Ministry In Poem “With a message for you” Vol 12 Rick L. King Copyright © Rick L. King March 2012 Published at Smashwords Smashwords License Statement This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. All Word translations are taken from the Greek and Hebrew in The Online Bible and are used by Permission. All Bible references are quoted from the Authorized King James Version About the Author I am a 62 year old male that met Jesus over 30 years ago. I was considering suicide when Jesus found me and gave me a reason to live. Because I didn't have the answer then, it has made it easier to know that the only answer is Jesus through the power of His Spirit. I base my walk totally on: "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit saith the Lord" (Zech 4:6). Not about me, but about Him. I have been privileged to receive from the Lord poetry with a message, and many articles as the Holy Spirit teaches me. I have had the honor of getting to preach occasionally, teach, and pray and see miracles from the Lord at times. I am considered a prayer warrior, as part of my calling has been that of an intercessor. I believe strongly that we have an enemy and that we have been given the keys to change our world for Jesus. The real key is making it about Him alone and building His kingdom as the Holy Spirit empowers and leads. I pray that something the Holy Spirit has given to me to write will be a blessing in some way to all that reads. May you be mightily blessed in Jesus as you follow only Him. Table of Contents 1. My Poetry 2. Contentment 3. Daddy Said 4. Greed 5. In a Strait Betwixt Two 6. Life 7. Raindrops 8. Silver and Gold 9. That Still Small Voice 10. The Bee Attack 11. The Divine Puzzle 12. The Gal in Wheeling 13. The Making of a Church 14. The Reason I Live 15. There Is Nobody Like You Lord 16. We Poets 17. Wounded Warriors 1. My Poetry My poetry is Just lesson’s that I have learned Things that Jesus has taught me That in my heart He has burned I just try to set to rhyme What Jesus has shared with me Hopefully some things which I have learned Will help others to be free We have many experiences In this thing called life We learn a little wisdom And find the vanity of our strife My words are not so eloquent But are quite simple to read Hopefully easily understood By all who do see Hopefully they will help someone To find a better way That they will find new peace To face another day. 2. Contentment We are told to come out from among them And be separate saith the Lord These times will bring to us a change And we will see God confirm His word Jesus sometimes brings a separation From the ones and things that we love Just to draw us close to Him So we will seek those things which are above These times may be difficult For self cannot have its way Self must learn to give up its control So the Holy Spirit may rule the day During this time we will be taught And many great lessons we will learn Worldly things will no longer satisfy As our spirit will for Jesus yearn In the end we will learn contentment In what ever state which we are in We will be able to relax And just totally trust in Him Our life will no longer be based On any outward thing The Holy Spirit will then rule our life And we will be pleased with whatever Jesus does bring Godliness with contentment Is truly a great gain For circumstances no more will rule So new heights in Jesus we will attain. 3. Daddy Said Often I have times That I must make a choice But because of what Daddy said I choose to hear His voice I get tempted like all But I’m told to the temptation flee But because of what Daddy said I’m learning that what He says, is best for me I’m told to forgive When a wrong to me is rendered If I hold anything against another Daddy said, my prayers would be hindered I’m told to pray for the one That me, they despitefully used Because Daddy said This I try to do I’m told to love my brother And give to Him grace, not put him in jail Daddy said that love does no ill And that love will never fail I’m told to walk in the spirit Single-minded in thought Daddy said, listen to my voice And the problems will come to naught I’m told to not give place to the devil But from him flee Daddy said, that His spirit is life The devils’ is out to kill, steal, and destroy, me You may wonder why some things I will not do Though opportunities come every day It is because I have learned that what Daddy said Is the truth, the light, and the way Daddy said that I am to give And it would be given back to me And if I walk in His power He would do exceedingly abundantly I have learned over the years That what Daddy said is always the best So I am out to please Him alone And let Him take care of all the rest Unlike my earthly daddy My Heavenly one knows all things He wants only good for me And has the power for the blessing to bring I choose to listen to the Holy Spirit And know revelation of what He would say Because my Daddy said I choose a spiritual pathway I do not even know how to pray Except the Holy Spirit take control Daddy said, that it is not about me Nor the natural things which I know I’ve learned that if I will listen to what Daddy said Through His Holy Spirit voice That I will be taught right things And able to make the right choice You see, Daddy empowers me To overcome all my sin And there is no greater joy Than to have fellowship with Him Because Daddy said Is the best reason that I know He is a loving Father And with Him I choose to go. 4. Greed What moves your heart? Is it your own greed? Or does compassion come When you see your brother in need? What is your joy? Is it what self can possess? Or is it how can you help To see God’s will, manifest? Greed is only about Heaping treasure for a selfish one It shows no love or mercy It shows no likeness of God’s Son Greed is always taking With a motive that is impure It matters not that another is hungry They are just told to endure If by greed one actually does give It is only to get back more Its motive is in self-love And the lie they are living for Real life is learning To give everything away Greed will only bring Living a dead mans way If you desire to find life Then these words you better heed You must learn to turn loose of all And do what Jesus said “Come and follow Me”. 5. In A Strait Betwixt Two Jesus, I may not always know But of this I am sure No matter how things go Through You I will endure Though I know your promises The time and season is yours alone Whether I stay on earth today Or whether today, you take me home When I am sick And in bed I lay My body may be in pain Yet I trust in what you did say You said that you would perfect That which concerneth me So whether here or in Heaven I leave that decision to thee If my work on earth is done Then to Heaven then I will go And be with Jesus For in my heart I know that this is so If there is more work here That you have for me to do Then I know that you will come And my health, renew Either way I can only win So there is no fear I seem to be in a strait betwixt the two Which way it will go, it’s unclear If I wake another day Then there must be a reason Father, may your will alone be done I praise and thank you for this season. 6. Life Many people think that strange Are the words that I do write But I have learned that there is a Heaven And a place of pure darkness of night Yet some people think that true life Is being led by their head Even though God made them a spirit They have believed a lie and are misled A relationship with God Is always to man a choice He can listen to his flesh Or learn to listen to God’s voice He can look only at temporal things That will only satisfy his carnal lust Or he can look at eternal things And do the things that he must Life is not really about You nor me It is bringing God’s kingdom to earth So people will become eternally free It is not about what we want It is about finding and walking in God’s will God has greater things in store That we may find if we learn to before Him be still It is being led by the Holy Spirit And sensitive to His voice To know what God would have to say It is merely for man a choice Some think that Christians A crutch they only use They say the mind should control All the things which we do As long as you believe That life is only about you You’ll never enter the kingdom of Heaven And the greater works do You will spend your life Void of God’s power And never really know A Holy Spirit shower God has a plan and purpose For every one whom He made Yet some will never enter in As God’s Spirit they continually evade They choose their own agenda And will not allow the Holy Spirit to lead They refuse to die to self And on their flesh nature feed When life is over And we receive our heavenly call Maybe the words which I wrote Won’t seem so strange after all. 7. Raindrops The natural rain falls To soften the ground Even the deepest of roots Can then be dug up and found The rain falls To cleanse all that is seen Of the dirt and grime That once again all may be shiny and clean The Holy Spirit rain Falls on every heart As we pray and intercede For our prayers are the raindrops The raindrops penetrate Even the hardest of hearts As the soil of the heart is softened The Lord can work His art The strongholds come down And the enemy must leave When we pray and do warfare And on God’s Word, believe Some hearts are harder So this takes more time We then just stand by faith With patience, and trust in the divine He is gentle and kind As He knows how much each can take So He gently and steadily rains Till a new heart He does make When you see the raindrops fall A smile should come on to your face As you will know that your prayers Have helped others, in Jesus, to find their place. 8. Silver and Gold Silver and gold have I none But such as I have I do give My job is to help set you, spiritually free So in Jesus, you may live God has anointed me to intercede So that your captivity no longer will be He has called me to set at liberty Those that have been bound, by the enemy It is at times a very tough job Though many never see All the hours of intercession and war Just to break through spiritually I am usually judged as the world does see By the amount of money or possessions I own These things in themselves mean little to me As my reward will be at Heaven’s throne Silver and gold cannot buy The peace that you can find When your spirit is free and walking in harmony With God’s power divine. 9. That Still Small Voice That still small voice Is given by God To be a protection and help When through this world, we have trod Many times There are dangers ahead That still small voice will warn us If we will listen, we will be led That still small voice will give wisdom When a decision we must make Though we have much knowledge Wisdom says which path to take That still small voice gives us knowledge When for another we need to pray As we yield and act on what we are told We can change a brother or sister’s day That still small voice gives us direction If we are willing to listen and learn Direction that leads us to life When we don’t seem to know, which way to turn That still small voice will guide us When provision we do need Though it may not be a direct way Each step we must heed That still small voice will bring comfort When all seems undone As He is the Holy Spirit comforter And He will comfort the hurting one That still small voice will tell us The words that we need to say To the hurting one That seems to have lost their way That still small voice will teach us The way we need to talk Words that will be anointed with God’s power Instead of a religious walk That still small voice brings victory And an end to all of our strife Yet, that still small voice must be yielded to If we are to enter into, true life. We must train our self to listen To that still small voice It is not automatic It comes with our choice. 10. The Bee Attack The other day While getting wood I had a surprise That to do without, I could I picked up a log And got stung by a bee Oh that sure did hurt Between two fingers, it got me I didn’t give it much thought Though it itched, burned, and swelled I figured that I would be fine Since being stung before, Oh well I awoke at night With and itch, swelling, and excruciating pain I couldn’t breath and had cold chills, And I wondered was I going to live again? All I could do was cry out Jesus, I am in trouble here Unless it is my time I sure need You here All the sudden The pain was all gone Within a few minutes I was singing again, sleeps song I didn’t think about it much But then later realized The hand that was stung Was the one with, I write rhyme It didn’t stop me Though it tried very strong But Jesus is still my Lord And my writing will go on Next thing I knew A family member Attacked me with words Trying my faith, to dismember For nearly two days I wrestled with doubt It seems that the enemy Is trying to shut my mouth From the words in my heart to say I know that when obedient to Gods will That many attacks to stop me will come But I am thoroughly convinced that he cannot succeed Since I am covered by the Blood, of God’s Son. 12. The Divine Puzzle The body of Christ is a divine puzzle With each member as a piece Until all the pieces come together The true picture, we will never see Each piece is important As the puzzle includes every race Each piece has a part to play Each color has its divine place Each piece brings new insight And the anointing of the Lord It brings what the Lord is saying together And a deeper understanding of His Word We often try to use what our piece alone has And just act independently When God has given to us all we need Oh, that we could just work, corporately We need each piece to see the full picture So together we may move towards the goal To see the demonic delivered and all the sick healed And the saving of every soul Sometimes we need to just stop and think When we see a puzzle on the table That we alone are just one piece We should only do what the Holy Spirit does enable Not one piece has all the answers Not one piece is able to save every soul Each piece has a different call So that Jesus, the world, may come to know As we as the church allow this divine puzzle to interlock And walk in true unity We will then come to realize the greater works That Jesus said that would be I am grateful to the Lord That He has chosen me to be one piece And for all the ones that He has used me to touch And all the hurting souls through me He did reach. I am just one piece of the divine puzzle I need you and you need me So God help us all to walk together And see all the captives find liberty. 13. The Gal In Wheeling If there was a gal in wheeling That in her knee she had no feeling If she said that she could not pray Since she had such trouble kneeling Jesus, one day must have passed by And asked her, you cannot pray why? She said it is my knee On the floor I can’t be Jesus in all His grace Must have looked her in the face And said to her it is true Without feeling, praying, you just cannot do The moral of this story is this Excuses will cause us to miss All which God has in store For excuses, there will always be more You can pray in any state Whether standing or kneeling It is the with the heart and spirit It is not based on how the flesh is feeling Prayer and praise Is an act of our will Unless we are determined We will always be still. 13. The Making of a Church Church is a place Where Jesus should be Lord All of man’s agenda Will never fulfill Gods Word As we learn to be humble And allow the Holy Spirit to lead And seek first Gods Kingdom It is then many will be freed All things must start with prayer To find out what God desires We then must wait till we are empowered So we can walk in His strength, not ours We will do much intercession And warfare against principalities First, we must take back what is ours in the spirit If real victory in the natural, we want to see The Holy Spirit will lead If we will do things Gods way For God has a plan that will work We must just follow each and every day We must learn to love Each and every person God brings We must learn to forgive And not allow an offense against anything We must learn to be humble And have a servant heart We must learn to give others the grace That the Holy Spirit will through us impart The cares of the world must not rule If we want the Holy Spirit to lead Our focus must be how that we may give To see a captive set free We must get the mind of Christ And act at His command If we are going to gain for all This promised promise land The Holy Spirit will lead If we just learn to follow He will take us deep No more will we be shallow Jesus himself came not to do His own will But said He came to do His Fathers will alone If Jesus had to do this, then shouldn’t we? Instead of us doing things on our own? 14. The Reason I Live The reason I live Is not to build my own kingdom It is to see God’s Kingdom come And to bring Glory to His Son The reason I live Is because of Jesus Christ alone As He forgave me And all my sin did He atone The reason I live Is to walk in His love And to hopefully always show His grace from above The reason I live Is for others to be set free For He alone is worthy And does give, true liberty. 15. There’s Nobody Like You Lord No man or machine Nor any worldly thing Can ever replace The love that you do bring No worldly acclaim Nor any fame Can ever be as dear to me Or in my heart be the same There’s nobody like you Lord I feel like I fail So often miserably I go my own way When your way I cannot see My heart just breaks When I don’t know you are near Oh that I would always be able Your words to hear There is nobody like you Lord Nothing that I Could ever do Will ever replace What I’ve found in you Your grace and your love Always gives to me strength You forever hold my hand As undeserving as I am There is nobody like you Lord Oh that some day When I see your face I’ll know it is only Because of your grace All that I am to be I humbly place In your hands alone That I may finish my race There is nobody like you Lord There is nobody like you Lord Through time and space That ever showed to me such love And always gave to me such grace There is nobody like you Lord Nor will there ever be So I look forward to life In Heaven with you eternally There is nobody like you, Lord. 16. We Poets We poets are a peculiar bunch As we desire God’s words to heed So that we can just pen the words For hurting hearts to read Sometimes we tell a story As did Jesus when He did teach It is just another way to make the message clear To the hurting souls we desire to reach Sometimes we may write words that may seem harsh Yet these are words that must be said For Jesus desires His people to be set free That by His Spirit they may be led Sometimes we get words Which are warnings of things ahead So that people may change their views And allow Jesus once again to be the head Other times we get words That will bring healing to broken hearts As people yield to the Holy Spirit Their life will find a new start Sometimes we get words Just to encourage the one that has been so down The words somehow bring a new smile In place of the sad-faced frown We also may get words To teach others how to fight And make their stand for Jesus To bring them out from darkness to the light We poets, yes, may be different Yet we seek to edify And bring the prisoners from the prison house That they may find new life We don’t write these words for money We write in obedience and love For we desire God’s children to find New freedom from up above Our satisfaction is gained When we pleased Jesus our Lord And when we are allowed to hear That a hurting heart was changed forevermore Our motive must not be for recognition A pat on the back or fame For many people just don’t read poems They seem to think it’s lame It is just like the Lord to use Something much of the world pushes away Yet there must be coming a time When God’s words will rule the day Often the Holy Spirit speaks to us Through the words we attempt to write Of areas that also are in our lives Which are not complete or right When you read the words we write I pray that you will give to us grace And just allow the Holy Spirit room to speak Maybe some words will help you run your race . Yes, we poets may be a different breed Yet God’s love is in our heart We are just a small limb of the whole body And by God’s grace are just attempting, to do our part. 17. Wounded Warriors The battle is tough sometimes At times we see our comrades fall Some give their life Just answer God’s call Others are wounded And are deeply in pain Do we just let them lay there? Or do we help them to stand again? Do we lecture and say All the things that they did wrong If you had only done this You would still be standing strong Or do we go to them in love A harsh word we never say And cover their wounds And help them once again to find their way Do we go to Jesus And intercede on their behalf And seek the answers So that they once again may laugh We need all of our warriors To fight this battle we fight Sure maybe some walk wrong Yet they only can walk in what they know is right To come at them with your sword And more wounds to them inflict Puts you in the enemy camp We are called to heal; not others make sick I wonder that if We saw Jesus sitting in the room Would our words change? Would we be so fast to inflict a wound? We are called to restore in love All the hurting souls By laying down our lives for them Till the spirits and sickness goes Next time you see a brother That God has used in your life Admit that he has a problem somewhere Will you condemn and judge or help him make it right? There are many wounded warriors That man has cast aside Instead of restoring them in love We push them away to die. Books presently available on Smashwords by this author: • The Warrior Poet • Releasing God’s Power in You • Pupper Tales Colorful Truths Series • Can We Have the Mind of Christ? • The Chicken • The Fruit of the Spirit • Our Free Gift • Victory Over the Flesh • Do Miracles Still Happen? • Minister to Me • Peace in the Storm Ministry In Poem series A total of 16 volumes Volumes 1-12 currently published Volumes 13-16 in process Please go to Smashwords and check for new releases or how to sample and view or purchase. Thanks so much. May you be as blessed reading these as I was by the Lord in writing them. Rick https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/believer