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Bob Gotti, 18 september 2013

Foundational Cracks

There’s something fundamentally wrong, with today’s political throng,
From our foundation they’ve moved away, to a place of moral decay,
Moving off the very foundation, that wade this land a Blessed Nation,
Dismissing the very God and Creator, Who is indeed, our only Savior.

We are moving to a godless peoples, even amidst the many steeples,
Which, peppers this country of ours, where belief is becoming a farce,
Even many professing Believers, are embracing dark, political leaders,
Ignoring all Biblical values they know, to follow a darker political show.

Things are getting darker these days, as men, not God, receive praise,
Men praised by many blinded in sin, who weaken our land deep within,
Deep down into the foundation below, in ways now beginning to show,
With a moral decay they can’t hide, with the cracks now deep and wide.

Moving the Church into apostasy, embracing issues that should not be,
As professed believers are wowed, by today’s unethical political crowd,
Moved towards spiritual compromise, as to Truth, they close their eyes,
As the fear of God leaves their heart, God’s Light also will soon depart.

When His Light is gone, so is Truth, then all that’s left is God’s reproof,
Judgment begins in the House of God, then all across the land we trod,
That shall just be the beginning friend, as a godless nation sees its end,
As it is written in God’s Revelation, God will judge every godless nation.

(Copyright ©01/2013 Bob Gotti)

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Bob Gotti, 18 september 2013

Vibrant, Encouraging and Enduring

We as Christians, for God, can, be an influence on unsaved men,
Being a testimony for Jesus Christ, as we live out this earthly life;
We can live this life with vibrancy, in a way, which others can see,
When an active faith we do display, living around men day to day.

Encouragement we can truly share, in the world filled with despair,
This to all the others in our life, as we too deal with pain and strife;
We can be people who are enduring, as our life can be reassuring,
To those others as we live daily, for our hope is in Christ, eternally.

It was God’s, not our selection, as we’re saved by God’s Election,
All believers saved unto salvation, to be a witness to every nation;
It was through Truth that we heard, convicted by God’s Holy Word,
That, being lost and depraved, by Christ Jesus we must be saved.

It was The Holy Spirit, who moved us, to embrace The Lord Jesus,
Who sent His Spirit as a guarantee, Who, now lives in you and me,
Through Christ’s Spirit and New Life, we are to model Jesus Christ,
As God’s Gospel we now herald, living our new life to all the world.

We’re saved to follow God’s ways, all for Christ’s glory and praise,
As Christians we should be vibrant, for with the Gospel we are sent,
With Good News, to be encouraging, as we serve The Eternal King,
Also, enduring our lives should be, while our Hope is fixed eternally.

(Copyright ©01/2013 Bob Gotti)

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Bob Gotti, 18 september 2013

Whatever Happens

Whatever happens in my life, is allowed and ensured by Jesus Christ,
For my life’s only part of the story, one for God’s purpose and Glory,
As God does more than I can see, while for His purpose He uses me,
Being guided by His sovereign hand, in ways one cannot understand.

Lives moved upon by the hand of God, changing hearts with His nod,
By God’s nod, through His Word, hearts and lives of many are stirred,
As He works through the lives of us, those who know The Lord Jesus,
While daily we witness of His Truth, God uses our lives as living proof.

Living testimonies of God’s ways, as God works throughout our days,
As He speaks to hearts and minds, through our trials of various kinds,
Touching hearts, only God knows, as in our lives His presence shows,
While God holds us up by Grace, through every trial that we may face.

This as The Lord purposes in our life, to reach others for Jesus Christ,
Moving hearts in ways only He can, this, as He seeks to reach all men,
As we share with others His Word, until all men everywhere have heard,
With our knowledge of His Revelation; directing many to His Salvation.

Being saved we receive Eternal Life, through our belief in Jesus Christ,
So my present life, The Lord can use, in any way, that He may choose,
For friend, a new life is ahead for me, one that will last through eternity,
So, as I part from life’s hurt and pain, ahead for me is nothing but gain.

(Copyright ©01/2013 Bob Gotti)

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Gert Strydom, 18 september 2013

When the time with you become holy

When the time with you become holy
and moments crush into each other
and when at night you come to me
then I know that all love like this comes to fullness

and when moments disappear in silence
then I comprehend that pure bliss comes from pain,
when we find each other in our depths
and bind in a moment of the world’s darkness

and that we are both then much richer
in love’s silent deep mystery
and I come to know that love never flowers out
but at a time comes to its own fullness
when the lingering hunger in you and me
comes to satiation.

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Gert Strydom, 18 september 2013

You are to me

To me you are the most beautiful person,
the one on whom I did pray and wish,
the best that the years has brought me
and much more than any other thing,
you are the one that takes my hand,
you are my most honourable and precious treasure,
that live does grant me.

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Satish Verma, 18 september 2013

INNER VOICES

traveling backward in dark to meet
my father I held the hands of my grandchild

in broken dawn of random spring to collect
the lost years of old house where we could not

meet and he sat feet resting on the thighs
in the valley of unwritten letters and thin

silence, you left before I knew my thumb
had your skin, climbed to despair I untied

the knot and had a fatal, pure wound, which
like a lantern still burns in the eyes of

my offsprings unabated, the seeds and salt
and bloodstained umbrella will cover the street

Satish Verma

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Bob Gotti, 17 september 2013

God of All Comfort

I serve a God of all comfort, when I am faced with pain and hurt,
In this fallen world, filled with strife, God comforts me in this life,
In an evil world, tainted by sin, He comforts all who come to Him,
God Comforts those in this life, who truly belong to Jesus Christ.

He comforts us in the knowledge of, how The Lord reigns above,
In the knowledge of how He has, comforted believers in the past,
How He said from the start, from believers, He shall never depart,
With knowledge of life ahead for me, with Jesus Christ in Eternity.

We are comforted in God’s love, as Christ guides us from above,
Those who come to Him in faith, God supports with loving Grace,
God’s love that leads all of us, those who belong to Christ Jesus;
The never ending Love of God, always with us on this earthly sod.

God comforts us with His peace, that during trials does not cease,
All understand His peace exceeds, as God meets all of our needs,
His peace doesn’t waver friend, from the start of trials to their end,
As in any trial that we go through, His peace comforts me and you.

God comforts us with His Power, all through the very darkest hour,
This during any trial that we face, as God provides sufficient grace,
For with God’s power, we can cope, focused on our Blessed Hope,
Our Blessed Savior Jesus Christ, who will usher us into Eternal Life.

(Copyright ©09/2013 Bob Gotti)

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Bob Gotti, 17 september 2013

Transforming Me

I need the Lord’s transforming power, every day and every hour,
That in my heart He will shower, abundantly His changing power,
For when my heart goes astray, I need His power along the way,
To stay the path ordered for me, a changed heart, for all to see.

I know my friend, that I am saved, but my heart is still depraved,
That old man is fighting within, tempting me, always towards sin,
To spout off, in my older ways, just like I walked in former days,
The ways I need to leave behind, while God transforms my mind.

While this battle inside me rages, carnal thoughts are the wages,
When I give into the fleshly urges, an action or comment surges,
One which is not honoring to, The One, Who saved me and you,
This, as I fall back into old ways, influenced by my former days.

Days that I knew not The Lord, when righteousness was ignored,
My former life when I knew not Him, I lived my life in flagrant sin,
But behind me they all must stay, as I walk on life’s Narrow Way,
By God’s Power, in my life, to live for the honor of Jesus Christ.

I’m here to be a witness friend, so I must allow The Lord to rend,
These old ways from my behavior, to be that light for my Savior,
As Christ purges me of all dross, this by the power of the Cross,
Continually transforming my life, all for the honor of Jesus Christ.

(Copyright ©09/2013 Bob Gotti)

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Bob Gotti, 17 september 2013

Religion or Faith

Many experience religion in this life, but few have met Jesus Christ,
For in many churches you shall find, religious people of every kind,
They religiously go every week, but, what is it that they really seek?
Eternal Truths from God my friend, or is religion their ultimate end?

Religion is man’s attempt to fill, a need for God, through man’s will,
Man needs to fill an emptiness, found only in God’s Righteousness,
A righteousness obtained through, Christ, who died for me and you,
Not from man’s traditional piety, but through the Grace from Calvary.

To church many will religiously go, while The Lord they do not know,
Jesus Christ the head of His Church, even though they weekly perch;
They may know facts about the Lord, but, Truth He spoke is ignored,
For many churches are filled with men, who haven’t been Born Again.

Born of God, by His Spirit above, beyond all the facts they know of,
So brought into the family of God, to make a difference on this sod,
To walk with God in newness of life, in the power of the Jesus Christ,
Leading into New Life, dear friend, as religious ways come to an end.

The difference in religion and faith, is a relationship attained by grace,
A personal kinship with The Savior, so one can walk with their Creator,
The One who provided the only way, to walk with our Lord day to day,
To abandon religion that’s so rife, to a faith by Grace, in Jesus Christ.

(Copyright ©09/2013 Bob Gotti)

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Bob Gotti, 17 september 2013

Depending On God

Another journey half way through, again my Lord, I depend on you,
For you’re my Lord, God and friend, so on you I shall fully depend,
As my times get dark and bleak, your direction and comfort I seek,
Your Love for me is my uptake, knowing my life you won’t forsake.

You strengthen me when I’m weak, as comfort, in your Word I seek,
For when I’m weary you’re strong, when those darker days are long,
You truly raise me up when I fall, with true compassion through it all,
Always with a gentle loving hand, you raise me up to help me stand.

Your compassions are new every day, as I journey down a dark way,
On a path that I wouldn’t choose, where real peace I sometimes lose,
As uncertainty swirls all around, my true peace in you alone is found,
That is not simply a temporal peace, but, certainty that will not cease.

A certainty you put in my heart, which assures me you will not depart,
From the path you determined for me, although at times I cannot see,
Just what exactly may lie ahead, so you remind me how you have led,
Me safely during each time and place, always in your abundant Grace.

As in this life you lead me through, ahead to a place prepared by you,
In a time ahead filled with certainty, that time we shall know as eternity,
Where you will make all things right, as you eradicate the dark of night,
With only the Light of Jesus Christ, when I finally enter into Eternal Life.

(Copyright ©01/2013 Bob Gotti)

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