Tag Archives: Christ

On the Altar of My Life

Posted on January 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On the Altar of My Lifeby Michael DoyleIn every moment, even or oddYou put me together, Lord GodIn every flaw and every breakYou have eased every single acheYou have shown me the truthLived every moment since my youthEvery shame of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ache, All of My Days, Altar, Altar of My Life, Beauty, Break, Breath, Christ, Creation, Cry, Day, Destination, Die, Enduring Faith, Every Moment, Eyes, Fullness, Glory, Heart, Law, Life, Lifting You Up, Living Altar, Lord God, Magnified, Man, Meaning, Near, Page, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Sacrifice, Shame, Shaped, Signified, Sing, Story, Strains, Sunrise, Thankful, The Glory, Truth, Your Ways, Youth | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Human Need Is Really A Great Spiritual Vacuum Which God Seeks To Fill

Posted on January 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill…With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum…Then the passage, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged All Things, Christ, Fellow Man, Fill, George Washington Carver, God, Hand, Human Need, Passage, Real Meaning, Spiritual Vacuum, Strengthen, Thought For the Day, Through Christ | Leave a comment

Invitation To Change

Posted on December 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Invitation To Changeby Michael DoyleChange a life with an invitationThe real thing given, not imitationChristmas comes in just a few daysLet’s show it in all of our waysIt’s worth it to think and recallThat Christ our savior came for us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All of Our Days, Arrive, Blessings, Change, Chosen, Christ, Christmas, Days, Done, Faithfulness, Glory, Holy Ghost, Imitation, Invitation, Life, Love, Praise, Recall, Savior, Shelter, Show, Son, Special, Story, The Father, Think, Ways | Leave a comment

Into the Season

Posted on December 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Into the Seasonby Michael DoyleChristmas cards start to flowInto the season we love and knowNo matter the changes the comeThere is glory in this kingdomTis the season of mercy mildWhile angelic hosts proclaim the childWho was born in the of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angelic Hosts, Angels, Blessed Truth, Born, Changes, Child, Christ, Christmas Cards, Christmas Story, Echo, Errors, Flow, Glory, God, God and Sinner, His People, Holy, Kingdom, Know, Love, Magnified, Manger, Melody, Mercy Mild, Poetry and Poems, Praises, Reconciled, Relationship, Saints, Sake, Sanctified, Season, Side By Side, Stranger, Sung, Theology, Worship | Leave a comment

Illuminations of Faith

Posted on November 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Illuminations of Faithby Michael DoyleFaith is not a blind leapBut the illuminations that we keepFinding, like a compass, our directionThrough Christ and His correctionListening to that small, still voiceIt’s where we find the healthy choiceIn apparent tone deaf moments of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blind Leap, Christ, Compass, Correction, Direction, Faith, Healthy Choice, Illumination, Jesus, Keep, Listen, Poetry and Poems, Tone Deaf, Voice, Walks, Year After Year | Leave a comment

On Immersion

Posted on October 31, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

On Immersionby Michael DoyleBaptism is the symbolic immersionTo speak to the joy of conversionThis the way forward in progressionWashing away our sins and perversionsSin entered the world through the treeThe knowledge of good and evil spoken to you and meBringing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baptism, Bridge, Broken Relationship, Chasm, Christ, Clean, Conversion, Disappointments, Discern, Failing, God's Will, Grace Received, Hell, Holiness, Immersion, Journey, Joy, Knowledge of Good and Evil, Make Right, No Way, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Price, Progression, Purity, Restoration, Right Decision, Sin, Symbolic, Tree, Washing Away, Worship | Leave a comment

Trusting In His Resilience

Posted on September 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Trusting In His Resilienceby Michael DoyleSo many things constantly changeAs we live our lives rearrangeBut some things stay the sameThat’s how it’s lighted with God’s flameGod loves us with urgent insistencyStated with a solid state of consistencyBut he does want … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Christ, Conform, Consistency, Constant Change, Darkness, Flame, God, Grow, His, Holy Nation, Light, Love, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Reiliance, Same, Set Apart, Trust | Leave a comment

On Becoming Truly Human

Posted on August 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Based on 1 Corinthians 12: On Becoming Truly Humanby Michael Doyle On becoming human resplendentWe were never meant to be independentBut rather communal in the nature of our beingLiving in a communion of love with all we’re seeing Love is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1 Corinthians 12, Accept, As We Are, Becoming, Being, Body of Christ, Brink, Brother, Burden, Christ, Christian Life, Communal, Connected, Core, Dedication, Divine, Elocution, Focus, God's Family, God's Plan, Heart, Holy Trinity, Humble, Illustration, Independent, Keep Our Faith, Knowing, Living In Communion, Love, Love Grows, Many Members, Meant, Miles, Nature, New Life, One Another, One Body, Overflowing, Part, Poetry and Poems, Process, Quenching the Thirst, Remember, Resplendent, Right, Sacred, Santification, Satisfy, See, Seeing, Serves Us Well, Sister, Sufficiency, Sum, The Spirit, Think, Together, Transcendent, Trials, Truest Theology, Truly Human, Vine and Branches, Vineyard, Walk, We Believe, Whole, Wine, Working for Good | Leave a comment

Wonder Expressed Within Five Words

Posted on July 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Wonder Expressed Within Five Wordsby Michael DoyleIts in the habits of faith we liveTaking each day catching what it givesOn seeing Christ we believeDoubting as we do as we self-deceiveFeelings revealed in wounds feltThere in the good reasons dealtDenying as … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Believed, Best, Christ, Darkness, Deny, Determined In Purpose, Doubt, Each Day, Eternal Life, Expedience, Express, Faithful Obedience, God, God's Authority, Good Reasons, Habits of Faith, Knowing, Love, Modeled, Newness, One, Paiin, Poetry and Poems, Realized, Received, Recognized, Reliability, Resurrection, Self-Deceive, Sinful Condition, Submit, Triune Box, Trust, Truths, Twice Over, Undone, Unlocks, Walking, Wonder, Wounds | Leave a comment

Blessed Are We In Our Stumble

Posted on January 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Blessed As We Are In Our Stumbleby Michael DoyleBlessed as we are in our stumbleDoing our best to never crumbleIt keeps us grateful and humbleTo know we are not alone in this troubleChrist will carry us across the shoreAs we … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Best, Blessed, Builds, Carry, Christ, Eyes Fixed, Focus, Forever, God, Grateful, Gratitude, Grief, Hard Time, Hearts, Hearts Straight, Heaven, Heavy, Humble, Ignore, Implore, In Store, Inspiration, Keeping Faith, Know, Legacy, Legacy of Faith, Never Crumble, Our Destination, Our Dreams, Our Family, Our Priority, Our World, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Us, Pray, Right Attitude, Seams, Seems, Shore, Strong, Stumble, Taken, The Lord, This Trouble, Through, Torn, Tragedy, Us, Walk, We, We Are Not Alone, Weep | Leave a comment