
#rhematown iss. 162


The Evil In The Heart Of Men Flee
The Wounds That Caused Me Nothing But Pain And Shame Would Surely Heal
My Smile I Would At Last Regain
The Stone That Lies Deep Down My Chest At The Centre Of My Rib Cage Would Soften
And A Heart Full Of Love Would Arise And Become Flesh
Our Mothers Would No Longer Desire To Set Their Homes On Fire
And Our Fathers Would Realise Why They Should Adore Their Wives
Instead Of Chasing Them With Knifes
When True Love Leads
Hatred Would No Longer Be Seen
Lust Would Now Be Regarded As Nothing Else But Sin
Wars! Crisis! Chaos!
Would Be Placed Under Our Foot
We Would No Longer Run For Our Dear Lives
Our Children Won’t Be Afraid To Picture Their Future In The Stars
Dreams! Goals! Ambitions!
Won’t Be Stepped Upon By Bourgeois’s Right Before Our Very Eyes.
When Love Leads!
God Leads!
By
Princess Pirinye
Hello sunday
So soon
Here you are again
You evade our hearts
With some kind of feeling
“Go to church”
Blimey, sunday
A little observation
Men! Yes human beings
Most of them aren’t sincere
Whenever they see you
They adjust, and re-adjust to be called the just.
We are pretenders, offenders
We carry the bible on your evasion
Just to claim timed salvation
Poor decision, poor innovation
Listen sunday
There is a lot going on
Disgusting things.
On sunday, is when my fellas will carry their bible to read
Or even loud their stereo, listening to christian songs
Or even raise their voices, singing to be noticed.
O sunday, what have you brought on us?
Sunday, maybe I am the one getting this tough, so rough
Maybe it is not your fault
It is a default thing
Men invented it
We allowed the busy scene of life to get us carried away
Or you caused it?
Nooooo, not you
Nooooo, Not us
Ooooooooooooohhh!
I think it’s us
We are lazy
Lazy to face the facts
Enemies of ourselves
We are always carried away
Away, like a sheep.
Sunday, maybe it is not us
Maybe it is us…
Sunday, it is us…
By the Alchemist
Enveloped in a sense of physical elation, he kept wondering what the so-called blood of Jesus had really done for him. He had always believed that the power of sin and thoughts that could easily lead to sin had been nailed to the old rugged cross long before he joined the stream of people whose emotions had been stirred expertly by the orator who gave the sermon at Wood Street some months back. He was told that sin had lost it’s dominion over him and he had believed it without reservation yet his current euphoria is an antithesis to this assumption. He knew how quickly he used to yield to the whims of her mesmerizing presence with all his senses battling for the first to be gratified and his brain straggling some safe distance behind them, waiting for his soulish desires to be satisfied before reminding him of the endless lessons he was taught in New Converts class.
He could feel his blood overflowing it’s banks, demanding that he create a path that it could travel with this newly acquired escape velocity. The only thought that seemed valid to him at that point was to cast and bind evil spirits but the softness of her body which rested on his kept beckoning for a touch. Just one touch was all he wished for. She turned her head, making her mouth directly in front of his only but a few inches. He felt like closing the gap between their lips. His mind was done with the creation of what the aftermath would be yet he remained still and wordless like the statue of liberty yet his freedom from sin at that point he questioned. He tried to push her away but sensual feeling he got as she moved her body left him with the appreciation of how badly he had longed for such a moment of wonders. She had offered him a pot of honey that his senses were bent on eating. He tried to fantasize how the last time between them had been. She was not just skillful, she was willing to try out new things. She had given him a taste of heaven. He could only see himself grappling the mounds on her chest with one hand and the Other hand traveling round her in brownian motion. She moans, sticking closer to him than she had been.
He could not afford to call her his Delilah at that point, she must be the angel sent by God to end his wars of wakeful nights he tried calming his battling lust only to get routed before the stars travel back to their domain. He could not remember the number of times he asked God to solve this problem only to leave his bed early in the morning to soak his undergarment soiled in different shades by his semen.
Her arrival that evening was an opportunity to prove the superman he has become in Christ. He thought that his starting to pray once it was 10pm would dispel all the evil intentions she had and serve as a gateway to her salvation and the new life he now enjoys. He went back to his old life.

There is only one degree of difference between hot water and steam.
#DontQuit
-John L. Mason
Slowly went off the flames of the light
Casting shadows of a heart-breaking sight.
She cried in a broken desperation
because it seemed she and her inhabitants were left to die
In the ugly claws of rejection so she stared in fear
Doom seemed near
While in a deep slumber were God’s own tabernacles
Snoring aloud, head supported by feeble ankles.
In an alarming stillness, she thought them dead
Because all that blurred her vision was red
If only they knew
That her cities were ruined
Her buildings laid desolate, home crushed;
Cries of distress, a blasting tune
Her men in tortured labor, had begun to split up caves
Making spaces to dig up their own graves
If only they knew her enemy!
The man of guile had seized and plagued their streets
Leaving them with shuddering teeth that only grits
All that is left are weary souls grasping for breath
Earnestly longing for an easeful death
So with everyday becoming night
They are weary, white out of plight
Despite the surging wave of thick darkness
There lay no hope of light
Crazy!
She couldn’t understand why!
Were they not the saviors?
Who were supposed to build up the waste places?
The army meant to raise the foundation of many generations?
To repair the breach and restore streets for dwelling in as said the Lord
Through the mouth of prophet Isaiah?
For whom does she wait?
Achan or Zechariah?
Would they leave her in darkness and cold?
Their power and authority exchanged for insatiable vaults
Pleasures and filth the price to the devil they had sold?
Children of God indeed they are
She weeps at the hallowness of their claims
Because right from the beginning the scripture never said it so!
An unbearable shame even as my own tears comes afloat
I weep for a creation whose earnest expectation of manifestation
Is exchanged with devastation.
Great news!
“You are the light of the world; a city that is set on the hill cannot be hidden. –Mathew 5 v 14
Alright; I can feel hands clenching into fists and faces set into determination to spark off a revolution but before we embark on this unending journey in which we struggle for positions; to put forward a question needless an answer “do you have lights”?
The era of the manifestations of the sons of God is here! Hallelluyah! Then wait a second, what is our understanding concerning these lights the bible so emphasizes as our nature? The very light is Jesus! You beg to differ?
John 1 v 4 says: In him was life and this life was the light of men.
Pardon me brethren if I drive this point in a hard way. Light just does not connote the showcase of your multi- abilities. Simply put, it is revealing the personality of Jesus.
Mathew 5 vs 16 ” Let your light so shine before men that they may see your GOOD WORKS and glorify your father in heaven.
Your good works is a proof that you are light. Please show me proofs NOT SKILLS! Now I am not condemning gifts. The problem is not the service you render with them but the attitude with which it is rendered. It is the reaction of the heart. If your entire motive is to attract the praise of man, sorry that is a great adventure in darkness.
Shinning forth as lights is being embedded in the word of God and manifesting in the power of the Holy Ghost.
It was well said by Paul in 1st Corinthians 2 vs 4 ” and my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasive words of human wisdom but in demonstration of spirit and of power.
Jesus said: The flesh profits nothing but the Spirit giveth life; the words I speak to you are spirit and they are life. The word of God is a transmittable Spirit. It is the Spirit of life and light. For the entrance of the word giveth life.
You see, the Holy Spirit activates the word and acts on it. The word shows possibilities but the power of the Holy Ghost makes it a reality. The more we labour in the word ; the more light we receive and show forth. Hear this; our redemption as lights is being redeemed in Jesus being personified in us. Jesus was so engrossed in his Father’s work. When heavenly vision is ran with selfish ambitions, it becomes an earthly fiction! Then we miss out as lights.
Conclusively we are the light of the world! so Halt! let there be no more struggle for positions and meager praises from men.
Let love and passion to run God’s work rule our heart; it is the foundation of limitless destinies.
Peace