Refuge

Refuge

Who will hold your hand when life gets weary
Or hold you close when all your dreams vanish
How will you feel if all you have to give is love
When love holds not to the promise of return
Have tears fell down from eyes that cried so long
That joy eludes the mind from where they flowed
Help is on the way they all say in vain
Why should it come and from whom will it be
All that should has not yet arrived as well
Concerns and troubles align all around
Keeping ease from breaking out as it should
Calling out to God for the help we need
Waiting for relief from the fears within
Who will keep our hearts and minds from our fears
We need the warm embrace of God to see the truth
We long to hear His voice to lead the way
We cannot break the trust we have in Him
We must not let our fears tie up His hands
But keep the faith and trust in His dear care
The times of refreshing we pray will come
We wait in faith at the edge of our seats
Knowing God will never let us fail now
But keep us in His hands till he sets free
Our hearts our minds our lives our love our peace
The prince of peace will guard our hearts we know
And keep us from the evil one by faith
His power will dwell in and through our lives
The spirit of the Lamb of God our Lord
Will comfort all our lives in peace and love
Though weary through battles that we have fought
Our strength is given us not earned or bought
We claim his power of great sacrifice
When He gave his all for us on the cross
There blood and water mingled in the flow
Of grace and mercy there was great release
All sin was washed away from us at once
And mercy great and free was shed on us
Who put our trust and faith in Him alone
Who died and rose again to take his throne
From where he will judge the quick and the dead
For us salvation has been purchased there
Now we have been forgiven all our debts
And asked to forgive all who owe us debts
Will we respond with a resounding yes
Or will we hold onto the grudges yet
I pray the will of the one who died there
Will be done on earth as is in heaven
Let us not feel as though we are in charge
But know that he has made us for himself
We are His workmanship by His own hands
We are held by his great power and strength
There never has to be a glimpse of doubt
That he is not working still for us now
He ever lives to intercede for us
Before His Father and the angels there
His spirit dwells in us and knows our ways
Our thoughts our hopes our fears our faith
He intercedes with groanings not uttered
According to His Father’s will he prays
As we agree with Him in prayer He hears
And answers with his own unfailing love
We hold on to His command to love all
As we seek to obey all His commands
Because we love him for all he does
And know our lives are hid in Christ in God
We seek to know his hearts desires and plans
So that we may serve Him as His children
Knowing that He as a Father knows best
A Father in whom dwells all truth and love
Who will not hurt us nor leave us alone
He does have our best interests at heart
We also can trust him never to depart
He has us carved on the palms of His hands
He knows our name and numbers all our hairs
He knows our thoughts and yet He loves us still
What grace what mercy He has shown to us
By giving us salvation by his cross

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Where Angels Fear To Trod

Where Angels Fear To Trod


Have your feet tread where God has already been, or do they stumble in your own way?
Do they walk where angels fear to tread, or are they kept straight on the paths of God.
Have you turned aside unto your own way, or are the ways of God your mainstay?
Have the thoughts of your heart given you cause to fear, that His grace is not near?
Have they ran foolishly away from Gods perfect plan, where peace is caught in the fray?
Do you feel that there is no use, to continue to seek His plan for your life?
Has all your following been in vain, and left you in doubt and fear and pain?
Has keeping the rules left you empty inside, knowing they only filled you with strife?
The answer, they say, is simple and plain, while they themselves cannot explain?
Yet you know that the answer is in, the One who has even called you his friend.
The One who promised to stick closer than a brother, yes it He who reigns.
He will give you a purpose and make it plain, because He knows the beginning to the end.
And He is the One that has called you to will, and to do, of His good pleasure.
He has given you grace that abounds and abounds, covering you, and all of your sin.
Out of His storehouses he has showered upon you, an abundance of His treasure.
Grace, and mercy, and pardon, and favor, He has given you, along with peace within.
Are there times of sorrow that come your way, and that without measure?
Have they given you reason to wonder why; you should be so afflicted so much?
Has you life been filled with tears and crying, has your faith been shaken for sure?
Do you feel as if you and you alone, are bearing this cross, and feeling deep loss?
Have your tears mounted up a wall of separation between you and your God?
Do they wear away your soul, and wash away your pure hearts desire to go on?
Do they merely remind you of the glories waiting beyond this veil of tears?
The tears are truly washing away the souls pain and bringing healing to the mind,
Cleaning out all imaginations and things that exalt themselves against the mind of God,
The mind of Christ we are told we have been given, yet His thoughts are above ours.
We search for their meanings, with all our might, to no avail in our own strength.
Knowing that Christ spirit dwells within us, with all that is needed to glimpse into life.
We determine to at last, let His Spirit show us all things that pertain unto life and love.
We feel His presence descending from Heaven softly as on the wings of a dove,
Filling us with a passion to serve, despite the tears and the suffering of this mortal way.
We steadfastly profess that Jesus will sustain us and keep our feet in His ways.
He will guide and direct through the tears and the pain, with life everlasting to gain.
We will serve Him with gladness all of our days, as we seek to obey Him any way.
Knowing there is laid up for us a crown of life, waiting for our coronation in Glory.
We put our faith in what God has done, through the cross of Jesus His son,
Where all of our guilt and sin was placed on the perfect Lamb of God, the crucified One.
Oh, the precious crimson flow, that streamed down that tree to the earth below,
Still cleanses, and covers, and pardons today, and keeps us trusting along life’s way.
Empty thoughts and words and hearts need its cure, to fill them with hope again.
Torments and terrors, and sufferings beyond measure are no match for the blood.
We look for our redemption, and the hope of His appearing, once again.
We will trust His grace until that time, attaining the perseverance wrought in us,
By the sufferings of this present world and all of its tribulations thrown our way.
Knowing that hope is being wrought in us, through these things, makes our heart to sing.
Blessed be the name of The Lord, Our God, Most High, who causes us always to triumph.