Tag: dependence on God

Proverbs

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If you look to be fully and completely understood by another, you will find dissappointment.

God and God alone is the only one to provide us with full understanding.

That is the beauty of having a relationship with Him. You are fully known, fully understood and fully loved.

If you place your dependence and security on a person, place or thing, you will find uncertainty and fear. For the world is flawed and broken. But He has overcome the world, so we are safe to depend on Him.

Do not match an eye for an eye but walk uprightly looking to His Holy Spirit for your direction, not to others motives.

Do not judge others’ hearts. For just as He is working in yours, we do not know the wonders He is doing in the hearts of others as well.

Gifts of Deficit

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Thank You for my sorrow
For it is in the night
I best see Your light

Thank You for my questions
For it is within doubt
My faith finds it’s sight

Thank You for my hunger
For it is the pain of my need
That seeks filling from Your hand

Thank You for keeping my eyes under cover
For it is not knowing tomorrow
That keeps me surrendered to Your plan

Dusty Road

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Living in mansions of gold

May have turned my heart to stone

Traveling a carefree road

May have left my need for You unknown

Instead many troubles were designed

Further deepening my search for You

Delivered at specific times

For reasons only Heaven knew

“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

Dependence

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You create beauty from all the pieces of our lives.

In our own strength we can do nothing. Our hands just wriggle and writhe

With this knowledge we come before You limited yet sincere

In our dependence on Your mercy and Hand to act mightily here.