Simply Deep!
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God gives prophecy, men fulfil it
#grateful
It is a beautiful thing to be alive and healthy
To have hopes and dreams and a plan to work with
To know things will turn out for good, for better, for best
To smile, to laugh, to live, to love, to find peace and rest
To have God for Father and Source
To run this earth’s course as God’s son
Selah.
EVERYDAY JESUS is the same
There were no interruptions
Silence imploded into infinity
Until even my thoughts bleached
The slasher of my grin inhaled my anxiety
Savoring my frantic attempts
To be calm
To be useful
To love.
Recently I attended a large denomination’s branch in my town (let me not name names) and I heard the pastor say things like, ‘If you don’t thank God when you pray he will not hear you.’ and ‘This is your year to build those houses, and buy those cars…’ and other stuff I’ve deleted.
Now of course these are the kind of things that vex me so one of those times, I prayed and asked The Father,’ when will these people think differently?’
He replied, ‘I have made you as you are, able to grasp truth and renew your mind easily and quickly. That’s what I made you. You are not alone in my gifts, as you know, there are those everywhere who know, respect and commune with me.’
I interrupted,’Lord, is it pride to be pleased that I am one of these your chosen ones?’
‘No, its not. Pride would be lording it over them to the point you separate yourself from them.’
There were no interruptions
Silence had borne its children
Until a sour baptism of longing
The Longer waited until this When
To end the silence
To noisy it
With Truth.
Ephesians 1
Colossians 3
1Corinthians 1
#EverydayJesus
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Don’t shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him
~C.S Lewis
Ode to the preacher
I am a sinner, a sinful one,
but you oh Preacher,
should see most clearly.
You have traveled the same road as I,
and made an almost identical journey
up the same similar mountain.
Your nude feet have marched
a similar dusty path.
Surely, this piece,
of our younger days,
this peace confession
of a life ill spent.
This piss- beaten,
termite-eaten signpost
on the road we both knew,
should stir some familiar echo
in your mind.
Like a father’s favourite fairly-tale
heard again years after his death
or
the long-forgotten voice of a child hood friend,
heard again at his funeral,
sin has become
an all possessive obsession,
an obsessive compulsive disorder
and
like a block of ice left out in the sun,
I break up and melt
when temptation provokes.
In the very same river
where you once swam,
I now drown
like an oil-soaked sack of sand.
preach to me once more
preach preacher
my life sure needs a swing..
LIFE: The Definitions.
LIFE: The Definitions. by Egwu Nnanna Echem
Life is sincere, when the divide of your actions and intentions becomes as thin as thinness; when you make no pretense about your allegiances, when your diaphragm easily expands and contracts with delight whenever you speak since you have demonstrated over time a faithful link between your heart and the words of your mouth.
LIFE: The Definitions.
Life is beautiful, when great moments form a tapestry of consonance; and you blink times without number to see the world refresh as if you pressed the F5 button on your windows PC then the world comes alive again.
Life is good, when you not only make yours good with LG accessories/gadgets but extend goodness with a smile to those near and far in your words, deeds and helping their needs; when you become the testimony of many, the reason for many to look up to a perfect day.
Life is brave, when you go beyond the status quo to attain great heights you were once afraid of; when your dark sides are pushed aside by the light of knowledge as the sky becomes a stepping stone.
Life is insane, when you wake up to know that the one you love just bid farewell and time keeps ticking even as you think of it; when your childhood flashes back to memory like yesterday only to be dressed with clothes of mistakes and stains of safety and the only rays shining through are that of regrets, and pains.
Life is expectant, when you stumble, fall, get bruised, but you gather courage to crawl, stand, walk and run again jumping over the hurdle of your past as you fly across milky way galaxy… only to be hit this time by the asteroids. The stars stare at you expecting greater than before.
Life is fast, when you blow your candles and remember 365 plus 1day has just flashed by with your body having enough certificates of scars, tears, sweats, wrinkles, stiffness and your hearts’ ware-house keep all that eyes cannot see and the tongue hard to explain and the clock keeps winding down.
Life is colorful, when you are surrounded by different shades of relationships: family, friends, and the love of your life that you soon get contempt and take for granted… for familiarity sake. Until your world goes sepia and they come back to add that beauty you once threw away.
Life is Ironic, for the so called simple and most unnoticed gifts are what make it full: From the drop of water to the breath you breathe as nature unfolds daily and the cosmos in silent motion.
Life is a gift, when God gave his only begotten son, Jesus: to die in place of the world. The same world that was created through him, for him and without him wouldn’t have been created; in him was Life and that Life was the light of Men- You, me and them.
Life is whatsoever you make out of it… But without Jesus, it’ll be NOTHING!
“I am the way, the truth and The LIFE”- Jesus Christ
Is HE part of your Life’s’ definition?
“Written during my pursuit for life’s meaning and purpose, knowing that we all have lesser than a second” –Egwu Nnanna .E
Book Review: DEEPER CHRISTIAN LIFE-By ANDREW MURRAY
The book Deeper Christian Life is one which deals with the need for Christians to go further into their devotion to God, and not settle for less. There is more to be found: our faith in God is a sort of opening unto an inexhaustible treasure trove, which we should gladly seek. Sadly, most believers in Christ do not press on to partake in this glorious gift. They’re content with the status quo, or think such heights of communion with God either unattainable, or for some select few. Murray wrote this book to address this crucial concern.
While it is true that this book is quite an old one (first published in 1895 by the Fleming H. Revell company), its subject matter is relevant to every age. And it is a simple little book to read too. But its worth returning to for some encouragement and admonition.
In seven chapters Murray effectively tackles this matter. Chapter one is aptly titled “Daily Fellowship With God”, and takes the reader through practical steps which should ensure that he or she is truly in tune with God, and has the correct perspective of their place before Him: God’s greatness, man’s unworthiness, and God’s amazing grace which He, in spite of our failings, has poured out upon us. This should inspire us to come before Him with confidence- not in ourselves, but in Him, in His love.
Murray dives straight into the “big one” in chapter two, as he notes that while there is such a beautiful life of intimacy with God awaiting the believer (a blessed life in every true sense of the word), most Christians fall far short of it. He attributes this principally, to unbelief. For it is unbelief that keeps them from asking this life of God our Father, and holds us down from going forward in faith to live this life. The remedy? confess and turn from this sin (he likens it to the attitude of the elder son in Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son), to live the life of faith; ask God for the grace, and believe He has granted it. Then walk in it.
The great difference between the carnal life and the spirit-led life is the subject of the next chapter. Peter the apostle is used by the author as an example of where self-trust can lead us: failure, fractured friendship with our Lord, and separation from Him. His life after his denial of Christ was a changed one: he found that his trust in his own word and fleshly devotion to Christ was useless. He sorrowfully turned himself over to the will of God and followed Jesus in love. And he became a fearless servant of Christ.
In chapter four, Murray makes it clear that it is one thing to have declared for Jesus and pitch one’s tent with Him (“going out of Egypt”); but it is quite another to go further in growth, getting into a deeper relationship with God (“getting into Canaan”). Chapter five emphasizes the presence of the Holy Spirit in the believer as crucial to a deeper, faithful engagement to God. And His spirit indwells those who desire Him, ask for Him, and believe that He has been given. The next chapter tells us that the key to the victorious Christian life is fixing our eyes on Jesus. Again, he takes the imagery of Peter struggling to stay upon the stormy sea of Galilee as Jesus calls him hither to himself. Only by faith in the word of our Lord and the sufficiency of his promise shall we walk as he did.
“A Word to Workers” is the seventh chapter of this book. It seeks to remind the “workers” in the field of evangelization and the encouragement of the brethren, that in order to effectively deliver a life-changing message on the beauty of the deeper christian life and the living of it, they (the ministers of this gospel) must have seen it come true in their own lives. This, for the observer, is vital in ascertaining the viability of the life preached about. The book ends fittingly, with a call to consecration: the giving of all we are to God, who has given this to us. Only in doing this will we find the joy and satisfaction of being so into God, and God being so into us.
This is a wonderful book, good for practically all Christians, whether they be new in the faith and wanting to grow, or for the older fellows who need some rejuvenation. I heartily recommend it to you, my dear reader.
Christ a poet 