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Introduction to Chapter & Verses: Thoughts & Meditations

I have gathered up my verses like little children and seated them in the ranks and rows of rhythm, remembering how the Master arranged the multitude before he fed the five thousand. My thoughts and meditations are but tiny crumbs and morsels, but I am aware of what Christ can do with five loaves and two fishes.

I have tried to collect my thoughts like so many coins, a few shiny shekels and many more widow’s mites, and lots of loose change that I have emptied from little mental pockets at the end of many days. Perhaps a poem will bless the Lord as it drops with a clink to the bottom of this collection box.

I have dressed up my ideas like children off to Sunday School in their coats of many colors and have sometimes sent them out to play. I have brought some like Hanna’s Samuel and left them at the temple hoping they will serve God.

Some of my thoughts have crippled feet like little Mephibosheth. I hope the reader will be as kind to them as David was to King Saul’s son.

Some thoughts dance before the ark, others skip and run and laugh as though filled with too much wine and I fear they will be ridiculed or misunderstood. But as David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD." There is little dignity in dancing and poems are supposed to dance.

I thank God for words. They are indeed God’s gift to man. Of all the creatures, none are so sublime as the one made at the end of the sixth day. He alone was given the power of God in speech. A parrot may mock or mimic sound, but only man can return the breath of life in a sacrifice of praise. Only man can reach for a star deep within the depth of an eternal soul and set it blazing in the heavens of heart and mind. A word thought or spoken can instantly transport us to the terrible site of Calvary or to the triumphant place outside the empty tomb. Words can be the oil and wine of healing for someone hurt on the Jericho road. A word has the power to elevate or illuminate, to kill or lift the fallen.

Words can be holy things. God Himself is called "Word," and what a wonder it was when the Word became flesh. My words are wood, hay and stubble when compared to His sacred words; but as long as we are in this world there is a place for these inferior things. Should they burn, however bright or intense, may their smoke rise like an incense to heaven.

Some of these words are sermons to myself. Some are songs that I just had to sing. Some are psalms, and some are sad. Some are to greet the dawn and others have kept vigil through the night. Some came out of pains and some fell like tears. Some came out of work and some out of worship, but all were how I seemed to feel. "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight oh LORD, my strength and my redeemer" (Ps. 19:14).


A “B” "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "H" "I" J"K" "L" "M" "N" "O" "P" "Q" "R" "S" "T" "U" "V" "W" "X" "Y" "Z"

Feel free to use any of these in your ministry. all blessings! - id


A

A Little Strand of String

a book mite
Abundant
Abundance
According to Thy Word
Aid
Advice
AfterShock
Agony
Aid
Alchemy
All for Good
An Awful Silence
Arrows
A Day
A Measure A Seed
Ask the Blessing

Authority
Awe

B

bazaar
battlefield
beaten
Before the Sovereign Judge
Better World
Better Cup
Beginning to End
Beguiled
Be Brave
Be You
Be Vigilant
Beware the Bigot
Billion Stars
Blessed Hands music

Bruised Reed
Bullyproof

A Lesson
Bliss
Better Cup
Belated Christmas Present
Blood of Slaves
Book
Book of Books
Breathe Deeply

C

Called
Can and Cannot
Centurion
Chastisement
Christ in You
Christ was Less
Christian's Goodbye
Christmas Awe
Christmas Eve 1986
Christmas Savor
Cleansed
Chosen
Canceled
Cock-a-doodle-do
Condemned
Come let us Adore Him
Come to Jesus
Come Now
Count to Ten
Cipher
Confess
Creation Lyrics and Score
Creation
Covered Head
Crimson Flow
Cripple's Creed
Cross Work

D


Daniel
David's Sling
David: White dove down

Doing Good
Done
Dichotomy of the Cross

Dawning
Day
Day Break
Day Dream
Driving Up Daisies
Dust
Daybreak

Doldrums
Did You?
Do
Dogs
Don't Worry
Down
Dream

E



Earth-quake
Easter
Elijah's Prayers
Embarked

Enjoy
Eleventh Hour
Ethereal Gift
Everlasting

Eyes
Eight Bells Passing

F


Faith Alone

Fair or Foul
Faux Kiss
Father Seeketh Such
For Dogs Only
For Love
First
First Dawn
Faith Alone

Foundation
For All music
For Christmas
For Darkness
For Good
For Maestro
forgive
Freedom
Fulfilled
Furnaces

G

Gain
Gal. 6:9
Gall of Golgotha
Game On
Gathered

Gentle Reign
Gethsemane
Give
Getting Christmas
Gift of Speech
God's Will
He Made all
Glory
Goal
God's Best
God's Will and Pleasure

God of Doors
good
Good Book
Good Will
Goodbye
Good Works

Grace to Forgive
Golden Altar

Greatest Gift
Great Peace

H


Habitations
Hand on Me
Haste.html
Happy Holy Days
Heavy

Hearing Hard
Hear Here Hell Bent
Heroes
High Tech Talk
High Tide
High Voltage


Higher Law
Higherling
Higher
Him Book
Hold On
Holy Days Holy Fires
Hopper

 

I


I Believe
I Bow
I kneel
Insight
I Thirst
It is So
I'm so glad God Came
Imagination
I Saw Christ in You
I Told you so
I will Build My Church
In Him
In Order
In Tide
Intensive Care
In Place
In the Fullness of Time
In Tide
Inner Space
Isaac
Isaiah

Isaiah

It Wil Be So

J


Jehovah Jireh
Jesus In John
John 8
Jesus the Merciful

Jump Start

 

K


Keeping Christmas
Keeping Hope Alive
Kid Stuff
Kinder Words
Kingdom Come

L


LastYear
Last Night in Egypt
Learner
Least
Learned in Distress
Let it Go
Listen Little Children
Living Sacrifice
Lottery at the Cross
Lord's Day
Loss and Defeat
Lost
Lost and Found
Loving God
Living Color

M


Macedonian Prayer
Maiden America
Maker
Making Headway
Manger
Marble
MerryXmas
Million Plants
Miry Clay
Mother Love
Moralize
More
More on Words

More Time
More than Wonderful
Morning Devotion
Most of All
Most Favored Nation

Muse
My All Song
My Credit Report
My God Around
My Job Search

 

 

N

Names
Never Alone

New Race
No Moor
New Race
Then God Made Man
Needy
New Breed
Next Move
Now We Remember
Nuts

 

O


Obey
Of such is the Kingdom
Okay
Omni-Presents
Once Spoken
One
One God
One Man
One More Day
On Being
On Praise of Man
On Romans
On Second Thought
On the Cross Forsaken
On the Cross Forsaken
Onward
Open for Business
Oracle
Organ
Out, Doubt
Out of Ur
Our Passing

 

P

Paid

Pater
Peace
PeaceLove
Peace of God
Perfect Storm
Persecution:Coming Storm
Person of Color
Philippians 2:13
Phil4

Pilgrim's Journey
Pity Party
Place
Please Preacher
Power
Power of Grace
Psalm 22
Prayer of Gideon
Presumption
Prize Fight
Problem Solver
Providence
Pro Life
Providence
Pruning Knife

 

R


Rain or Rainbows
Ready
Reality Check
Really let it go
Reason
Resurrection?
Reserved Table
Request
Romans
Room
Rooted

 

S


Seed
Sail
Saint's Complaint
Salem

Salvation's Plan
Saying Gracel
Scars in Heaven
See
Seekers

Seeker
Senses
Senseless Crime
Shepherd's Sheep
Shepherd's Work
Shiloh
Sin Seer
Sixty-Six
Social Justice
Some Light on Darkness
Sometimes
something
small talk
Sojourner
Sow
Sown
Spanned
Spirit-beings
Spiritually Discerned
Spring Storm
Stage Fright
Stardust
Start Button
Start Here
Stay
Sting
Stone Builders Rejected
Sword
Substance
Succeed
Sum Day
Sympathy, Job's Friends

 

T


Table Song
Taking Sides
 Teacher
Temptation
the Basin
the Enlistment
The Perfect Storm
the Prodigal
the WORD music
the Word becomes Flesh
Them
To Life
Then God Made Man

ThinkTwice

two Eyes
two Sides
Tryst
Tomb Raiders
Trees
Try
Trimmed
Trial
True
TV
Tsunami

 

U


undone
unsubscribe
Unseen Hand
Upright
User ID

V


Victorious
Vigilance
Voluntary
Voter Recount

 

W

Wait
Waiting for God
Walk the Walk
War Games
Wealth
We Believe
What is Man?
What is Truth?
Where
Where Two Ways Meet
Who art thou Lord?
Who is He?
What God Wants
Woe
Won by One
Wonderfully Made
Wonders
words
Work of Faith
Work of Righteousness
Workers Together
World Wonders
Worry
Worship Service

 

Y


Yid on Rosh HaShanna
21st Cent. Hymns
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