America, in this Country

America, in this Country,

Did I miss something over the years of life? 

I thought America, was built upon the mutual respect of all others, 

And the basic belief of a higher power that created all. 

If I remember right, our forefathers ran from the State Religions of the Old World, 

To the New World to have the Freedom of Choice to follow their Religion of Choice, 

That by this, all have the freedom to choose a religion of their choice, 

And that no one religion could become a National religion, 

In control of all other religions 

And by this take control of the Government created for and by the people. 

Isn't this free will! 

Freedom! 

In my words, did not the Lord say? 

"Go forth to the ends of the earth 

And tell all of what you have seen, heard, and know, 

So that all others will hear and know, 

And now knowing they can make a choice, by their free will, to follow Me or not." 

Free will, Freedom! 

Basic respect for the beliefs of others! 

If you don't have basic respect for another’s belief, 

You have lost them before you could ever tell them about the Lord. 

The basic respect for the foundation of the moral principles, 

Another has built their life upon. 

A moral life is built upon moral principles, 

And it is sad to say; many will never build such a life. 

A moral life is built upon, either the moral principles of God, 

Through Faith's Belief in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 

Or upon the branch of philosophy, ethics, 

That encompasses the analysis and proposition of moral principles,

For one to follow and by this conduct a just and truthful life. 

One either makes the choice to follow in Faith the Beliefs of the Creator of all Life, 

Or the other, 

To follow humanities beliefs, built upon a foundation of personal views, for life.

Lord, open me to Your Ways and teach me, 

Martin Lee Vance 

6/16/2009 

Allow God

Allow God

Allow God to make your path of life straight, 

By walking each day in time in faith's belief with Jesus Christ.

Faith’s Belief, is total trust in God built of His Word of Truth, 

Acceptance as is, without doubt,

Knowing within that God’s Word is His bond that binds all together,

And His Word is sealed forever by His Integrity,

That wraps one in total completeness in Jesus Christ, His Son,

Within to without in the Lord’s Integrity of Character,

Salvation's Blessing,

For one receives in life from Christ and passes from life into eternity,

 By God’s loving grace,

That allows one to stand before Him as one in Christ and reach out to Him in prayer,

Allowing Christ to intercede with God for all in Him, 

For He foreknew the heart within, before life began therein with Him.

Praise God's Holy Name for life and all received from Him.  

Begin each day in prayer and the reading of His word that teaches of Him. 

Read His Holy Word as written and given to you by Him. 

Allow it to guide, build, and change the heart within, 

For prayer and His Holy Word will reveal His will to guide you, 

As He has done for all others of Adam's race before you 

From the beginning of time that began their walk with Him, 

To guide and keep their path of life straight following Him, 

And will for all, by faith’s belief, that receive Christ and reach out to Him.

Then you as they, beyond the future and the ending of time,

Will step into eternity, by building each day in time, with the Lord in His Light.

His light of love will expose the sin obstacles to life, 

Hidden, placed by you within the darkest part of the heart, from His touch of Light. 

Reach out to receive the Lord by faith and belief in Him, 

And release all within to be taken, covered, 

And cleansed by Him to make complete one within Him. 

Then leaving all cleansed by His shed blood

At the Foot of Cross to walk daily with Him,

Allowing the Holy Spirit to replace the thoughts of self therein, 

Through prayer and the reading of the word to allow God to guide your life,

By allowing the eyes to view anew His creation of life, 

Then passing on Christ’s gift of love to forgive others, 

By reaching out in His Name to give, build, and encourage others, 

For by this the path of life will become a joy each day to walk 

When yet another joins all others to beside Him walk. 

Knowing within then, another is making their path of life straight within His Light, 

And has prayed this simple prayer, "Lord, guide my life with Your Light." 

Lord, guide my life with Your Light, 

Martin Lee Vance 

9/07/2007 

Lord, Guide My Thoughts

Lord, Guide My Thoughts 

Lord, guide my thoughts as I look upon the Cross today, 

And remember the past and what You gave at Calvary for all that day. 

That by God's Grace allows me to walk and follow You today. 

Lord, guide my thoughts and way each day, 

Take away the fears of today that build within me 

The regrets of yesterday 

And the worries of tomorrow,

Replace the regrets with the Word of God each day, 

Remove the worries with Your Love to make me anew in You to guide my way. 

Bring forth from within me Your words of living water to give another,

And change their life and remove the fears, regrets, and worries 

From hearts suffering deep despair. 

Touch and open my eyes to see the needs of others that I share with them the Way. 

Restructure my heart to reach out in kindness to all each day,

To give, care, and share each and every day. 

Touch and enable Your strength in me to carry another’s load along life's way. 

Allow the You in me to replace the needs in them to grow complete in You today. 

Lord, guide me as I follow You along life's journey today, 

Knowing within me Your destination someday I will be. 

Lord, guide my thoughts as I look upon the Cross today, 

And remember the past and what You gave at Calvary for all that day. 

That by God's Grace allows me to walk and follow You today. Amen

Lord, make my journey of life meaningful today, use me every day, 

Martin Lee Vance 

March 28, 2009 

Loneliness is not Loneliness

Loneliness is not Loneliness

Loneliness is not loneliness, when the Lord's Love Lives within the heart. 

Loneliness touches and cries out deep from within the heart, 

The moment a love one departs to be with the Lord, 

A love gone never to return.

When the heart within speaks of them, 

Throughout life special memories will appear 

And return their love that lives therein,

The memories wrapped within to without with thoughts, 

That bring back the moments, 

That thoughts of them within now hold dear, 

And will always keep their love within the heart near, 

To touch and bring back the time-shared, 

The time love given by the One that they now walk near, 

For time was given by Him, 

The time shared by you and them, 

When beside they walked and talked, 

Reached out and touched to bring their love, now within, near. 

That told you then and lives forever within, 

That their love would never depart, 

Even now when they walk near and talk with the Lord. 

Memories are a gift from God that binds the past to the present

And bring into view love's special moments 

To illuminate and brighten to renew the heart of the one left behind,

And heals as only a love that lives within to mend their broken heart!

Loneliness is not loneliness when the Lord's Love Lives within the heart. 

Lord, keep my heart open to receive Your Love Given,

 And heal the hurts of life's loneliness within, 

Martin Lee Vance 

3/7/2007

Look Within and See the Sin

Look Within and See the Sin

God knows the problems that all have and will face in the World today, 

Every Nation of the World, and every individual that resides within them, 

He also knows the good that comes forth or not from them. 

He does not have to be reminded of the problems or the sins within them, 

For one should daily come in prayer to honor Him, 

This is the purpose of our creation, to commune with and to know Him!

Knowing if one had the power within, built of the wisdom and knowledge, given by God, 

To take from all who have ever lived in the world, 

Every single bit of knowledge and wisdom, all information in and from them, 

From the beginning of time, and by God's permission, 

Reaching beyond today to the end of time, 

One would never accumulate enough knowledge or wisdom to create one thought, 

To equal God's knowledge and wisdom, 

Of His thought when He spoke His Light into existence, 

And split the darkness, that covered the face of the depths of the void, into night and day, 

Forming the beginning and marking the very first day of creation and the beginning of time. 

When one stands before God, in openness and oneness within Jesus Christ,

In awe, humbleness in life’s completeness in prayer, 

Knowing Salvation's Grace in faith's belief, 

It is total completeness within our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

Ask God, for the guidance to overcome the sins of the world 

And remove those that live and hide within our thoughts before Him, 

Not only ours, but those of America today, 

And every individual that resides within all Nations of the World, 

For the World is a family community under God's love and control,

 That will forever be under God's love and control! 

Ask Him for forgiveness and that He removes all words of vengeance, 

Built of the indifference, of hurt or hate, 

And replace them with the words of prayer to guide, build, honor, and restore not only America, 

But the World with His words of excellence to build within to without

In the Integrity of Character of Jesus Christ, 

And for every individual that resides within them to live together as a Child of His, 

Complete in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  

Lord, cleanse away my thoughts of sin for others, and make my eyes and heart as Your's, 

That I receive and see all as a Child of His, a Child of God’s, 

Martin Lee Vance 

8/11/2011

Remember, Repent, Renew

Remember, Repent, Renew 

God's Love will never be altered or withdrawn, 

For all in Christ have been sealed forever for Christ, 

By God's Loving Grace. 

Remember, God's love, 

For the Saved by faith's belief one in Christ, 

As does His Love for His Son, Jesus Christ, 

The one whom paid the price in Love, for the sins of all, upon the Cross of Calvary, 

That Love, occupies the most protective and caring part of God's Heart, 

Encased and secured therein by Love's seal, 

Acceptance as is, as One in Christ, 

For God's Love binds together as One, 

And nothing can separate, alter, or take from, forever as one in Him. 

Recognize, that the pride of self, 

That it from time to time reaches out and touches the thoughts of all, 

When allowed, by one's free will, to control the soul within, 

It will slowly place a wedge of indifference 

Between God's Love and your love 

To follow and commune daily through prayer with Him, 

Separating your love from Him, 

Not His Love from you. 

Stop listening to Satan and his followers, 

Check the heart daily, by using the Word of God as the filter 

To identify and remove the wrong from the thoughts, 

Take and place them at the Foot of the Cross. 

Cleanse the heart of all those thoughts to follow Christ, 

By asking God to forgive, returning your love to Him, 

Open your heart within for God and His Love by way of the Word. 

Remember at all times, God stands before with open arms of Love 

To receive and forgive to commune in prayer daily with Him, 

Repent of your sins against all to Him, 

Then review and renew and make complete your relationship with Him. 

Lord, daily I pray God controls my heart to love and live as one in You, 

Martin Lee Vance 

2/14/2012 

Memorial Day

Memorial Day

First named Decoration Day,

To honor the fallen on both sides of the Civil War.

It matters not how, why, or who started that Day.

What matters is that we honor all Fallen Veterans and respect their sacrifice.

That Day, Memorial Day today, has been set aside to remember all fallen Veterans,

Of all Wars, and remember their sacrifice, that allows all Americans to live Free today,

By God Grace, and our founding fathers courage, America is just what it is meant to be, Free.

This Nation by this Day, shows honor and respect to those that gave that Ultimate Sacrifice of life.

They knowing within they had to give all, leaving families and friends behind,

So all could live free today.

This price they paid willingly to bring Freedom to others around the World,

And to maintain Freedom for all Americans, that our Flag waves Free today.

That long line of courage will continue because of them,

And will die if we choose to forget the price they paid,

By not setting aside one day in time to honor and respect them on this Special Day,

Memorial Day.

Lord, lead us, open our eyes to see and our hearts in love to remember the price they paid,

Martin Lee Vance

5/30/2010

Loneliness of Hurt

Loneliness of Hurt

Loneliness of hurt is Satan's Disaster to start Hate.

When either complaining and blaming,

Or worry and fear replaces prayer to find the way each day.

Satan has been given the entry point which allows hate to enter, 

And slowly extinguish God's Light of Love.

  Hate enters by pushing aside all happiness 

And the hope that God's tomorrow will bring.

Taking control of our very character and thought process daily.

Satan will distort, twist, rearrange, and bring about pain, with his loneliness of hurt.

Hurt is given by him in our darkest hour of need when hope is no longer seen.

   Close that door to loneliness of hurt and remove forever Satan's disaster to start Hate.

Give control of Life back to God, where, how, and from whom all Life was given.

By beginning, each day in prayer and the reading of God's Holy Word,

Always giving praises for what has been given by Him.

Prayer comes from within, expresses loving trust, 

Knowing the need revealed will be filled by His Integrity and in His Time. 

Prayer removes the trash of complaining, and blaming, 

And brings back the love of caring and giving. 

Prayer replaces Satan's distorted worry and fear, 

With God's hope and understanding for planned tomorrow's.

Return prayer and remove forever,

Satan's Disaster to start Hate,

Loneliness of Hurt.

Worry and Fear, 

They are both Satan's interest collected prepaid, 

On a debt I do not owe,

For I owed a debt I could not pay,

Christ paid a debt He did not owe,

For me, 

Forgiven, Forgotten, Forever,

Martin Lee Vance

9/16/2005

Whoever is President is President of all Americans

We must remember, 

Whoever is President is President of all Americans, 

Not just the ones that agree with him. 

They will deserve our love, respect, and prayers, 

In the good times as well as the bad times, to lead and guide this Nation daily, 

To bring together, to make as one, stronger tomorrow than yesterday, 

To overcome the problems, shortcomings, and failures, 

That this Nation will face on any given day. 

To take care of the weak and the oppressed and to share with those that need, 

Not only in America, but around the World if be the need,

For God created all humanity to be, Free Will, moral beings. 

The choice they have made to either follow the Lord or not, 

Or to Love or Hate, God will judge on Judgment Day. 

For Jesus Christ the Lord paid the price of all sins that day that all would be free. 

God has commanded us to love all that He created, 

Therefore, all will stand before Him for He judges the Quick and the Dead. 

When this Nation stands together as one under God, 

And sees with the Lord's eyes of Love, 

We are at our strongest and apart from Him at our weakest. 

Words alone will never build or change one thing, 

But on knees of humbleness before Him in prayer, 

They have the power to build Him within, 

The Love that gives and forgives, 

To remove the hurt within to love and live in Him, 

God is in control and always will be in control. 

We must in humble prayer, 

Allow Jesus Christ, the One to intercede, 

Asking God to protect and guide those that lead, 

And to build faith across this Nation in Him today and every day, 

For it is by faith in the Lord alone, 

By those who follow and believe in Him, 

Not in anyone or in anything else, 

That God will build and reshape America within Him, 

To endure and persevere until the Lord comes again.

Lord, build and reshape America from within to without in Your Love from within, 

Martin Lee Vance 

10/27/2008