An Overwhelming Plea...

Without God's word to minister hope to the soul

Monday morning could feel like an

overwhelming weight-lifting exercise!

Thank-you God, for Your indwelling Spirit,

for the glorious riches in Christ Jesus

 to overwhelm our need!

 

In Need

I need You, Lord, Your whisper to bid worry’s tempest cease

To conquer overwhelming dread with overwhelming peace

To comfort overwhelming grief with overwhelming love

To help unbelief with belief this world knows nothing of

I need you, Lord, to quell the fear that seeks faith, to destroy

Love’s overwhelming sorrow cheer with overwhelming joy

And should Your higher ways impart a cross, pride to abase

Lord, overwhelm my wicked heart with overwhelming grace

I need your overwhelming hope to overwhelm despair

Your promises to help me cope through overwhelming prayer

Lest ignorance makes me uncouth and wise in my own eyes

I need Your overwhelming truth to expose Satan’s lies

I need Your Word to overwhelm word-storms of worldly vice

Your overwhelming strength to transform Self to sacrifice

Your overwhelming Light to pierce death-dark veneers of dust

And shatter overwhelming sight with overwhelming trust

I need you, Lord, to overwhelm my overwhelming need

To overwhelm my whelming cry with mercy’s tender creed/reed

Enfold trouble and strife beneath Your overwhelming Wing

And overwhelm me with Your life where death has lost its sting

Hallelujah,

Amen

© Janet Martin

Phil.4:19-20

And my God will supply all your needs

 according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

 20To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. 

Amen.