God’s storehouse of grace

We glean, we gather,
We have faith in provision,
We take only what we need,
For today, for today only…
 
Through God’s provision,
His faithfulness, His mercy,
God’s storehouse of grace,
Provides just what we need…
 
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February 5, 2024
God’s storehouse of grace
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/gods-storehouse-of-grace.html
From Quote from DL Moody
&
February 5, 2024
subtle ways of grace
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/subtle-ways-grace.html
Ephesians 2:4-5
From Daily Verse email devotional
 
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Start in Worship – v2

Start in Worship,
On your knees, praying,
Offering your praise,
Giving your life over
To the One true God.
 
Start in Worship,
In prayer, in supplication,
Turn your hearts, your spirit,
From the ways of dust, of the world,
To the promises of God.
 
Start in Worship.,
Lift your eyes, praying,
To the heavens above,
Put your body, your life,
Into the hands of God.
 
====
Edited February 2, 2024
Start in Worship – v2
 
January 31, 2024
Start in Worship
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/start-in-worship.html
Exodus 23:25
&
Edited January 30, 2024
Weakness – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/weakness-v2.html
January 30, 2024
Weakness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/weakness.html
January 30, 2024
Relying on You only
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/relying-on-you-only.html
2 Corinthians 12:10
&
Edited January 29, 2024
Watch what you say – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/watch-what-you-say-v2.html
Adding stanza 3
January 29, 2024
Watch what you say
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/watch-what-you-say.html
Ephesians 4:29
&
January 28, 2024
Happy where we are right now
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/happy-where-we-are-right-now.html
Ecclesiastes 3:22
Ecclesiastes 3
&
Edited January 28, 2024
New – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/new-v2.html
Ecclesiastes 3:11a
Ecclesiastes 3:11
Ecclesiastes 3
&
January 27, 2024
New
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/new.html
Revelations 21:5
2 Corinthians 5:17
Isaiah 43:19
Isaiah 65:17
Lamentations 3:22-23
Colossians 3:9-10
&
Edited January 27, 2024
Choosing to become clay – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/choosing-to-become-clay-v3.html
&
Edited January 27, 2024
God will make our way straight – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/god-will-make-our-way-straight-v2.html
January 27, 2024
God will make our way straight
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/god-will-make-our-way-straight.html
Proverbs 3:6b
God will make our way straight
Proverbs 3:5-6
Proverbs 3
&
January 27, 2024
In my weakness, in my doubting
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/in-my-weakness-in-my-doubting.html
Edited January 27, 2024
A prayer for Wisdom – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-prayer-for-wisdom-v2.html
January 27, 2024
A prayer for Wisdom
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-prayer-for-wisdom.html
James 1:5
James 1
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Start in Worship

On our knees, praying,
Offering our praise,
Giving our lives over
To the One true God.
 
Start in Worship,
In prayer, in supplication,
Turn your hearts, your spirit,
From the ways of dust.
 
Lift your eyes, praying,
To the heavens above,
Put your bodies, your lives,
Into the hands of God.
 
====
January 31, 2024
Start in Worship
 
Exodus 23:25
&
Edited January 30, 2024
Weakness – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/weakness-v2.html
January 30, 2024
Weakness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/weakness.html
January 30, 2024
Relying on You only
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/relying-on-you-only.html
2 Corinthians 12:10
&
Edited January 29, 2024
Watch what you say – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/watch-what-you-say-v2.html
Adding stanza 3
January 29, 2024
Watch what you say
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/watch-what-you-say.html
Ephesians 4:29
&
January 28, 2024
Happy where we are right now
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/happy-where-we-are-right-now.html
Ecclesiastes 3:22
Ecclesiastes 3
&
Edited January 28, 2024
New – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/new-v2.html
Ecclesiastes 3:11a
Ecclesiastes 3:11
Ecclesiastes 3
&
January 27, 2024
New
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/new.html
Revelations 21:5
2 Corinthians 5:17
Isaiah 43:19
Isaiah 65:17
Lamentations 3:22-23
Colossians 3:9-10
&
Edited January 27, 2024
Choosing to become clay – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/choosing-to-become-clay-v3.html
&
Edited January 27, 2024
God will make our way straight – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/god-will-make-our-way-straight-v2.html
January 27, 2024
God will make our way straight
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/god-will-make-our-way-straight.html
Proverbs 3:6b
God will make our way straight
Proverbs 3:5-6
Proverbs 3
&
January 27, 2024
In my weakness, in my doubting
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/in-my-weakness-in-my-doubting.html
Edited January 27, 2024
A prayer for Wisdom – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-prayer-for-wisdom-v2.html
January 27, 2024
A prayer for Wisdom
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-prayer-for-wisdom.html
James 1:5
James 1
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Being For Us – v2

To understand the distinction

the wonder of Christmas

the meaning of the coming

the Advent of Christ

God for us, as a parent,

not merely with us

in the story of the Christ

of Emmanuel

Not even within us

what we know of the Spirit

living within, written,

on each believer’s heart

It is the love of the parent

the Creator, Sustainer

our Savior, our Father

our loving God

There like a parent,

loving us ever

there when we stumble

even when we rebel

Hoping for our best

no matter what our steps

there when we fall

forgiving us

The prayer for the children

the one the Lord taught us

falling to our knees

to thank and to remember God

Our cries back to the father

our loving Creator

asking for provision

all of our days

Closing the circle,

as with the Prodigal Child

only as a servant

returning back home

But our Creator, Sustainer

our Savior, our Brother

waiting already

right by our side

Edited November 21, 2013

being for us – v2

January 22, 2010

being for us

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/01/being-for-us.html

Exodus 16:1-36

Matthew 6:9-13

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Praying for My Manna and Quail – v4

So much of God’s provision

that which we truly need

coming from an unplanned direction

while we are praying for manna and quail

Our needs met, amazing

in ways beyond imagination

bits of grace, spiritual food, given to us

raining down from heaven

Praying for my manna and quail

when God truly offers

spiritual food for us,

more than I can imagine

Edited October 22, 2013

Praying for My Manna and Quail – v4

Edited October 7, 2013

Praying for My Manna and Quail – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/praying-for-my-manna-and-quail-v2.html

January 22, 2010

Praying for My Manna and Quail

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/01/praying-for-my-manna-and-quail.html

Exodus 16:1-36

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Praying for My Manna and Quail – v3

So much of God’s provision

that which we truly need

coming from an unplanned direction

while we are praying for manna and quail

Our needs met, amazing

in ways beyond imagination

bits of grace, spiritual food, given to us

raining from heaven

Praying for my manna and quail

when God wants so much more for us

a plan to bless to lift us,

to raise us from the dust

Edited October 12, 2013

Praying for My Manna and Quail – v3

Edited October 7, 2013

Praying for My Manna and Quail – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/praying-for-my-manna-and-quail-v2.html

January 22, 2010

Praying for My Manna and Quail

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/01/praying-for-my-manna-and-quail.html

Exodus 16:1-36

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Praying for My Manna and Quail – v2

So much of God’s provision

that which we truly need

coming from an unplanned direction

while we are praying for manna and quail

Our needs met, amazing

in ways beyond imagination

bits of grace, spiritual food, given to us

raining from heaven

Edited October 7, 2013

Praying for My Manna and Quail – v2

January 22, 2010

Praying for My Manna and Quail

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/01/praying-for-my-manna-and-quail.html

Exodus 16:1-36

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Good Things – v3

Good things from our Father

from our loving God

generous and caring

providing for all our needs

As we ask him, we cry

no worry if we trust him

that we would be fed

providing for all our needs

Good things from our Father

out of his great love

God’s love for us

Edited September 3, 2013

Good Things – v3

Edited September 2, 2013

Good Things – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/good-things-v2.html

July 14, 2010

Good Things

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/07/good-things.html

Matthew 7

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Good Things – v2

Good things from our Father

generous and loving

providing for all our needs

As we ask him

no worry if we trust him

that we would be fed

providing for all our needs

Edited September 2, 2013

Good Things – v2

July 14, 2010

Good Things

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/07/good-things.html

Matthew 7

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Good Things

Good things from our father
generous and loving
providing for all our needs
as we ask him
no worry if we trust him
that we would be fed

July 14, 2010
Matthew 7

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A Generous Father

All our needs
food and drink
provided abundantly
by our generous father
a relationship forever
if we come and listen to him


June 22, 2010
Isaiah 55:1-3
Psalm 63:5-6
&
Upper Room Daily Devotional
http://www.upperroom.org/devotional/default.asp?month=6&day=6&year=2010
for June 6, 2010, read June 22, 2010
“Linger Longer”,
by Dawn Mooring



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Nothing of Great Value

Her offering of two small coins
giving nothing of great value
not in the absolute sense
yet from her choosing to give all she had
a testament of her steadfast faith

Unlike the others who could give more
giving all that she owned
holding back nothing
trusting in God to respond
offering her daily bread


May 8, 2010
Mark 12:41-44
two small copper coins
Matthew 5:3

&
just reading the title of the reading
Upper Room Daily Devotional
http://www.upperroom.org/devotional/default.asp?month=5&day=8&year=2010
for May 8, 2010,
“The Widow’s Offering”,
by Michael Albanese


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Being For Us

To understand the distinction
the wonder of Christmas
the meaning of the coming
the advent of Christ

God for us, as a parent,
not merely with us
in the story of the Christ
of the Emmanuel

Not even within us
what we know of the Spirit
living within
each believer’s heart

It is the love of the parent
the creator, sustainer
our savior, our father
our loving God

There like a parent,
loving us ever
there when we stumble
even when we rebel

Hoping for our best
no matter what our steps
there when we fall
forgiving us for all

The prayer for the children
the one the Lord taught us
falling to our knees
to thank and to remember God

Our cries back to the father
our loving creator
asking for provision
all of our days

Closing the circle,
as with the prodigal child
only as a servant
returning back home

But our creator, sustainer
our savior, our brother
waiting already
right by our side

January 22, 2010
Exodus 16:1-36
Matthew 6:9-13

God’s Prayers

If we could be in heaven
in the courts of the master
if we could sit quietly
and turn to the prayers of our creator
what would we hear
if we listened to God’s prayers

A hope for our future
a plan for redemption
like a father, a parent
wanting the best for us
all of our days

There as a parent
watching over our struggles
learning as we stubble
along each life’s way

Knowing, as he does,
the answer is only
in when we turn from our plans
and submit our lives
our whole selves over to him

There, our parent, our brother
walking beside us
knowing before us
every step of our lives
Waiting for us to turn from our folly
to understand that in him alone all is set right


January 22, 2010
Exodus 16:1-36
Matthew 6:9-13
Jeremiah 29:11


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Out in the Desert

The people, feeling alone
despair out in the desert
so, so far from home

Wondering where they would turn to
how they could survive in that place
the Lord, providing manna and quail
such was his saving grace

So the prayer that the Lord taught us all
the one we share in the congregation
our daily bread, all of our needs
met by our savior, our king

Stopping to pray,
to believe once again,
as the people did then,
trusting alone in the Lord


January 22, 2010
Exodus 16:1-36
Matthew 6:9-13

Manna and Quail

In our prayer
the one taught by Christ
the words of the Lord’s Prayer
bringing our hope to life
That we would be cared for
that we would turn to the Lord
trusting that he would provide
all of our needs, our daily bread
just as in the desert, providing
our manna and quail


January 22, 2010
Exodus 16:1-36
Matthew 6:9-13

Praying for My Manna and Quail

So much of God’s provision
that which we truly need
coming from an unplanned direction
while we are praying for manna and quail

Our needs met,
in ways beyond imagination
bits of grace, spiritual food
raining from heaven


January 22, 2010
Exodus 16:1-36