Your Perspective or God’s Perspective?

Desreen Clarke-Miller

Description

Poems that are a real faith booster. A 'must read' from a woman who responds to life's struggles by choosing God's perspective.

Do you recognize that your ‘overwhelming’ problems are miniscule when you view them from God’s perspective? The author knows that her perspective means sleepless nights due to worry and anxiety, but God’s perspective means that she can rest knowing that He can turn any and every situation around for good.

These insightful poems address common and often challenging life experiences that you may be able to identify with. Here is your reminder that God can come through for you regardless of your demographic. You can trust Him.

This book consists of fifty heartfelt poems, each with an appropriate scripture verse: experiential and uncomplicated, yet profound. Read, re-read, recite, meditate, enjoy, and share.

Be encouraged to embrace God’s truth and choose His perspective – the one where the impossible becomes possible.

Sujets

• Inspirational
• Themes
• Subjects
• Religious
• Laboratorio Destiny
• Spiritual Battle
• Praise
• Promise
• Restoration
• Poetry
• Le Don du roi
• Faith
• Destiny
• Perspective

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 28 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664277960
• Langue: English

Extrait

Your PERSPECTIVE OR God’s PERSPECTIVE?
 
A COLLECTION OF POEMS FOR ENCOURAGING GOD’S PERSPECTIVE
 
 
DESREEN CLARKE-MILLER
 
 

 
Copyright © 2022 Desreen Clarke-Miller.
 
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This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.
 
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Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
 
ISBN: 978-1-6642-7795-3 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022916881
 
WestBow Press rev. date: 9/28/2022
 
 
 
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Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.
Matthew 19:26b
Contents
Part 1: HE GETS IT RIGHT EVERY TIME
1.Meet the New Me
2.Just as I Am
3.Liberty Street
4.A Dark Place
5.On a Journey
6.Surviving a Storm
7.Because He Is God
8.History with God
9.Destined for Greatness
10.The Day I Died
Part 2: THE RIGHT FOCUS
11.My Miracle Is on the Way
12.I Dare to Hope
13.My Package of Promises
14.God’s Truth
15.Good Morning Lord
16.Good Night Lord
17.Seasons
18.Roller-Coaster Faith
19.Standing on a Rock
20.My Way Maker
Part 3: RIGHT THINKING
21.Change Your Lens
22.There’s Value in Losing
23.My Dime
24.The Simple Things of Life
25.I Talk to Myself
26.Evening Stroll
27.Your Internal GPS
28.Blessed to Be a Blessing
29.What You Say
30.Your Ability
31.The Closed Door
32.Marriage Math
33.That Sinner
34.Unforgiveness
35.An Unfair Exchange
36.Walking in Your Miracle
37.Where Are My Encouragers?
Part 4: IT’S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT
38.Life Hurts
39.Battle Weary
40.Let Me Hear Your Reason to Complain
41.Don’t Stress
42.What God Will Be Able to Deliver?
43.Where Does My Help Come From?
44.When the Tyre Hits the Road
45.Perfectly and Wonderfully Made
Part 5: THE RIGHT RESPONSE
46.It’s Bursting
47.My Praise
48.Revelation in a Dream
49.I Will Bless the Lord
50.Twelve Declarations
Part 1 HE GETS IT RIGHT EVERY TIME
Meet the New Me
My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live,
but Christ lives in me.
Galatians 2:20a 1
You may have known me by my past behaviour,
Or the ‘me’ before I met the Saviour,
But I am no longer what I used to be,
So please allow me to introduce you to the new me.
Here’s a woman now walking in her purpose
Even though surrounded by so much chaos,
Loved by someone of whom I was oblivious.
Finally, someone whom I can really trust!
To please Him is now my entire focus;
A life of gratitude for me is a must.
Meet a woman who has changed her direction,
One who has even changed her conversation,
Having undergone major transformation
Beginning with radical salvation,
Now no longer walking in condemnation.
Tell me, isn’t that reason for celebration?
Yes, I’m no longer what I used to be
Since I encountered someone willing to die for me—
Such a great price to pay to set me free!
Then He, being a King, made me a part of royalty.
What a difference He made for the whole world to see
As He changed my entire trajectory.
You may have known me before this change came to be,
So it is with great pleasure I present to you the new ‘me’.
Just as I Am
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die
for us while we were still sinners.
Romans 5:8
Can God really love me knowing my past
And my commitment to change that did not last?
Does He really know all the things that I’ve done
And how I have rejected His own dear son?
I know myself, and I am not that lovable;
There’s not much about me that is admirable.
So how can He love me as I am?
So many times I have let Him down;
My attitude has caused many to frown.
The disrespect that I’ve shown to His name—
How can He love me just the same?
It’s not as if He doesn’t know me,
Because He is God, and He can see
Beyond any façade who I really am.
This for me is so overwhelming,
Really surpassing my understanding.
Love of the sacrificial kind
Is totally beyond the human mind.
Impossible to fathom why He is so relentless
In pursuit of someone who could not care less!
Honestly, that’s who I am.
This is love that is unconditional,
Mercy that is non-prejudicial.
It is the perfect example of grace,
God giving me life and dying in my place.
For all that I can never repay,
But Lord, I hold out no longer: I surrender today
Just as I am.
Liberty Street
So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.
Galatians 5:1
Living under all kinds of pressures, bound for so long—
Enough is enough, this is not where I belong!
I have made the decision to move on.
Pressures, when you come back here, you won’t find me—I’m gone.
Over the years, I was convinced that this was how life was supposed to be,
Hanging with the neighbours - worry, panic, and anxiety,
Until someone came from another community and shared with me
About Jesus, who paid the price so I could move to a new street called Liberty.
So in my new neighbourhood, my perspective is changing
As God I am pursuing.
His love is transforming;
My very lifestyle is adjusting.
In my new place, I am progressing;
His presence I am enjoying.
Do not try: there is no stopping,
Because I am just bursting,
Filled with rejoicing,
Giving praises to my King,
And right now I am committing
That to that old place there is no returning.
I am on a different trajectory,
Doing life with Jesus, the one with authority
To give me the joy that is supposed to be my story
And to remove that which caused me all that worry.
I really hoped the old neighbours would not find me again,
Because I really had no space to entertain.
But for sure they showed up, and yet their hold on me was not the same—
I turned them away because I no longer enjoyed that game.
I am now living in a place where the Spirit of God is evident,
Where breakthroughs are prominent,
And where praise and worship are eminent.
How can I contain myself? I am just bursting with excitement.
At Liberty Street, there is always a place for God’s sufficiency.
Away with excuses and complacency!
Jesus paid with His life so that you too could take up occupancy.
Why wouldn’t you receive His forgiveness, grace, and mercy?
A Dark Place
In my distress I prayed to the Lord,
and the Lord answered me and set me free.
Psalm 118:5
There’s a time that I remember, not too long ago,
When I was in a dark place—believe me when I say so.
As dark as it was, sleep was elusive,
But fear and anxiety were very intrusive.
It was a place where the darkness wouldn’t go away,
Where there was no light, and the night never changed to day—
Not even one ray of sunshine.
Even nature was out of line.
I always knew that God was able,
But where I was seemed to be unreachable.