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Friday, April 2, 2021

My Prayer

 My Prayer


Mercy, lay your hands on me

Mercy, let me see

Mercy only Heaven shows

When blinded my eyes be.


Comfort, let my hurting head

Upon your shoulder lay

Comfort,  take me in your arms

And Comfort, let me stay.


Peace, please touch my troubled mind

Peace, my heart renew

Peace, flood my dry desert bare

And fill my soul with you.


Love, remold me in your hands

Love, my wounds repair

Love, smooth all my jagged parts

Strewn broken way out there.


Sweetness, let me taste of you

Sweetness, take away

Sweeten all the bitterness 

Soured on my tongue today.


Joy, teach me your laughing songs

Joy, teach me how to dance

Joy, replace my sad sad dreams

That never had a chance.


Righteousness, take hold of me

Take my flesh away

Lead me in the holy paths

Make me forget to stray.


Patience, help me to slow down

When through this life, I’m fleeing

Heal the hearts I carelessly break

When I walk by, not seeing.


Gentleness, show me how to touch

The ones I chance to meet

Turn away their wrath with smiles

Not kick them with my feet.


Longsuffering, help me to be strong

When hardships come my way

Keep my eyes upon the prize

That I’ll receive one day.


Charity, let me always give

And not, self-centered, take

Share my riches with the poor

And leave blessings in my wake.


Heaven, breathe your breath on me

On this and every day

And for every gift that I receive

Let me give ten more away.



©By Voo

Sept 18, 2011

6:33 p.m.


Sunday's On The Way...also the very first poem I ever wrote, etc


Sunday's On The Way



The Champion


He's Alive




CAUSE WE LOVE HIM



HE SENT THEM OUT, SOME TWO BY TWO
AND THEY WENT THOUGH THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO
OF HIS WILL AND HIS WANT, THEY HAD BARELY A CLUE
BUT THEY WERE SENT AND THEY WENT CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


THEY WENT THROUGH THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES AND THORNS
THEY WERE PELTED WITH STONES AND WERE TAUNTED BY SCORN
THEY WERE RIDICULED, MOCKED FROM THE DUSK TO THE DAWN
BUT THEY WERE SENT AND THEY WENT CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


MIRACLES HAPPENED AND THE CROWDS LARGE THEY GREW
HEALINGS AND DELIVERANCES AND SALVATIONS TOO
DEMONS RAN OUT WHEN THEY WERE COMMANDED TO
AND THE DISCIPLES' FAITH GREW CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


AND TIME WENT ON AND THE CHURCH GREW IN NUMBER
THERE WAS LITTLE TIME FOR SLACKING AND NO TIME FOR SLUMBER
LOST HUMANITY GOT FOUND AND THE WORLD WEPT AT THE WONDER
AND IT SPREAD ROUND THE EARTH CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


INNOCENT MEN, NEWLY FREED, NEWLY BORN
PREACHED IN THE MARKET PLACE TO THE LOW AND FORLORN
AND WALKED CARRYING THE GOSPEL TILL THEIR TIRED FEET WERE WORN
BUT THEY WALKED AND THEY TALKED CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


THEN CAME THE DAY WHEN THE "RELIGIOUS" REBELLED
AND DECIDED THEY'D RATHER CONTINUE ON INTO HELL
AND THEY SILENCED THE CHRISTIANS AND TOLD THEM NOT TO TELL
BUT THEY COULD NOT BE SILENT CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


AND THE WOLVES ROSE UP AND CORNERED THE SHEEP
DISPATCHED THEM AT NOONDAY AND SLAUGHTERED THEM IN THEIR SLEEP
DEVISED TORTURES ANEW TO MAKE THEIR CHILDREN WEEP
BUT THEY DIED IN THEIR JOY CAUSE THEY LOVED HIM.


AND THROUGH THE AGES, TIME'S MARCHED ON
AND CLOSER NOW ARE WE TO HOME
THE SHEEP TO THE SHEEPFOLD, TO THE PLACE WE BELONG
WE MARCH ON AND WE FIGHT CAUSE WE LOVE HIM.


THE WORLD IS FULL OF DANGEROUS SNARES
PITS OF PERSECUTION AND COFFINS OF CARES
THE WOLVES FAR OUTNUMBER THE SHEEP HERE AND THERE
BUT THE SHEEP GIVE THEIR LIVES CAUSE WE LOVE HIM.


NOW HERE AT THE EDGE OF THE END OF ALL THINGS
WE CAN LOOK INTO HEAVEN AND BEHOLD, OUR HEARTS SING
THOUGH THE WOLVES BITE AND BRUISE US, WE WILL GIVE EVERYTHING
AND WE REGRET NOT A THING CAUSE WE LOVE HIM.


©by Voo
June 5, 2004
1:40 p.m.



JESUS IS THERE


The devil can't get inside my heart
But Heaven knows how he has tried
Every time temptation finds me
Every time I run and hide.

I will get you soon, he tells me
Some unexpected, devilish way
But I don't listen, I just ignore him
And fall down on my knees to pray.

Since I've learned that right prevails
Since I know that I am loved
By the highest King of Glory
As He watches o'er me from above.

The devil can't get inside my heart
And he may try and sneer and pout
But how does he expect to find his way in?
When Jesus is there to push him out?

End 

©by Voo
age six or seven
My very first poem
Before I knew who God, Jesus,
 or the devil even were

This prophetic poem
later literally saved my life


This picture of Jesus looks more
closely to the actual Jesus
than any other image I have found.
None of them can come close in 
any way but this is very similar.
I do believe that He appears to
different people in different forms
that they can relate to but this
is the Jesus that took me to Heaven
and sat me in the palm of His hand
and on His shoulder
and spent time with me as though
I was the only person in the Universe
Voo



All Glory and Honor to You, my Savior
for what You did on that cross!


Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

1 John 3:8 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. 

For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the 

works of the devil.


John 10:10

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.










Powerful and Peaceful Video my friend Linda Rose just posted on YouTube. Listen all the way to the end. Happy Good Friday!

 

My Peaceful Oasis



Philippians 4:7

                                                                                                                      And the peace of God,
                                                                                                                  which passeth all understanding,
                                                                                               shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 












Music by Dino Kartsonakis

ONCE WAS ENOUGH





ONCE WAS ENOUGH



CONCEIVED I WAS
IN UNFELT PAIN
I STARTED DESCENDING
LIKE DROPS OF RAIN

AND DOWN TO EARTH
AS A SWORD, I FELL
WHILE HEAVEN CRIED
AND SO DID HELL

I LEFT THE GLORY
AND FOUND THE DIRT
I TASTED LOVE
WHICH BROUGHT THE HURT

AND MY LIFE STARTED
TO BRING THE END
AND I CRIED, BLOOD STAINED
FOR WAYWARD MEN

MY MOTHER HELD ME
MY FATHER TURNED
MY MIND, REPLAYING
THE THINGS I'D LEARNED

AND ALL THE WHILE
THE SHADOWS GREW
AROUND THE BLIND ONES
WHO SAW THE TRUE

THE ONES WHO HATED
THE ONES WHO LIED
AND TORE MY GARMENTS
THERE AS I CRIED

THE PAIN I BORE THEN
NO ONE COULD MEASURE
NO MAN  APPRAISES
THE THINGS I TREASURE

FOR IN THAT DARKNESS
I HUNG ALONE
AND PRAYED FOR STRENGTH
AND WEPT FOR HOME

EARTH SPLIT ASUNDER
THE HEAVENS RANG
BLIND EYES WERE OPENED
AND CHILDREN SANG

BUT IN THAT MOMENT
OF UNKNOWN DEATH
MY LUNGS EXPELLED
THAT MORTAL BREATH

AND I AWAKENED
IN CAVERNS DEEP
WHERE MEN RAN SCREAMING
AND DID NOT SLEEP

THEY KNEW MY NAME THERE
THEY KNEW MY FACE
THOUGH THEY'D NEVER SEEN ME
OR KNOWN MY GRACE

AND I BEHELD THEM
AND HUNG MY HEAD
WITH SORROW BURDENED
FOR THE TRULY DEAD

ACROSS THE CHASM
I SAW THE OTHERS
MY LOVED ONES, WAITING
MY FRIENDS, MY BROTHERS

THEY SAW ME COMING
THEIR HANDS, THEY RAISED
THEY DANCED IN JOY
MY NAME, THEY PRAISED

I TOOK THEM WITH ME
UP TO THE SKY
NO MORE TO SUFFER
NO MORE TO DIE

ASCENDING NOW
FROM THAT DESCENT
I FOUND THOSE TO WHICH
I HAD BEEN SENT

AND LIKE THE LIGHTNING
AND LIKE THE RAIN
THE GLORY FELL
AND HEALED THE PAIN

TO AN ANCIENT PLACE
AND ALL IT'S PLEASURES
I CARRIED ALL 
MY EARTHLY TREASURES

AND MANY HUNGRY
FOR THE LOVE I GIVE
WILL BE TRANSPORTED
TO THE PLACE I LIVE

VESSELS OF LIGHT
WHO'VE KEPT THE VOW
WILL BE TRANSFIGURED
THOUGH CLAY FORMED NOW

AND COUNTLESS CHILDREN
LIKE GRAINS OF SAND
WILL LIVE FOREVER
WITHIN MY HANDS

WOULD I DO IT OVER?
THE DEATH FOR SIN?
A MILLION TIMES
I'D DIE FOR MEN

BUT THERE'S NO NEED
TO AGAIN, REBUFF
HELL'S POWER IS BROKEN
ONCE WAS ENOUGH.








©BY Voo
MAY 1, 2011
12:37 A.M.

during a storm






WITHOUT HIM
 sung by Elvis Presley, my cousin
a beautiful song that was written
 by my other cousin, Mylon LeFevre
when he was 17 yrs old..................