Scripture-Based Poetry

By Derrick Wells

My hope is that this book will bring biblical knowledge to all who read and hear it and that it will encourage, bless, or give understanding to Gods Word in a unique way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524562687

Derrick Wells

I was born in a small bustling town in the town of Springdale, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in 1953, where life was very active for most people. As children, we had plenty of time to have fun, and we enjoyed nearly every minute of it. Even though we had a lot of freedom, there were chores and there was school, where I didn’t do so well due to being disliked by my teachers and punished often, which is what they did back then. I quit school at age fifteen in seventh grade and did odd jobs until age seventeen when I began a full-time job on a local dairy and chicken farm. After a couple of years, I left and headed for the city in another province and got into construction, which I continued to do for most of my life. Then, in 1997, while living in Eastern Ontario, I decided to go back to school to upgrade to a grade twelve equivalent and managed to do it in three months. That is when I got inspired to write this little story and have kept it tucked away until a few weeks ago when I decided to pull it out and found it interesting and maybe worth publishing so that others may enjoy reading it too.

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CONTENTS

A Friend in Jesus

A Man Called Jesus

A Message from Heaven

A Newborns Direction

A Shepherd Boy

A Touch of the Master

Always be Faithful

An Empty Tomb and the Word

An Empty Vessels Prayer

Battle of the Flesh

Be a Good Neighbor

Be Ready

Bearing My Own Cross

Believe in God

Believe in Jesus

Believe the Prophets

Billy’s Salvation

Call to Repentance

Children Rejoice

Come to Jesus

Confession before Salvation

Confession

Contentment

Convection

Could this be the Christ

Decisions

Deliverance from Deception

Direction by Faith

Draw me Nearer

Easier to Point the Finger

Earthly Gains, Eternal Loss

Enjoying God’s Space

Expressions of Love

Fork of Decision

Fulfilling Gods Word

Give it to Jesus

Go Ahead, Curse God

Go on, You’re not Alone

God is Still Calling

God Keeps Calling

God of the Living

Gods Battle

God’s Mysteries and Realities

Gods Plea

Gods Promise

Have I Cast You Off

He Loves You Still

He’ll Come Back

He’s Always Been There

He’s Always There

He’s Still There

His Outstretched Hands

Hold on to me Lord

How Dear You, Jesus

How do I? How can He?

Humble Yourselves

I am Saved

I Am With You Always

I Can’t Make It On My Own

I Confess and Repent

I Look to Jesus

I Need Someone Who Is Almighty

I Owe my Life to Him

I Remember

I See Jesus

I Should Have Been The One

If Jesus Do Not Live

If My People

If We Only Knew

If You Believe

If You Could Believe

If You Have Fallen

If You Need Love

I’m Not The Same

It’s Your Move

I’ve Been Calling

Jesus Lives and Cares

Just looking for a way

Knowing God

Last Chance

Leaving with Nothing

Let go and let God

Lukewarm Sinners

Message from Heaven

Moving Onward and Forward

My Bridge Over Troubled Waters

My Desire

My Hearts Cry

My Humble Prayer

My Master, Lord and King

Needless Worry

Not Walking in Gods Will

Nothing without God

One of Those Days

Only Believe

Only Two Places

Our Victory

Pleading for Souls

Prayer For Direction

Prayer for Guidance

Prepared for the Rapture

Reaching Out

Redemptions Price

Remember Me

Running from the Saviour

Running life’s race Gods way

Salvation

Salvations Cost

Salvations Plan

Satan’s Defeat, Our Victory

Saved

Seed Planter

Seeing through His eyes

Seeking Salvation

Set a watch, Lord

Set Free

Signs of His Coming

Simple Salvation

Since Jesus Came In

Some Day Soon

Story of Jesus

Talk to Jesus

Tell me about Jesus

Tempted and Tested

Thank You Lord

The Answer to Life’s Problems

The Battle

The Beggar

The Burning Light

The Call

The Coming Judgment

The Daydream

The Easy Way, The Hard Way

The Old Mans Conversion

The Other Way

The Problem

The Reason He Died

The Salvation Track

The Sinners Decision

The Spiritual Battle

The Spiritually Blind

The Things I Do Not Know

The Time is Drawing Near

The Trinity

The Warning Sign

The Warning

The Way of Salvation

There is a Time

They Prayed to The Father

Tomorrow May be Too Late

Too Late

Trials and Tribulations

Trials

True Salvation

Trust in Jesus

Trusting in Jesus

Trusting Jesus

Uncertain Times

Unlimited and Uncontrolled God

Using Discernment

Victory in Jesus

We Owe it all to Jesus

What do God see

What Word is This

When and Where

When Jesus was a Boy

Where will You go

Where will You go to

Why Stand Outside

Will You Come With Me

With You Always

Wondering No More

You Cannot Enter Heaven, if

You Must be Born Again

You Need Jesus

You will be there for me

                A Friend in Jesus

I felt I had a need of someone today

Someone to talk too, to help me on my way

So I got on my knees, l took time to pray

But I just knelt there; I had nothing to say

How could someone like I talk too

Someone who seems so unknown, like You

Has I knelt there I felt like such a fool

For I knew not what to say or what to do

But as I knelt on my knees patiently waiting there

I could feel Your presence coming ever so near

Touching Your warmth on my face I felt a tear

I realized You came to show me that You care

So I humbly fell prostrate there upon my face

I said surely the presence of God is in this place

And has I lay there in awe my heart began to race

Then I realized how wonderful was His amazing grace

Today I needed someone who I could confide in

I needed a reassurance that I was free from sin

I needed a reminder that Jesus lives within

And He gave me His reassurance; I was born again

So today if you need such a friend as this

You feel you can’t go on; your life’s in a mess

Why not talk to Jesus, give Him your request

Just come unto Jesus, He will give you rest

R:#1

        A Man Called Jesus

There was a man called Jesus

Who lived a long, long time ago

He traveled through all Israel

Doing a lot of great miracles

He went out to a wedding one day

There He turned water into wine

He healed a man who had leprosy

And opened the eyes of a man who was blind

He caused the lame to walk again

And He walked on the sea of Galilee

All of the people who were bound within

His words did set their spirits free

He gave them hope; He gave them life

He gave them something worth living for

A promise of many blessings in this life

Then eternal life with Him forever more

So when we die our soul still lives

And goes to live with Jesus in Heaven

Whoever believes in Jesus for Salvation

This new eternal life to them is given

R:#2

                  A Message from Heaven

I have just been sent this message from Heaven

To tell you more about the love you were given

For His commandment was to love one another

Not as the world but with the love of the Father

This love I have given you is not the worldly kind

For it gives joy to your soul and peace to your mind

It will give you strength for today, hope for tomorrow

A life filled with happiness, never a worry or sorrow

So here are the things I would like you to do

Go out and do for others what I did for you

Show My love to your neighbor; be kind to them

Compassionately remind them if they live in sin

Gently tell them about Jesus, why He came to die

When He shared everything with His Father on high

He could have taken the world and rid it of man

And destroyed everything and start all over again

But He looking down upon man Gods fallen creation

Which kept falling farther away in each generation

Said to His Father I know what thing I will do

I will give my life for them and win them to You

For I behold man and see the image of Myself

And in My likeness I do not see in anything else

So I will deny Myself and become their Sacrifice

I will become sin for them and pay the price

And this love, which I will show on My part

I will place deep inside of each believers heart

Then they too may be self-denied and show this love

Which I have given to man from the Father above

So go to your brother and sisters in Christ

Take up your cross and for them sacrifice

Your time, your food or whatever their needs

Do as your Saviour, giving alms of good deeds

Do unto others, as you would like them too

In times of troubles help to see them through

Share with them this undying love of the Father

For this My Commandment is you love one another

R:#3

                    A Newborns Direction

If you are a new born child of God

Don’t be dismayed by those who think you’re odd

Forgive them for they know not what they do

Just the way that God has forgiven you

For many mockers and scoffers each day

Like so called friends will turn from you away

They will not want to have you around anymore

Things will be much different than it was before

But don’t be discouraged by all of this

Because God is about to straighten your mess

New friends you’ll soon have who’ll care for you

For when you are saved He makes all things new

Your life will keep changing now day by day

For all of the old things must pass away

A brand new creature you will soon become

And one day have a oneness with Gods only Son

Many temptations and trials will come your way

So read the Scriptures and learn how to pray

Put your trust in Jesus be determined to win

And by faith believe and live your life for Him

R:#4

                                A Shepherd Boy

Lord, help me to be a shepherd boy deep down in my heart

Teach me how to seek and pray that I may do my part

To do the best I can to help you protect your sheep

And build a Spiritual wall around them to safely keep

And if the wolf happens by my way, Lord make me strong

That I may stand before him firm until he is gone

Let me not be as a hireling who will run from the flock

But let me stand firmly grounded in You my Solid Rock

And when I hear much bleating of Your sheep, going astray

Give me the wisdom to take the time to kneel and pray

That I may know the reason of their confusion and

Know what I may do to calm and ease their souls again

But when the wolf at times appear as an angel of light

When he reveals his ugly face Your sheep all get a fright

Confused and running to and fro not knowing what to do

Help me to be that shepherd boy who will bring them back to You

Lord grant me the portion of Your Holy Spirit with fire

That I may have the power that a shepherd must require

To faithfully lead Your sheep safely through the land

To protect them and to teach and help them understand

R:#5

                        A Touch of the Master

Just like so many I was lost deep in sin

I had no intentions of asking Jesus to come in

I was content living a way that I thought was right

And would do all I could to keep God from my sight

I ignorantly went on living this way year after year

Not showing to anyone a sign of a worry or care

Whatever I was feeling I kept bottled up in myself

With no intentions of sharing it with anyone else

But then one evening I was invited out to church

And was sitting comfortably where I had perched

I was listening to the music, which soothed my soul

Not realizing the Holy Spirit was gaining control

He was preparing my heart to receive what lay ahead

When the preacher preached on, Hells living but dead

Then the Holy Spirit of God convicted me deep within

And convinced me that I was living vainly in sin

Hell was so hot and the grave seemed so near

I wanted to get up and run but I would not dare

So I rushed to the alter and cried, O God, please

And He forgave me and saved me there on my knees

All it took was a touch of the Master for me

Just one touch of His hand and I was set free

And if you would just trust Him you would agree

That all it took was a touch of the Master for me

R:#6

                        Always be Faithful

I have decided that I would accept you

And to receive you as Lord of my whole life

Therefore I am putting all my trust in you

That You may care for me as a husband do his wife

So Lord you know at times I will be a problem

And in my time of moods will want things my own way

Please be patient on me Lord in times like these

Until I come to my senses and take the time to pray

I know You are forgiving and I will need forgiveness

For the many foolish things that I will say and do

Because I do not yet understand Your will for me

And have not put all my trust and faith in You

But in time after many mistakes and corrections

I’m sure that Your will I will learn and obey

For when I get familiar with Your inner voice

I will listen more closely to what You have to say

As for now all I can do is to make You this promise