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Faith Alive
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By Michael P. Johnson
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                Faith Alive

Faith awakens through Heaven’s Word

Will quicken passive sheep

Brings life to souls who’ve truly heard

While fools remain asleep

 

Truth seeks to reach one’s aching soul

Make dormant spirit’s rise

Will flood one’s heart will make one whole

And open blinded eyes

 

Faith opens life’s eternal door

Makes free from death and pain

On Heaven’s Wind to ride and soar

Where nothing can restrain

 

It’s not for fools to fool about

It’s not to use for fun

It’s not a gift to those who doubt

Rejecting Christ God’s Son

 

A dormant faith can die as well

Can lead us lost to jail

Joining the mob en route to hell

Thinking they’d never fail

 

True faith’s the fruit of Holy Seed

God’s righteousness has sown

To those The Truth’s ordained to feed

Until it’s fully grown

 

The smallest measure will survive

Will bring a crop to bear

When bursting in The Vine alive

Through Heaven’s tender care

 

Faith developed till rich & strong

Will make a foe a friend

Will cause the dead to sing the song

Ordained to never end......


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Submitted: Friday, January 25, 2013

Last Updated: Friday, January 25, 2013

About the Poet
I never wrote a word of poetry in my life. Till the day Jesus took my hand and touched my soul.....I invite your response. However most poems are not about me! Very few are. But the feed-back good, bad or indifferent is always desired. Not meant to offend, but I write about many things in many a guise. Of life, death, lost, found, saved, backsliders, new comers, repenting souls, doubting hearts, heathens, Christians, fire, water, Satan's daughter, wallowing in sin, saved, made sound walking in Light, graceful righteous. Suffering, ecstatic, bored, excited, sad, delighted, Sick, well, lame, able, living, dying, etc. etc. etc. Writing about anything, everything and everyone as the spirit leads. All meant to reveal, waken, revive, encourage, shame, help. Gladden, pick up, exalt, portrait, liberate. Again over 99% of my work is not about me. Although at times I write as though I were or am. Speaking e.g. in the first person. This is quite common even in the bible itself. Prophets speak of themselves, then God speaks, again the prophet, then God......Quite often it's difficult to distinguish whom it is that at any given time is speaking or narrating.


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