My Heart Needed You – A Christian Poem Prayer About Searching For God
My heart knew it needed you the minute it took its first beat. Your name was on the tip of my tongue the minute it first learned to speak. Yet, I crawled and slithered through the tall, green reeds ducked and darted my head beneath the water's surface, hoping you wouldn't notice me or the deeds I'd spent so long trying to bury in my backyard, but that kept coming back up to the surface of my mind - my secrets unraveling like a ball of yarn, stretched out across the years of my life. I never believed that I could deceive you for long, just trick you long enough so that I could hide and have my way, always planning on coming back to you Sometime, somewhere along the way. But what I thought was freedom turned out to be a ball and chain - a slave to my own misery, a slave to my own pain. But still my heart needed you and still my tongue longed and desired to confess your name. Even when I didn't think I needed you, you never quit calling, you never left me on my own, but left your voice to pitter-patter upon my heart, whispering and leading me home. -Justin Farley Copyrighted material. Use not allowed without permission.
A Voice in the Wilderness – A Chapbook of Poems About God by Justin Farley
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God Pursues Us Bible Verses Scripture
Luke 15: 3-10
Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. “Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
John 6:44
“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
Luke 19:10
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Ezekiel 34:10-16
“ ‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness. I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land. I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord. I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.
John 4:23
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
Revelation 3:20
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
1 Samuel 3:8
A third time the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”
Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy.
Psalm 23
A psalm of David.
1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,[a]
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.
Seek God Bible Verses Scripture
Matthew 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Jeremiah 29:13
12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Psalm 53:2
God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
Revelation 3:20
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
Acts 17:27
God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
1 Chronicles 22:19
Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the Lord.
Psalm 63:1
You, God, are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
where there is no water.
Nature’s Bounty – A Chapbook of Poems About Nature by Justin Farley
Thorns of Love – Sad Love Poems About Heartbreak and Break Ups by Justin Farley
Blossoms of Hope: Inspirational Spring Poems About Mental Health and Healing by Justin Farley
Frozen Rivers: A Collection of Poems about Mental Health and Nature Poetry About Winter by Justin Farley
My current collections of poetry, all available on Amazon, all written by me, Justin Farley. A Voice in the Wilderness is a chapbook of Christian Poetry, written about the joys, doubts, struggles, and sorrows of the Christian life. Nature’s Bounty is a collection of nature poetry celebrating my love for the outdoors. And Thorns of Love is the first book of three in a series of poems about love, this one being sad, breakup poems.
I have also published two poetry collections about the seasons and mental health–each book containing half nature poems about the particular season and half mental health issues that I felt correspond with the season. The first collection I published was Frozen Rivers which is about winter and also the hardships of life and specifically living with mental illness. My latest book is Blossoms of Hope which focuses on spring and finding hope during hard times.
I write to reach the hearts of the searching, the suffering, the still fighting. I write to soothe my soul and hopefully to soothe yours too. I write to celebrate and attempt to put words to the beauty of life. Here are my published books on Amazon. More to come. A huge, humble thank you to anyone who supports my work.
-Justin Farley
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