Category: Poems on Missions

by Jeffrey Bush 10-2020

 

May your wealth be in the cross

Not in money, possessions, or fame.

How can you live a normal life? 

Instead of being consumed with His lovely name. 

 

 

He is worthy of absolutely everything, 

He deserves your time, your love, and your all.

What is stopping you from selling out? 

Do you not hear His beckoning call?

 

 

Are you willing to submit?

And lay your life down at His feet?

Or are you holding on too tightly,

Not knowing that your needs He can meet?

 

 

Can you say like the apostle Paul, 

That you count all your gain as loss? 

Do you hunger and thirst for righteousness?

Willing to follow no matter the cost? 

 

 

Have you grasped that God has a purpose? 

That life is not to be about you? 

God wants your life for His service, 

It’s time to surrender afresh and anew. 

by Jeffrey Bush 

Is your all on the altar 

A sacrifice laid?

Or are you living for self,

A life that will soon fade?

Is your all on the altar 

A sacrifice laid?

Will you surrender everything to God,

Or will your life be a foolish charade?

Is your all on the altar 

A sacrifice laid?

Or is family and possessions your priority?

Does surrendering to God make you afraid?

Is your all on the altar 

A sacrifice laid?

Is Christ truly your everything?

Or is the temporal your persuade?

Is your all on the altar 

A sacrifice laid?

What’s stopping you from going all in?

What are you not willing to trade?

May your all on the altar 

A sacrifice be laid.

Because a life fully consumed for Jesus,

Is the purpose for which you were made.

by Patricia Finrow Clark

We want to go to Heaven, 

But we cannot find the way.

Won’t someone come to tell us, 

To teach us how to pray? 

We want to go to Heaven, 

But which idol tells us true?

Oh children of America, 

We’re waiting now for you! 

The Lost are Crying Out

by Jeffrey Bush

 

Our ears are stopped up

with busyness, comfort and disinterest.

Yet the lost are crying out.

 

Our eyes are blurringly covered

with our own selfish dreams, desires and goals.

Yet the lost are crying out.

 

Our schedules are filled to the brim

with activities, family, friends and fun.

Yet the lost are crying out.

 

Our minds are full of ideas

of financial success, fame and self absorption.

Yet the lost are crying out.

 

Oh may we hear the cry and see the need.

We have the Command and must make the time

because the lost are crying out.

 

It’s high time to yield our all to God,

our plans, future, family and all.

To take the Good News to the lost that are still crying out.

 

What is Stopping You from Being Sold Out?

By Jeffrey Bush

What is holding you back

From giving God your all?

What is stopping you from being sold out? 

Can you sense the dear Master’s call? 

 

What would it take for you to give your time, family and life?

To yield, surrender and give God your all? 

What is stopping you from being sold out? 

Can you sense the dear Master’s call? 

 

Is it money, a job, a hobby, sin or a friend?

That’s holding you from giving God your all? 

What is stopping you from being sold out? 

Can you sense the dear Master’s call? 

 

There are millions without hope or chance of hearing

They know not the Gospel at all.

What is stopping you from being sold out? 

Can you sense the dear Master’s call? 

 

Our Lord is coming back very soon

Oh please give God your all. 

What is stopping you from being sold out? 

Can you sense the dear Master’s call? 

 

The Master’s call is to go and tell

Yet many seek comfort and pleasure overall. 

What is stopping you from being sold out? 

Can you sense the dear Master’s call? 

 

If It Were You

Author Unknown

If you were lost in the darkness and night,

with no one to show you the way.

Wouldn’t you want someone to send you the light,

And wouldn’t you want it today?

If sinking in evil traditions,

you were bound by what you believed.

Helpless and hopeless, Oh wouldn’t you want

a chance at least to be freed?

Would you want them to wait while they build a new homes,

and paid for a still better car.

Or while making the home base an elegant place,

before sending the message afar?

Would you want them to wait and table their plans

to expand on missions this year?

Because of the problems around the world

and the days of uncertainty here.

Would you want someone to send you the light

if you were dying and lost?

Oh I know that your answer would ring through the gloom,

please send it at any cost!

So let’s send out the message to the millions in need

that we might show them the way.

For if it were you who were dying and lost, you’d want it, and want it today!

Traveling On My Knees 

Author Unknown

Last night I took a journey

To a land across the seas

I didn’t go by ship or plane

I traveled on my knees.

I saw so many people there

In bondage to their sins,

And Jesus told me I should go,

That there were souls to win.

But I said, “Jesus, I can’t go

To lands across the seas.”

He answered quickly, “Yes, you can

By traveling on your knees.”

He said, “You pray, I’ll meet the need,

You call, and I will hear,

It’s up to you to be concerned

For lost souls far and near.”

And so I did, I knelt in prayer,

Gave up some hours of ease,

And with the Savior by my side,

I traveled on my knees.

As I prayed on, I saw souls saved

And twisted persons healed,

I saw God’s workers’ strength renewed

While laboring on the field.

I said, “Yes, Lord, I’ll take the job,

Your heart I want to please,

I’ll heed your call and swiftly go

By traveling on my knees.”

What is Stopping You

By Jeffrey Bush

What is stopping you from serving Jesus?

What is stopping you from selling all out? 

Is it your comfort, dreams, friends or own plans?

Is it sin, pleasures, fear or just plain doubt? 

 

What is stopping you from serving Jesus?

What is stopping you from selling all out? 

Would you be willing to drop all now?

And say God I’m all yours to be devout?

 

What is stopping you from serving Jesus?

What is stopping you from selling all out? 

Do you realize God saved, loved and bought you?

That life for self is empty, vain and meaningless no doubt?

 

What is stopping you from serving Jesus?

What is stopping you from selling all out? 

Life is short and time is diminishing,

It’s time to serve Him for that’s what life is all about.

 

What is stopping you from serving Jesus?

What is stopping you from selling all out? 

Is it education, fame, family or friends?

Why are you not willing to go without? 

 

Jesus is coming back very soon.

Give your life, desires, time and all, how about?

It’s time to start serving Jesus.

What is stopping you from selling all out?