tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-177007562024-02-19T08:53:44.984-08:00Listening to the Heart of God"Praising God in psalms and poetic worship"Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comBlogger3867125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-55099584361317268002016-07-24T02:26:00.002-07:002016-07-24T02:26:38.609-07:00Knowing God's Will<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When our perception may be "short",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unwittingly wrong views to court,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God will show us that which matters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wisdom man's thoughts often scatters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As we seek to know God's will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He adds to us perception's skill.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our understanding He will hone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Until our views will match His own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Philippians 1:6</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-4219037302475094262016-07-23T05:58:00.002-07:002016-07-23T05:58:29.430-07:00The Wisdom Of God<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God's leading often is unique</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And by "the wise" receives critique.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For He might choose one deemed as weak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And through this one profoundly speak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Or He might use a simple thing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To let man know He should not cling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To what which he may think is wise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Because it has a pleasant guise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to conrfound the things which are mighty."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>I Corinthians 1:27</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-54342375277412954392016-07-22T08:00:00.003-07:002016-07-22T08:00:34.119-07:00Choose Joy<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Light-heartedness can be a choice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It makes cheer shine through in your voice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Laughter brings a healing balm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Which lifts life's load and brings in calm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Trust in God, for He gives peace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Joy in Him brings sweet release</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From all those things which bow us down.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The joy He gives repairs a frown!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Philippians 4:4</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2015 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-71486387023054424832016-07-21T08:06:00.002-07:002016-07-21T08:06:19.725-07:00Abundant Grace<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No matter what the trials we face</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Or just how hard our daily race,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God is near</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our prayers to hear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We're covered by His wondrous grace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Him we do not walk alone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He gives watchcare for His own.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His grace is real,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our lives to heal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In our behalf His grace is sown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalm 84:11</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2015 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-71423178599910254362016-07-20T06:48:00.002-07:002016-07-20T06:48:10.813-07:00A Blessed Shelter<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If clear direction should be lost,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In times of wandering there is cost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But God will save us time and toil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And shield us from all enemy "foil".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In our God we have safe cover,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A sheltered place where angels hover.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Carefully He guides His own...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A blessed shelter... we're not alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"For He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalm 91:11</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-43176688209286645452016-07-19T07:35:00.001-07:002016-07-19T07:35:08.537-07:00Looking Upward<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lord, help me to look up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And not to gaze on what's around me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Help me clearly see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All that which You would have me see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When I'm focused UP-ward</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Earthly matters cannot keep me bound.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For I will start to know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New points of view which are profound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I will lift us mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the
Lord, which made heaven and earth."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalm 121:1</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-27497095176972602762016-07-18T05:20:00.002-07:002016-07-18T05:20:37.983-07:00God's Chessboard<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God has a chessboard! And He has a “game plan” which He wishes to accomplish. When we become yielded to Him He will begin to prepare us for “service”. And as we are molded and shaped in Him, He will set us in place on His “chessboard”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He is preparing many for service, and it is important to stand in position wherever He places us, for a game cannot be won if some of the pieces are missing. When He begins to “move” He will need each person for a specific part of His plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How exciting it is to be used of Him! However, of this we cannot boast, for this is a “quiet work”. The “world” will not see the chessboard, but by the Spirit it will become very clear to those who love Him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2009 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Note: God spoke this to me in 2007, but I am sharing it here today because it is so relevant to this time).</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-14606373624592878432016-07-17T07:32:00.003-07:002016-07-17T07:32:29.210-07:00Strstch And Grow<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If God asks us to make change,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New "callings" in us to arrange,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do we hesitate in fear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When all details are not yet clear?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He spurs us on to stretch and grow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And depth of wisdom's gold to know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As we trust Him, we will find</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our footsteps will be well-defined.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Proverbs 3:5-6</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-71692190564262320222016-07-16T10:17:00.002-07:002016-07-16T10:17:50.823-07:00A Prayer For Today<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let hearts be turned back to the Lord</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And thoughts be full of Scripture's sword.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let truth and righteousness prevail</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And strengthen all that may be frail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let fear and brokenness be healed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And answered prayers be revealed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the Lord we will be strong</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To overcome that which is wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Uprightness and right standing with God (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) elevate a nation."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Proverbs 14:34</i> Amplified Bible</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-56585534794969617272016-07-15T07:48:00.002-07:002016-07-15T07:48:51.598-07:00Believe For The Best<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When praying to God, expect only the best!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If He just gives a little at first, don't be sad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For great things often will start out quite small</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And, in His timing, more He will add.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He maybe will plant the tiniest seed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Which you must water and nurture and tend.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In prayer the seed will prosper and grow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And your expectations and promise transcend.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Mark 11:24</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2015 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-38600414369364627372016-07-14T08:57:00.001-07:002016-07-14T08:57:04.146-07:00Finding Your Perfect Niche<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In life what are you searching for?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can find your perfect niche.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read the Word and seek God's "wealth".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Him you will be very rich!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His riches will not fade away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But cause your life to have increase.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Worldly standards rise and fall...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Search for heaven's expertise!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalm 119:105</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-35691592595370145702016-07-13T05:57:00.001-07:002016-07-13T05:57:03.633-07:00God's Compassion<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God's compassion goes so deep,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our wearied lives and souls to keep.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He desires to raise us up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And with much joy to fill our cup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His love and mercy overflow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Much gratitude to Him we owe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All glory be unto His name,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His lovingkindness we proclaim!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Lamentations 3:22-23</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-70881534290428781222016-07-12T08:59:00.002-07:002016-07-12T08:59:33.462-07:00Timeless Truth<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Word of God will never change.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Its truths man cannot rearrange.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Its wisdom stands, men's lives to guide,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And cannot just be cast aside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Word provides our safest course.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It truly is our best resource.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Its countless riches are as gold,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our lives to mold and to enfold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalm 119:89</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalm 119:105</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2015 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-25591923854351371052016-07-11T08:05:00.001-07:002016-07-11T08:05:07.836-07:00A Brand New Day<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When your well-being has been jarred</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And all you do seems to be hard,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Know that God will carry you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And in this trial will bring you through.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lean on God and be at peace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He'll be your strength and bring release.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By your faith you will have won.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A new day then will have begun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalm 30:2</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-55528765604109508562016-07-10T08:46:00.002-07:002016-07-10T08:46:19.494-07:00All Glory To God<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let worship be a heartfelt gift</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unto our God, His name to lift.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Drawing near to God in praise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With joy will set our lives ablaze.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let our lives be as a story</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Which to God will bring much glory,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lifting praises all day long</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In thankfulness and joyous song!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Revelation 4:11</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">©2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-37189455043084594252016-07-09T07:53:00.002-07:002016-07-09T07:53:34.655-07:00New Seasons<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Lord gives us "seasons", in which we will rest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But when the Lord speaks, then we must move on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He may give a season for learning or labors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Or being made ready, a new mantle to don.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As we're in His timing and trust in His reasons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We may discover and have a new "birth",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Making us ready for all of our seasons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And filling our lives with heavenly worth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Proverbs 3:5-6</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2015 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-64953549953440606282016-07-08T08:53:00.002-07:002016-07-08T08:53:13.817-07:00Wisdom's Gift<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God may seed a thought in us,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Something meant to be a "plus".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As that seed begins to grow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Its fruit much wisdom will bestow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His wisdom will shine more than gold,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our lives to beautify and mold.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wisdom's gift is filled with treasure,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More than we could ever measure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Proverbs 3:13</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-24749319667020588682016-07-07T08:20:00.002-07:002016-07-07T08:20:21.335-07:00Delightful Purpose<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Godly purpose spurs us on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And sets us forth in a new dawn,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Filled with fervor and delight,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Having promise which is bright.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">God gives us identity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And joy in who we're meant to be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Than He guides us faithfully</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And for great works gives us the key.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ephesians 2:10</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-83151544681430893112016-07-06T09:35:00.002-07:002016-07-06T09:35:37.972-07:00Humility<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Humility will clearly see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And from haughtiness will flee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It never tries to override</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But in peace it will abide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is gentle and content</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Free from “self” and reverent,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By love and patience is defined,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is sincere and always kind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Humble yourselves (demote, lower yourselves in your own estimation) under the mighty hand
of God, that in due time He may exalt you."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>I Peter 5:6</i> Amplified Bible</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-29657421729015666542016-07-05T07:12:00.002-07:002016-07-05T07:12:21.168-07:00Always There<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thank You, Lord, for Your deep peace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where we can rest and find release.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your presence is as healing balm,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Offering a blessed calm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As we rest in Your embrace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our anxious thoughts You will erase.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thank You for Your loving care.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When there is need You're always there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>John 14:27</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-56167289794640961792016-07-04T07:29:00.003-07:002016-07-04T07:29:49.874-07:00A Great Nation<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Could we turn back the pages of why we are great,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Could sit with our founders and time re-create,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We would hear prayer and reverence for God,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A standard of holiness without “facade”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We would meet men of wisdom and might</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who had long-range vision and desire to do right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With heartfelt conviction they founded our nation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To them we all owe a standing ovation!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They honored God in action and word.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By Scripture and holiness these men were stirred.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our founders had a prayerful concern.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They set fine example. From them we should learn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalm 33:12</i> KJV </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2008 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-16154270542685891332016-07-03T07:10:00.002-07:002016-07-03T07:10:25.590-07:00Measured Words<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do you give thought before you speak?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sometimes words can bring offense.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Careful answers are worth gold,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Often saving some "expense".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unwise words can bring high cost...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Confusion, doubt or even pain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But measured words will show respect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And good will likely ascertain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord,
my strength, and my redeemer."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalms 19:14</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2015 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-65584533705980786282016-07-02T08:20:00.002-07:002016-07-02T08:20:54.025-07:00Deep Roots<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As with deep roots in the Word</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And by its wisdom we are stirred,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We will prosper and stand tall...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Able to fulfill God's call.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As He speaks we can respond</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With understanding far beyond</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The limits of our own small thought...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For the Word deep wisdom brought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalm 119:105</i> Amplified Bible</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-67413135263565891292016-07-01T08:09:00.002-07:002016-07-01T08:09:47.458-07:00Footprints Which Matter<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make your footprints strong and clear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To truth and righteousness adhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wavering steps are not secure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Around unsureness make detour.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When footprints which you leave behind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are very clear and well-defined,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You'll make a statement of great worth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Which in others might find birth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Psalm 15:1</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2016 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17700756.post-64985167382388370882016-06-30T07:21:00.001-07:002016-06-30T07:21:04.490-07:00Love Heals<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Choose to love instead of hate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Avoid temptation to berate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If another angers you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do not react or fuss or "stew".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Don't let others rob your peace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let love and kindness have increase.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It breaks down barriers and walls,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Avoiding arguments and squalls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Ephesians 4:32</i> KJV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">© 2015 Arlene Schwartzkopf</span>Arlene Schwartzkopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02063523156132503024noreply@blogger.com