St Peters RC Church Hamilton

“My heart is overflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition concerning the King, my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.” (Psalm 45 v 1)

Lord, as dancers need to dance,

And as singers have to sing,

Writers need to write!

My joy is to write about You, Your wonderful works,

As a Trinity, the Lord God Almighty,

All powerful, all loving, all merciful, so meaningful for us.

I have to recount the blessings,

Although so numerous, the blessings stand well beyond any count.

“Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.” (Psalm 40 v 5)

I delight in knowing the King of Glory,

My Saviour Brother, my Lord and Master.

I am warmly appreciative to live within the Spirit,

Gifted by the risen, ascended, glorified, Lord Jesus.

I dare to rely upon the Lord God my Father’s mercy,

My identity and destiny entirely at His disposal.

For I know my Father reaches out for me tenderly,

Through the Divine Healer Jesus, the Spirit active with us.

“God searches our hearts and He certainly knows what He causes His Spirit to pray for us as His saints, the people He has set apart for Himself. His Spirit will always pray in and through us according to God’s will.” (Romans 8 v 27 The Truth)

Our future and final destiny is tied up with our identity.

How blessed we are to be adopted as members of God’s family.

Christ Jesus opens heaven’s gates for us,

Bestowing upon us through His own holiness, the heavenly eternity.

His kingdom upon earth is meant to be a foretaste of this.

Bliss is experienced in the happy company of Jesus,

As the Holy Spirit breathes new life into us.

The †of Jesus is the highest blessing we are given.

“...to encourage faith in God’s chosen ones and to bring them knowledge of the truth that leads to

godliness.” (Titus 1 v 1 The Truth)

This Jesus is God with us, in and amongst us,

According to the blessed, best working of the Spirit of holiness.

We are called to surrender our life so Jesus can possess us.

He will fill an empty vessel with His love if we make ready.

Progress is made by calling upon the Spirit of love,

Of hope, of peace, of joy, the full employ of adhering to Jesus.

A life of truth promoting holiness, of goodness manifest,

Is made ours to claim in the name of Christ Jesus.

“Give to the LORD, O families of the peoples,

Give to the LORD glory and strength.

Give to the LORD the glory due His name;

Bring an offering and come into His courts.

Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.” (Psalm 9 v 7, 8, 9)

Lord, according to Your blessing let my mind ponder.

Within Your law of love let my heart rejoice.

Of the new life gifted in the Lord Jesus, by the Spirit,

May my pen be the pen of one ready to write.

Enabled to do so prayerfully as I invite You

As an Almighty Trinity, to come, take hold of me.

When my imagination does daily seek Your salvation,

I find I must speak of this blessing in pen and ink.

“ ‘I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness and you shall know the LORD...And I will have mercy on her who has not obtained mercy; then I will say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people.’ And they shall say, ‘You are my God’!” (Hosea 2 v 20, 23)

For my entire being does continuously desire You.

My heart and mind, in much of what I think, do and say,

Especially when undergirded by You as I pray,

I find I enter into Your joy, readily, straightforwardly,

For the Lord Jesus is Your life in me, Lord God Almighty.

His Spirit of love accomplishes this, thankfully.

One day I hope to enter Your joy eternally,

But until then, keep me praying, praising and writing.

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life. For God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world,

but so that through Him the world might be saved.” (John 3 v 16, 17 TNJB)

Oh the blessings of grace, of favour, of forgiveness,

Of being called the child of Christ the King,

Not a servant although I do want to serve,

But a cherished child, adopted tenderly, loved mercifully,

For my Saviour Brother calls me ‘Friend’,

Exacting a response from me by the Holy Spirit.

He who brings truth to light and love to the surface.

He who banishes the darkness of our sin, as accomplished at the †of Jesus.

“He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the whole world.” (1 John 2 v

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