Category: Christian Poetry

LOVE HAS WON THE VICTORY

As darkness filled the noon day sky

The earth shuddered and did quake

A trembling as God’s heart did break?

As wrath and hate screamed crucify

 

Christ humbly left His throne above

Forgiveness for mankind to buy

He knew the tears His heart must cry

 And yet, He came because of love

 

It would appear that all was loss

Their pardon was His final plea

His Gift of Grace for all to see

He bowed and died upon that cross

 

The Father’s love, it was so great

Awake, my son, arise awake

He called Him forth a new dawn break

Pure Love had conquered death and hate

 

Love has won the victory

Joy rang forth a wondrous sound

Hope and life that did surround

Giving faith for all with eyes to see

So Open wide your eyes to see

That Love Has won the victory

 

My heart so filled with darkest fear

Shattered by evil, hate and pain

Falling torrential like the rain

Anguish filling every tear

 

Through broken cracks God’s love shone in

He wrapped me tightly in His arms

And there so free from all life’s harms

Forgiveness, joy, and love did win

 

Love has won the victory

Joy rang forth a wondrous sound

Hope and life that did surround

Giving faith to all with eyes to see

So, Open wide your eyes to see

That Love Has won the victory

 

Don’t fall into some dark abyss

With pain and guilt that pull you down

Until you feel that you may drown

Look up to God, In Him is bliss

 

Love has won the victory

Joy rings forth a wondrous sound

Hope and life they do surround

Giving faith to all with eyes to see

So Open wide your eyes to see

That Love Has won the victory

Disclosures

©Effie Darlene Barba, 2018
Disclosure of Material Connection: I have not received any compensation for writing this post. I have no material connection to the brands, products, or services that I have mentioned except for my own books. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.

Please see yesterday:  That One Day When Darkness Covered the Light

 

Whatever the Cost

 

It was a cross that set me free

And purchased there my victory

While Jesus there my case did plead

So willingly to die and bleed

Never shirking such wretched pain

He bore my sin, it’s crimson stain

To cloak me with His righteousness

Though I am merely nothingness

 

I have no Glory I can bring

No accolades of which to sing

Until I find my place in Him

From darkness, then His light can beam

Upon a World so filled with need

That then my heart desires to plead

On bended knees, their case in prayer

I willingly my cross do bear

 

Whatever sorrow I must face

To point the lost to God’s dear Grace

Dear Lord, my life I give to You

To do with as You wish to do

My journey guided by Your hand

Your strength alone on which I stand

So, take my life and let it be

Whatever You desire for me

 

And If for me you choose a cross

That I might count all gain but loss

Compared to You, my Lord and King

My Joy will still Your praises sing

DO YOU KNOW CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD?

If you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord: I urge you to go to my page titled How to Be Saved by clicking on this link.  There is nothing more important than this; because,  He is the way, the truth and the life. Therefore, I urge you to seek Him today.

ARE YOU IN OF NEED PRAYER?

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Disclosures

©Effie Darlene Barba, 2018
Disclosure of Material Connection: I have not received any compensation for writing this post. I have no material connection to the brands, products, or services that I have mentioned except for my own books. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.

Photo by Motoki Tonn on Unsplash

Throughout the current series, Finding Faith on the Road to Emmaus, we have been looking at how remarkably Jesus Christ fulfilled the Old Testament Prophecies of Himself.  This week we will move forward into the events leading up to the cross, including how precisely Palm Sunday’s events were foretold. God truly is Sovereign over every detail of History!  But for today, I want us to reflect upon His Trustworthiness.  Yesterday, I wrote this poem “Trust In You” as I reflected upon the faith demonstrated by the Syrophoenician Woman and of the man who cried out, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24).

How often have I stood with an anxious heart or found myself either doubting His Power to overcome, wondering if my faith were all in vain?

But far more often, rather than questioning if God can perform a miracle for me, my question becomes will He.  After all with my failures, why should He?  But you see, He knew me before I was ever conceived or born.  He knew every time I would fall down, every dark crevice of my heart.  Despite His knowing me inside out, He willingly went to the cross to take my place.  He reached out to me in gracious love to save me, with all my blemishes.  Therefore, I can trust Him with every detail of my life.

Trust in You

by Effie Darlene Barba

 

It is so easy to trust in You

When all is well, and skies are blue

Yet, when the storms of life they rage

It’s hard my faith to then engage

 

The Wonders of the world around

So, filled with life and vibrant sound

The horses on the hills beyond

Or cattle lowing near the pond

 

How could I ever doubt your strength?

While you display the breadth and length

Of all Your Glory shining bright

Touching our world with rays of light

 

And if I do not doubt Your might,

How can my heart know such fright?

Unless it be, I doubt Your Grace

Toward me a sinner so debase

 

And yet, you died on Calvary

That I from sin might be set free

From all its shame and penalty

That from its chains, have victory

 

Not free because of what I’ve done

But all because of Your dear Son

Who paid my price, and clothed me then

His Righteous Robes that hide my sin

 

From all the wrath I justly deserve

My Spirit, Lord, you hold, preserve

To ever in Your presence Be

Filled with Your Love and Joyous Glee

 

With all you’ve done and shown to me

How can my faith so quickly flee,

Diminishing Salvation’s worth

When faced with sorrows here on earth

 

Instead, dear Lord, whate’er it takes

Though valleys dark, or great heart breaks

Teach me to keep my eyes on You

Give me a faith that’s always true

 

Teach me Lord, to trust in you

Not only when the skies are blue

But when the storms of life do rage

Help me to then my faith engage

 

DO YOU KNOW CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD?

If you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord: I urge you to go to my page titled How to Be Saved by clicking on this link.  There is nothing more important than this; because,  He is the way, the truth and the life. Therefore, I urge you to seek Him today.

ARE YOU IN OF NEED PRAYER?

If you have a prayer request email me by clicking here

Furthermore, if you would like to tell me your story or thoughts  comment here

Twitterable quotes

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[bctt tweet=”And if I do not doubt Your might How can my heart know such fright? Unless it be I doubt Your Grace Toward me a sinner so debase” username=”effiedarlene”]

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[bctt tweet=”Not free because of what I’ve done But all because of Your dear Son Who paid my price, and clothed me then His Righteous Robes that hide my sin” username=”effiedarlene”]

 

Disclosures

©Effie Darlene Barba, 2018
Disclosure of Material Connection: I have not received any compensation for writing this post. I have no material connection to the brands, products, or services that I have mentioned except for my own books. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.

 

 

Thy Greatest Glory Be Thy Love Poured Out On Calvary

By Effie Darlene Barba

How is it Lord thy Glory Be

Enlarged, displayed at Calvary

Humbly there you bowed your head

Rejected, Beaten -your flesh bled

A crown of thorns cut deep your brow

Baring my sins your shoulders bow

The depth of pain you must have known

The wrath deserved by me Alone

Poured out on you that fate-filled day

As Father, Spirit turned away

Twas there your depth of love shone bright

Into life’s darkest day this light

Your Glorious love that shone so true

The moment when You gave up You

Obedient to Your Father’s Call

You left your throne and gave Your all.

 

How often Lord we want to see

Your power, strength in victory

Avoiding all the pain and strife

That enters in to crush our life

We seem to never understand

Your Glory only shines as planned

When to self I die on a cross

And never cry for what is loss

For then Your glory fills my heart

And from Your Joy I’ll ne’er depart

And, so dear Lord, my one request

Help me to see Your Will is best

Before the Glory there must be

The suffering: as it was with Thee

Luke 24

 

²⁵ Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

²⁶ Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

Philippians 3

⁷ But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

⁸ Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

⁹ And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

¹⁰ That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

¹¹ If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

¹² Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Concluding Thoughts

[bctt tweet=”We want to see and be a part of God’s Glory; but, fail to realize true Glory is only found through suffering” username=”effiedarlene”]

[tweetthis]Only when I die to me, can God’s Glory shine through me to reach the world[/tweetthis]

[bctt tweet=”To love with a perfect love, I must die to self; yet, therein I find true joy in giving and a love beyond comprehension in Jesus Christ.” username=”effiedarlene”]

[tweetthis]Out of the nothingness that had been me, I find my being in Jesus Christ[/tweetthis]

[bctt tweet=”I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20″ username=”effiedarlene”]

DO YOU KNOW CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD?

If you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord: I urge you to go to my page titled How to Be Saved by clicking on this link.  There is nothing more important than this; because,  He is the way, the truth and the life. Therefore, I urge you to seek Him today.

ARE YOU IN OF NEED PRAYER?

If you have a prayer request email me by clicking here

Furthermore, if you would like to tell me your story or thoughts  comment here

Disclosures

©Effie Darlene Barba, 2018
Disclosure of Material Connection: I have not received any compensation for writing this post. I have no material connection to the brands, products, or services that I have mentioned except for my own books. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.

Footnotes and Credits

Portrait used by permission:  Original Piece Created by RoninRon’s Pencil Art:

Click the link to see more of this amazing artist’s work.

LOVE HAS WON THE VICTORY

                               by Effie Darlene Barba

 

As darkness filled the noon day sky

The earth shuddered and did quake

A trembling as God’s heart did break?

As wrath and hate screamed crucify

 

Christ humbly left His throne above

Forgiveness for mankind to buy

He knew the tears His heart must cry

 And yet, He came because of love

 

It would appear that all was loss

Their pardon was His final plea

His Gift of Grace for all to see

He bowed and died upon that cross

 

The Father’s love, it was so great

Awake, my son, arise awake

He called Him forth a new dawn break

Pure Love had conquered death and hate

 

Love had won the victory

Joy rang forth a wondrous sound

Hope and life that did surround

Giving faith for all with eyes to see

 

So Open wide your eyes to see

That Love Has won the victory

 

My heart so filled with darkest fear

Shattered by evil, hate and pain

Falling torrential like the rain

Anguish filling every tear

 

Through broken cracks God’s love shone in

He wrapped me tightly in His arms

And there so free from all life’s harms

Forgiveness, joy, and love did win

 

Love had won the victory

Joy rang forth a wondrous sound

Hope and life that did surround

Giving faith to all with eyes to see

So, Open wide your eyes to see

That Love Has won the victory

Don’t fall into some dark abyss

With pain and guilt that pull you down

Until you feel that you may drown

Look up to God, In Him is bliss

Love has won the victory

Joy rings forth a wondrous sound

Hope and life they do surround

Giving faith to all with eyes to see

So Open wide your eyes to see

That Love Has won the victory

©Effie Darlene Barba, 2018
Disclosure of Material Connection: I have not received any compensation for writing this post. I have no material connection to the brands, products, or services that I have mentioned except for my own books. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.

Credits

Photo by Ian Stauffer on Unsplash