08 Friday Apr 2022
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Here’s a song gone astray on my recording equipment.
Hope you enjoy this song I’d written at a different period in my walk with God.
Though, not much has changed with regard to loving my King. 🙂
“You Are”
01 Tuesday Mar 2022
Posted in Faith, Hearing God's Voice, Hope, Love, Loving God, Music, SH Music Gallery, Uncategorized
https://www.patreon.com/posts/hold-on-36469176
Yes, a song of encouragement for these troubled times.
But more than that… “Hold On” offers a voice that we might cry out!
Some things we just need to say; and say it out loud, before we can let go and move on.
What is “IT”?
That’s for you to decide.
Because “IT,” today, may not be “IT,” for tomorrow. Â Today it is possibly COVID-19 and no job or not enough money because your business is falling apart.
Tomorrow, “IT” could be a lack of feeling right with your Creator.
A few tomorrows from now it may be a society gone mad WITH the Mark of the Beast literally manifesting in OUR world.
With Christians IGNORING God’s Word and no longer able to live in their cities and homes and general communities.
So whether your “IT” is your walk with God or more mundane issues…
“HOLD ON,” because God has your back as His servant, the Servants of the Living God, Jesus Christ, our Savior.
Continue reading01 Tuesday Mar 2022
Posted in Devotional, Faith, Hearing God's Voice, Memory Verse, Without Love
Level 2 Memory Verse:
Even when God has shined a great Light into your life and you have lived your life faithfully for Jesus… sadly, you cannot hand that relationship or faithfulness or salvation to another person.
We can bring them to the River-of-Life – But they must drink for themselves.
It is God who calls us. (John 15:16; Acts 2:39)
Individually we must answer.
Blessed be the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ!
“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you (John 15:16).
13 Thursday Jan 2022
Posted in Devotional, Faith, Healing, Hearing God's Voice, Hope, Loving God, Music, SH Music Gallery
Sometimes life falls apart around us.
It’s good to know God has your back!
We don’t often know what God is doing –
or where He is taking us,
but we know we can trust Him.
08 Saturday Jan 2022
Posted in Faith, Hearing God's Voice, Prophecy, School of the Prophets, True Life
Prophecies and Words of Knowledge have been a cornerstone in my life.
In May of 1958 my – barely – Christian parents received a prophecy they’d have a son one year from that day, it would be a boy and grow into a man of God. Correct on all points.
I was Saved, age seven; filled with the Holy Spirit, age nine and delivered my first public Word-of-Knowledge only a few months later. The prophecy declared my Pastor was having an affair with a specific female congregant. Correct on all points.
Just, one or two more examples before addressing the point for this Post.
Midday, following Vacation Bible School, Phoenix Arizona, 1971 (I was twelve) I received what would be one of my life’s most significant Words from the Lord; the Word was in the form of a question rather than a direct Word of Knowledge. The Lord simply asked: “Why was Jesus’ ministry just 3½ years?” For the next 35 years that question disturbed my life.
Continue reading08 Saturday Jan 2022
Posted in Devotional, Faith, From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, Hearing God's Voice, Hope, Just Poems & Prayers, Mystery, Poetry, Poetry Corner
Anyone who has spent time walking with God knows it is not always simple – on our side of the fence.
We trust, we doubt, we fail, we succeed and sometimes all at the same time.
Knowing yourself – way down deep where the moss grows – is not a single step in life but the journey in one.
Here’s a poem written near the end of 2013.
Though vague, it is… you may see a portion of your life’s snuggle in the rhyme?
Far and deep my eyes are trained
Though not on flora, fauna or mountain’s terrain
As if, lake of glass – double paned
Distant reflection whose figures appear inane.
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Lost in thought, beyond most deep
Know not what answers my heart doth seek
Seems the deeper I gaze – the shallower my perceptions
From whence I began? – why ask such reflections?
Still, here am I, just I, just me.
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Way down deep in this loch is seen
Visage mocks – no answer glean
Just one long breath – beneath the water’s plane
Glass like waters – double pained.
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Most cold the glass – both shallow and deep
Elusive peace – Seaport’s Keep
Reflections seen – of cloud filled skies
Murky damp – Life keeps drifting bye.
By: Steven R. Harrel
I know the passage in, James 1:22-24 relates to us being – be doers of God’s Word and not just someone who hears and does not apply the message – BUT – that is not the take-away I’m offering in this poem.
Rather, notice the concept suggested in verse 23… the mirror.
We all have one of those mirrors.
Use yours wisely for the days of our lives are numbered and few.
Be blessed and have a great day in your – Reflections.
03 Monday Jan 2022
I will never forget the day I wrote this song. What a joy of joys filled my soul.
Should I pray you feel that touch from God at only half the strength I experienced His touch…
Then you will remember the love of the Lord brushing your soul.
Be blessed! Enjoy! Rejoice in the love of your Savior with me.
03 Monday Jan 2022
Happiness is a walk with our Creator
WHEN we know we are in the center of His will.
No better place to be.
06 Monday Dec 2021
When God created Adam, HE walked with and talked with HIS people directly.
By the time Adam sinned and the Garden was off-limits, the people of God had Adam and Eve and their relationship with the Creator to guide any Pre-Israelite peoples.
Many years later when it was time for the Age of Men to change and for the hard and fast Laws of God to be established, God provided HIS written Word through Moses.
God’s hand continued adding to and providing up to date written materials for the current age of His People as well as the coming ages for the Israelites: i.e., historical documents, Psalms and the varied Books of the Prophets. God provided as needed the materials for each age and necessary prophetic materials for the coming of each new age (i.e., time of Christ).
By the time our world was ready for THE Messiah’s first incarnation (the Prince of Peace and the first half of Christ’s Covenant) Israel was prepared and educated according to God’s perfect timing, will and purposes for that Age.
Continue reading24 Saturday Apr 2021
Posted in Faith, From the Heart: Poetry, Hearing God's Voice, Hope, Memory Verse
Level 2 Memory Verse: should require 8 to 10 days to memorize and with ongoing, daily recitation fully memorized for life within 30 to 50 days.
I consider Matthew 6:9-13 a Level 2 Memory Verse because it is so often quoted and heard in society. The section of scripture also flows like a beautiful river. Here we go:
Bee-U-Tee-Ful!
Matthew 6:9-13 is most often referred to as “The Lord’s Prayer”.
It is formulaic and designed to provide a structure from which to pray.
For example: the fourth line above “Give us this day our daily bread” is related to our provision, but not ours alone. The fourth line and every line within this passage can be used to pray for your every prayer. Yes, you can pray for your sustenance and resources by simply praying the Lord’s Prayer, but you can just as easily expand each line within the Lord’s Prayer to pray for you and your family’s and friend’s greater good.
If you have never used the Lord’s Prayer in such a manner – give it a shot.
Blessed be the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ!
Have a glorious day.
This Side of the Whirlwind 