Category Archives: aquifer replenished

PRAISE GOD MOST HIGH FOR ANSWERED PRAYER

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Praise to you, God Most High,

For hearing prayer on the fly…

And your delight

Being quiet in your Sight,

Bringing us into your Light.

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You would talk with us,

Yet we put up the fuss…

Ne’er slowing down

Nor coming around,

In ways that are not just!

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Walking with your children in gardens,

Seeing our eyes at Thee widen…

drying our tears

and calming our fears,

Joy at mutual abiding!

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We don’t model for kids,

the closeness and joy you give…

But stay away–

Asking others pray–

Misunderstanding God’s writ.

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Pray for me, said like Simon,*

The sorcerer on his own ladder climbing…

Unwilling to claim

Given to him in God’s name,

What Christ, without his help, did buy for him!

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–Jonathan Caswell

  •  Simon the Sorcerer…see  The Book of the Acts of the Apostles (or  simply…”ACTS”)  8:9-24.

SORRY TO BLOG AND SCRAM!

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The nature of who I am,

So sorry to post and scram…

Wife want eating

Three meals completing,

I’l come back here if I can!

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This blogs my poetry,

Finding mine is the key…

SEARCH:  “Caswell”–

Most are  revealed,

Written heroically!

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As to the prompt–almost any–

Subject inspiring–many…

Three or four styles

Bring you smiles,

A Christian blog not like any?

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–Jonathan Caswell

 

DAY-BY-DAY GOD LEADS

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After the Child was born,

Joseph was duly warned….

Warned in a dream

Of Herod’s blood scheme,

Traveling far from harm!

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Believers today face the same,

Sudden deliverance named…

Listen each day

Finding the way,

Keeping their new faith from harm!

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As Joseph, so should we,

Do what’s necessary…

Shielding one’s faith

Moving where it’s safe

Escaping Herod’s fury.

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Then when The time is right,

Let Christ within you shine bright…

Obedience true

Is up to you,

If Christ would be your light!

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–Jonathan Caswell

 

PEOPLE DO ASK…

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Is it okay to marry for looks,

Are hot spouses allowed in your books…

Beautiful babes

Just one of the aids,

To find that partner who cooks.

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Find one in the Lord,

For a lifetime you’ll not be bored…

Practical matters

And spiritual factors

All must come on board!

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–Jonathan Caswell

Read portions from SONG OF SOLOMON…and Proverbs 31.

ENIGMA WITHIN FAITH

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Enigma within Christian faith,

Keeping “short accounts” being safe…

Living holy lives

By spiritual eyes,

Not the purview of apes!

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Self effort has nil effect,

But the One Way through Christ accept…

To each other confess–

Pray to God, He’ll address–

But self pride for confession God rejects.

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Security through faith, says Paul,

When law is removed Christ is all…

Act by Christ’s love–

God’s hand in your glove–

Walking more and more by Spirit’s call.

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Spend much more time with Father, Son,

Live in the Spirit–three in One…

Bible study and frequent prayer

The tools to travel there,

To live in grace, “Thy will be done!”

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–Jonathan Caswell

HE’S BA-A-A-A-CK!

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He’s back to the hurly and burley,

Alone with his thoughts going squirrelly…

Kind folk did

Come to where he hid,

But retirement was too early!

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He won’t go away,

Unless the Rapture’s today!

He misses the crowd

And shouting out loud,

To let folks hear what he’ll say!

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Great cheers to the eighteen or so,

Visiting a blog readership low…

He’ll keep you informed–

His heart truly warmed–

For support you chose  to bestow.

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Broken promises forgotten,

Being put off felt rotten…

Of you very few

I’m beholden to you,

For in compassion you were stopping!

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–Jonathan Caswell

FRAMING SPIRITUAL TRUTHS

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At one time I was caught

In dispensationalist thought…

Spiritual signs

Were for certain times,

And for the present–just rot!

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The charismatic crowd,

Would shout “tongues” aloud…

Spiritual gifts

Were not “ifs”,

But some One in the air!

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Mainline churches, alas,

Run from the spirit really fast…

Unequivocally

The hierarchy,

Short shrift those sections till passed.

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Pentecostals pray,

In tongues every Sunday…

Loudly they cry

To God on high,

And whenever they pray!

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In some denominations,

Doctrine’s in confusion…

General behooval

Of passage removal,

Not wanting any exclusion.

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Then there are Bible-believing,

Determined to seek the receiving…

Of God’s Spirit

 Power  to visit,

Upon their witness  and healing!

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Many TV preachers,

Have tongues as regular features…

Spiritual gifts

Are vital lifts,,

To we spiritually-enlivened creatures!

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Among us folks disagree

In varied possibilities…

But the Spirit we prize

As seen through God’s eyes,

Available to God’s opportunities!

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–Jonathan Caswell

WELLING UP TO OVERFLOWING

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Samaritan woman’s thirst

For something so she won’t burst…

Came to this well

And heard Jesus tell,

To put Him first.

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Thirsty beyond mere water,

She was a human daughter…

Caught in her lies–

Opened her eyes–

To see living water!

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The Lord didn’t put her down,

As she went through her town…

Calling to tell

All of that Well,

Who would stick around!

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–Jonathan Caswell

BIBLE REFERENCE:  John 4: 7- 31.

IS FREEDOM ENOUGH?

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Freedom for MY words,

Complicated by belief…

Sticks in someone’s craw

The filtering is brief.

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Yet in this place here,

We fill each other’s joy…

Speaking praising love

In all aspects employed.

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Truly I am loved

In ways not fully understood…

God gave us blogging

And declared it good!

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–Jonathan Caswell

VAGARIES OF MASSACHUSETTS WEATHER

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IT WAS nice and cold,

But the fifties this weekend we’re told…

Bouncing around

In winter we’ve found

More likely to foster a cold.

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Tonight we expect rain,

How long it will freeze can’t say…

Supposedly warm

By tomorrow’s form,

Much snow will wash away!

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Is this our January thaw,

Before February’s cold and raw…

Massachusetts waits

To see if it skates,

Until Spring flowers grow tall!

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Began raining by this time,

Slushy sidewalks are slimed…

Slippery-wet

It’s warmer yet,

Temperature’s on the incline!

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–Jonathan Caswell