5/10/26 Through 5/16/26

 5/10/26 Through 5/16/26

Sunday

The Spirit comes to be our guide

Not as a means of boastful pride

But one to teach as Jesus taught

And spread the gifts that Jesus bought

He gives the words we need to speak

He strengthens us when we are weak

Emboldening the bashful one

And seeing that His work gets done

Monday

So open your heart and hear what He says

Then kindle that spark and make it a blaze

And make of your home a place of Good News

A harbor of love for pilgrims to choose

The evil will crowd you with noise every day

Too drown out the word that you're hearing Him say

But quiet will counter the evil design

And teach you to Heaven, your ears to incline.

The child will search for immediate gain

But hopefully learn that it breeds lasting pain

Mature will be patient and giving of time

As on to the Heavenly Heights they will climb

The children need leaders who show them the way

Who sacrifice now for the coming new day

Who pleasure forsake, for another's true good

And choose like adults to shoulder the wood.

Tuesday

The Spirit will come and rejoicing will sound

When truth of the Gospel by Pagans is found

When clearly they see what the Father has done

By His sending in flesh the gift of His Son.

The bars and the chains are no match for His pow'rs

He comes to our aid in the darkest of hours

One shaking the Earth as He enters the room

Of hearts that are trapped in the darkness and doom

The Light brings a joy that before never known

But there on the faces of beaten was shown

In such a condition, they raised to His name

A song that His love and His glory acclaim.

Wednesday

Our Lord, not leaving men to fall

Has sent the One on whom we call

His Spirit from the Godhead Three

To open eyes and hearts to see

The world has many gods to praise

But only One to whom we raise

Our heart and voice to so proclaim

The glory of His Sacred Name

For One but died and rose again

As Sacrifice for sinful men

This One has borne our weight of sin

And calls us now to enter in.

Since we, as men, are free to choose

The life He offers, we may lose

Unless we turn from evil ways

And offer One the rightful praise

Thursday

Told to love another clearly

Spirit of our Lord is nearly

There with every grace that's needed

When His voice is closely heeded.

Well the chosen teachers seeded

And for newborn Christians pleaded

That the Spirit come with graces

Filling all the needed places.

Friday

When new life comes, it brings a joy

To pain and suffering destroy

The newness and the purity

Arrives amid obscurity

Yet comes to waken love within

And turn our hearts away from sin

To see our duty here to give

For such a precious one to live

The hardest thing we'll ever do

Is make a sacrifice like You

A total gift of self to win

Our vict'ry over death and sin

You showed the way on Calvary

How real men all were meant to be

As husbands, fathers, men who love

And take their cues from God above

Our chance at glory here below

Is raise a tender child to know

The love of God, and right from wrong

Then write a new and diff'rent song

Saturday

Oh, let Your words be on my lips

So they, my feeble words eclipse

So they might reach one deep within

And lead to turning far from sin

Your blaze of mercy melts away

Dear Father, this, I humbly pray

In Jesus' name, in firm resolve

My sinfulness that You absolve

I pray that too, my life be seen 

A one, within the din, serene

With comfort in Your mercy, Lord

A broken one who's been restored

A one Your Spirit uses well

To of Your grace and glory tell

Obedient in every way

And trusting every word You say/

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