Tag Archives: Belief

Learning To Not Be Anxious

Posted on January 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Learning To Not Be Anxiousby Michael DoyleTossing and turning without sleepFilled with thoughts that won’t keepThis world is filled with complexityEnough to fill our hearts with anxietyThe restlessness of what we must endureFor all these trepidations there is a cureThere … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Anxious, Appreciation, Belief, Blessed Days, Blessings, Bringer of Comfort, Chaos, Charm, Comfort, Complexity, Confidence, Contend, Cope, Counting, Cure, Daily Prayer, Despair, Door, Duplicity, Endure, Eyes, Failure, Faith, Fear, Focus, Free, Galilee, God, Good, Grateful, Harm, Hearts, Hope, King of Kings, Learn, Lord, Magnified, Master of All Things, Meditate, Mercy, Minds, Ministry, Our Times, Overcome, Overcoming, Paper, Peter, Poetry and Poems, Practical Passages, Praise, Prevail, Prism, Prison, Radio, Real, Reason, Rejoice, Restlessness, Ruminate, Safe, Sedate, Sleep, Soul, Storm, Supplication, Thankful, Thoughts, Tossing and Turning, Trepidations, Troubles, Truth, Understood, Valley of the Shadow of Death, Voices, Worrying, Year After Year | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Faith Is Not the Belief That God Will Do What You Want. It Is the Belief That God Will Do What Is Right

Posted on January 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Faith Is Not the Belief That God Will Do What You Want. It Is the Belief That God Will Do What Is Right.” – Max Lucado

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Belief, Faith, God, Max Lucado, Right, Thought For the Day, Want, Will | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Those Intoxicated By the Advance of Knowledge So Often Become the Enemies of Freedom

Posted on December 10, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that ‘the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science.’ Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Advance of Knowledge, Advance of Science, Aim, Beginning, Belief, Comprehensive, Control, Deliberate, Diminish, Enemy, Freedom, Friedrich A. von Hayek, Grow, Human Activities, Ignorance, Intoxicate, Modern Science, Often, Popular Effect, Reason, Recognize, Scientific Advance, Scientists, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Set Apart

Posted on October 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Set Apartby Michael DoyleAs a church, we’re set apartBy God, stirred in our heartsLiving life by past precedentWe do our best to live reverentBestowed in the Lord’s good favorIt’s a life we’re meant to savorFearfully and wonderfully madeThere is no … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adequacy, Adoration, Afraid, Belief, Blessing, Chosen, Church, Creation, Fallacy, God, Hands, Hearts, Humble, Life, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Precedent, Reverent, Revernce, Sand, Savor, Set Apart, Stength, Stir, Surrender, Wicked | Leave a comment

Sharing God’s Love

Posted on October 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Sharing God’s Loveby Michael DoyleStrange…at this time in historyThat two thirds of children live in povertyThis is something we can changeIf only our priorities, we would rearrangeEach step that we might takeCan be the difference that we makeThis is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beast, Belief, Children, Concede, Destroy, Difference, Do, Fake, Fear, Feed, Forward, Given, God's Love, History, Hunger, Least, Make, Me and You, One Thing, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Priority, Rearrange, Shake, Share, Sharing God's Love, Shine, Simple Truth, Sorrow, Step, Step Forward, Strange, Take, Tomorrow, Walk | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Belief In A God All Powerful Wise and Good, Is…Essential To the Moral Order of the World

Posted on September 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged All Powerful, Belief, Essential, First Principles, God, Good, James Madison, Moral Order, Wise, World | Leave a comment

Reckless Love of God

Posted on September 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Reckless Love of Godby Michael DoyleNever let the impossible stop youIf you live with faith, only victory will doPushing always forward into the newThere’s another miracle waiting to come trueRestoration given in heavenly graceFills the blissfulness in every traceDry bones … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Miracle Waiting, Belief, Blissfulness, Bold, Changed Attitude, Defend, Failures, Forward, God, Gossip, Gratitude, Grief, Healing, Heavenly Grace, Impossible, Joy, Live With Faith, Moments, Never Ending, Overwhelm, Poetry and Poems, Rattle, Renew, Restoration, Reveal, Shame, Shiver, Sin, Sorrow, Stop, Stories, Tomorrow, Trace, Transcend, True, Victory | Leave a comment

Kaleidoscope

Posted on August 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Kaleidoscopeby Michael DoyleIndia offers her vast diversitySimply put, a wealth of complexityFilled with peace within her kaleidoscopeAs harmonious coexistence offers hopeSlumdog lords are opulent in a historyOf a people struggling with povertyPluralistic in a free market democracyAs a metaphor lived … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, Alignment, Aryan, Attachment, Belief, Bonfires, Brother, Built, Celebration, Charity, Choose, Colors, Complexity, Conduct, Creation, Cycle, Dance, Deep, Democracy, Devotion, Diversity, Emotion, Equal Weight, Festival, Fires, Forest, Free Market, Gaya, Give Peace A Chance, Greater, Grief, Harmony, Hate, Heart, Heritage, History, Holi, Holy, Hope, Impurity, India, Inspires, Kaleidoscope, Langauge, Learning, Lords, Love, Love of Mankind, Mankind, Metaphor, Multiethnicity, Nation, Neglect, Never Reaching End, Noble Truth, Peace, People, Picked Clean, Poerty, Poetry and Poems, Powder, Reborn, Reciprocity, Recognition, Reject, Release, Renew, Respect, Right Knowledge, Shiva, Siddartha, Sight, Silence, Sister, Slumdog, Soul, Sparks, Spiritual Integrity, Strong, Surrender, The World, Tolerance, Towers, Tradition, True Friend, Turning, Understanding, Vast, Wealth, Wish, Youth | Leave a comment

What’s Your Story?

Posted on July 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

What’s Your Story?by Michael DoyleTell me, please, of the gloryThat opens up your storyLeaving behind the ninety-nineFor the inheritance that is mineDoing that riotous livingNeeding more than a little forgivingFeeling more than unworthyBrother, you are no lesser than meAt least, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alibi, Assured, Belief, Brother, Changing Lives, Contemplation, Could Not Keep, Dead Man Walking, Extermity, Faith, Far Country, Feeling, Forgiving, Found, Free, Freed, God Reached Out, God Shaped Vacuum, God's Glory, Goodness, Grace, Grown Dim, His Majesty, In Him, Inheritance, Leaving Behind, Lights, Linger, Living Past Thirty, Living Prayer, Lost Coins, Lost Sheep, Matter of History, Me, Mine, Moments, Need, Ninety-Nine, No Lesser, Open, Overdose, Peace, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Promises, Read, Redemption, Riotous Living, Satan's Snare, Seed, Sins of the Family, Society, Soul, Stand up, Story, Straight Talking, Taken Back, Tell Me, The Father's Glory, The Glory, Thrown Books, Tossed, Unworthy, What's Your Story?, Without A Clue, Words, Worthy, Wouldn't Keep, Wrecking Crew | Leave a comment

Na/GloPoWriMo #4: Closed For Renovation

Posted on April 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Closed For Renovationby Michael DoyleWith a startled turnLife became the strangeWith a subtle twist of fateSuddenly, plans became small changeLearning how to simply liveOur best moments in isolationAll across our land we wished to giveAs if it was all closed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Across Our Land, American Lands, American Nation, Ask, Behind Closed Door, Belief, Best Moments, Better World, Children, Closed, Closed for Renovation, Corona, Count, Courage, Dedicatino, Dreaming, Each New Day, Easter Day, Experience, Fate, Find A Way Through, Gifted, Given Up, God's Love, Grief, Grip, Isolation, Kept In the Distance, Left Alive, Lessons Learned, Life, Lifted, Lived Safest, Lives, Living Without Masks, Lost Its Footing, Loved Friends, Meaning, Minimal Resistance, More, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never See This Again, Nightmares, No Longer Closed, One Another, Our Freedoms, Packing Up, Photograph, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recall, Renovation, Road Trip, Safer, Semi-Legendary Plans, Simply Live, Six Foot, Small Change, Spring, Sprung, Startled Turn, Strange, Subtle Twist, Surreal, Tossed Aside, Turned Inward, Turning Toward, Un-Rung, Viral Horror, Write About | Leave a comment