Reveal: 1 John: Prayers and Poetry

                Reveal

                By Your Spirit guiding 

                every day with love

                protects against fraudulence

                reveals errors

                within ourselves and

                from others also with lies.

                Instead builds recognizing

                His truth within and

                without as led when we

                choose and accept and

                listen.

Psalm 107:17: "Fools, because of their rebellious way, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

Reflection: Errors: 1 John: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

        1. Have you ever been duped into a choice or a purchase that was false? How? 

        2. Have you been deceived in any situation for several days or years? Why?

        3. What gave you the truth or the courage to walk away from the perspectives or actions?

Share: How do you listen now to confirm God's truth from the worldly twists?

Errors: 1 John: Prayers and Poetry

Reading: 1st John 4:4-6: "You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. They are far from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error."

Errors

We need Your ongoing guidance, Lord. Especially when we become clueless.

When twisted words are not recognized.

We ask to be able to inhale Your words only and to speak them to others as well. Both given and guided by Your Spirit, so that any of our errors do not reach others. That only Your truth is shared and passed on.

When we listen and follow the way to go in Your truth we can live into Your truth within and without our hearts and words. Your truth only.

Your thoughts,

Cost: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

                Cost

                Her people pay now 

                to draw water from

                their own wells

                work in fields to

                earn day's wood

                twigs for night warmth.

                Once the owners

                now laborers on

                their own land.

                Given to aliens

                dressed in strange

                garments. Foreign voices

                command heritage.

Psalm 37:36:"Again I passed by, and they were no more; thought I saw them, they could not  be found."

Reflection: Errors: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

 Reflection Questions

        1. Have you had to relinquish your life as you knew it due to your own sin or another's?

        2. What all did it cost you?

        3. Do you think it's possible that such a devastation can become a blessing? Why or why not?

Share: How does the act of being remembered put us back together or restore us?

Errors: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

Reading: Lamentations 5:1-5: ... "Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliens... We are worn out, there is no rest to us."

Errors

Even then Your people asked You to remember what had "befallen us" and we too often forget that the answer to us is also due to our own sins, or ignorance, or disinterest to care--until we are personally affected. Revealed that we have forgotten to follow Your words.

In our despair, our weakness, our fatigue, may we remember Lord that we need to recognize the whole truth: our errors, our excuses, and Your warnings that we ignored.

Please open our hearts again to seek Your forgiveness and show us again how to live for You despite our losses, our weaknesses, and our weariness. So that whatever circumstances we face our heart and soul will be centered on You and Your way.

Your thoughts,