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All my times are in Your Hands
And You flow like a river through them
You never ever change
So that shall remain my confidence.

Carefree in the care of God
There’s no other place that I’d rather trod
Other than those that You have earmarked
For You’re the trailblazer who has my steps sparked.

Having marked them all with the claim pegs of victory
You walk with me as You unravel the mystery
Of what You have already written in the pages of Your Heart
In order that each day would be a brand new start.

Fresh faith, focus and favour greet me
As I wait for You to anoint me
With the sweet fragrance of fellowship
That is more precious than the sweetest friendship.

I run to You so we can run together
No more going, hither and thither
For Your ways are sure and steadfast
Much like a ship that’s supported by its mast.

We sail, we cruise, we ride, we surf
For the path You lead me on is like a green, grassy turf
It shines at times with drops of dew
And I look straight up for You make all things new.

You’re The Lion of the tribe of Judah
So I raise my, “Hallelujah!”
Having burned the plough to my past
I let go and look forward to a life in vivid colour and sharp contrast.

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Like diamonds raining from The Heavens
Are Your tender mercies and fresh graces every single day
Your Love being one of our strongest weapons
Urges us to notice the wonderful array.

Of Your Majesty on display
Through the wonder of creation
For You’re the antidote to all dismay
Revealed in splendour for our appreciation.

Pointing us to the reality of another world
A place we call Home
For the planet we live in may be curved
But it’s still our shell encasing our stories in tomes.

You call them prophetic scrolls
For our destinies are Heaven ordained
It’s a comfort to our souls
For The Word we walk by can never be chained.

So we look to You for direction
In order that we may walk in sync
Our steps we know are ordered
In order that we may never sink.

You lift us high above the fray
Through Your loving kindness
Our hands held tenderly in Yours
So we shall never go astray.

Times that we need reminding
Are wonderfully met with a gentle breeze or a blooming flower
To point us back to The One
Who orchestrated it all like one brilliant baby shower.

Love leads well

Always nourished in the Light of Your Countenance
Your Majesty breathing fresh life into all of my promises
My soul radiates with a new resonance
That is a mercy kiss from Heaven’s premises.

Taking a hold of me so I never waver
One sentence from You bringing me into alignment
So I continue to believe in the beauty of Your favour
And focus afresh on my divine assignment.

You tell me to wait patiently
Yet my heart You ensure remains in full assurance
For in the time You move suddenly
I’ll sure be glad that in You I have found all my insurance.

You make all things beautiful
And give me the faith to persevere
So I stand on the Rock that’s immovable
For it’s Perfect Love that casts out fear.

A post-it reminder

Brandishing our swords
It’s Your banner of victory we raise
Our songs breaking all moulds
For it’s The Love that ravished us that causes us to praise.

Our enemies may come from one direction
But You cause them to flee in seven
For You’re the God of completion
Who vindicates us with one command from Heaven.

Our own strength may be feeble
But Your Might has no compare
You make a spectacle of every upheaval
For our trouble is very much your own affair.

Your record is impeccable
For You win every battle you ever wage
In You, we learn we too are incredible
As we watch You set up the stage.

For what You plan to do next
Bringing us a sevenfold return
For our spiritual muscles have been flexed
And now Your Sovereignty promises to overturn.

That which dare try to defy the hope
That is alive on the inside of us
For You have already defeated our foe
And now we’re glad that we’re riding with You on the same bus.

We’ll sing our way back Home
Through trials and triumphs alike
Releasing the gift of Shalom
For our trust and faith in You, is very much childlike.
✝️❤️

The sound of hope.

It’s either a bold adventure in You
Or nothing at all
To embrace the unknown
For it’s for Freedom that we were born.

A freedom that comes from knowing we aren’t alone
But for everything, we can lean on The One who shone
As a beacon of hope when we most needed Him
His radiance continued unabated so nothing can leave us grim.

Sure, storms will come
But who we become
In and through our relationship with The One
Is the eternal value of our journey bound to leave us undone.

Every trial designed to liberate us some more
For our pains and sorrows are what He bore
In exchange, we get to be transformed into His image
Cultivating peace, joy and everything that resembles His visage.

What greater glory could we behold?
Apart from The One who told
The whole world that He loves us
With a Love so outrageous that it defines our story thus.

Victory is what He calls it
Love is what frames it
Strength is what envelopes it
So we embrace our adventures that develop us, bit by bit.

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You announce Your Presence
Bold and unafraid
Standing tall, yet humble
For a King like You needs no parade.

They may have expected a lot of fanfare
But You came as a babe
Wrapped in swaddling clothes
Your one purpose being to fulfil your oaths.

The ones You took before time began
With Our Father, to redeem all humanity
To reconcile, transform and mould
All that love You into the image of The One who carries all the glory.

You were hidden in obscurity
Most of Your lifetime here
Yet You retained Your integrity
For Your Purpose had a timing to which You had to adhere.

But when the time did come
You made history, and rearranged our Destiny
Took our pain and sorrow
Rose again with the hope of a brighter morrow.

In the light of Your sacrifice, we live with a hope unmoved
Our feet planted on solid ground, lifting our hands to You
Calling on Your Name to feel Your Presence again
Gently wrapping it up with a warm, “Amen.”
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The Great Defender

Like a beam of light
Uncontainable
Spreading its radiant rays to the left and to the right
Is only a tiny glimpse of Your indisputable power and Your glorious might.

As You break through the clouds
And come forth in all Your splendour
What was once dark and gloomy
Is now under the majesty of The Great Defender.

You stand up for our cause
And as we feel You move, we pause
Reflecting on Your Faithfulness through it all
For You never let us crumble nor fall.

Your Grace holding us
Your Presence healing us
Your Love liberating us
Your Resurrection Power at work within us.

It’s a power so unfathomable
Words fail me
For it’s so untameable
That it never fails to quiet me.

In the quietness of Your Presence
Are found brooks of bliss
Where my soul echoes with the resonance
Of Your loving voice that I cannot miss.

So should the clouds come
I know that I rest in the power of Your Love
Ever so gentle, always tender
After all, You are my Great Defender.

A gentle rumbling

Without a shadow of doubt, we believe
Without a shadow of turning, You come
We see because we believe
You come because You see.

You see our need to know The One we believe
The lengths, the heights, the depths, the widths
Which know no bounds nor limits nor boundaries
For it’s Your Love to which we cleave.

We cleave because we have begun to see
That You knew us before time beginning
You knit us together in our mother’s wombs
Then endowed us with the riches of Your Grace wherein we bloom.

We bloom like the flowers that point to the sky
Your Name we lift on high
The more we seek, the more we find
Your precious thoughts towards us, ever so kind.

Our lives now hidden in You
The safest place ever
So to the past we bid adieu
Inviting You to usher in the new.

Your Love is so strong
It severs our ties to anything that holds us down
Helps us to let go and take a breath in
So that The Love that made us can settle us deep within.

So we ask You to have Your way
So much better, so much higher
As You come and breathe fresh life into our veins
Wiping away all tears, all stains.

You make all things new
All things beautiful
Joy is found in knowing You
Your eternal treasures, ever so bountiful.

Your Light is breaking through
We can see the truth of what we once believed
The reward of trusting the invisible made tangible
In the Light that shall forever remain infallible.

Saturday swings

I just want intimacy
Counting all else as loss
I run to You for cover
For it’s the depths of Your Heart that I want to discover.

The deeper I go in Your Love for me
The more I get lost
And the more that I get lost, the more I am found
For the Gospel is nothing but a Love Story.

Written in the blood stained ink of Calvary
Ending in a revelation of Your Risen Glory
For the Victory You won for us far exceeds a needed outcome
For it revels in the relationship that sees who we become.

The God of Grace who keeps no record of my mistakes
Wipes my slate clean each morning
With tender mercies and fresh blessings
You’re a Father whose smile is the breath of a new dawning.

The deep caverns of Your Love
Reveal endless amounts of space
To run, to create
To just be and regenerate.

As I explore, my eyes open with wonder
Your promises are Your language of Love between us
To redeem, restore, bless and prosper
For therein lies The Father’s Heart that is seeped in honour.

He says that His delight is in me
I smile and receive for perhaps that’s what I was born for
To know the fullness of my Father’s Heart
Wherein I shall always rest secure.