Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Foe

Something wasn't right,
I felt a fight.
She was in my sight.
I prayed, not tonight.
A smiling demon in heels.
Always making deals.

She didn't love anyone--
made people run.
Whatever she wanted, she got.
Used shame, to win fame.

No one wanted to be called out,
no one wanted to hear her shout.
They were protective of their clout.

But I wasn't afraid, and could care less
about her mess--was familiar with this test.
In God's presence, she started to confess...
had issues, that required tissues.

Little did she know,
she had made God her foe.
He was tired of her talk,
he was ready to make her walk.

I prayed for things to change,
I prayed her life would rearrange.

One day it was time for me to go,
the seed was left, it had to grow.

Nicholl McGuire

 

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

I Know My Enemy

It didn't take long to find out he was wrong
for me.
I could see that he didn't like me.

Eye rolls and stares, he put his fingers through his hair.
He thought he was better than me.

I had to pray to the one above
to give me strength to love, to love
my enemy.

I know my enemy,
he likes to play with me.
Play with my mind, stab me from behind,
then lie, then lie about me.

When I plead my case, face-to-face
witnesses don't want to believe me.

Accuse me of having issues,
then they give me some tissues.
"I know my enemy," I say.
They say, "We will pray."

Lord, help me this day.
He smiles and walks away.

Nicholl McGuire 

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Monday, February 4, 2013

Poem: A Date With the Enemy By Nicholl McGuire

Sometimes, the enemy will move a sinner to be interested in perverse people and things using a demonic spirit of lust. One who is open to all sorts of immoral activities, with no belief or relationship in a righteous Higher Power, will look to get his or her sinful pleasures fulfilled through anyone or anything that he or she might find temporary satisfaction. In the following poem, you will find that sometimes a believer will compromise his or her faith to be with someone who should be avoided.

A Date with the Enemy


I don’t have time for you!

Jesus is my attorney and I will sue!


You keep on coming around,

trying to knock my Bible to the ground!


Can’t hear you!

Don’t know what to do?


The preacher is in my ear.

I start shedding a tear.


Dancing around my church,

I don’t need to search.


Happy to be alive!

Have a job from 9 to 5!


You want me to pray with you?

Nah, I’ll call over my crew.


But didn’t we already do this?

I guess something went amiss.


You really don’t want to listen.

Your eyes just glisten.


I have given up on you,

‘cause I know you aren’t true.


I have stopped answering your many calls.

Keep arguing about you hanging at the malls.


You claim you work late,

But we both know you are on a date.


I can’t take the stress you’re putting me through.

Don’t you have kids, I think two?


You look me in my face

Lying is such a disgrace.


I tried to be a good lady

Almost drove myself crazy.


Now I look like a lonely fool,

going to Sunday school

without you.


Allowed you in my life.

you caused nothing more than strife.


Made excuses for you

Now my friends are few.


My testimony lost its power.

Replaced God with you in the midnight hour.


Too busy looking for the Holy Spirit in you.

Acted like that was all I had to do.


But now I am wise,

been reduced down to size.


You and I just weren’t meant to be.

God has opened my eyes,

and now I see.



By Nicholl McGuire


A foe of the faith who claims to “love the Lord” (but doesn't fear Him) is nothing more than a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He or she isn’t interested in God; rather, this person is more interested in a temporal relationship consisting of money, sex or whatever else they can get from Christian singles trying to live for God.

Too often church-goers are naive to enemy schemes falsely assuming that because one takes time out of his or her day to attend a function he or she must have some reverence for the things of God. He or she assumes that the visitor/member/speaker/worker will behave according to the precepts of the Bible both privately and publicly, but most often that is not the case. Then when the enemy has abused unsuspecting Christians, who may have deliberately chosen to ignore the warnings of God, foes look on seeking who will be next and quite possibly aiding the enemy to steal, destroy and kill.  The pervert uses immoral conversation and images to entice. The fault-finder creates a campaign against a common foe with the intent to hurt you in the process. The self-righteous uses the Bible and his workers to promote his or her selfish agendas.

At times, we will be reminded that the person who we are hugging, shaking hands, or seated next to is not necessarily who or what we think they are. Be careful!

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