CONTENTS
FREE WILL
I MAY BE DOWN
WHO I AM
WHO WE ARE
SON OF INNOCENSE
GOD’S PROMISE
SATISFYING GIFT
ECLIPSED MAGNIFICENSE
IN CHRIST ALONE
YOKED WITH CHRIST
CLOUDED SERENITY
ENSNERED HEART
MANY VOICES ONE VOICE
THE LORD’S FACE UNTURNED
WICKED DEFEATED
LIVE BY THE SPIRIT
FREEDOM IN CHRIST
GODS MERCY
WITHIN GOD’S WALLS
RIGHTIOUS BOASTING
THE CALL
EMPTY VESSEL
HEAVENS REACH
SIN AT BAY
WORLD’S TEST
OVERBOARD LOVE
FRUITFUL WORDS
ANSWER TO CALL
NOT AFRAID
TRUE MENTOR
STAND IN FREEDOM
GOD’S CHURCH
YOUR DAY
TRANSPARENT LIVING
CRUCIFIED
STANDING GROUND
TASK COMPLETED
UNCONTESTED
HINDSIGHT
PROMISE FORTOLD
Free Will
Free will is the ability to think for ourselves
The ability to act on our own,
To do right or to do wrong,
To freely choose the consequences of our actions
What a wonderful burden upon our hearts,
To know we are responsible for ourselves
That we are accountable for the choices we make,
Choices that affect us and those around us
To which one-day we will look back with either pride
Or, one day with regret
Free will, a split second decision
A lifetime consequence
An eternal result
I May Be Down
A battle lost and I am down, but
I may be down, but I’m not beaten
I may be down, but I’m not broken
I may be down, but it’s not over
I may be down, but that’s because
I’m waiting for my time to rise again
Who I Am
A servant is who I am
A follower is who I am
A man whose life is not his own is who I am
Someone broken is who I am
Meek minded is who I am
A man set free is who I am
All because of who? I AM
Who We Are
Can we really say we know?
Who we are? Why we are?
If values change
So we change
Therefore we are never who we are
There is but only One that can not change
He knows us, birth into death
Our every move known before us
One who is beyond birth and death, eternal
So us in our fragile state
In death, in the final breath
Can truly say, Who We Are
Son of Innocence
You came into this world
A baby, innocent and pure
You lived by your Father's word
And through it we were made secure
But, that security only later we found
When on the cross You were bound
And thus as You entered the world
So did Thy leave it, innocent and pure
God's Promise
The promises that You have made
Are to me like the ocean
So vast, filled with many pleasures
And never empty
Satisfying Gift
Christmas time and all are cheerful
Gifts to be given, gifts to receive
Every year gifts are given that never satisfy
Yet have we forgotten the gift given to all?
What gift? It was sent for the world to receive
Born on the day which Christmas represents
Born to testify to the sinful
Born to carry the burden of those sins
How can such a gift now be forgotten, neglected?
Those who have received it, please fulfill
To that which was intended
For the gift to be shared and remembered
More than just on Christmas Day
Eclipsed Magnificence
My eyes are downcast for Your Glory
I can not witness
For my sin has eclipsed its magnificence
But, by the blood of Your Son
Which washed all sin away
Now can I gaze upon
That which is to be
In Christ Alone
In Christ alone, by His hand
At His gates I now stand
The cost to enter
By His blood was paid
On Calvary at its centre
And, not even death, in the tomb where He was laid
Could withhold His Glory
Yoked with Christ
My life alone I once stood
But, now with You I am yoked
Many trials have I with You withstood
Since the day my heart cried out
For your deliverance
Which, thus in me much joy invoked
Clouded Serenity
Through Your eyes I wish to gaze
Your Glory which is upon this earth
For through my eyes is seen a haze
I no longer have a sense of mirth
For in all its obscurity
Has sin Clouded that which I once saw as serene
Ensnared Heart
You mean so much to me
More than sermons, more than happy songs,
More than societies' praise which beyond these walls surround
Inseparable by Your love which I share
The words You spoke with me in my heart I ensnare
And a reflection of You, I intend the world in me to see
In hope to end all the wrongs
Which around me abounds
Many Voices One Voice
Many voices around me try distract
From thy Son’s final cry
“Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit”
For His sacrifice I will not retract
The statement He made on the cross
For this promise I inherit!
Thus this from my heart you shall not pry
Many voices try to distract, but only to One do I commit
The Lord’s Face Unturned
The ways of the wicked are perverse
From such deeds I wish to reverse
For it is wise
To all deviousness despise
So the face of the Lord
Shall from thee not be turned
Wicked Defeated
The wicked try to scheme
So that they may reign supreme
But, in their foolish folly
Do they forget the day of Calvary
Where You already won the Victory
And crushed the evils plot
Live by the Spirit
Live by the Spirit
So thy sinful nature may be disinherited
And thus not be contrary
To the day of Calvary
May the fruits in you abound
In the life by the Spirit you now have found
Freedom in Christ
In Christ we have freedom
And thus not end, as did Sodom
Who through sin was destroyed
For through Christ is peace enjoyed
As by the accepting of the blood of His sacrifice
Shall the death of sin keep us free
God's Mercy
God who on me has mercy
Has given me refuge
Of this I do not pass subterfuge
In this He is true
Through every written word
Which He has given to you and me
Within God's Walls
Within your walls, O Lord
Are we free from violence and strife
For beyond those walls all hell is rife
It is not in your interest to all your Glory horde
So You send out Your chosen
To instill within the people, hope
To one day within Your walls have life
Righteous Boasting
The wicked boast of their evil
The righteous boast of God
Which, in the eyes of God ,is a disgrace?
For the wicked boasting is selfish
The righteous boasting in man will instill
A heart of loving grace
The wicked instill a fate hellish
Unlike the righteousness of God
The Call
Turn your ear
For you shall hear
The trumpets call
For one and all
Who declared Him King
And to Him all glory sing
The Savior of us all
Empty vessel
My soul thirsts
For I have poured out
All sins transgressions
Weakened by all my confessions
I am an empty vessel, lifeless
But, by Your grace which is priceless
In Your blood paid out
Can the emptiness be replaced
Filled with You
Heavens reach
I am to be meek
As for Your Glory I seek
And in so doing much wisdom may You teach
While for heaven I reach
Sin at bay
On my knees I lay
Towards you do I pray
For Your helping hand
To free me from the sin of the land
So I may with You one day stand
Joy in me abounds as sin from me stays at bay
World's Test
In the Lord I lay all trust
For my life which is put to task
And my heart for You is put to the test
As the world from You tries to rest
Me from Your grasp
Overboard Love
My love for the Lord
For some can seem overboard
But, I am guaranteed in the book to be stored
And one day before the Lord stand
Fruitful Words
From the fruit of thy lips
Shall thy life be guarded
For if thy words God's glory seek
One's outcome shall not seem bleak
And thy righteousness
Thus be far from weak
Answer to Call
Past sins I no longer recall
For You promised to forget them all
When my call to You was made
And thus I was saved
You cast them out
And now can my life take a new route
I can turn about
Answer your call
“Follow Me”
Not afraid
A Christian am I, cheerful
For why should I be fearful
The Lord is my shield
And therefore I shall not yield
To the sinful whims of the world
True Mentor
In the Book can one find a mentor
But, truly on One can we centre
As from Him came
The key to enter
The gates of heaven
Which by His bloodshed
I hope to have read
My name from the Book
Stand in Freedom
We give praise to Him
To Him we in Glory sing
And all our sin and pain to Him we bring
So that we in freedom stand,
One day in the Glory of Thy Holy Land
God's Church
A Church filled to the brim
Exceeding all concept of sin
A church which was thought to come to ruin
As all the member's skeletons from the closet came
Far from everyone's delight
Though, the church remained upright
And on the pastors face centered a mighty grin
As he knew, yes he knew
God's Grace
Upon the congregation stood
And thus firm the church shall remain
Your Day
On Your Holy Day
Is celebrated a holiday
Unlike Fathers day
Unlike Mothers day
Unlike Workers day
Unlike Youth day
Unlike any other day
On this day Your birth is celebrated
On this day the world You entered
So from sin we could be liberated
And in heaven every day be Holy
Transparent Living
Unlike glass which is transparent
Our lives in sin are in turmoil and are rampant
The sin in our lives fluctuates
We constantly ask God for rebates
From the sum He already paid
And when we finally obtain our translucent state
The light of God through us may shine
as a billboard sign
To the promise He made
That of eternity with Him
Crucified
Nailed to the cross
You experienced untold pain
As on it you were slain
So we the sinner
Eternal life may gain
And a new life with you
In eternity remain
Standing Ground
I stand my ground
As you surround
My every being
And never are you distant
From my heart
Task Completed
The task is done
And you have won
For us our fate eternal
Life everlasting
with the Almighty
Uncontested
Who can against Thee protest?
You survived the wilderness-test
Received 39 of the best
And in the tomb laid to rest
None can your resurrection contest
In this I too many boast
In the presence of the Holy Ghost
Hindsight
There is one which we need
Of which we do not see
Whose warnings we do not take heed
Warnings which we mock
For they spoil our hearts pleasure
His love for us we can't measure
We forget our troubled ends He has foreseen
If only hindsight was an instant experience.
Promise Foretold
A promise has been made
The foundations of which have been laid
With the slaying of the Lamb
By the house of Jacob
Whose descendants now span the world
The promise some have forgotten
The promise some have denied
This has not changed their prophesied fate
The fate of their life's end
To themselves have they lied
In there sin they have died
Denied themselves the Lamb
Who died for their fate