A Soul's Reflections

By Sheila G. Evans

TODAY is the day to experience and rediscover the beauty, majesty, power, and love of God anew and afresh!  Why? Because life can bring about stagnancy, slumber, and drought; but the Holy Spirit desires to stir, awaken, and rejuvenate the heart to a deepened passion for the Divine Creator – God! It's time to fall in love with God again!

A Soul's Reflections – a compilation of inspirational prose, poetry, and anecdotes – is a wonderful accompaniment to personal Bible study, prayer, and devotional periods. Throughout its pages the Holy Spirit breathes uniquely expressed and profound revelations of God, that the soul may inhale God's breath, be spiritually revived – and LIVE.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638444534

Book preview

Awaken

I awaken to the sprawling dawn of a new day—

a day brimming with vast and endless possibilities.

My mind is alert.

I feel the pulsing of my heartbeat.

My soul is rejuvenated after a night of endless bliss,

for God’s Spirit had whispered sweetly of His love for me,

and sang to me throughout the night.

I awaken, declaring my love and devotion to Him,

as He lifts me from my bed and envelops me in a loving embrace.

I open my eyes and faint glimmers of light begin to tip, gently, into my chambers.

Like a billion tiny angels, each sparkling light begins to dance, and twirl, and rise, and sing!

They proclaim, A day of God’s favor is here!

Not the favor of acquiring things,

nor the heaping up of material treasures—

but the favor of enjoying the day—this day,

in the carefree breeze that flows from the Holy Spirit, and sweeps over my soul.

The day awakens as does Spring from a cold, dark, blistering Winter—

new and bright and vibrant!

Life has overshadowed and arisen from death.

The day has conquered night.

The day awakens.

From it burst forth brilliant light.

Its bosom is full of God’s greatness.

It heaves a deep breath, and from its sigh arises choruses of joy.

The day awakens, singing, with great vigor,

"Arise with joy!

Arise to the clapping of God’s hands.

He has broken asunder all your chains, and fills your soul

with His wonder!

Arise, once slumbering soul—

to the joy of the Lord—awaken!

Arise to expectation of soaring on the wings of the wind of God’s Spirit.

Arise, oh soul, to joy!"

The chorus of the day’s exuberant song beckons me.

My Love has awakened me—

"Come, and dance with me!

Arise, and sing to me!"

My Love has set His face before me.

In His eye I see marvelous and wondrous things He has planned for me.

As I peer deeply into His eye, His heart for me is revealed.

Joy, peace of mind, great comfort, strength—

His shade upon my right hand, His boundless and devoted love.

I see no end to all He avails me—for there is not end to His love.

Today, oh soul, awaken to vast and endless possibilities.

Be led forth of God to experience His incomprehensible joy!

Awaken!

Great and Marvelous

Great and marvelous is our God.

The sheer mercy of God has afforded me the opportunity to acknowledge Him—

adore Him—reverence Him—in the light of a new day.

The privilege to not only breathe in the breath of morning,

but to freely breathe—exhale—a fresh and new worship

and unencumbered praise to His name.

I know not the measure nor the scope of ills, peril, or dismay

that sought and plotted my destruction—

the dangers that may have surrounded me in the black of night,

but I know the One before whom all forces of the dark world must bow.

I know the One who shielded me from sunrise to sunset to sunrise,

from all evil, and who has kept me through the power of His great name.

My Lord, my God—is God

And He is great

And He is marvelous.

In the Wake

In the wake of a new day’s dawning,

After the passing of the storm,

Embraced by the warmth and soft rays of a golden sun, is an atmosphere of calm.

You Held My Life

It is marvelous to awaken to the sheer awareness of You, God.

Before my eyes opened to take in the light of day, Your presence surrounded me.

Your peace resounded, from deep within my soul, that all is well.

My mind and my faculties raced to attention, directed at Your splendor.

You had held my feeble life in Your hand and had sustained me through the night.

You had kept a melody of worship to Your name chorusing through my thoughts,

As I had lain, slumbering.

You had set, and maintained, the rhythmic beating of my heart.

You made full and unobstructed, constant, and steady my inward and outward breaths—like a vapor, so fragile—and without Your care, so easy to slip