Tag Archives: Receive

First Principles: Yet To All Who Did Receive Him, To Those Who Believed In His Name, He Gave the Right To Become Children of God

Posted on September 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“ Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God — children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” – … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged All, Believed, Born, Born of God, Children of God, First Principles, His Name, Human Decision, John 1:12-13, Natural Descent, Receive, Right | Leave a comment

Overcoming the Flesh

Posted on August 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Overcoming the Fleshby Michael DoyleHow then do we find our wayThroughout our present and everydayWhat then will bring us to joyThan in a buoyancy we can employIt is to live as if fully persuadedTo live the Christian life not evadedBut … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believe, Buoyancy, Christian Life, Contentment, Control, Courage, Dedication, Devotion, Feel, Flesh, God's Love, Holy Spirit, Human Condition, Inspiration, Joy, Noble, Overcome, Path, Persuaded, Poetry and Poems, Receive, Resentment, Reveal, Soul, Still, Strength, Temptation, Trust, Waking Prayer | Leave a comment

Road Tripping

Posted on July 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Road Trippingby Michael DoyleIn a long history of driving placesFilled with love and smiling facesWe took it up to a whole new levelWhere boredom was the only DevilIt’s all in about that sort of journeyOn our way to the edges … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Better, Blame, Boredom, Broken Shame, Capability, Care of Broken Persons, Case, Choices, Comfort Zones, Concept Without Context, Conflcts, Containers, Deceive, Declarative, Destination, Detection, Devil, Drink, Driving Places, Earth, Edges of Eternity, Embrace, Endless Smile, Equal In Weight, Excitement, Experience, Faith of Promises, Flaws, Goodness, Goodness and Mercy, Grace, Hard Work, Harvest, Hearts, Heaven, History, Holiness, Hope, Incitement, Journey, Justice, Laws, Leaning In, Living Testimony, Living Waters, Loaded Conversation, Love, Managed Shame, Mission Field, Motivation, Narrative, Parsimony, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Receive, Reflected Contemplation, Road Tripping, Rrevealed, Samaria, Seder, Sending Capacity, Setting Example, Shared Grace, Shield, Smiling Faces, Soul, Standing Apart, Tools, Tread, Truth, Veil, Walk, Way In, Weigh In, Weight, Whole New Level, Worthwhile | Leave a comment

Changing the Narrative

Posted on June 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Changing the Narrativeby Michael DoyleIt’s the heart of the matterTo stand firm and not shatterFrom the first heart’s beatWe are born to find our feetTo save a life, we do as we canListening gently offering our handMade in the likeness, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessings, Born, Broken, Capable, Change, Control, Crystal Vision, Curse, Dreams, Eagle, Faithfulness, Family, Feet, Firm, Focus, Generation, Grace, Hands, Heart of the Matter, Heart's Beat, Inheritance, Lessons, Likeness, Listen, Loving Well, Mission, Moments, Narrative, Pass On, Perspective, Pickle, Poetry and Poems, Possibilities, Receive, Responsibility, Road, Save A Life, Seams, Share, Shatter, Tickle, True, Truth, Unfold, Unneeded Troubles, Wake | Leave a comment

In Accordance With His Will

Posted on May 23, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Based on the sermon that I listened to here: In Accordance With His Willby Michael Doyle From my lips, I proclaim your praiseAs I do in all of my passing daysCrying out with joy and gladnessPrayer helps me escape this … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accordance, All Things Must Be Done, Anger, Awake, Care and Protection, Commands, Commit, Depths, Desert, Devotion, Do the Right Things, Eyes, Giving, God, God's Footsteps, God's Instrument, Hardened heart, His Hand, His Will, Holy Way, Human Beings, Humbled, Important, In the End, Joy, Lips, Love, Madness, Morning Light, Night, Ocean, Paid Full Bill, Passing Days, Passions, Peace, Perpetual Sorrow, Poetry and Poems, Ponder, Praise, Prayer, Provision, Receive, Reliance, Right Direction, Seek, Self-Deceive, Sincere, Son, Stranger, Stray, Test, The Lord's Prayer, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Troubled, Unseen | Leave a comment

A Morning’s Meditation

Posted on May 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Morning’s Meditationby Michael Doyle As in the beginning it is nowAs it will ever be yet somehowThough dead in sense from sinIf Christ is in us, we are born again Through the spirit living in eachWe are risen again … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abraham's Oath, Beginning, Blessed, Bliss, Born Again, Bottomless Mercy, Bringing Hope, Christ, Compassion and Relief, Consolers, Contemplation, Covering Hate, Darkness, Dead, Deceive, Despair, Explanation, Fear, Giving, Grief, Holiness, Hope, In Us, Instruments, Light, Love, Meditation, Meet, Morning, Now, Passing Ages, Path, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Point of Need, Prayer and Meditation, Prophets, Read, Receive, Redemption, Right, Risen, Sacred Sign, Sages, Salvation, Scriptures, Sense, Sin, Somehow, Spirit Living, Stand Firm, Teach, Walk In the Light, Wisdom, Worthy | Leave a comment

Layers of Emotion

Posted on February 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Layers of Emotionby Michael DoyleOur hearts hold feelings deeper than oceansIt’s up to us to manage our own emotionsThe heart of the matter is that hearts matterYet, we must do this or our lives might shatterFeelings are so very hard … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Best Thing We Can Do With the Failures of the Past Is To Let Them Be History

Posted on January 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history.”– Gary Chapman, quote from The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Acts of Service, Best Thing, Express, Failure, Feel Loved, Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman, History, Past, Physical Touch, Primary, Quality Time, Receive, Receiving Gifts, Thought For the Day, Words of Affirmation | Leave a comment

Off Ramp

Posted on September 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Off Rampby Michael DoyleFrom dodge ball to full gloryWe live the Christmas storyBridged by that crossOn which God took our lossUnknown is the time and seasonBut what is known is the reasonThat healing of eternal riftIf only we will receive … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Honor, Justice, and Humanity, Forbid Us Tamely To Surrender That Freedom Which We Received From Our Gallant Ancestors

Posted on September 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Ancestors, First Principles, Fobid, Freedom, Gallant, Honor, Humanity, Justice, Receive, Surrender, Tame, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment