Things, Things (Poem)

‘Things, things, things of Mine,
Are yours when you join My bloodline.

That is The Holy Spirit’s mission,
To enlighten your spirit’s vision.’ 1

Insight on things of the past,
Foresight on things that will last.

Things to make your footsteps sure,
Helping you trials to endure.

Giving you higher, deeper, wider, sharper focus,
That is how He’ll show you things belonging to Jesus.

Great inner images, both still and video.
He’ll use your inner voice to add the audio.²

For thousands of years throughout all eternity.
He’ll be showing us more and more of His Glory.

The best part is we don’t need to wait till then. wOw!

So can you think of a reason why not to start NOW?!

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¹ However, when He, The Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that The Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you. (John 16:13-15)

² Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it...’  (Isaiah 30:21)

Throw the Bums Out! (Poem)

‘Throw the bums out!’, an ole, familiar expression,
That's heard in sports or political discussions,
To signify someone’s gross dissatisfaction,
With a team, coach, or one seeking re-election.

But there is something I have come to recognize,

As the stories in The Bible I scrutinize.

The ‘Throw the bums out!’ notion is not ours, per se!

Let’s take a peek and see what The Spirit has to say.

First, check below to clarify who is a ‘bum’.¹

Then let’s see how this might apply to God’s Kingdom.

We see the first bums were angels who rebelled,

Thus, from God’s holy Heaven, they were expelled!

Adam and Eve failed to perform up to expectations.

From Eden, man was expelled, with angelic interdictions! ²

As sins across the land mounted to high heaven,

To only 8 souls, ‘flood-saving Grace’ was given.

Of all those Hebrew slaves who from Egypt were freed,

Many, to the promised land, Moses could not lead.

Their claims to the land of milk and honey they had to cede.

They died for their sin, and the land was given to their seed.

God’s Grace has grown considerably since then,

And now it has been extended, FREE, to all men.

From Israel and Gentiles, He’s seeking …royal regents,

Who will serve forever as His future …Eden agents.

This life is His ‘Life In the Future Exam’.

It comes with His is complete internship program.

But about this program, I note a strange phenomenon,

One that’s led me to a sad postulation.

Many who into His program He welcomes,

All too soon seem to have been …cast out as bums!

On God’s entrance exam, these folk did not fail!

Thus into His internship program they did sail.

But as the trials of life around them did swarm,

Their desire and love for Him became lukewarm.³

Lukewarmness is a step on a course,

That often leads to …outright divorce!

His pleas, ‘Return to Me!’, they heard, but did not heed.

His patient Grace to them extended did not lead,

To repentance and diligence through the program’s end.

Further away from Him their paths continued to wend.

Then He concluded,

‘I have no other option,

Than to label these folk with My ‘bums’ description!

Away with them, with necks so stiff and stout!

Angels, go forth and throw all these bums out!’ ⁴

These folk were marked. Eventually their lives were spent.

Angels always do well the jobs to which they are sent.

I pray that you, a fellow royal regent trainee,

Will not become like the bums these folk turned out to be!

Friend, God is continually refining,

The two remnant groups He is now defining.

Through tests and trials, He is ever sifting, then sorting,

Internships He’ll soon be exhorting    …or aborting.

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¹ The literal meaning of bum is a lazy or worthless person. This idiom is used metaphorically to refer to members of a group who are not performing up to expectations, e.g., ineffective politicians, members of a losing sports team, office teammates, etc. Thus, we wish to get rid of those worthless members, and replace them with new ones we hope will do better, or if necessary, leave their places vacant.

² So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the Tree of Life. (Genesis 3:24)

³ ‘…So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit/spew you out of My mouth.’ (Revelation 3:16)

⁴ Here is a clear example of God’s ‘Throw the bums out!’ policy and practice:

…And He called to the man [angel] clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side; and The Lord said to him, “Go through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.” To the others [angels] He said, “Go after him through the city and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple. Then He said to them, “Defile the temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and killed in the city. While they were killing them, I was left alone; and I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord God! Will You destroy all the remnant of Israel in pouring out Your fury on Jerusalem?” Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, ‘The  Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’ And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head.” Just then, the man [angel] clothed with linen, who had the inkhorn at his side, reported back and said, “I have done as You commanded me.” (Ezekiel 9:3-11)

Incense or Smoke? (Poem)

With five great sensory gateways, we’ve all been blessed,

But of the five, there is one that we hear of less.

By the eye and the ear gates, the others are trumped.

With these, plus taste and touch, much of life is now ‘clumped.’ ¹

Of the five, the one that’s left is the gate of smell.

It’s of this gate that there is a story to tell.

So sit back, relax and take a deep breath,

As we ponder this one gate that is left. 

We think senses are gateways to our brains,

All functioning as our sensory lanes.

But in essence, each one feeds our spirit,

With things from life we filter, then edit.

With a unique organ, each ‘lane’ is equipped:

Eye, ear, tongue, skin, nose, with their DNA script.

With skin, each organ is covered,

So by each, our feelings are stirred.

But there’s something special about the nose.

It is the only ‘lane’ through which air flows.

‘So what?!’, you might ask.

By God, the nose has been uniquely blessed:

Only by it, is His breath of life accessed!

By four dominant senses perhaps you perceive,

How they and their organs help shape what you believe.

But the nose and sense of smell? Now that’s a stretch!

Really, can smells onto our spirit… something etch?

Consider this:

Spirit, not body, is who and what we are – our essence.

By our spirit, not body, we have what’s called cognizance.²

The Latin root of the English word, spirit, means breath.

As we breathe, what we smell infuses our spirit’s health.

Smell, our most direct and most lingering sense,³

Immediately impacts our true essence!

Since in God’s spirit image we have all been created,

Imagine smells He loves, or by which He’s aggravated!

In this Age of Grace, it is not incense or roasting flesh, 

But our life’s quality in Christ by which God is refreshed.

In Christ, sweet, soothing aromas to God are sanctioned,

But against smoke in His nostrils …we have been cautioned.⁴

To Him, our sins are as pungent as lingering smoke.

Perhaps you have smelled it, so awful that it can choke!

With thoughts of it, that sickening feeling you won’t escape!

Thus, with repentance, He blots out our sins …for His own sake! ⁵

We can choose which smells of us with God will be lingering,

And whether to our prayers He’ll be eagerly listening.

He gives us a clear choice: to be like incense or like smoke,

To be a soothing aroma, or ...His anger provoke.

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¹ Typically, the four dominant senses

² Cognizance: awareness, knowledge, reality, perception

³ ‘Smell is the most direct of all our senses.  We see only where there is light enough, taste only when we put things into our mouths, touch only when we make contact with someone or something, hear only sounds that are loud enough to hear. But we smell always and with every breath. Cover your eyes and you will stop seeing, cover your ears and you will stop hearing, but if you cover your nose and stop smelling, you will die. We live in a constant wash of [smells]. What’s perhaps most extraordinary is that scent lodges itself largely in the long-term memory system of the brain…’

The Science of Smell: How the Most Direct of Our Senses Works.

⁴ [Sin is] smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all the day. (Isaiah 65:5)

⁵ ‘I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions, for My own sake, and remembers your sins no more.’ (Isaiah 43:25) Our repentance is mutually beneficial to us and also to God, Himself. 

The Real S__hole (Poem)

Whether a person, home, community, state, or nation,

Each one and all may warrant the ‘s___hole’ designation.

But the ‘s___’ and the ‘hole’ in this expression,

May be very different from your impression.

The real ‘s___’ in this expression is sin,

And the ‘hole’ is any life it reigns in.

Jesus Christ has said, ‘He who commits sin is the slave of sin.’

Using vulgar labels only uncloaks sinful hearts within.

Thus...

People who throw this word around accusingly,

Merely testify of their own sin slavery!

Though they may ignore life’s sure built-in boomerang effect,

The wages of their sins they won’t be able to deflect.

This label with which they assure others are brushed,

Will be the same s___hole down which they will be flushed,

That is unless they REPENT before God and man alike,

And make the pursuit of God’s righteousness their life’s highlight. 

You, Anew (Poem)

Your heart contains your spiritual DNA.

Just like physical DNA, it is alterable.

Both are modified by what you believe and say.

What you believe comes out of your mouth, undeniable!

With spirit inside, your body is thus your seed’s shell,

Planted in the Earth realm, to produce ‘righteous tree fruits’.

But your DNA has been corrupted by sin’s dark spell,

Affecting your entire tree, from crown-to-roots!

Science has now discovered some physical effects,

Of what God had in mind all along, spiritually.

By gene editing, we now can correct some defects.

It’s somewhat like what God’s re-birth does, essentially.  

But rather than new genes inserted here or there,

He wants to start by giving you a heart transplant,

A new sonship spirit; in His kingdom, an heir.¹

Add The Mind of Christ so you’ll be a wise savant.²

That’s not the end of His ‘gene editing’ feat.

Next, He wants to give you new family roots.

New heart, enlightened mind, adoption complete,

You will then be equipped for righteous pursuits.

Sin’s spell broken, eyes then ‘open’, no longer blind.

Ears then tuned to a new, inner streaming frequency.

You’re prayerfully concerned for the souls of mankind,

As on God’s Spirit, you increase your dependency.

What was difficult before, will no longer be so.

Things impossible, then possible, with DNA anew.

Christ’s power working through you, this you will come to know!

Roots refreshed, onlookers then amazed at your life’s

…tree crown view!

Friend,

Though Jesus can do the impossible,

Here is the one thing He has left up to you.

The door to your heart is impassable,

Unless you open it …for His rendezvous.³

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¹ God sent forth His Son [so] that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, ‘Abba, Father!’ (Galatians 4:4-6)

² But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned… For who has known The Mind of The Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have [been given] The Mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:14,16)

³ Here’s how: Prayer of Salvation

By a Visiting Poet (Poem)

Hatred laid dormant for the past few years.

Now it’s alive, bringing heart aches and tears.

I read about it in the news, and watch on TV,

And I wonder if these threats will come against me.

When I take a walk up and down the street, 

I am so concerned of what I may meet.

Will you say, ‘Hello’, and then move along,

Or will you show that your hatred is strong?

Though I try to be brave as I walk past your way,

Thoughts of a possible attack cause me to pray.

How can I trust you when your heart is so dark?

Do I stand still, waiting for hatred to spark?

I am a person, I’m just like you -

The same under my skin through and through.

Why can’t you love me as I love you,

Like the Bible tells us both to do?

Why do you hate me, that’s what I want to know?

How can I allow my Christian love to show?

Tell me how, I ask you, please tell me how, 

How can we live together, peacefully... now?

What can I do to help change your mind,

To change your heart from so hard-to-kind?

~o~

Lauretta R. Wooten

Crypto Code, Unbreakable (Poem)

Military troops have long experimented, 

With secret ways to communicate in battle --

Ways to keep their plans and progress, documented,

And decipher enemy plans for blows fatal. 

Modern militaries use complex mathematics, 

Computer-generated, and tightly protected,

To encipher their plans, strategies, moves and tactics.

Imagine the outcomes, if their plans were detected!

This is exactly what happened to help bring and end,

To World War II, when the U.S. successfully cracked, 

The code upon which Germany had come to depend.

Germans were clueless that their secret code

...had been hacked!

There is a raging battle that is far more epic.

It’s lasted so long, you might say that it is chronic.

It’s a battle about which most of us are skeptic.

For us to deny it, is our enemy’s tactic.

It is the battle of good against evil,

That of righteousness against wickedness.

It is the one summarized in God’s Bible,

One that every life brings into sharp focus.

Like a wise general, God knew His Christians

would need,

To communicate with Him in a code, unbreakable,

Above anything a carnal mind could know or read.

That way, His Kingdom on Earth would remain

...unshakable. 

To prepare us, God gave,

with our rebirth experience,

A command that is not known, or is ignored by most.

To the crypto topic at hand, it has great relevance:

‘Build up your holy faith, praying in The Holy Ghost.’ ¹

Since in The Bible, ‘Live by faith!’,

is 4 times iterated, 

Devils knew, if obeyed, their plans

would be annihilated,

Unless they found ways to downplay this code as

‘so out dated!’

Voila! 

Among us, use of this code is so unappreciated.

Prayers you pray ‘in your understanding’

are upended,

Like seeds sown before birds are so quickly eaten.

There is no hacking required, no effort expended!

Devils make sure your faith to receive is weakened!

When we fail to receive, God’s Goodness and Grace

we question,

Deaf, dumb and blind to His Truth of

what’s really going on. 

Yet still, we block, stop and shut down

at the very notion,

Of links between faith, receiving

...and our ‘prayer lexicon’. ²

There must be something special

and so very beautiful,

About our prayers in pure faith.

Try to imagine the sound.

Devils can’t stand it! To douse it all,

they’re so dutiful!

But God delights in our ‘faith fonics’ encircling His Throne.

Whether, in Christ, you’re a babe,

or are somewhat mature, 

In using your prayer code, may you become diligent.

As you do, trust your spirit over your mind’s allure. 

Speaking to Father in this mode will be

...time well spent. 

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¹ Jude 20. See also: Ephesians 6:18 and Romans 8:26

² Prayer lexicon and faith fonics: Giving direct voice to the deepest issues, needs and desires within your spirit, unhindered by your carnal understanding