Believe To Receive

He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. 

Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."

Mark 5:34

Luke 18:42
"Receive your sight!" Jesus replied. "Your faith has healed you."

Then he said to him, "Rise and go; your faith has made you well."

Luke 17:19

Luke 7:50
And Jesus told the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

Matthew 8:13
Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! As you have believed, so will it be done for you."

 And his servant was healed at that very hour.

Matthew 9:29
Then He touched their eyes and said,

 "According to your faith will it be done to you."

Faith is unlike any other gift;

We have to believe before we can receive.

Often, in this world we believe when we see!

Not so with faith...

How can we get faith?

By getting to know the One in whom we place it.

How can we get to know Him?

Only one way; by getting into His Word and

acquainting ourselves with His loving promises.

This poem came out of my personal struggle with letting go

of anxiety and to put my trust wholly in God

(to let faith make me whole) 

When we believe

Then we receive

Faith cannot first behold

Trust must rely

On God’s reply

With courage brave and bold

Lord, God we pray

That come-what-may

Our faith will make us whole

When we believe

And then receive

The healing of the soul

Belief, my friend

Cannot pretend

Faith has no seen façade

But we receive

As we believe

The promises of God

Then pray we trust

And yield this dust

To He who knows all things

As we believe

We will receive

The perfect peace faith brings

When we believe

Then we receive

There is no other way

 But we will find

Sweet peace of mind

When we trust and obey

© Janet Martin

The artist below (David Wesley) is a nurse here in Ontario, Canada. 

Let's remember to pray without ceasing for 

healthcare workers all over the world!

Isaiah 12:2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. 

For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, 

and He also has become my salvation."

Isaiah 26:3-4
You will keep him in perfect peace,  

Whose mind is stayed on You, 

Because he trusts in You.

Trust in the Lord forever,
For in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength.

Thy Will...Will Be Done

“Then he placed his right hand on me and said:

 'Do not be afraid. 

I am the First and the Last.'” 

~ Revelation 1:17

A Good Song To Sing At the Top of our lungs

No Matter What...

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:

2 Tim.3:1

This verse should strike a sacred awareness in all of us!

While throngs stampede super-markets preparing for What If,

The Great Inevitable(death) remains exactly where it always has been!

Imagine if we took the same dire efforts to prepare for Certainty 

as we seem to be, for Uncertainty

Thy Majesty sketched on thin air, etched in rock, sand and sea

Thy Deity beyond compare, all else ascribes to Thee

Thy Triune Eternality that none can thwart or trip

Thy Unequivocal Authority and Authorship

Thy Will, will be done, Father, Son and Spirit undeterred

Thy Kingdom never overthrown; nothing alters Thy Word

Thy Mercy new each morning whether we believe or not

Thy Love imbued with warning to take captive every thought

Thy Providence intent upon much more than daily bread

Thy Only Son the One you sent to crush the serpent’s head

Thy Power to proclaim; even death tendered its control

Thy Name above all names alone to save the living soul

Thy Grace sufficient for the day, whatever it may send

Thy Ways omniscient; far too great for man to comprehend

Thy Law supreme and contrary to human nature’s lust

Thy Thought above our arbitrary schemes scratched in the dust

Thy Holiness unspotted though stripped, scourged and crucified

Thy Humility scoffed at by hate’s ignorance and pride

Thy Compassion, it failed not as you cried, ‘Father, forgive’

Thy Ration for Redemption full-supplied; ‘ah, look and live’

Thy Evidence Unrivaled while doubter’s still seek fool’s proof

Thy Word, The Holy Bible, God-breathed infallible Truth

Thy Presence never leaves or forsakes us; then bid fear flee

Surely Thy Goodness follows us until we dwell with Thee

Thy Promises an ample stronghold in this world below

Thy Kindness our example not to return blow for blow

Thy Wisdom better than the choice of much gold’s cold embrace

Thy Whisper the same Voice that spoke Creation into place

Thy Hand (scarred with man's treason) in complete, perfect Command

Thy peace to surpass Reason we will never understand

Thy Hope where Unbelief achieves terrible times foretold

Thy Joy, in spite of utter grief for those outside The Fold

Thy Will, will be done; 'til not one jot or tittle remains

Then

Thy Kingdom, power and glory forever and ever reigns

Amen

© Janet Martin

 “The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.  

What can man do to me?  

The Lord is with me; he is my helper.” 

~ Psalm 118:6-7

While We Feel Oh, So Little (in the Grand Scheme of Today)

How and what ,wherever-in-the-world-you-are, are you doing today? 

Snow-lovers are getting their cups of happiness filled to overflowing the past few days!

Due to all this 'happiness' no kiddos today...

 My head wanted a poem about snow but

 another Whisper usurped...

 Are we in God's Word?

If not, how much  ALL we miss!

 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. 

And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence 

 and the hope of which we boast.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: 

“Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts..."

Heb.3:6-8

While we feel oh, so little in the Grand Scheme of Today

Our Father up in Heaven hears each earnest prayer we pray

Then, as we entrust heart’s desires to Hope’s Advocate

What seemed so small becomes a Powerhouse of humble faith

Love’s divine intervention we oft do not recognize

As He draws strayed attention to the grave-ness of The Prize

Our Father up in Heaven, pray we do not disregard

Your Voice until our hearts become indifferent and hard

The death of a believer sometimes precedes the cold grave

When the Deceiver succeeds in making someone sight’s slave

But sight is the opponent to the fight that faith empowers

Our Father up in Heaven’s ways do not cater to ours

The God of love bids us believe; the devil bids us doubt

The God of love bids us receive what none dare die without

How pitiful is the perception of the naked eye

I AM can never be contained in cups thought could descry

The ellipses that gather day by day then year by year

Final exhale eclipses then the Unseen will appear

Then all that fueled argument and hope will be made plain

In the Beginning IS the Word that will forever reign

© Janet Martin 

 Acts 28:23-27

  They arranged to meet Paul on a certain day, 

and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying. 

He witnessed to them from morning till evening, explaining about the kingdom of God, 

and from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets he tried to persuade them about Jesus.  

 Some were convinced by what he said, but others would not believe.  

 They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement:

 “The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:

 “‘Go to this people and say,
“You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.” 

 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
    they hardly hear with their ears,
    and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’^[a]