A Lamp Unto My Faith

Author of Triumph of Hope over Temporary Situations

Charlene Sena-Alvarez

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A Lamp my faith Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.

Isaiah 58:10

Prologue In Times of Uncertainty Choose Faith Over Fear.

Fear is Faith walking holding the hand of peace.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Isaiah 41:10

"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.

‘ 1 Corinthians 16:13 NIV

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emind me of your great wonders of the past.

Refresh my trust in your from longings ago that have come to past. Remind my fear that faith in you is greater than anything that passes before me, for you have covered each step back and forward. Remind my heart that my children were planned before my own arrival, therefore their lives have only passed through me as my own journey set before me. Help me to trust you in their growing apart from me, as being a mother is forever my gift unto eternity.

Quiet Hope

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-quiet hope keeps on working and doing what is before you. Going blindly along to the planned purpose before you. Anxiety and uncertainty is a temporary stay in the mind that refreshes the truth to trust by faith attached to promises written long ago. A mind of order is a house of peace.

PURPOSE

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old and map your footprints where I have been because you have sent me. Leave a blueprint of my mind as evidence that you have lived always in my thoughts and actions. Help me to build the plans you set before me for my children to know and love you deeply.

Let me demonstrate obedience to faithfully love you beyond all things. Allow the world to see your purpose enfolding in my future as a legacy and honor to the King of Kings. When my days have come to rest, allow a trail of morsels as a path to your word, that all my loved ones nd my new home in eternity with you.

Teach Me

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each me your perfect peace. Show me the way and walk with me to the doorway to trust. Teach me to withstand my emotions that take my thoughts to the waves of a violent storm. Teach me the solid ground of trust when my heart fails me. Teach me to apply a bridle upon my own lips when I invite despair with condemnation of myself and others. Speak your love to my spirit by your presence.

Apply your promises that cover my every doubt that churns into depression inward with anger that shoots out the ames of destruction. Teach me stillness by trust in your perfect love that is available in all seasons, for it is there, in your presence that I feel safe in knowing you have been in all places before me.

Teach me Lord, your perfect peace, and allow my heart to be cleansed before you.

Harvest

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f love, who is Christ, lives within you, then words of love spring to life outside of you. But if the words coming out of you are a cast down, then it’s a season of drought with a thirst to quench by His word. Before you tear down the child, brother, or sister, apply the words of love as comfort, encouragement, and restoration, as a garden of mercy blooming. Restore my love and truth to a season of harvest with each word lled with substance for myself and others that all enjoy your harvest with an everlasting table of feast.

Love

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he greatest gift we can give our children is love. Love by the hands that create with a voice to demonstrate kindness in color to all people of every color. In nature we are privy to see, be, and feel the power of perfect peace and love of who is God everlasting. It is through our human senses we know the presence and clarity that is found in your word. Allow us to see the gift of the future in our children that we ourself become as such, with faith, and trust, free in giving and becoming the art for all times and all seasons.

Poetry

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oetry is but words from trial to triumph, from let downs to love, from grief to birth. Poetry in words to aide once more, to walk through the valley of darkness to spring, to be delivered once more from pain to healing. To canvas by rhyme and rhythm in gathering of expressions for our brothers and sisters, our neighbors, and strangers as we share without end. A collection of words, canvases and colors are the backpacks of powerful emotions endured or rejoiced in the survival of seeing the light’s arrival on the darkness of our storm. As we endured ,we discover life is to deliver our audience with words and works , with outstretched hearts in our hands to one as being sustained thorough it all; and thus we greet each other in words and color of life dripping with the survival of hope. The morsels of poetry and color for those coming thereafter where we’ve left our traces.

Action

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ove moves with the feet of action to lift others as we leave our depression, worry, and fear in the Saviors capable hands of healing. When we move out in faith, it is then we are no longer surrounded by the prison walls that keep us bound by the shackles of our failures, memories, and with yesterday’s broken heart. As we move out in action we can see that fear becomes faith in action, it is doing, it is lifting with the hands, feet ,and the mouth that speaks the words of Christ love. It is encouragement in each of us as we are all called the church, as a vessel of love in words and actions that restores life unto others as we accept our own healing ,and leave life’s anxieties in the hands of Christ, the healer. When we move out into action to save our brothers and sisters for eternity, it is then, we being called the sons and daughters of Christ become the living sacri ce. We demonstrate to the world that eternity is wearing salvation as our garments that all others may come just as they are.

Journey

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o storm in life shall overcome those who trust in the Lord. He already knows your right of passage. He predestined your vehicle to arrive at the appointed time. No fear of what you do not know, but perfect peace and great joy knowing who walks you home through the valley of an earthly death with eternity bound.

Suffering

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in wraps itself around us in af ictions, consequences, and trials, but repentance is the balm that heals the wounds. Obedience, faith, and time reveals the plan to purpose out the pain.

Remind Me

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emind me of your mercies when I resurrect my past with pain.

Remind me of your presence in my present day with forgiveness as I awake.

Remind me that they have no power over decisions that you have already approved or disapproved in my destiny. But allow me to remember in every doubt that your promises were written before I arrived.

Remind me I will be broken again if I don’t consult you rst in every decision, for my life belongs to your plan.

Remind me this day, and the days ahead of me, of the hope and contentment that my future may have its share of anxieties, but you are the pill for peace.

Remind me to rest my thoughts on the promises of peace.

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Remind me if I mine your word, for it is gold for such times of trials

Future

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et me not ask nor wonder too much of the future, but allow me to dream, plan, and feel you in my present, for all is under the shadow of your wings that I am able to be at peace in your purpose for my future.

Which Way

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elp me Lord to trust you in the nal decision in all things. Help me to grow my beginning, place you in the in-between, and leaving my end to you in all things.

Help me to leave the outcomes of my life in your hands. There are no coincidences or happenstance in the situations of life that pass before me. It is your promise to those that trust you, and your word, that all things work to the good for those that love you. Your words are the promises for those who trust in you alone.

Purpose

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llow me to nd only you in my path to purpose in this journey that was designed for me before my arrival . Direct my spirit that my steps know which path to walk without hesitation or worldly direction.

Guide my hands that construct the materials that will cover the downcast, the helpless, the widow, the homeless, the prisoner, the immigrant, and the motherless child. Allow my ears only to hear my own heartbeat, for it is there you rein in the core of my existence with mercy. It is there I am reminded of your sacri ce and command to love all others.

Allow me to move without fear towards my assigned purpose in the land of the living.

Thunder

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he thunder speaks of his power and might that no human can comprehend nor stand. But the rain as it descends with lightening in force, is love to the land and human sustainment. The rain feeds natures thirst and humans food. As it is written, man will toil the land from the beginning and all the elds of life. But it is you oh lord, that decides our day, our time ,with its end. Allow the rain as it speaks to my being, in the land of the living as mercy and the grace of God’s love. Allow me to rejoice knowing you still love the world as I watch the rain and see the thunder speak to my soul in fear and honor with love.

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Psalm 16:20 The water saw you, God, the water saw you and withered;; the very depths were convulsed. The clouds poured down water, the heavens resounded with water, the heavens resounded with thunder; your arrows ashed back and forth, your thunder was heard in the worldwide, your lightning lit up the world; the Earth trembled and quaked, your path led though the sea. Your way though the mighty waters, through your footprints were not seen. You led your people like a ock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Clarity

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Excuse me while I become His purpose with plans. I’m learning there is no strife nor toil as I release my burdens upon his yoke. I’m declaring peace resides where HIS spirit lives within me. I choose everyday the re ection of Him in character with clarity through me, for His love is purposed in me, therefore I’m free to be me.

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But those who trust in the LORD will nd new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles.

They will run and not grow weary.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and oat.

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~Alan Watts