Our God Is An Awesome God!

Author of sky and sea and sod

Our God is an awesome God

Worshipers hail Him and applaud

Our God is an awesome God

No one can thwart His will or plan

Beneath His Power, what is man?

Our God is Righteousness and peace

His Government will never cease

On Him trust's confidence relies

To Him the humble sinner cries

Through Him Redemption's price is paid

By Him the world's foundation laid 

For Him the fields of flowers bloom

With Him there is no fear of doom

His visage greater than Time's scope

His Promises secure man's hope

His Bearing who can comprehend?

He has no beginning or end 

He is not mocked, He will prevail

His Word is Truth and will not fail

Author of love, He is no fraud

Our God is an Awesome God

 © Janet Martin

God IS I AM

I AM IS

Alpha and Omega, Authority, Abiding, Able, Almighty

Bread, Beholder,

Creator, Comforter, Chief Cornerstone, 

Door, Deliverer, Divine, Defender,

Everlasting, Eternal,

Father, Faithful, Fire,

Grace, Good, Guide, Giver, Glory,

Hope, Healer, Holy, Highest of the high, Helper

Infinite, Immanuel,  Invisible, Immortal,

Jesus, Justification, Judge, Jealous, joy,

King of Kings,

Love, Light, Life, Lord of lords,

 Merciful, Mediator,

Near, 

Omnipotent,
Peace, Power, Providence, Perfect, Patient,

Quickener,

Righteous, Redeemer, Resurrection, Rewarder, Ruler, Refuge

Spirit, Saviour, Shepherd, Salvation, Sinless, Sovereign,

Truth, Teacher, Tender, Triumphant,

Upright,

Vine, Victor,

Way, Wrath, Wonderful, Water, Word,

X-ample,

Yahweh,

 Zealous,

© Janet Martin

A glimpse of Who God IS

want more?

900 names and titles of God 
(I found this site after doing this personal study on some attributes/names of God and realized this barely skims the surface!)

What a mighty God we are called to serve!

Here Is Dawn's/Hope's Fountain Brimming...

This post was inspired by an article I read this morning by Franklin Graham 

regarding their government's shutdown, which reads in part...

 "The true crux of the problem is that our government has largely removed
God from the halls and corridors of our Capitol.
I would encourage the members of Congress to come together for a prayer meeting
with President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence,
and call on the name of God, asking Him for His wisdom
and asking Him to soften everyone’s hardened hearts."

 What do you ask Him for (the One from whom all blessing flows)

...before you begin your day?

 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.  

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

 Matt.6:9-10

He lifts our drooping heads,
cups our heavy hearts,
guides our weary feet
If we ask
He fits us for today's task

This morning might not be quite as colour-charged as yesterday's
but no matter the colour it comes from the same Place/grace!

Into Time’s grace-carved aeon pours

Hope’s mercy-tide from Heaven’s shores

Through Reason’s Bars to broken dreams/schemes

Love and redemption’s goodness streams

A fountain in the desert where

Man drinks from well-springs of His care

Whether or not we pray or hold

The Hand from whence our days unfold

And whether we doubt or believe

He grants the measure we receive

And overflows the banks of night

With Mercy’s tide and Morning’s Light

© Janet Martin

Sometimes we stand a little to gaze on dawn's fresh foray

then slip out of glass slippers into work-boots of new day!

Wonder's Winter-night Waltz

Now broods above the wooded lea

A soft, star-spangled lullaby

The lyricist of wind and tree

Tugs at the timbre of the sky

The land is carved twixt scarves of sea

And set between its solemn surge

To stun us with a melody

That turns from jubilee to dirge

The countryside is still as death

Beneath the pallor of the snow

The sound of silence steals our breath

As round and round and round we go

© Janet Martin  

Thursday Thoughts on Nothing New

It is impossible to find fulfillment in the things we see

Until we look through thankful eyes of kindness and humility

***

No matter what we may achieve

No boast let thought suggest

For only through what we receive

Makes possible the rest

***

Pity not he who cannot see

But those whose sight is blind

So full of animosity

The good they cannot find

***

If we thought less of self and more of God the world would see

Without a word the proof of love the way it ought to be

***

Darling the day is dying

Darling, ah, we are too

Then pray Hope is relying

On God, faithful and true

***

I love the way the birth of day

Soft-ushers earth back into view

And whether it is gold or gray

I love the way it looks on you

***

Aubade and lullaby, oh my

Time’s music-man is sweet

He spills the fathoms of the sky

In shadows at our feet

***

Maybe you think a rhyme is a sad waste of Time and ink

Well, that’s okay but I must say I dislike how you think

Maybe you think a poem is word’s weakest enterprise

But I dare you to try a few before you roll your eyes

***

Oh, isn’t it exciting when your toes first touch the floor

To wonder what is waiting where dawn swings ajar its door

Ah, what and who will paint the pictures that only thought sees

After the laughter that is waiting turns to memories

***

Rock-a-bye-river

Wherever you be

You are a Singer

That sings to the sea

Sometimes your chorus

Is muted and mild

Sometimes the roar of

Your paean runs wild  

Rock-a-bye-schooner,

And hush-a-bye lea

Cradle the crooner

That sings to the sea

*** 

The colors of mid-afternoon
on a mid-winter's day
are blended to perfection
In a tea-pot of Earl Gray

***

When daylight disappears
and adds its weight to yester-years
Pray, should this be our final one
The Lord will greet us with "well done"

© Janet Martin