Do That To Me—Six Sentence Story

Tim didn’t know the minister, Daniel, nor most of the other people at the small church gathering in his neighbor’s home. He was surprised when a young woman collapsed to her knees in tears and then lay on the floor as Daniel spoke words of blessing over her.

When Daniel asked Tim to tell them how he first met Jesus, he wasn’t sure how that happened, but knowing it must have, he stood, held Daniel’s hands and began telling his story, a type of incoherent, shaky narrative that went from repentance to repentance to finally moving next door to them. While speaking he thought to himself that he so wished his testimony were better.

The next thing Tim knew he was looking up at Daniel apparently from having fallen over backwards to the floor caught on the way down by a man standing behind him, just in case.

An older woman who had attended many of these meetings rushed to Daniel saying Do that to me! even though, or maybe, because, both she and Daniel knew he wasn’t the One who made Tim fall like that.

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Denise offers the prompt word “type” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

I found this song on Greg Doles’ blog, Chasing Light

Praise and Thanksgiving—Ovi Poetry Challenge

Defeated demons walk about.
Resist them. They have no way out.
We live in joy, give thanks and shout:
All praise goes to the Lord.

Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “defeat” to be used in this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

1 Peter 5:8-9 NKJV – 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

I found this song on Greg Doles’ blog, Chasing Light
Yellow blossoms with a green spider

Clawing Critters—Six Sentence Story

Steve realized that by giving in to temptations, symptoms of his ailing heart, he invited demonic critters to claw their way in and smother his mind with gooey addictions. Nonetheless, he kept giving in—over and over again—and the critters got so used to being in his head that they took up residence.

Someone asked Steve if he wanted to get rid of the critters. By that time he wasn’t sure if he did, because he didn’t know if he could tolerate life without the excitement the temptations brought even though afterwards they made him feel miserable. Steve’s heart, however, had enough sense left in it to scream, I WANT THEM GONE!

And just like that the critters were gone which Steve found hard to believe, but there wasn’t any other way for them to leave except just like that.

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Denise offers the prompt word “claw” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Mark 5:18-20 NKJV
18 And when He got into the boat, he who had been demon-possessed begged Him that he might be with Him.
19 However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.”
20 And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.

Holy Ground—Ovi Poetry Challenge

Our voices rise to praise with sound
that’s heard by angels all around.
Drawing near on holy ground
we all begin to worship.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “beginning” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Exodus 3:5 KJV
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Matthew 27:50-51 KJV
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

The Calling—Six Sentence Story

As James was wallowing in his favorite garbage someone called his name. When he saw that no one was there he went back to making a wreck of his life.

Then James heard the same voice that called him earlier tell him to become a minister of the Gospel. Fat chance that was going to happen, he thought, but the voice interrupted him with You’re goofing off on holy ground! The voice had that je ne sais quoi that made it too real to be unreal even for a garbage connoisseur like James.

His friends were shocked as they watched James take out the garbage and turn that fat chance into a sure bet that he would do something with his life that he had never suspected.

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Denise offers the prompt word “wreck” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Acts 9:5 NKJV Who are You, Lord?

This train had to make a complete circle to get itself pointed in the right direction—I was on it