''Poems & ‘Blessings' to Enrich Your Life!''

By Patricia L. Carpenter

I AM The VINE & you are the BRANCHES.
Whoever LIVES in Me & I in them shall produce
a large crop of FRUIT! Apart from Me -
you cant do a thing! (John 15:5)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 24, 2007
• ISBN: 9781462832071

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"POEMS & ‘BLESSINGS’ ~

TO ENRICH YOUR LIFE!"

Patricia L. Carpenter

Copyright © 2007 by Patricia L. Carpenter.

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Contents

‘WAIT’ ON GOD!

‘WRESTLING’ PRAYER *

AS I WRITE! *

GOD MADE ‘EVERYTHING’!

HE KNOWS!

SHOW ME!

‘SPIRITUAL THOUGHT’

I’VE FALLEN!

GLADNESS FOR MY SOUL!

HIS MOLD!

IT’S ‘SETTLED’!

FULL CONTROL!

PEACE!

MORE PRECIOUS!

‘REBELLIOUS’ DESIRES!

NO MORE SELFISHNESS

SURROUND!

I CANNOT COUNT ON ~ ME!

TODAY’S THE DAY!

I CANNOT SEE!

MY ‘TIMES’!

NOTHING I HAVE ~ SAVE JESUS!

LIFE FOR ME!

FILL ME, ‘FULL’ TO OVERFLOWING!

I WILL!

A ‘BLOOM’ IN THE DESERT!

PSALM 23 ~ IN MY OWN WORDS!

THY ‘ROD’ & THY ‘STAFF’!

WHERE WOULD I BE?

WAIT ON GOD!

FEAR!

‘DEEP’ ROOTS!*

CAN YOU LIVE?

THE HOLY HIGHWAY!

INTERRUPTIONS !

RUGGED ROAD!

A ‘REAL’ TREASURE!

GOD LONGS!

SOLDIERS!

GOD WILL LEAD US!

BIND YOURSELF!

PLEASE ‘HOLD’ TO CHRIST!

QUIET TIME!

BE ALONE WITH GOD!

SIT STILL! *

TODAY!

LAUGHTER!

SING, MY DARLING, SING!

A ‘HOSPITAL’ ~ THE ‘CHURCH’!

CONTROL YOUR TONGUE!

GREAT DISCERNMENT!

NO ONE IS ‘EXEMPT’!

DON’T FRET!

SPOILED VINES!

ARE YOU ‘SUFFERING’?

GOD’S ‘PEACEFULNESS’!

WALK ~ TODAY!

OBEY!

GOD’S WILL!

‘SORROW’ TURNED TO ‘JOY’!

PLOW!

LET GO!

WAITING?

POLISHED!

BE DETERMINED!

ENTER!

HE’S THE ‘FATHER OF LIGHT’!

SELL OUT!

RUSHING AWAY!

BLURRED VISION?

HIDE THYSELF!

DWELLING!

GOD IS ‘SILENT’!

MEET, SEEK & SING!

IN THE QUIET!

SEEK HIM!

SUNSHINE & RAIN!

NO ‘SIGN’!

GO ‘FORWARD’!

‘DOUBT NOT’ MY CHILD ~ THAT I LOVE THEE!

PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW!

LIFE’S MYSTERIES!

UNDERSTAND!

LIFE’S ‘LOAD’!

FILL YOUR LIFE WITH ‘FAITH’!

GOD’S POWER ‘REVEALED’!

KEEP YOUR FAITH IN ME!

THE GOD OF THE ‘MIDNIGHT’ HOUR!

DWELL UPON HIS LOVE!

LINGERING IN THE SHADOWS!

WISDOM!

‘ETERNAL’ CALM!

DO THE TASK!

RECOGNIZE HIM!

GOD IS READY!

BELIEVE!

‘THINGS’ HAPPEN!

SWEET MUSIC!

SUCCESS!

CRUSHED!

OH, RESTLESS ONES!

LOOK!

CRUSHED, YET ‘REJOICING’!

THE LILY!

OUR REFLECTION

DIE TO LIVE!

MUST WE ‘ALWAYS’ SEE?

DO NOT BORROW!

GOD’S ‘BUILDING’!

COULD YOU?

OVERWHELMING PAIN?

IN THE ‘FURNACE’!

A ‘CRUCIBLE OF FIRE’!

BEATEN DOWN?

DON’T ‘DENY’ THE MASTER!

VIEW YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES!

ENDURE!

ENDURING!

‘CHEERFULLY’ ENDURE!

COME & ADORE!

THE ‘SCHOOL OF SUFFERING’!

‘BITTER’ SPICES!

YOU CAN FIND CHRIST ‘ANYWHERE’!

LEGALISM!

SEPARATION!

THE ‘SHALLOWNESS’ OF LIFE!

RESTORE!

THE ‘BREAD OF LIFE’!

JOYS & SORROWS!

HANGING AROUND?

TREMBLE WITH FEAR!

PRETENDING!

IN HIS NAME!

STUCK TOGETHER!

GOOD ENOUGH

SHOW KINDNESS!

GOD’S ‘PATIENCE’!

GOD’S WORK!

LEAN!

DO YOU ‘SACRIFICE’?

CALL ON HIM!

NOBILITY!

WHOSE POSSESSIONS?

TRUST HIM!

HE’S ‘BEEN THERE’ ALL THE TIME!

‘SHINE’ FOR JESUS!

TRUST GOD!

ARISE FROM THE DARKNESS!

SEEK THE ‘GIVER’!

WHY ‘WAIT’?

JESUS IS ‘ALIVE’!

HEAVEN’S GATES

DON’T CALL IT ‘DEATH’!

A RIVER OF ‘JOY’!

PRAISE HIM & STEP OUT!

GREAT FAITH!

HIS ‘SHEEP’!

GOD RIDES

DIFFERENT!

WORK FOR GOD!

BELONG!

‘CALL’ ON CHRIST’S NAME!

CLING

OUR ‘BLESSED’ HOPE!

WOULD ‘YOU’ GO?

THAT ‘AWFUL’ PRICE!

MY APOLOGY!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

A WEDDING POEM

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS! (6)

HAPPY ‘90th’ BIRTHDAY!

BABY BLESSINGS (3) {boy}

BABY BLESSINGS {girl}

BABY BLESSINGS!

‘THINKING OF YOU’ POEMS" (6)

‘THINKING OF YOU’ POEMS"

‘THINKING OF YOU’ POEMS"

"A MOTHER’S HEART!"

"HAPPY ‘FATHER’S’ DAY!"

‘BLESSINGS’ POEMS (10)

‘BLESSINGS’ POEMS

‘BLESSINGS’ POEMS

‘BLESSINGS’ POEMS

‘BLESSINGS’ POEMS

‘BLESSINGS’ POEMS

‘BLESSINGS’ POEMS

‘BLESSINGS’ POEMS

GOD ‘WHISPERS’!

We (THE CHURCH) are like ‘fine stringed’ instruments & GOD is

busy ‘tuning’ us, SEEKING to bring into ‘HARMONY’ His CHILDREN!

ACCEPT GOD’S working in your life today, as then, YOU & I will

‘BLEND TOGETHER’ & MANY will come to ‘hear’ the

beautiful MELODY of ‘HARMONY’ instead of

‘discord’ among the brethren!

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BIBLE REFERENCES ARE FROM THE LIVING BIBLE (unless otherwise noted) ~ I ‘ENCOURAGE’ & ‘URGE’ YOU TO READ THEM!

Thanks,

Pat

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WAIT’ ON GOD!

NUMBERS 9:19 ~ When the cloud (GOD) ‘tarried’ (stood still) ~

the people of Israel (God’s people)

‘journeyed’ not (did NOT go forward)!

WHAT A ‘TEST’ OF OBEDIENCE TO GOD!!!

WE must ‘tarry’ & ‘stand still’ WAITING for GOD to move! HELP US LORD & keep us ever ‘vigilant’ in WAITING ON YOU, else we make a ‘mess’ & enter ‘rebellion’ once again! We don’t want to miss it & mess up because of our ‘pride’ & ‘impatience’! We ‘submit’ ALL to You & will ‘WILLINGLY WAIT’ until You move! We must remember ‘Joseph’ (Gen.40 & 41) in prison, who had to wait ‘extra’ time because the ‘wine server’ forgot to tell Pharaoh how Joseph had answered his dream. But, Joseph didn’t get mean-tempered & give up on God, but ‘waited’, eventually ~ in GOD’S TIME TABLE ~ he became what GOD had ‘intended’ him to be & fulfilled the ‘VISION’ He had given him as a boy (Gen.37). We must remember YOU will NOT be ‘too late’! In Your ‘silence’ ~ while You ‘tarry’ ~ PLEASE help us to WAIT & to keep our eyes focused on YOU & continue on with our ‘task’ which is before us. AMEN! THANK YOU, LORD. PRAISE YOU forever!! Your ‘PRESENCE’ is with us (& that’s ALL we really need!) & You ‘feed’ us DAILY on Your ‘choice nuggets’ from Your Word!

Only ‘fools’ rush in where angels fear to tread! So, don’t get into a ‘rush’ to ‘BE THERE’ if GOD is NOT!!! Be ‘completely’ sure He is moving when the ‘time’ comes ~ for only then will you be BLESSED!

Your TIME!

Your WAY!

Your WILL!

Thanks, Patricia 11/2/97

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WRESTLING’ PRAYER *

We are connected to GOD through PRAYER & INTERCESSION! It is our bridge to cross over all the ‘pits’ that Satan has placed in front of us on our JOURNEY toward Heaven!

Oh, how we need to PRAY! But, we are in ‘greater’ need for the ‘saints’ to INTERCEDE for one another! (Acts 12:5). KNOWING the power of this ‘WEAPON OF WARFARE’ (Eph.6:18)! BUT, even ‘more’ ~ KNOWING THE GOD we are praying to!

DARE to ‘BELIEVE’ & ‘PROVE’ HIM! Do not put ‘limits’ on Him by ‘thinking’ you KNOW what He can do ~ for He CAN DO ‘exceedingly above’ ALL we ‘ask or think’! (Eph.3:20).

BE about your business of ‘listening’ & ‘worshiping’ CHRIST! And EXPECT He will do ‘great & mighty things’. (Jer.33:3 KJV)

IT WILL ‘CHANGE’ YOU!!!

* Gen.32:24-28.           11/2/97

Thanks, Patricia

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We can’t ‘speak’ or even ‘think’ of saying anything to anyone unless The HOLY SPIRIT gives us the words to say! Or else it is ‘false’, ‘unreliable’ or ‘unstable’! 9/21/97

Thanks, Pat

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AS I WRITE!" *

As I write these Poems

God has given me,

He speaks ‘volumes’ to my soul

& I relate them back to thee.

I do not write because I’m ‘perfect’

for still ‘in process’ am I,

I only write them because I love you

& want to ‘meet you’ in the Sky.

High above the clouds of Glory

high above the sky so blue,

You & I together with ‘JESUS’

The One Who DIED for me & you!

The ONLY One Who can take us

through those mighty Gates of Pearl,

As His Precious Blood was shed

for EVERY boy & EVERY girl!

So come on now & ‘listen’

& ‘grow up’ in your Faith,

Let GOD also ‘speak’ to you

& we’ll go ~ together ~ through The Gate!

* Is.45:1 & Ps.28:7b.                        9/1/97

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GOD MADE ‘EVERYTHING’!"

God made ‘everything’ *

even my ‘crippled’ body,

For He has a ‘SPECIAL PLAN’

& it’s not shallow & soddy.

God never makes ‘junk’

but creates ‘great’ things,

He never makes ‘mistakes’

& to His Name ~ ‘GLORY’ brings!

We’ve only to BELIEVE it

& realize that it’s TRUE,

Everyone is ‘Special’ to GOD

for He ‘created’ me & you!

"Why did He create me ~

this I want to know?"

Because He wanted ‘fellowship’

& someone to ‘Love’ Him so!

(Contd. NEXT Page)

To ‘Love’ Him because they want to

& ‘CHOOSE’ Him for their own,

Not because they have to come

& bow before His Throne!

Do you not want someone to love you

& ‘want’ to be with you?

Not because you make them do it

but because they ‘really’ do?

Oh, what a great feeling

to know that someone ‘cares’,

To know they love to be around you

& all their ‘secrets’ share!

God ‘reveals’ Himself to us

if we ‘truly’ love Him so;

But, only if we ‘want’ to

He will NEVER let us go!

* Acts 17:24.                7/6/97

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HE KNOWS!"

Take each heart & soul today

& take them along their troublesome way.

Help each one their burdens to bear

& in Your Kindness, please show us You care.

You know each heart *

You know each life, *

Please touch each one

& bring ‘New Life’.

Help each one

throughout each day,

And help us All

to walk Your Way.

AMEN!

* Ps.139; 2 Tim.2:19.                7/8/97

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SHOW ME!"

Show me a great big ‘SMILE’ today

& ‘walk’ with me an ‘extra mile’,

I’m old & tired & weary, Lord

& I need that great big SMILE!

It helps to lift my burdens

& shows me that You care,

Come ~ walk with me a while

& help my burdens ~ bear.

7/8/97

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SPIRITUAL THOUGHT’

Oh, PLEASE, dear heart, ALLOW God ‘His Way’ in your life; for whatever the pain, whatever the suffering, it is NOTHING compared to the PRICE, the PAIN & the