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20110413
FW: WAIT
Thought I'd type a little this evening; this is new and visit the blog Poetry Heaven to read one called KEEP ME JESUS.
WAIT
Hold me faithful Father
You know my strong desire
I'd rather run, I'd rather hide
God hold me to Your holy fire
Hold me faithful, Holy Spirit
You have my best at heart
I'd rather cheat, I'd rather lie
And do myself great harm
Lord Jesus hold me faithful
My only peace is found in You
Keep me still in Your perfect will
Even as the world mocks Your truth
Hold me faithful Father
You alone control eternal fate
As pressure mounts only Jesus counts
In this runaway world that hates to wait
JEFF
2011
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to
prosper you and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11
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Micah 7:7
But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 7:6-8 (in Context) Micah 7 (Whole Chapter)
Habakkuk 2:3
For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.
Habakkuk 2:2-4 (in Context) Habakkuk 2 (Whole Chapter)
Habakkuk 3:16
I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
Habakkuk 3:15-17 (in Context) Habakkuk 3 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 8:23
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
Romans 8:22-24 (in Context) Romans 8 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
Romans 8:24-26 (in Context) Romans 8 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 6:15
And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.
Hebrews 6:14-16 (in Context) Hebrews 6 (Whole Chapter)
Hebrews 9:28
so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Hebrews 9:27-28 (in Context) Hebrews 9 (Whole Chapter)
Jude 1:21
keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
Jude 1:20-22 (in Context) Jude 1 (Whole Chapter)
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20110327
DEEP DEEP
DEEP
DEEP
The deep deep blue
Eyes of God
See every movement
Made
The wholly perfect
Heart of Our Father
Covers every action
Made
The forever holy
Spirit of God
Keeps every promise
Made
The deep deep red
Blood of Christ
Washes every sin
Away
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JEFF2011
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Romans 10:9
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Psalm 118:24
This is a day the Lord has made,
let us rejoice and be glad in it!
NEW DAY
In this new day
Of mercy and grace
Light shines
In this new day
Of peace and hope
Light shines
In this new day
Of life and joy
Light shines
On this new day
The love of God shines
Let us rejoice and be glad in it!
JEFFREE
APR2011
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20110324
HOPE LIVES / NEW DAY
1 Peter 1:3
HOPE LIVES
In the face of mercy and grace
This hard heart continually breaks
Broken before the Creator of all
Hope lives
In the holy place of absolute strength
This weak human heart refuses to beat
Lying facedown before the Cross
Hope lives
In this faith of God's promised love
This fearful heart finds new courage
Kneeling before the Lord of life
Hope lives
In the assurance of God's provisionThis prideful heart falls apart
Confessing sin in the light of forgiveness
Hope lives
J E F F
2 0 1 1
A Way Out
Praise to God for a Living Hope
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. -- 1 Peter
NEW DAY
In this new day
Of mercy and grace
Light shines
On this new day
Of peace and hope
Light shines
In this new day
Of life and joy
Light shines
On this new day
The love of God shines
Let us rejoice and be glad in it
JEFF
2011
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20110302
WHEN CHRIST COMES
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http://bible.cc/1_thessalonians/4-17.htm
WHEN CHRIST COMES
When Christ comes will you be ready,
Ready to meet Him in the air?
When Christ comes will you be steady,
Anchored to His heart with care?
When Christ comes will you be sure,
Sure about the salvation that is yours?
When Christ comes will you be pure,
Trusting in His righteousness, not yours?
When Christ comes will you be watching,
Watching what you say and share?
When Christ comes will you ready,
Ready to meet Him in the air?
When Christ comes will you be assured,
Prepared to meet your sovereign Lord?
Get ready now while the geting's good,
He will be your peace in this world war.
JEFFREE
http://bible.cc/1_thessalonians/4-17.htm
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "MaxLucado.com"
To: JEPOLLOCK77@juno.com
Subject: When Christ Comes
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:23:02
When Christ Comes
by Max Lucado
If a cluster of us summarized our emotions regarding the return of Christ in one word—what words would we hear? What word would you use?
Discomfort? Likely a popular choice. You've been told your mistakes will be revealed. You've been told your secrets will be made known. Books will be opened, and names will be read. You know God is holy. You know you are not. How could the thought of his return bring anything but discomfort?
Besides, there are all those phrases—"the mark of the beast," "the Antichrist," and "the battle of Armageddon." And what about "the wars and rumors of wars"? And what was that the fellow said on TV? "Avoid all phone numbers with the digits 666." And that magazine article disclosing the new senator as the Antichrist? Discomforting, to say the least.
Or perhaps discomfort is not your word of choice. Denial might be more accurate. (Or maybe it's by denial that you deal with the discomfort?) Ambiguity is not a pleasant roommate. We prefer answers and explanations, and the end of time seems short on both. Consequently, you opt not to think about it. Why consider what you can't explain? If he comes, fine. If not, fine. But I'm going to bed. I have to work tomorrow.
Or how about this word—disappointment? This one may surprise you, unless you've felt it; then you'll relate. Who would feel disappointment at the thought of Christ's coming? A mother-to-be might—she wants to hold her baby. An engaged couple might—they want to be married. A soldier stationed overseas might—he wants to go home before he goes home.
This trio is just a sampling of the many emotions stirred by the thought of Christ's return. Others might be obsessed. (These are the folks with the charts and codes and you-better-believe-it prophecies.) Panic. ("Sell everything and head to the hills!")
I wonder what God would want us to feel. It's not hard to find the answer. Jesus said it plainly in John 14: "Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust in me. . . . I will come back and take you to be with me" (vv. 1, 3). It's a simple scenario. The Father has gone away for a while. But he will return. And until then, he wants his children to be at peace.
I want the same for my three daughters.
I left them last night so I could get away and finish this book. With a kiss and a hug, I walked out the door and promised to return. Did I want to leave them? No. But this book needed some work, and the publisher needed a manuscript, so here I am—in a hideaway—pounding a computer keyboard. We have accepted the fact that a time of separation is necessary to finish the job.
While we are apart, do I want them to feel discomfort? Do I want them dreading my return? No.
What about denial? Would I be pleased to hear that they have removed my picture from the mantel and my plate from the table and are refusing to discuss my arrival? I don't think so.
How about disappointment? "Oh, I hope Daddy doesn't come before Friday night—I really want to go to that slumber party." Am I such a fuddy-dud dad that my coming will spoil the fun?
Well, perhaps I am. But God isn't. And, if he has his way with us, thoughts of his return won't disappoint his children. He, too, is away from his family. He, too, has promised to return. He isn't writing a book, but he is writing history. My daughters don't understand all the intricacies of my task; we don't understand all the details of his. But our job in the meantime? Trust. Soon the final chapter will be crafted and he'll appear at the door. But until then Jesus says: "Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust in me."
This is the desire of God.
From
When Christ Comes: The Beginning of the Very Best
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20110104
FOLLOW JESUS
Galatians 5:24
If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit.
FOLLOW JESUS
Follow joy,
Follow love,
Follow peace,
You will find God.
Follow patience,
Follow kindness,
Follow goodness,
You won't be lost.
Follow faith,
Follow gentleness,
Follow self-control,
On the only path of life.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
Lean not on your own understanding;
Acknowledge Him in all of your ways,
He will guide you in all righteousness.
J E F F
2 0 1 1
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20101221
JUMPSTART MY HEART
Season's Greetings, got the idea for this poem yesterday while reading an article entitled Christmas CPR
in the December Messenger ; the first poem is just a warm up. I did get a few (3) Christmas cards sent
out this year but wanted to wish y'all a merry (strong) Christmas and a joyous (better than happy) New
Year in Christ (the real Reason for the season). Also tacked on a cool photo of the moon last night that
I discovered this morning on http://rr.com where more pics of the same moon can be found. Enjoy!
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Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given...
JUMPSTART MY HEART
Holy Spirit
Let me feel You
Comfort and counsel me
Hold me faithful
Heavenly Father
Let me know you know me
Precious Jesus
Let me celebrate You
At Christmas and all year long
Help me remember You're truth
Powerful Jesus
Magnificent Savior
Let Your truth set me free
JEFFREE
12/20/10
JUMPSTART MY HEART
Lying here dying,
Hope is growing dim;
Today's new sunlight,
Is blocked by sin.
Barely alive,
My faith has no face;
Yesterday's weary heart,
Can't remember God's grace.
Jumpstart my heart, Lord Jesus,
Your love for me has never changed;
I may not know what tomorrow holds,
But your promise of love is still the same.
Holy Spirit, fill me up,
Remind me of Our Father's love;
He loved the world so very much,
He gave to us His only Son.
Standing here praising,
Hope is getting stronger;
Real peace is knowing Jesus,
Is always faithful to His Word.
J.E.POLLOCK
DEC 20, 2010
God loved us so much He gave His
only Son so that whoever beliieves in
Him would not perish but have eternal life.
JOHN 3:16
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20100523
LIVE AGAIN
LIVE AGAIN
Let me love again
Hold me while my heart recovers
Cause my heart to beat for others
Let me love again
Make me laugh again
Tickle me with joyful living
Show me how to enjoy life
Let me laugh again
Give me life again
Fill me with Your flame of love
Grant me faith that does not die
Let me live again
J. E. Pollock
May 23, 2010
Christ's Resurrection and Our Newness of Life
"Newness of life"—what does it mean?
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20100513
Thank You for Max Lucado!
Dear CWG,
Just a quick to thank you for sharing Max Lucado's talk on Christian writing! He is such a joy to read... and hear! I've been attempting to write Christian poetry for over 20 years sharing my Christian heart with friends and especially my wife and best friend ever, Evelyn. Sadly, my Evee died last November from complications with pain medications she took for rheumatoid arthritis; she encouraged me to keep on writing throughout our years together. I've found great comfort in writers like Max Lucado, Chuck Swindoll, Ken Gire, Bill Crowder, Jill Carratinni... to name a few. I wish I'd have been better prepared for Ev's departure but with God's help and the encouragement I find reading authors who focus on His Word I trust His purpose for my life will somehow be fulfilled (Psalm 138:8). Because it was the following poem and the attached Slice of Infinity that got me thinking about "change" this morning (which only by faith in Christ am I going to survive) I thought I'd send them along.
God bless you and again - Thanks!
Jeff
A NEW AND LIVING WAY
Are you still lost in this old world?
World-wise with bloodshot eyes
Unwilling to accept God as real?
Are you still afraid of dying?
Techno-wise with commercial lies
Unable to believe what you feel?
Are you still confused about faith?
Business-wise with dollar-sign eyes
Unconcerned what others may say?
Are you now ready for a change?
Truly-wise with BORN AGAIN eyes
Called to follow a New and Living Way!
JEFFREEPOLLOCK
OCTOBER 29, 2009
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The House of God
I am not sure what it is as children that makes us readily picture God as seated high above us. From childhood, we seem to nurture pictures of heaven and all its wonderment as that which spatially exists "above," while we and all of our worries exist on earth "below." While this may simply illustrate our need for metaphors as we learn to relate to the world around us, there is also biblical imagery that seems to authenticate the portrayal. Depicting the God who exists beyond all we know, the scripture writers describe the divine throne as "high and lofty," the name of the LORD as existing above all names. Yet even metaphors can be misleading when they cease to point beyond themselves. Though the scriptures use the language and imagery of loftiness, they also pronounce that God's existence is far more than something "above" us. The startling image of the Incarnation radically erases the likeness of a distant God. The message that comes again and again from the mouth of this God on earth is equally startling: The kingdom of God is among you! Of the many objections to Christianity, there is one in particular that stands out in my mind as troubling. That is, the argument that to be Christian is to withdraw from the world around us, to follow fairy tales with wishful hearts and myths that insist we stop thinking and believe that all will be right in the end because God says so. It was in such a vein that Karl Marx depicted Christianity as a kind of drug that anesthetizes its consumers to the suffering in the world and the wretchedness of life. Sigmund Freud argued similarly that belief in God functions as an infantile dream that helps us evade the pain and helplessness we both feel and see around us. I don't find these critiques and others like them troubling because I find them at all an accurate picture of the kingdom Jesus described. I find them troubling because so many live as if Freud and Marx are quite right in their analyses. In our impervious boxes and minimalist depictions of the Christian story, we live comfortably as if in our own worlds, intent to tell our feel-good stories while withdrawing from the harder scenes of life, content to view the kingdom of God as a world far away from the present and the rooms of heaven as mere futuristic promises. The kingdom is seen as the place we are journeying toward, the better country the writer of Hebrews describes. In contrast, our place on earth is viewed as temporary; like Abraham, we are merely passing through. As a result, we build chasms that stand between kingdom and earth, today and tomorrow, the physical and the spiritual, the believing world and its world of neighbors. Whether articulated or subconscious, the earth itself even becomes something fleeting and irrelevant—one more commodity here for our use, like shampoo bottles in hotel bathrooms—while Christ is away preparing our permanent rooms. Yet these chasms we allow not only belie a posture irresponsible for those called to abundant life and love of neighbors, they betray the identity and decree of the good creator we profess. The stories Jesus left us with are so much more than wishful thinking; his proclamations of the kingdom among us are far from declarations of escapism. To view the world around us as a temporary place further negates the words of our most sacred prayer. What does it mean that we pray God's kingdom come, God's will be done—on earth as it is in heaven? What does it mean that Christ repeatedly declared the kingdom of God as here and now among us? What does it mean that for lack of human praise the very rocks will cry out at the glory of their creator while the trees will clap their hands? Far from being a non-spiritual, kingdom-irrelevant commodity, the earth is filled with rooms of faith, staircases and ladders that assure a constant traffic between heaven and earth, rooms of a good kingdom we now see in part and will one day see in full. Surely the Lord is in this place; how often are we not aware of it? We live our lives in none other than the house of God. The Christian worldview is one that believes at the deepest level in eternal dwellings, the day when tears will be no more, and the one who is preparing a house of many rooms. And yet, we very much live with the distinct experience of these promises here and now. Neither Christ nor the kingdom he came to make known is a static entity, something that mattered long ago and might matter once again but not today amidst the world as we know it. On the contrary, all of history, the stories of salvation, and the incarnation itself, remind us that God is far more hands-on than this. Christ is not merely the one who will be with us in all eternity. He is among us today, reigning in a kingdom that is both present and approaching, going out into the depths of cities and neighborhoods that his house may be filled (cf. Luke 14:23). Precisely because the faith Christians proclaim is not a drug that anesthetizes or a dream that deludes, we must live as people aware of the house we live in, ready for the ladders that extend between heaven and earth, and anxious to invite the world inside.
Jill Carattini is managing editor of A Slice of Infinity at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Atlanta, Georgia.
VIEWPOINT
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20100422
http://wonderful-lord.blogspot.com/2010/04/re-holy-fire.html
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20100420
RE: HOLY FIRE
Jesus said, "I am the Light of the World." (John 8:12)
HOLY FIRE
Father, teach us how to walk,
Tell us how to think and talk;
Show us how to be like Jesus,
Make of us a man like he was.
Give us a new spirit,
Grant us health to do our part;
Let us know Your beloved Son,
So we'll believe what he has done.
Ignite in us a holy fire,
Filled with passion and desire;
Steady us, perfect our aim,
Let our hearts be Yours today.
Hold us faithful,
Give us wisdom as temptation pulls;
Lead us through this darkening valley,
In the only LIGHT in whom we're free.
J. E. POLLOCK
APRIL 21 2010
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children
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