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Tag Archives: Be Not Conformed To the World
Seek To Please God ~
When you seek to please,
God in all you do
nothing people say
will phase or daze you.
You will walk upright,
in a worthy manner
you will become known
as that faithful runner.
You won’t pay attention,
to what people may think
to their cruel ridicule
you won’t even blink.
You will stand up tall,
to evil you’ll not cower
for you know you’re filled
with God’s almighty power
When you seek to please,
God first in your life . . .
what others say or do
won’t cause you any strife!
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” For do I now persuade men, or God?
or do I seek to please men?
for if I yet pleased men,
I should not be the servant of Christ.”
King James Version
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Deborah Ann Belka
Walking Wisely ~
Oh, Father I thank you,
today for Your grace
and the wisdom I need
for the world I’ll face.
For I know of the evil,
I will witness today
and walking wisely
must be my mainstay.
Oh, Father I thank you,
for Your constant guidance
as I strive for perfection
in a world filled with defiance.
For, I know the perversion,
that is going out there
for to its ungodliness
Your Word keeps me aware.
Oh, Father I thank you,
for the wisdom You give
for without it I don’t know . . .
how in this world I’d live!
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“See then that ye walk circumspectly,
not as fools, but as wise,
Redeeming the time,
because the days are evil.
Wherefore be ye not unwise,
but understanding what
the will of the Lord is.”
King James Version
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A Clean, New Heart ~
A clean heart Lord,
create in us
one free of sin
evil and lust.
Free of worldliness,
free of selfish greed
free to see You are
everything we need.
A renewed Spirit Lord,
put into us
one that will always
in You put its trust.
Alert and resistant,
to the lies satan tells
one where Your own Spirit
abides and dwells.
A clean heart create,
a right spirit bestow
Lord in our lives
so Your will we may know!
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“Create in me a clean heart,
O God; and renew a right
spirit within me.”
King James Version
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Deborah Ann Belka
We Better Know ~
If we’re to follow the Way,
the Truth we better know
and then the life of Jesus
in our own will begin to show.
If we’re to be His light,
the darkness we better hate
so we can guide others
straight to the narrow gate.
If we’re to have trust,
the Word of God we better read
so more of His lost sheep
back to their Shepherd we can lead.
If we’re to have hope and joy,
the world we better not be in
so more of the unsaved
can be turned from their sin.
If we’re to follow the Truth,
we better know the Way
for we never know . . .
whose life we may sway!
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“And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing
of your mind, that ye may prove what
is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.”
King James Version
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Deborah Ann Belka
Free To Be Content ~
Free from the love of money,
from the lust of having things
free to accept daily . . .
the blessings Jesus brings.
Free from the love of pleasure,
from the desire to have more
free to open up my heart
and let Jesus in the door.
Free from the love of leisure,
from worldly delight
free to follow Jesus
the Truth, Way and Light.
Free from the love of luxury,
from all earthly pleasure
free to be storing in heaven
all of my heart’s treasure.
Free from the love of money,
free to be satisfied
content in knowing . . .
Jesus is always at my side!
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“Let your conversation be
without covetousness;
and be content with such
things as ye have:
for he hath said,
I will never leave thee,
nor forsake thee.”
King James Version
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Deborah Ann Belka
A New, Clean Heart ~
A new, clean heart,
in me God created
ever since my desires
for the world abated.
Now my hopes,
are set on things above
not on my possessions
that I once so loved.
A new heart of flesh,
God put into me
with the grace to believe
in what I can’t see.
Now my wants,
are heaven centered
once to Jesus my life
I fully surrendered.
A new, clean heart,
once cold and stony
now sees right through . . .
all of satan’s baloney!
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” A new heart also will I give you,
and a new spirit will I put within you:
and I will take away the stony heart
out of your flesh, and I will give
you an heart of flesh.”
King James Version
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Copyright 2018
Deborah Ann Belka
Offend Me Lord ~
Offend me Lord,
with Your Word
let me be convicted
by the truth heard.
Insult me Lord,
with Your commands
so with false teachers
I’ll not shake hands.
Offend me Lord,
let me feel the sting
that Your reproof
in my life will bring.
Shock me Lord,
let my ears hear
no sinner in heaven
will You let near.
Outrage me Lord,
go ahead and offend
so with the world . . .
I’ll not be a friend!
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“When Jesus knew in himself that his
disciples murmured at it,
he said unto them,
Doth this offend you?”
King James Version
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Deborah Ann Belka
Heaven Getting ~
Lord, let me not honor You,
with my lips only
but with a heart that is . . .
devoted to You solely.
Let me not profess,
my undying love to You
only to go into the world
and follow what others do.
Let me not disobey,
the commands You taught
by living a life of hypocrisy
and doing whatever I want.
Let me not think,
it’s all about heaven getting
but, about right here and now
and any sin that is besetting.
Lord, let me not fool myself,
thinking hidden sin You can’t see
lest I hear You say one day . . .
you never really knew Me!
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“Not every one that saith unto me,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that
doeth the will of my Father which
is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied
in thy name? and in thy name have
cast out devils? and in thy name
done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them,
I never knew you: depart from me,
ye that work iniquity.”
King James Version
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Copyright 2018
Deborah Ann Belka
A Victorious Life ~
A life victorious,
is a life that overcomes
for, to the old man it dies
and the new one it becomes.
A life triumphant,
is a life that’s no longer
engrossed with the world
and all it has to offer.
A life unbeaten,
is a life that’s defeated
the desires of the flesh
from its hearts are deleted.
A life confident.
is a life that’s conquered
picking up its own cross
no longer feels awkward.
A life victorious,
is a God-fearing one
for it’s a life that reflects
the life of His Son!
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“For whatsoever is born of God
overcometh the world:
and this is the victory
that overcometh the world,
even our faith.
King James Version
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Copyright 2018
Deborah Ann Belka
Today’s Idols ~
Today’s idols,
are made of many things
and oh the joy . . .
to us that they all bring.
We cradle them in our arms,
with them we sit, we walk, we stand
we’d never think to leave our home
without one of them in our hand.
Today’s idols.
are made of plastic and steel
and oh the joy . . .
from using them that we feel.
We connect to them each day,
when our morning’s begin
and when we retire at night
with them we’re still plugged in.
Today’s idols,
are just like the one’s of old
for to their idleness . . .
each one of us has been sold.
They are made up by man,
to keep us all connected
so that with God . . .
we’ll become disconnected!
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“The idols of the heathen
are silver and gold,
the work of men’s hands.”
King James Version
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Copyright 2018
Deborah Ann Belka
The Holy Spirit’s Power ~
Holy Spirit,
we all need You
to help us daily
to battle through.
Without Your strength,
to overcome
to each temptation
we would succumb.
Holy Spirit,
God’s gift to us
in Your power
we need to trust.
Without Your courage,
to make us willing
to the world ways
we’d still be living.
Holy Spirit,
who dwells within
only You can give us . . .
power over sin!
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“But ye shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost
is come upon you:”
“There hath no temptation taken you
but such as is common to man:
but God is faithful, who will
not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able;
but will with the temptation
also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear it.”
King James Version
Public Domain
Copyright 2018
Deborah Ann Belka
The World’s Wilderness ~
The world is a wilderness,
with strange and eerie places
and I could not travel in it . . .
without Jesus and His graces.
I know I would get lost,
in the darkness in front of me
for, without His saving light
the wickedness I’d not see.
The world is a wilderness,
with dark and scary pathways
and I would stumble on them
if Jesus wasn’t with me always.
For, I would not be able to see,
the clear and present danger
of following after those . . .
who were to Him a stranger.
The world is a wilderness,
I need to navigate through
tis why I keep my Shepherd
and His flock in my view!
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“But made his own people
to go forth like sheep,
and guided them in the
wilderness like a flock.”
Copyright 2018
Deborah Ann Belka
Risky Business ~
It’s risky business,
thinking God can be mocked
it’s deceiving thinking
His wrath can be stopped.
It’s foolishness to think,
you won’t reap what you sow
it’s pure folly thinking
you sins, God will never know.
It’s ignorant to believe,
God sin will never judge
it’s hypocrisy
from your ways not to budge.
It’s unwise to keep on living,
conformed to this world
it’s arrogant to think
with God you can even quarrel.
It’s risky business,
thinking God you can mock
and on your sinful living . . .
it is time to take stock!
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“Be not deceived;
God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man soweth
that shall he also reap.”
King James Version
Public Domain
Copyright 2018
Deborah Ann Belka
My Faith Keeps Me Hoping ~
My faith keeps me hoping,
it keeps me alert
so from the narrow way
I will not divert.
For, what I hope for,
isn’t found on this earth
nothing it provides
has everlasting worth.
My faith keeps me hopeful,
it keeps me vigilant
so on the narrow path
I may remain diligent.
For, my hope isn’t in,
the world’s offering
all that it can render
is eternal suffering.
My faith gives me hope,
in the things I can’t see
my hope is my faith . . .
that Jesus lives in me!
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“Now faith is the substance
of things hoped for,
the evidence of things
not seen.”
King James Version
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Copyright 2018
Deborah Ann Belka
Child Of The World ~
Oh, child of the world,
to its ways you bow
to its wickedness
you’ve taken a vow.
But, God still sees you,
as one of His unsaved
and your condition to Him
is sinful and grave.
Oh, child of the world,
to its pleasures you run
to its evilness
you don’t think to shun.
But, God still sees you,
as one of His own
to you His mercy
He wants to make known.
Oh, child of the world,
where are you off too . . .
will you follow the same path
of those before you?
Into this ungodly world,
you don’t have to proceed
if your heart to Jesus . . .
today you concede.
Oh, child of the world,
before you too get lost
consider the love and grace
of Jesus, on Calvary’s cross!
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“And have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works
of darkness,
but rather reprove them.”
“But God commendeth
his love toward us,
in that, while we were
yet sinners,
Christ died for us.”
King James Version
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Copyright 2018
Deborah Ann Belka
If Our Right Eye Offends ~
If our right eye offends,
then why do we keep looking
if it’s not to desire things of the world
then why are they still so alluring?
If our right eye offends,
then why do we look with the left one
if it’s not to regard the lusts of the world
then why is it not focusing on the Son?
If the right eye offends,
then why do we seek what’s morally wrong
if it’s not to be conformed to the world
then why after it do we still long?
If our right eye offends,
then why do we not look the other way
if it’s not to seek the world’s riches
then why to them do we still sway?
If our right eye offends,
then why does it roam all about
if it sees things so alluring and deceitful . . .
then why don’t we just pluck it out!
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“And the cares of this world,
and the deceitfulness of riches,
and the lusts of other things
entering in, choke the word,
and it becometh unfruitful.
“And if thy right eye offend thee,
pluck it out, and cast it from thee:
for it is profitable for thee that
one of thy members should perish,
and not that thy whole body should
be cast into hell.”
King James Version
Public Domain
Copyright 2018
Deborah Ann Belka
~ Your Bridge to Jesus ~
Today’s Verse ~ Bible Gateway- James 1:2-3“[Trials and Temptations] Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.”
- James 1:2-3
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The Reason for My Hope
I believe in God,
in all of His glorious creation
I believe He made the heavens
and the earth's foundation.I believe that man,
came from but dust
I believe it's God's image
He puts into all of us.I believe that Satan,
is the cause for our fallen state
I believe it's still his lies
he uses on us to trap and bait.I believe that man's heart,
has always been cold and callous
I believe it's full of deceit
filled with ungodly malice.I believe in Jesus,
God's only begotten Son
I believe He died and rose again
for the sins of everyone.I believe in redemption,
from our wicked, evil ways
I believe it's the blood of the Lamb
that washes our sins away.I believe in God's love,
I believe in His grace
I believe one day
God's judgement all will face.I believe in Heaven,
I also believe in hell . . .
I believe for eternity it's where
the unsaved will dwell.I believe in the hope,
Jesus imparts in me
I believe all can be saved
if these truth they'd just see!~~~~~~~~~~~~
Peter 3:15
King James Version"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:
and be ready always to give an answer to
every man that asketh you a reason of the hope
that is in you with meekness and fear:"Copyright 2014
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I will not be shaken,
nothing can rattle me
not even my own death
will take me, Lord from Thee.I will not tremble,
I have nothing to fear
even if I'm all alone
God is always near.I will not waiver,
on my Rock, I will stand
if I was to stumble
in His grace I will land.I will not be moved,
nothing can take away
the love I have for Jesus
from His ways I'll not stray.I will not be shaken,
nothing will take from me
the peace, faith and hope
I have dear Lord, in Thee!~~~~~~~
Psalm 62:1-2
"Truly my soul waiteth upon God:
from him cometh my salvation.
"He only is my rock and my salvation;
he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved."King James Version
by Public DomainCopyright 2014
Deborah Ann Belka- ~ His Wings Shadow ~
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~ Poems That Have Blessed ~
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~ Who I am in CHRIST ~
Who am I in Christ?
I am fearfully
and wonderfully made
I am His new creation
I am predestined
I am chosen
I am adopted
I am a son of God
I am God's child
I am a child of light
I am a child of day
I am God's bride
I am God's clay
I am God's future
I am God's hope
I am alive to God
I am destined
I am called~~~~~~~~~~~
I am loved
I am bought with a price
I am redeemed
I am set free from sin
I am joined to the Lord
I am alive by grace
I am justified
I am forgiven
I am sanctified
I am reconciled
I am transformed
I am renewed
I am made perfect
I am dead to sin~~~~~~~~~~~
I am a slave to righteousness
I am baptized with the Holy Spirit
I am a partner of Christ, Jesus
I am His temple
I am His building
I am His field
I am His branch
I am His follower
I am His fellow worker
I am His ambassador
I am the salt of the earth
I am the light of the world
I am sober-minded and watchful
I am armed
I am His warrior
I am His friend~~~~~~~~~~~
I am being trained in righteousness
I am created for good works
I am a doer of the word
I am kind
I am humble
I am meek
I am patient
I am loving
I am fruitful
I am steadfast
I am gentle
I am faithful
I am never alone
I am never hungry
I am never thirsty~~~~~~~~~~~
I am sealed for the day of redemption
I am called to eternal glory
I am the aroma of Christ to God
I am crucified with Christ
I am not ashamed
I am a sinner
I am forgiven
I am born again
and I am going to heaven!Who are you without Christ?
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~ Throughout the Old and New Testament
we can find Scriptures that let us know who we are in Jesus ~Copyright 2013
Deborah Ann Belka-
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