Who Took Over Our Christmas?

“Peace on earth, Good Will to Men” the music plays.

While the Christian sees the crowds and prays.

Shopping and buying seems to be the big pastime.

And patience is forgotten as people stand in line.

Where is Our Christ in all this buying rush?

People want to buy and to be able to do so they push.

Manners are forgotten along with Our God.

Christ’s birth is celebrating our love of this season.

We as a Country have strayed far from the way;

Founded on Godly principles many do not even pray.

Santa takes pride of place in each and every store

And a small box at the side of the door is for the poor.

Looking back to the days when our parents were young.

One gift was fine and in the evening Carols were sung.

Now it is the computer, Ipod, Chat Lines, and Phones.

Our family is fractured and we fear for our homes.

We need to grab on to the new Conspiracy plan.

Refuse to submit to Satan, for we know that we can.

Remember, it is God who is in charge of our plans.

And we can place pride of place back in His hands.

Christmas Rush

Rushing and pushing from home to work,

But there is one thing you must not shirk

Stopping to take time out of your busy day

To draw close to God and take time to pray.

Forget all the things that need to be done.

And worship, lifting praise to God’s Son.

Our Christian world has become a race in time.

Sometimes as Christians we need a STOP sign.

Our priorities become jumbled, we need to decide

If we’re too busy for Christ we’ll surely backslide.

The Spirit will call you to take time to pray,

But if you keep ignoring Him each busy day

Soon His voice is quiet and you are in a place

Where you are ashamed to look upon His face.

Don’t let the rush of shopping be all the worth.

Happier you will be focusing on Christ’s Birth.

My Deliverer

You Oh Lord art my deliverer from the dangers I face.

And it is only by the protection of Thy amazing grace.

You Oh Lord art called Comforter and I truly know,

For when troubles beset me, to You I will always go.

My Advocate who speaks for me when I know not how to pray.

Thou knowest all my needs,”My deliver” I always say.

Wonderful Counselor, my refuge from whence I come.

I am asking only that Thy will in my life will be done..

                           Amen

God's Names

You are my deliverer from the dangers that I face.

And it is only by the protection of Thy amazing grace.

You are called the great comforter and I truly know,

For when troubles beset me to You I always go.

My advocate speaking for me when I don’t know how to pray

Thou knowest all of my needs, my deliverer I always say.

Wonderful Counselor, my refuge I will always come

Asking only Thy will in my life will be done.

Amen

Deliverer: Romans 11:26

Comforter: Jeremiah 8:18

Advocate: 1 John 2:1

Refuge: Isaiah 25:4

Mirror's Reflections

We are mirrors for each other.

That is how we learn and grow.

The lessons we desire to learn

Are for us to clearly show.

When I take a good look at you.

And there’s something I see wrong.

You must know there is something within me

That you have shown me to make me strong.

I know that I am beginning to heal

When someone says to me.

“Did you see how she treated you?”

And I honestly did not see.

Now whenever I am upset,

Or angry at someone.

It only takes but a moment

To remind me of God’s own Son.

Everyone Believes

There is none that can say he does not believe.

He lies down to sleep at night expecting to awake at dawn.

The gardener plants his seeds beneath the sod

Fully expecting to see the Spring flowers push away the clod.

                    He has faith.

What man says when clouds are seen in the sky

Take heart, have patience, for it will clear by and by.

Trust in God most high who sees beneath Winter’s fields of snow

The silent harvest of Spring’s future grow.

God’s power he must know

                    He has faith.

He who lies down on his bed to sleep.

Content to forget troubles locked in slumber deep.

Puts his worries aside for another to keep.

For he hopes that God is not asleep.

                   He has faith.

Whoever says “tomorrow” or “the unknown”

“The future” he trusts in God alone.

He dare not to disown.

                   He has faith.

The man that watches the child’s eye-lids close.

He secretly knows each breath God bestows.

He dares to live when his life offers only woes.

God’s comfort he knows.

                  He has faith.

Yahweh

Our all sufficient eternal God.

In whom our faith hath revealed

Sustenance for all our needs.

I call upon Thee now

Desirous of Thy intervention.

El Shaddai ~ God Almighty

“He who changeth not”

Whose word endureth forevermore.

I claim Thy promises for me, Thy servant.

For I have need of Thy healing power.

Cast me not away in my hour of need.

El Shaddai ~ Almighty God

All seeing eye of heaven and earth

Look upon this mortal body.

Cast Thy discerning eye o’er it.

Knit together the broken parts

Sealing it with Your great physician’s eye.

El Shaddai ~ God Almighty

You who heareth all my prayers.

Who formed this body in my Mother’s womb.

Cast me not aside in my affliction

For I have great need of Thee.

My body grows weary from the incessant pain.

El Shaddai ~ Almighty God

You who art the great comforter,

Let me hide beneath the shadow of Thy wings.

I am fearful of a dreadful outcome.

Grant me Thy peace that I might sleep secure

In the knowledge that Thou are with me.

My Redeemer and my Guide

God of Heaven watch over me.

Amen

El Shaddai: “God Almighty” - The Septuagint   - or in early translations “God who is sufficient”

Yaweh - A Mosaic {However, the Greek of the Septuagint translation of Psalm 91:1 “Shaddai” is translated “God of Heaven”

Yaweh ~ A Tetragrammaton meaning “A God who is sufficient in Himself, that is, a self determined eternal being.