Power in the Promises
So many precious promises are waiting in God's Word
To be applied to everyday and draw us heavenward
From focusing on petty things that keep us busy here
So busy blessings we might have most rarely do appear
For Satan knows the power that those promises possess
He knows that if we lean on them his cunning can't distress
Us when we are oppressed by him and evil things he does
That weaken and destroy the faith in those who put their trust
In people not in God alone who only knows the heart
Who daily offers out to us His hand to have a part
In His work of salvation that's much larger than we know
That's meant to touch the hearts of those in every place we go
To strengthen and encourage both them and ourselves as well
As sharing of God's promises will bless the source who tells
The hearer who can see in them the evidence of faith
That's strengthened in the one who shares the goodness of God's grace
And with that faith comes power to stand firmly for God's Truth
No matter what the consequence that leads to our abuse
When we live by what we profess the way Christ lived for us
To give by His Example how the saints can daily trust
That they are in God's presence where no evil can control
Their thought their words their actions as by grace God's made them whole
And every day that's focused on His Word and Him alone
Makes them and us a channel by which Truth and Life are known
For what they are is Jesus Who abides our steps each day
Who by His Holy Spirit keeps us in the narrow Way
Where nothing can offend us that our God has not foreseen
And made for a provision whereupon our faith might lean
But only as we're focused daily on the things He shares
Those things He's scattered through His Word assuring us He cares
About even the smallest things pertaining to His plan
To make again His glory be the center of each man
And woman who will love Him even more than life itself
Abandoning the things of earth as well as all things else
That keeps them from experience that only comes from God
Empowering each step we take along the path we trod
Colossians 1:9-29
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