Tag Archives: Guidance

Giving Is A Heart Matter

Posted on February 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Giving Is A Heart Matterby Michael DoyleChurch can be satisfying and funWith all of God’s delights to be doneLeaning in for the moments of developmentWorship done properly leads to contentmentUnified and faith-filled the church leadsTo spiritual sanctification and Godly deedsLife … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Attention, Called Out, Church, Commitment, Community, Contentment, Decision, Delight, Development, Faith-Filled, Family, Fun, Generosity, Giving, God, Grace, Gratitude, Guidance, Heart Matter, Live, Live Out, Love In Action, Pastor, Path, Poetry and Poems, Received, Right Attitude, Sage, Sanctification, Sow, Standards, Stewardship | Leave a comment

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

Under the Potter’s Hands

Posted on January 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Under the Potter’s Handsby Michael DoyleUnder the potter’s handsHe forms the clayWe talk, He understandsWe live yet another dayIn our time, we fold handsAcross the world, in many landsTalking to God quietlyRescued from myself politelyGod in His purpose and mercyCorrects … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Another Day, Burden, Clay, Daily History, Forgiven, God, Grace, Guidance, Hands, Hearts, Hurting, Keys, Kingdom, Lands, Law, Light, Live, Lives, Love, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Potter, Purpose, Rescue, Right, Talk, Time, Together, Understand, Wisdom, Words, World | Leave a comment

Born In the Dawn

Posted on July 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Tales of magic and the quests that invariably accompany these always tug at my soul. Born In the Dawn by Michael Doyle In the mists of time, there is a story Of the sword of power and it’s full glory … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arthur, Boon, Born, Bring, Choice, Choose, Courage, Curse, Dawn, Death, Deed, Demon, Desire, Devour, Discontent, Doubt, Earth, End, Fear, Flight, Force, Fore, Full Glory, Guidance, Heed, King, Learn To Lead, Life, Listen, Lives, Long Lost Friend, Loudly, Magic, Men, Mists of Time, Moon, Murder, Mystery, Nature, Need, Offering, Omens, Once Voice, One Day, Pass, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Quest, Raven, Require, Revealed, Right, Sacrifice, See, Sight, Sit, Soul, Story, Suffer Fools, Suffice, Sword of Power, Tale, Tug, Twilight, Understood, Wall, Water, Whisper, Wield, Will, Wisdom, Witch, Woman, Woods | Leave a comment

On Attempting To Be A Good Father

Posted on June 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

As Father’s Day approaches, I am thinking a lot on what it means to be a father to my two daughters. I am woefully aware that as they approach their teenage years, there are things I might have said and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Approaches, Attempt, Bless, Case, Cause, Choice, Circumstances, Daughters, Disrupt, Do My Best, Don't Know What To Do, Eyes, Fail, Fall, Family, Father, Father's Day, Father's Face, Find, Follow, Forgive, Forgiveness, God, Good, Good Father, Grace, Guidance, Hard Calling, Hope, Knees, Know, Lead, Learn, Let Down, Little Voice, Live, Look, Love, Lucifer, Mean, Mend, Mercy, My Family, Not In Vain, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Press Onward, Prevail, Priceless, Princesses, Proud, Providence, See, Show by Example, Show Them, Steel, Strength, Strive, Tear, Tears, Think, Totality, Treasure, True, Two, Understanding, Velvet, Vulnerability, Weaknesses, Will, Wish | Leave a comment

A Faithful Companion

Posted on May 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on 2 Sam. 7:29: A Faithful Companion by Michael Doyle In a world filled with grief and acrimony God wants to bless our lives through testimony Loving us unconditionally and wanting our best He walks beside us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2nd Samuel, Acknowledge, Acrimony, Aim, Alive, Alone, Appreciation, Approach, Ask, Believers, Beside, Best, Bless, Blessed, Blessings, Brought, Child of God, Choose, Circumstance, Companion, Counsel, Cross, Days, Discipline, Doing, Dream, Each, Earnest, Empower, Endeavor, Ensure, Everlasting, Expedience, Faithful, Family, Father, Fear, Flock, Foot of the Cross, Forgive, Forgotten, Forsake, Forward, Future, Gather, Getting By, God, Good, Good Habits, Good Life, Good Will, Grief, Guidance, Hear, Him, History, Home, Hope, Humility, Jesus, Joy, Keep, Last, Lesson, Lift, Listen, Lives, Loss, Love, Magnify, Moments, New Beginning, Obedience, Obey, Past, Personal Savior, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Providence, Purity, Reap As We Sow, Refuse, Relationship, Reliance, Remember, Right, Satisfaction, Seek, Slavation, Stand, Star, Step, Stewardship, Supplication, Survive, Temporal, Testimony, Thin, Truth, Unconditional, Understand, Understood, Undivided, Walk, Ways, Weigh, Wisdom, Word, World | Leave a comment

How To Live the Bible

Posted on April 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Based in part on Deuteronomy 11:18-21: How To Live the Bible by Michael Doyle Thank you Father for our salvation Certain of our coming final destination Please hear our prayers on Palm Sunday As we worship and praise all of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Bible, Carve, Comfort, Console, Destination, Deuteronomy, Devotional, Distraction, Emotion, Encourage, Faith, Flock, Focus, Follow, Foundation, Fuel, Guidance, Habit, Health, Holy, Home, How-To, Lesson, Life, Live, Look, Lost Sheep, Me, Palm Sunday, Paryers, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Praise, Prayer, Principles, Proverbs, Psalms, Restoration, Rock, Rules, Salvation, School, Scripture, Sky, Soul, Spiritual, Stillness, Stone, Struggle, Thank you, The Book, Troubled, Verse, Walk, Wealth, Widom, Wilderness, Word, Words, Worship | Leave a comment

A Conspiracy of Lambs

Posted on August 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

There’s a Netflix series called The Family. I am only two episodes into it but so far I’m both laughing and somewhat concerned. The Bible admonishes Christians to pray for our leaders both spiritual and in government. It is the Christian … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adversity, Answer, Believe, Bible, Blessing, Brother, Christian, Common, Common Ground, Conspiracy, Decision, Devil's Playground, Doing Right, Evil, Faith, Family, God, Good, Govern, Guidance, Heavenbound, Hope, Lamb, Leaders, Legacy, Lord's Work, Member, Nation, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Prayer, Pride, Receive, Sister, The Family, Trust, Value, World | Leave a comment

As All Moments Measure

Posted on November 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

I firmly agree with the proposition that it’s how we live the moments of our lives and not how many we get that matters most. As All Moments Measure by Michael Romani In each moment we treasure As all moments … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battle, Body, Chatter, Desire, Embers, Eyes, Fatal, Fire, Glisten, Guidance, Heaven, Immortal, Life, Listen, Live, Love, Matter, Measure, Moments, Passions, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Relent, Shadow, Strength, Surprise, Sweet, Treasure, Trust | Leave a comment

Conflict Of Civilizations

Posted on September 1, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

There is a conflict in the West that draws down deeper than radical Islam versus West. It is Leftism versus Tradition. I think it’s pretty clear which side of this divide I am on. Conflict Of Civilizations by Michael Romani … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged America, Antithesis, Chaste, Christianity, Communism, Contempt, Death, Destruction, Dogma, Economics, Extremism, Faced, Fascism, Freud, Futile, God, Guidance, Happy, Heart and Feelings, Holy, Ideology, Imaginary, Instruction, Judaism, Leftism, Life's Questions, Light, Marxism, Meaning, Perverse, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Secularism, Sex, Sirens, The Bible, The West, Theology, Thesis, Tradition, Unholy, Universe, Utopia, Wealth, Western Civilization | Leave a comment