bible | Brenda Drake Poetry

We seek to see the whole picture; little by little, one scripture revelation after another. God’s ways are so far above our understanding but as we are brought into His confidence more and more of His ways are revealed. I love the Word of God; I love the truth that set me free to trust my future in God’s very capable hands.

The Whole Picture

The whole picture from that start to end,
In its wonder God’s plan comprehend,
His beautiful creation stolen by the enemy of the soul.
Evil rebelled and grasped to take control.
Evil’s hold held promise of eternal death,
But God had a plan for eternal benefit.
Jesus; Creator, and God’s Son,
Became man born to a virgin, to become,
The holy Sacrifice that would take man’s place;
By His work on the cross He provided grace.
He was Teacher, Preacher, The Truth, and The Way,
He was the Word of God that was prophesied and portrayed;
He is Lord, Savior, and King to all who will believe.
He is new life to all who will His life receive.
He lived, died, and rose again so you could be free and new.
His gift of forgiveness is free to you.
But the cost was more than we can ever know.
He became sin so holiness we could behold.
The whole picture is not finished yet,
But when His; better things yet expect.
God is with you never again to depart.
He is permanent resident inside your heart.
You are one with the One who calls you bride.
You are drawn into the eternal story full, filled, and alive.
To see the whole picture as Father planned for you.
Rest in the gift of salvation provided as in Him you breathe and move.

Acts 17:27-28
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Heart Ready and Mind Set

Heart is ready, mind is set, and spirit prepared to go,
To meet with Jesus, the lover of my soul.
Even in my expectation I find,
There is some hesitation at the same time.
My heart is heavy with concerns of the world’s plight,
As terrible doom seems to now loom in sight.
My mind spins at fallacies in the land,|
And at the blatant evil that has overtaken man.
My spirit groans as does the earth in its travail for change,
I yearn for a revival to things rearrange.
I pray for blind eyes to see and for deaf ears to hear.
I pray those dead in their sins to be drawn near.
I pray for the touch of God to invoke our lives,
Where men are men that choose the ways right.
I pray for true repentance where change is forever true.
I pray for safety on the streets and again in the schools.
I pray for the fire of God to revive the Church to become,
Truly a holy living representative of God’s Son.
I pray that there is a greater desire to God’s Word obey.
And that multitudes more sing God’s praise night and day,
I pray every heart is ready with mind set for the spirit to go,
Into the arms of the God that proved He is the lover of every soul.

John 14:13-18
“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son”.

1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.