Our seeds, we planted. Now, we wait.
The hundredfold won’t hesitate
nor rush beyond a righteous rate
rejoicing in the Lord.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “thrive” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge.
Matthew 13:23
But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
His voice is all I truly know.
His holy wind through fire will blow
and where He goes my seasons go
in faith as Spirit-led.
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Ronovan Hester offers “season” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
John 3:7-8 KJV
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
The Lord’s strong favor brings relief
and guards against wild unbelief.
The devil is a wily thief
who’d snatch the way side seed.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “relief” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 13:19
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
When stuff breaks down as stuff will do
recall the joy the Lord brings to
the heart that beats inside of you.
Then praise Him all the more.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “maintenance” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posed on Poet’s Corner.
Oblivious to words of fear
that demons whisper in my ear
I follow words I long to hear
which flow from deeper joy.
We’ve sought the Lord so we shall find.
We live and move beyond the mind.
His peace is quite the holy kind
of finally coming home.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “oblivious” to be used in this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge.
My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
You think the world is in a mess?
No longer: He is risen!
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “hope” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge.
The first two lines were written by Edward Mote (1797-1874) as the first two lines of his well-known hymn.
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May you have a blessed Resurrection Day with an overflow of blessings to others.
To walk on water take His hand.
Forget the beach, its shells and sand.
Forget wet water as you stand
on Love’s deep rush of joy.
Don’t worry if you can not swim.
Your love’s forever born of Him.
When words betray the world as grim,
you’re now its salt and light.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “tragedy” to be used in this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 5:13-14
Ye are the salt of the earth…Ye are the light of the world…
1 John 4:7-8
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 