Where He may lead is where I’ll go.
As living waters love to flow,
so shall my heart beat on to show
how calm the spice of peace is.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “spice” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted at Poet’s Corner.
Psalms 131:2 NKJV
Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,
Like a weaned child with his mother;
Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
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.
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 words we say like deeds we do
could let the wandering devils through
to grab our mouths, our bodies, too.
Decide to serve the Lord.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “decisions” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
1 Peter 5:8 NKJV
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Offended? But that doesn’t count.
I won’t expect what can’t amount
to anything. We want His fount,
His well of living water.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “expectations” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
John 4:10-14 KJV
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Just think of it. It all came true.
A mighty sound went rushing through.
He filled the house. Now we are new.
He set our hearts ablaze.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “think” to be used in this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Acts 2:1-2 KJV
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
We’re each a blessing when we sow.
Where ground is good our choice seeds grow.
The harvest goes to those who know
we help by planting seeds.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “help” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Don’t move your mind away from Him.
The devil’s light is nightmare grim.
It blinds with darkness ever dim,
but you don’t have to move.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “move” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Isaiah 26:3 KJV
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
The Lord’s the measure of all rest.
His will becomes our very best.
The tempter loves a failed test.
Success rests with the Lord.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “success” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 11:28-30 KJV
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Haste is not the way to own
the victory. You’ll only groan,
defeated, if you go alone.
The Lord, though, is with you.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “haste” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Isaiah 41:8-10 KJV
8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 