Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Presence: A Collection of Poems
    Presence: A Collection of Poems
    Presence: A Collection of Poems
    Ebook58 pages16 minutes

    Presence: A Collection of Poems

    By Debra Denise Scherer

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Throughout history Gods presence has been equated with earthquakes, storms, and all types of disasters. But when Elijah, the prophet, looked for Gods voice, it was not in the great and powerful wind, nor the earthquake, nor in the fire. Gods voice was instead found in a quiet and gentle breeze. It is my prayer that these poems will speak to each reader in such a way that he/she might experience the presence of God.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateOct 12, 2016
    ISBN9781512747935
    Presence: A Collection of Poems
    Author

    Debra Denise Scherer

    In the book of Psalms is a line which reads: “Cease striving and know that I am God;” [Psalm46:10 (NAS)] I did not understand how to “cease striving” until an accident left me disabled. The things for which I had been striving, now seemed unimportant and my focus became my relationship to Jesus and others. As I continue to learn to focus on the things in life that really matter, emotional healing as well as physical healing has begun to take place. These poems are one result of that healing.

    Related to Presence

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      June

      Apr 16, 2022

      June
      32 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Oct 2, 2020

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      8 min read

    • Article

      Thursday, April 4

      Feb 14, 2019

      “THERE’S NOT ENOUGH OF ME to go around,” I told my husband. A friend’s father had died, and I wanted to make her a meal. I hadn’t talked to my grown kids in several days and wanted to check in with them. Another friend was facing tough medical issues

      1 min read

    • Article

      Joy: God’s Gift to Every Born-Again Believer

      Aug 26, 2022

      Our Western society throws many challenges at us, but these are nothing like what the persecuted Church experiences, or even ordinary citizens in closed and communist nations. There are so many brothers and sisters in Christ who are struggling with l

      2 min read

    • Article

      Monday, March 18

      Feb 14, 2019

      I HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY COLOR-BLIND since birth, so I see the world like a black-and-white movie. Attending a class at church about using coloring to deepen my prayer life might seem like an odd choice for me. But when I saw the blurb for Colorful Pra

      1 min read

    • Article

      Sunday, November 1

      Oct 16, 2020

      I TOOK A DEEP BREATH as I walked up to the podium. I was speaking to a group of alumni at the children’s home where I grew up. Jesus, please help me get through this speech without crying. As I looked at the audience, my mind went totally blank. But

      1 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday, July 30

      Jun 18, 2019

      MY MARRIAGE HAD BEEN ON life support for several years before I decided to pull the plug. The early years were good—lots of hope and dreams. The latter years were not—full of treachery and heartbreak. And although I had a relationship with Jesus, I h

      1 min read

    • Article

      Saturday, August 20

      Jun 16, 2022

      For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ J

      1 min read

    • Article

      Friday, June 16

      Apr 15, 2023

      AS AN AUTHOR, I LOVE VIBRANT VERBS. So as I read the early verses of Psalm 86 today, my writer mindset noticed all those calls to action. David asks God to bend down, hear, answer, protect, save, be merciful, and bring joy. Pondering the life of Chri

      1 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Nov 19, 2021

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      8 min read

    • Article

      The River Of Life

      Mar 8, 2024

      I love standing on a bridge, staring into the fast-moving waters of a river, on their way to the sea from their source in distant hills. The length of a river is like the span of a human life. Some lives are long, but others, sadly, can be much short

      5 min read

    • Article

      Monday, February 1

      Dec 17, 2020

      THERE IS A DEEP JOY—THE sort of meaningful, overwhelming, heart-swelling sort of joy—that can’t be expressed in words alone. Because I was a dancer and choreographer in my younger days, my eyes light up when I come across a Bible verse that mentions

      1 min read

    • Article

      Love Born

      Sep 4, 2020

      Love Born
      3 min read

    • Article

      Saturday, April 13

      Feb 14, 2019

      IF I’M HONEST, I HAVE to admit I struggle to understand the cross. We live in a world where, at least in modern countries, there is little concept of blood sacrifice. In ancient times, it was the way things were done. People sinned, then brought sacr

      1 min read

    • Article

      May

      Apr 16, 2022

      May
      32 min read

    • Article

      Ilse Kleyn Prophetic Artist

      Jun 24, 2019

      Ilse Kleyn Prophetic Artist
      7 min read

    • Article

      Easter

      Apr 3, 2023

      Easter
      3 min read

    • Article

      Monday, April 13

      Feb 14, 2020

      THE RESURRECTION IS EVERYTHING, ISN’T it? It’s a metaphor for the whole Christian life. Without it, what’s dead is just dead. Over. Finished. Buried forever. No hope of new life springing forth. But in Jesus, we have the promise that death is not the

      1 min read

    • Article

      Bring God’s Light Into Your World

      Apr 22, 2019

      Lately, wherever I go I seem to encounter people who are so unhappy or worried about something. Many are filled with tremendous anxiety and never seem to overcome their problems. It’s as if they are going from one crisis to another. I am not only tal

      1 min read

    • Article

      CeCe Winans

      Dec 29, 2023

      CeCe Winans
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Prayer For Those Seeking Reconciliation With God

      Feb 10, 2020

      I have come to believe that You are the only God, the maker of heaven and earth. I have come to believe that Jesus is your Son, that He is the judge of the living and the dead, and the Saviour of the world. I have also come to see my own guilt before

      1 min read

    • Article

      A Prayer For Those Seeking Reconciliation With God

      Dec 30, 2019

      I have come to believe that You are the only God, the maker of heaven and earth. I have come to believe that Jesus is your Son, that He is the judge of the living and the dead, and the Saviour of the world. I have also come to see my own guilt before

      1 min read

    • Article

      Saturday, October 22

      Aug 13, 2022

      ISN’T IT FRUSTRATING THAT WE can’t be God? What I wouldn’t give to snap my fingers and fix difficult situations! Sometimes I wish I could just be good enough and do enough to make it all better, to never make mistakes, and to heal all the hurts that

      1 min read

    • Article

      “No Weapon Formed Against You Shall Prosper…”

      Aug 7, 2020

      – Isaiah 54:17  JOY! Magazine seeks to glorify God by educating and informing Christians of a Biblical Worldview and applying the Lordship of Jesus Christ to all areas of life. Many of you will know, by reading my columns, that I love to apply the

      2 min read

    • Article

      Irresistible Grace

      Feb 10, 2023

      In his book Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis describes an insight about divine mercy that particularly resonates with my own experience. I suspect it may also resonate with yours. Stories of how people come to Christ are as unique as the individuals that

      3 min read

    • Article

      Sunday, November 7

      Oct 15, 2021

      I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. Psalm 13:5 (ESV) THE WORST THING THAT HAS ever happened to me happened this year. My mother had a stroke. I was afraid she was going to die. It’s the most out-of-contr

      1 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Jun 16, 2023

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      7 min read

    • Article

      July

      Jun 15, 2021

      July
      34 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Presence

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Presence - Debra Denise Scherer

      Copyright © 1996, 1999, 2014, and 2016 Debra Denise Scherer.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      Scripture taken from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      WestBow Press

      A Division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.westbowpress.com

      1 (866) 928-1240

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-5127-4794-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5127-4795-9 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5127-4793-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2016910382

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1