Friday, July 30, 2021

WERE IT NOT FOR GOD


Bumper stickers are in
Interesting part of
Our everyday life
They come in different
Shapes and messages
 
Some are simply for amusement
While others are didactic
Prescribing one moral, business
Or political messages
Or the other
 
But once in a while you come across
A philosophical message with deeper
Meaning one of such reads thus
If Not For God” for those who understand
The full meaning of this four worded expression
 
It really brings to mind
God’s intervening benevolence
Towards us if not for God
Who had been on our side
Were it not for God 
 
The people of God
Are prime targets of many darts
The spring from wrathful enemies
Who are bent on fulfilling
The destructive mission of satan
 
But many also are the occasions
For which we can say “if not for God”
Even now it may be that you are in the eye
Of an overwhelming flood of affliction
Or torrent of persecution arising from the wrath of men
 
Look beyond it and consider
That the Almighty God is on your side
Be content to know that you will pass through
This water and not be drowned
We here for God and God is there for us
 

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

WAIT ON GOD


You may be despised
By those who think
They have all power
To determine your fate in life
Wait on God
 
They may even reproach you
For trusting in the Lord to help you
They may frighten and attempt
To weaken your faith by boasting
Of their previous accomplishment
In dealing harshly with with their enemies
 
But your only recourse
Should be to turn to the Lord in prayer
Ensure like the psalmist
That the Lord is indeed your God
By turning away from all your sins
 
Then you must pray to Him
With confidence and hope
To have mercy on you
And save you from all your troubles
If you depend on God
 
He will sooner than later
Turn the scorn and contempt
Of the proud and boastful enemies
On their head all you need to do
Is to wait, trusting that God will not abandon you

Monday, July 26, 2021

DEATH


The great one
It has no relatives
Is no friend of anyone
Not to kill
…death
 
When it enters
A house of joy
It destabilizes it
…death
 
It entered into
A house of happiness
And makes it sour
Death flies without wind
…death
 
Death enters into a house
Without knocking
It comes into a house
At any point it likes
…death
 
It enters into a house
At the time the owner
Of the house keeps snoring
It draws out sword
When war has ended
 
It brings out truncheon
When battle ceases
It acts right in the presence
Of the house owner
While the house owner cannot do anything
 
The one
That is down to earth
And none question
Hmmm! The great messenger
That makes no mistake…death

Saturday, July 24, 2021

AND THE PAST COME CALLING


Many things over the past decade
A lot has played out in this drama called life
With each scene playing out
Every now and then in our head
And the past comes calling

Like an hunting shadow
It raises its ugly head
And there comes a screaming
From within what now not now
As we try to come clean

It flashes several time
Through our minds eyes
As our heartaches
With a deep sigh of pain in the heart
And the past comes calling

Dunging our past in our present
A rotten smell exhumes out
That threatens to eat away our moment
Wreaking everything
When we don’t want to ruin it

Fine our past sometimes
Crept in our present on us
When we are having a nice time
Of our life savouring the aroma
Then comes boom our past like a hunting shadow

That time when we’re trying
To come out on a clean slate
Coming out cleaner than ever
In staring afresh leaving it all behind
And the past comes calling in our present

Friday, July 23, 2021

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH


The things we read, hear and give attention to
Provide the basis for the ideas
That we hold and the values we attract
Various issues and subjects in life
Nothing but the truth
 
If we give heed to false teaching
And false doctrine we are going to
Stumble and get corrupted in our faith
It is not enough for Christian
To be honest and innocent himself
 
He must also avoid others who are corrupted
Otherwise the corruption of those strange friends
And counsellors soon rib off on him
The Christian who is in position of influence
Must take up the challenge to exert only a
 
Righteous influence and promote
The truth in his domain
He should give no room for backbiting
And must shun the sycophants   
Nothing but the truth
 
Let us therefore allow
The love of the eternal truth
Of God’s word to be so firmly rooted
In our hearts that we may produce
Fruits of righteousness to save our soul from hell
 

THE LUCIFERAN SPIRIT


There is much evil semblance
Between the boastful yet barren
And the arrogant rendition of Ahithophel
When he joined the rebellion of Absalom
Against king David
 
Lucifer repeats “I will” five times
To announce his future program
To be like the most High
He did not achieve his goal
The luciferan spirit
 
Cloud they are without water
Carried about of winds
Trees whose fruit withereth
Without fruit twice dead
Plucked up by the roots
 
Raging waves of the sea
Foaming at their own shame
Wandering stars to whom is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever
Their mouth speaketh great swelling word
 
Pride prevent man from acknowledge
The sovereignty of God
If you admit the rule of God
Not only in your life but also
In the affairs of all humans
 
You will not make plans
And leave God out of them
Satan’s haughty utterance
Ended in misery taking him
Into eternal deamination
 
Our language reflects who we are
Those who spoke relying
On their power and worldly resources
And not on heavenly strength
Only succeeded in failing
 
It is futile to plan without God

Thursday, July 22, 2021

DON’T FORGET!


It is often said that those who
Fail to learn the lesson of history
Stand the danger of repeating its mistake
Avoiding the mistakes of history
Then requires a constant remembrance
Of the event of history
 
When we always remember
Where we are coming from
Where we are we will fully
Appreciate the power of divine
Providence in shaping our journey in life
 
And whenever we allow our
Sense of history to become activated
By an internal or external forces
During sober or joyous moments
We tend to appreciate 
Some pleasant moment of history
 
And then learn from some
Unpleasant moments or missteps as well
The Almighty has done gracious things for us
He grants us protection, provision for us
Saved us from our sins and made us His own
 
God has been faithful
Let us always count our blessings
Appreciate His goodness and serve
This gracious and good 
God all the days of our lives
That is the secret of receiving more from Him

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING


When God measure a person
He places the measuring tape
Around the heart not the mind
We should be careful not to
Turn around to the sins we left behind
 
Allowing the old sins to come back
In any form attracts God’s judgement
This accounts for the difficulty
Some unstable believers are having today
In securing answers to their prayers
 
Because access
To the throne of mercy and grace
Where prayers are answered
Will be denied once sin is accommodated
The way to restore divine pleasure
Is through repentance, cleansing and obedience to God
 

Monday, July 19, 2021

FAMOUS FOR FAITH


Many churches today
Are famous and noted for several things
They boast of their architecture
Glass, windows, organs, choir
And great orchestra, suave and eloquent preachers
 
The number of millionaires
Who attached their services
Large membership and so on
But a look at the church today
The church has lot it and the gap so much
 
The early church
Was famous for their doctrinal soundness
Not a man made kind of doctrines
The early church they did not
Just hold on to those doctrines and creed
 
And merely professing them
In empty and dry recitations
They live them out practically for all to see
It was practical demonstration
Of their faith and profession
 
It is worthy of note
That the faith of the church
In Rome became known
Through the spoken word
Without the aid of any media
 
When group of Christian is obedient
To the Lord and propagates its faith
It doesn’t take long for a whole city
Or state or even nations to be talking
About the group…famous for faith
 
A church should become famous
Because of its willingness to stand
For and propagate the truth of the Bible
Not by any of those things
That would attract the media

A REIGN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS


The world is upside down
Inside out, sideways, crazy and nutsy
Bad is good, up is down
Left is right, right is wrong
Evil is good, insanity is sanity
Abnormal is normal
 
Christians who believe that God
Instituted marriage between a male and a female
And have the gall to suggest
That the best environment
To raise children is when
 
They have both a mother and a father
Are now labelled crazy hate-filled bigots
Man’s rule on this planet
Has been a dismal failure
Since the fall it has been characterized
 
By oppression, injustice and corruption
We have endured the evil of salary
And suppression which were man’s
Attempt to gain superiority over another
A reign of righteousness 
 
Adding to the problem of oppression
Is man’s gross misunderstanding
And misjudgment about what
Qualities a personality to be called God
A reign of righteousness
 
This has brought
Many to the worship of animals
Birds, nature and even fellow human being
 
The coming reign of Christ
Will overturn all unrighteousness
Edicts of rulers and kings of this world
A period of unprecedented peace and comfort
It is compared to the refreshing rain

HIS LATTER RAIN


Without the Spirit of God
We can do nothing
We are as ships without wind
Branches without sap
And like coals without fire we are useless
 
There is very little
The church can do today
Without the outpouring of the Spirit
The world we live has become
So corrupt that sermons
 
Without the backing
Of the Holy Ghost power
Can produce little or no effect
The anointing and gifts that come
Through the Holy Spirit are irresistible 
 
The vessels to be used
In the revival promised by Joel
Will involve both old and young men
With the servant and hand maidens
All saved children of God

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

LIFE’S UPS AND DOWN


Sometimes we feel unwanted
Sometimes our heart wonders far
Sometimes we tend to place our hand
On what makes sad, gloomy and mould switch
Life’s ups and down
 
When discouragement hits
When life becomes so unbearable
When what will wants dare so far from our reach
When our goals and plans never works out
We feel like life should end
 
We search and searched for answers
To a whole zillions of questions
Running through our minds
We never come to terms with it
Life’s is filled with ups and down
 
Our heart aches
Our heart bleeds with tears
Our mind are weary and sickly
Our body with its mould switch
Our eyes become too heavy for sleep
 
But in the midst of it all
No matter what happens
And what we tend to face at times
Let’s never forget that challenges
Are part of the spices of life
 

KEEP HOPE ALIVE


When it seems all hope is lost
When it seems tomorrow is far from today
When it seems all your plan is not working
When it seems hope is gone off from the street called hope
Keep hope alive
 
Never stop working on your dream
Never throw in the tower
Never drop the mic
Never seems to be a diligent
Keep hope alive
 
Never stop being the you
Never stop doing what makes you happy
Never stop becoming the you in you
Never buy into fake but you been real
Keep hope alive
 
When men give up on you
When men walked out on you
When men despitefully use you
When men seems not to trust you
When no one believe in you believe in yourself
 
Keep the dream alive in you
Just carry it everywhere you go
Just keep at it and keep working
Through the night through the storm
Keep hope alive
 
Never give up the dream
Never give up on yourself
Never for once drop the mic
Never let go keep holding out
Keep hope alive
 
Just a little while longer
You will be fine
The storms will come and go
And there will be a new brand new feeling all over you

I AM ME BECAUSE HE LIVES IN ME


He was there when I was formed
From nothing I came into existence
The dream of becoming the best
In the annual of history records
Of kingdoms and nation
 
Living out the purpose
Of which I was made
Because am fearfully and wonderfully made
Fashioned after the similitude of the palace
The Creator breathe was on me
 
The breath of life for life
Was injected into me
At creation by the creator
He had me form in the palm of His hands
Am what God made of me and says of me
 
Am bold, big and beautiful
As the beauty of life radiates all over
Am His and He is mine
Together we stand will chase thousands
Defeats foes and enemies
 
Standing tall in the midst of challenges
Because have got friends in high places
Have got someone I can call
I’ll walk by faith and not by what I see
The definition of God’s grace in me
 
A royal diadem I am
Called out from the rest
Am me and He is mine
A chosen being made for His purpose
I am me because He lives in me

Thursday, July 8, 2021

AT ALL COST


Make sure you do you
Make sure you were not swept off
By the fakeness that has invaded our land
And everyone is seeing it as norms
That has come to become part of our living

Make sure you at all cost
You get it right within
By going the distance
Forging head long with
Whatsoever that be withers you

Make sure you never
Fall on the road called life
In chasing what matters
For time and the future eternity
Remember you born not just

To go to school
Make degrees and bag a certificate
Nor get married, give birth, pay bills
Then die there is more to life than all these
At all cost

Make sure you stand
Make sure you become
What you were created to be
So you must find your purpose
Early in life at all cost

Make you sure
You never die a coward
Nor becoming an onlooker
In your days be realistic to be real
All through never fake it be original you are

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

LIGHT A CANDLE


The world is filled with darkness
Darkness of hate and unfair treatment
Glooms here and there at every turn
That we don’t know whom to trust again
In the hours of darkness

Be light while the darkness prevail
Be a source of joy to the one
Whose in pain brighten the corner where you are
No matter little it maybe be the light
In the hours of darkness

Let its flame burn brighter
Never let your light go dim
Be the hero where others
Are playing the sheep
Reach out the candle

Take it hold it up high
Just take the candle go light your world
So when you light a candle
And see it glow
And you watch it dance

In your heart of heart
You’ll know that I
Would never leave you
Even when you feel so blue
Today go light a candle in the hours of darkness

AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS


Fearing the battle was over
And I’d already lost the war
I was tired of trying and failing
I just couldn’t fight anymore
So, dragging my battle-scarred body

I crawled to the foot of the cross.
And I sobbed Oh please, Father forgive me
But I tried
I tried and still lost
Then the air grew silent around me

I heard his voice just as clear as the dawn
Oh, My child, though you are tired and weary
You can’t stop, you have to go on
At the foot of the Cross , where I met Him
At the foot of the Cross, where He died

I felt love, as I knelt in His presence
I felt hope, as I looked in His eyes
Then He gathered me lovingly to Him
As around us God’s light clearly shone
And together we walked though my lifetime

To heal every wound I had known
I found bits of my dreams, long forgotten
And pieces of my life on the floor
But I watched as He tenderly blessed them
And my life was worth living once more

I knew then why I had been losing
I knew why I had not grown
At the foot of the Cross came the answer
I’d been fighting the battle alone
At the foot of the Cross

At the foot of the Cross, where I met Him
At the foot of the Cross, where He died
Then I knew I could face any challenge
Together–just my Lord and I.

Monday, July 5, 2021

WHO AM I?


Lord you went to Calvary
Because of me You gave it all
Your glory and throne everything
Up for me to be your own
Who am I?
 
That You are so mindful of me
Your carry me like a child I am to You
Your faithfulness never left me for once
It keeps me going coming to me every morning
Who am I?
 
A sinner saved by His grace
In the pit of dungeon of sin
Your blood came washing
My crimsons state as white as snow
Who am I?
 
You went to Calvary
Took the shame and pain
No greater sacrifice has any
Ever done for you to die in my place
Who am I?
 
When justice and law
Demanded my life
But mercy saw me through the Son
Not what I was but what I should be
That's how mercy saw me
Who am I?
 
If not for You Lord
Human would have written me off
Condemn me to death to die for sin
But You came blotting out the accusers
So here I am today
 
A product of God's own matchless grace
Am nothing without You
I cannot live nor breathe without you
Who am I that You are so mindful of me
Am forever grateful to You God
 
For your Son that took my place
For His unfailing love and promises
For His faithfulness that cometh alive morning
Who am I am so fortunate to have you as mine.

DEATH


Some day
We all we close our eyes
To never be open again
And we bid this world goodbye
When death comes calling and knocking
 
But the thought of it
Is what kills faster
It grips our heart
Weakens it from working normal
Death
 
No matter how long a man live
Death is certain and utmost price to pay
Young or old, king or ordinary, rich nor poor
We all owe this debt
Death
 
We don’t know when nor how
When death will come for us
Either through sickness or accident
No one can say where it we meet us
Death
 
When it comes and take us home
Is only what we’ve done
Can be remembered of us
Long while death has visited
The best time to prepare for death is now
 
Think reflect and make plan
To prepare for eternity before death visits
Is better to be prepared to meet thy Lord
Then to be unprepared to meet thy Lord
Before death comes
 
That time is now
Because tomorrow may mean goodbye
We never know when nor how
When death comes and God calls us away
Our body is laid to dust

HE SENT HIS WORD


His Word not a man’s word
Full of life and power
Quicken the heart and piercing it
Doing wonders and miracles
He sent His Word
 
Becoming flesh
Dwelling among us
Breaking York’s changing life
Giving life so much more meaning
He sent His Word
 
Healing the sick
Mending the broken heart
Doing signs and wonders
Breaking chains and liberating the captors
Beyond human reasoning
 
Through His Word
The sick are healed
The dead comes back to life
The blind receive their sights
The barren receive children
 
Because He sent His Word
All His Word are yes and amen
His promises has been for ages
They never fail for one day
So many wonders are been done through His Word
 
He spoke at creation
Life come into being
Created the heaven and earth
Separated the heaven from the earth
Night from day, sea from the land and night from day
Because He sent His Word
 
Hold unto His Word
To conquer and live in this wicked world
To enjoy the full blessings of His Word
To always obey Him and see Him at the end of the day
He sent His Word    

GOD’S SPOKEN WORD


God’s spoken Word
Defiles man’s spoken word
His Word made flesh
Living in us and with us
It quicken the heart of man for salvation
 
Man’s word is never sure
Neither has it had certain filled of lies and deceit
But alas who can know man’s mind
As out of the abundant of the heart
Man’s spoken word comes forth
 
God’s Word
Is ever true and so real
Nothing like promise and fail
Just like it found in man’s spoken word
God’s spoken Word
 
Brings peace in times of trouble
Brings comfort from unrestlessness of life
Brings shelter from the raging storm
Brings love in a world full of hatred
God’s spoken Word
 

Friday, July 2, 2021

OUR SEEDS AFTER SECONDARY SCHOOL


They left the four walls of learning
The class room that harbors them
For the six years of their life
They learn sometimes in a fun way
Other times in a very hard and painful way

As each educators
Walk night and day to dish out
The best to make them stands out
Each lessons are an event to look forward
Our seeds after secondary school

Many years has come and gone
The kids that stays in one single room
Learnt a lot together and play together
Have now scattered all around leaving
The beautiful memory of classroom life behind

On the memory lives on in our mind
As educators and pupils life goes on
Some move on in life so fast
While some had a slow movement in life
They are all our seed that we planted

Many years ago as we never went back
After the seeds has been planted in them
We wait laboured, toiled and nurture
These seeds of greater tomorrow of greatness
Now the seeds are scattered abroad around us

These are the seed of self discipline
These are seeds of academicianism
They are seed of moral uprightness
These seeds that stands the test of immoral
These are all the seeds educators planted

In this beautiful young dynamic minds
Sprouting to became greater harvest
In the annuals of history books of records
Making marks leaving a worthy footprints
On the sands of times.

Today we see the other wise
Some seeds made it to germination
And breaking every barrier underneath the earth
The ground sufficing on the surface of the earth
Our seeds after secondary school

While some other seeds grew
To become weeds and thorns
In the flesh of the society
Where they exist in
A wasted effort and unproductive labour

They turn out to become.
What kind of seed do you turn out to become
How far has the seeds planted in you have gone
Did the seed fall on the rock stone
Or on a fertile ground that germinate
To great tree of greatness
Bringing joy not sorrow and heartache.