I Dare to Believe!

I dare to believe

What is promised will happen.

I don’t see it, 

I can't feel it, it still seems miles away.

The forecast is declared, the announcement made,

You don’t stand a chance, you better give up they all say.

But I dare to believe that miracles happen

Mark 13:31CJB Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.

It doesn’t matter how dark the night sky is 

Or how small my faith is, 

There is no doubt what the naysayers says is true.

It’s impossible, they say, it’s only a miracle that will see you through.

And then, that’s when I tell them

That I dare to believe,

What is said is done...

All I have to do is simply believe that miracles happen!!!

No matter what He won't let go!

There was commotion and panic everywhere

People were running about in despair.

Gathering their little ones and precious things,

The exodus had to happen and it was today.

An old lady sick to the bone sat alone in her house

Prayed to her God with her face to the ground.

“Adonai Elohim not even for a day you have taken your hand away from mine,

Not even for a day have you abandoned me.

Not even for a day have you forgotten me.

Throughout my days you have always been there for me, help me out now, please", she cried.

At the city gate the captain of the king’s army shouted out sharply.

“At dusk sharp today we are leaving,

In silence we need to move, as our attackers are fast approaching.|

We have just 12 hours to get away before the enemy plunders our territory.”

In order they stood all the families in a line,

When suddenly a woman shouted out

“Oh what about Old Agnes, she is still in her house “. “It is too late, the captain replied, nothing can be done now

"Only her god can save her, as for the rest of us we have no choice but to move on."

Suddenly in the shadows a man arrived carrying an old lady in his arms.

"It‘s Agnes," the woman exclaimed!

Agnes smiled joyfully, clutching her son’s shoulder tightly.

Looking up, she said “He will fill your mouth with laughter

And your lips with shouts of joy. Job 8:21 CJB….with eyes shining in the dark…she went on…No matter what He won’t let go!!!

I Know

I know O God  you are for me.

I know you deeply love me.

I know you direct my steps each day.

I know even though I can’t comprehend most of your ways

I know you are  constantly working out your great plans to keep your promises to me.

I know to rest in you is to just believe,

To just believe is to simply trust,

To trust is to be sure,

To be sure is to let go my will into your hands.

I know to be still is the most hardest thing to do

I know  to trust you blindly in trying situations is the safest thing to do

I know  when you’re helpless and hopeless the only way forward is to pray

I know now not to flinch when insults and condemnation rain on me like tornados.

I know  that if someone really liked you they will always find a way to stay in your life.

I know now as long as I spend quality time with you

Each day will be a surprise to look forward to…

The Lost Fragrance

Shirley happened to see her close friend she had not seen in years.

Who stared right through her when she saw her too,

Stunned, Shirley went over to greet her.

She was met with a cold smile which pierced Shirely's heart through and through,

“How could she treat me like a stranger when we were so inseparable in school,a twenty five year old friendship just discarded like tissue?," Shirely was telling her

Mother sounding very agitated and deeply hurt that day.

“Yes dear, we know, how close you two were.

In fact we all  noticed how she was the happiest person at your wedding

Smiling from ear to ear.”

“I have tried so hard to reach her, over the years again and again,” Shirley continued to say

“She told me once, when I forced her, that her world had changed and she was no longer the same.

“Perfume and incense make the heart glad, [also] friendship sweet with advice from the heart. Proverbs 27:9 CJB” mother quoted the scriptures to Shirley that day,

"If the friendship has lost its fragrance, let it go dear"

Mother told her gently.

“I did”, Shirley explained, “But when I read the old letters and see the gifts we exchanged as teenagers  it seems so meaningless yet it tears my heart to throw it all away”

“People change dear, but memories don’t 

Hold on to it, but let the fragments go.

It takes one person to forgive and two to get reunited,

If she does not want you in her life again

Let it be, dear.

There are others who cannot live without you.

Be thankful for the ones who are there with you and let the fragrance of their love fill your heart always”. Mother advised her that day.

“Yes, Shirley nodded, lost fragrances, she said to herself

“I will never cry over you again”.

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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