Tag Archives: Worship

Reaching For the Improbable

Posted on February 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Reaching For the Improbableby Michael DoyleCommitting to the improbableWe reach out to do the impossibleKnowing that we’re fully capableMaking these things, through God, possibleAnchored in faith and in visionAre opportunities opening with precisionLeading with faith into the futureThese are the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirmation, Anchor, Better, Capable, Character, Commit, Confirmation, Development, Dream, Faith, Future, God, Heart, Impossible, Improbable, Nurture, Opportunity, Part, Poetry and Poems, Reach, Relevant, Together, Vision, Way, Worship | Leave a comment

A Victory of Joy

Posted on December 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Victory of Joyby Michael DoyleJesus is the focus of joy in relationshipHe is the purpose of and for our worshipThis is the blessing we’re receivingAnd it all begins with our believingFaith is the thing needed to nurtureAs it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anticipation, Atheism, Believing, Blessing, Broken Paradigm, Faith, Future, God's Imprint, Good Vibes, Grace, Heaven Sent, Hijacked Language, Jesus, Joy, Path, Peter, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Receiving, Relationship, Skepticism, Slippery Slope, Victory, Worship | Leave a comment

Burning Down Our Idols

Posted on November 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Burning Down Our Idolsby Michael DoyleIn our desire for deepening connectionEach of us worships in our own directionFixated with our paths of our obsessionThe things we dwell on take their possessionThere is the compromise of our aspirationWhich becomes the conformity … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admiration, Aspiration, Burning Down, Compromise, Confromity, Connection, Cultivation, Dedication, Direction, False Theolgoy, Ideology, Idols, Obsession, Poetry and Poems, Possession, Significance, Worship | Leave a comment

Illuminating Light

Posted on October 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Illuminating Lightby Michael DoyleEvery day is a new dayOf goodness felt in celebrationTo be lived in every wayWith the utmost fascinationRegardless of expectationLife comes just as it willHowever direct in contemplationEach day has its own unpaid billIt is all in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Battles, Best Path, Blessing, Brace, Celebration, Challenges, Contemplation, Cues, Every Way, Expectation, Faith, Fascination, Feel, Give, Glorifying God, Goodness, Gospel, Guard, Happens, His Works, Illuminating Light, Keeping Real, Life, Misread, New Day, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pray, Relationship, Savior, Say, Sheep, Shepherd, Skilled, The Lord, Theology, Unpaid Bill, Worship | Leave a comment

It’s A Sunday Conversation

Posted on May 1, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

It’s A Sunday Conversationby Michael DoyleThere’s something to give attentionWe’re all living in the tensionWe are not here for entertainmentBut we are here for engagementFiltered in God’s holy perceptionStanding in worship, giving our receptionIt is not the how in which … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountable, Across, Address, Amen, Anchored, Attention, Biblical Community, Blessed and Content, Blessings, Capability, Change, Church Life, Corrupt Soil, Create, Day-To-Day, Dream, Durability, Embrace, Engagement, Entertainment, Every Way, Evidence, Express, Fallacies, Filter, Fruit, God, God's Love, Godly Continuity, Grace, History, Labels, Legacy, Let It Be, Living, Love, Massive, Moment, Mystery, Passive, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prayer, Price, Proof, Reception, Right Intention, Righteousness, See, Serve, Shame, Sunday Conversation, Support, Tension, Toil, Unaffordable, Word, Word of God, Worship | Leave a comment

First Principles: For Although They Knew God, They Did Not Honor Him As God Or Give Thanks To Him, But They Became Futile In Their Thinking, and Their Foolish Hearts Were Darkened

Posted on March 20, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Amen, Blessed Forever, Bodies, Claim, Creator, Creature, Darkened, Dishonor, Exchange, First Principles, Fool, Foolish Heart, Futile, Glory, God, Hearts, Honor, Image, Immortal God, Impurity, Lie, Lust, Mortal Man, Romans 1:21-32, Serve, Thanks, Thinking, Truth, Wise, Worship | Leave a comment

Life For Dummies

Posted on March 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Life For Dummiesby Michael DoyleLife for dummiesWould be a fine dealOn in any studyThere are skills to revealBuilding blocks of lifeThat take us from here to thereLessons needed to move past strifeAre to be heeded without fearLiving by the Gospel … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Affirm, Building Blocks, Darkness, Deal, Discern, Dummies, Embrace, Faith, Favor, Fear, Forgiven, Gift, Given, God, Gospel, Grace, Head, Heart, Heed, Here To There, Kinship, Lessons, Lessons Learned, Lessons Live, Life, Light, Poetry and Poems, Reject, Rejoice, Reveal, Right, Righteousness, Royal, Said, Skills, Step-By-Step, Strife, Study, Through, Voice, Wisdom, Worship | Leave a comment

Living Scripture

Posted on February 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Living Scriptureby Michael DoyleWe started church with a prayer for UkraineI can only further pray it is not in vainThe horrors that they are going throughCan only be endured by the strength of how God is trueTurning next in our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Capacity, Church, Dignity, Disciples, Done, Endure, Faithful, Father, First, First Born, Fullness, Glory, God Is True, Holiness, Horrors, Image, Invisible God, Jesus, Living, Living Water, Majesty, Message, Mystery, Nations, Obligated, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Priority, Providence, Rejoice, Responsibility, Sacrifices, Salvation, Sanctity, Scripture, Shown, Son, Stewardship, Suffer, Sunday, Test, Trust, Ukraine, Vain, Word of God, World's View, Worship | Leave a comment

The Unfolding Story of the First Christmas Day

Posted on December 12, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Unfolding Story of the First Christmas Dayby Michael DoyleChristmas didn’t come with a pretty bowIf you didn’t know this, you need to knowThere was a lot of ugly in what became beautifulThe something simple transformed into the wonderfulShepherds were … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admiration, Ambition, Angels, Approach, Attention, Beautiful, Bethlehem, Blessed, Bow, Bridge, Broken Parts, Christmas, Christmas Day, Completeness, Cure, Dread, Eden, Everywhere, Fall, Famine, Fateful Night, Fearful Ways, Feast, Field, First, Flock, Forgotten, Fountain, Friend, Fullness, God, Gratitude, Habits of A Lifetime, Heal, Hear, Hearts, High, Holy, Hosts of Heaven, Humble, Humbled, Imprint, Inspiration, Intent, Intention, Israeli Nation, Kingdom, Know, Lambs of God, Least, Light Show, Listen, Live, Living Invitation, Living Waters, Lord, Love, Loved, Low, Majesty, Manger, Matter, Message, Mountain, Night's Skies, Open Eyes, Our Father, Overcome, Peace, Pews, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Presence of the Lord, Pure, Pure Hearts, Relationship, Rescue, Restoration, Sacred Words, Salvation, Satisfaction, Selfishness, Shalom, Shepherds, Shine, Simple, Situation, Sky, Social Standing, Spread, Status, Stranger, Surpass, Surprise, Surrender, Testimony, Trust, Truth, Understanding, Unfolding Story, Walk Among Us, Welcome, Wholeness, Wonderful, Word of God, Worship | Leave a comment

Into the Season

Posted on December 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Into the Seasonby Michael DoyleChristmas cards start to flowInto the season we love and knowNo matter the changes the comeThere is glory in this kingdomTis the season of mercy mildWhile angelic hosts proclaim the childWho was born in the of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Angelic Hosts, Angels, Blessed Truth, Born, Changes, Child, Christ, Christmas Cards, Christmas Story, Echo, Errors, Flow, Glory, God, God and Sinner, His People, Holy, Kingdom, Know, Love, Magnified, Manger, Melody, Mercy Mild, Poetry and Poems, Praises, Reconciled, Relationship, Saints, Sake, Sanctified, Season, Side By Side, Stranger, Sung, Theology, Worship | Leave a comment