HAVE FAITH

A collection of poetry on religious prayers and thoughts written to inspire and motivate people from all different backgrounds in life. Covering hope, joy, encouragement, pain and suffering.

In all things remember that God is in control.

Come In

Come into my home dear heavenly father.

Come into my life and fill my heart.

With love joy and happiness.

Come into my home dear heavenly father.

Lay your hands upon my lover and me.

Open up or hearts and minds.

So that we can understand each other better.

Come into my home dear heavenly father.

Wash away the dirt from these walls.

That has now caused stains.

That resembles problems along the way.

Within my relationship that have played out in my home.

Come into my home dear heavenly father.

Make me and my lover better parents.

Grant us the knowledge and the wisdom to raise or son.

In the right way so that he may grow up to be a good man.

Come into my home dear heavenly father.

Grant me and my lover the finances to give or son.

All that he desires and could ever want and more so he never has a need unfilled.

Come into my home dear heavenly father.

Bless my family with a clean bill of health and keep us this way.

Come into my home dear heavenly father.

So that you can clean up all that is wrong.

As you come into or lives and grant me the peace and security inside the walls of my home.

Come into my home dear heavenly father.

Mold me into the man that you wish for me to be.

Allow me to become the man that my deceased father would have lead me to be.

If only he was still alive. 

 My Unborn Child

Sits inside on his or her mother’s wound.

Taking on human form being shaped into a baby boy or girl as it grows from a mere fetus over the period of nine months.

My unborn child brings me much joy and happiness and yet at the same time brings me a feeling of worry.

Because I know what lies ahead for me as a soon to be father. 

One who knows that play time is over now.

For I now have a life to support.

Taking on a lifelong challenge trying to give my daughter or son more than I had as a child.

After being raised by a widowed mother.

I pray for long life so that I will be blessed by the Lord to be around to see my child grow up and succeed at getting educated and make me a proud parent.

My unborn child sits inside of his or her mother stomach not knowing what awaits here on earth outside of the stomach which he or she eats sleeps and grows in. 

As I await and prepare for my child to be born health and strong receiving many blessings from our Lord the creator of all things that have come to be in this world.

 The Lord Sees Me

The Lord sees me for who I am.

He only sees me for what I am now and for what I am to be.

He sees the best in me when everyone around me can only see another black man who has amounted to nothing in their eyes.

They see me as run down man down on his luck in life.

Yet the Lord sees me for who I am.

He sees me for who he has determined for me be in life.

He sees a man destined for greatness for he has already showed favor over my life.

He sees a man striving to be more than just your average guy.

He sees a man who will not quit on his dreams, yet they all seem so far away.

He sees a man who knows no limits and no bounds we willing to fight for what he wants.

He sees a man who does not fear any man or women, yet this man he sees is not a fool.

For yet this man that he sees in me does know the fear God and to respect God.

The Lord sees me for who I am.

Not for who I have been in my past.

He sees me for all the compassion that I carry within my heart for people.

He sees me for the Godly spirit that he has placed within me.

Deeply hidden within this flesh and bones that make up this shell of a body that it dwells in.

The Lord sees me for who I am.

And God is the only whom I need to please.

In this life in order to have life abundantly. 

You Loved Me

You loved me because of the grace of the Holy Father that sent you down from heaven to pay the price for all of mankind.

You knew what the world who do to you, before hand for it was already spoken on to you by the father.

Yet you did not complain and willing followed through out of Love for us all.

You suffered and bleed for me while getting beat across your back with chains and spikes causing your flesh to be ripped open as you bleed out all in the name of Love for us all.

You gave up your life on the cross as the ultimate sacrifice out of love for me.

So that I may have life more abundantly and be set free from all of my sins.

You loved me more than a mother or father could ever dream of loving one of their own.

Your love for me cannot be measure in words or anything that man could every think of.

Your love for me if forever lasting and shall never die or fade away.

For you loved me even in the middle of my wrong.

When I was out doing things that were not pleasing in your site.

You loved me enough to give me the time in this life on Earth to get my life right.

As you continued to use those around me to call me back home.

For I was lost but now I have been found.

I could have been dead, leaving this body lying in a grave.

Because you loved me first and I will do my best to learn to love you and carry on trying to live a Godly Life.

  A Sinners Prayer (Part 1)

These are the prayers that we all pray about because we all have sinned in our lives.

There comes a time when we find ourselves kneeling down along with bowing our heads in a prayer stance.

As a way to come before the Lord to try and rid us of our burdens.

As we try to erase some of the sins along with the feeling of hate and pain that we have encountered in life.

My Lord, I ask you to cleanse me and rid me of my sins. Along with these wicked thoughts that somehow emerge deep within my mind.

Rid me my Lord of these feelings of lust for a naked woman’s flesh.

That makes me think about going out and having sex with random women.

Not realizing that I would only putting myself at risk for disease like HIV & AIDS that have become a common killer of men and woman these days.

Rid me my Lord of my untruthful ways and foul language that I tend to speak with at times.

Rid me my Lord of the desires to go out drinking alcohol, and getting high weed like in use to.

My Lord show me the right way to live in peace.

As a reformed sinner who now wishes to do right.

But yet it seems so hard for me to see the guiding light.

Do to the fact that I am covered in darkness followed by wickedness all around me.

So, I pray to you my Lord asking you to find me and shine your holy light upon me.

Wipe my slate clean and remove all the things that now rest upon my shoulders like a ton of bricks.

That have now begun to way me down from living my life as a sinner man who has been completely covered in darkness.

 Why are we?

Why are we so ungrateful Lord?

Never feeling satisfied by the blessing that you lay upon us all day by day.

Lord, we pray for cars, money, houses, good health, jobs and everything in between.

Yet when you deliver us, we are still not pleased.

We my pray and rejoice in the moment but suddenly it will pass.

Why are we so ungrateful Lord?

Do we truly not understand the favor that you have place on our lives?

We act like children on our best behavior when in need of something from you.

We pray and plead day and night until you come through and once you do how often and quickly, we forget.

Why are we so ungrateful Lord?

Just like a child wanting candy.

They will stop at nothing until the candy is in hand.

Then the show come back around the very next time that they may want something else.

Why are we so ungrateful Lord?

When we all should be thankful for you many blessing that you provide day by day.

People imagine if God decided to remove his hands from your life.

What would you do then?

If he no longer played your game of only knowing him when you had a need.

The devils plan comes in three steps in order to gain power over mankind.

He comes first to steal your joy and happiness in life.

He will attack you at home causing husbands and wives to fight for no apparent reason at all.

Causing attitude and behaviors between the couple to be ice cold as if it was winter season.

The devil plans and aims to break up happy homes by stealing all the

love within your life and replacing it with feelings on hate and madness.

He will steal all that you hold dear to your heart.

From money, a job, a car or even a man's dreams.

Turning them into nightmares manifesting all of your worst fears.

The devil comes to steal your way of life.

In order to have power over you.

He will steal your natural thoughts by manipulating them.

In order to lead you down a path of destruction.

Once the devil has gotten his hooks in you.

He will begin to work on destroying you mentally, physical, emotional, and financially.

For all the many things that he has stolen from you.

Now begins to take a toll.

Hitting you like a ton of bricks weighing you down as you face you battles alone.

Now faced with a lack of income from losing a job, or a broken heart from all the fighting with your lover.

You are now faced with depression and not even a glimpse of hope or even a dream to cling to because after all your worst nightmares have come true.

For the devil has now stolen all that you hold dear to your heart and now you are filled with hate and madness at the world.

For this is all a part of his master plan in the end to lead you into destruction.

Killing you is the Devil’s ultimate goal.

For he has laid the foundation to make you feel as if there is nothing

at all to live for.

So now he will speak to manifesting thoughts of suicide in your mind.

Causing you to ask yourself would I be better to died?

Think that in death you would not have to deal with all the hardships within your life.

As you began to think about how you would desire to bring your own

life to an end.

Will it be by a bullet to the head, or splitting your own wrist or throat with a metal blade drowning yourself in your own blood in a tube full

up with water?

Or will your mind take a less violet approach by his words speaking to you and leading you to undergo a drug overdose on crack or popping pills?

Causing your heart to race at one hundred miles per hour beating itself into a pulp until it explodes within your chest causing instant death.

The devil will kill you. 

If you let him for, he knows no right.

He comes to you only to do wrong.

So that in the end he can claim your soul for eternity this is the price.

You will pay for fall into his traps. 

The sinner man within me demands to get out and break free. 

From the angelic guards that keep watch at his jail cell gates.

He chants to me in order to speak to my mind.

Telling me to go out and enjoy life and all that it has to offer.

Do not be afraid to sin for I the sinner man am already within you.

Let yourself run wild and be free.

Smoke, drink and enjoy the many pleasures of a woman’s body for after all they were made to please you.

Do not fight against me, embrace what you already are.

You were born a sinner, and this is what you will always be and someday die.

He chants to me causing me to give in to his will.

He chants to me causing  me to give in to his will.er awaiting to overpower the angelic guards that rest at his gates in order to keep watch.

The sinner man within me wants to consume me with all his wickedness and hate.

So that my angelic guards can no longer put up a fight for they have been made weak by the lust of my sins.

For if I let the sinner man in me grow too powerful.

My angelic guards dare not stand a chance to capture him and imprison him once again.

The Spiritual Man within me is rejoices loud and proud.

For I now have begun hearing his voice.

The moment when something inside of me leads me to the sounds of gospel music.

For it was the sounds of the gospel music and the hopes and prays of a spiritual grandmother that led me back into the house of God.

The spiritual man inside of me grows stronger and stronger.

As I practice good deeds and trying to live my life right.

Followed by giving God some of my time realizing that without him my lifetime would have expired a long time ago.

The spiritual man is stronger than ever before and now this makes his job a little bit easier to keep the sinner man that dwells with in me lock down in his cell.

The spiritual man in me has begun to show up on the outside of my body now reflecting to the world a brand new me for I am not who I used to be in yesterdays past.

With each coming day the spiritual man guides me along the way in hope of helping me to reach the kingdom of God.

For it is he the spiritual man inside of me who continues to lead me into a righteous way of life.

The spiritual man inside of me is filled with wisdom, peace, love and hope.

Followed by the Grace of God that has been place within us all yet we must learn to embrace or spiritual man or woman in order to lead a new life that is unknown to so many.