Bible Poems
Romans 8
When you don’t know how to pray,be still before God.When you’re stressed beyond endurance,admit your weakness.When dreams shrink and hopes fade,confess your despair.God hears every word,feels the pounding of your heart,engages in your quest for answers.And when all you can do is cry,release your tears to Himwho treasures them.For the Holy Spirit intercedes,Jesus mediates on your behalf.And as God your Fatherworks your circumstances togetherfor His glory and your good,your love for Him will grow,your trust in Him will strengthen,and your faith will ignite heaven’s angelsin praise.
Janice Cooley Jones
Janice Cooley Jones
Based on Psalm 13
I felt a sense of hopelessness each day,as if my prayers weren’t answered. Did You care?Not knowing arrogance kept You away,I watched as others prospered. How unfair!
I thought my troubles needlessly prolonged.If my God loved me, He would end this test!I lost my witness as I lost my song,by not submitting to what You deemed best.
I cried, “Lord, this dismay I have not earned!”You held my stony heart as You replied,“It is not for your soul that you’re concerned,your ultimatums have betrayed your pride.”
I saw myself as full of vanityand bowed my head in true humility.
Janice Cooley Jones
I felt a sense of hopelessness each day,as if my prayers weren’t answered. Did You care?Not knowing arrogance kept You away,I watched as others prospered. How unfair!
I thought my troubles needlessly prolonged.If my God loved me, He would end this test!I lost my witness as I lost my song,by not submitting to what You deemed best.
I cried, “Lord, this dismay I have not earned!”You held my stony heart as You replied,“It is not for your soul that you’re concerned,your ultimatums have betrayed your pride.”
I saw myself as full of vanityand bowed my head in true humility.
Janice Cooley Jones
Anticipation
Will You come whileI’m watching the sky?
In the spring gazing throughnew sprigs of life..Through a mirage on a hot,summer day…During a windstorm,leaves blocking my view…On a chilled night,stars shimmering…
Will You come whileI’m watching the sky?
Janice Cooley Jones
Will You come whileI’m watching the sky?
In the spring gazing throughnew sprigs of life..Through a mirage on a hot,summer day…During a windstorm,leaves blocking my view…On a chilled night,stars shimmering…
Will You come whileI’m watching the sky?
Janice Cooley Jones
Enigma
Maybe the reason we can’t capture joyis that God sends it in pieces
a forgiveness grantedan accident avoideda friendship offereda pain subdueda marriage restoreda sick child healeda new song composed
that must be put together like a puzzleand appreciated like a grand picture,unfolding.
Janice Cooley Jones
Maybe the reason we can’t capture joyis that God sends it in pieces
a forgiveness grantedan accident avoideda friendship offereda pain subdueda marriage restoreda sick child healeda new song composed
that must be put together like a puzzleand appreciated like a grand picture,unfolding.
Janice Cooley Jones
Benefit
The kind of lovewe think we needis the spoiling kind.
But in the endthat weakens us.
So God refuses our selfish requestsand we grow up.
Janice Cooley Jones
The kind of lovewe think we needis the spoiling kind.
But in the endthat weakens us.
So God refuses our selfish requestsand we grow up.
Janice Cooley Jones