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Destiny's Calling
I. Behold the Lamb of God
II. Destiny's Calling
III. The Right
IV. A Time to Reign
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I. Behold the Lamb of God
"The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." John 1:29
I AM the God that healeth thee JESUS is my Name I have been with you through the fiery trials of life As you have passed through all their flames
Thus do not be fearful or faithless For all things are possible unto those who believe Expect of me the impossible And the impossible ye shall receive
For I AM He who hath known thee Even before the world that I made And it is I who created and formed thee For my own purpose, glory and praise
If you would only but see I AM more real than thou ever hast known And it is through my true shepherds I seek To bring all of my straying lambs home
I AM the Light of the world My name is Holy for I AM that I AM And there is no devil, darkness or disease That can resist my will or command
Thus fear thou not for I AM with thee Look not to the raging storms within or without Because I AM working all things to your good Yes even your worries your fears and your doubts
So far beyond your every desire So far above your most impossible dream I AM your Fountain of Living Waters And you have been chosen by Grace to know me. © 1998 Raymond Bolton Pena
"Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." Isaiah 53:1-12
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II. Destiny’s Calling
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Colossians 3:16
Christian Poetry is to words What color is to light What music is to sound What a rainbow is to a storm tossed sky
Christian Poetry is a spiritual element of life Which we as born again eternal beings convey Through soulical expressions of heartfelt verse Thus giving us the untofore ability To frame our deepest and innermost feelings
Christian Poetry is a sacred gift of utterance Which imparts the comfort and solace of the Holy Spirit Into the depths of perplexity and despair experienced by others The self same comfort which we have felt in our own depths of experience
Thus deep calling unto deep One heart sharing God's grace with another
Christian Poetry is a seed from above Sown beneath the turned fallow ground of a broken heart Thus plowed by the adversities of this life To find its place of reception and birth therein
Therefore Christian Poetry is conceived in eternity As a response to the groan of mere mortality Which reaches out into infinity Trying to grasp its own meaning and purpose In a world of such uncertainty and doubt Through words of rhyme and prose
Christian Poetry is thus developed and matures In the quiet solitude and contemplations of the evolving spirit Through the silent travailing deliberations of the heart
Christian Poetry merges our innermost and deepest feelings With all the external and experiential elements of this life To form the paths of spiritual understanding and reality Upon which we must journey in our ever growing faith
Just as deep reflects upon deep Like an evening blue sky kissing the face of a dark blue ocean Thus forming the shared pathway Upon which Royal Vessels make their most perilous yet prosperous voyages
Christian Poetry thus becomes a liberated sigh of immortality Which reaches back down into time With thundering showers of spiritual hope and reason Bringing new life to the dying mortality of its own birth Thus making the hearts of the faint strong and the simple wise
Just as tempestuous winds above the surface waters Strengthens the bolstering face of the sea And thus guards the calm beneath the deep Thereby protecting its inner stability in the midst of a threatening storm
Christian Poetry in its truest sincerity and reality Is a divine prayer to God Both given and then received by the Creator Only to be given back again to the creature As an answer to the divinely inspired question of why?
Thus Christian Poetry inspires sanity in the midst of a mad Nadir Bringing its captor into the captivity of the faith hope and love which it has inspired Being a tangible mystery of life comprehended by both heart and mind As being the exercise of an imparted faith
Christian Poetry is an unutterable prayer Only to be spoken once it has been birthed through its writer’s pen Thus a Christian Poetic creation is the very evidence of its own divine reception and answer Being thus returned into bosom of its releasing captor
Poetic Destiny is Calling through the deep groanings of this creation Held subject to the bondage of its own corruption and mortality in hope against hope Until the day of immortality and incorruptibility dawns gloriously Through the manifestation of the children of life, light and liberty. © 2006 Raymond Bolton Pena
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:18-39
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III. The Right
"And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever." Revelation 5:1-14
If a Lion lost his roar Against the other lions of the field He would lose his power to protect The den in which he knells
So in strength and power he grawls Against the danger that threatens his own And in submission all the beast must bow Before the king of beast whose right is the throne
Thus despise us if they all must For we speak by the right of His Scepters Power The Oracles of Wisdom and Knowledge Before the Rod of His Word the demons must cower
Disconfounding Principalities and powers Rulers of darkness, dominions and mights Spiritual Wickednesses up in high places Recognize those who hold forth their right
Born from above by the Spirit Eternity flows through our veins Washed in the blood of the King of all kings The Lion of Judah forever shall reign. © 2004 Raymond Bolton Pena
"And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." Revelation 12:7-11
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IV. A Time to Reign
"And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins: Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:1-9
We have been born in the spirit of adversity For such a time as this A time to reign from heavenly places The kingdom of darkness to dispossess
We have been deduced down to nothing Stripped of all that which once held Now to arise to the battle triumphant Our spiritual swords are drawn to weld
We have been birthed from an unyielding womb Of the bitterest religious scorn And our metamorphosis shall be complete When our crucifixion is fully borne
We are crucified to this world Its cares and concerns have proved so vain Ascending the fear of the past, present and future Beyond all of their pleasures and pains
We have been forged in the fiery trials Of humiliation, agony and shame We have been extracted by great affliction And never again shall we be the same
For we have been pressed beyond all measure By vicious tempest and storm Thus through vicious psychological oppression This our Holy Nation has been thus born
We are the peculiar and precious We are the holy and free And we must take the Kingdom of Heaven by force By God’s own power and glory decreed
For the fields are white already to harvest The eleventh hour has already come The latter rain clouds are now gathering upon us And the victory has already been won
Thus let us be more than conquerors through Christ Overcoming the accuser we shall prevail For God’s True Last Day Remnant shall live and not die Even amidst the worst death, darkness and hell. © 2000 Raymond Bolton Pena
"And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." Revelation 12:10-11
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