MORE AND MORE (poetry)
December 16, 2020
I get to know you
More and more
As I walk through time
Jesus is my open door
So many things
I thought I understood
But under clouds of darkness
My thinking hard as wood
So much more
O, Lord open up
The eyes of my understanding
Fill again my empty cup
So close, so near
I feel you in my heart
Whisper away my fears
Your words hit every mark
Open, open
O, God of the universe
The kingdom of heaven
Is the place of my new birth
I feel Your love arising
Lighting up my mind
Renewing every part of me
Didn’t know I was so blind
Our light is darkness
Compared to your infinite shine
And oh great God of the universe
How can you be so kind?
Kind and good and generous
To give us all we’ve got
Share with us your character
Hide your secret plot
Hidden treasures everywhere
If we would only look
Hidden treasures come alive
Inside your very book
Off the page and on the stage
Kingdom of God on earth
Now’s the time to enter in
And find out what you’re worth
Oh the price, the price He paid
He laid it on the line
Holding nothing back for us
He passed the test of all time
No love greater will ever be
Than what Jesus did for us
For now and all eternity
He gave His life for us
More and more and more, my Lord
Pour it out on me
The presence of the Trinity
That is our destiny!
copyright 2016 Jean Chamblee
CALLED TO ENTER (poetry)
November 20, 2020
Think not that God doesn’t know you
That He doesn’t see your life
It is He that has fashioned and made you
You are centered in His eye
You are His creation
And He makes all things well
Though it all may seem a mystery
In time the truth shall tell
He made you for a purpose
Yes you fit in His divine scheme
As perfect as a puzzle piece
That completes His heart felt dream
His heart, it longs to know you
And for you to know Him too
He invites you to this journey
But He won’t force you into
He longs for deep communion
Just between you and He
He longs to open up your eyes
To things only He can see
Fulfillment is in intimacy
That can be found in Him
As you take the steps on earth
To seek Him once again
You see at once the enemy
That tries to cloud your soul
He wants to take you down with him
Into the eternal Sheol
Don’t let the lies get to you
That’s contrary to God’s Word
Let the Bible lead you
The truth that you have heard
So like a giant treasure
You must choose to seek
Determine you will find it
Until your life’s complete
You are His great diamond
Only one of it’s kind
He made no other like you
This truth He wants you to find
So determine now to see Him
Look into His word
Call His name in the darkness
And KNOW that you have been heard.
Copyright 2020. Jean Chamblee Thomas
HOW THE WORD OF GOD CAN INTERACT IN YOUR LIFE
August 30, 2020
It’s easy sometimes to read the Word of God and not seem to get anything from it. How is it that some people say that the Word “spoke” to them and came to life? How does that happen? It can happen in many ways, but I want to give you a small example.
I was reading one of my favorite scriptures, Psalm 91, affectionately known as the protection scripture. I came to the part that says, “surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler”. That just seemed to jump out at me. It seemed to stand out and beckon me to go deeper. What is a fowler? So I stopped what I was doing and looked it up. A fowler is one who catches birds in a snare, usually by pulling an attached cord.
Now I’m not a bird, and God often speaks metaphorically, but I still didn’t get it. Yet I felt it was standing out for a reason. So I stopped reading and prayed this scripture over myself. “Lord, deliver me from the snare of the fowler.” I said that prayer for several days having no idea why, just in faith believing that God had magnified this particular passage.
Events came to pass quickly. I had been diagnosed with crohn’s syndrome for about 7 years. I had tried many different medications to no avail. They finally tried a shot that lowers your immune system and I had a horrible allergic reaction (thankfully). They sent me to UNC Medical center for another opinion on what to do with me.
My first meeting with the new doctor, he looked at my blood test results that my doctor had sent him. He looked at me somewhat frustrated and said, “I don’t think you have crohn’s disease at all.” I was shocked – how many tests my doctor done and said it was crohn’s? Then he showed me some pretty simple numbers on the lab results explaining his conclusion. Then he asked if he could privately (apart from my doctor) do his own colonoscopy to confirm his belief. And sure enough I DID NOT HAVE IT!!!
For seven years I had been in pain on and off and taking some kind of different medicines that didn’t work and still not feeling well. This UNC doctor told me to immediately stop the medicines and gave me something mild to calm nerve endings. I had been telling all my doctors that I thought something was wrong with my ribs and that something else might be causing pain. ALL of them ignored me and left me in the crohn’s box, except this doctor. He almost turned red faced and said, “You are not a guinea pig” He could not speak strongly against the doctor that had referred me to him, but he was angry that this had gone on.
Then I began to see it clearly. I had been “snared by the fowler”. Snared by a lie I was ignorant of. Even though I did not understand the scripture fully until I actually saw the snare in my life – God answered the prayer and exposed what I could not see. Actually it was the Holy Spirit that led me to begin praying that line in the Psalm.
I was free from that medicine and diagnosis rather quickly and went on to look for the correct answers. I was free from a seven year snare.
That’s just a small example of how a scripture set me free. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” John 8:32
God speaks in many ways. I hope this will inspire you to pay attention to that “still small voice” or what seems to be a small leading. Follow the Master, read His word with an open heart – and follow it through in faith believing. Unless you have some large outstanding sin you are ignoring and not prayed about – God will not withhold communication from you! He is no respecter of persons. And if there is a sin you need help getting rid of – talk to Him and ask for help. He is good at removing obstacles. He loves you and is on your side. He longs to have a deep, sweet relationship with you. He promises “seek and you shall find” “ask and knock” Take a step in His direction and see what happens! He will not withhold His voice from you!
God bless you – you are loved!!
GAZE – poetry
August 29, 2020
I look but I cannot see
My eyes are clouded with dust
The storms are dark up ahead
That’s when I must gaze on our trust
Daily my heart is bombarded
With sad thoughts of days gone by
Where did all the good thoughts go
To find them I really have to try
But they are there with certainty
Glistening and shining true
The things that God has done for me
The light comes shining through
Where is my rhyme and reason
It’s so hard to obtain
Life sometimes seems like a circle
Like an echoing refrain
The days are long and endless
I can’t help but wish for it’s end
But then there is that hopeful treasure
Of life’s best coming once again
Believing without seeing
Trust without the feels
Life by faith must be experienced
Then you know what is real
On Christ the solid rock I can stand
He is always true
Unmovable and unshakeable
Is how I know its You
So rocky and crazy the path ahead
One place my head can rest
That you will never leave me, no
I can lay my head on Your chest
So now I say a long needed prayer
Come to me Lord let me know
Thoughts of our beautiful heaven again
And a joy in knowing I will go
copyright 2020 Jean Chamblee Thomas
The Candle Of My Life – poetry
August 26, 2020
In a dark and lonely room
With a fire in my heart
I close my eyes and think of You
With unquenchable hunger
I call out to You
You are the union I crave
One taste of Your love
One drink of Your soul
My quest will last forever
Though clouded by flesh
Surrounded by worldliness
Like a flower buried beneath the snow
The enemy rages to rip us apart
Moments are stolen, some slip away
But light always returns
And melts away the baracade that tries to keep us apart
And that thing deep inside
First contact never dies
It twists and turns and cries out to survive
With conquering force
Breaks down all the lies
And sets free the heart , the love and the cries
The candle inside -the Love of my life
So much more than a Savior
His essence abides
Jesus, Jesus
Love of my life
May Your heart know how I hunger for You tonight
copyright 2009 Jean Chamblee
Heaven Will Be Undivided
August 2, 2020
It is important to see things through the eyes of God, which can totally be found in the scripture if we read it for ourselves and ask His help to understand it. Everything happening today was foretold by God. Thousands of years in advance. Because “ He knows the end from the beginning.” He dwells outside of time. That’s why it is so foolish for man to seek “mediums” and horoscopes and such to find “wisdom” when God is Wisdom Himself. He made everything and knows what it’s purpose is, and when it will come to an end.
The beauty is – that He has offered us through accepting what Jesus Christ did on the cross and accepting Him as our Lord – we are offered the promise of living in His kingdom – forever – where there are no more tears, pain, sorrow…..heaven. And in the here and now – we will never be alone. He will never leave us or forsake us. We have good promises to stand on. Having faith is believing what He said – no matter what you see.
God will protect us in this crazy time or take us home to His house at our appointed time.
As for where we are now…..it’s all in the Book. Don’t be afraid to look.
God will arise to judge the earth – but if we are in Him, in Christ – it will be okay for us.
Here is an interesting scripture about God “shaking” the earth. For us – it is so our reliance will be on Him. But for the world and the enemy of humanity, the devil, Satan. He gets his way for only a moment in time – and people decide who their allegiance will be to. Then for Satan and all those that have chosen to follow his ways……it will end…..and not well. Choose life. God rules heaven and earth and yes, we will have to live by His ways…..because a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. And heaven is undivided.
Isaiah 2:17-22
The arrogance of man will be brought low
and human pride humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
and the idols will totally disappear.
People will flee to caves in the rocks
and to holes in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to shake the earth.
In that day people will throw away
to the moles and bats
You Are Loved – poetry
July 18, 2020
You are so loved
By God Himself
It’s almost hard to believe
But you are His
Created intent
Each nuance about you He sees
From deep in His heart
He has fashioned you
Though Satan tries to destroy
That plan will not work
The Cross has come first
The Lion of Judah receives
A cry from your heart
Will join you to Him
A cry of simple belief
No one can snatch you
Out of His hand
He’s stronger than all things conceived
Turn from the things
That keep you apart
Repentance is all that you need
Allow Him to wash you
Deep in His blood
Your past will not succeed
copyright 2020 Jean Chamblee
THOUGHTS….
June 17, 2020
So I was settling into my reading time in the morning and as I began with Psalm 68 – a song of David. It begins…. “May His enemies be scattered.”
It jumped off the page at me and I let my thoughts wonder. Why does God have enemies? What has He done to deserve that? God is a good God and anything He has ever done has been for our good and betterment. And He gave us His best and most costliest gift – His Son.
My mind went to the scripture in Matthew 13:27,28 “ So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’
Sometimes we forget – AN ENEMY HAS DONE THIS. Satan is the “father of all lies” and he has spent millennia sowing lies about our Father God and His Son and Kingdom. Our world is clouded by lies and this is what we must fight.
It is easy to look around at this upside down culture and throw our hands up and cry – “but what can I do about it?” Well my friend – that is a GREAT thing we can do!!! Share the TRUTH. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”(John 8:32) We can help to free people by speaking and living God’s Truth and undoing the lies Satan and his followers have sown. In any way you can!!
There is something we can do – speak, share, live the truth contained in God’s Word and it will do the rest. “It shall not return void”.
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
God bless your day!
Joshua Generation – Poem
June 16, 2020
There is a Joshua generation
Awaiting their time to shine
God has put them into deep preparation
For in darkness arises their time
As scripture says and says it well
Darkness will cover the earth
It is in that time – they’ll rise and shine
And many will come to New Birth
Many of the “Moses’ – leaders God made
Have already departed this place
For you they have left God’s truth and Ways
And pointed the way to His Face
The first will be last and the last will be first
It will not be easy for you
But if you are here, suffice it to say,
The crowns you will earn have great worth
So keep going my friend
The pain will be deep
But joy comes at its end
God will be there every step of the way
As your Lord, your Savior, your Friend
Finish the race until it’s end
Rewards await for you
Mostly the smile of God Himself
When He sees His reflection in you
Jean Chamblee Thomas copyright 2020
A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
June 16, 2020
It is important to see things through the eyes of God, which can totally be found in the scripture if we read it for ourselves and ask His help to understand it. Everything happening today was foretold by God. Thousands of years in advance. Because “ He knows the end from the beginning.” He dwells outside of time. That’s why it is so foolish for man to seek “mediums” and horoscopes and such to find “wisdom” when God is Wisdom Himself. He made everything and knows what it’s purpose is, and when it will come to an end.
The beauty is – that He has offered us through accepting what Jesus Christ did on the cross and accepting Him as our Lord – we are offered the promise of living in His kingdom – forever – where there are no more tears, pain, sorrow…..heaven. And in the here and now – we will never be alone. He will never leave us or forsake us. Good promises to stand on. Having faith is believing what He said – no matter what you see.
God will protect us in this crazy time or take us home to His house at our appointed time.
As for where we are now…..it’s all in the Book. Don’t be afraid to look.
God will arise to judge the earth – but if we are in Him, in Christ – it will all be okay for us.
Here is an interesting scripture about God “shaking” the earth. For us – it is so our reliance will be on Him. But for the world and the enemy of humanity, the devil, Satan. He gets his way for only a moment in time – and people decide who their allegiance will be to. Then for Satan and all those that have chosen to follow his ways……it will end…..and not well. Choose life. God rules heaven and earth and yes, we will have to live by His ways…..because a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. And heaven is undivided.
Isaiah 2:17-22
The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
and the idols will totally disappear.
People will flee to caves in the rocks
and to holes in the ground
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to shake the earth.
In that day people will throw away
to the moles and bats
their idols of silver and idols of gold,
which they made to worship.
They will flee to caverns in the rocks
and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
and the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to shake the earth.
Stop trusting in mere humans,
who have but a breath in their nostrils.
Why hold them in esteem?