Open our inner eyes,
That sin won’t take us by surprise…
That we may see
What comes from Thee,
And evil, although disguised!
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Open our spiritual ken,
To want You not just now and then…
But seek every day
Your excellent way,
Through the Spirit Whom thou hast sent.
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Open our eyes to discerning,
Your will in the midst of learning…
Instill fear
When You are not near,
Increase for Your wisdom, our yearning!
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–Jonathan Caswell
Enigma within Christian faith,
Keeping “short accounts” being safe…
Living holy lives
By spiritual eyes,
Not the purview of apes!
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Self effort has nil effect,
But the One Way through Christ accept…
To each other confess–
Pray to God, He’ll address–
But self pride for confession God rejects.
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Security through faith, says Paul,
When law is removed Christ is all…
Act by Christ’s love–
God’s hand in your glove–
Walking more and more by Spirit’s call.
–
Spend much more time with Father, Son,
Live in the Spirit–three in One…
Bible study and frequent prayer
The tools to travel there,
To live in grace, “Thy will be done!”
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–Jonathan Caswell
Praying this Inauguration,
Will not see major conflagration…
Anarchists
Festivities miss,
Stifling their strange indignation.—AMEN!
–Jonathan Caswell
For prophesy he’s always prayed,
To speak God’s words unafraid…
Speaking in tongues
On lower rungs,
But that’s an assumption he’s made.
–
Any and all gifts present,
Used by the Spirit’s presence…
Confirm that He
Is Deity,
Of God–His very essence!
–
Why many stop at one,
When many gifts are more fun…
The Lord God chooses
Whomever He uses,
Often using more than one!
–
Was he confirmed a prophet,
Does that do him any profit…?
Better unaware
So ego won’t share,
All credit to God, who can stop it!
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Don’t stop using me Lord,
Keep me from the untoward…
Put in my mind
The excellent kind,
Of thought from Thy word!
–
Jonathan Caswell
The Light in our darkened souls,
Shines out from various holes…
It takes our will
To brighten it still,
A twenty-four hour goal.
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Shepherds chose to obey,
After angelic display…
Wise men with long time
Goals were aligned,
Justified meeting the Babe.
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A Spirit candle in thee,
By faith illuminousity…
Cutting the dark
Toward the mercy seat ark,
Following toward sanctity!
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–Jonathan Caswell
Come see this hashtag,
The diabetic drag…
A guy ignores
Blood sugar chores,
Until the body bag!
–
Seeing it as a hassle,
He’ll often barely wrastle…
Responsibility
His loved ones see,
About which he cares not a passel!
–
This problem with his brain,
Diabetes affects the sane…
Sugar bath lowered
His brain wants more,
Fights against any blood sugar drain!
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It figures that men,
Are hardest to rein in again…
Independence, Pride,
Churn deep inside
We expect others to attend (to us).
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–Jonathan Caswell
(Who also is a Type 2 diabetic…and struggles!)
Our finances were a mess,
We told several people I guess…
Asked them to pray
We’d find our way,
And would inform them of progress.
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Willing to go through
Whatever the Lord would do…
Waiting on Him
Was more than a whim,
We had faith in what He would do!
–
Went out to clean off the car,
Found a hundred-note there…
Dropped my cane
But thanks I’ll exclaim,
For whoever put it there!
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Now to divide,
Oh Lord help me decide…
Gasoline
And medicine,
And soft food for my wife’s insides!
–
It’s possible to arrange,
An auto oil change…
Praise the Lord
For courage restored,
And removal of our angst!
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–Jonathan Caswell
I ask for filling–why–
Receiving power on high…
Flaming tongues
For holy ones,
To do and self to die.
–
Flaming tongues on the Seventy
Elders with Moses to remedy..
His over-reach
Ministering to each,
Israelite in his integrity.
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Tongues came onto one-twenty
Disciples of Christ–plenty–
To take His Word
Of salvation unfurled,
Unto many and many!
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Elijah and god’s prophets saw
God’s fire filled with awe…
Burn offerings
And revelings
Filled with rebellious flaw.
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This holy God I would serve,
Not with my own nerve…
Perilous times
As gold is refined,
I need Holy Spirit verve!
–
Long ago in college
I reached out and experienced Knowledge…
Fill me again
Oh Lord begin,
To pour into me, Thee I acknowledge!
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–Jonathan E. Caswell
At times he wants to cry,
Life seems to be passing by…
He’s cast down
With none around,
Apparently to hear his cry!
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Yet his Savior lives,
Enlivens and forgives…
Remove the stone
And be welcomed home,
Your Lord is very nearby!
–
Open the Book of Psalms
And find a passage that calms…
Spirit control
Is good for the soul,
Submitting to God without qualms!
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Peace beyond understanding
Comes from Lord Most High commanding…
Wave and wind
To rescind,
His power their actions remanding.
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Hope and trust in God,
Not any one else–bad odds!
Follow the Way
Christ will stay,
In Spirit til He comes with rods.
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–Jonathan Caswell
(Based on Psalms 42 and 43)
Our God says do not “judge”,
Yet on personal moral don’t budge…
Male cross-dressers
Certainly pressured,
To exit what some see as sludge.
–
They say “J. Edgar Hoover”
Was…according to rumor…
but this guy’s
Authenticity is high,
I doubt any thought “J.E.H.” was smoother!
–
Those who know my poetry well,
Know I was once in drag (it was hell)…
Hardly his league
I quickly fatigued
Of rejection’s awful smell!
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How does God love one like this,
Christ sacrificed himself, no remiss…
He went gladly
For the whole world you see,
To reconcile Father God to such as this…!
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–Jonathan Caswell
(with God’s Love…hoping it is received positively)
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