Bethany Independent Presbyterian Church

Myanmar

Poems

Poems

Poems

The LORD Does Care

 

Worries overwhelm and doubts arise
When everything seems to slip away;
My prayers will ascend to God afresh
Because I know the LORD does care

Sorrows plunge in and tears drop
When my secret fears shake my hope;
My salvation will descend from Him alone
Because I know the LORD does care

Mercy reigns over and peace prevails
When God arises to attend to my cry;
That day of deliverance is at the door
Because I know the LORD does care

 

Inspiration from 1 Peter 5:7
By Pastor Tomas Zatel

23 August 2020

Let Your Will Be Done

 

When life seems unfair and the future uncertain
Help and steadfast hope, our God shall truly give
Of this He promises us in all the Scriptures
Let us take them to our hearts seriously

When road gets tough and the going slippery
Strength and stamina, the LORD will surely grant
This, He provides for us through the Holy Spirit
Let us abide by the command constantly

When the hardest hits us; We are at loss what to do
One thing we must ask God is ‘Let Your will be done, O LORD!’
Whatever He wills is good and remains best for us
No matter how we are, ‘Let Your will be done for us, A men!’

 

Inspiration from Matthew 26:42; 6:9-13
By Pastor Tomas

23 August 2020

The LORD Has A Plan

 

The LORD has a plan for you and me
Let us stop devising ours to thrive
The WORD is given to you and me
Let us start believing it to live

The LORD paves a way for you and me
Down on the road is a future and hope
Only if we dare to follow Him
The LORD shows us His way to you and me
The way ahead is tough and steep
Only for us who walk by faith

The LORD has a thought for you and me
Let us cease wondering with what ‘ifs’
The LORD will lead us in triumph
As we surrender all our ways to Him

 

Inspiration from Isaiah 55:8-9; Jeremiah 29:10-11
Pastor Tomas Zatel

23 August 2020

The LORD Who Hears Us

 

The LORD indeed is a great and mighty God
Honoring the LORD as such is s a precept to follow
May we humbly seek to bless the LORD in our praise

 

We shall rise up to attest to the LORD
That He is the LORD who attends to our prayers offered
May we seek together to bless the LORD in our prayers

 

We sought the LORD and He heard our cries
He delivered us from all our fears, real and imagined
Let us bless the LORD who acts on behalf of us the poor

 

Inspiration from Psalm 34; 41
By Pastor Tomas Zatel

16 August 2020

The Promises Of God

 

God’s promises come to us in various forms
We are bound to learn more of who God is
If we are to take heed to His voice wholeheartedly

 

God always does things as He speaks
It was how God created things out of nothing
It is how God will honor all of His Word definitely

 

God works in us mightily as He promises
He comforts us much in our afflictions
He establishes us as His chosen people all together

 

We were born again to glorify God alone
Abiding by the Word is the way to do so
Let us seek to treasure the Word that lasts forever

 

Inspiration from Isaiah 55:11, Matthew 24:35;
Psalm 119:58, 65; 2 Corinthians 1:20-22
By Pastor Tomas Zatel

16 August 2020

Bless the LORD…

 

How would we bless the Lord indeed?
He blesses us in abundance; we are His beneficiaries
We thus bow to acknowledge that He is our everything

 

Why would we bless the Lord in fact?
For all the blessings He has bestowed
For all the love and care He has shown
Why not we bless the Lord afresh?

 

The Lord gives and forgives;
We are bloomed and pardoned
The Lord heals and redeems;
We are relieved and prospered
The Lord loves and feeds us;
We are renewed and prolonged
For this and others, must we bless Him all the times

 

We are dust. This, the Lord knows and remembers
We are His. This, the Lord assures us of in Christ
For this and others, must we bless Him all the day

 

Inspiration from Psalm 103
By Pastor Tomas

16 August 2020

Great is the LORD…

 

 

Great is the Lord in His power: Manifold are His creations

He needs no help or aid to create

He simply fashions us for His glory

Great is the Lord in His wisdom; Marvelous are all His works

He asks not for idea nor counsel to proceed

He merely designs us for His purpose

 

Great is the Lord in His care; Multitude seeks food from Him

He needs no sustenance to sustain others

He kindly feeds us day and night

 

Great is the Lord in His judgment; Mankind He judges in truth

He removes all the wicked once for all

He finally reigns over us ‘in the light’

 

Great is the LORD in all that He is; Let us bless the LORD as such!

We are His, and He is ours; Let us bless Him now and always!

 

Inspiration from Psalm 104, Psalm 36:9
Written by Pastor Tomas Zatel

16 August 2020

The Blessed vs the Cursed

 

 

Blessed is

He who stays away from the wicked

Cursed is

He who seduces others to the evils

Only those who have no part with God-mockers

Such ones, God will surely bless!

 

Blessed is

He who meditates in the Law of the Lord

Cursed is

He who devises what is wrong within

Only if we are delighted in the Scriptures

Then only, will the Lord bless us!

 

Blessed is

He whose way is right and righteous

Cursed is

He who shall perish in his own way

Only those of us who walk by the Word

Forever, will we stay ‘blessed’

 

Inspiration from Psalm 1; 15:4, 1 Corinthians 15:33
By Pastor Tomas Zatel

18 July 2020

A Growing Faith

 

Jesus was concerned if He would find faith

When He returns

Let us ensure that our faith will grow

As time passes

A mustard seed that is tiny yet alive,

To this, the Lord likens our faith

Problems in life are anything but hard

Of this, the Lord assures us

 

What would such a genuine faith in God

Is capable of?

It makes sense of all that we are called

To go through

It helps us deepen our love for the Lord,

His Word, and His peoples

It aids us to carry others on our shoulders

As the need arises in life

 

How may we cultivate a growing faith

As we ought to?

Let us seek to let the Word of God sink

Into our hearts

When knowledge enters into the heart

Wisdom, it has become indeed

Faith, after all, is divine wisdom nourished

In the written Word of God

 

 

Inspiration from Matthew 17:20; Luke 18:8; Genesis 18:14: Pro.2:2,10-11; 1 Tim.4:6; Matt.13:32
By Pastor Tomas Zatel

28 June 2020

ငါချစ်ရာသခင်သည် ငါ့ကို ဆိုင်တော်မူ၏

 

ကိုးလလွယ်…ဆယ်လဖွား
အမိရဲ့စွမ်းအားနဲ့အတူ
ကိုယ်စွမ်း ဉာဏ်စွမ်း
ရှိသမျှ အစွမ်းတွေထုတ်
ကြိုးစားလို့ လုပ်အားပြ
ရှေ့ဆောင်လို့သွားကြတဲ့
ဖခင်များရဲ့အစွမ်း
အံ့မခန်းပါပဲ။

 

အမေ့လို….
မျက်ရည်မထွက်ပေမယ့်
ချွေးစက်စက်ကျခဲ့ရတယ်။
သားချော့တဲ့တေး – မသီကြွေးရပေမယ့်
လူတွေရဲ့ကြား – ခါးသီးမှုတွေ မျိုသိပ်ခဲ့ရတယ်။
ထမင်းဟင်းချက် – ခွံ့မကျွေးခဲ့ရပေမယ့်
ဒီထမင်းဟင်း – အဆင်သင့်ဖြစ်ဖို့
နေပူမိုးရွာ – လှုပ်ရှားခဲ့ရတယ်။

အိမ်တွင်းမှာလျှော်ဖွပ် – အိမ်မှုတွေမပြုရပေမယ့်
ပူပြင်းတဲ့နေရောင်အောက် – ကျောပြင်ကို တောင့်တင်းပြီး
လောကဓံကိုရင်ဆိုင် – မိသားစုတွက်ယှဉ်ပြိုင်ရင်း
ဖိနပ်ပါးအောင်လျှောက်ခဲ့ရတယ်။

 

ဒီတော့ –
အဖေ့အတွက်….
အမေ့ရဲ့တွဲလက်ဆက်နေပါမှ –
အမောလည်းပြေ – အားမာန်တွေပြည့်
ရှေ့ဆက်မယ့်လမ်း – ဘယ်လောက်ကြမ်းစေ

 

အဖေ….
ပျော်မှာသေချာတယ်။

Lwan Thu (Pagu)

22 June 2020

Abba, Father

 

Father of lights spoke from heaven above

‘This is my beloved,’ as Jesus had Himself baptized

This is the confidence the Lord Jesus embraced

Despite all the challenges He had to go through

 

Christ our Savior had come as one of us

‘You are my brethren,’ He lovingly declared unto us

The Lord our God, thus, is our Father together

We are God’s beloved, just as Christ Jesus is

 

The Lord Himself taught us to address God

‘Our Father in heaven,’ whenever we seek His favor

This is the creed of faith we all must cherish

No matter how oblivious our future may appear

 

The Spirit of God adopts us as God’s own

‘Abba, Father;’ This, we utter as we pray unto God

This is the spirit of faith we all share with Christ

May we honor ‘Abba, our Father,’ now and forever

 

Inspiration from Mathew 3:17, 6:9 ff; Hebrews 2:11, Romans 8:15-16
By Pastor Tomas Zatel

21 June 2020

The Promises of God

 

God’s promises come to us in various forms
We are bound to learn more of who God is
If we are to take heed to His voice wholeheartedly

God always does things as He speaks
It was how God created things out of nothing
It is how God will honor all of His Word definitely

God works in us mightily as He promises
He comforts us much in our afflictions
He establishes us as His chosen people all together

We were born again to glorify God alone
Abiding by the Word is the way to do so
Let us seek to treasure the Word that lasts forever

Inspiration from Isaiah 55:11, Matthew 24:35; Psalm 119:58, 65; 2 Corinthians 1:20-22
By Pastor Tomas Zatel

20 June 2020