September
Temperatures drop.
Tempers cool.
Dust rides the breeze.
Summer's scorn still scorches
Earth, lakes...memories.
Grasslands beg for mercy.
Sun-dried soil's too dry to weep.
But, I believe in Texas
September does not sleep.
Press on, my state of Texas.
Oh, bend your stubborn knees.
Seek him who sends September...
Seek him who never sleeps.
Oh, long, long sought September...
Send rain, stop drought,
Break heat.
Oh, God, who sends September...
Restore, remember... me.
--Cindy Lou Hodges
One of the worst droughts in history is plaguing my home state of Texas. Record heat waves of temperatures 100 degrees or higher wreck havoc upon health, agriculture and ranching industries. For nature, there is no escape from the sweltering heat, other than rain... blessed rain. Let us return to our roots of faith, as we fall down in prayer and humbly ask God to send us rain... sweet, blessed rain.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Blessed be the name of the Lord...!
__________________________________________
SCRIPTURE REFRENCES
"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit."
--Holy Bible, James 5:16-18
"For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil."
--Holy Bible, I Peter 3:12
"And I say unto you, Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." --Holy Bible, Luke 11:9
__________________________________________
@Copyright 2011, Cindy Lou Hodges All Rights Reserved.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Leave your message here...