10/22/17 Through 10/28/17

10/22/17 Through 10/28/17

Sunday

Every power on earth bestowed

Comes from above, from One who showed

His love in total sacrifice

To for our many sins suffice

So recognize what he has done

By sending us His only Son

And give the honor where it's due

To One who has great love for you

Monday

Presuming only in His love

We place our trust in God above

The barn we simply fill with things

But never happiness it brings

We seek the giver, not the gift

For He alone will spirits lift

No thing on earth can satisfy,

But more and more the fool will try

Tuesday

Here I am to do your will

And let my heart, Your graces fill

Too long I've tried this way of mine

And let my heart, the world entwine

With foolish goals my way is fraught

For by the flesh, my will's been taught

To choose the easy pleasure near

And not my Lord and God to fear

Oh help me cast that way aside

And bathe in precious cleansing tide

That I might stay awake and see

The Master's kind return to me

Wednesday

Slaves we are and slaves we will be

Both now and in eternity

We have the will to choose which kind,

The where with all to graces find

May we not be slaves of sin

And foster wickedness within

But show ourselves brought back alive

As ones, in righteousness, who strive

Those freed from sin will find their way

To listen well and then obey

And then upon surprise return

The Master's praises they will earn

Thursday

This frightening passage comes to me

As wake-up call that I may see

That I must face the fiery blaze

To clear away the sinful haze

The fire of love to purify

That I might live and never die

Oh spark that flame of love in me

And all my cherished family

Friday

The good I will is not within

But rather I am filled with sin

My flesh so weak and cowardly

That holy, I may never be

What pow'r can save this flesh of mine

That towards the evil way inclines?

The pow'r to turn my heart above

Is Jesus Christ, the man of love

Saturday

Lord help me answer to Your call

Please strengthen faith, don't let me fall

I want to much, a doer be

But oh, dear Lord, please strengthen me.