Poetic Inspirations

By Darron Hurst

This book is written to serve as a source of religious inspiration to those who often seek to find comfort, encouragement, and personal inspiration from the holy scriptures. The premise of the book is to take various verses of scripture from the Bible and convert a particular verse into a poetic expression that both unlocks its meaning while highlighting the inspirational message contained in the verse. The poems touch on a variety of subjects; they provide inspiration to pursue dreams and encourage perseverance through life’s trials and motivation to keep abiding in the foundational principles of one’s faith.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781984573308

Darron Hurst

Darron Hurst currently serves as Pastor of Saved By Grace Ministries, Birmingham, Alabama; he lauded in many religious settings as an inspiring expositor of the Holy Scriptures. Pastor D has spent the past 28years serving the body of Christ as a devoted teacher of the Word of God and as a compassionate overseer of God’s flock. He has displayed a great love and appreciation for the inspirational stories of the Bible even from his youth; Pastor D contributes the Bible as being a tremendous source of guidance, comfort and inspiration throughout his life.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

I Can

I Am Unique

No Time to Waste

My Name’s Been Changed

Get Back Up

Heal Me

Transparency (Show Your Wounds)

Keep Calling

Just a Word from You

Hold On—Change Is Coming

His Bread Is Always Fresh

God’s Got You

You’re Not Alone

You Have Something to Live For

More Precious Than a Lily

God Makes a Mean Gumbo

Good Lessons from Bad Times

There’s a Blessing In the Pressing

Living Right Does Pay Off

The Devil Is a Liar

A Love I Can’t Explain

Just Stay Close

Thy Kingdom Come

He’s Coming Soon

Portrait Of a Blessed Man

Break the Mould

He Never Said It Would Be Easy

I’m Never Leaving Your House

You Made the Difference

Show Me Your Ways

Can’t Fake It—The Pressure’s Real

Stand Down—It’s Not Your Fight

Mind-Blower

Creation Is Preaching

Let It Start With God

If Only I Had Listened

All Walls Shall Fall

Feet So Beautiful

I’ll Use This Day for Praise

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my Lord Jesus Christ, who is the source of all spiritual gifts and blessings; without His loving-kindness towards me down through the years, I truly don’t know where I would be. I thank You, Lord Jesus, for showering Your rich grace upon such an unworthy sinner as me. I am eternally indebted to Your Love.

I also dedicate this project to my loving and devoted family: my beautiful wife, Miranda, who has faithfully stood by my side for the past twenty-six years and has always pushed me to reach my fullest potential; and my wonderful children, Darian, Jared, and Courtney, whose fearless pursuit of their personal goals and dreams has inspired me to courageously pursue my own.

And last but not least, I dedicate this project to the loving memory of the most devoted servant of God that I have ever witnessed, my beloved grandmother Mrs. Evelyn Nance. It was your steadfast faithfulness towards serving and honouring God that deeply impacted all aspects of my life; it serves as the basis of inspiration for my own desire to faithfully serve the Kingdom of our Lord!

FOREWORD

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, the same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made.

We believe this quotation from the Apostle John to be true, and yet we find ourselves still in awe and in amazement when viewing any newly divine creative works of God that’s manifested through mankind.

Poetic Inspirations from Pastor D is a divinely written inspirational book of poetry and prose. Pastor Darron Hurst has uniquely crafted and exegeted God’s Holy Word into inspirational prolific words of poetry. We understand that there is the Word of Knowledge presented to us by academia and then there is the Word of Wisdom presented to us by life’s experiences, then there