Tag Archives: Power

To Our Feet

Posted on March 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Our Feetby Michael DoyleWe stand to our feetHanding Satan his defeatSinging our redemptionRising up in contemplationAs we think of our freedomHere in the Lord’s kingdomWe find the Lord in praiseSinging throughout our daysWe have defeated the graveThrough the power … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Belong, Christian Faith, Christian Friends, Contemplation, Days, Defeat, Embrace, Ends, Feet, Freedom, God's Love, Grave, Holy Song, Home, Joy, Lord's Kingdom, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Redemption, Rightful Place, Rise Up, Satan, Saves, Sing, Stand, Think | Leave a comment

No Longer Afraid

Posted on March 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

No Longer Afraidby Michael DoyleIt’s really not so frightening To see Satan fall like lightningCast down from the Heavens aboveAll in the name of God’s sacred loveLiving life as a personal testimonyThe world sometimes crashes down on meAnd I’ll remain … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Afraid, Believe, Birth, Blessing, Cast Down, Conceive, Crash, Crippled, Death, Eyes, Fixed, Fright, God's Care, God's Sacred Love, Heaven, Holiness, Holy Hour, House of Worship, Jesus, Lam, Last Breath, Lightning, Living Life, Met, Miacles, Name, No Longer, Personal Testimony, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Power, Proclaim, Protected, Purpose, Safe, Satan, Satan's Snare, Servant, Spokn, Street, The World, Truth and Love, Victory, Walk | Leave a comment

First Principles: Liberty Is A Word Which, According As It Is Used, Comprehends the Most Good and the Most Evil of Any In the World

Posted on March 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Appropriate, Choice, Comprehend, Confusion, Divine Adoration, Enervate, First Principiles, Jealousy, Liberty, Most Evil, Most Good, Mouhs of Some, Necessary Government, Oliver Ellsworth, Power, Promote Good, Rulers, Sacred, Society, Used, Word | Leave a comment

Always Worthy of Praise

Posted on March 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Always Worthy of Praiseby Michael DoyleThe faith of the Church savesUplifting us from our gravesLet those who see plainly singAbout God’s victory over everythingSatan has come to know his defeatGained, for us, as Jesus took His seatWe were given the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All Our Days, Always, Anxiety, Battle, Church, Defeat, Depression, Faith, Fight, Fill, Firm, Gain, Glad, God, Grave, Hallelujah, Happiness, Heart, Heaven, Hour, Infirmities, Intensity, Jesus, Joy, Keys, Knees, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Satan, Save, Seat, See, Shield, Sing, Taught, Thankfulness, The Lord, Tortured, Uplift, Victory, Ways of Love, Won, Worthy, Yield | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Serenity, Peace of Mind, Humor, the Ability To Laugh At One’s Self. Those Are the Things You Need the Most, But It’s Beyond My Power To Give Them To You

Posted on February 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Serenity, peace of mind, humor, the ability to laugh at one’s self. Those are things you need the most, but it’s beyond my power to give them to you.” – Pedott to Fred Renard, in The Twilight Zone, Season 1, Episode 12, … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Beyond, Fred Renard, Humor, Need, Peace of Mind, Pedott, Power, Serenity, The Ability To Laugh At One's Self, The Twilight Zone, What You Need | Leave a comment

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmology

Posted on February 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmologyby Michael DoyleThe time spent quietly comes to its endIt’s been another year of pleasant enough livingHaving found my best habits and friendsAnd it has been another year of peacefully givingBut in truth it has been yet … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Balance, Bestiary, Center, Chinese Mythology, Confidence, Contain, Cosmology, Desire, Determination, Diffidence, Diplomacy, Divinity, Dreams, Elements, End, Eternity, Expansion, Eyes, Fifth Cardinal Direction, Flight, Friends, Future, Gentle Rain, Give, Green Dragon, Habits, Imagination, Infinite, Journey, Legacy, Mast, Mist, Nature Deity, Night, Pass, Peace, Perfect Harmony, Philosophy, Phoenix, Poetry and Poems, Power, Rebirth, Sail, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Self-Worth, Sky, Spring, Time, Tree, Truth, Weary World, Winds, Wood Dragon, Worry, Yang, Year, Year of the Wood Dragon, Yin | Leave a comment

An Outpouring of Praise

Posted on February 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

An Outpouring of Praiseby Michal DoyleWith the power to saveYou called me out of my graveI was heavy from sins chainsAnd all of my own efforts were in vainThe day of my salvationCame to change my destinationYour love brought a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Atonement, Blame, Broken, Called, Celebration, Chains, Change, Confess, Destination, Fascination, Forever, Glorious Day, Grave, Heart, Heavy, History, Holy Name, Light, Love, My Ways, Mystery, Offer, Outpour, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Remaining Days, Restore, Return, Salvation, Save, Sins, Spoken, Test, The Lord, Tongue, Truth, Words | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Poor Is the Power of the Lead That Becomes Bullets Compared To the Power of the Hot Metal That Becomes Type

Posted on February 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes type.” -Georg Brandes, critic and scholar (4 Feb 1842-1927)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bullets, Compare, Georg Brandes, Hot Metal, Lead, Poor, Power, Thought For the Day, Type | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand. It Never Did and Never Will.

Posted on February 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Concede, Demand, Find Out, Frederick Douglass, Impose, Injustice, Nothing, People, Power, Quietly Submit, Thought For the Day, Wrong | Leave a comment

First Principles: An Honest Man Can Feel No Pleasure In the Exercise of Power Over His Fellow Citizens

Posted on January 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1813)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Exercise, Feel, Fellow Citizens, First Principles, Honest Man, Pleasure, Power, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment