Whispers Of Grace Membership
It won't take you long to understand that my views of God and humanity are seen through a different lens. 43 yrs ago when I was saved, I was Dairy farming here in New Zealand. At that time I was milking 180 cows twice each day.
About 4 weeks after I was born again, I was bringing the cows in for milking and thanking God for the beautiful day. He interrupted my thoughts and spoke something to me which I have never forgotten. I can even remember which paddock I was walking through when He said: “Now you can decide whether you will walk with Me or walk with the church”. Because I was so young and didn't know anything about church structures, I asked Him what does He mean by that statement?
He said this “If you walk with Me you will have trouble with the church and if you walk with the church you will have trouble with ME!”
This verse, from Songs in the Passion Translation, summarizes how I was feeling after hearing those words.
Song of Songs 5:4 TPT
[4] My beloved reached into me to unlock my heart. The core of my very being trembled at his touch. How my soul melted when he spoke to me!
To be honest with you I was stunned and those words have echoed within me ever since.
5 years later God called me into the ministry. The church that I pastored owned the local Christian bookstore and prior to Christmas I was selecting some gifts from the shop for the voluntary staff. I was about to write them into the sales book when God said said to me “put them all back and take 5 blank cards home and give them something from the pastor's desk”
I asked God what to write, 2 hours later I had 5 prophetic messages written in the form of a 3 stanza rhyming poem for each volunteer. The exciting end of the story was during the following year God fulfilled those messages to each person!
This verse sums up how I was feeling as I wrote those cards, it was like He dictated them to me!
Song of Songs 5:13 Passion Translation: Last part of this verse: No one speaks words so anointed as this one— words that both pierce and heal, words like lilies dripping with myrrh.
This was the beginning of my journey writing poetry. I have a level of dyslexia which God has been healing for me. My spelling and grammatical skills are abysmal but are improving. I love Google spelling checker! By writing poetry regularly, my skills have significantly improved.
I was struggling with the rhyming stanza formats of writing poetry, and this made my writing burdensome. A few years after I started writing I couldn't stand it anymore, so I made a major but difficult decision. On a cold winter morning, I poured myself a coffee and sat in front of a warming fire. I read each poem through and made my decision, placing each one into the fire! I said goodbye to my entire collection of over 600 poems! I felt a sense of scary freedom after doing that.
From that point forward, my writing style shifted from a structured, formal, rhyming style to a prose format, a change that continues to this day. I didn't write another poem for some months after that until I received a request for a wedding poem. I was delighted with the new prose style of writing that flowed from my pen.
The goal of this membership is to share my poetry journey with you. There are many exciting and challenging twists on this road, which is called life! It's still our greatest mentor as God uses every part of it and the interactions we have to fashion our heart. As scripture says we are the clay and He the potter.
Isaiah 64:8 NKJV
[8] But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.
My poetry has been read from pulpits, wedding receptions and funerals.
There will be a mixture of content in this membership. You log in daily and the drip fed content you receive can be used as devotional input to meditate on.
What you will receive
- Poetry based upon scripture.
- Revelations.
- Godly principles.
- Written conversations with God.
- Questions and meditations.
- All of these will be mixed and matched to make up this content.
- These can also be used as study material or discussion topics for small groups.
Most importantly, this content will enhance your relationship with God and inspire your daily walk.
Every person must experience God for themselves. Your personal experience will be unique, although similar with other believers. Unfortunately, we tend to compare with each other rather than digging in to establish a wonderful deep intimacy with God.
The goal of this membership is to spiritually feed people with unique content from the Scriptures which enhances their intimacy and relational experience with God.
$7.97/month, and you can cancel at any time.