The Book of Promise

On the promises of God we shall stand

All we know of God, all we understand

Is revealed in the Word of God alone

In that precious Word, our God is known

In these precious promises we are told

How the history of mankind shall unfold

We see salvation’s source in its pages

The word shall stand throughout eternal ages

So on this book of promise we shall stand

It is good news for each believing man

All other words shall pass like shifting sand

On the very Word of God, We shall stand

It shows us our iniquities and sin

It tells the cure for who we are within

Like a mirror we can see

We fall short of God’s glory

And it shows us where our righteousness begins

So on this book of promise we shall stand

It is good news for each believing man

All other words shall pass like shifting sand

On the very Word of God, We shall stand

November 19, 2024

Anthony Foster

Jesus, Gift of Grace

Jesus, Jesus, gift of Grace you are my righteousness and joy

Through every circumstance I face your very presence I enjoy

I in You and you in me, for freedom, you have set me free

My confidence and only plea is in Jesus alone

Jesus, Jesus gift of Grace, my redemption and my peace

I will humbly give you praise, our perfect pure High Priest

We find sufficient grace to do all that you call us to.

All power to overcome is in You- found in Jesus alone

Jesus, Jesus, gift of Grace Now in you we are one

Before you now we plead our case and victory is won

In this union we will find our hearts together you will bind

This is the plan that you designed through Jesus alone

Jesus Jesus gift of grace all that we may achieve

All we’ve done and all we have is what we have received

All we steward, all we own, All the love that we have known 

If we can stand before your throne, it is through Jesus alone.

Jesus, Jesus gift of Grace you will be our guide

For you’ve come to dwell in us and in you we will hide

All our sin you will forgive, Now in you we move and live, 

Existing in the grace you give we hope in Jesus alone

Jesus, Jesus gift of Grace In you we find our rest

As we cast ourselves upon this truth we have confessed

By your grace this race we’ve run By your life we overcome, 

Even when our days are done we live in Jesus alone.

November 19, 2024

Anthony Foster

Stranded in Time

Dad's Watch

Time waits for no one Time is a beast

It’s wheel runs you under You greatest and least

It grinds you so slowly, it grinds you so fine

And as it increases you will decline

Resistance is futile it carries you on

And like a tornado what once was is gone 

This whirlwind blows through you and blow it must

It rattles your bones and scatters your dust

You know our creator has numbered our days

In step with the Spirit, we’ve reason to praise

For soon we’ll be singing a heavenly song

Redemption is coming and it won’t be long

Step into the now- the mystery prime

Until that day comes we are stranded in time.

Eternity beckons, when time is no more

Abundantly blessing, and never a bore

Eternal progress- alive in  God’s Light

There in the presence of everything Right

And so weary pilgrim walk this wilderness

For here you must reckon the trust and the test

The stranding has purpose, a reason and rhyme

The sojourn is calling so redeem the time

You know our creator has numbered our days

In step with the Spirit, we’ve reason to praise

For soon we’ll be singing a heavenly song

Redemption is coming and it won’t be long

Step into the now- the mystery prime

Until that day comes we are stranded in time.

Galatian 6:9; Ecclesiastes 3:1; 

1 John 2:17; Psalm 90:12

November 16, 2024

Anthony Foster

The Founder

I’ve known some blazes of my own

A burning fire inside my bones

A holocaust of holiness

Set by some alien righteousness

Like no other I have ever known

There’s a man in the fire with me

Who shines His light to make me see

To this glory I am turning

For the burning is a yearning

For the true fire that will set me free

He is the founder of the flame

To purify me is His aim

So he stokes the holy heat

Till my undoing is complete

And I will never be the same

Cast into the righteous mold

A new man risen from the old

To His image now to be conformed 

Till my likeness is transformed

Then the maker’s mark you might behold.

He is the founder of the flame

To purify me is His aim

And so He stokes the holy heat

Till my undoing is complete

And I will never be the same

November 10, 2024

Anthony Foster

That's the Way the Wheel Turns

That’s the way the wheel turns

You can count on it being true

Men build their Babels and live in those towers

Any presupposition will do.

But  the walls keep tumbling down

The truth is still setting men free

So pity the fool and the clown

Who thinks they write their destiny

So turn on the light And let the wheels turn

The blind get their sight When the True truth they learn.

You may think you’re smarter than God

You may think it’s all under control

But when it shakes out at the end of the day

You just only fooling your soul

The factory of idols churns

All pretty and shallow and bright

There’s some kind of worship at every turn

But who forgot to turn on the light

So turn on the light And let the wheels turn

The blind get their sight When the True truth they learn.

Assumptions are having your spirit for lunch

When you go with your feelings or go with a hunch

That’s just the way the wheel turns today 

What goes around comes around they say

For every win there a loss and a related gut punch

Yeah, turn on the light And let the wheels turn

The blind get their sight When the True truth they learn.

So turn on the light And let the wheels turn

The blind get their sight When the True truth they learn.

November 9, 2024

Anthony Foster

Right Now Counts Forever

Like dew that settles on the grass

Like the flower that blooms in the night

Like the leaves that the autumn devours

Like the fog that fades in the light

Flickering semblance, evanescent

A vanishing vapor in the wind

The sun  will rise and darkness dies

Life is fragile unto its very end

Life is fleeting, life is fleeting

These fugitive days surely pass

Time is transcient, momentary

So savor the moments while they last

Bridge

Grass withers and flowers fade

We begin to die as we take our first breath

A mist that rises and then is gone

But in Christ our end is not met in our death

Life is fleeting , life is precious

We are simply servant stewards of our days

Our very present counts forever

And the unseen light must define our ways

Though we will sleep in the dust

Time to eternity is bound

Every secret thing will be revealed

When we rise again and our new life is found

Life is fleeting, life is fleeting

These fugitive days surely pass

Time is transcient, momentary

So savor the moments while they last

November 9, 2024

Anthony Foster