CAN YOUR POCKET MAKE HER LAUGH

Forget the looks and the polish accent
Is not all a about the carriage of the body
Neither the smell of costly perfumes
That hose out from that body
That makes her just smile that leads to laughing out hard

But can your pocket make her laugh
See love goes beyond the words of the mouth
Not just mere words of mouth
But words of the mouth backed up
With workable action that is seen reality

Can your pocket make her laugh
Forget the jokes or been too funny
That wont stand the test of love
When love puts into test
When reality will come calling

And it dawn on you
By then love has fades out of your eyes
And you face the real thing of love
Affection without money is like a car without engine oil
Can your pocket make her laugh

Can it keep the wheel of that union rolling
Without not crashing against the tides
Of the current along loves storm rivers
When life tables turn and morning return to night
Can your pocket make her laugh

Been a man never stops in bed alone
But it transcends in all sphere of human
Been a man never stops on the amount
Of the ladies you conquer on the field of bed
Can your pocket make her laugh

A romance without money
Is like an empty car void of fuel
Which cannot move from this point to that point
Before venturing into love or relationship
Be man in your pocket not in bed

DON’T COME FORMING, COME PLAIN

Each one and everyone has a niche
In which they all belong and rap
As we go about our daily activities
We run into different human
Be it online and offline

It takes all sorts of people
This space called world where we live in
Some are toxic with bad energy
Some are best of the best of brand of human
With excess characters to deal with

We find those living out what they are not
While long ago they have forgotten
Their real self of which they arrive with
From day one here on this planet called earth
Don’t come forming come plain

Come plain and lets know the real you
So we can be able to deal with it
Because is better to accept you
Just the way you are then what you are not
Forming won’t pay you at all

Been real is what matters most
A fake life is life of lie
You are just a shadow of someone else
Who is going to fade out of relevant someday
When the real you suffice

Is better to come plain
Then to come forming
Who you are not truly what
Is better to be know by your worth
Then the worth of something you’re not created to be

Show me your colour
Let me deal with that
Never for a second be bothered
Whether your true colour will be accepted or not
Let me deal with that and if I can’t deal with it

Is either I tried to work 

On the bad side of you 

To become a better you 

Or I take a walk please 

Don’t come forming but 

Come plain it pays to be you.

FINDING LOVE IN ITS PURE FORM

They say love is a feeling felt by the heart
Inexpressible by the tongue
But like a butterfly they said
Lives in the tummy it flies around
Making us to feel on top of our world

Love cost nothing you are just natural
It comes easily with no price tag attached
Feel with so much commitment and assurance
Void of deceit and contempt in its purest form
Finding love its purest form

Loving whole heartedly
Not a divided attention
Where there is no emotional infidelity
Natural kind of love with no hidden agenda
Finding love in its purest form

When all fails to stand
And everything is brought down
And the walls come crashing down
And the world is gone with the noise of the activities
And stillness returns after a whole long day

The streams flows and its sound so strong
That you can feel the sounds
As the stars sparkles down
Like a diamond ring glittering like the sun of the morning
To never lose its light living like a life not a memory

Love is one of human greatest gift of all
From the laughter of the child
To the frown of grown up men
There is a thread that runs right through us all
And helps us understand

The world we live in today
Is filled with so much hates and fake feelings
That makes it too hard to see true love in its purest form
Not love that is forming but the real thing
Some search for it on a distance land

THE YOU IN ME

In your eyes I see you in me
The reflection of me in you
I see every time I look into those eyes
You walk by I see my shadow pass by
All along is the you in me

A future so assured with you
Come rain hot water and sunshine
I see us standing tall because
You carry the shadow of me when you walk
The you in me

The fire that burns within my bones
The life that live inside of me
The memory that never faded away is you in me
That love at its purest state refine by fire in its purest form
The you in me

Future is so sure
As futuristic with you
That’s while with you got no fear
Is us against the wall am sure
The you in me

Ready to brace in the responsibility
That comes with love
In walking to be a loving experience
For you for us the world can’t wait to see us
The you in me

Be rest assure to shut down
The gain sayings of the world
Out from our life in facing our life
In enjoying the moment just with us in sight
The you in me

WHERE YOU FORCE INTO MARRIAGE?

You carry ladies as much more than
The bachelor do like not been attachly vow to anyone
As if you were force into taking the vow of marriage
On the hallow spot of the two of you
In the presence of everyone

You where not the man she marries
You change overnight gone with the wind
Like the book that left the shelf
Where you force into this thing called marriage
That you cannot keep the vow

What happen to that beautiful lady
You were when you melt with him
Your prince charming that swept you off your feet
And make you believe in love again that feelings that came with it
After all you been true but wait pause and answer this

Where you force into marriage?
Where you coarse into taking that journey
Many years has come and gone
Looking back to the good beautiful loving old days
Of how it all begins and how is it today

You left her at home
Lonely and sick of love and affection
You both have lost it to the wind of carelessness
And start acting like a childish being
Where you force into falling in love and getting married

You chase men as if you belong to no one
You careless of the man you once fall in love with
Now you have fall out of love
Your soulmate now stinks you
Where you force into marriage

See take your time before you say I do
Don’t just prepare for marriage
But prepare in having a long last married life
Full of love full of life not to be endured but to married
Ask well before you say I do
Don’t go into marriage as if you were force into marriage

A THOUGHT ON CHRISTMAS

Christmas is here again
The day the king was born
The saviour of the world
We celebrate His birth today
In remembrance of Him

As you celebrate today
Take a thought on Christmas
How has His birth been in your life?
What effect or impact dose it have on you?
Yes! Is Christmas but what is Christmas to you?
The day the king was born or the day we wine and drink.

Do you bother to know why He was born?
Or you are just celebrating
Cause is a normal thing to celebrate
Every December 25th normal routine
Is that not it to you what is it all about
Is Christ birth in vain in your life?

Is good to celebrate yes!
But what impact has it in your life?
Take a thought on Christmas friend
What occupies the center stage in your life?
The god of this world or the creator of the universe
Either one out of this two cause you can’t
Serve God and mammon, two masters

Remember your life and place in eternity
Depends on it friend! So make the decision today
As you celebrate remember this
And take a thought on Christmas
Season’s greetings from me to you
Merry Christmas.

GOD'S PERFECT GIFT: LOVE

A common Bible Passage

That transcends the love of God

Towards His son giving His only Son to the world

…begotten a love that was expressed then leading to practicalization

Of such love from God to mankind

Christmas is not a time to eat meat and rice

Jesus is the reason for the season

His love for us, so we must extend our hands of love to others

Love with action not just mere saying it show love

But showing love with action

God demonstrated His love towards us

He choose to love us not just feeling

He choose to love us because if God never loved us

He won’t choose to give up His only begotten Son

God’s perfect love

The love that cost you nothing

Is an empty demonstration of love

Love leads to compassion, obedient to an outward

Expression of our love towards God and our fellow man

CHRISTMAS COMES TO TOWN

It comes once in a year
Once in a season Christmas
With harmattan ushering it in
So much preparation for it
‘Cos is a big festival.

Celebrated worldwide
None is left out in the celebration
Even the animals knows that
Santa is getting ready preparing
To ride through the city
Children waiting to get there gifts

Christmas comes to town
The singing of the birds
The dangling of Christmas bells
The glittering light of Christmas trees
The Christmas songs are on every lip.

You better watch out
You better don’t cry
Cause is telling while
Santa clause is coming to town
Hurry Christmas comes to town.

IS BEEN LONG…

Seconds has come and gone

Minutes fades and fake out

Hours has flew into the days

As days races off like a cheetah into years

Is been long

And yet your memory of you and I lingers

The whole times we’ve been together

Spend the most exciting moment of our life

From the first Christmas together

As we welcome our first fruit of love

Emotion so high like the highest mountain Everest

Is been long your smell refuses to leave this being

Is been long, long years moment has fades

Like a name written in the sands of time

Yet you live like a candle in the wind

So long so gone

So far gone but never far away

From me to you

You’re still here deep inside my heart

Is been long 

I hope you are good

Wherever you are

I hope life’s good with you

As you exist and lives on day after day

Is been long my heart prays for you everyday

Thank you for everything

Thank you for the opportunity to share your heart with me

Thank you for the lesson learnt

Thank you for loving me unreservably

Is been long yet you are not forgotten

If you think you’re you are not

A REAL MAN

Not just a real man on the bed
But that one who is so real in all ways
Who got what it takes to be that man
Everyone can count on and rely on
A real man

Is ye that is faithful
Faithful in little things and great things
One who eschew evil and also shun

The counsel of the unwise
Who never walk in the way of sinful deeds
One in whom sincerity resides in

Not just a mere common man
But an uncommon man 

Whose breeds is rare to find anywhere
Who attributes outstands the mixed multitude
Where he stand as he shines forth that deeds
Of what a real man should be

Not been good in bed alone
But one who controls his emotion, feelings and desires
Who never allows his heart to overrule his head
Whose sense of judgement is unrestricted by anything
That is a real man

Who has not lost his integrity
To lust, fame and power
Who held up high the morals of a good godly man
A real man is real in all its ways and endeavour
A real man

Is that one who doesn’t fake it all
The life of Christ resides in him as he lives in out all times
As he is seen shinning forth the real righteousness of God
Not just a religious fellow but a righteous one
A real man is not a mere church goer

Not just the one who worship Christ alone
But a real man is that one who lives like Christ
Both in public and private eye
A real man contend for the faith
He never buys into fake

Not a religious fanatics
Not a church tradition kind of man
Not an hypocrite nor churchanisim kind of
Not an eye service nor an deceitful man
A real man is subject to a fault and takes correction

WHAT’S NOT FAIR

When life is not fair
When all about life
Is that shortcoming and this shortcoming
When life is full of disappointment
What’s not fair

When you walk and work tirelessly hard
And pull that effort…these resources
Yet you still remain at the bottom of the ladder
And you’re not climbing up but remain there
What’s not fair

When you search and search
For a lasting loving companion
Yet love refuses to visit nor blink an eye your way
But just series of heartbreak been taking for fool
What’s not fair

When you watch others walked pass by in peers
And you are just one person mopol
With no backup anywhere
You build and chase your dream in the dark
Attain success in the dark all alone by yourself

What’s not fair
When you’ve labored and relentless work
Just to make your family live the life they desired
And it seems reaching that goal is
Far to reach too hold to touch

Locked up in your own world
Sick and snare by false affiliations everywhere
Fake smiles coupled with chicken kinds of love
A pain in the neck…the pinch of an enemy
Becoming deadly than the stab of a friend

What’s not fair
When the one you deeply love
Never reciprocated back the affection you have inside of you
When you’ve got to work on yourself
To cut some so much excess here and there
In becoming a better person
That you use to be yesterday in today for the future and for that special person

DESTROYING THE THING WE LOVE

Our past shape our present
The past hurts and resentment
Suffice all the time when we have it near
Having what we love and adores most to our heart
The past all of a sudden suffice

To destroy and ruin all what we desire
That brings us so much joy and happiness
I know my past is the making of the ruin
Of the moment struggle so much to overcome it
Destroying the thing we love

We struggle to let it go
With so much help within
And all around people thinks one is too aggressive
And not been willing to let it go
When it hurts so bad like a volcano erupting inside

Deep within scream for help
Seeking urgent rehab like a psycho
Who is losing it all out not been able to contain it all
Allowing the past life to ruin the present life
Destroying the thing we love

Have got lots of excesses
With this short coming and that weakness
All littered here and there I can’t just help it
Without any shadow of doubt I know am not fine
And needed help ‘cos myself is getting the best of me

Like a thunder bolt it hits one hard
Hard to the deepest part of one
Everything is falling just apart
Life becomes uninteresting to staying in
Destroying the things will love the past catching up

Lord help me to let go of the past
And to come into that full healing of the past
To chase after life and move on in becoming a better place
Have tried and toil on my own I let go and let God
Help me and heal me so I wont keep
Destroying the things I love

HELLO HANDSOME

Not a charming face
That makes him charming
But a charming attitude
That is so inviting
Hello handsome

Not a warming smiling face
That makes him a lady’s man
But a welcoming character
That stands him out in sight of everyone
Hello handsome

A chaste young man
Who’s got respect for a lady
Not a wove devouring kind of guy
Whose sense still intact in the sight of a lady
Hello handsome

Not a godless being
Whose regard for God and man
Is never meant anything to them
But one who eschew evil and held God at the most high
Hello handsome

The one who really knows responsibility is
That takes full action of the aftermath
Of an action and stands as a man
To carrying it out to the letter
Not a boy who run away 

From the consequence of his action

Hello handsome
Not the one whose emotion ruled off
Neither the asset in-between is leg controls
But the one whose feelings are suppress
A d place under control

Not the one who is too naive about life
But the one who has grown up in all spheres of life
Who’s got their emotion under check
And maturity plays out in all areas of life
Hello handsome

ELERIN EYE

The girl with the beautiful smiles
Omotola the daughter of the woman next door
As she radiate in beauty
Polish after the similitude of the palace
Elerin eye

When I see you walk by
Am caught by the aroma of your beauty
So natural in looks and her skin glows
So full of Mother Nature’s gift
Of a truth she is omo elerin eye

Chastity is her motor and virtue
Nature’s gift to humanity
With a heart of gold
That marches her beauty that singles her out
Crown it on top of it all with a good character

This serves as the smoke
That attracts those who are afar off to her
She walks gracefully and delightfully
Well mannered, culture, godly and well trained
Elerin eye Omotola

My eyes so caught by her as she walks by
So full of life beauty exemplified
Ebony…Africa finest she is
The queen of someone heart
Elerin eye

That smile that radiates on her shining face
No need have make-up to enhance the beauty
Come rain come shine her face glows 

Like the morning’s sunshine
No need of make or make over to hose out her beauty
Elerin eye

Full of brain not just beauty outside
But beauty that transcends inside out
Who’s got something upstairs to offer her days
Beauty with brain not beauty without brain
Elerin eye you…Omotola

LONG LASTING LOVE

Seasons come…season goes
Love happens at unseal moment and place
It takes us off our feet swept us high hills
To a world where no pain but so much tenderness
Long lasting love

We wish for this to last
Like a movie will long for it not come to end
Like a life that shouldn’t be brought to halt
Like a song that shouldn’t come to fine
Long lasting love

We must seek to know people
Beyond the surface of who they are
Before embarking on this love fantasies
That comes along with these feelings of love
We long and prayed do all we can

For it to last
Not to wake up one moment
And realize the one will fall over hills for
Is not the one we use to know anymore
Because such a one has change over time

The fear hits us like a thunder bolt
Boom it all gone down the drain
Like a name written in the sand
Yesterday becoming a history
Today a gift we long for to return to normalcy

Our heart screams out
Our heart broken and shattered
Our soul is starved of love from this person we call our soulmate
Our emotions are in shamble we are losing it all out
Our state of been balance is off balance

Everything just stops and life becomes boring
Uninteresting to live in…the question pop up
While are we still here 

As we lose the essence of living

We watch others walk in peers 

While we battle to keep our love life going
Dying for affection…needs affiliation

In our closet 

We say a heartfelt solemn prayer 

For a long last love to visit us once again 

Someday, sometime and somewhere.

A PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT

Often said over time and time again
That life begins at forty
You can slice that any way you want
But it always come out middle age
Like it or not forty-five is in the middle of aging

It’s an appropriate exercise for a man
Who finds himself at middle age or mid-life
To evaluate how he’s doing now
That he’s reached halfway point of journey
Not only is it good to evaluate the years
You’ve already lived but is very wise to consider
How you want to spend the rest of your life

A mission statement is a document a person
Writes that sums up his or her personal philosophy or creed
A personal mission statement should
Articulate the values that represent a person
Here is someone mission statement

Succeed at home first
Never compromise with honesty
Hear both sides before judging
Obtain the counsel of others
Defend those who are absent
Develop one new proficiency a year
Plan tomorrow’s work today
Maintain a positive attitude
Keep a sense of humor
Be orderly in person and in work
Listen twice as much as you speak
Concentrate all abilities and efforts on task at hand not worrying

Here is another person mission statement
Just in three words – Don’t Screw Up –
Men screw up all the time but this person goal is not to screw up
I don’t want to screw up my marriage
I don’t want to screw up my relationship with my kids
I don’t want to screw up my integrity

One day in the future there will be a funeral
My funeral after the funeral they’ll get in their black limos
And head for the cemetery where a brief graveside service will be conducted
Then everyone will head to the house and have some food
As they are at home have some food the worker will dump dirt
On the casket it is common to have words on the marker

Have you ever given any thought to what you’d like
To have inscribed on your grave marker? Wait!
Let me show you what some would like to have on his own marker
And here it is

Name: Okoh C. Paul
Born: 1984
Died: _______
He Didn’t Screw Up

Men, Christianity, Husband

TWENTY FOUR STABILIZING NAILS

Twenty four characteristics of a godly man
I like to think of these as twenty four stabilizing nails
That you can hammer into the character of your life

A man of knowledge…A man moved by faith
A man fired by love…A man like God
A man careful about the worship of God
A man who serves God, not men
A man who prizes Christ…A man who weeps
A man who loves the Word
A man how has the Spirit of God residing in him
A man of humility…A man of prayer
A man of sincerity…A heavenly man
A zealous man…A patient man
A thankful man…A man who loves the saints
A man who does not indulge himself in any sin
A man who is good in his relationships
A man who does spiritual things in a spiritual manner
A man thoroughly trained in religion
A man who walks with God
A man who strives to be an instrument for making others godly

Guys who finish strong are stayed on Jehovah
And guys who stayed on Jehovah consistently do four things
They stay in…the Scripture
They stay close…to a friend
They stay away…from other women
They stay alert…to the tactics of the enemy

There is no time to be sedatives
This is the time to stay alert!
Too many men who have started well
Have failed to finish strong
History is strewn with the wreckages of their lives

God gave us men a time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands
Men whom the lust of office does not kill
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy
Men who posses opinions and a will
Men who love honor men who will not lie

THE AMBUSHES

Who said anything about ambushes?
The bottom line in determining
How a man will finish centers
Around getting through the ambushes
The ambushes

To finish strong means that you
Survived the ambushes
Getting through the ambushes
Is what separate men from the boys
The ambushes

And the guys who get through
The ambushes are generally the guys
Who anticipate the ambushes
We can expect to encounter at least
Three major ambushes as we attempt to finish strong

They are
The ambush of another woman
The ambush of money
The ambush of neglected family
Think through some men in the Scripture
Who should have finished strong but couldn’t

The enemy has been using these three ambushes
To keep God’s men from finishing strong
For thousands of years let’s take a little closer to each one
The ambush of another woman risk is also the critical issue
In determining whether or not you will survive the ambush of another woman

The ambush of money
For the love of money is the root of all evil
Remember Ananias and Sapphire had such love for money
They both had what could be called a premature finish

The ambush of neglected family
A minister once asked a question
Whats your greatest fear about going into ministry
The said minister did not hesitate to answer and here his is reply
Being successful in ministry and losing my family

MADU

Like a rat it come to one
Eat ones foot but you cannot know
As two tasks is carried out
As the rat is eating your foot
There is a cold breeze that follows

So unpredictable
With venom like a snake in the heart
Ready to devour with the poison from the tongue
That comes out from the smile behind the scene
A foe in disguise

That a being so nice and found to be and talk with
Will someday turns out to be
A foe with the nicest deadly act
As each day breaks the one nice being
Has become like a book the left the shelf

But such is life
As human we are all bound to change
Is either you are gone with the wind
Or ravage by the storm of betrayal
Everything is lost like the name written in the sand

The one once praised today
We become like a trash tomorrow
Just as an intangible un-estimable assets
The heart of human are like a course you cannot graduate from
That is madu for you

So when you meet with a stranger today
Don’t rush in labeling that said stranger
All such of wonderful, awesome and loving names
Because human is like a book that has a sweet opening
But no one knows what lays ahead the pages ahead

So get your guards ready
Be on your guard always
Don’t trust easily to give it out such a trust cheaply
Be realistic go with your instinct and sense
Madu are so beautiful in nature and character

I pray we all survive the moment
When the perfect stranger turns out 

To be foe ravaging us
You don’t know who got your back or 

Who wants you out of the game

Life is a jungle 

You got to keep your head up high
Madu…

FOUR DIFFERENT KINDS OF FINISHES

The first is Cut Off Early
Means they were taken out of leadership
Assassinations, killed in battle
Prophetically denounced, overthrown
Typical examples of those cut off early include
 
Abimelech, Samson, Absalom, Ahab
Josiah, John the Baptist and James
Some of these men where good leaders
But most of them were bad
Do you personally know people
Who have been cut off early? If you do
There is a tragic story that explains their finish
 
The second is Finished Poorly
Means they were going down hill
In the latter part of their lives
This might mean in term of personal relationship with God
Or in terms of competency…or both
Some who…are typical examples of finish poorly
 
Include Gideon, Eli, Saul and Solomon
In other words these guys were barely to crawl
Across the finish line either that
Or they were carried
This is what we want to avoid, gentlemen
 
The Third is Finished so-so
Mean they did not do what they could have done
Or should have done
They did not complete what God had for them to do
This might mean that there were some negative ramifications
From their past which lingered on even though
 
They were walking with God personally
At the end of their live some example of finishing so-so
Would be David, Jehosophat and Hezekiah
These were pretty good guys after all David was a man after God’s heart
 
The Fourth is Finished Well
Means that they were walking with God personally
At the end of their lives they were strong
In their faith and close to the Lord
Men who finished well Abraham, Job, Joseph
Joshua, Caleb, Samuel, Elijah, Jeremiah, Daniel
John, Paul and Peter this is where we want to be
 
Now here’s the big-time question  
All of these leaders were gifted
And all had very impressive strength
So how come they all didn’t finish strong?
The answer is this
 
They all didn’t finish strong
Because they didn’t survive
The ambushes…

STAY AWAY…FROM OTHER WOMEN

Keep your distance from other women

I’m not saying that you become rude to women
Or stand-offish I’m not saying that you gain
A reputation for been discourteous
Disrespectful, cold, or abrupt

What I am saying is that we keep
An apporpirate distance in our relationship
With the women with whom we work and associate
You don’t need to be weird or act strange
You don’t need to make anyone uncomfortable

But both the women that you work with
And your wife will intuitively know
Your behavior and actions that here
Is a man who is clean and pure in relationships
Will all women here’s a man willing to go the extra mile
In commitment to his wife

We must keep our distance emotionally
We must keep our distance physically
And if we do that we’ll be just fine
One of the reasons the vast majority
Of guys don’t finish strong can be found right here

Why don’t they finish strong?
Because the enemy takes them out
Satan’s all-time Numero Uno
Time proven tactics for snaring men
And keeping them from finish strong

Is sexual immorality
And the statics prove it
Sexual temptation is the number one issues
In the lives of most men and I think it’s primary
Way that the enemy picks off Christian men

If you want to finish strong
There is one non-negotiable trait
That you must embrace in your life
Regarding sexual temptation
And that trait is gut level honesty

WHERE IS THE FINISH LINE?

By the way where is the finish line?
Well it difficult for each one of us
The finish line that I have in mind
Is when we go be with the Lord
You might have forty years before you die or six months

That’s the interesting thing about this race
No one knows where the finish line is
And that makes this race just much tougher
Runners will tell you that they want to know
Where the finish line is

It doesn’t matter if they’re running
One hundred yards or a marathon
They must know where the finish line is
And then they get that finish line in sight
They block out everything else and concentrate
Fully and completely on the tape

That concentration on the finis
That keeping their eye on the mark
That’s what enable them to blot out
The pain and exhaustion and finish strong
Where is the finish line?

Those men have their backs to the finish line
So how can they possibly finish strong?
How do they pace themselves
And how do they know when to sprint?
If they can’t see the finish line and focus upon it
Then how in the world can they row an effective race?

We don’t finish strong
By focusing on the finish line
Because we don’t know where
The finish line is
We finish strong by fixing our eyes on Jesus

MY ONLY CAUTION

Don’t paint it in terms of some
He-man effort in the flesh
Because we all know that won’t cut it
Strong men fall weak 

Men find their strength in another don’t fall

How can I make sure that I’m the one in ten?

My only caution
We won’t be the one in ten
Because of our own strength or wisdom
Or courage or perseverance or any other human quality
If we finish strong it will only be because

We have tapped into ultimate strength
Limitless wisdom, the fount of courage
The sources of perseverance
He will get us across the finish line
The very gates of hell cannot make us stumble

Unless we choose to remove ourselves
From his protection and power
I’d like to see a little hope and encouragement
Here and that we can indeed be one
Of the one in ten guys who finish strong

And that’s because
His divine power
Has given us everything we need
For life and godliness
My only caution

Men who don’t hit the finish line strong
Have chosen to remove themselves
From the Lord’s protection and power
That concentration on the finish line
That keeping their eye on the mark
That’s what enables them to blot out
The pain and exhaustion and finish strong

FINISHING STRONG IS TOUGH

It is not for everyone
Because it is not easy
I admit to you that it is hard
But there is another way
That is much harder

The Scriptures say that
The way of the transgressor is hard
If you are interested in what
Eugene Peterson call
A long obedience in the same direction

If you are interested in being
The one out of ten
If you are interested in being
The man who is the exception to the rule
Read on

Quietly frankly if you’ve gotten this far
And you’re still reading then you are exception
Too many guys are willing to do just enough to get by
Too many guys are ready to bail out of the race
At the first twinge of sideache

Is your marriage on rough water right now? Don’t quit
Is that secretary who is craving more of your attention
Starting to look more and more attractive? Don’t even think about it
Have you gone so long without apparently seeing God
Say yes to one of your prayers that you’re about ready to chuck
This Christian thing that would be a serious mistake
The enemy would like to sucker us into thinking
That the easy way is the best way but it never is
I have been giving a tremendous amount of thought
A punch in the stomach but there is also a challenge
And I think most men likes challenge

Will I be the one in ten?
How can I make sure
That I’m the one in ten?
Except you trust in God that when it can happen
And you will see is no longer tough to finish strong

DAVID: A TITANIC MISTAKE

The plight of the Titanic may be
The most famous shipwreck in all history
The sin of David with Bathsheba
May be the most famous moral shipwreck
In all of history

And they have something extremely
Significant in common
On April 10, 1912 the ship Titanic embarked
On her median cruise from Southampton to New York
A titanic mistake

The ship was so carefully structured and engineered
That it was billed as the ship that God couldn’t sink
She was four city blocks long and carried the most
Up-to-date safety devices she featured a French sidewalk
Café and luxurious suites but she carried only
Twenty lifeboats for the 2200 passengers on board

But the Titanic shipwrecked days
Before she ever hits the iceberg
How could the greatest ocean linear
Ever built shipwreck hours before she hit the iceberg
The Titanic sealed her own fate because she failed
To heed the repeated warnings of imminent danger

In actually the Titanic shipwrecked before
It ever hit that iceberg and so did David
David shipwrecked, morally years before
He ever saw Bathsheba stepping into the bathwater
David a Titanic mistake

David set the course for his own shipwreck
The moment he married a second wife
Then he married a third by that time he was on a roll
And he married a fourth followed by a fifth
By the time he was thirty he had six wives

David was a polygamist
God’s plan for David was that
He be a one-woman kind of man
But David wanted to be a many-wives kind of man
And by doing so he engineered his own personal shipwreck
Just as titanic failed to heed the six warnings
So David failed to head at least six warnings
Every time he considered taking additional wife
I firmly believe the Holy Spirit would send a telegram
To his conscience and adjust as the Titanic ignored the warning
So did David… David a Titanic mistake

Do you know the greatest tragedy of both shipwrecks?
Both of them could have been easily avoided
But they weren’t and the world would continue
To speak of both for centuries to come
David a Titanic mistake

WHO KNOWS THE HEART

The stranger you meet today

Can suffice to be a warm nice person tomorrow
And life flows the experience was awesome
Life is beautiful…life is good
But who deep down there

The stranger that turns to be an angel
Some days gone by
Seconds by seconds
Friendship blossom awesome
But no knows who got to know

Who knows the heart
As men we don’t know our heart
Neither do we know the thought
Of the one who seats next to us
Who knows the heart

Even if we hears the heart beats
But who knows what the heart
What it says though it beats like drum
So high at crescendo pitching high
But the deeds of the heart no one knows

And the fears that grips us often
Is this person who is so loving today
Changing like a sleep of the night tomorrow
Also like a book that left the shelf long ago
Who knows the heart

That is an age long searched question
That the heart has never found an answer to
That no can fathom the depth of it
That is just the superficial outwardness
The heart of men…who knows the heart

Heaven knows all the answers
That time will ever tell
From the sounds of the heart beats
To every bit of the words of the heart
But who knows the intent of what the heart says

But only heaven knows all the answers to all that time we ever tell...