Christine is a poet and author and enjoys sharing her inspirational poems of faith, hope, comfort and encouragement. Her prayer is that you will be blessed and uplifted. She also shares her poetry on Facebook - christinespoetrycorner, and her website - CVMitchell Creations (www.christinevmitchell.com). See "Books" for details of Christine's poetry books ~ available from Amazon and other retailers. God bless you!
Lord give me eyes to see beyond The limits of my mind. Help me to leave all doubts and fear Through perfect love, so kind. Through faith that grabs a hold of You And knows Your word is true That says to the mountain, “God is God – O mountain, who are you?”
Please help me Lord to listen ~ Not to words of unbelief May the words I hear within my heart Be the words of life You speak. O let my heart, within Your hands, Be pliable as clay And make me all that You desire Saviour ~ have Your way.
Lord, guide my feet that I may walk The narrow road with You In the path that’s shining more and more With the perfect day in view. In body, soul and spirit I surrender ALL of me So the light within may shine without And all the world may see —o0o—
* Psalm 139 * Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose“
The psalmist, David wrote many wonderful prayers of the heart which are amazing expressions of experiences we all go through. I pray this poem may be a blessing.
Hold on to the everlasting arms They’ll never let you go In the arms of Jesus, you will find The greatest love you’ve known
He’ll give you strength and help you stand When it seems you’ve had enough The comfort of His love is real When the road of life is rough
When the cup is dry and you can’t go on And you just want to hide away The Saviour is near, He knows your need He sees your heart’s dismay
His words are words of life and peace When all around looks dark A lamp to your feet, His word will be A light upon your path
Hold on to the everlasting arms They’ll never let you go He’ll keep you safe from all alarm Because He loves you so
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In these challenging times, it’s a comfort to know that the Lord’s arms of love are extended to us. He wants to impart grace and strength always, knowing that “without Him (Jesus) we can do nothing” (John 15). Thank you Lord!
(This poem is from my forthcoming book, Candle of Hope, soon to be released, by God’s grace) 🌷🙏🏽🙏🏽
Take courage, dear friend You WILL come through In the darkest of days God is there – for you Though deep down inside You may feel it’s the end Your broken heart The Saviour can mend
If you’re feeling weak And unable to cope Take courage and Never let go of your hope Take hold of God’s hand That is stretched out for you He knows of the times When you’re feeling blue
He knows of the depths Of your sorrow and pain He’s there to help you To live once again Take courage dear friend Look up to the King Through Jesus ~ our Lord This battle you’ll win
I hope this New Year finds you safe and well. I thank the Lord for bringing us safely through 2020 ~ a year unlike any other known to most of our generations. My heart goes out to the millions affected by the awful pandemic. Our thoughts and prayers are with them all.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to be regularly blogging. In life, we can often have wonderful hopes, plans and dreams of things we would like to pursue, but, as we’ve seen, unexpected events and circumstances may postpone things, and sometimes greatly.
BUT – by the grace of God, I’m thankful to be here at this start of 2021 sending you this little note and, by His grace also, hope to continue blogging on a more regular basis.
I pray your year will be blessed and that you will know total health, protection and the wonderful presence of God, our Heavenly Father.
As I meditated on the precious love of God, I began to get carried away in deep thought about the vastness of His love and just wanted to share these reflections with you …….
We’ve probably all experienced unrequited love in one way or another – through friends, loved ones, etc. Many of us know what that feels like and how painful it is – giving love, opening the door of our hearts, hoping for relationship, only to experience coldness or rejection – and so does God, especially as He has oceans of love for us.
Even if we have a relationship with God, through Christ, sometimes our erring ways can cause us to actually move away from Him, from that close fellowship we should have, because we know He is holy, and when we fall short we feel we have failed Him .. yet again.
It can be the case that instead of running TO Him, we may find ourselves missing out on those special times of closeness in His presence. The love of God, being unfathomable and pure, reaches out to us in mercy. Again and again, He lovingly calls us to draw near to Him, in so many ways: perhaps through a song, a word of scripture, encouragement from a friend, a sermon, even through circumstances. God patiently waits … with oceans of love … but are we always aware?
There have been seasons in my faith life when things were going along nice and smoothly, then, at some point, a situation may occur in which I felt I’d failed God again in one way or another, and (feeling defeated) would think to myself, `He must be tired of me constantly coming back for forgiveness’. As my relationship with Him grew, however, I became reassured by the reminder that it wasn’t any good that I had done that made me acceptable to God – but the righteousness of Jesus alone. Thank You Lord!
We are encouraged in scripture to “come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16, NKJV). We are saved by grace through faith, and not by our own works (Ephesians 2:8-9). Although we are saved FOR good works, we’re not saved BY them. When we realise this, we can not only ask for forgiveness when we’re in the wrong, but can forgive ourselves and others too. It’s all about the life of Jesus being lived through us. It’s all about Him, not us! Through the everlasting love of God, that same saving grace is available to us for daily living.
When Jesus sacrificed His life for us on the cross, He paved the way for those special words that He uttered to be fulfilled – “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). The transaction was done in terms of God. He “SO loved the world that He gave ..” (John 3:16). God’s oceans of love caused Him to give. He did His part. After that, it was our turn to respond to His gift, so that we could experience this forgiveness and the vastness of His love.
It’s continually our turn to respond to His heart of love which extends beyond the cross, however. As we seek to follow the Lord in our daily walk, we can experience more and more the reality of His love, and continual cleansing and forgiveness, because of our fellowship with Him (1 John 1:7-9). His sacrifice makes us acceptable; His perfection covers our imperfection.
Against the many distractions, trials, temptations and struggles in our journey with God, His eternal and holy love beckons us to keep on coming. God is love ~ rich and free. Love calls us ~ love awaits us. Isn’t that precious?! Tears fill my eyes just to think about this fact. That love is unconditional, forgiving, full of mercy, continually reaching out to all the world, looking for an inlet into human hearts. What a treasure we have in our hearts as believers!
Prayer: Thank You Heavenly Father for your fathomless oceans of love, shown to us through Jesus, Your Son, in His sufferings, death and resurrection. Thank You that this precious love made it possible for us to draw near to You, to come before Your throne and find all our needs met, because of Your heart of mercy and forgiveness. May the love You continually show .. fill our hearts daily, and may that love be poured out through us to others also ~ for Your glory and praise, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Here is a beautiful song about the love of God (a song I love) written by Graham Kendrick entitled “Such Love” …..
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