This week, each weekday will reflect on a verse of a poem I wrote a few years

ago.
This poem is a meditation, inspired by the Apostle Paul’s letter to the
Philippians 4: 6: “Don’t worry about anything, instead pray about everything
and tell God your needs”….
Verse 5 for Saturday 2nd May 2020:

What can I do, in this troubled world…

to make a real difference…bring peace not a sword?
Come walk with me, pray to me, tell me the needs.
Let’s rejoice in the blessings and share in the pleas
for my world to be different, how I planned it to be,
but don’t worry, it’s coming, my Kingdom will free
all my people to live, where a real, perfect love
merges life here on earth, with my kingdom above;
and my promises made at the start of all time,
will burst forth, fulfilled, from your heart and mine…..

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He who was seated on the throne said, “Write this down, for these words are
trustworthy and true” (Revelation 21: 5b).

Imagine the streets of today looking like this – all filled with God’s light of
hope, bringing the healing, peace and love of God and driving out all darkness
and pain…..imagine us all standing clapping and heralding the transformation?

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When we walk down the roads and see the pictures of rainbows in windows,
whatever we are experiencing in this world today, we are reminded of the
rainbow of hope, which God put in the sky in the time of Noah. We read in
Genesis 9: 13 ‘God said “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the
sign of the covenant between me and the earth….Whenever the rainbow
appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant
between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth”.’

As we take steps forward every day in this time of uncertainty, let’s remember
God’s love…He is love. Let’s ask ourselves, if He were holding one end of the
rainbow, what would He expect us to be doing at the other end, through our
relationship with Him?
Would God be yearning in his love for us to be praying and doing whatever we
can, together, in this serious time of climate change, with millions of people
displaced and in desperate need?

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Desolation, isolation, lack of connection……hope can restore us to comfort,
companionship and compassion. The writer to the Hebrews reminds us in
chapter 11:1 “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we
do not see”. Prayer and appropriate action guided by God, form His conduit
for transformation. We are part of it as His people, His family, in relationship
with each other and with Him.
May the peace of God which passes all understanding, keep our hearts and
minds in the knowledge and love of God and of His Son our Saviour, Jesus
Christ, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah!
Amen!