THUS FAR

For long we’ve take the walk
In the dark of the night
When there seems not to be a ray of light
When the night clasped into each other
Everything is fast gone thus far into break of dawn

The music was long stopped
And everyone seems to bother
Of what lies next the music scores
As each notes intwain into each other
To form an harmonious tune

We’ve had our differences here and there
The rain has fallen and the dust has settled
But from where do we go from here
As we cannot just stay on this spot
Let’s not be overwhelm by this present but thus far

We had so many mountains to climb
As we’ve dive into the deepest part of the valleys
Ascending out from the deepest part of the oceans
We scale through many miles taking the flights
Thus far arriving at this spot where we both stand today

Looking back those days 

The early years of when it all begins
You become the wings beneath my feet
The strength when numbers begins to drop
You carried me when my legs 

Where so weak to carry my body
Thus far you were there 

In the most trying and pleasant moment

Thus far…
You have been my eyes when I couldn’t see
You have been my courage when courage left me
You have been the one who chase my fears away
You have been my leg that walks me through these all

Of what we I become without you by myside
Where we I have been if you have not been by myside
How could I rise to meet the morning of the day
At times I could not see you even though you are close by
Thus far you are my shepherd, my love and my life

LIVING IN THE MOST TRYING TIMES

Our world is fading away
The night is becoming day
What looks absorbs now looks good
In everyone’s eyes evil becomes good
The night is fading out no one seems to bother

Everyone is just acting and faking
Is time to pray for God to watches for us
Is time we need God help in time of need
The world is so dark and the days are getting frighten
Is time we need God’s help in time of need

There is so much going on in the land
Uncertainty of tomorrow in the face of today
Everyone seems not to bother
Of the bright of tomorrow
Living in the most trying times

Famine in the land
Ravaging everyone
As scarcity of food looms
Getting ready for harvest of hungry
The most dreaded diseases 

Threatens our landscape flooding

As the government fails it people
Holding the truth in a shady practice
The state is under unrest situation
As citizens begins to lose faith 

In the government of the day
Living in the most trying times

The heart of men are failing them
As each one is wailing and crying in pain
For a brighter tomorrow that seems to be near
Men has lost it all out 

Tomorrow is not certain to look forward to
It time we need God’s help in time of need

Is time to pray for God to watches us
Is time we need God’s help in time of need
The world is dark and the days are getting freighting
Is time for all the children of God to pray
These are all the sign of the beginning of the end

YOU LORD

The wind beneath my feet
The air that I breathe in
The life that is in me
The one who covers me
The wings that make soar above my fears

Without You am lost for life
Without You there is no me
Without You my fear would have consume me
Without You anxiety and frustration we have its way in me
Without You life will become boring and unpleasant to live in

I climb the mountains you where there with me
I chase thousand of demons you chase with me
I cried out of the depth of my heart you heard me
I scream who is there you showed up all the way
I search for thousands questions you provide zillions of answer

The air in me that I breathe You
The live in me that I live You
The joy unending I found is You
The light in my dark you are the one
The comfort from the ranging storm You

No matter what happens You never gave up on me
No matter what the world throws at me I still stand in You
No matter what today looks like 

Am so secure because You holds the future
No matter many misunderstanding events 

That happens I am sure You understand it all
No matter the storms of life You calm my storms and give me peace

Life flows at crescendo because I got You all the way
Life becomes sweetest and flawless with You in picture
Life worthy of living not enduring kind of but enjoying because of You
Life becomes meaningful with You give it meaning
Life’s good just with You all the way

AVOID THE DECEPTIVE LURE OF POPULARITY

Opinions can be positive too
It’s wonderful to know that
People are helped or pleased
As you fulfill destiny
Avoid the deceptive lure of popularity

Others can cheer you to great heights of decoration
But nobody can afford to get caught up
In the high opinions of others
People will love you but can
Quickly turn against you

When you’re positioned toward destiny
Don’t get caught in the false lure of popularity
Develop a thick skin even when you’re popular
And don’t believe your own resume
If you don’t it can later be painful to hear

The voices of cruel nonconstructive criticism
You cannot have it both ways
You can’t choose to hear only the voices
Of those who adore you and shut down
The voices of those who don’t

As you make your way to destiny
You will learn much more from
Those who criticize you than those who adore you
I learned much about who I was from my haters
When I came under a fire of criticism

Your destiny doesn’t depend
On the opinions of haters or applauders
They’re all making judgments about your future
Based on your right now and that’s not a complete picture
Only God sees the big picture

VOICE

We all hear voices
That can impact on our destiny decisions
Voices that tell us you’re not good enough
You’re wasting your time they’ll never choose you
You’re not going to get the job so just skip the interview

Voices remind you of your past
So that you continue to live
In shame and fear of being exposed
A dangerous form of bondage
That will cause you to let destiny opportunities pass you by

Sometimes the voices are old friends
Alter egos the voice that tells you
To give the boss a piece of your mind
While you’re standing in his smiling
A voice tells you to quit when situation gets too hard

To walk away from a spouse of thirty years
Or to do something that goes against your values
Because no one will ever find out
You melt a man first time and a voice says
That’s the one

We all hear voices
We have to decide which voices we heed
Everyday you choose which voices you will listen to
The voices that pay attention to are the ones
That will manifest in your life

If you’ve turned your heart
And your head toward destiny
Train your mind to hear positive
Affirming voices that offer wisdom
Voices

Monitoring the voices you follow is critical
The internal voices you hear have to be
Brought under control because
You carry those with twenty four hours a day
There is no escape from them
Tagline: When you recognize that you have the power to change those voices you can become unstoppable

THE HOPE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

They come and go
As they pretend not to know
Their inner being just waiting
Waiting for the moment to divulge
Their true meaning

A mask revealed
To show a concealed hate
The monster prepared to slay
All who may dare to try and stand in its way
Throwing you down drooling in anticipation

Of crushing your dreams
Before they can even hit the ground
It all happens so fast your eyes can barely see
Your heart can barely contract
As your hopes lay in shambles

And the love you shared
Now thrown to the brambles
They simply laugh disregarding the hurt
Your body slammed back down
To the cold heard earth

It’s where your head belongs they say
No need to allow your dreams stay
You fall into their trap, take a step back
And move on at last releasing your long weakening grasp
Do not give in hope can be rebuilt

Dreams recovered from beneath all the dark layers of slit
Today can change the past, be as it may
Can never sway the love that is here to stay
The future will never be set in stone
But in order for it to be written
It must be change by you alone

DOES TIME HEAL ALL WOUNDS?

Time heal all wounds
I’ve heard that line a thousand times
And it running into a billion zillion time
Does time heal all wounds?
That phrase is it real or just a mere world in a castle land

I’ve never believed the saying,
Time heals all wounds
It put one under the impression
That if you wait and do good
Well one day be magically healed

We’ll wake up and suddenly see
And feel the radiance of the sun again
The sun has come back I can still feel
The frigid cold trying to take me away
Like a candle in the wind it blows so cold so gentle

Wounds can be physical, black and blue
Scratches up and down your arm
Wishing they do away so you can stop
Telling people that you ran into a tree
Does time heal all wounds

Wound can be mental
Feeling a tug at your heart constantly
One wrong move and you’re shattered
Not being able to listen to that song
Without bursting out in tears

My own wounds are valid
Whether you can see them or not
Time has passed and my wounds
Are still begging to be seen stop telling me
I’ll be okay with time

Peak moments make me feel like I’m healed
I’ll laugh the way I used to
Warmth take me over the sky
Is a brighter shade of blue
Does time hell all wounds?

Low morement makes me question the healing process
I’m crying my heart feels like its breaking all over again
I’m battling with myself in my head suddenly
I’m on a rollercoaster I can’t get off and I can’t stop screaming
The things is I’m constantly healing

The process never ends my body is constantly working
To heal my wounds and while they may become
Less visible over time I can tell you I will always feel them
I’ve accepted my wounds as a part of me they take up the space
I carry them with me everywhere I go I’m not sure if I’d be me

My wounds remind me of who I am
What I’m capable of they’re proof of the battles I fought
The night I cried and cried the moment I felt the world
Was too much for me the times I questioned my worth
When I could feel my own heart breaking
I’m sorry to say that time doesn’t heal all wounds as I’m still hurting

THE WOUND

When you have tried your best
And it seems your best isn’t good enough
You’ve tried all you can just to make it all work
You took the walk of life and walk out your soul
The past comes calling deepen the wounds

When you have a broken heart
And you can’t go back to start
When it hurts to move forward
And you cant go back to your world
Then put all your faith in Lord all your wounds will be cured

When you watch others walked in peers
And you walk alone along life’s road alone
When all your friends have deserted you
And you look upon yourself and no one to hold on to
Run to the Lord what a friend we have in Jesus

When you wanna sleep but you cant
When you don’t get all that you want
When you find your dream shatter
And all your friends begin to flatter
Then put all your faith in Lord and all your wounds will be cured

When life it seems to full of disappointment
And your shatter dreams makes you question why
Still you tried to pick up your broken pieces
And no one knows the pain you felt inside
In the midst of it all through the pain through the night

When you ,lose something you die for
When you lose all the reason to adore
When you work and it doesn’t work out
When you have to face the fall out
Then put all your fiath in Lord all your wounds will be cured

Is always darkest before the dawn
Don’t be discourage just carry on
Though some may break you
Though some may weary you
You have His promise and all your wounds will be cured

The wound is the place where the light enters you.- Rumi

ROSE WILL BLOOM AGAIN

There is always a day after today
Calmness after the storms of life
Victoria song after serious battle
The chant of freedom after
The chains of slavery is broken

Although the fig tree shall not blossom
And it seems yesterday is far from today
Tomorrow dreams remain uncertain in today’s pursuit
Everything fallen out of its place
Becoming things fall apart

Although there is no fruits in the vain
Nothing to eat and getting empty
Weakness invade the body weak and weathered out
Hungry for food gone so long without anything to eat
No herd in the stall drought ensue

All hope is lost
As hope is taken away from the street called home
Rose weathered away turn to lifeless on the ground
Never to bloom again but keep home alive
Rose will bloom again

The grass withereth
But God is the strength of my life
Even in the midst of the weakness of life
God bear me up in His everlasting strong hands
He made away when there is seems to be no way

The rose will bloom again
Forget about your present situation
Even though the circumstances are unpleasant
And everything broken in pieces
The rose will bloom again

Keep hope alive
Never stop believing
Keep the dream alive
Chase it the storms will go
The rose will bloom again

DEATH ON THE PHONE

We all must yield that call
Whether we like it or not
Irrespective of whom we are
What we are and where we are coming from
Death on the phone

Someday this thing called life
We come to a halt
And no one knows when it will come
But how will it meet us all
No one knows…death on the phone

Fine the death of one man
Don’t stop the activities going in the world
We mourn for some days
And later we move on with our life
Death on the phone

Hear the call is ringing so loud and vibrating so hard
Every second someone somewhere is picking up
Who’s next to pick his/her own call
Everyone will answer the call
When will it be your turn? Death on the phone

Now…later…sooner…Tomorrow
How about your life?
Have you prepare to answer the call
Death on the phone
Have you fully lived out the purpose of your existence here on earth?

Of what we you tell your maker
When you yield the call of death on phone
What account will you give at the end of the day?
Are living right should you die tonight
Pause and answer this question…is it well with your soul?

Soon your phone will start ringing
On the screen of your phone
When your eyes flash through your screen
Lol and behold the caller is death on the phone
Make the best of the moment while you may

…LIFE

Have been to places
Have seen so many faces and place
Traveled far and near
This place to that place
All these circles called life

Sometimes life flows some high
Sometimes on the mountain
Some other times in the valley
At one time life brings us from that place
To this place we are here in life

Still have to move on
Irrespective of where we are
Sometimes the sun shine
Sometimes the rain falls
Life

Is just like whot card
We never know when
The last card will be played and served
Several going to market constantly
At a blink of an eye this life is over

And the rhetorical questions
Comes into play so much realities
Dawn on us boom the vile was taken off our face
Here we are seated down all alone
Facing the music called life

People come and go
Just like the two common seasons we have
Rainy and dry season
They left us with some heart ranching lesson
Like a test life give us the test before given us the lesson

Life taught us so much
Life brings beautiful people our way
Life brings us so much to be thankful for
Life serves us a great meals delicious and sour tastes
…life

A BETTER WORLD

To you to me

Is up to us all
To make the world
A better place
A better world

As walk around my street
From neighborhood
Where I live I see people
Not smiling but ought to be smiling
They are weighing down by this and that

Life isn’t fair for them
Some are born in mansion
Some are born in the mould house
No light and no state of the art facilities
As each come and gone they long for a better world

A place where can live
In peace and much harmony
Where there is no room for fear
Where we can learn as much as want to
Out of life broaden our horizon of knowledge

To you you…to me
Is up to us all to make a world a better place
A place where we can live where we can learn
Where we can live in unity and peace
A better world

Where the hungry are feed to satisfaction
Where the lamp are not scared to walk
Where there is so much security not insecurity
Where we must see ourselves as brothers and sisters
Not strangers in our own motherland

Heal the world make it a better place
For you and for me all of us the entire human race
There are people dying lets care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me
A better world

GOD SEEKS MEN OF BURDEN

How broken God must be
When looking daily for students
In His school of prayer and seeing
Countless absentees
How it must have pierced His heart to say

“And I sought for a man among them
That should make up the hedge
And stand in the gap before me
For the land I love that I should not
Destroy it but I found none”.

The God of the universe unable
To find a candidate to hedge the gap
We wonder if the time will come
When God will cry again
I sought for a man but found none

Praise God He sent Christ
To hedge the greatest gap
The gulf of sin thank God too
For those burdened prayer warriors
Whose petitions bridge the gap between God and man

We rejoice for men like Elder Knapp who testified
I often repaired to the barn in the silent hours of the night
And poured out my soul in prayer to God
Every time an Elder Knapp performs
An act like this he fills the gap making up prayer’s hedge

How earnestly God seeks young lives
To stand in the gap to travel
The road of prater frankly
The trail is rough and the task rugged
It offers challenge not found elsewhere

GOD

They say the angels marvel
At why you love us so much
But people down here say
You don’t love us enough
They say the atheist look at the heavens
Don’t believe that You’re there

If I’m being honest I don’t feel worth
To take a breath of your air
I don’t contemplate what angels
And men think about You
I wish I could be like you but I don’t know how to
You are everything that I’m not

God I’m trying my best to follow You
With everything that I’ve got
Sometimes in this world of fury
It’s hard to focus I’m trying to keep my eyes
On the God of David of Daniel and Moses

You rain down fire on Sodom
And your hands built the oceans
You welcome home sinners with the arms always open
You created the world in six days
Rested on the seventh

You created me in your image
And changed my life in a second
You formed the stars with your breath
And the water with your Spirit
You joined to the sound of your melody
Whenever I hear it your quiet is the wind
And your voice is the thunder

You gave grace to my sins 

And lifted the noise I was under
You light up the sky 

With lightning bolts of your power
Your majesty stretched above 

The clouds my God is a tower
Your throne is somewhere 

Out past this earth bound gravity
I was banned with the curse 

Of depravity that was passed to me

But you didn’t expect me to be perfect
That something you never asked of me
It took the blood of your Son 

To rescue me from this tragedy
The world might think I’m crazy 

My critics might laugh at me
I just hope one day they meet 

The God who died for them too

They know not what they do
Just followers of satan who lied to them too
So they can mock and steer 

And call the things of my God laughable
But you go beyond the limits of the finite natural
You reach past the infinite and into eternity

And like the fire of Nebuchadnezzar
You walk into the flames land you burn for me
And I’m trying to be who you want me to be
I look past the heavens and I see the outline of your majesty
Heavy is your call on my life and the torch that pass to me
I’m just trying to be faithful to you God my king

Glory to the most high someday
I’ll join with the angels and sing
But for now my mind can’t
Comprehend your glory can it
I won’t understand You fully until I’m off this planet
If am being honest I look forward to leave this place

I’m an astronaut born to be with You
Down here I’m misplaced up there I’m at home
And glory down here I’m disgraced
But if the world hates me 

I have to remember it hated You first
You offer living water of the well to be traded for thirst

You walked on water and you turned water into wine
Someday every knee will bow and every tongue will confess
Reality will set in for the sinner like a gun to the head
You don’t have to be from Moscow to play Russian roulette
Every day people risk life after death

But you offer a way out for flawed people like me
Sons and daughters of the king is
What you’ve called people to be
You are fashioning my hands
For the battle of my life for war

For the first time I can see my sight is resoterd
And out of these ashes I will rise to tell others about you
And You will lift me up and speak through me
When I don’t know how to
So use me Lord and speak through my weakness
With everything in me I’ll follow You Jesus
And someday I’ll fall to the ground when we meet
I live this life with the hopes of placing crowns at your feet

And I can picture You there with angels and fight
And tell that you’ve called me to run into the night
And into the darkness I’ll continue to go
And into your world I’ll continue to grow
You are worthy of every demon that comes against me

And your arms I am strong
In your river you rinse me
So take my life and use me Lord
If faith is my shield and Your truth is my sword

A SOVEREIGN REMEDY

Prayer is the only cure for spiritual sickness
Enough people praying someone penned
Will release into the human blood stream
The mightiest medicine in the universe
For we shall be the channels though whom
God scan exert His infinite power

Imagine a world with sickness abolished
Think how much greener rolling hills would be
How lovelier the rose would seem
If sin were driven from the earth
A sovereign remedy

Prayer hath brought health to the sick
Hearing to the deaf speech to the dumb
And eyes to the blind life to the dead
Salvation to the lost and hath even driven satan
From the hearts of many brought the God Heaven
To dwell in his room

The power of prayer is not merely
Good medicine but the only medicine for a troubled age
Prayer is only power in the universe to which
The great Jehovah yields
Prayer is the sovereign remedy

Faith filled prayer indeed is mankind’s key to unlock
God’s eternal power nothing should restrain us
From drawing on this great source of power
We must ask as Hudson Taylor did
A sovereign remedy

Should we not do well to suspend
Our present operations and give ourselves
To humiliation and prayers for nothingless
Than to be filled with the Spirit and made channels
Through which He shall work with resistless power

That power is prayer which soars on high
Through Jesus to the throne
And moves the hand which moves the world
To bring salvation down
A sovereign remedy

A TRIP TO GETHSEMANE

St. Francis of Assisi had a personal retreat
Mount Averno where he spent hours
In anguish of a burden heart
Those close to Francis say he prayed for hours
Never voicing any word but “God”

We often look at mortals like this
And quickly label them saints
Artist often place halos above their heads in painting
Consider the one who led the way
Along the path of prayer as it climaxed in Gethsemane

Luke paints a picture of Gethsemane
As it ought to be not one of Christ
Calmly kneeling halo fixed above his head
Luke reflects in retrospect
And being in agony he prayed more earnestly

And his sweat was as it were great
Drops of blood falling down to the ground
A bible commentator remarks
Doubtless the battle of the cross
Was first fought and won in Gethsemane

It is considered that the soul anguish
Which he suffered on that occasion
Was equal to that which he suffered
On the cross of Calvary
A trip to Gethsemane

In reality Christ died in Gethsemane
Before he ever died on the cross
He no doubt was nailed to Gethsemane’s ground
Bu the burden before nails of roman soldiers
Hanged Him to the cross
Have you been to Gethsemane?

Consider the words of Williams Gaither:
Have you had a Gethsemane?
Have you prayed in despair?
In the dark of the dreary hour
Did the Lord meet you there?

FACING THE GIANTS

Life isn’t fair as we think
Several occurrences happens
That whether and bring us down
Down to our feet like a toddler
And things to contend with as we live

Constantly we face these giants
That threatens our present
Tiring our future in twain
Spirit down no courage to go on
And so much to have face off with

We face the giant of our own selves
The giant of religion man made tradition
We the giant of the fear that ravages us within
That when it shows outside it ruins everything
All what we’ve ever live and work for and love

We face the giant of fear of acceptance
From the society we found ourselves in
To feel belong and flow with the tides of the present moment
We walk the distance of unfair criticism
And heavy sigh but no relief came after it

And time running out
You’re losing it all out
No shock absorber left
To hold it out for God’s knows how
Little while longer is what is always heard off

Facing the giants of fear
With bold courageous mind
A big faith in our heart
That someday the storms will pass
With the day brighten up and fair enough

For the bird to come out singing
The days of despair has come and gone
The sun is shining the dream has come true
Welcome today with hope irrespective
Of what happens the dream has come true

BEFORE YOU DO

Is better to be found better
Then to be found worse
Still hold on to the past
That threatens to spoil the moment
Before you do

Make sure you have crossed
That path that broke you and shattered you
Making your existence invaluable insane to live in
And been seeing in everyone eyes as a stigma
Before you do

Get it right within and without
Because when within springs forth outer space
Once you get it right inside of you
The whole healing process begins
Before you do

Be sure of what you want
Before you get into the mall to make that shopping
Before you do single yourself out
To be ready available open to meet
Before you do

Be sincere enough to yourself
Once that is done sincerity comes easily
From you to those around you
Because an insincere being is not worthy to be with
Before you do

Get mature enough to handle it well
So that journey won’t get you confuse
As you journey through life there are key things to take to heart
Having a peace relationship with God
Following peace with all men irrespective of who they are

Before you strike that business deal
Before you venture into that investment
Before you take up that job
Before you enter in that relationship
Before leave that job for the new one
Before you leave that city to another city
Before you do think it through well enough it matters it pays

THE PLACE OF GRATITUDE

Respect your existence be calm and humble
Look where you were before you get to where you are now
Bring back those early good days
When you are highly at your lowest state
When life is unbearable to live in

You scared of dying
Even so afraid to live the day after today
And life becomes too uncomfortable
Too hot to handle too close to come close
Remember how you started

In your solitude don’t soloquize
Instead take a walk in the calmness of the day
As the even sun comes out on a long lonely path
Enjoy nature at its peak be in the state gratefulness
Savour each moment live in each moment in sphere of silence

Look at life from the perspective
Of the current state you found yourself
See it all that life is worth living
To enjoy and to be happy living it
The place of gratitude

From generation to generation
In every imagination God is good
From the foundation of the earth
From the rising of the sun and its going down
The place of gratitude

Shouldn’t be undermined
Because God’s unfailing blessings and presence
Cannot be quantify to anything in this world
Without Him we are less to nothing
Him we live, move and have our being

Grateful for life and for everything
Of a truth where would we have been
If God had not been by our side
How could we rise to meet the morning of the day
His tender mercy is always calling far behind
At times we could not see Him even though He is close by us