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The Harvest Is Ripe
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By Michael P. Johnson
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The Harvest Is Ripe

As Christ, as Lord as King of all

It’s not Your will that one should fall

To You o God I bend my knee

Please take my chains and set me free

 

Through famine in this world of drought

I pray for faith to doubt each doubt

Allow Your Flame purge deep inside

Consume all filth and foolish pride

 

Salvation’s road though paved with pain

Let not my trials be met in vain

My misspent youth flew by in haste

The time I’ve left is not to waste

 

Please save my soul don’t pass me by

Without Your grace shameful I’ll die

Help self to fade true love abound

Help more now climb to higher ground

 

Almighty Lord equip to start

A burden seethes within my heart

Many are blind still lost and sick

The fields grow ripe ready to pick

 

The hour has come Your truth to share

The sheep yet bound, need righteous fare

Lord send more forth, there’s much to do

Can’t leave the work to just a few

 

Anoint Your servants, send us out

Let Truth reveal what life’s about

Your sheep must find Salvation’s Well

To fill their cups and flee from hell

 

I know my God You see it all

But now I too can see them fall

So here I come Lord here I stand

Awaiting now Your next command…..

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Submitted: Sunday, October 28, 2012

Last Updated: Sunday, October 28, 2012

About the Poet
I never wrote a word of poetry in my life. Till the day Jesus took my hand and touched my soul.....I invite your response. However most poems are not about me! Very few are. But the feed-back good, bad or indifferent is always desired. Not meant to offend, but I write about many things in many a guise. Of life, death, lost, found, saved, backsliders, new comers, repenting souls, doubting hearts, heathens, Christians, fire, water, Satan's daughter, wallowing in sin, saved, made sound walking in Light, graceful righteous. Suffering, ecstatic, bored, excited, sad, delighted, Sick, well, lame, able, living, dying, etc. etc. etc. Writing about anything, everything and everyone as the spirit leads. All meant to reveal, waken, revive, encourage, shame, help. Gladden, pick up, exalt, portrait, liberate. Again over 99% of my work is not about me. Although at times I write as though I were or am. Speaking e.g. in the first person. This is quite common even in the bible itself. Prophets speak of themselves, then God speaks, again the prophet, then God......Quite often it's difficult to distinguish whom it is that at any given time is speaking or narrating.

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