A Vaster FAITH

21/07/2022

IMPERFECT MEN.
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With joined hands and bent knees much often,
In groans and tarrying not a few,
Plain men an wanderers described you,
Imperfect confirming through your truth,
Broken and speaking in your shoes,
Find oh! My imperfect fissure too.

Joseph limped upon his cracked sinew,
Leaning upon his staff in worship,
Moses unable to speak in tune,
Endured as seeing who is invisible,
Joseph a keeper bound in prison,
Brought forth over the land of Egypt,
Judah who made a brief diversion,
Bore still the strength sprouting your firm root,
Peter a fisherman so crude, converted a thousand multitude,
Find oh Lord! My imperfect fissure too.

Have you seen their broken frame? By night yearning and awake,
Have you seen their shaking legs? And on their knees in tears,
Have you glimpsed their empty shame? Calling upon your name,
Have you seen their earnest faith? Holding through sun or rain,
Find oh! My imperfect fissure too.

Have you heard their drunk worship? Not mindful of the tense,
Have you heard their ancient hymns? Redemption hangs a tree,
Have you heard their one anthem? Through death and yet proclaims,
Have you heard their strange habit? Sojourned the promise as pilgrims,
Find oh Lord! My imperfect fissure too.

AVF❤️.

10/07/2022

IMPERFECT GIRL.
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The flaw and chain,
The powdered blemish spot of grey,
Making errors mild mistakes,
A total mess in just a day,
Tipping over the stack of plates, ewww' your perfect shoes in clay,
Singing aloud in mixed word blend, her sick dance move crippled your steps,
Unable to make a crowd of friends, just a stalker there on the web,
Please don't hide your imperfect stance, don't let men voices change your freak,
Mr perfect imperfect girl.

I saw you slipped as the embarrassment rushed in quick,
I saw those blush and the excitement jolly leap,
Laughs on your drooling lazy sleep,
I saw you bottled up your scream, I saw you stayed awake to weep,
I saw you had no strength but feigned, alone awaiting yet a prince,
Feeling unsecured and firm, I saw you had no word to speak,
I saw you creaked upon your feet, I saw you wobble on your knees,
I saw you tempted an redeemed, yes I did,
Mr perfect imperfect girl.

But tell your frame you're not alone,
Tell your broken breathed clay,
Tell your heart of solace near,
Tell your shame hence to elate,
Take your crave to thirst fountain,
Give your bleeding heart relief,
Bring your imperfect and infirm,
Reach to cleave Mr Perfect, imperfect girl.

AVF❤️.

26/01/2021

WHEREIN I STAND.
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Once my trust felt a thrust
Breaking through the walls of every does and don't
Not that push, it was a piercing leaving wound
Seeing my faith stands not in man's wisdom
Telling those my brothers which moderation feels wrong
And my sisters of which shoes they may put on
Then this question came, men's wisdom or God's love?
The reins in my heart filled of moderation or Jesus?
Have you ever judged God?
But only the Spirit can lead this wisdom
It is this groaning that fill some so strong
Where Sarah judged without the deep sense of touch
Leaving those thoughts then being much conscious
And there I was sieved, faith freed from distrust
Not speech enticed words but power within us.

25/11/2020

LORD BREAK THIS OUTWARD MAN.
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Such great flow of Life shut up within my bowels
My spirit longs to worship imprisoned the flesh ensures
His Life years to flow out unbroken the flesh witholds
His glory I try partake restricted the flesh bounds me
An agony within me.. Lord break this outward man.

The more I ask for mercy the further I derail
Before I leave His presence my heart wanders astray
Although I know my failures I often more partake
The help I seek is near me my heart too stiff to wail
An agony within me.. Lord break this outward man.

The race to Life before me burdens my weary flesh
This glorious path I try seek the pride of Life in me
I gaze upon such pure love motions of lust I feel
A broken vessel I need the flesh refused to leave
An agony within me.. Lord break this outward man.

Inward I'm obedient my outward man refrains
I find delight in doing good evil retained in me
The law of life awaits me the law of sin within
This outward shell confines me my spirit strength depletes
An agony within me.. Lord break this outward man.

Oh! Pierce this flesh covering me I disregard all tears
Set free from defeats governing me let all your gifts be seen
Take now this yoke suffering me I seek the yoke of peace
Exchange this condemning heart in me give me a heart that bleeds
An agony within me.. Lord break this outward man.
AVF.

24/11/2020

SO HIGH AND DRY.
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Brightly arrayed
Walking in a splendor of high esteem
Lofty apparel on you such good manners you portray
But this man is so high and dry.

All my efforts have been paying out
I'm so full have nothing more to crave after
In my stride have substance that answers beneath
But this man is so high and dry.

I've got the crowd pulling
Oh my presence tosses the crowd outta their mind
My activities are on people's bookmark
I've gotten to the place I wished for
Still this man is so high and dry.

I say, what is in the world is gotten within the world
Then why, I must have it all I thought, why spare?
My pride attained desires relieved, I've got it all I think!
Still this man is so high and dry.

Then I fill as a leader
Who should question my account?
I walk on my promoting and others should array
Bring this! Leave that! Who may resist
But I thought leaders should serve?
Oh this man is so high and dry.

And some are mentioned as butler's and stewards
Some are accounted as ministers
But ironically they fill for the flesh
Twice dead are they filling a gap being themselves empty
Still some are so high and dry.

So they now act in a manner that brings appraisal
Speak on what themselves rarely portray
For want of speeches, plucked up by the root are they
They persuade men not God
A lot men are so high and dry.

On this note we should lament
A people I find who pursuit sin under grace
Who substitute knowledge for reality
Who love the Spirit below the self
Official saints the same part time sinner
A generation soo high yet dry.

If then we should commend ourselves
We who use liberality for the flesh
We who tag God not surrender
We who boast on knowledge not in Christ
We who want the more but gives less
We who seek gifts if next the Giver
We who lust then love incessant
Such a generation lifts pride
This generation is so high and dry.

AVF♥️

23/11/2020

THE ROAD WE TRAVAILED.
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It started with ordinances of does and don't engraved and stone written
To read and learn the manner of worshipping
A peeled fo****in as shown for the chosen seed
The scribbled notes on scrolls be read by the chosen priest
The living word concealed tried kept through fleshly means
As warnings from a dad came forth the scary written will
Blunt failures from the start revealed an unwilling stiffened breed
Corrections to the side explained the wrath to every sin
Temptations and desires unveiled withstance to every grief
Ushered by the law of death through sin
This was the deal of turning a new leaf.

Then trudged we through the plain down to greater grief
Fainting till the eyes glanced a royal King
Counting from David's seed thence found us Judah's King
Light divine conformed to walk as you and me
This was where history made us sing
The wrath that stood in all hung on him
The pain to every fall struck his knee
The weight to bring forth sons backed the tree
The Word that wrote down Grace on reddish ink
Redemption spells the words that mercy speaks
The page that made engraven letters live.

Now found we of a fiery seal
An all consuming presence of the risen King
Melted every guilt being all his lively seed
Comforted in the Son and Holy Spirit
Walking to the seat in the heavenly
Passing we say “hi” for we believe
The journey has been hard not as the script
The routines for the scribes now mercy lifts
That loving merry air our lungs can breath. Hallelujah 🙌🏽

AVF♥️.

22/11/2020

FAITH CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS.
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Faith being the size of a mustard seed
So little yet sown to be a dwelling tree
Of tearful value in those who so cherish
A careless longing to priceless promise
What substance is likened to Faith?
Which cannot be held yet possessed
Which should not be sense but conceives
Which has not been said but revealed
Which is never bought but received
It is as well said a mustard seed
No meaning in its wielding
No value in its weighing
So little to be held firm
Not worthy to believe in
Nontheless it is living!
Alone known to be the mover of Mountains
Acquainted calls the road through red seas
The one sure scheme through uncertainties
The lead of all sight stricken limb
The need of the often stumbled heels
The wings to days unending drills
Have you tried to sleep?
Please do not till you yield the scream
Jesus take the wheel!
I've heard the world brings no peace
Don't get fooled by the warming grim
Had not there ended but till six-feets
Right beneath the obstrusive mountains
Which the world offers at it's dozens
Lest I should sit till the pattern repeats
I had better wished than write this thesis
Or even at best clung to this seed
If I may so resist having no strength to shake the mountain
But the mustard seed which houses the free will
Which fills the lips with singing
Let faith lead each mountain within.


AVF ♥️
Have a blessed week😊.

05/07/2020

LORD HEAR MY SILENT PRAYER..
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Then my voice whispered with a straint
Then my lips muttered in my breath
Then my eyes wandered for a gaze
DEAR LORD HEAR MY SILENT PRAYER.

Then my feet trembled stood for fear
Then my heart troubled skipped and wailed
Then my face lowered holding tears
DEAR LORD HEAR MY SILENT PRAYER.

For the day seemed to break and take
For the pain ceased and came again
For the race drains my strength away
DEAR LORD HEAR MY SILENT PRAYER.

For hell seeks fix my broken soul
For the deep fights to take me whole
For the world calls itself my home
DEAR LORD HEAR MY SILENT PRAYER.

For I had faint but for His Touch
For I had lost but for His Love
For I had none but for His Word
DEAR LORD HEAR MY SILENT PRAYER.

Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, and said I cried by reason of my affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. (Jon2:12).

DEAR LORD HEAR MY SILENT PRAYER.

AVF.♥️

28/06/2020

IT IS NOT I BUT CHRIST.

It is not doing but trusting
It is not running but sitting
It is not defending but surrendring
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It is not laboring but partaking
It is not wailing but praising
It is not pleading but thanksgiving
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It is not seeing but believing
It is not strength but in weakness
It is not feelings but His infilling
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It is not forging but wielding
It is not brilliance but His calling
It is not attained but promised
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It is not toiling but resting
It is not going ahead but following behind
It is not the man it His Grace
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Brethren, it is not looking up front for then we exert self effort, it is rather looking behind to see what God has done, we then let go. IT IS NOT I BUT CHRIST.

Happy week ahead 🥰.

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31/05/2020

HOLINESS IS BEAUTY.🌺
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Holiness begins first from the heart, then the countenance brings forth it's beauty,.. It flows out as a gentle stream of salty water, it oils the head and brightens the face....Holiness is Beauty..🌺

Holiness is without strain, it runs through every whit of a man, it lifts up the head of everything filthy defiled, it set firm the feet of many slippery than slide, so certain and sure....Holiness is Beauty..🌺

Holiness polishes from every side, it brightens the glow of men eyes, it gleams and radiates His glory in men acts, it speaks pure words of love and faith unfeigned in many hearts....Holiness is Beauty..🌺

Holiness is a nature that emanates not from the mind, but from the spirit, it is not measured of the flesh but of the spirit, it glows from the inner to the outward, the virtue within....Holiness is beauty..🌺

Holiness is the flower that springs from the Fruit of His seed, the flowers that beautifies His nature, when it blossoms the fragrance attracts men to awe the vessel....Holiness is Beauty..🌺

Holiness is clear as a crystal, it does not contradict it's strength of resistance, does not compromise or waver in distractions, not high minded but lowly in decisions....Holiness is Beauty..🌺

Holiness does not glory in appearance, seeks not the gaze of them whose lips does flatter, find not it's praise from pearls which so much glitter, nothing more but pureness in it's gesture....Holiness is Beauty..🌺

Holiness is gracious, peaceable to all it finds, glides on grace wings would never stumble off, dances at the tune of soberness and charity, cheerful to all but pride....Holiness is Beauty..🌺

Holiness is beauty, fairest of all yet brag not on appearance, eloquent than all yet adorn in modest apparel, admired by all yet gentle, pure and chaste in conversation, brightest of all yet learn in silence with all subjection....Holiness is Beauty..🌺

Holiness is a virtue of inesteemable worth, pleasant to God and man, we all have different faces but the true beauty is reversed and locked in the heart: only Christ has the key to unlock your true beauty, let Him in, that His Spirit would adorn your inner beauty.. Do not count yourself amongst the number who compare, measure, and commend themselves by themselves.. Proving their foolishness beforehand! .. 🌸THE BEAUTIES OF HOLINESS.🌸

A vaster Faith.

20/05/2020