Bursting Forth in Fragrance of Odors,
Contemplation of Smells and Delight.
The Feel on the Skin, the Touch of this Life,
Exploding on with Furious Might.

Deep in Expression, My Soul Unfurls,
Releasing the Emotion Restrained Within.
Searching for Good, Encountering Love
Avoiding Disaster, Rejecting the Sin.

Before Me the Essence of Power Unleashed,
Threatening to Consume All That’s Nearby.
Wave upon Wave of Energy Flows,
Goodness Will Win, and Evil Will Die.

Deep in Expression, My Life at It’s Peak,
Crescendoes of Harmony Burst from My Heart.
Though You Are So Close, Yet Ever So Far,
Your Name from My Lips Will Never Part.

-JMP

All That Can Come and All That Is near
All That We Love and Think of as Dear
All That There Is and All That There Was
All That for Which ... We Put up a Fuss

All That Will Leave and All That Will Go
All That Will Come to Be No More
All That We Love and All That We Hate
All That We Feel ... May Be Too Late

All That We Hold and All That We Release
All That We Embrace and Give it a Kiss
All That We Get and All That We Miss
All That There Is ... Is All That There Is.

-JMP

Those Things That Are of My Will
You'll Find Within My Word
hose Things That Serve My Purpose
That Praise Me as Your Lord

But All Those Things That Are Your Needs
I'll Already Give to You
You Do Not Have to Pray for These
Out of Love They're Done for You

I Promise You an Answer
For the Things You Ask of Me
Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No
And Sometimes Just Wait on Me

Ask, and it Will Be Given You
Seek, and You Shall Find
All the Things I Have for You
Are Conceived Within My Mind

The Master Passed on with No Word at All,
And Looked at a Silver Urn Narrow and Tall.
"I'll Serve You, Dear Master, I'll Pour out Your Wine,
I'll Be on Your Table Whenever You Dine.
My Lines Are So Graceful,
My Carvings So True,
And Silver Will Always Compliment You."
Unheeding, the Master Passed on to the Brass,

Wide-mouthed and Shallow and Polished like Glass.
"Here! Here!," Cried the Vessel, "I Know I Will Do,
Place Me on Your Table for All Men to View."
"Look at Me," Cried the Goblet of Crystal So Clear,
"My Transparency Shows My Contents So Clear.
And I'm Sure I'll Be Happy in Your House to Abide."

"Ah! This Is the Vessel I've Been Hoping to Find,
I'll Mend it and Use it and Make it All Mine.
I Need Not the Vessel with Pride of Itself,
Nor One That Is Narrow to Sit on the Shelf,
Nor One That Is Big-mouthed and Shallow and Loud,
Nor One That Displays His Contents So Proud
Not One That Thinks He Can Do All Things Just Right,
But this Plain Earthly Vessel, Filled with Power and Might."

Then Gently He Lifted the Vessel of Clay,
Mended and Cleansed It, and Filled it That Day;
Spoke to it Kindly – "There's Work You must Do –
Just Pour out to Others as I Pour out to You."

Do You Pour out Your Soul
When You Pray to the Lord?
Do You Cry for the Spirit
to Come in and Guide You
to Live by the Word?

Do You Cry When You Pray?
Do Tears Stream down Your Face?
Do You Cry out for Time
to Reach All the Lost?
Do You Live in His Grace?

Do You Mourn for the Sin?
Does the Pain Touch Your Soul?
Do You Cry out in Love
for God’s Saving Grace
That Makes All Men Whole?

Do You Cry When You Pray
Do You Wait for His Day?
Do You Look for His Coming
While Living for Him?
Do You Cry When You Pray?

-JMP

Feels So Good.
Just like it Should.
Lights So Bright
It Feels So Right.
Satan Sings So Nice
It Could Not Be Wrong.

The Heart Lies.
The Soul Fries.
Desires Deceive.
The Spirit Grieves.
If I Listen to the Truth
Then I must Change

By Faith I must Walk.
By Spirit Talk.
Not What I Feel,
But What Is Real.
I'll Reach My Goal
And Save My Soul.

You Listen to Your Loneliness,
And to Sadness You Give Ear,
but You Do Not Seem to Hear Me
Even Though I Am So Near.

I Know the Thoughts That Trouble You,
That Infringe upon Your Mind.
I Want So Much to Give You Now
The Peace You're Trying to Find.

I Know the Things You're Wanting,
For Which You Pray to Me,
But Before I Give You Any of These,
There Is Something You must See.

The Evil of this Planet
Is Now Coming to a Close,
Things Have Gotten So Much Worse,
Since the Day That I Arose.

Those of You Who've Grown in Me,
Who Now Have Come of Age,
Know That in the Book of Life,
Man Is on the Final Page.

I Know it Seems You're Suffering
Never Really Seems to End,
but Look up to You're Redemption,
My Son to You I Send.

Even as You Hear These Words,
Know That What I Say Is True.
I'm Just about to Come Again,
And I'm Coming Just for You.

So Even If You Do Not Get All the Things
For Which You Pray,
Know There's Something Better,
And Expect Me Now this Day.

-JMP

Give Me Knowledge, My Lord, to Conceive
The Beautiful Things I Am to Receive

Give Me Love, My Lord, to Give
That Through Me Others, in You, May Live

Give Me Wisdom, My Lord, to Tell
Of the Living Water Drawn from the Well

Give Me Endurance, My Lord, to Raise
My Eyes, My Hands, My Soul in Praise

Give Me Courage, My Lord, to Fight
By Making Your Kindness and Love My Might

Give Me Comfort, My Lord, So Dear
That I May Never Again Live in Fear

Give Me a Teacher, My Lord, as a Guide
That I May Always on Your Road Abide

Give Me Patience, My Lord of My Fate
That for Your Blessing I'll Always Wait

Give Me Strength, My Lord, to Pray
To Love You and Want You More Every Day

For I Faint from Pain, the Hurt of Life,
That Makes My Joy Seem Cold.
It Robs Me from Your Blessing Gift
And Tries to Make Me Lose My Hold.

Blot from My Mind, Please Take from Me
The Pain of All My Strife.
The Hurt That Comes from All My Wounds,
I've Suffered in My Life.

Please Rid from Me the Strong Desire
For Things Which Cannot Be,
Which Gets It's Strength, It's Very Life,
From the Sorrows One Can't See

At Times the Pain Seems Very Strong,
That Forgiveness Goes Away.
Then Bitterness and Anguished Hurt
Search Me out to Be Their Prey.

There Is a Void Deep down Within,
There's an Emptiness of Pain.
As Long as I Cannot Forget
It Steals That Which I Gain.

You Are the Only Hope I Have.
May Your Mercy Rest on Me.
Take Away My Hurt and Pain
And Let My Soul Be Free.

Thank You Lord.

-JMP

I Know the Lord Is with Me
What a Wondrous Things to Find,
But I Feel Such Deep, Deep Sorrow
Infringing on My Mind.

When I Think of Jesus Christ
His Happiness Comes Through,
But My Heart Still Knows the Sadness
Of a Loneliness That's True.

I Searched Throughout My Life
It Was Him That I Looked For,
But I Want to Be with My Family
So the Sadness Grows Much More.

As My Hands Are Raised above Me
And My Soul to Him Belongs,
My Heart Continues Yearning
For Those it Sadly Longs.

I Want to Sing Great Praises
For the Christ I Never Had,
And Though I Sing with All My Heart
It Never-the-less Is Sad.

I Finally Found the Son of God
How Happy I Should Be,
But I Also Love My Family
And I Want Them near to Me.

So How Could a Thing like this Occur
When My Lord I Finally Found,
That I Should Have Such Loneliness
Though Christ Jesus Is Around?

-JMP

Do You Know Everything?
Are Your Judgments All True?
Can You Show That I'm Wrong
and That I must Answer You?
Who Are You to Question Me?

Can You Hide Any Place,
Can You Run Very Far,
Can You Go down So Deep,
That I Won't Know Where You Are?
Who Are You to Question Me?

Who Created the Angels?
For Whom Do They Live?
Are You the Recipient
of All the Praises They Give?
Who Are You to Question Me?

Can You Set up a Kingdom
and Bring it down Again?
Can You Live out Your Life
Without Committing a Sin?
Who Are You to Question Me?

Have You Given You Life
for Another to Save?
Have You Mastered the Battle
Between Life and the Grave?
Who Are You to Question Me?

And Now That These Questions
Are All Said and Done,
I'll Ask You One More,
Have You Given Your Son?
I Am Who I Am

-JMP

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Really Change a Person's Life,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Help Bring Someone out of Strife,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Give Me Strength I Never Had,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Give Me Joy When I Am Sad,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Help to Mend the Broken Soul,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Really Help Me Reach My Goal,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Reach the Soul Which Is Dying,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Wipe the Tears of the Crying.

If I Believed That Prayer
Was Truly from the God Above,

If I Believed That Prayer
Drew Me Closer to His Love,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Really Do So Very Much,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Keep My Lord and I in Touch,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Help to Meet My Every Need,

If I Believed That Prayer
Could Do All These Things Indeed,

Then I Believe That
I Would Always Pray.

If There Are Times
I've Made You Feel
As Though You Are Alone,
Or Acted as If Though
My Heart Were Made of Stone.

If I Haven't Seemed
the Friend You Need
When You've Felt a Little Fear,
Or If by Some Selfish Action

I've Brought to Your Eyes a Tear.
If I've Been Much Too Busy
To Have You Close and Near,
Or If I've Treated You as Such
That You Do Not Seem So Dear.

You Are the Most Important
Person I My Life.
My Friend, Advisor Helper,
My "Sister" and My Wife.

My God Has Given Me So Much
Love That Is So True,
So I Could Give it All Away,
And I Give it All to You.

I Love You.

Guide Us, Lead Us in the Light
Be with Us as We Pray
Protect Us with Your Wondrous Might
As We Go along Your Way

Hallelujah, Praises Lord
I Know You're Here with Me
Exalted Lamb, Exalted Word
How Plain Your Love to See

I'll Never Be the Same, Oh Lord
I'll Never Be the Same
How I Love to Hear the Word
How I Love to Praise Tour Name.

I Know the Times Are Harder
Than We Thought That They Would Be,
But I Know That God Is Helping Us
To See the Things That We Should See.

I Know I'll Always Love You
Of That There Is No Doubt,
From You I Have Learned the Truth
Of What Love Is All About.

I Need to Have You with Me
And That Need Is Very True,
Because You Are a Part of Me,
I Need to Be with You.

Both of Us Have Done Things
That the Other Thought Was Bad,
But More Important than Anything
Is the Love We've Always Had.

Yes, We Belong Together
Forever and a Day.
My Love for You Is True,
And it Will Always Be That Way.

We Are One.

At Times We Find We Can't Agree
With the Message from His Hand,
But to Change the Meaning of His Word
Is to Begin to Build on Sand.

We must Meditate Upon His Law,
So We Always Know What's True.
Above All, When You Speak for Him,
He must Speak Through You.

Why Do You Make it Oh So Hard
For Him to Help You Hear?
Instead of Listening to His Word,
You Listen to Your Fear

There Is No Problem That's Larger,
Than the Living One Above.
Who Always Looks Toward You
With Nothing but Pure Love

He'll Work All Things Together
For Those of Us He Chose.
All Things Will Come out for Our Good,
In Spite of All Our Woes.

So Make a Choice, When Trouble Comes,
On Where Your Faith Will Stand.
On Jesus Christ, the Living Lord
Or the Problems There at Hand.

For Me There Is No Question,
On What the Choice must Be.
For When I'd Lost My Very Soul,
He Gave His Life for Me.

No Matter What the Problems Is,
I'll Take Him at His Word.
To Me There Is No Question
That Jesus Christ Is Lord.

-JMP

I've Growing in My Dependency
On the Living One Above.
He Showers Me with Perfect Grace
As He Disciplines with Love.

He Doesn't Take Away the Problems
That I'll See Throughout My Life.
He Gives Me Strength, Grace, and Love
And He Is Praised in Spirit of Strife.

I've Learned of My Inheritance
Of Power, Life, and Authority.
I Can Look up to My Redemption
Of Love, Peace, and Liberty.

I Know the Touch of Humbleness
Of My Dependency on Him.
I Do Not Look to My Own Strengths
And Concentrate on Them.

I Know That Jesus Christ Is Lord,
What Else Is There to See?
The Place I Am Right Now in Life,
Is Just Where He Wants Me!

-JMP

The sadness that's within me, lord
It seems to keep on going
I don't know what to do, my god
Only you are the all-knowing

As if in darkness, I go about
Reaching out and groping.
And from your love and mercy
For the light I go on hoping

Let me know, my lord, my god
Of the things I choose to do,
Are they only for me
Or are they done for you?

The longing for my family
To once again be whole
Can move me along on your way
Or darken up my soul

I want things to be right again
With my children and my wife
But you are always first, my lord
I need you in my life

I'll think about you constantly
As I go throughout my day
So guide me Jesus Christ, my lord
As to you my soul does pray

-JMP

You Were Always There Besides,
Even When I Felt Alone.
And Though There Were Some Dark Times,
Your Light Throughout Them Shone.

Sometimes it Felt So Helpless,
as Though it Would All Just End.
The Devil Tried to Tell Me
That My Life You Could Not Mend.

But of Course You Were Successful,
in My Life You Are Now Lord.
You Changed My Life, and Healed My Hurt,
as I Consumed Your Word.

The Promise That I Make You,
Heavenly Father, Lord, and King,
Is That Forever and a Day,
All My Praises to You I'll Sing.

-JMP

Lord Jesus Had Been Calling
And I Refused to Hear
He Wanted Me to Do Those Things
The Works He Holds So Dear

Like Many Other People
I Just Refused to Budge
I Didn't Want to Face Him
The Everlasting Judge

I Fought, Cried and Struggled
And Hurt down to My Soul
But the Lord Kept Holding out
He Wanted Full Control

Then I Went down to the Temple
New Life Is It s Name
And There I Met My Savior
Jesus Christ Is His Fame

The People That Belong There
Have Jesus in Their Heart
And Though They re Still Struggling
From the Lord They ll Never Part

Now There, the Lord Commanded
Is Where You Need to Be
I Have Some Works for You to Do
New Life Belongs to Me

-JMP

If All the Lovers in the World
Searched for the Better Touch.
If All the Dreamers Ever Known,
Found the Dream They Want So Much.

If the Sun Could Choose a Person
For Whom to Shine All Day.
If the Softest Whisper in the World
Searched for a Sound to Say.

If We Searched the World over
For the One Who Makes Us Shine.
If the Best of All Treasures
We Were Allowed to Find.

If the Heart Could Find the Answer
Which Would Help it to Survive.
If All the Stars Looked for a Name
Which Would Keep Their Shine Alive.

It Is... Jesus

-JMP

He Tool Me to a Place So Dark
And the Heat Was Hard to Bear.
The Air Was Filled with Sulphur,
The Atmosphere with Fear.

And as We Moved in Closer
What a Frightful Sight I Saw.
People Burning in the Fire,
At Their Faces They Would Claw.

The Cries of Pain and Suffering
From the People in the Flame
Brought Curses from the Lips of Some
While Others Cried in Shame.

And as I Watched the Fearful Sight
An Action Caught My Gaze
Some Souls Were Walking All Around
Searching Hard Throughout the Blaze

They Would Lift the Heads of Different Ones
And Then Drop Them to the Ground.
Each Time They Saw Another Face
They Would Scream a Mournful Sound.

I Asked the Lord to Show Me
What Did Their Act Imply?
What Did They Search Throughout the Fire
And Why the Anguished Cry?

They Cry Because of Anger
And of the Hate They Have Inside.
They Cry Because They Did Not Change
Their Life Before They Died.

They're Looking for Their Pastors,
And the Preachers of Their Days,
Who Told Them They Were Fine with God
And Didn't Have to Change Their Ways.

Do You See the Stains from All Pains,
That I've Suffered in My Life?
Do You See the Tears of All My Fears.
Born from My Life of Strife?

Do You See the Doubt Which Hangs About,
That Invades My Very Mind?
Do You See the Shame Which Was My Fame,
Of the Sins of Every Kind?

Please Look Away, So You're Eyes Won't Stay,
Upon this Sinner's Face.
I Lack the Right to Stand in the Light,
Or to Receive You're Loving Grace.

And Then the Lord Gave Me His Word,
That When I Come into His Sight,
That Through the Blood That Jesus Shed,
In His Eyes I've Been Made Right.

-JMP

What Does it Mean
To Humble Ourselves
In Our Life to Those Around?

Does it Mean That
We're to Smile a Lot
And Walk Around Without a Frown?

Does it Mean That
We're to Speak So Nice
That Our Hurt They Will Not See?

Does it Mean That
We're to Say Those Words
Which Sound So Positively?

It Means That We
Look Not to Others
For the Confidence We Need.

It Means That We
Don't Pass the Chance
To Plant Another Seed.

It Means That We're
Not Stumbling Blocks
To Those He Brings to Us.

But Most of All
It Means That We're
To Live Our Life like Jesus

-JMP

He Gave Me Eyes That I May See
How Wonderful You Are,
More Precious than the Universe
More Radiant than a Star.

He Gave Me Ears That I May Hear
The Sweetness of You Laughter,
You Are the Only One I Love
The One My Heart Goes After.

He Gave Me Thought That I May Think
Of the Things I Know Are True,
And You're the One I Think about
Cause I'm in Love with You.

Of All the Things His Promise
Assures Me I Will See,
One That Makes Me Happiest
Is When You're near to Me.