Tag Archives: God

Stay the Course

Posted on October 21, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Stay the Courseby Michael DoyleStanding rooted in our visibilitySeeing beyond our vulnerabilityLead out in example of God’s flowIs the only star we should followShifting hearts torn from GodInto doubts that are feeling oddJealously looking with envious eyesThough we know from … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: With Man This Is Impossible, But With God All Things Are Possible

Posted on October 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’” – Matthew 19:26 (New International Version)

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Installation

Posted on September 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Installationby Michael DoyleIn this race of recurrenceMay we run it with enduranceThe baton passes in every generationThere is a strategy in this venerationLaying hands to pass authorityThis is the way of the legendaryTime passes in legs of this raceMaking changes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged After, Authority, Baton, Change of Power, Embrace, Endurance, Family, Future, Generation, God, Hope, Installation, Joined Together, Layer, Laying Hands, Legendary, Legs, Life, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Race, Raise, Reflect, Strategy, Veneration | Leave a comment

First Principles: As For You, You Meant Evil Against Me, But God Meant It For Good

Posted on September 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“But Joseph said to them, Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.” – Genesis 50:19-20

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Oblique Stare

Posted on September 19, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Oblique Stareby Michael DoyleI looked up in an oblique stareUpward into that cold ceilingFighting with God in my prayerHoping that my wish would be prevailingTwo daughters stood near by my sideI was not ready to leave behindAnd to my Lord, … Continue reading →

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Passing It Down

Posted on August 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Passing It Downby Michael DoylePassing it down to the next generationHoping it might be held in venerationSharing openly our ways of instructionIn hopes that they would avoid destructionFrom child to child this is taughtTo do as we should and not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountability, Accounts, Acrimony, All Lands, Beginning and Ending, Confession, Consequence, Destruction, Dwell, Encouragement, Glory, God, Grow, Guidance, Ignorance, Instruction, Kingdom, Layer, Lessons, Lifting Up, Love of God, Mouth-To-Mouth, Next Generation, Obey, Pages, Passing It Down, Patiently, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pressed, Purest Hearts, Pursuing, Relevance, Responsibility, Sages, Sanctificaiton, Satan, Satisfaction, Set Us Free, Sip, Taught, Teach, Touch, Tripping Up, True Wisdom, Truth, Veneration, Victory's Cup, Wages, Walk, Word of God, Wrong Doing | Leave a comment

Ways of the Flesh

Posted on August 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Ways of the Fleshby Michael DoyleThere is nothing wrong with desire under subjugationHealthy appetites are not cursed with God’s rejectionIt is when these things spiral out of all controlThat these become harmful and damaging to the soulAs to superstitious sins … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The First Gulp From the Glass of Natural Sciences Will Turn You Into An Atheist. But At the Bottom of the Glass God Is Waiting For You

Posted on August 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist. But at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” – Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)

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To Believe and To Receive

Posted on August 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To Believe and To Receiveby Michael Doyle Having no fear as fishers of menWalking us back from too much sinSpiritual truth to wrap ourselves aroundWhatever the situations in which we’re found God waits to make our lives be the bestThe … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Jesus Replied: “Love the Lord Your God With All Your Heart and With All Your Soul and With All Your Mind”

Posted on August 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’”– Matthew 22:37 (New International Version)

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