Simple Devotions

Christian inspirations and poetry

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Interrupting God

 Interrupting God

I wondered Why God was silent and didn’t hear me when I pray. 

I asked in desperation for an answer every day. 

I cried and rattled on over the frustration I felt no one would understand. 

I asked with a heavy heart, where is your great and mighty hand. 


Unknown to me as I blathered on each day asking God to intervene. 

He was talking too, explaining His will for me. 

He was trying to get a word in edgewise but I was so loud I could not hear. 

My perspective was based on my own thoughts making it all unclear.  


And we wonder why the faith of so many has waxed cold. 

We have failed to hear what to our hearts has been told. 

God has been there all along showing us which path to take. 

But fear has immobilized our perspective and altered our fate. 


We yell and scream at God and blame Him for all that has gone wrong. 

All the while forgetting we have lived in a fallen world all along. 

Of course there are going to be obstacles and storms we must walk through. 

But God is feeling our pain and He is walking through it too. 


He is there waiting, and when we pause He asks “are you done?

Because I have some answers for you, if you will stop for a moment my son. 

I have been trying to get your attention, and it took thunder and lightening. 

I was there trying to get your attention is all, though I know it was frightening. 


I have a plan and listen, stop and quit struggling on your own. 

It’s only in my strength can you navigate through the unknown. 

And there are many obstacles in this world, but I am here to help you through 

Just be still and listen for my voice in everything you do. 


I may not speak from a cloud in the sky, if I did, you would run and hide. 

So I make myself known in smaller ways of which cannot be denied.

I speak through something that you read or a testimony from a friend. 

Sometimes it's simply in your heart that you will hear within. 


There will be other times when you pray and read the words I left in the bible. 

But learn to listen and not interrupt me my child. 

I am here, but so many in this world expect a miraculous visitation. 

Or they think I am going to make life easy in some difficult situation. 


But it’s in those times, when I am teaching you how to be. 

More like my Son who died in order that from sin you can be free. 

So stop interrupting and listen, I am always here. 

My child, hold my hand and trust in me, and put away your fear.” 


You may wonder too at times, does God hear? Is he still there? 

You don’t see any evidence in any of your prayers. 

But He is there, but like a gentleman he does not force. 

When we are ready He will intervene, and in our lives will alter course. 


© Sandra C. Johnson 2025


Sunday, January 26, 2025

God's Busy Today

God's Busy Today


Gods busy today so weve been lead to believe.

As man steps in and soon we are deceived. 

As we put more faith in a pastor, a priest or a pope.

We fail to hear from God and begin to lose hope.

 


God's busy today is a lie we have learned to embrace

As we live life, attend church and still fall from grace.

We have come to have faith, not in God  above, but in man. 

As we learn from man's opinions and not from God's hand. 


Gods busy today, we have come to believe

So our prayers are less and the truth we fail to perceive. 

And so we fall for the new world order theology

And humanists viewpoints and ideologies. 


But God's ways are not our ways and we need to know. 

His actions are up to Him and it's not just for show. 

He wants us all to trust him and patiently wait. 

For us to see who is the true author of our fate. 


God’s not too busy to hear every prayer. 

And He is not far away. No He is everywhere. 

But He doesn't send down great displays of brilliance and light. 

He gently intercedes on our behalf in every fight. 



God's not too busy to put understanding into our hearts

Be still and listen while His truth He imparts. 

He will show each of us His Words and His truth. 

He will accomplish all He sets out to do. 


Gods busy today is what Aaron believed as well.

As He set up a calf for worship and God's people fell. 

Things are not much different in our present time. 

Hearing God's unfiltered Word is hard to find.


We have pastors living outside of God's command 

Homosexual and woke pastors claiming they can. 

And deciding what truth to teach their people. 

Embracing the world's psychology in the church and steeple. 


God is still there though, He is calling us out. 

Making clear His word to our hearts removing all doubt 

So next time you think God is too busy, think again. 

And let Him teach you from His spirit within.


© 2025 Sandra C. Johnson


Saturday, January 25, 2025

On Our Hearts

 On our Hearts


God has been writing His law on my heart since the day that I was born. 

I remember not a time, when He spoke to me even in the womb where I was formed. 

As a child I preached to the chickens and baptized the cat in the ditch. 

He spoke to me as a child and has been with me ever since. 


God has been teaching me since that very first day 

How to love my neighbor and how to pray. 

His hand has rested up on me in everything I ever did. 

Yes, I believe I was anointed by Him even as a kid. 


God writes his law on our hearts, that is the new covenant way. 

He changes our heart and transforms us with each passing day. 

But sometimes we fight him in the process because it brings us pain. 

His hand is changing us as he incribes his law giving us a new name. 


God chooses us and redeems us from our life of sin. 

But it is him working in our hearts changing us within. 

When we fail and fall on our face in guilt and shame. 

That is how we learn to live His law, love and grace to sustain. 


God has been writing his law on my heart throughout all my years. 

He has rejoiced in my triumphs and in hard times wiped away my tears. 

He has changed my heart to do only what I see Him do. 

So that it’s him you will see in me and nothing that I do. 


God is writing His law on our hearts, He promised that He would. 

He is preparing us for a day ahead so many have not understood. 

But it is a day of rejoicing in the Kingdom soon to come 

When we will all live in the Kingdom and reign with His son. 


© 2025 Sandra C. Johnson


“Behold the days are coming” says the Lord “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,’ says the Lord. I will put my law within them and I will write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

And each man will no longer teach his neighbor and his brother saying know the Lord. For the will all know me from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord For I will forgive their wickedness, and I will no longer remember their sin.  Jer 31:31-34


Saturday, December 21, 2024

I Believe in God Too

 I Believe in God Too


“I believe in God too” so many will proclaim. 

When they hear words of truth putting us to shame.

When they hear us say that every unborn life matters,

And are offended as all the world's lies are shattered. 


They speak up and try to cancel you for your faith.

Screaming “I believe in God too” was their first mistake.

Because these people do not truly understand.

That there is spiritual discernment and there are teachings of man.


So they fall back on man’s wisdom and they say I” believe in God too.”

And proceed to shame you for your point of view.

Don't fall for the lies my friend, but stand strong. 

Because God holds you in His hand and has vindicated you all along. 


Let them ramble, let them say what they will. 

And simply trust in God to hold you still.

You are part of a great company of believers. 

But sadly they are part of the company of deceivers. 


Yet they don't need to be shamed because we as His people are better. 

Continue to love them and pray, making that your high endeavor.

God sent His son to die for all men.

He is the one that changes hearts within. 


Remember when Jesus walked upon the earth. 

His enemies were those like us who claimed to go to church.

Visiting the temple daily, these religious leaders rejected Him. 

So is it really a surprise as supposed Christians are doing it again?


Great politicians who support worldly laws and legislation,

Say “I believe in God too” while they condone emasculation. 

Calling a man a woman and a woman a man.

Calling evil good and good evil in this land. 


So next time you stand on God’s Laws proclaimig His words. 

And others shame you and call your message absurd

Remember you stand in good company of those that came before.  

Isaiah, David, Jeremiah, Elijah, Jesus Christ and so much more. 


Yes, they believe in Jesus too of that I am convinced. 

So I will never judge and condemn them, for being on the fence.

But I will also never be shamed into not proclaiming the unfiltered Word of truth. 

And pray that my words will resonate with those of a different point of view. 


© 2024 Sandra C. Johnson



Friday, December 20, 2024

The Hill To Die On

I recently was forced to take another job due to my refusal to get vaccinated. I truly do not believe it is obedience to God to allow myself to be injected with a manufactured disease.  God is my healer and my body is not my own it belongs to God.  As such, I am His temple.  This indeed was my hill to die on.  Leigh Allen Baker was speaking at AMFest 2024 this weekend and I must give her credit for saying ."My hill to die on is my hill to not comply on."  With that in mind, I penned the following: 


The Hill To Die On


I am standing on a hill to die on

This is the hill to not comply on.

As I suffered the consequences from the woke. 

I will never regret the truth that I spoke. 


I was standing on the hill to die on. 

As they ignored facts and and made it the hill to lie on

Forcing me into their version of truth

Discarding me as well as my point of view. 


But at the end of the day, I am still on the hill to die on. 

Standing strong because of the God I rely on. 

They shot me with arrows of lies and deceit. 

But I never complied to the idiocracy. 


God above calls us to faith and not fear. 

He will hold us despite what they throw at us here. 

We are in the world where they temporarily rule. 

But that is ending soon in the final duel. 


It will soon be a hill that Jesus will reign on.

And the hill that the woke will complain on. 

Because the truth will be preached from one end of earth to the other. 

And the love of our Savior will reign above all the others. 


There will be no more tears, and no more disease. 

Healing for all nations will be evident for all to see. 

So as you stand alone on the hill to die on. 

Hold on my friends it will soon to the hill to fly on. 


I stand on a new hill, one they cannot see. 

It is a hill where people in bondage will be set free. 

It is no longer a hill to die on by their tyrannical mandates. 

But it is a hill of salvation as Jesus determines our fate. 


© 2024 Sandra C. Johnson


In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills,and all nations will stream to it.  Isaiah 2:2

This poem was adapted into a song and can be viewed on my YouTube channel here:




Shut Up Racist

I am at AMFest 2024 as of the writing of the poem below.  It was Tucker Carlson talking about how the media and the left uses "Shut up Racist" to discard us regardless of whether it's true or not.  It inspired the following: 

Shut Up Racist


We try to stand on our issues and help people see. 

We want less government and to help people stay free.

"Shut up racist" is always the reply. 

They never seem to be able to answer why. 


We have been gaslighted and manipulated. 

Apologizing for being white where we are situated. 

Race baiting to them holds the key.

To keep us from speaking up and being free.


"Shut up Racist" is their byline every time. 

Accusing us of hatefulness and all sorts of crimes. 

Everytime we open our mouth.  

Shut up racist is how this dismiss us without a doubt. 


They dont need facts to dispel the truth. 

"Shut up racist" is all they have to do. 

And they are running our schools and leading many institutions 

But step aside, there is a coming revolution.


Shut up Racist is no longer going to stand. 

Parental rights are going to once again be honored in this land. 

Vaccine mandates are going away. 

And freedom is going to stay. 


Why in the 200 years plus since out nation began

Were none of these in the constitution signed by man. 

There were diseases smallpox and so much more. 

But we trusted God Almighty 200 years ago. 


We knew who decided our fate. 

It wasn't by government mandates disguised as hate. 

While they say "shut up racist" to all of the unwoke. 

They are the ones inciting hate by word that are spoke. 


So if you find yourself ousted and your friends stopped calling

Stand up and make new ones who wont find you appalling 

They are out there not far away. 

God will open new doors for you today. 


"Shut up racist" we will continue to hear. 

But we are people of faith, not people of fear. 

And we know the world and its views are fading away.

So we will stand strong until the final day. 


© 2024 Sandra C. Johnson


Sunday, December 15, 2024

The Pieces

 The Pieces 


I was broken in pieces by this world and didn't know what to do.

Trial upon trial came upon me until I was torn in two.

Piece from piece of my heart was torn away. 

Until I was alone on the floor and could only pray.


Have you been torn in pieces as well?

Well join me because I have good news to tell.

I will share how God put me back together again.

He loved and redeemed me from my life of sin.  


He didn't force me to go to Church or condemn.

He simply came into my heart and changed me within.

He took each piece and made it new every time.

Over the years I was changed by the creator of mankind.


I hung on so tightly to these pieces that I lost.

And He reminded me of the price He paid at the cross.

He lovingly took those pieces away.

And gave me a new life and new piece each day.


He created a new person with each new piece I received.

Until I soon looked upon Jesus and strongly believed.

The pieces that were broken I no longer desired.

A new person with a new heart has since transpired.


I was once broken in pieces with no hope at all.

But God put me back together and made me stand tall.

But I will only stay together by remaining in Him.

Without Him I may break in pieces again. 


Sometimes a piece of me falls off and brings pain.

Because the potter is still working and removing the stains.

But as He continues His work in my heart.

The joy within me is much more than the pain in the dark.


So my friend, are in you in pieces? Do you feel broken apart?

Call on Him, He will put back together each part.

However, He replaces the old with the new.

And gives a you a new life and new point of view.


© 2024 Sandra C. Johnson

This poem was adapted into a song and can be viewed on my YouTube channel here: