The Earth will bring forth its Praise

In the Psalms many of David's songs began in distress and concluded in victory. He journeyed from where he was to the throne, to the temple.

Israel sang his psalms as they journey from their homeland every year to the temple where they brought sacrific and were released from their sins for one more year. There is a progression in the psalms.

The following devotions are from Betty Slade's poetry books, "Within the Veil" and the second volumn "In His Presence".

A Pilgrim

Just a pilgrim passing through
The bounds of mere man
The rules of mere doctrine
Time given to mere earth.

This pilgrim has travelled
through time and space
to the heavenly city of faith.
The reality of life with God.

Operating ouside of time
As we submit to His purpose and plan
He passes talent
knowledge
and strength
To do exceedingly abundant of what
He asks or thinks,
according to the power
that works in tis mere pilgrim.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Life Within

Life Within (mixed media 16 X20
Life Within

If we are faithful to be what God has intended
us to be, alive to God, surrendered to Him,
dead to ourselves, He will bring to pass acts
impregnated by the Holy Spirit, to bring
life to a dying world.

These words are for Him, with the prayer that
He will deem them pure enough
to speak truth through me for whomever
is seeking truth.

I praise God for His marvelous workings
in my life. I could have come and gone
with no sense of why I went through
the motions of living.
He answered my why's, through simplistic
knowledge of Jesus.
Hopefully
every image painted,
every word spoken,
every prase written,
will have one thought, one name, JESUS

Truly, I desire fruit from my yielded soul,
light that will show the way to a world
full of darkness.  I surrender to you,
oh God, as you, on the cross, surrendered
yourself for me.

The Journey ~~~~Walk the Talk!  Have you ever thought how noise a forest is? I have and as I have sit quietly I have even heard branches groan and leaves fall. As the Holy Spirit moves through the trees, He moves through us.  It takes time to realize  there is life in us and all about us. He moves through us as we journey through the whys and the notions of living.

One day, we will understand He was there all along. He kept us from destroying ourselves and others, He continues to establish our path and put our feet on it. We are not that smart to figure it out.  I just know I have ended up in a great place in this journey. No credit to myself. He was with me. Jesus says, "Where I am there you will be." Apparently He is there before I got  there.