Strength For the Task!

I don’t want much,
there’s so little that I ask
but I do need God to give me
strength for the task.

Temptation is so real,
I sit in front of it every day
and I really have to learn
how to look the other way.

At times I linger around,
for what I think I need
and on the attraction . . .
I wait to feast and feed.

Oh, that God would grant me,
the power to overcome
for my hope is one day . . .
all temptation ~ I’ll outrun!

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Job 6:8
King James Version 

“Oh that I might have my request;
and that God would grant me
the thing that I long for!”

Copyright 2013
Deborah Ann Belka

How Precious Am I!

Numerous are Your thoughts for me,
I cannot count them all
but, I know they are tender
ever constant and practical.

The notion that You think of me,
more than all the grains of sand
is so hard for me to fathom
let alone to understand.

Your attention never fails,
as my counselor, You are wise
Your thoughts for me outnumber
all the stars in the skies.

I am always on Your mind,
You take such delight in me
Your thoughts  I cannot measure
for their deeper than the sea.

Your timing is always perfect,
I’m forever under Your care
You watch out for all my needs
and answer my every prayer.

Your thoughts for me are so many,
I hold them precious and dear
no wonder my thoughts towards You
grow more and more each year!

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Psalm 139. 17-18
King James Version

“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me,
O God! how great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
when I awake, I am still with thee.”

Copyright 2013
Deborah Ann Belka