Welcome to Day 1 of Part 7′s Chapter 2 of Arise and Shine. Today, Anna is bringing forward the first free will offering of the table of the showbread.
Behold the Son of God
Little foxes
My heart divided
Accusations cutting
My heart shut tight
Tipping over, bowed down low.
But on that Cross
My Abba Father wept for me
His heart broke
My door to open
My body in His Body lifting.
Ever near to me remaining
For on that Cross so cruel
He bled and died
To graft me in
Forever sealed I AM.
The Promise
In new wine pouring
His incense rose
His Body breaking
To set me free.
Manna
From heaven falling
My famished
Fainting body
Resurrecting.
Living water
My parched
Lips opening
My Abba's Word
To sing.
May Christ awaken us all
To His call
"My Beloved
Holy Church
Come home!"
In returning and resting
In our Promise
Jesus to see
In each and every face
To Behold
The Son of God arising.
Arise & Shine 
Amen, so very beautiful:
“Manna from heaven falling
My famished, fainting body resurrecting
Living water my parched
Lips opening
My Abba’s Word to sing”
Oh, what a Dear Saviour we have. Thank you Anna for sharing your words gifted here. 🙏
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So thankful He blessed you with these words too, Bettie. Love from afar
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He just keeps taking His Word ever deeper, doesn’t He? I edited the poem some just now, as He led me into that returning and resting myself. I had been reading Gayl’s post on prayer and it had me thinking about what prayer looks like for me. I realized that my deepest connection with God comes in the listening for His Voice – as I pray the words HE gives me.
But as I sat with that realization, He led me back here and had me take notice of what I had done to the end of the poem: let my motives become mixed. Mixed in there was bitterness and pain. I noticed that at the end of the poem there was a switch to a harsh, striving tone, rather than the sweet and gentle call of our Deliverer.
But praise God! He lifted that harshness to bring His gentle Word in HIS praying through me. It is truly HE who opens our hearts to receive His Word, moment by moment to pray in the Spirit and not our flesh.
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