Sunday Poems

What a church service today!  Pastor Bob Werntz is back from Honduras and he lead worship. He made us really think about worship and  praise.  Then Pastor Mark gave another great sermon about prayer.  I wrote several poems while he was speaking and I am going to share them here.

Can we pray with confidence
If we don't really believe?
We know God has the power
But we don't have faith to receive.

We have to let our guard down
And trust with all our might
That the God who listens to our prayers
Will answer with delight.

We need to pray like children
Who ask ceaselessly each day,
Because they trust their parents
To love them anyway.

God wants us to approach Him,
To ask and seek and knock,
Because He loves His children
And He wants to bless His flock.

We must cast out reservations
And pray from deep inside
Because God's love desires us
To know we'll not be denied.

So we'll come to God with confidence
All anticipation
That He will always answer
Beyond our every expectation.
jj/10


Assumptions

I need to remember
The things that make You God.
Sometimes I make assumptions
That may seem rather odd.

Assuming I can tell You
Just what You ought to do
As if I have all wisdom
Of what is good and true.

Assuming that I know what's best
And that You should just agree,
Assuming that, unlike You,
I know what's best for me.

How can You have the patience
To keep listening when I pray,
Assuming that I'll understand
How You operate someday?

Assuming that I'll get it
How much You desire me,
That I'll someday surrender
To Your will eventually.
jj/10