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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Will Never Again Be Shamed

She made her way through the crowd,

Gathered around, to board the ship to Syria.

Looking out through the window, 

The past couple of years flew across her head,

The missing ship and a father, who was lost at sea,

A war ravaged land, the nasty relatives, a host of creditors,

Living like an Orphan from a young age, the song in her heart was totally dead.

The news had come out lately the prisoners of war were soon to be released,

“I am taking my chance, Oh God, 

I trust you to keep me safe and make me successful in what I undertake”, she prayed.

The prisoners were released one by one,

Her heart  skipped a beat ,each time a name was called.

"O please let him  be alive," she begged God from the inside.

To her astonishment the last name was that of her father's,

A gasp flew out of her mouth “Dad!" she found herself crying out,

There was an eerie silence as the captain turned to look at his daughter,

He stood electrified as the image of his dead wife stood in front of him in the form of his little girl,

Who was now a beautiful young woman who looked just like her mother.

With quick steps she ran towards him

“Dad! Yes child!, "He embraced his daughter tightly.

Looking intently at her,

He started reciting slowly from the word of God, CJB Joel 2:25-26

“I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate,

The grasshoppers, shearer-worms and cutter-worms,
my great army that I sent against you.
26 You will eat until you are satisfied
and will praise the name of Adonai your God,
who has done with you such wonders.
Then my people will never again be shamed. Holding his daughter’s hand, joyfully they made their journey home wards, Assured of getting back their days the locusts had eaten.

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The Dance of Zorah

  

Defeat could not hold them down,

Countless failings could not keep them from hanging on,

Hope swept through their souls each day,

Faith kept them plodding away,

“Wasteful cause, as your labor has so far been in vain.” people often taunted them.

 “If the vision is His, the timing is His too, we need to just hold on and wait,” they would explain.

 Life‘s troubles and pains kept them constantly on their toes,

They had no other choice but to cling to Adonai for all their woes,

Adonis answered them as he promised, 

For Adonis says, “I will spread shalom (Isaiah 66:12) CJB

Over her like a river,

And the wealth of nations

Like a flooding stream;

You will nurse and be carried in her arm

And cuddled in her lap.

Like someone comforted by his mother,

I will comfort you;

Sure enough, His abundance poured down on them.

Flooding their hearts with untold joy and thanksgiving.

They brought out their drums and tambourines,

And danced and danced and sang praises to His name!!

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Will Go Ahead of You

It’s begun. My journey, young Diana whispered shakily to herself.

Her fingers shook as she stared pensively into the cup of hot chocolate.

There was a strange chilliness in the morning air, the mysteries of the sea.

Lurking before her, beckoning her to come towards death trap like an evil witch.

Fear seems to envelop her. She shook herself to break its spell and said

“I am the master of this ship and I am the master of my soul,

I am going to take on this journey nothing can stop me not even the demons from hell.”

James the old porter, arrived just then holding some large journals in his hand

“The late captain, your father had asked me to give them to you when you about to take off on your own”, he said.

Anxiously she turned the yellow pages of her daddy’s journals.

"Your big day has come,"her father wrote,"there are some books you need to refer to and believe in with all your might.

The book of Adoni to hold on to with all your strength and memorize these verses in front of you as you start the jouney of life."

Isaiah 62:12 CJB

For Adonis will go ahead of you,
and the God of Israel will also be behind you.

Isaiah 42:16 the blind I will lead on a road they don’t know,
on roads they don’t know I will lead them;
I will turn darkness to light before them,
an.d straighten their twisted paths.

These are things I will do without fail.

"The other books are my journals," he continued to tell.

"Follow them as a road map for your life on the high seas of life.

Never be afraid. You have a God who will go ahead of you

And your earthly fathers journals to tell you what he did do on all the issues which will confront you too."

The tears rolled from her eyes and splashed onto the books

With courage flowing in strength renewed,

She blew her captain‘s horn and shouted out to the crew on deck,

"Ahoy boys get on board!The journey has begun.

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Do something new

Every night for the past year and a half,

Elizabeth whispered the same prayer to her God each night,

“Do something new in my life, O God,” she cried.

Shut in by herself in a little house by the hillside

Trying her best to reconcile herself to a world without John her beloved,

Who died two years ago after being terminally sick for over a decade.

Their house was so empty, her life felt so dead.

“O God she often thought, how am I going to live through each day,in the years ahead?

Her work kept her busy O but her heart was so empty,

Memories hurt, loneliness killed,

But she had to pull on there was no other way.

“Elizabeth,” pastor said, when her met her in church that day.

“We have all been praying for you,

And we believe this is what Adonai wants you to do.

There is an assignment for a missionary school in West Africa

If you say yes, everything will be arranged for you,

But you will have to leave early tomorrow.” he said.

Elizabeth nodded a yes, with tears flowing down her face.

Whatever said and done it was hard to leave the only life she knew.

She then recollected those words from her morning prayer which seemed like a confirmation.

“Stop dwelling on past events
and brooding over times gone by; 
 I am doing something new; 
it’s springing up — can’t you see it?
I am making a road in the desert, 
rivers in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19 CJB

 “I trust you God”, she whispered over and over again,

As her journey began and she reached her destination.

Knees knocking, heart pounding she made her way.

Towards the large burly dark man who met her at the airport that day.

And they drove miles and miles in the hot desert land,

They reached an old dilapidated school by the river bank.

A sea of little orphans burst through the door

And threw themselves at her in ones, two and fours,

“Our mother has come they yelled in joy!”

To be called a mother a word which sounded so strange to her

But oh it sounded so sweet to her tired ears.

“Thank you Adonai, she whispered to her God.

As she hugged the little ones back,

For doing something new and giving me new lease of life!

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All My Mountains Into Roads

Isabelle looked about her

“Oh!   Yet another mountain”, she cried

“Why is that when I set out to do anything?

There is always a mountain standing large in front of me.”

“Yes child,” Grandfather answered her “It’s always the mountain within which needs conquering first.

You need faith child, believe Adonai for his words,

That he will turn all our mountains into roads. Isaiah 49:11-12 CJB.”

“There is a saying which says mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

 We need to find the path. “He continued.

“Look, “Isabelle cried, “Tonight our soldiers are expected to return from the sea.

Somebody needs to put the light on at the light house it’s got to me.”

“It’s too dangerous, Grandfather said, the rocks there are too steep,

But Isabella did not listen on her way she went,

She reached by dusk and pushed the door,

The next thing she knew she was on the floor.

An iron beam from the ceiling had come out loose

And struck her head and across the eyes the metal flew.

Blinded with pain and with her vision impaired,

She felt darkness around her and she screamed in despair.

Her dreams, her future seem to fade away into the black night as she turned to.

 Adononai, and cried with all her might.

"Help me; find the way, to make it to the top,

 The men out at sea are depending on me.”, she sobbed.

By the light from the light house .The men reached safely.

Isabelle the girl was nowhere to be seen.

The young soldier Joshua, pale like a ghost, ran like the wind

With his heart beating wildly prayed from within.

"Lord please save her, the thought of losing her makes me realize how much I love her".

He found the unconscious girl and brought her down.

Temperature, bandanges and a swollen head,

It took her a week to see again.

Grateful and thankful to the almighty

 “She smiled happily to see them all again.

Not only did you conquer a mountain, “Grandfather whispered into her ear. “One of  your dream is coming true, did you know!”

“Joshua the young soldier whom you always loved from before just announced to all of us that he wants to marry you.”

The young girl blushed and looked to the sky and said these words to Adonai.

“Not only did you save me and help me cross my  mountain but you have given him to me whose bride I always wanted to be”.
"Thank you Adonai!". 

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