Good morning from here!!!
First things first, I really have no idea why the
post has some weird background on the font, but please just manage biko.
*clearingthraot* So! I hope you have been blessed
by our last two writers. Today's writer is a childhood friend of mine, Miss
Dorcas Bitrus. *drumroll*
To be honest, I never knew she could write like
this ooooo..... I'm not yabbing you Dorcas, but i'm proud of the woman you are
becoming.
Happy reading guys!
"Either God is deaf, or God is deaf. Because
on our own part really we've done everything. We have claimed, we have acquired
in the spirit and beyond, we have captured, we have snatched and all what naught.
I wonder why the whole world is not wealthy
already. Especially we in Africa and my dearest Naija. I mean I marvel at the
ivory bronze irony (I literally just made up that expression, forgive me
Profs). There are secret revealing books, key(s) delivering seminars, power
packed empowerment services, Impartation services, wealth transfer anointing
services and oh don't get me started on all the visions and prophecies we have
bent our tonsils over from screaming amen to receive! Oh the folly of mankind!
When the wealth of the world is like the crumbs
that has fallen to the floor, why are we busy chasing and claiming wealth
especially the 'wealth of the wicked'? It's like a prince ducking under his
king size table to grovel with the dogs for the crumbs that fell from the feast
atop his table. It makes no sense at all. The crumbs are his, obviously but so
is the feast ON TOP of the table why should he want crumbs?
I used this analogy to help clarify what Christ
says when he says to seek first the kingdom and all other things will be added
to us. It's like get your priorities straight. You know when you buy garri in
the market and ask for jara... If your're asked which is of more worth to you,
the garri you bought or the jara added, it's pretty obvious.
Wealth is one of the jara's of the believer. It's
not the real deal and not what is absolutely important. And since God is good
and gracious to both the sinner and saint, he decided to hand the jara to those
who cannot afford to and are not entitled to the real deal. When beggars beg,
what are they given? 'The main the main' or the extra? So you see the dangerous
trade when a believer's heart is totally focused and consumed with trying to
gain wealth? (note that I said TOTALLY consumed)
If you see an unbeliever boast, the high point,
the peak, the pinnacle and the crown of all his boasting is that he has wealth
and power in this world. I picked interest (Debbie can you believe this) for
some reason in Nigerian circular music of recent (for the sake of definition, let's
say it was for research purposes...lol and also I live in Benin now so really
I'm immersed in them everyday). The trend is clear as the blue skies....money,
sex, power. Half those guys that are singing these songs are in an over
extended stage of puberty really. Pray for them, the light hasn't come on for
them yet! Their boast is so sleek and shallow. For the sake of your sanity and
to ensure a maintained level of maturity, biko listen to spiritually uplifting
songs.
But have you seen a believer boast tho?! It's
other worldly! So outta here! He boasts of living for eternity, he boasts of
being heir to a God...the one true God. He boasts of being a dead man walking
and doesn't bat an eyelid while saying that. You need to listen to one of my
favorite Trip Lee songs 'brag on my Lord' (old but woke as ever!)
Look as a Christian you're a mystery to the
world. They can't get you. They don't understand why you have the audacity to
do some of the things you do. Like it's just not done, so how dare you? That's
why a man married to his pretty bride of 21, will leave his country and home of
comfort and come to Africa to translate the Bible from English to some Stone
Age language. I mean who does that?!
You need to understand that at 21, there's some
thing much more important than owning an iPhone, an iPad, and what ever i's
Apple is yet to enslave us with. Youths, take a mission trip. Don't wait for
the church to organize it. Meet up with a few friends and just go.
Wait lemme even check this girl's profile
sef...which school she go? Where she dey work? Oh wait oh....So madam, you're a
broke youth corper sef and you're here busy writing how we should not desire
wealth? You never see money before na in make! And you never suffer before, na
because you dey see food chop every day abi? na Bible I wan chop?! Anyway no be
your fault, your papa don dey feed you tey tey! Ajebo pikin, abeg shift make I
hear word. Lol.
To be continued."
Brag on My Lord - Trip Lee
We don't wanna waste our time braggin' on small
pleasures, you know?
We wanna brag on the greatest treasure
So go ahead Trip...brag on
Okay...let me brag
[Hook]
Can I brag on my Lord?
Go and brag on 'em Trip (x3)
Let me brag on my Lord
Yeah he's hotter than fires
We roll with the flyest
He
touch me and I kinda change like he's King Midas
He
rolled with 300 way before Leonidas
He
hold me down, I call him Your Highness...Get it?
I
heard other faith groups
Talkin'
'bout they were the lightest
But
the Father's portioned to Christ
He's
gotta bias
He
never does it quite the way we think
He's
got surprises, our eyes is
Focused
on him so we fired up
And
we wired
He
took us out the dirt
Grimy
muck and the mire
Addicted
to his grace
And
I call him my supplier
Then
we call him Most High
Cause
ain't nobody higher
King
Jesus we not sleepin' on him
All
nighter
No
He's not Elijah
Greater than Jeremiah
He's the best
Hear
the crowd screaming from the risers
Been
workin' for eternity but never been hired
He's
on his Brett Favre
You
can't make him retire
(Brag
on Him)
I'm
still goin' can't quiet us
The
Light of The World, nobody's brighter,
I
try to
Emulate
his walk, I ain't original I strive to
Copy
his style, I aspire to be a biter
You
can't make us turn on him for prizes
Or
bribe us
Check
his power mayne
From
his love you can't pry us
Not
even with pliers, so please don't even try to
If
loving him's a crime, then indict us (I gotta brag)
Hook(x2)
Brag
on...
Brag-brag
on my Lord(Go and brag on em Trip)(x4)
Go
and brag on 'em Trip (x3)
Thank you for this piece Dorcas. May we desire
God more than silver or gold!
In Christ,
Shanpepe.
References:
http://genius.com/Trip-lee-brag-on-my-lord-lyrics
www.haikudeck.com
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