Washed with the Spirit (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Saturated, washed clean, filling by the anointing, the cleansing of the Spirit filling our cup, our lives the physical presence ...
Saturated, washed clean, filling by the anointing, the cleansing of the Spirit filling our cup, our lives the physical presence ...
The Pentecost flames, in the water of baptism, the Spirit stirring the waters, charged, elemental transforming waters of the Spirit, ...
We are waiting as they were ready, waiting, trusting, living in community for the fulfillment of this promise that we ...
Like them, we too, waiting on the Lord, on God for that divine appointment, that moment when power, authority, emboldened ...
They stood before the counsel, the Sanhedrin two fishermen, or so it would seem no one special, men with calluses, ...
All we ask, all we pray, to you we live our plea through Christ, Our Lord In his holy name, ...
Stirring the seas, making waves crashing on the shoals, the Temple gates up into the Sanhedrin, the council These uneducated ...
Spirit-filled believers proclaiming, healing in his name ordinary people, fishermen standing before the Council lay people emboldened by the spirit ...
Ordinary people, extraordinary things things they could not do done done in the name of Jesus, the martyred king the ...
Into the Temple, the authorities unable their tongues would not be silenced tongues of fire, or the spirit burning within ...
From the Upper Room, into the Temple The fires spreading building, new wood, new disciples added power and authority, in ...
What could they say, what could they do to silence these men, untrained, ordinary men they who walked with Christ ...
By the Spirit emboldened, changed, metamorphosed out of their cocoon, their infancy out of their room, into the light Sharing ...
Like the Lady in the crowd we reach out to Christ from out of the crowd emboldened by our faith ...
They, like their master, emboldened by the spirit They healed on their way to temple healing at the gate the ...
Emboldened, by Christ's sacrifice his blood atoning for our fault, our sin redeemed as we are We must become, ripples ...
We are all, each one of us, equipped by God for the call he has for us we do not ...
We are untethered, set free soaring on eagle's wings empowered, emboldened to do the servant's work our fears no longer ...
We were all watching her lead joining her hands, her voice rising as we gained confidence the love of God, ...
Christian saints, in the congregation, in the faces on the family walls in the stories of them in the pages ...
in the flames emboldened timid, tentative, doubting messengers empowered, given voice in the tongues of fire, the non-consuming, the living ...
They were given voice in many tongues able to speak, to share to proclaim the good news the father glorified ...
By the flames, the living tongues of fire the disciples were commissioned, emboldened, imbued with the Spirit able to rise ...
Provocative imagery In the words of the scripture And the words of the pastor Describing the Christ For the readers ...
It was that one pivotal moment when it all began when the Word moved from heavenly sent to earthly spread ...
A reversal of fortunes of the breach sealed of the power given, The cacophony solved different language gone replaced by ...
It happened a few times this morning trying to tell the whole story, or more of it anyway eager ears, ...
Found by the lakeshore Impossible, unable, to catch fish Showed a better way by the carpenter, the Lord Heard his ...
Four books of sheep, timid, unsure followers fearful and obtuse about the incredible journey their role, these fishers of men ...
Paul was in Rome, under house arrest but he received guests, without hindrance, so ends the book of Acts; but ...
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