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Through Being Born Again: The Spirit in the Redeemed Heart Unveils God’s Living, Inerrant Word, Eternally Crowned by Debbie Harris

16 Sunday Mar 2025

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The sonnet explores the transformation of a soul once lost in doubt, redeemed through being born again. Through prayer and scripture, the Holy Spirit ignites a divine understanding in the heart, revealing the Bible as the ultimate truth. This renewal reshapes the intellect, aligning it with God’s inerrant Word, which surpasses all human wisdom. Earthly knowledge falters, while scripture—living, flawless, and eternally authoritative—reigns supreme in the believer’s redeemed heart and mind, crowned forever by divine grace.

When once the soul in shadowed doubt did roam,
Through being born again the spirit flows,
A flame ignites where prayer and scripture grow,
And finds in sacred text its truest home.

The mind, transformed, now gleams with holy light,
Each verse unfolds, a truth to claim,
No earthly thought can rival or defame,
For God’s own word asserts its boundless might.

The intellect, renewed by grace divine,
Through Spirit’s breath discerns the Bible’s call,
All human pride must yield to this design,
In Christ, the heart and reason both enthrall.

Man’s wisdom breaks, a frail and fleeting plea,
Inerrant, God’s Word lives—crowned eternally.

The Lord Hears and Answers with Grace in Our Time of Need: Psalm 34:4 by Debbie Harris

16 Sunday Mar 2025

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The sonnet, inspired by Psalm 34:4, explores the speaker’s journey from fear to peace through divine intervention. It begins with the speaker describing their state of distress, overwhelmed by fear, and their desperate prayer to God. Referencing Psalm 34:4 (“I prayed to the Lord, and He answered me”), the poem highlights how God listens to the speaker’s plea and responds with grace, dispelling their fears. The imagery shifts from darkness to light, symbolizing the transition from despair to hope as God’s love restores the speaker’s soul. The sonnet concludes with a call to trust in God’s unwavering support during trials, affirming that His grace is a constant source of comfort in times of need.

When shadows fall and fears begin to rise,
I lift my voice, a trembling, broken plea,
To heavens high, where mercy never dies,
The Lord, my refuge, bends His ear to me.

He hears the cries that echo through the night,
And with His grace, He calms my troubled soul,
In darkest hours, He brings a dawning light,
His gentle hand restores and makes me whole.

In time of need, His love does not delay,
A boundless gift, unmerited, so free,
My heart, once lost, now finds the brighter way,
For He has answered, setting fear to flee.

So let us trust, in every trial we face,
The Lord will hear, and answer with His grace.

Oh Royal One, Come by Debbie Harris

15 Saturday Mar 2025

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O sovereign King, enthroned in boundless might,
Whose glory gilds the heavens’ vast domain,
In radiant power, Your saints’ eternal light—
Come, Lord Jesus, swiftly now to reign!

With thunder’s call, the skies in splendor break,
Your heirs from wrath’s deep shadow You release,
All worlds bow low, Your holy name awake—
Come quickly, Christ, in triumph and in peace!

A Frail Soul’s Fierce Love, Imperfect Still, Striving for Thy Light by Debbie Harris

14 Friday Mar 2025

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The poem expresses the speaker’s deep awareness of their own sinfulness and imperfection, which will persist until they reach heaven. Despite this frailty, they feel a fierce, burning love for the Lord and a longing to honor Him perfectly, never wanting to disappoint. The speaker acknowledges their inability to live flawlessly by their own strength, yet their spirit yearns to reject darkness and reflect God’s light. Through all their flaws and stumbles, they rely on divine grace to lift them, striving with all their heart to mirror the Lord until they are made perfect in eternity.


O Lord, my soul is frail, a sinner’s clay,
Imperfect still, till heaven’s gates I see,
Yet in my heart a fire burns each day,
A love so fierce, it longs to honor Thee.
The stains of sin, they mar my every deed,
No mortal strength can keep Thy words aright,
But oh, my spirit cries with fervent need,
To shun the dark and dwell within Thy light.
Though flaws persist, my will bends to Thy call,
I ache to please, to never bring Thee shame,
Through stumbles great and failures small,
Thy grace alone can lift this humble frame.
So till the skies part wide and I am free,
My heart shall strive, O Lord, to mirror Thee.

The Blessed Hope Amid The Signs Foretold by Debbie Harris

14 Friday Mar 2025

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The sonnet draws from Matthew 24, depicting the end-time signs—wars, earthquakes, false prophets, famines, and lawlessness—as the world darkens. Amid this chaos, the gospel spreads globally, a light before the end. At an unknown hour, the rapture comes with a trumpet’s call, lifting the faithful to Christ in hope, offering escape and eternal comfort to believers watching for His return.

The wars and rumors echo through the air,
The earth in tremors groans beneath our feet,
False prophets rise, their words a cunning snare,
While famine’s shadow stalks where once was wheat.
The nations clash, the skies grow dark with dread,
Lawlessness reigns, and love begins to fade,
Yet gospel’s light through every land is spread,
A beacon bright before the final blade.
In sudden hour, none but God can know,
The trumpet sounds, the heavens split apart,
The chosen rise where clouds in glory flow,
Caught up in hope to meet the Savior’s heart.
So watch, dear soul, though chaos grips the day,
His coming steals the faithful swift away.

When Heaven’s Anguished Lament Thunders Through The Etheral Realms In Sorrowful, Resounding Harmony by Debbie Harris

11 Tuesday Mar 2025

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The poem, titled “When Heaven’s Anguished Lament Thunders Through the Ethereal Realms in Sorrowful, Resounding Harmony”, portrays the profound sorrow of heaven when a single, virtuous soul is cruelly persecuted. It describes this soul being unjustly harmed and scorned due to its courageous commitment to righteousness, depicted as a noble fight to uphold truth against overwhelming evil. Heaven responds with a thunderous, mournful outcry, its grief resonating across the celestial realms in a harmonious lament, emphasizing the significance of even one soul’s suffering for a just cause.

When even one radiant soul, fragile as dawn’s first gleam,
Is heinously hurt, lashed by shadows’ jagged scream,
For righteousness’ steadfast stand, a beacon unbowed and bright,
Defying evil’s ruthless hand, a storm of clawing night,
Heaven’s weeping chorus mourns, tears like rivers of starlight.

One Hope, Jesus Christ by Debbie Harris

10 Monday Mar 2025

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The sonnet portrays Jesus Christ as humanity’s singular source of hope and redemption. It begins by depicting a world shrouded in darkness, illuminated only by the eternal light of Jesus Christ’s name. Amid life’s storms and the bondage of sin, He restores and heals the broken. Earthly powers fail against despair, but His love brings an everlasting dawn. Through His sacrifice on the cross and triumph over the tomb, Jesus Christ offers salvation, transforming night into joy as the one true hope.

Upon this weary earth where shadows lie,
A radiant light through endless ages streams,
The name of Jesus Christ rings clear and high,
Our hope in Him, eternal in its beams.
When storms arise and mortal strength decays,
When sin entraps the soul in iron chains,
This Jesus Christ restores our broken days,
His mercy flows to ease our deepest pains.
No earthly might, no crown of fleeting pride,
Can pierce the gloom where hopeless darkness hides,
Yet in His love, a dawn shall e’er abide.
Through cross and tomb, He forged salvation’s road,
One hope, one truth, in Jesus Christ bestowed,
His sacred name turns night to joy untold.

Sonnet: Faith and Works (James 2:14-17) by Debbie Harris

09 Sunday Mar 2025

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The poem critiques a faith that exists in isolation, unaccompanied by action, likening it to a hollow, lifeless echo. It questions the value of professing belief or grace without addressing the tangible suffering of others—like a brother shivering in the cold or a sister weakened by hunger. Mere words of comfort, however pious, are insufficient to meet their needs. True faith, the poem argues, must be expressed through compassionate deeds; otherwise, it remains an empty shell. When faith and works unite, they flourish, reflecting divine mercy and love, ultimately glorifying God. The poem calls for an active, living faith that responds to human suffering with care and action.

What profit lies in faith that stands alone,
A hollow echo, void of living deed?
The heart may claim a seed of grace is sown,
Yet starves the soul when action fails to heed.
A brother shivers, bare against the cold,
A sister hungers, frail beneath her plight—
Shall words of peace, so piously retold,
Suffice to warm their bones or fill their night?

For faith, if mute, unmoved by human care,
Is but a phantom, lifeless in its frame;
A creed that acts shall bloom and thus declare
The truth of mercy kindled in God’s name.
So let thy works with faith in union sing,
A throne of love to glorify the King.

Greater Is He by Debbie Harris

08 Saturday Mar 2025

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When is the last

time you heard

the word sin?

Exactly! The

enemy is at work!

However our blessed

Savior is greater!

A Sonnet of Lamentation and Yearning For The Return To Jesus Christ, His Holy Word, And His Most Sacred Ways Amidst A Modern Sodom and Gomorrah by Debbie Harris

06 Thursday Mar 2025

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The world, a mirror cracked by prideful hands,
Reflects a shadowed Sodom’s brazen glow,
Where virtue bends to vice in shifting sands,
And hearts forget the streams from which they flow.
Once walked a Man with words of piercing light,
His voice a balm, His steps a holy guide,
He called the lost from darkness into sight,
And bore the cross where sin and mercy vied.

Yet now we dance to tunes of hollow cheer,
Our altars cold, our lamps but faintly burn,
A Gomorrah blooms where grace once drew near,
And still His whisper bids us to return.
Oh, Christ, restore what folly has undone,
Thy Word, our dawn, Thy ways, our endless sun.