain to them, 
because God has made it plain to them.
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, 
His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, 
being understood from His workmanship, 
so that men are without excuse.

...hopefully an awesome awareness of  'No Excuse' 
kindles in our hearts and souls a kind of altar-call
to recommit our wants and ways to the Creator of the world 
and everything/everyone in it! 
In His Word we find everything we need

Come, Holy Spirit kindle, through the power of Thy Word
A fire of desire to labour for Thee, O Lord
For Thou art near and dearly with each soul who seeks Thy will
Who strives with earnest diligence faith’s calling to fulfill

Lord, let our love for Thee and not the world, consume this clay
In sky and land and sea since the creation of the world

…so that all are without excuse; the universal tongue
Of the heavens declares thy glory to both old and young
Day after day, night after night without language or speech
To the ends of the earth, not one escapes the heavens reach

Our Father who art in heaven, Thy kind goodness grants
Sufficient grace to help us face and bear the circumstance

Lord, wake in us an earnest ache Thy glory to behold
Let Thy cause be the constant sake that draws and fills faith’s mold

© Janet Martin





Saturday, August 2, 2014

Of Flesh and Spirit War...




Ah, flesh and Spirit war
This battleground within
Bids us examine our thought
Of what is good or sin

Flesh wars against the Good
Its weakness covets filth
The Spirit bids us suffer long
To glean eternal wealth

Awesome Inheritance
How brief these wars of earth
Only what we have done for God
Will be of any worth

Ah, flesh and Spirit war
Tempter and Holy Word
Clash soundlessly within the mind
As deed reveals our lord

We know God is not mocked
What a man sows he reaps
Touch sacredly this gifted ground
Where eternity sleeps

© Janet Martin

Reading in Galatians 5&6. Warning and tender encouragement!