God will remember You

With a death sentence on his head

He made his way to an unknown land.

The God of his father’s promised to be with him and to bring him back to his father's land.

He worked hard for his master in total sincerity,

Who cheated and tricked  him from the start in every way possible.

But God was with him and blessed everything he did.

In spite of being deceived for twenty odd years. 

He became the envy of everyone in his master's home.

What with a a huge family and animals in plenty,

He had become very, very wealthy.

The God of his father’s spoke to him again and made him remember his promise to him. 

With no further delay the family packed up and left before their master could find out that, he, with his belongings had fled.

God made his master when he caught up with him

To bless him and his family and depart in peace from him. 

When his brother came to meet him with 400 men

He trembled for his life

But he too departed as a friend.

God renamed him Israel brought him to dwell in the Promised Land

And there he stayed for many a year and only left from there to a foreign land when he was summoned by his son.

The promise that God would them back again to the Promised Land was passed on among his sons

Genesis 50:24Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

²⁴ Yosef said to his brothers, “I am dying. But God will surely remember you and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.”

No matter what happens in your life, God will surely remember his promises he made to you and bring them about.

A New Year's Prayer

In keeping with your word

I take joy in your promises.

In keeping with your word 

I will sing.

In keeping with your word

Renew my  strength.

In keeping with your word

I will wait in holy anticipation.

In keeping with your word

I will rise up in prayer.

In keeping with your word

Revive my broken spirit.

In keeping with your word

Teach me to be patient.

In keeping with your word

Rebuild my shattered dreams. 

In keeping with your word

Uphold to me as you have  promised.

In keeping with your word 

Redeem me from my trespasses.

In keeping with your word

Rescue me from unbelief.

In keeping with your word

Teach me to celebrate each day

As your precious gift to me.

The Bend on the Road

The vision was what inspired them
They took up the journey to fulfill their dream.
Twenty long years the elderly couple worked tirelessly.
From one milestone, to the next, they kept on working .
Till one day while on the highway
The woman broke her hip bone,
While lying in bed with a lifeless leg
She looked upward and said to her God rather bitterly.

“I have been working for your kingdom
From the day I got saved, is this your reward I get in my old age"?
That night while tossing and turning in bed,
She had a vision that she was dead.
The members of her family who were in heaven now


Welcomed her warmly and showed her around.
She breathed a sigh of relief to see her own name written in the Lambs book of life and she quickly looked for the names of all her loved ones.


There was brightness all around and everyone seemed to be wearing a white gown,
Sounds of familiar hymns she could hear in the background.
She was taken to meet her master the Lamb of God.
She fell at his feet and He gently lifted her up,


“You are worthy so don’t condemn yourself or your Savior for what you have lost,
You have already been redeemed by my blood, He said.
"A season of restoration will happen soon,
All that is broken will get healed again,


It’s not the end of your journey yet you have just reached a bend,
You need to go back and tell the world
To pray in earnest as the days are close for My return." He said
She woke up with joy untold,


And thanked her God for her broken bone,
Because of which she got to see her heavenly home.

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One Drop of Mercy

The old lady stood pleading before the judge

“One drop of mercy is all I ask,”she begged him with folded hands,

“Please   give me back my son."

"He has paid the price a hundred times over, for his wrong of robbing his neighbour, by being ten years in your prison now;

You cannot keep him forever “, she cried,

“He has suffered for the last ten years and so have we, his family, she sobbed brokenly.

Please I beg you show us one drop of mercy!” she continued to implore

 “The law has to take its own course, the judge retorted harshly

The price he has to pay is for life.

You never seem to understand,” he continued in a rage.

“Throw her out, the judge commanded, l never wants to see you again!” he thundered down at her

The old woman said quietly to the judge as she was led away from court

“He has already received mercy from Adonai, there is no more need for me to beg you again".

13 even though I used to be a man who blasphemed and persecuted and was arrogant! But I received mercy because I had acted in unbelief, not understanding what I was doing. 1 Timothy 1:13Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

The enraged crowd within the court started shouting for One drop of mercy!

Soon the crowd outside everywhere started chanting One drop of mercy!

In every village and in every town One drop of mercy could be heard from all around,

The echo of their voices soon reached the king’s ears

“What is the uproar in the city, what’s going on can anyone tell me” he asked in anxiety

“An old lady’s appeal to the judge has the whole country singing,

One drop of mercy!” An officer explained ,

“She has been pleading for the release of her son for many years now, who was caught in a petty theft 10 years ago.

He has been imprisoned for life.”

“Life imprisonment for a petty theft, how can that be the case, in my country? The king interrupted and asked,

“Set him free immediately, no one can undermine my authority,

Bring the judge who sentenced him for life

From now on he can start pleading with me for the rest of his life for,

“One Drop of Mercy”.

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Left Behind

Its ten days now she’s gone for good

Old Albert muttered to himself...

“No amount of crying can bring her back from the dead again.

“Oh how I wish I was not the one to be left behind”, he sighed brokenly.

  “She had me to take care of her, but this old man has nobody”.

He sobbed out aloud uncontrollably and buried his head on her pillow.

He found a book and pulled it out and found it was the book Agnes was so fond of.

He opened the page to the bookmark and read the verse that was underlined a lot.

Isaiah 46:4 CSB

Till your old age I will be the same — I will carry you until your hair is white. I have made you, and I will bear you; yes, I will carry and save you.

Agnes had also written shakily by its side

“Lord Please take care of my Albert after I’m gone,

Let him not have to face his old age by himself.”

He gently ran his fingers over her handwriting over and over again.

“Oh Agnes how much you cared, O god how I wish, I was not the one to be left behind," he cried.

He fell asleep on the bed ,holding the pillow in one hand and the bible in the other.

He got up the next day to loud banging’s on the door.

A young handsome man in soldier’s uniform stood knocking,

“I am your step sister's son. He spoke hurriedly, in the way of explanation,

“Mother has been trying to find you for years.

When she read about Aunt Agnes in the obituary column,

She sent word to me to bring you home.|"

“Hurry! We need to pack, I am on duty, and from now on you are going to live with our family.

The old man stood stupefied and quietly nodded a yes,

“God has been faithful to Agnes’s prayer,” he said to himself.

“I am no longer afraid; he smiled as he turned to go inside. 

                                 

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Abundantly Blessed

Standing alone at the balcony,

The old lady felt pretty bad for herself.

There was no one around to talk to.

She was sick from head to toe, and yet she had no one beside her to share her woes.

Ms Rachel, the lady next door called on her the next day

Agnes filled with self pity poured out her soul.

“You are so sick,| Ms Rachel exclaimed “Don’t you think it’s a blessing that in spite of all your sickness and age you are able to cook, clean and manage your house”?

"I have never thought about it before, yes certainly it is”, Agnes replied.

 “Your children? Have they abandoned you?” Ms Rachel continued to ask,

"Oh No not at all, “They are busy with their lives, yet they try and do their best for me all the time”.

"What about your siblings they are in their own world, I suppose”,

"No mine call me throughout the day and sometimes even at night”

 "What about friends, no one is left now over the years?

 "No, my friends have been with me from my teenage years,

 “What about finances you must be struggling now?”

"All provisions have prepared for me from before “

“What about your spouse was he a terror?

“Oh no, he was a gem of a man, he treated me like a  queen most of the time",

“What about your dreams do you regret not realizing any of them because years of being laden in bed?

"No, God enabled me to fulfil most of them. This building we are in is one of them, "she replied proudly

“Looking back on your life, Ms. Rachel, went on to say,

“You are surrounded with loving family and friends

You have been able to achieve your dreams in spite of all your many sicknesses.

You are still standing strong and living life according to your terms.

I have only one word to describe you 

You are truly abundantly blessed.", Agnes beamed a big smile and nodded a big yes.

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Arise your time has come

The men lay sprawled out across the field

Broken, bruised, and wounded,

Fed up from fighting a losing   battle which never seemed to end.

Suddenly massive gusts of wind blew across the field

Literally blowing them off the ground.

They had no other choice but to run to the closest trench.

Dragging themselves and their injured mates along

Suddenly in a blink of an eye, a bomb from the enemy's camp blew up the field they had just been in.

The men looked at each other amazed; if it wasn’t for the wind they would have been dead by now.

The leader amongst them jumped up and spoke with great passion,

"People, it’s truly the hand of God which saved our lives today.

If he is here amongst us here protecting us would not he also help us fight the enemy?

This verse is coming to my mind from the Holy Book

 (13) You will arise and take pity on Tziyon, Psalm 102 (CJB)

For the time has come to have mercy on her;

The time determined has come."

The men arose as one; their weariness fell to the ground,

They ran across to where the enemy camp was,

And fired at them with all they got.

Mayhem confusion sent the enemy scattering as they thought a big battalion had arrived

The men chased after them.

Blowing the horn of victory signalling their end

People came of the homes rejoicing  Once again Adonai had delivered them.

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