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Yield to God, Resist the Devil

Yield to God, Resist the Devil

Yield to God, Resist the Devil

“Yield to God, resist the devil,”
This our watchword day and night;
Build no walls before the Spirit,
Leave no cracks for flesh to sight.

Yield to God – our hands and voices,
Minds and hearts and feet and love –
Ready for His gracious service,
Well prepared for work above.

Nothing kept from His dominion,
Nothing that we will not do –
Perfect yieldedness each moment,
“Lord, I love and follow You.”

But resist with steadfast effort
(Ever watchful as he lurks)
Satan and his evil partners
With their lusts and plans and works.

Do not give an inch of headway,
Take the shield of faith and stand;
Like a lion he is prowling
To devour on every hand.

Those who yield to God completely
And resist the devil’s lies
Find that God will fight him for us –
In God’s strength we will arise.

“Yield to God, resist the devil;”
Don’t grow weary – soon we’ll see
Satan crushed and Christ victorious
As we share His victory.

Christina Joy Hommes

“Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil,
and he will flee from you.”
James 4:7

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,
that He may exalt you in due time:
Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Whom resist stedfast in the faith,
knowing that the same afflictions
are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.”
1 Peter 5:6-9

Revive

Revive

Revive

O Lord, we need revival –
We need it hour by hour,
We need Your Holy Spirit,
We need Your mighty power.

Until we have received it
We’ll seek Your face in prayer
To ask You without fainting
For mercy great and rare.

We put away transgression
To do what’s good and right,
We come apart to please You
While living in Your sight.

Come down in mighty fullness,
Come down to us we pray –
Revive us we beseech You
In mighty love today.

Christina Joy Hommes

Come Find Peace

Come Find Peace

Come Find Peace

God is calling to His children:
Bring your burdens all to me,
Bring your cares and all your worry –
I am waiting patiently.

Come and find my peace and comfort,
Find the faith I freely give –
I will guide and guard and keep you,
Give you strength to fully live.

Though the storms of life are raging
All around you, I am near;
Not a sparrow’s ever fallen
But I care and know and hear.

Look to life’s eternal glory
Just beyond the brink of life –
Live and venture all for Jesus,
Do not fear the swelling strife.

Rest in me and find fulfillment,
Trust and find eternal rest,
Know my love and claim each promise –
I will do the thing that’s best.

Christina Joy Hommes

Reaching to What’s Ahead

Reaching to What’s Ahead

Reaching to What’s Ahead

Lord, as this new year opens
I bring my heart’s desire
For Spirit-sent revival,
For living, holy fire.

You want me to be bearing
Good fruit that will remain
Through years of endless glory
For praise and joy and gain.

Teach me this year to study
And meditate each day
Upon Your Word and live it,
To do the things You say.

Teach me to pray with power,
Consistently with zeal,
That You might get the glory
And I Your grace might feel.

Teach me to truly worship
The God that I confess
With praise and adoration,
With grateful humbleness.

Teach me to know You better,
Your nature, works, and Word,
That I might love and serve You
As by Your love I’m stirred.

Teach me to think of others
As Jesus would, and do
The things that show His kindness
To point them, Lord, to You.

Teach me to be a witness
Whose life and words and face
Line up and tell the story
Of Jesus’ saving grace.

Teach me to be a giver
Like You this year, I pray,
That as a faithful steward
Your kindness I’ll display.

Teach me to be forgiving
As You’ve forgiven me
So I can freely serve You
And Your great mercy see.

Teach me to count each trouble
As joy because I know
It draws me closer to You
As through life’s storm we go.

Teach me to live expecting
Your glad return each day –
Come quickly, dear Lord Jesus,
To catch Your bride away!

That when this year is over
We might look back and see
Good fruit that brings You glory
For all eternity.

Christina Joy Hommes

A few references: John 15:8, 16; Philippians 1:11;
James 5:16-18; Luke 18:1; 2 Corinthians 1:11;
1 John 4:19;
James 1:2-4; Philippians 3:10;
Mark 13:35; 1 John 2:28; Revelation 22:20

“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,
I press toward the mark
for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14

“Ye have not chosen me,
but I have chosen you,
and ordained you,
that ye should go and bring forth fruit,
and that your fruit should remain:
that whatsoever ye shall ask
of the Father in My Name,
He may give it you.” John 15:16

Forgetting What’s Behind

Forgetting What’s Behind

Forgetting What’s Behind

Lord, as this year is winding down
To close as You designed,
I stop to think of what it held
And leave its weights behind.

The sins I’ve sinned this year, O Lord,
Wash white in Jesus’ blood –
My failures cover in His robes
Of righteousness and good.

The wrongs that have been done to me
By grace I now forgive;
I bring no grudges past this year,
The hurt I won’t relive.

My best successes I’ll forget,
Achievements, earth’s awards –
And in the Spirit’s strength press on
To heaven’s bright rewards.

But all the things I’ve learned of You,
My Savior, God, my Friend,
I carry through the changing years
To life that has no end.

And thoughts of all the things You’ve done
On my behalf in love,
I carry, too – I won’t forget
Now or through years above.

O Lord, I leave this year behind
To press beyond by grace
To know You, serve You, love You more,
To win the prize, the race.

Christina Joy Hommes

“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,
I press toward the mark
for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14

Come to the Stable

Come to the Stable

Come to the Stable

Come hurry to the stable
Where lies a baby boy,
The Hope of all the ages
Who brings such peace and joy.

Come look within the manger
To see the Child so small;
The Lord of all the ages
Lies swaddled in a stall.

Come bow before His presence
Who made eternity,
The Light of all the ages
Who came to save and free.

Christina Joy Hommes

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