Tag Archives: Discernment

To Live In the Law

Posted on March 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

To Live In the Lawby Michael DoyleWalked into the doctrines of controversyThere is a stiff challenge without heresyDown through God’s good agesThere are debates that readily rageThe dialog should be had with all humilityGracefully admitting a bit of grace and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adjustment, Ages, Bible, Bonds, Challenge, Christianity, Conscience, Context, Contradictions, Controversy, Debate, Demanding, Dialog, Direction, Discernment, Doctrines, Expectation, Failed Understanding, Faith, Filters and Perceptions, Forgive, Fruit, God, God's Story, Grace and Mercy, Heresy, Humility, Jesus, Law, Live, Marriage, Martin Luther, Poetry and Poems, Rage, Root, Shades of Glory, The Law, Universal, Widow | Leave a comment

Discerning the Consequences

Posted on January 26, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Discerning the Consequencesby Michael DoyleStanding up steady to be presentWe’re fully ready to representAs we adjust our attitudesUntil we are ready with our gratitudeRising up in confidenceWe rely on the ways of providenceAs we stumble toward getting rightWe need this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attitude, Bible, Confidence, Consequences, Discernment, Faith, God, God's Light, Gratitude, Human Being, Jesus, Mature, Meaning, Nature, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Providence, Represent, Right, Struggle, Trend, Truth | Leave a comment

Relational Fruits Observed

Posted on November 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Relational Fruits Observedby Michael DoyleWe are confronted with truth before mercyThe Bible speaks this honestly to meLeaning into those pressing spacesAs we welcome God’s sacred embracesHis Holy Spirit whispers in our earsBringing us peace and easing our fearsThis creates a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bare, Confront, Crucify, Discernment, Ear, God, Healthy Tension, Holy Spirit, Honest, Mercy, Observe, Passages, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pressing Spaces, Relational Fruit, Sacred Embraces, Speak, The Bible, Truth | Leave a comment

Blessed, Broken, and Given

Posted on June 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Blessed, Broken, and Givenby Michael DoyleWe live in the era of the offendedWhile we’ve forgotten that we’re friendedBy a friend who teaches in His storyThe ways to move past offense into gloryHave a sharp mind in every interrogationFinding discernment in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 30 Pieces of Silver, Betrayals, Blessed, Breaking the Bread, Bridge, Broken, Circumspection, Confide, Cross, Crucifixion, Disappointments, Discernment, Distinction, Ebb and Flow, Forgiven, Forgotten, Friended, Given, Grow, Heartbreak Ridge, Integrity, Interpretation, Interrogation, Jesus, Joy and Compassion, Legit, Lessons, Let the Right Things In, Listen, Mirror, Motive, Move Past Offense, Offended, Outside, Pattern, Patterns, Perfection, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Fingers, Promises, Recall, Resurrection, Rooster, Sharp Mind, Sin, Soft Heart, Spiritual Blessing, Story, Tears, Test, Thick Skin, Years | Leave a comment

Discernment Revisited

Posted on November 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Discernment Revisitedby Michael DoyleI guess that’s the dealLetting Jesus take the wheelLike the wisdom of Solomon’s sealIt is what keeps it realGoing deep into the ScriptureWe find the things of GodSurrendering in devotion to ScriptureWe recommit to the ways of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Decisions, Buoyancy, Deep, Demanding, Destination, Devastation, Deviation, Devotion, Dimension, Discernment, Distracted, Do the Math, Drive, Dwell, Elimination, Eyes Set, Footing, God Is In Control, Grace, Grow Strong, Impediment, Inclination, Insecurity, Jesus, Know, Living, Lose, Loss, Maturity, Meander, Mindful, Narrow Path, Overestimation, Path, Personal Inadequcy, Played, Poetry and Poems, Prayed, Pressures of Life, Pushing Through, Put Aside, Real, Recommit, Reconsideration, Refuse, Revisited, Rhyme, Right Sentiment, Satan, Scripture, Serve, Significance, Slip, Solomon's Seal, Soul, Stay, Stay On the Path, Strive, Surrender, The Deal, Things of God, Thoughts, Time To Time, Tool, Tragic, Tricks, Truth, Understanding, Undiminished, Ways of God, Wheel, Wisdom, Words, Wrong Emphasis | Leave a comment

First Principles: The Citizens of America Have Too Much Discernment To Be Argued Into Anarchy

Posted on June 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. and I am much mistaken if experience has not wrought a deep and solemn conviction in the public mind that greater energy of government is essential to … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, America, Anarchy, Argue, Citizens, Community, Conviction, Discernment, Energy, Essential, Experience, First Principles, Government, Mistake, Prosperity, Public Mind, The Federalist Papers, Welfare | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Life Can Be Lumpy

Posted on June 4, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bumps, Difference, Discernment, Inconvenience, Life, Lumps, Problems, Robert Fulghum, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Kind of Behavior That Once Brought Shame Now Brings 15 Minutes of Fame

Posted on June 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The kind of behavior that once brought shame and disgrace now brings a book, movie, or a television contract.” – Anonymous

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Behavior, Discernment, Disgrace, Fame, Redemption, Shame, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

From the Beginning

Posted on June 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Based on John 1:1-3 and 13 From The Beginning by Michael Romani Within God is all that was created All the things, we have long celebrated All of this, He has created with grace Nowhere can we turn not seeing His … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absence of Fear, Alpha, Beginning, Believe, Book of John, Breath of God, Cross, Darkness, Discernment, End, Friend, God, Gospels, Grace, Jesus, Light, Logos, Omega, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Receive, Savior, the Word | Leave a comment

Path of Opportunity

Posted on May 20, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

John 12:12-16 Path of Opportunity by Michael Romani Meandering on down the narrow road Doing things now as I’ve been told All of this, my path of opportunity Taken as it is revealed to me Riding in on a triumphant … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awareness, Chaos, Christ, Discernment, God, Meandering, Militancy, Moment, Narrow, Opportunity, Path, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Resurrection Day, Revealed, Sin, Soul, Torment, Triumphant Memory | Leave a comment