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Flowers In My Mind….

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Today is my birthday!

I turn 52.

The beach is one of my favourite places.

It’s a powerful place to write SOAPY poetry.

Enjoy my new poem WordPress bloggers and all readers. I love you all.

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God made your mind.

God reads your mind.

God heals your mind.

God speaks to your mind.

A clean mind is strong.

A grubby mind is weak.

The clean mind

Was cleansed by God.

It was renewed

And made sweet.

Your mind of Christ

Is not pointless.

Your mind of Christ

No joke!

Your mind of Christ

Needs full attention.

It’s there to do SOAP.

SOAP stands for

Scripture

Observation

Application and

Prayer.

It’s a Bible method

Christians use

That leads to spiritual care.

Do you want a heavenly mind?

A mind with God’s design?

Then speak this sentence aloud

“Dear God, renew my mind.”

The bowl at your table

Has fruit.

Fresh fruit that you can see

The fruit that is in your mind

Is spiritual

And of

A hidden kind.

The fruit of my thoughts

Are living

The fruits of my thoughts

Are real.

There are good fruits

And bad fruits

But they are still real.

God reads every mind 24/7,

Why do you hide your mind?

When God is there already,

You cannot close these blinds.

God speaks to me

And then I stop!

It’s a choice

I need to make.

I need to think

“With Jesus”

And for the Gospel’s sake!

The sun comes out

Sweet flowers bloom,

Inside my Christ-filled mind.

How did I renew

My thought life

When I refused

the world’s design?

I gave my heart to Jesus!

I asked Him

To cleanse my mind.

I saw souls, chains and prison bars,

Held captive

In Satan’s mind.

I saw the

Puppeteer

And puppets

Following

His evil mind.

I once was

Held bondage there

But Christ freed my mind.

Dear person reading this

Please stop and reconsider,

“Do you have a chained mind?”

If not freed, your soul will wither.

As a Christian poet writing this

I ask you this today

“Do you believe He is there?”

Or don’t you even care?

I pause and then

I hear you shout

“Does He truly care?”

“Where is there, Helen Olenjin?”

“I’m confused about there.”

I answer back

As a Christian poet

Writing to you….

There = your mind.

There = your thoughts.

There = only just two.

It’s only God and you!

For a lifelong journey

It will never be another!

So based on this fact,

Understand, now

You never think undercover!

You will always

Be thinking

In front of God’s throne.

So keep your mind pure

As you are never alone.

Now that you know this

Pray to God today

“Renew my mind

Dear Creator

I want your healing

Without delay!

Dear Jesus guide

My thoughts

Your power

Will set me free.

I don’t want

My mind to hide!

I want my mind

Set free!”

Read the Bible

Dear person reading this

Then ask Jesus

To enter your heart.

Ask Him to forgive you

Of your sins

And make a fresh start.

Be on cautious think alert

24/7.

Keep all your thoughts pure and clean

Think like you are in heaven.

Isn’t it worth living for Christ?

Only He can set your mind free.

Stop thinking in the dark.

Ask God to cleanse your heart.

He is your Power Source

That is not an earthly kind.

His mind power is of heaven

And of supernatural design.

If you think with your own power

You will never leave this earth.

But if you think with

The Spirit of Christ

You will experience new birth.

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Scared To Take The First Step?

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What have you been working on?
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This poem!

Enjoy reading it, dear WordPress Christian writers!

Scared to take the first step?

Dear Christian,

Is God calling you too?

Then don’t take it yet,

Let God guide you through.

Take His sub-step.

And even smaller still.

This incremental journey,

Is always God’s will.

You see His steps,

They come in rows.

They are designed by God

To help you grow.

There are many

With special designs.

These steps stop and start

And are heavenly and divine.

If far apart, just stop and wait.

You know that Jesus Christ is never late.

Be patient and still

And watch your steps.

1, 2, 3, 4.

Is Jesus knocking at your door?

“You make good sense,

Christian poet,”

I hear you say.

“But I am so afraid today.”

I answer back

But then I pause.

I see you

Kneeling on the floor.

I see you praying,

“Lord, there’s more!

Why cannot my spirit soar?

I want to grow

And use my gifts

But I am scared

To take this major shift.”

Then I pray again

As a poet

Answering you.

I’m writing this

To help me too.

Not for pride,

But only because

Jesus lives inside.

God’s calling us

Not the dust.

His spiritual gifts

Are not mere crusts.

He has given us

Light and salt.

This divine light

Must never halt.

Spiritual gifts

Lie shelved

And silent.

Like in a vault,

They’re quietly defiant.

These steps are dead.

They bear no fruit

They sadly miss

What Jesus said.

He said, “I am the living bread.”

A Christian gift =useless salt,

If no action is taken

And Christ’s work halts.

Passive and still,

No light on a hill!

Snuffed out

And frail,

Under a veil.

Use your gifts

Without delay!

Only then will

You shout “Hurray!”

Start small and humble,

Come hold my hand.

We’ll do this together

Just as God planned.

One sub-step leads to two and three.

No steps taken, equal

A barren lifeless tree.

Start in the poco a poco

Meaning gradually.

Like a piano player

Playing incrementally.

Then 4 5 6 steps

Will unfold naturally.

Don’t you see

A brand new Jesus tree?

The fruits here grow truly fast,

When Jesus Christ

Is never put last.

The death of carnality,

Plus God’s spirituality,

Brings God’s holy dove

And a supernatural love.

Using your gift produces a light!

It attracts others 

To bring delight!

See how you shine

When you serve God all day?

See how the lost

Are drawn in today?

 

Written by Helen Olenjin

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Stop Worrying About Money

Recently I had an experience that really encouraged me and helped me to look at life more simply.

It was the understanding of turning my physical issues into spiritual ones. And then simply trusting God.

How did this occur?

Through applying SOAP once again!

SOAP stands for Scripture, Observation, Application and Prayer.

Recently our tap in our main bathroom would not turn off. We rang the plumber who came out to fix the issue. After he checked out the situation, he quoted us an amount of over $600! I was stressed out and wondered if he was ripping us off. I am sure you know what I am talking about.

Whether you are at the dentist, or mechanic or dealing with an area you know nothing about, you know what I mean when I say, I felt completely ignorant about plumbing issues.

Even when the plumber explained it twice, I still had no idea what he was talking about! Which obviously meant that I felt unable to make a decision if his quote was fair and reasonable.

My husband was working from home that day and told the plumber to go ahead with the quote, but I was still boiling underneath! Why did we have to pay so much? But sometimes in life we must. There is no time to goggle, get more quotes, or do research as the plumber is standing in front of you!

“It is what it is.”

My teenage son uses this quote all the time. Some decisions need to be made on the spot! This is where we need to trust God and ask Him to intervene if what is happening is not His will.

I love this emergency trust concept! Here we learn to trust God on the spot! And know that He is in control, not the plumber!

So I prayed silently to God and the plumber continued on with his work.

As I surrendered to the inevitable, I knew I had to trust God with this plumbing invoice. Even if we were ripped off, (and maybe we weren’t), that wasn’t the issue. I realized I could turn this physical issue into a spiritual one and once doing that, the “lack-lie” disappeared.

Of course, God had the money to pay our invoices for life! In God’s economy, money does grow on trees. “And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

Or as my son said some time ago, “For some reason you have a million dollars in your bank account. You go to your transaction area to check out how this happened and you see that God had transferred it as you saw the words, God, Transfer.”

Yes, we do have this million bucks and even more! We just can’t see it. Yet. Spiritual currency is my point here.

So of course, God would pay this invoice as his resources were unlimited. But if I kept looking at it with my physical eyes and just seeing our lack of resources, I would have seen a deficit.

This is the view I saw initially – 1)The plumber standing there 2) A tap that needed fixing 3) Our bank account robbed once again!

The view God wanted me to see was the SOAP view. 1)He would pay for this 2) I needed to trust Him 3)I needed to love my husband and not argue about this. All biblical concepts! What an easier way to live!

In the evening, after talking to my husband about my cringe over the high plumbing bill, my view changed to one of trusting God even if I was ripped off. I realized how I needed to change my earthly issues into spiritual ones. Then I would experience God’s peace and his unlimited provisions.

I had just heard about a couple who were planning on separating and I felt very sad about this. I wondered if they had argued about irrelevant things when they could have SOAPED instead. Then their trust in God may have increased as well as their love for each other.

I saw God’s point and it was a profound moment of understanding in my marriage. I kissed my husband and said, “We don’t need to argue about this. We just need to love each other more.”

I am glad we remembered this. A number of years ago my husband and I agreed to love each other even more if life got tougher. Instead of disagreeing over plumbing bills and the stress of life, we had the choice to grow in love for each other and walk in the spirit.

Doing the above is SOAP in action.

Now I am thinking how simple life is when earthly issues are turned into SOAP immediately.

Not ten days after when you have ruined your love, peace and joy!

God never said, “Worry for ten days, then when you are done, hand it to me.”

Rather he wants us to start walking and praying in the spirit the second after a new wobble hits.

Now I understand that everything must be done through the spirit.

In this place, God’s strength and power is unlimited. We can pray and trust for a very long time as we are not doing this but Christ IS.

John 4:24 says, “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the spirit and in truth.”

“Dear God. Please help me to view every issue through the eyes of Your spirit and not through the limitations of the temporal.”

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Who Do You Turn To For The Best Advice?

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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
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To follow Jesus…..

His death on the cross completely changed my life.

I am 51 years old.

I became a Christian when I was around 16 years old.

What happened during 16 to 51?

Do I not believe anymore?

No.

I still believe.

I still pray.

I still read the Bible.

I am still sealed with the Holy Spirit after all these long years!

Would I dare say I am being deceived by God?

Never!

I can only say what Jesus said, “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.”

I am set free and believe this with my whole heart, soul and mind.

If you meet a person who asks for some advice, start with Jesus first, not the advice.

When He has first place in your life, even the advice you receive is perfect as it comes from Him. That’s the whole point…to ask Him first!

So, how do I get the best advice?

Turn to Jesus and ask Him first.

Don’t turn to advice just yet.

Advice cannot save your soul.

Advice is non omnipresent.

Advice is always limited.

Advice may be a false absolute.

Advice cannot see your future.

Advice that comes from God, not man, is never a lie.

This is perfect absolute advice.

Only then, will you know what to do.

Simple!

Turn to God first.

Never the advice first.

Only then, will you say, “That’s the best advice I have ever heard!”

Then when you put God first place, He will guide you to the best advice resources, and this help will come from a selected person He chooses.

Why would you exclude God from any area of your life?

Enjoy my poems/posts at helenolenjin.life ❤️

Two new Christian poems are coming soon!

Love you all, Joyful Human Prompters! Xx

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Daily writing prompt
What brings you peace?
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There Is Never A Time To Forget God

When you remember God, you will have peace, dear Christian. Enjoy this poem I wrote for you.

Remember that peace that passes all understanding? The supernatural peace the Bible talks about? It is yours today and it is free!

Praise you Jesus for free peace.

My Poem

There is never a time

To put God last

There is never a time

To quit your fast

There is never a time

To not trust Him

There is never a time

To worry and sin

There is never a time

To compromise your faith

There is never a time

To believe Jesus is late

There is never a time

To show fake love

There is never a time

To ignore

God’s whispering dove

There is never a time

To stop shining

There is never a time

To keep lying

There is never a time

To not read your Bible

There is never a time

To serve human idols

There is never a time

To keep useless treasures

There is never a time

To stop 😌 relaxing leisure

You need a rest

So read my poem

I promise you

It’s not too long

To follow God’s will

Is always right

To unfollow the world

Is God’s delight!

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One Job At A Time

Daily writing prompt
Describe your life in an alternate universe.
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Firstly, let me explain something.

This is not a poetry post but you are all welcome to read my poems! They will really bless your day because God really blest me when I wrote them! Keep scrolling down to find them.

Yesterday was a really stressful day for me. When I saw this daily writing prompt I thought, “Yes! I would like to write about yesterday but in a way that if I lived IT again, this alternative here would be far better.”

This writing exercise is helping me to avoid the errors of yesterday.

So firstly, let’s talk about the actual universe I existed in yesterday.

I was acting like I had a strict deadline meaning the whole day was an emergency. In reality, the day was not that way.

  • I was feeling quite sick
  • I was helping my daughter with a job
  • I received a message that we owed over $2000 to a Government Department
  • I was doing personal laptop work relating to income, tax and finances
  • I was thinking about the guest coming tomorrow
  • I was thinking about the cleaning in the house that needed doing
  • I was thinking that I still hadn’t organised dinner for the family
  • I was thinking that I still hadn’t gone to the shops
  • I was stressed about a debt in the future that hadn’t even arrived yet

But as I analysed this later, I realised that there was only one job I needed to do, not all of the above! Even the one job I was doing, was not an emergency and I still had time to do it! I was operating with many fictional burdens that didn’t even exist but burdens that I was carrying even so.

Why?

I was essentially operating in a brainless fashion.

Stress does this to you. When you are stressed, it is easy to make poor decisions and your brain goes out the window.

I like to say, “Use your brain, don’t lose your brain.” Meaning….if you use your brain calmly, you will keep cool cognition flowing and you will function at peak performance.

Stress cannot be our driver, as it lies, distorts, thinks of the future and doesn’t operate with the mind of Christ.

Stress can operate without the brain, it specialises in mental crashes, including spiritual ones.

I even asked God yesterday, “Why do you leave me so broken?”

Meaning, I don’t want to feel stressed and struggle all the time! I want to feel what You are precisely telling us in Your Word. To remain permanently and perpetually calm.

As I think about all this now, I realised that I was not operating in God’s will yesterday. He already knew life was sinful, broken and messy but it did not need to be that sinful, that broken, that messy, in the way that I was operating outside His will. I was “over the top messy” with extra burdens that God didn’t tell me to carry and I was causing myself more pain by a completely unrealistic To Do List that God didn’t even write up for me.

In this alternate universe, I would go back and tweak yesterday. The whole day! I would change it by the hindsight I had today. I would live as God wanted me to live without the mess I had actually already experienced. I would live in this alternate universe, where God would be teaching me the whole time so that either living in the current or “other universe” I would be growing in both dimensions, the way God desired.

The good news? Even though we cannot go back and tweak yesterday, God already knows past, future and present.

There is no alternate universe for us. Not yet anyway!

But God is in all universes if they exist!

Based on His omnipresent leading, He will help you and me to live calmer today because He put this thought in our minds, “God will help me to trust Him as this is 100% His will, 100% of the time.”

Living in the spirit is the only way to maximise your spiritual coolness!

When you start getting hot in the flesh, like I did yesterday, a good thing to remember is to live like you only have one job to do.

Until that job is done, you only have one!

One job!

Forget the rest, dear Christian!

You could be in heaven by the end of the day.

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Hunger Comes In Waves

This poem I wrote tonight is helping me with my intermittent fasting. It’s not always easy eating less but I realise that praying and being with God Himself, will help me conquer certain habits. Humour is a good way 😄 to grow. A merry heart is good medicine, remember? (Proverbs 17:22)

Hunger has no hands.

But fatty plans.

But still it waves.

It comes and goes.

It shouts, Hurray!

Break your fast!

I’m a weak state!

I cannot last today!

I must break.

Oh stop, I say.

Your just a wuss.

You have no soul.

Like a lifeless puss.

Be gone today.

Your just a wave.

In a big black hole!

Just go away.

Your off the track.

Your only lack.

You feed my shell.

You always come back.

I don’t like you.

Your such a pain.

You stuff the flesh!

And then eat again.

Me without you, I’m better off.

I don’t feed you, I’m gonna stop!

I feel your twinge.

Still I won’t cringe.

I will not say –

“Boohoo, I broke my fast today.”

Goodbye hunger!

See my wave?

Jesus fasted, He leads today.

I’ll follow Him, please do not stay.

I’ll sing and pray without delay. 🙏

I’ll feed my soul.

And not my flesh.

I’ll pray dear God to You today.

I’ll drink.

I’ll rest and rest some more. 😌

Then off to bed.

My prayers are said.

I feel much stronger!

My soul is fed.

Thank you Lord! 😊

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Plant Pure Seeds

Once upon a time, a weed wore a mask. The mask was a flower. The weed was still a weed. The weed fooled others. But not God. Finally, the weed understood. It thought, “I need to be a flower for real. Only here can I make an amazing difference to the world!”

Good morning dear root I say.

How are you today?

Are you growing God’s way?

Let me check, I hear it say,

I know Jesus is the Way.

Were my seeds planted in good soil?

Or were my seeds in carnal turmoil?

As a root, I check what’s what.

Is Jesus at the top?

Meaning if He’s not,

I need to stop.

I need to pray.

I need to say, I plant a brand new way.

But first, I check my heart.

Hey, but stop I say today.

Your root has no heart, Ok?

A heart I do not have.

The root replies.

But I know your heart,

The one that cries.

For this heart, your

Saviour died!

Your heart that breaks apart

When Jesus Christ is put last.

Your right I say.

Jesus is the way!

I am Helen Olenjin.

Today and always!

I am on the way!

I am seeing roots today.

What can you teach me, I hear myself say.

I am a child of God.

Don’t go away.

God help me not to go astray.

Wait.

I pause.

I hear a knock at the door.

The door is in my heart.

It’s a still small voice.

It whispers

Make a fresh start.

I stop and pray.

Then I hear the root say

I am just a root.

Check your own fruit!

Is it pure and clean?

Is your soul pristine?

So I begin again.

I know that Jesus reigns.

I am Helen Olenjin.

Life is not a game.

I do not like fake fruit.

And I must check the root.

Is Jesus at the top?

Or is my life a big fat flop?

Am I a plant that looks like Groot?

But at the root, there’s bitter fruit.

A root that’s sick

Can build no bricks.

Instead it’s sand and very bland.

The wise man built his house upon a rock.

The foolish man was only sand!

His roots were weak.

Jesus was last.

He didn’t pray.

He didn’t fast.

He only built worldly chaff.

He only wore a mask.

Ohhh, that’s fake I cried. But Jesus died!

That’s real and true. Aye, aye the root replied.

Don’t put Jesus last.

In this place is no mask.

He sets you free

To be yourself.

And follow Him

Unlike the shelf.

Think before you act.

Are you fake in sinful pacts?

If you are, no time for cake!

It’s time to make a fresh new state.

Surrender your whole beating heart.

Time is short.

You must start.

When you do, you plant again.

This time, God plants

And then it rains.

His seeds start small

But pure are they

And all too soon

you shout Hurray!

Praise God!

I see fruit!

Jesus is the holy root!

From the root grows

Light and salt

Only then, the fakeness halts!

Helen Olenjin replies,

Praise God, my Jesus died!

Now I run from roots that die.

Today I choose to never thirst

And I drink His waters

On His turf.

I never bury all the worst

As only then comes the curse.

Instead, I confess and pull the roots

On toxic plants and sinful shoots.

Then my heart plants again

With the Son

In God’s rain.

At last, my soul is set free again!

From sinful roots and carnality.

I hold God’s hand, I’m finally free.

I bow my head.

I’m fully healed.

And suddenly

My spirit kneels.

I lift my head

A breakthrough comes.

The chains break free

My Saviour comes.

I see him with a red red rose

His blood and beauty

Never cold.

He holds it out

It’s just for me.

I cry and say

You’ve set me free.

I thank You Lord

For loving me.

You healed my life

And bent my knee.

Don’t you see Him loving me?

He will heal yours

He did for me.

It’s time to plant

But watch your seeds.

There are good and bad

For all to see.

Unwrap your soul

And unwrap fast.

Jesus will come soon.

Time will soon pass.

In your new state

A new covering will come.

The blood of the Lamb

The only true Son.

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Refresh Your Child Soul – My Poem

Before you read further, I need to explain something.

I never write poetry.

I don’t read poetry.

Poetry is not my thing.

Poetry is not my gift.

The last time I wrote a poem was in High School.

However, recently that all changed.

As I was driving, three lines flashed through my mind.

They were unique and I had never heard them before.

What were the lines?

Not God’s will.

Not God’s work.

Not God’s way.

What followed after that?

An equal sign.

So what does -not God’s will, not God’s work, and not God’s way, produce?

Waste.

What does God’s will, God’s work, and God’s way, produce?

Wheat.

As I sat down to write again, this unique poem was birthed!

No, I wasn’t copying Doctor Seuss!

But I am glad it came out Seussy!

Why?

God sometimes uses humour to teach us things.

It is Ok to keep your child soul.

I think mine lives on even at 51 years of age!

So many adults are so stiff.

Many years ago, there was an older man I met who loved me!

I was a small child and he was like my senior Uncle.

He truly wished he could keep me in a bottle to stop me from growing up.

I hope I never did grow up!

This Seussy poem has refreshed my child soul.

I pray it also refreshes yours.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

God’s will.

God’s work.

God’s way.

I choose God’s will.

I choose God’s work.

I choose God’s way, I say.

If I choose

My will

My work

My way

Will I be OK?

I most certainly would, argues the clay.

I can see better today.

Hey, hey, I say.

You cannot see today.

You are not OK.

You are just a lump of clay.

Let me teach you, I say.

But first, let’s pray, OK?

I cannot pray. I’m only clay.

I see so well today.

You best be on your way!

Hey, I say,

You cannot be OK!

For Jesus is The Way.

Go away some people say.

I don’t need you today.

But will you have a better day?

When you push Him away?

What do you say?

Ok, I’m clay.

It’s odd today.

I see a better way.

But still I run away.

I see the dust.

I see God’s Way.

I need to choose today.

But be gone! I shout.

I’m fully set, OK!

As jelly gone astray, I trust my own wrong way!

I only bow to clay.

I’m off the track I say.

But this is my way!

But stop I say, Ok?

Your Potter speaks today.

What do I hear Him say?

Why do you run away?

When Jesus is the only Way?

Choose

My will

My work

My way.

You cannot go astray.

You need to stop and say,

Jesus is The Way.