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