My Prayer Request (Poem)

If you may ever be inclined to pray for me,

Please consider these petitions, while on your knee.

For your prayer and agreement, I’ll be truly grateful,

For helping my life, before God, to be more fruitful.

In the Name of Jesus Christ,

Pray that I remain diligent in reading God’s Word,

And that my faith will grow, after His voice I have heard.

Pray for His Spirit to fill me continually,

So with Him, I’ll learn to walk more compassionately.

Ask Him to endow me with a hunger, insatiable,

So I will know and grow in His Word, incontrovertible.

Pray that I will not allow pride my thoughts to budge,

Except, that I know Him, The Righteous, Gracious Judge.*

Ask Him to keep me from strife-prone people and situations,

So I will avoid every devilish manipulation!

Pray for me to have a forgiving heart and mind,

And in giving, I will be generous and kind.

Ask that I always stay aware of His awesome presence --

Angels of Goodness and Mercy, keeping their vigilance.

Pray for me to walk in praise and thanks-living,

And to be faithful to practice discipling.

Friends,

As you pray this prayer I have requested,

Into my life, you will have invested.

To you, may The Lord return rich dividends,

And for you, send along some ‘prayer-minded friends’.

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* ‘…But let him who glories, glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am The Lord, exercising loving-kindness (grace), judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight’, says the Lord. (Jeremiah 9:23-24)

Hacked, Hijacked or Hack-Proofed? (Poem)

Faith is the substance of things for which we yet hope,

Evidence of things that our eyes have yet to scope.

But can you earnestly hope for anything,

That you are not vividly imagining?

Persistent and vivid imagination,

Places hope securely in incubation.

From hope that’s incubated, voiced, and acted upon,

Will spring ‘substance’ that into your world will be drawn.

Hope requires a disciplined imagination,

To help ensure your hope’s ‘substance incarnations’.

An imagination that’s undisciplined and ‘leaks’,

May be a major factor that makes your faith so weak.

Imagination -- one of five functions of your soul.

We may all be somewhat blind to its critical role.

It inspires the mind, will, intellect and emotions.

Together, these five comprise your ‘soulish functions’.

God knows how easily imaginations can be hacked.

Hacked imaginations got the ancient world ‘water whacked’!

So...

About our imagination, He is keenly concerned.

Because of sin, imagination hacks go undiscerned.

Once the hack is successful, then the ‘hijack ride’ begins,

And stuff we say and do on this ride, God labels as ‘sins’.

So He fashioned for us His will in a Book, not on slate.

It is full of words that, into pictures, we can translate.

Then we’re to use imagination to ‘see’ and distill,

Ways to ‘hack proof’ our imagination and our free will.

We learn evil imaginations are more than what we think.

They’re word pictures that, at God’s promises,

make us blink and wink.

But in all of this, God has encountered a real problem!

We are much more concerned with hacks

of our worldly systems --

Financial, political, and those infrastructural.

But we turn our heads and >>YAWN<<

at ‘systems spiritual’.

Our spiritual system’s core part,

Is the link between our mind and heart.

To give us access to His ‘strong hack-proof protection’,

God’s Book reveals this link is your imagination! *

On that which we give away,

we retain a much stronger grip.

So teach someone, some way, something

about faith, so yours won’t slip.

We ‘practice’ faith. Doctors ‘practice’ medicine.

Practicing faith... hack-proofs imagination.

Keep practicing,

and leave all results …to God.

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* Then The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.  So The Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of The Lord.(Genesis 6:5-8)

Why Jews Rejected Jesus (Poem)

That Jews rejected Jesus is a historical fact.

We know the when, where and the how of this horrible act.

As to why, we each may have our own ideas.

Was it a case of ‘collective paranoia’? ¹

Was it was because He ‘so disrespected the Sabbath’?

Or saying, ‘I’m The Son of God’...via Nazareth?!

Or that He ‘cast out demons ‘via Beelzebub’?

Could these be why Jews gave Jesus their ‘holy snub’?

Going around healing folks like crazy,

Disrespecting the national clergy,

Disturbing the ‘peace’ of folk who were dead --

Leaders couldn’t afford to have this stuff spread!!

So they plotted their tricks and traps that were so clever,

Anyway to get Him on ‘crucifixion’s platter!’

But in all their ‘t’ crossing and ‘i’ dotting,

They were the real target of all their plotting!

All their devilish schemes were mere tools in the Hand,

Of God who had long ago spoken His own plan --

One He had written in Genesis 3:15,

That mankind and creation, He’d one day redeem.

Jesus’ words are spirit, and angels obey.

God uses words, you see, spirit to convey.

You see...

Jewish leaders missed this point, and fell into a trap!

Between the words and spirit, there is a big ole gap!

With Jesus, they focused on the letter of The Law, ²

And therefore, lines in the sand, they felt they had to draw!

Jesus messed with their minds,

and all their lines drawn in the sand.

They missed the spirit of The Law,

and God’s salvation plan.

This, my Friend, is why the Jews rejected Jesus,

And I’m so glad they did, so Grace could come to us.

A future day is coming, and it will be so fierce,

Jews will see and then embrace, the very One they pierced. ³

While the Jewish story will have a joyful end,

There’s another story, and evil it portends.

By too many Gentiles, to whom Grace has been reflected,

Jesus today is still overwhelmingly rejected.

Like the Jews, they, too have fallen into a gap,

In Satan’s ‘Great Anti-Christ Plan (G.A.P.),

they have been trapped.

With the faithless Jews, their seeing will lead to believing,

But with us Gentiles, God requires faith for perceiving.

Do not be so surprised that God has different strategies.

For these groups, He’s also got different formalities.

‘A kingdom of priests and a holy nation’, for one.

The other, ‘sub-kings’... at least in the New Millennium. ⁴

Friend, by this, my rhyming poem,

I hope you’re now more informed,

On why, then and now, Jews reject Jesus,

And why that’s GOOD for all the rest of us!

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¹ Suspicion of one’s motives

² They missed the core spirit of The Law. Jews who knew of the key prophecies about The Messiah also likely focused on the major acts He was to perform, but didn’t during His time as a man on Earth. See: Valleys Between the Peaks (Poem). 

³ See: Zechariah 12:10 which previews the Millennial Reign of Jesus, serving as global monarch with the support of all of His true resurrected and raptured saints from across the ages.

⁴ Holy means separated. See: point #6. Roles of Two Remnant Groups, in the post, Tips to Understand The Bible. While God is clearly calling out two separate remnant groups from across the human race, to serve distinct functions both during this life and during the Millennial Reign of Christ, it is open to speculation whether the distinctions between these groups may endure throughout eternity. Your Bible-informed views on this point are welcomed! Exodus 19:6 specifies God's eternal plan for Jews. Check it out.

Jerusalem - Practice Runs and Types (Poem)

  

God seemingly loves practice runs and types,

Like the Torah’s ceremonial archetypes, ¹

Aspects of ancient Jewish history,

That foretell of things in world history.

But practice runs and types are only as good,

As to ‘watchers’ they are clearly understood.

It takes a patient and perceptive eye and mind,

To decipher practice runs and types like God’s kind. ²

One that I love is the ancient city, Jerusalem,

A unique city that stirs passions deep in God’s bosom.

Literally, from start to end, this city is featured.

World history in this one city seems to be anchored.

Some opine it was the center of earth’s land matrix,

Long before continents were formed via ‘plate tectonics’.

Some believe it’s where God sowed His ‘garden seed’,

His seed to world peace that we all soon would need. ³

Though it’s ‘teaching of peace’ that this city’s name depicts, ⁴

Jerusalem features in ‘extra-cosmic conflicts’.

That ole war in Heaven that devil forces lost, ⁵

Now plays out here on earth, and thus God’s peace is lost.

Since God stated there The Prince of Peace will be enthroned,

There devils work to ensure God’s peace will be postponed.

God has allotted them a ‘short time’ to exhaust,

Until then, we and this city... must pay the cost. ⁶

From shuttle diplomacy to U.N. resolutions,

For this city, we can’t seem to find lasting solutions!

From trying to solve this city’s current saga,

The world has gotten a ‘collective hernia’! ⁷

Jerusalem, oh Jerusalem…

…Hill God has desired, and has also chosen.

…His ‘garden peace seed’ planted in the earth’s Zion.

…Barometer of mounting conflict pressure.

…A Gordian knot the world cannot cut through.

…A heavy stone the nations cannot lift.

…Whose deliverance one day shall be swift.

…Center of a black hole around which nations swirl.

…Whose soon future will be the center of the world.

…Thermometer of earth’s spiritual health.

…Where all nations will one day dispatch their wealth.

…All nations will yearly flock to your destination,

…And bow to worship God of Heav’n and creation. ⁸

Yesterday, the promised seat of a final worldwide peace.

Today, to the world, God’s ‘cup of drunkenness’.

Tomorrow, t’will be His seat of ‘iron rod firmness’!

Forever, city from which His presence shall never cease!

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¹ Torah is the first 5 books of The Bible. The word means teaching.

²  It is good to study and discover typology between the Old and New Testament events.

³ The Garden of Eden, which many believe was intended to grow and cover the entire earth

⁴ ‘Jeru’ also means teaching, and ‘salem’ means peace. See: Hebrew Glossary.

‘Zion’ is the hill in Jerusalem on which Jewish temples were built, and is known today as the Temple Mount.

⁵ See Lucifer’s 5 prideful ‘I will…’ statements in Isaiah 14:13-14, and the concluding result Jesus mentioned in Luke 10:18. Lucifer became satan.

⁶ See: Revelation 12:12, and 21:2-3

⁷ Could this give the nations an allegorical hernia?!

‘Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away (out of Jewish control?) will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.’ (Zechariah 12:2-3 )

⁸ See: Isaiah 60:5, 11, and Zechariah 14:16