Season 5, Episode 3, His Grace is a Prayer Away

43,5-3, SHOW  NOTES & COPYRIGHTS,  (Scheduled 2/11/2022) Today is an unpublished day again.  All, but the last one, were posted on the God Still Rhymes Facebook page.Let’s start with a poem written in 2017.“Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will keep you from the trial that is going to come to the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.”  Revelation 3:10 (NIV)After being led to re Revelation again, I wrote this verse on a sticky note.  I knew that there is a poem in it.  But what I wrote after still I am wondering, wondering why I wrote the words down.  Later I think that I understood even though I still wonder why these words came after the verse above.  Confusing, right? Somehow I wrote NO FAITH WITHOUT TRUST.  I mentioned this in an earlier post and I can see how this has played a big role in my life.NO FAITH WITHOUT TRUSTAs I look back at the miles,Seeing the tears and the smiles,Having stirred up so much dust,Why did I think that I must?I do believe all that you have for meAnd I know that who I am you see,That you have plans for what I should be.That you want us to be we.Was it the centurion that Jesus asked if he had faith,Faith that his child would survive and live?To which the man replied, I have faith,Show me how to believe.I don’t know about you,But that is me.I have faith that God’s word is true,That his promises are real.He has changed me, I am made anew.I have on my heart his seal.But there are times I feel left out,When I have doubtAbout what he has planned,About where with him I stand.I sometimes wander about.My faith, what is it As I try to make it fitInto the ways of the worldAs at night I lay curled,Curled up in a ballWaiting for his call.On one of my good daysWe had a talk, God and me.I had taken the timeTo read of his ways.I think he was pleasedThat I had taken the timeAnd in the time it was me,It was me that he seized.He told me that my faith,Though ever growing,Would never be what it couldIf I didn’t trust.I need to trust when I am fearful,I need to trust when I am tearful,I need to trust in the good timesAnd when there are no rhymes.If I truly accept the death of his SonFor my salvation, my redemption,For his promise of eternity,Then I need to not just believe.I need to trust that he Is in control always,And in all ways,No matter what I see.He loves me,He blesses me,And as my trust in His promises, His word growsMy faith will also.The conversations will never end.tcarter, 6/27/17, Discussion:HIS GRACEHaving heard God’s callThe apostle Paul,Hearing God’s VoiceWas able to rejoice.Having faced the dayWe prepare to pray,Asking God to deliver us.It is then in Him we must trust.When we ask for God’s graceIn this world we face,Do we trust it is doneAnd the battle is won?He has said His grace is,It is here in the present time.We’ve asked and so He givesIn that moment our needed rhyme.He...