Contemplations

*The Choice

Music & Lyrics: Rhonda S. Galizia

I just want to sit and bask

In the warmth of your love

I don't want to talk about

What I've suffered from

What I've suffered from...

I just want to feel

The silence of your voice

And to quietly remember...

You did not have a choice

Because You hoped, to save me

For I could not, save myself

Thereby, you created, the situation

Where You alone, could be, my Help!

I just want to sit and bask

In the beauty of your love;

How can I, discuss

What I am guilty of

What I am guilty of...

I just want to remember

You've suffered more than me

And that still, I find you here

...waiting endlessly

...waiting endlessly!

I just want to hear

The silence of your voice

When You took my stripes

So I could have the choice.

Because you hoped, to save me

For I could not, save myself

So you created, a situation

Where you alone, could be, my Help!

I just want to sit and bask

In the truth of your smile

I don't want to try to explain

nor do I know how...

I just want to touch

The silence of your voice

When you loved me

Most of all

So I could have... the choice.

Because you hoped to save me

For I could not save myself

So you created, my situation

Where you alone, could be, my Help!

I just want to sit and bask

In the warmth of your love, My Saviour

There's no need to talk about

What I have suffered from

What I have suffered from...

For I can truly feel

The silence of your voice

As I quietly remember

Making YOU...my choice.

*Revised Edition for Display, 2004 ISP Convention

Walt Disney World, Orlando Florida, USA

Received Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Silver Award Cup

& Commemorative Medallion/International Poet of Merit

A Writing/Counseling Ministry for CHRIST in Prose, Poetry & Song

Rhonda S. Galizia Founder & Scribe Unto The LORD

St. Matthew 13:52

Excerpt, © Fruit of the Earth

A Teaching Book Unlike Any Other On Earth

Rhonda S. Galizia, Scribe Unto The LORD

CONTEMPLATION: SPIRITUAL WARFARE: THE POWER IN HIS BLOOD:

Jesus said, "Behold, I give unto you power, to tread on serpents and scorpions,

and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you." Luke 10:19

Beloved, as you have read on my banner

'Understanding begins, when you take Him, at His Word! '

So tell me... what do you believe? Or rather, WHOM, do you believe?

(Genesis 3:14-15 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this

[brought sin to His creation], thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;

upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity

between thee (Satan) and the woman [Virgin Mary], and between thy seed (Satanic offspring) and

her seed [Jesus]; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.)

The greatest spiritual battle

ever fought,

was at the center

Cross

on a hill

called Golgotha.

When Jesus willingly

laid down His Own life,

so that we

might receive eternal life,

Satan was rendered utterly powerless!

For in so doing,

Jesus fulfilled the Scripture,

~ the Written Word of God ~

by becoming

The Living Word of God

when He crushed

Satan’s serpentine head

with His wounded heel!

Now consider this:

One drop of Jesus' Blood

is more potent

than

the atom

bomb!

The bomb

destroys.

Jesus' Blood

SAVES.

"Grace to you and peace from Him, who is and who was, and who is to come, and from...Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and freed us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and father; to Him be glory and dominion, forever and ever, Amen.." Rev.1:5-6

RESURRECTION LORD

Music & Lyrics: Rhonda S. Galizia,

JESUS… JESUS… JESUS…

RESURRECTION LORD! JESUS… (ECHO)

RESURRECTION LORD! JESUS…

HE BROKE DOWN THE GATES OF HELL

HE BROKE FORTH FROM THE GRAVE

AND HE EVEN BROKE THE SPIRIT OF DEATH;

HIS FATHER’S CHILDREN TO SAVE.

RESURRECTION LORD!

HE WAS THE FIRST TO BE RAISED.

HE IS THE FIRSTFRUIT

HE IS THE CORNERSTONE

AND HE’S THE HEAD

OF THE BODY OF BELIEVERS,

THE FATHER HATH SAID…

OUR RESURRECTION LORD!

Repeat

AND SOON HE WILL RETURN

TO GATHER US AWAY

AND THOSE WHO DIED IN HIM

WILL BE THE FIRST TO SAY

O’ HALLELU-YAH! O’ HALLELU- AY!

TO OUR RESURRECTION LORD!

“HE Writes the Words on My Heart! Ministries”

A Writing-Counseling Ministry for CHRIST in Prose, Poetry & Song

Rhonda S. Galizia, 1992 Founder & Scribe Unto The LORD

~ St. Matthew 13:52 ~

WHERE

THE GRACE OF GOD

AND

THE WRATH OF GOD

MET

WHERE

THE SON OF MAN

AND

THE SON OF GOD

HUNG

WHERE

THE WAGES OF SIN

AND

THE COST OF JUSTICE

WAS PAID

WHERE

THE LOVE OF THE FATHER

AND

THE LOVE OF THE SON

WAS PROVEN

WHERE

HIS LOVE TRIUMPHED

AND

HIS WRATH WAS

SATISFIED

WHERE

JESUS WAS THE GRACE OF GOD

AND

THE GRACE OF GOD SPARED US

HIS FATHER'S WRATH

WHERE

JESUS CRIED, 'IT IS FINISHED'

AND

THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WORLD

WAS ENDED

Beloved,

To try to fully comprehend what Jesus did for us (an act of Divine Intervention), we must first try to fully comprehend the Father's wrath - caused by His perfect hatred of sin - and His perfect sense of justice.

GOD is Spirit; He is Love, He is Pure, and He is Perfect.

Because Adam sinned, it is written that sin came into all the world by one man. Therefore, sin had to also be removed by one man. That is why Jesus willingly left His place of Glory and emptied Himself of all His Godly-power, only to became like every other man - except that He remained sinless, so He could fulfill the Father's plan.

That is, His plan to "justify" us ( to declare us not guilty! ). This meant that through His Own Son's sacrificial death ( Jesus was willing to die to redeem us [buy us back] for the Father's glory. ) His death, burial and resurrection ( which was His triumph over death ), meant the price of all sin would be paid at one time for all people ever created!

Having to bear all that sin in His person, was what separated Jesus from the Father - for the Father is Holy, and cannot even look upon sin! Can we even imagine how grieved the Father's heart was when that time of separation came? NO! How do we feel as parents, when we are necessarily separated from our children for a time of suffering?

That is what caused Jesus to sweat tears of blood in the garden... He knew what kind of cruel death (the Roman crucifixion) He would face - but even worse, He knew bearing the sins of the world, and paying the penalty of all sin for all time ( the wages of sin is death ), would separate Him from His Father's love!

SEPARATION FROM THE FATHER'S LOVE IS.. HELL! AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE UNSAVED WILL FACE. NO LOVE AND NO LIGHT.. FOR ETERNITY.

BUT for those of us who have already accepted Jesus' death on the Cross (as the complete payment for our sin), we have the sure confidence that when the Father looks at us, all He sees is the blood of His Son Jesus Christ, and we are made acceptable in His sight!

Jesus' death also gained us the privilege of prayer (speaking directly to the Father and being heard/answered), access to His throne to obtain grace and mercy, and ascertaining the power of His promises through the Holy Spirit. ( You must read the Bible for yourself to find out how many! )

GOD never changes, He never varies, and He is no respecter of persons ( thinking one better than the other ). He is exactly the same to you, as He is to me, or any other person on earth.

Have you surrendered your heart to Jesus? If not, what are you waiting for? Think about it.. if Father GOD could not even look at His Own Son while He bore sin - what makes you think He can bear you in His sight?

He can't and He won't. That is part of His perfect justice.

Jesus' death was for everyone. Father GOD's will is that none should perish. His will is my will, and I boldy, but tenderly, invite you to receive Jesus as your own Saviour, right here, right now.

Heavenly Father, I confess I am a sinner, and I need Your Son Jesus to come into my heart, take over my life, and make me a new creature in Himself. Forgive me for my sins against You, Father GOD. Wash me in the blood of Your Son Jesus, and cleanse me from all my iniquities. Blot out every stain, and make me white as snow. I renounce Satan and the kingdom of darkness and everything that I have ever I thought, said, or done, that was from, and/or for him. Make me a child of the Light! Send Your Holy Spirit to live in my heart so that I may worship You in Spirit and in truth, and deliver me from all evil. With my whole heart, I accept Jesus Christ as my LORD, Master and Saviour. I acknowledge that He is the Messiah, whom the world is awaiting. Only Him, will I love, honor, serve, trust, worship and obey, so that Your name might be magnified forever and ever, Amen.

SEPARATED FROM THE LIGHT

HANGING

FROM THE

CROSS

JESUS, THE

SON OF GOD

BORE EVERY

SIN THAT

THE ENTIRE

WORLD HAD

- OR EVER WOULD -

COMMIT.

THE DARKNESS

OF THE SIN

HE BORE

SEPARATED

HIM

FROM

HIS FATHER

IN HEAVEN.

PROVING THAT HE

WHO CAME FROM THE LIGHT

AND WAS THE LIGHT

HAD POURED HIMSELF OUT

FOR THE SAKE OF MANKIND

AND WAS NOW, HIMSELF,

JUST A.. MAN.

FOR THREE

SOLID HOURS

SEPARATED FROM THE LIGHT

THE SON OF GOD AGONIZED

IN UTTER DARKNESS

LITERALLY ENDURING

A LIVING HELL..

BECAUSE HE

WAS DYING FOR

THOSE WHO

WOULD BELIEVE

ON HIM AND

BE SAVED

- AND FOR

THOSE WHO

WOULD DENY

HIM AND ENTER

INTO HELL

FOR ALL

ETERNITY.

TO THIS DAY,

OUR SIN

SEPARATES US

FROM THE FATHER.

WE REMAIN IN

UTTER DARKNESS

UNTIL WE

ALLOW JESUS

TO RESTORE US

TO THE LIGHT

OF HIS FATHER'S PRESENCE

THROUGH SALVATION.

"Now from the sixth hour until the ninth, there was darkness over all the land.

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying

"Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" Which is to say,

"My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" ~ St. Matthew 27:45-46