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Tag: god’s will

  • Contemplating and Discerning God’s Will

    Contemplating and Discerning God’s Will

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    Justin Farley

    We can never know with absolute certainty what God’s will is; we can only do our best to keep an open place in our mind and heart for the Spirit to speak to us, constantly revising where we’re headed based upon His promptings.

  • Poem About Bravery and Courage

    Poem About Bravery and Courage

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    Justin Farley

    Bravery There’s no one braver to be in a world increasingly defined by a litany of achievements than the way God crafted me. Our contributions can’t be measured solely in dollars and money signs. For God’s work isn’t treasured by the market of mankind. Our souls become rich and our hearts light when we reject…

  • Planting – A Poem About Using Your Talents and Gifts For God

    Planting – A Poem About Using Your Talents and Gifts For God

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    Justin Farley

    Planting These seeds I sow, I know not whether they’ll grow or remain dormant without ever seeing the light of day. Whether they’ll wither and die or if they’ll take root and thrive matters little; I am a planter – I leave the harvesting to You. I keep my heart open to the wind on…

  • Poem about Wrestling with God and Accepting God’s Will

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    Justin Farley

    Tug O’ War Engaged in a constant game of tug o’ war between your will and mine. Sweating out the hours. Eking out the days, muscles bulging in desperate exhaustion, clinging to dust. Why do I wrestle with you? Why does my foolish heart still insist it knows better despite a lifelong record of defeat?…

  • Trusting in God Instead of Your Understanding Poem

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    Justin Farley

    Be My Vision   Be the eyes through which I see – so that I may not gaze into the past with regret or worry about what’s before me. In past, present, and future let me only see you and your will. May I not be obsessed with the weather in my life – so…

  • The Lamp Light – A Christian Poem About Wisdom

    The Lamp Light – A Christian Poem About Wisdom

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    Justin Farley

    The Lamp Light – A Christian Poem About Wisdom The lamp light is lit. The atoning wick sucks up the anointing oil And is overflowing, Spreading a blazing fire within my chamber. I am mesmerized with the knowledge of wisdom – The calming vision that you lay upon my eyes. Tear down these fragile, crumbling walls…


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the book cover of Nature's Bounty by Justin Farley— a poetry collection about the beauty of nature with subjects on birds, plants, trees, animals, the forest, and God.
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