Chains Broken: With Seeds of Faith Sown and Watered by the Holy Spirit

By Sherry Norton

Do you have questions or doubts? Do you struggle with fear or hopelessness? Chains Broken is a journey of heartfelt inspirational Christian poetry that will encourage and uplift the soul for the young and old alike. Sherry Norton hopes that reading these poems will help you to continue the search for truth, peace, hope, and life in God and His son, Jesus Christ. Here is one poem entitled Chains Broken

I thought I knew my Lord and God;
but darkness fi lled my mind.
I thought I knew my Saviours word;
most all I knew was lies.
Fear-ignorance-bondage and control,
was mostly all my mind did know.
One day my life began to change,
My Lord and God did rearrange.
Th e chains did break and I was free,
my Lord and God He spoke to me.
my soul was starved and very dry;
His presence was for what it cried.
I love to praise His Holy Name;
Gods love has been my glorious gain.
When there are people who lead us astray;
we have to learn to forgive them and pray.
Th at their souls I will forgive;
and Gods love in them shall live. Amen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781449724887

Sherry Norton

Sheryl (Sherry) Norton was born in October of 1957, the first of three children and the only girl child. At the time of her birth, her parents, Donald D. Vinther and Betty Ann Williams Vinther, were living in Topeka, Kansas assigned to Forbes Air Force Base. She grew up in various places, finally landing in Fayetteville, North Carolina where she now lives. I really count myself as very Blessed after all I have been through. She is a three times survivor of a form of cancer. She is a widow after 33 years of marriage in which there were no children. She has been visually impaired from birth, and going completely blind late 99, early 2000. for a long time I was blind not only physically, but spiritually. After being a member of a cult for 23 years, Sherry says only the Love and intervention of Her Heavenly Father brought her out of deception and darkness and trying to live under the law with little love or hope although there was much fear and mans control. The sight I have now in my God I would not trade, though there are times when I wish I could physically see, I have to admit there are other times I am glad that I do not.

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Chains Broken

With seeds of faith sown and watered by the Holy Spirit

Written by Sherry Norton

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Contents

01. NOTHING WITHOUT YOU

02. THE OPEN DOOR

03. BLESSED

04. COME, LEARN, SING and REJOICE

05. DEFEATED HE WAS NOT

06. SEE

07. MY CHOSEN PATH

08. CHAINS BROKEN

09. FACE WHAT YOU DON’T LIKE

10. THE HOME I BUILT IN MY MIND

11. I THANK YOU

12. WHO AND WHERE IS

13. JESUS CHRIST IS

14. CHOICES

15. THE ROAD

16. ONE HEARTS CRY

17. GOD IS GREATER THAN ALL

18. JESUS IS

19. LIKE THE

20. THE BEST CHOICE

21. THE BOOK

22. A PLEA OF A HOPEFUL HEART

23. SONGS OF WORSHIP

24. LIFTING UP THE NAME OF JESUS

25. CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL REJOICE

26. A MAN’S QUESTION ANSWERED

27. MAGNIFICENT CREATURES OF GOD

28. HANDS

29. PURCHASED BY HIS BLOOD

30. JESUS SWEET JESUS

31. GOD THE SUN

32. DO YOU KNOW Where LOVE IS?

33. A WANDERER WANDERING

34. HELP WANTED!

35. THE AUTHOR

36. BEAUTY PRACTICALLY DESTROYED

37. NOT FOR LONG HIS BED

38. LORD YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO DO It!

39. SUFFICIENT GRACE

40. LEARNING WAR NO MORE.

41. HOPE STILL

42. FROM FIRST TO LAST

43. PAID IN FULL

44. CHRISTMAS

45. BIRTHS.

46. THE BURDEN TAKER

47. UNDER CONSTRUCTION

48. ONE’S COMMITMENT

49. DO YOU HEAR THE CRIES?

50. YEA NOT NAY

51. HOPE IN JESUS

52. NUGGETS OF GOLD REVEALED

53. DO WE REALLY?

54. THE WAY

55. WHICH ARE WE?

56. LIGHT IN A DARKENED LAND

57. FOLLOWERS OF THE GREAT I AM

58. GOD THE PATH MAKER.

59. OUR LOVE DIVINE

60. GOD’S GARDEN

61. LIGHT OF MY LIFE

62. SOMETHING GOOD

63. GOOD OR BAD REPORTS

64. SHINE ON ME

65. EVER THE SAME

66. LET YOUR GLORY SHOW

THROUGH ME

67. THE BRIDE

68. WORK OF THE ARTIST

69. OUT OF THE WILDERNESS

70. THEY COME TO PASS

71. IS GOD REALLY THERE?

72. GO AND SIN NO MORE

73. MY LIGHTHOUSE

74. WHAT DID JESUS DO?

75. THE LETTER

76. DAY BY DAY

77. FOLLOW ME

78. CONSUME THE OLD

79. MY PRECIOUS GIFT

80. WHICH PATH?

81. CAN YOU ENDURE?

82. ONE LOST SHEEP

83. PREPARE, WATCH AND WAIT

84. THE KEEPSAKE

85. DO NOT PITY ME

86. THE CANDLE

87. A CHILD.

88. I AM

89. WALK WITH ME:

90. A FRIEND, A BROTHER, A LORD

91. TRUTH

92. WRAP OUR TREASURES IN TRUTH

93. WOULD YOU DO THAT IF JESUS

WERE STANDING BY?

94. DON’T FEEL SORRY FOR ME

95. NAIL PIERCED HANDS

96. SEASONS COME AND SEASONS GO

97. IN GOD’S TIME

98. MAKING THIS PART WHOLE

99. THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

100. DRY YOUR EYES

101. ONLY ONE

102. GOD’S RAINBOW ON LAND

103. THE MAN

104. O’LORD JESUS, HOW I LOVE YOU

105. STANDING ON THE ROCK,

CHRIST JESUS

106. YOU LORD JESUS

107. SETTING ME FREE

108. THE ONE AND THE ONLY WAY

109. PUTTING ON MY SOLDIER’S GARB

110. MORE THAN ONE TASTE

111. O’LORD JESUS

112. REST, PEACE AND JOY

113. THERE IS REST, PEACE AND JOY

IN MY GOD

114. ARE YOU THE SHEPHERD’S SHEEP?

115. HOSANNA

116. THOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER

GOD BEFORE ME

117. POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT

118. THE SUN SHALL CEASE TO SHINE AND THE MOON SHALL TURN

TO BLOOD

119. LET THERE BE

120. BE YE READY

121. NOT THE END

123. GOD’S LOVE

124. THE FATHER OF FATHER’S WORDS

125. JESUS: RIGHTEOUS, HOLY

AND MIGHTY

126. PRAISE YE THE LORD

127. MEET MY FATHER

128. YES, FOR, YOU!

129. MY GOD, MY SAVIOUR,

AND MY LORD

130. GOD WILL NEVER FAIL

131. I SAY, YES!

132. CAN’T DO It WITHOUT YOU!

133. IF WE ONLY KNEW

134. BATTLES

135. SEEK GOD’S FACE AND NOT

HIS HANDS

136. WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT

137. VICTORY IS WON

138. BUILD UPON A FOUNDATION

OF PRAYER

139. O MY GOD, I PRAY, HEAR MY PRAYER

140. GOD O GOD

141. A PRAYER OF CHANGE, GUIDANCE, STRENGTH AND SAFE KEEPING

142. WATCH, LOOK AND LISTEN

143. DEAREST CHILD

144. OUR GOD MOST HIGH

145. I CHOOSE YOU:

146. FREELY, YOU GAVE

147. FATHER, I THANK YOU,

FOR WHO YOU ARE

148. IT’S YOU

149. I THANK YOU FATHER

150. EMPTY ME OUT

151. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS

152. THIS FAMILY

153. UNITED WE STAND,

DIVIDED WE FALL

154. LOVE

155. SING A SONG TO OUR GOD

MOST HIGH

156. COME DECLARE GOD’S GREATNESS

157. I WILL DECLARE THY GREATNESS

158. YOU… .

159. FREE

160. IN NEWNESS OF LIFE

161. ONE

162. TELL-ME-TRULY

163. A LITTLE GIRL

01. NOTHING WITHOUT YOU

Written August 1998

I am nothing without you,

a piece of dirt from which I grew,

Loving hands have molded me,

like a potter with his clay.

Sons of God, Joint Heiress with Christ,

Kings and Priests, who have won the fight,

God’s mighty army, whose battle is won,

with Jesus at its head.

When the sun shall cease to shine,

and the moon turns to blood,

Jesus comes back in the clouds,

and takes us all away.

We are nothing without you,

A piece of dirt from which we grew,

Loving hands have molded us,

like a potter with his clay. Amen.

02. THE OPEN DOOR

Written May 1999

When the Jews rejected Him,

the door was open for me,

And when they led Him up the hill,

they nailed Him to a tree.

All the blood He shed;

He shed for you and me,

all the blood He shed;

He shed for you and me.

They laid Him in a borrowed tomb,

it looked like death had won,

But early on the third day,

behold Gods Son.

Jesus rose up from the grave;

life flowed through Him,

Jesus rose up from the grave;

life flowed through Him.

Jesus Christ the Lamb of God,

who shed His blood for thee,

won the battle over death,

and came forth victoriously.

Who stands before His Father God;

for you and me!

Who stands before His Father God;

for you and me!

When His word has been fulfilled,

before this earth is done,

we go to meet our Saviour,

and become one.

God’s mighty army has come,