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If you hope, to win, your ante, must be in!
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You can't play if you won't pay, and the cost is not, what it may seem.
In the matter of eternal life, contrition is the "must have", when you ask Him, your life, to renew, your soul to redeem!


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My Lord just made known to me, what I'd  asked Him, a little ways  back.

Why so many can't seem to answer,

His life giving, call;

He says, they are substituting the word, SOME,

for the, intended, word: ALL. 

For what you hold back, and keep, in your own care,
turns all, into nothing, and makes, a potential, beautiful flower

into a worthless, tare.
Like a guitar made by a master, that will resonate, true .

But, with the strings, in the wrong place, can never sound, like, it was intended, to.

Or, a man or woman, who, claims to be His, and yet, holds back,

things for thier own, exclusive control,

and see, His Lordship,

as loss and, lack.
So if you want to sit in this, no limit, all in, game,
then quit thinking you can somehow avoid, the cost,
and play, all the same. 

For any winning hand that comes your way,

is negated by your refusal, of the ante, to pay
And though it may look like you might eventually win,
in reality, your stuck in your own, held onto,
willful sin.

So before you continue, to proclaim, a Christian, to be.

Open your ears and hear, thru His eyes, learn to really see.
That CONTRITION, is the ante, you must,

put in,

If in His Grace you desire to abide, eternal life, hope to attain,
and the race,

to win!


"Oh Lord, open my lips, That my mouth may declare thy praise.

For thou doest not delight in sacrifice

otherwise, I would give it; Thou art not pleased with burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.
A broken, and, CONTRITE heart, Oh God,
thou wilt not despise."  Psalm 51:15-17 

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 Reviews of "If you hope, to win, your ante, must be in!"
Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on May 27, 2007
To the temple of God there is now sidewalk without obsticles!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Chantilly Lace (Reader)
Reviewed on May 27, 2007
Interesting pen...Hugsss

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on May 27, 2007
Repent and all will be saved. You are carrying on John the Baptiste message.

Reviewed by Edwin Larson
Reviewed on May 26, 2007
Guess the game's not open to non-christians. If they made a direct call without operator assistance would that raise the ante? Oh well, maybe there's a slot open at the Craps table... :)


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