In the year 1987, I was attending a weekly bible study with my daughter
Cheryl. We were in the home of a fellow Christian, a precious woman of God,
who has since gone home to be with the Lord . Whi...показать большеIn the year 1987, I was attending a weekly bible study with my daughter
Cheryl. We were in the home of a fellow Christian, a precious woman of God,
who has since gone home to be with the Lord . While in discussion, she suddenly
turned to me with a word of knowledge and said, “You are going to write a poem”.
I was surprised and replied to her, “ who me”? She answered , “yes you”. I thought
no more about it. Several nights later, as I lay in bed, I was awakened by a voice
(the Holy Spirit) that spoke to me and said, “take paper and pen and write”.
My thought was this is the middle of the night and no time to be writing. My
response to Holy Spirit was ,Lord what shall I write? Write what? The voice said
again write. So I took paper and pen and prepared to write. I could think of
only one word…..praise. Nothing else came to mind. As I began to write, to my
amazement, words of praise and worship to God literally poured out of my spirit.
I had written my fi rst poem entitled “Praise”. I know it is God’s gift to me, to be
used to give him glory and to make known to others all about our God.показать меньше