The gifts my days bring

One day at a time they sang,
I agree, one day at a time,
Live the moments, live each day on its own,
Love each day on its own,
No day dawns as the other,
Though the sun be one, though the moon shine the night,
None is like the other,
Each day with its own troubles,
I will live this day, I will conquer this day.

One day, two days, three days...
On and on they pass,
I will not fret, they draw me closer,
Closer to my end, farther from my start,
My end is near, my past is farther,
Destiny calls, days draw me near,
Nearer, closer I get to my destiny, my end,
My past is far, my destiny is close,
One day at a time, one day at a time.

The day and its troubles shall come,
I will live on, my end is not today,
Tomorrow is another day,
Closer I get, farther I go,
I am strong, I believe so, I know so,
No day will outweigh me, I will conquer the day.
Closer I get, farther I go,
The troubles teach me, I learn,
My heart will learn, I will not run,
I fall today, I rise tomorrow,
Closer I move, my destiny beckons,
Today is not enough, I long for tomorrow,

My days bring me lessons,
They bring me trouble and joy,
Am overwhelmed but I live on, one day at a time,
There is grace for each day, strength for each day,
Though it runs out at times,
The will to see another day will carry me to tomorrow,
I end not today, tomorrow awaits me, I cannot fail,
The author of the days has written my tomorrow,
I have my part to play tomorrow,
I do not end today.

Today I live, tomorrow is another day,
The gift my days bring,
I live on, I do not end today,
The days are good, the days are evil,
Still I live on, I do not end today.

This life we've known

How today rises is not as tomorrow will,
Though sun shines for all,
It’s not the same for all.

This life,
I will sing a song,
My heart is intrigued,
A song will do.

What cry goes unanswered?
What course is without a purpose?
In this life,this world we've known.

Vanity!! the wise man said,
All is vanity, a chase after the wind,
What then is life?

What is man that life has found him?
That he’s seen the good and evil of the day,
While day’s trouble will come,
He finds pleasure still, in his troubled days.

While no one knows the day to come,
All awake to meet it anyway,
Though it may hit hard,
We rise again and prepare for the next.
 
This life we've known,
This world we know,
The good exist and so does the bad,
None is flawless,
None is complete,
This world we know,
This life we've known.

My dear desolate land

A cup of hot chocolate,
Two sugars and the latest copy of the dailies,
Am all set for this.
A few pages down, I love my hot chocolate,
Sip sip my cup is halfway down,
I flip over and there’s this story, “Old and still in love”,
My mind wonders away,
To a land now so desolate,
Once lovely and lively,
Now lies bare earth and shrubs,
This land remains untilled for some time now,
Though my land, I wish not till it,
I once did but bore no fruit,
I will not, I wish not to till it,
I have since found other grounds to till,
I leave this bare,
It brings me turmoil
Once dear, now bare
It has rejected my efforts to make it bring fruit,
I rest my case, I will toil not anymore,
My doleful heart finds pleasure in a new land,
They’ve tilled their land till old age,
Mine young fertile land lies bare,
I find no strength to till it,
Grace be upon me,
Let I find fruit in my new land.

Set the heart on things above

             ***My Joy is in the Lord above***

There is not a greater advantage a mortal man on earth can have than when they have a backing of an immortal power. Say, having the author of destinies lead your path to destiny. It’s like having your parent set the national exam which you are to sit for. It couldn’t get any better right?
 
Now,the bible urges us to set our eyes/hope on things above; hope in things unseen; to have heaven as our bank and not here where treasures are prone to moths and other destroyers. Setting our hearts on things above...

Colossians 3:1-2 -Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
 
Someone once told me, the difference between joy and happiness,-other than the spelling-is that, happiness is dependent on things that can be seen and touched. Joy on the other hand however, is depended and based on things unseen.
 
The Lord in His word most often talks of joy. This is what He gives us when our happiness is shaken. When that which brought happiness to our hearts is taken away and that happiness is gone, a heart without gladness is left. The Lord thus gives joy which in turn strengthens up the heart to live again.”The joy of the Lord is my strength”.
 
A few days ago, something happened in my life. Something that erased quite a piece of happiness from me for some days. I would have gone to extremes of depression and making crazy and hasty decisions BUT I thank God for His joy that quickly found rest in my heart and empowered it to find peace and live on.(This is the advantage of having God as your father you see.He's always near to comfort and empower His own). 

As I write this, I can confidently proclaim that the joy of the Lord is my strength. It is the reason I wake up to face the day after the incident.
 
When all that brings you happiness is gone, only the joy from the Lord can comfort such a heart. Like the peace of God that surpasses all understanding, the joy of the Lord goes beyond any description.
 
Whereas we find happiness in what we have, let us above all tap joy from heaven. Take delight in the Lord, for only He remains when all else is gone. Let the joy of the Lord excite your heart more than happiness does-it is a joy everlasting that we have in the Lord.

The River’s flow tune

You put the waters in motion,
You set its path and it be,
Where it flows God You know,
Its course and destination Creator You know best.

You set the flow un-seizing,
Coiling its way round obstacles,
On a journey to bring refreshment to where it flows,
The sound of mighty waters flow depicts Your greatness,

HOW GREAT IS MY GOD!
 
You sustain life under the waters,
You cause it to bring life wherever it flows,
The fierce and calm spots creator You cause,
How, where and why it breaks God you know.

You set the rocks on its path yet you cause it to flow past them,
You’ve taught it how,
It’s You who feeds the rivers, quenches the earth of its thirst,
Give life to the waters to deliver life to you creation.

HOW GREAT IS MY GOD!
 
The song of mighty waters Father you understand,
You command the seas with your word,
You speaketh calm over the deluge,
The mighty waves dance to honor You.

A world beyond the trees and Rocks we know

The spiritual realm
 
There is a world beyond the one see, a world from where the physical one is dictated from. There’s a place where all that we see and know is dictated from. The world we know is just an outcome of the things that are happening in that other world, the spiritual realm.
 
This is where things happen first before they get to us. The world where the prince of Persia stands to delay the answers of our prayers. Yes, there is a world beyond what we know and see and its arguably more real there. Things start from there, as the Swahili man put it, ”ukiona vyaelea,jua vimeundwa”.
 
Spiritual world has been there from the start and it’s probably what we’ll be left after the mortal life is over. Realise we cannot worship the Lord at His actual throne room in blood and flesh. He promises to clothe us in a new ‘wardrobe’ once He comes to take us home. He also seeketh for a people that will worship Him in truth and in spirit.
 
Even with this knowledge, God still puts us down here and expects us to stay in touch with Him in the heavens. He thus sent the Holy Spirit to facilitate this. Spiritual things are spiritually fathomed, mere mind will have a hard time digesting this and in most cases, it ends in distorted interpretation that ends in untruthful yet arguably ‘true’ theories.
 
Only the spirit is able to get to the deepest parts in the Lord’s heart/mind and know what is cooking there. We are thus on a good ground to connect with the heavens when standing in the spirit. After all, He is seeking for men who will worship Him in truth and in SPIRIT.
 
I wish to share with you a testimony on how spiritual world works. I don’t know much but the little I know, I wish to share from my point of experience. I start off with a story that I read somewhere and it read:
 
A missionary on furlough told this story while visiting his home church in Michigan. "While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at the halfway point.

On one of these journeys, I arrived in the city where I planned to collect money from a bank, purchase medicine and supplies, and then begin my two-day journey back to the field hospital. Upon arrival in the city, I observed two men fighting, one of whom had been seriously injured. I treated him for his injuries and at the same time talked to him about the Lord.

I then traveled two days, camping overnight, and arrived home without incident.

Two weeks later I repeated my journey. Upon arriving in the city, I was approached by the young man I had treated. He told me that he had known I carried money and medicines. He said, "Some friends and I followed you into the jungle, knowing you would camp overnight. We planned to kill you and take your money and drugs. But just as we were about to move into your camp, we saw that you were surrounded by 26 armed guards. At this I laughed and said that I was certainly all alone in that jungle campsite. The young man pressed the point, however, and said, "No sir, I was not the only person to see the guards. My five friends also saw them, and we all counted them. It was because of those guards that we were afraid and left you alone."

At this point in the sermon, one of the men in the congregation jumped to his feet and interrupted the missionary and asked if he could tell him the exact day this happened. The missionary told the congregation the date, and the man who interrupted told him this story: "On the night of your incident in Africa, it was morning here and I was preparing to go play golf. I was about to putt when I felt the urge to pray for you. In fact, the urging of the Lord was so strong, I called men in this church to meet with me here in the sanctuary to pray for you. Would all of those men who met with me on that day stand up?" The men who had met together to pray that day stood up.

The missionary wasn't concerned with who they were, he was too busy counting how many men he saw. There were 26.
 
This was the story I read somewhere, now here’s my story:
 
I at one time in my prayer hour found myself praying and making protection declarations over my dad,i dint understand why but I did it-we won’t/don’t always understand spiritual matters at once but choose to do it anyway. I was to pray for something else-had my prayer list already-but i ended up not praying for it, I doubt I even mentioned it anywhere that evening.
 
The spirit of God directed me to pray for my dad. Have you ever started a journey knowing the route you ought to take very well but end up taking a totally different one?-It's good to allow the spirit to lead you in prayer, after all, we do not know what to say in the presence of God, but the spirit is able to search the deepest thoughts of our Lord and make them known to us.
 
It was on a weekday. The following day after a night of prayer for my dad, my mum called me and told me how my dad had been attacked on his way to work but he was ok .They dint hurt him much considering they were 'well armed' to 'finish off their work'. They dint take anything from him and he miraculously escaped with just minor cuts. I call it MIRACULOUS as he too cant -to this day- explain how he managed to escape the 'well' armed gang of about 5 men and how that sharp panga aimed at his head ended up just bruising his arm. Had it gone as the gang intended, my dad would be either dead or critically wounded. But that dint happen, God intended else.
 
Interestingly enough, earlier that same week, my mum had the same conviction to pray for dad. This she share with me as she told me the news on what had happened. I too told her of how I was ‘distracted’ from praying for what I had planned for the previous night to pray for dad and specifically for his protection.
 
Some would call it coincidence, others will say its instinct. I will not argue, all I know is there is another world beyond this one where spiritual men meet and dictate things. Not once has me and my mum had the same convictions over the same issue. Not once have we found ourselves praying for the same thing in the same week. It’s no blood relation, its spiritual matters.
 
I believe in a spiritual realm where the physical things are dictated from, a realm that's more real than what we see, a world I pray to live in all the days of my immortal life.

Words

The effect of words

Words have from the beginning played an important role in the shaping and defining the world we living in. They not only defined the world we live in now but play a key role in the way we relate everyday.
  
Genesis Chapter one,God starts the business of creation.He does not get His hands involved until the sixth day when He creates man.Gen1:6-And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters.(7) And God made the firmament…Note-God made the firmament by word of His mouth.

The creation goes on and on with God saying let there be.That's how critical words are!They bring forth a result.Upon utterance,something is expected to happen.Psalm 33: 6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made…(9) For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
 
 

   God appoints Adam to name the creation.Gen2: 19 “And out of the ground the Lord God formed every [wild] beast and living creature of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name.”



Words were used to define every creature and that’s how I know that’s a cow and that’s a rabbit;that’s a horse and that’s a lion.Had he named what we call lion today as a zebra,we would be calling it so.
 
When building the tower of Babel,these people had one aim,one language and thus it was more likely than not they would achieve what they were aiming at.It got to a point God had to stop this ‘project’ and what did He do?He gave everyman his own language!

They all spoke different languages.The common language was no more.Communication thus became a problem.The goal they had was challenged by language difference and the ‘project’ came to a stand still.It never went on again as everyman went his way.
 
[Words in your language are used to communicate]
 

Like other things,words rely on a medium for them to be passed on.The medium here is the “Tongue”. In many cases,we are thus warned of being careful with our tongues.( Psalm 34:13 keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies.)
 

The words of our tongues will not only tell more about us but will also lead  into something either good or bad.Prov17:20~…one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.We are thus advised to ‘filter’ our words before we let them out through our tongues.Remember,tongues are like a pen.Make it skillful by uttering good words (Prov45:1…my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
 
James 3:6 talks much on the tongue. He points that “the tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell”.

It’s not the actual tongue that is the problem here,but the words that come from it.The tongue is but a vessel to utter words from ones heart and mind.

"Words are the language of our hearts and minds.They define the state of our minds and hearts"

We encourage or discourage,bless or curse,praise or malign with the words of our tongues.The power of words we cannot undermine.We should thus be careful with our choice of words.Choose to use the appropriate words at every situation.