EVERYDAYJESUS is our Rap Sheet! 2

 

So many sense organs, yet not enough sense

Light weight sons of a God so dense

Though He’s ever present we are gifted in the past tense

Imprisoned in eternity, my death serves a life sentence.

 

Life is like okpa, when I leave, you can wrap it up.

Boom!

Shot it down though we tall enough to live it up

Running our race, once was human now is heavenly

If the Truth is bitter, then lies give diabetes

 

People start to branch when they cannot bear your fruit,

Sir, Ashes to ashes, we all follow soot;

Be on fire for the Lord or be fired up with lore.

Yes! It is all for God or did you forget to die today?

By Daniel Achikanu; January,2017.

 

EverydayJesus is pro active!

One of my personal heroes is my Dad. Now he might not be perfect and yes he does not scale buildings, shoot webs from his palm or even wear a cape but from him I have learnt a bunch which has been key in my formation as a man. One of the main lessons I learnt just by observing him is how he tends to act ahead of time. Rather than dealing with a problem, Dad would prefer to forestall the problem. This doesn’t mean he would chicken out if a problem showed up but I think he figured it would be a lot cheaper and less stressful and ever more effective to prevent the problem. Guess what? He is right!

Looking through the scriptures, I see my Jesus would meet up with problems and solve them, but more importantly his words and actions pointed to a pro-active character, just like God-the-father. I mean isn’t it obvious that Christ died many years ago to save a world that would burn many years later. His mission in totality is pro-active. More so, if you looked through the scripture in search of guidance or instruction or have learned to listen to that sweet small voice of the lovely Holy Spirit you would agree with me that God is in the habit of directing us through actions that would seem pointless now but would mean the world in the future.

There are so many stories that I could give of present day events just like the story of Jeremiah’s instruction of God to buy a certain plot of land and collect the title deed and bury somewhere which was later used in recent times to settle a land dispute amongst nations. Crazy, right? However, here is a claim that this line of thought doesn’t agree with: “Experience is the best teacher”. Well, I think Jesus would disagree because discipline would pay better and guess what you never have to carry scars that way!

So be like Jesus. Be pro-active

Grace.

By Ezeonyeka, Godswill; 2017.

EVERYDAYJESUS is our Rap Sheet!

 

Evening

Didn’t really mean to write me another song,

Remember those days when I clogged my lungs,

Now am good with people, I’m the charming one.

You don’t have to count, I’m number one.

 

Sometimes I wonder about my drive,

Cars ain’t an issue but we need the miles.

Don’t want to end up just folding files,

Only to come home and pray for size.

My mind’s on that product, no time to prize.

 

Quchi is the name, but love is the game,

There is always going to be room for names,

That is better than gold, especially for the pikin;

Opportunities will call them, they will be picky.

God be their noses, they will always pick him.

He will color their scent, they will breath in him.

Quchi is the name, and I want the fame,

You may call me proud, I call you insane.

Welcome to the trip, this is my relay,

Yes, I got lust but I know The Way.

Never let society be the measure of me,

You have to excuse me, God died for me.

 

The devil is dead to me, Check on wiki;

I still pray for all those in his shoes

He’s so not an issue.

 

When you check please,

Sign here, if you can answer,

‘WHO DEVIL EPP?!’

 

But my Jesus is precious, victorious and yes Boss, He’s God once and always.

There is just no comparison,

There is just no comparison.

Mohamed is dead but Jesus is still risen,

Higher than Angels, no teasing.

No advertising, just one meeting

By Daniel Achikanu; January, 2017.

 

EverydayJesus’ the Fierceness of Love!

The fierceness of his love
Left him with no shield of self-will
Not his will he did
Dangerously advanced towards the cross
Peter trying to ice his zeal
His will became real
To do the father’s will
Self was lost
Pain gained
Yet this ferocity never left him
So Saul caught the flu of physical blindness
Only to be inducted into spiritual sight-seeing
The fuel to his new fierceness.

By Simeon Chidi, 2017.

Dear Future Husband !4

 

                                                                                                                          January 3, 2017.

 

Dear Future Husband,

You already know that I am really not that girl with that much of an Ado, but I still hope that this my pen loving thing finds you well.

I really enjoy writing to you. I really love talking to you a lot because I know that inasmuch as I love writing, I know that you are really faithfully reading every single stoke of my pen. I love the thought of it a lot because it reminds just how I feel, knowing that my Yeshua follows the periodic content of my little writing journal- you know, I really feel so safe and boundless whenever I spill my thoughts to that pretty book with my pen! Oh, I forgot to tell you how much I love really cute and functional stationeries, plus books with both nice smelling ideas and pages! LOL!

So I kind of think that Jesus takes daily peeks into my lil journal because I write just plenty, I also think that he laughs at some of the things I write in it, most def! I know that He usually looks forward to the next thing my mind wants to spill in that journal (some are actually as weird as the word weird) just as much as I know that you are always very keen on reading not only my words but mainly, getting the very WORD of every single one of my letters.

Honestly, I hope that my letters are really not prompting you go to after me. I feel that somehow, you might be thinking that you’ve found me, and that you might be probably wanting to talk to me about us. Nevertheless, I’d really be grateful to you, if you really decide to slow down your moves. Please my Lord, I really want you to take things about us very easy, and also not forget to talk to Father about me first before telling me a thing. You know, I fill His ears with a lot of words about you. If you must do anything about these letters, then I suggest you pray about them, since I know that you must have been reading them over and over. You may think that you have found me but I also think that you might want to pray about the word of this letters in the Spirit, while you diligently flow with the vibrations from your heart. Just like I have always told you, flow with the sincere leadings of your heart, even as I give you a few exposé that might be of some help to you.

First, please my Lord, you have to be careful about picking up tips from the numerous ‘boy-meet-girl’ things flying about online. I know about a handful of them already, and sadly enough, none of them ever appeared to appeal  to me. So the rule-of-thumb, (if there are any rules at all) would be ‘listen to your heart’ because there are very few traditional things about me.

For instance, I have very weird opinions about dating and courtship, especially since I find contemporary ideas to be both contradictory, selfish and manipulative most of the time. For instance, saying A while meaning B simply because you want to induce someone you said you love to do C! For me that is a big fat self-seeking joke. And sadly enough, there are very limited scriptural helps, but I’ve formed my own weird opinions in my little mind, anyways.

I don’t think it’s bad for God’s children to date, but you know dating means a lot of things to all the different 6 billion people on earth. I really do not have any views as to how good, or how bad dating is, okay? But if I were very honest with you, I’d simply tell you that the very word of it sounds too confining to me!

Dating makes me really mentally confined, maybe because I have never dated any of God’s sons before. I am not in the least scared of heart breaks as I see is the worst thing that can happen when things go sour. I am not averse to the dating thing because of heart breaks for although I have ‘dated’ a number of ‘unbelieving’ guys, when I didn’t know my left from my right, Father made sure that these men with the ‘crude and cruel’ nature, handled me almost with a holy fear. So in other words, I don’t know what a heart break feels like, in short I have never tasted it!

Men generally have been good to me because Father made them to, but God knows that the thought of them hovering over me like I was their property, really freaked me out big time, and that is one of the reasons I believe, why I somehow could not stay in a dating relationship. It might be different with you maybe, but I still do not think I love being any guy’s girlfriend exclusively.

For me, I feel that the boyfriend-girlfriend thing is just a commitment made too early. So I think that dating you would choke both you and myself, because I really cannot understand the places of the commitments you’d be making to me when you call me your girlfriend, and the one you’d be making to me when you decide to slip that solitaire on my left mid finger.

So I just think you should be a little careful about getting committed to me long before you are actually ready for a true commitment, because you don’t have to. I mean, if I had to be your girlfriend, and you my boyfriend, then we are trying to create a label that gives us enough room to change our minds, aka break up, right? If that be the case, then there wasn’t any basic commitment, so why create something that flimsy in the first place? Why not we take our time until we are sure we really want to be truly committed aka engaged. That way we’d be sure and ready with no nagging flimsy commitment that can be tossed to the garbage anytime. I am saying this because I have found out over the years that for some reason, I am a big professional at disposing ‘boyfriends’ and feeling sorry for them latter, yet I’d feel too happy to be free of them to even entertain any touchy feely talk from them, no matter how sorry I feel for breaking up with them for apparently no ‘good’ reasons.

Moreover, if we can change our minds latter, why create in the first place, a relationship scenario that doesn’t give us enough license to be as ‘special’ as we want to, to as many people as we fancied, without feeling like we owe each other any lame loyalty. I am sorry to be calling such loyalty lame, but what can I say when the commitment was created by some flimsy promise?

Also, I don’t want you to put yourself in any situation where I’d be mounting pressure on you without even knowing it myself. Take for instance that you commit yourself to me with the flimsy boyfriend promise, and somehow you weren’t ready to walk me down the aisle yet, and for some reason, I find myself being pressured by a ticking biological clock, or by my well-meaning family, or even by some rebellious hormones; do you think it would be fair and unselfish, if I started using the energy from my pressures, to make up stories like a lot of good girls do, about ‘ the suitors’ that asked for their hand in marriage, only in their head, and should in case there was a real suitor actually, I start to magnify and amplify it till you become really PRESSURED! Even if you say that you don’t mind, well I do mind, because I really do MIND!

Again, even if I were so controlled as to not bother you with those manipulative fictions, I’d really not want you to feel obligated to marry me. I’d hate it a lot! I’d not like it, if you are 100% percent sure that I’d give you a ‘YES’ when you came proposing. I’d detest it, if you didn’t even realize that when you asked me to marry you, you were subconsciously thinking that you were either doing me a favor or even rewarding me for being a good and patient ‘waitress’. I’d also hate it, if you thought that I was anticipating your ‘solitaire’. Listen I would never like it if you are not 85% or less sure that I’d say ‘YES’ to you, okay?

I want you to be free to be ‘special’ with all your sisters as much as you want to, the same way that I’d love to be free from you feeling like I am yours because of a mere flimsy promise.

God knows that I have a lot of brothers that I fancy more than a lot, but I know that as forever as you remain Spirit living, I’d never flirt with any one of them. I’d enjoy their giftings, and friends just as I’d enjoy every bit of you.

Listen, I know I couldn’t ever be able to get enough of you, but I still wouldn’t want you to be certain about my reply to you. You know, I have observed that such certainties have robbed myriads of noble men of their proposal courtesy and manners at the very point where they were proposing to the very woman of their dreams. So sad.

                                                                                                                           Your own Very,

                                                                                                                            Woman.

Dear Future Husband! 3

                                                                                                              January 2, 2017.

 

Dear Future Husband,

The last time I wrote you, I really didn’t want to keep you so ‘penstruck’ for too long, so I decided to write you something short then. I really want to make that particular letter complete, like right now. Uhm, I really wanted you to know just how much of ‘me’ that I owe to you, somehow.

I want you to know that whenever you look at me, or think of me, and say to yourself that I am beautiful, then you need to really take out a little moment of that time to appreciate yourself because, I am simply ‘the beautiful’ that you made.

Listen, Father refines me daily because of you. I let Father prune the garden of me because I know that you are there to eat of my fruit. The truth is that, I really do not need any man to survive but I know that I really cannot thrive as ‘me’ if you hadn’t been created and born. Oh, thank God, Father didn’t miss out on any details of His Genesis creation plan!

So, if you ever think I am beautiful, please then remember your birthdays, and take them very seriously! And if you ever think that you want to celebrate ‘the beautiful’ in me, then maybe you should start thinking of celebrating your birthdays!

For it was on the day that you were born that ‘the beautiful’ of me took form. Every single breath that you’ve taken on earth, every single mistake that you ever made in life, and every single trophy that you have ever won, has thus far made the ‘the beautiful’ of ‘me’, hidden right in you.

God had always known you from the beginning of the world, He formed your heart before the world began, and He knew your beautiful end in Him, even before you learned your own name. The totality of who you are, and all that you’d ever be, forms and refines me every day.

So, if you really think that you appreciate me now, then you just take out some time to be happy about ‘YOU’!

When you find me, take me, and publicly make me yours, then I would be the most beautiful woman that there ever would be, because already, the fragrance of you from afar, and every tiny bits and pieces of you has thus far, made me ‘the beautiful’ that the world can now see!

If you think you love me, love yourself even more because all the loving thing in me, took form in you!

In fact, never for one day, forget that I am the mirror reflection of the Glory of the only True God that you are so wrapped in, oh my Lord!

The LORD has created and made you Royalty, and when you hand-picked me by the outstretching of our holy scepter, I was crowned a queen of the very same order as Esther! And like Esther, I bask and thrive on the fear of the very air of your presence, oh Royalty, so divine!

I love to find my dwelling place in your shadow, your own very shadow is the safest haven on earth for me. You know, I am so secure in my heart for you just like Esther because I was made, ‘the Right One’, who the way to your heart knows, much more than Esther by the eunuch, knew the King Xerxes.

So, I prefer to stand back and watch to my thrill, all the fair ladies them, take their turns to show off their wares before you, my King! For I know that I was created and born your queen before the world took its shape, and not a woman displaying some goods. And of course, you know that all queens come last in the grandeur of the most euphoric procession. I could never fight to have you because I was made so that you’d have me.

Therefore, do not try so hard my King, to win me just as I am so secure in your Love for me!

Your own very,

Woman.

P.S. Please do visit this place very often because my ‘pen is always bleeding in a worshiping love’ for YOU!

 

 

 

 

EverydayJesus’ the Two!

If I were Dante
in the third sheet I’d say,
“leave every hope, o ye that enter”.

For One is Lucia
And the Other Lucifer
The Other brings dawn
Keeps us fawning for corruption
Glued us to hedonism
And kissing of things we should have despised
But One like a cork opener
Allows us to enjoy fresh air
And life without end.

One is a teacher
Penance the castle he lived in
the other on pride abides
A war Lord who defeats
Men too careless.

One is mercy and pity
The Other brutality
One is genuine
and the other falsehood
Ravaging the neighborhood of dust with lies
Arts, and daubing of life
Instead of face.

One builds with stones; precious and durable
the other found his work on hay
Creating too many ways
Yet One offers one way.

One upholds the ancient landmark
To touch not from the heart
But the Other resizes the landmark
Covering it with a blanket of
Heart bigger than acts
The things we can’t really be in light
And the things that war in us
As his premise.

The Other seemingly quiet
Waiting for the sun to rise in Venus
To make the mounds of Venus receptive
Of the seeds our hearts had sown
Against the warnings of One
To protect our light
And abide not in Venus.

Yet One still call us to
Take hold of every hope,
As we enter the fight against the shadow
With armor built by One.

By Simeon Chidi, 2017

EVERYDAYJESUS’ Worded Gift!

Each Word a Gift!

‘In a fast paced world…’, a popular advert would say. With my fast paced mouth I’d rather say, I could have a pretty hard time keeping up with my ‘Word Processing Center’! Sometime last October, I learned more than a handful from one of my precious moments of solitude, I’d tell you about it. I have this major favorite guy, it’s supposed to be a secret but please don’t get this twisted. Alright? Thanks! One day before I hibernated in myself, aka solitude, I gave him this cool compliment over the phone, I am so not telling no one what I said to him. And you mustn’t get this twisted too. It could be an everyday compliment, okay? Needless to say, the compliment was a lil bit flirtatious, I must confess! That wasn’t the plan I swear, but the compliment leaked anyways! Nevertheless, he didn’t let a drop of the compliment to sink into his heart; he is one of those rare species- trust me!  So, how did I know that he didn’t accept the compliment then? Well, Favouromeje has a knack for picking up every kind of vibes, even the ones sent wordlessly and wirelessly through a phone- trust me! This guy’s cold shoulder treatment towards my ‘innocent flirty’ compliment gave me some cuds to chew, and I learned a bundle of truth by the time I was done ruminating!

Ephesians 4: 29:

“Watch the way you talk. Let nothing foul or dirty come out of your mouth; say only what helps, each word a gift” (MSG)

“Let no foul or polluting language, nor evil word nor unwholesome or worthless talk [ever] come out of your mouth, but only such [speech] as is good and beneficial to the spiritual progress of others, as is fitting to the need and the occasion, that it may be a blessing and give grace (God’s favor) to those who hear it” (AMP).

“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen” (NIV)

“Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear” (ESV).

“You must not let such a word that depletes the spiritual state, and gives the mind more renewal assignment to do, to come out your mouth, but only that which is a needful and wholesome diet, nourishing to the soul; no junks added, and is able to improve, renew, better the mind, bring about Spirit ascendancy over human mind, and of course is able to impact God’s unmerited favor on any one who is fortunate to hear you speak to them” (Favouromeje).

So while my mouth is blabbing, I must be sure that it is blabbing at the right time, giving good spiritual nourishment, no mind corrupting junks, no soul barricading cholesterol, making people better, and having basically the Grace and Gospel of God as an underlying major theme.

I wonder how I can prepare such a Word Diet in this fast paced world, with my really fast paced mouth!

Well, I am doing that now (winks)!

 

By Favouromeje