Jara O, na Jara!

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

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