DRAWING THE LINES 1

DRAWING THE LINES 1

Back in Motown we had this big athletics oval. And every year before athletics it had to be marked out. So the juniors would come in houses and scratch away at the dirt with sticks and cutlasses till the markings of the track lanes were quite obvious. That's a loooooot of scratching. Then they'd pour lime into the lines to make them more obvious. No, not the fruit , the white powder... Calcium Hydroxide (to the chemistry students).

Again that's a looooot of lime, but pouring the lime is faster than scratching the lines. Trust me, I've done both.

Now let's shift our attention to battle lines. Before a battle commanders arrange their soldiers in certain formations... Battle lines are drawn. Now I don't know how that's done, all I know is it's done, and if my experience with lines in high school taught me anything, it's that marking out is the hard part, and drawing the line visibly is quicker.

So what am I talking about?
Have patience ...
To be continued...
✌KayO

Purity

One day Ewurabena Bediako spoke about how a lot of us live in 'untested innocence'. Like you're still a virgin just because you haven't had the opportunity to lose it yet. Or you're not in jail because you've not seen an amount of money worth stealing yet.

In fact, etwii me paa. I really felt I was such a one. Not necessarily in those areas, but I know my struggles.

You see we're not allowed to play around sin like the world does. It's like when we were kids, and if you had parents like mine, we were not allowed to play barefoot in the streets anyhow like the other area-kids. Of course we did manage to play kpetengɛ, sulia for beatings, alikoto and all that... somehow, but my point is the parents who knew better gave their kids restrictions to show them that they were different. That's the same thing God does.

We have to stay away from sin, and true we seem outnumbered, because everyone is doing drugs but us; everyone is fornicating but us; everyone is corrupt but us, right? Wrong! In the words of Elisha:
They that be with us are more than they that be with them. (2 Kings 6:16)
Where's our team?
Hebrews 12: 1  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us...
There are apostles, prophets, angels, the Father, Son and Spirit cheering you on.

We can't fail Heaven. We'll be pure even when no one's looking. We can make it.
✌KayO

Fairytale

Fairytale.

T-Cross has a song titled Fairytale. I know because I'm their drummer. It's wonderful. But Bebe Winans also sang a song titled Humpty Dumpty , I'm listening to it as I write, it's beautiful I promise you. He was singing about the One who could put Humpty together again. You see, they called the wrong king that day, or else Humpty's story would have been different.

Then He made me understand: *Mary had a Lamb... The Lamb that takes away the sins of the world.
*Jack and Jill can come down the hill because we've found the Living Water.
*Don't bother little boy blue, there's a Good Shepherd who even gives His life for the sheep.
*There's One who can put food in Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard.

So we won't make Humpty's mistake. When we fall, we'll call on the King of kings to put us back together. He's our Knight in shining armour. We'll have a happily ever after.
#Saved
✌KayO

GH

Ghana

Did you hear about the OECD rankings? You can check it out here:
http://www.spyghana.com/oecd-placed-ghana-last-in-global-education-rankings/
Over 70 countries were sampled to see how well our 15-year olds do academically and assess our educational systems.

If turns out that if the results are anything to go by, then this country (mind you we were last), is the worst place to be educated on earth. We have the worst educational system known to man as at now. And since earth is the only inhabited planet we know, this is the worst place to be educated in our solar system.

Now that's serious. We should all fly to Singapore and learn sense.

But wait, aren't we the ones with a 70% Christian population? We could blame our leaders, but no, please, spare us: Mahama never taught you core math. Let's find the culprit right now. Walk to the nearest mirror and look at the person looking back at you.

If we've failed in common sense application, like dropping a sachet in a bin, how can we calculate double integrals? If can't keep from copying in exams do we dare hope to eve have totally free and fair elections? And oh yeah, do you think we'll be allowed to pee by the streets if gold in Heaven?

We need the Jesus we profess to know. If He really ran our lives things would be different. Let's stop disgracing Him.

APrayerForGhana��
✌KayO

2 Samuel 13
A man who was in love with his half-sister raped her upon advise from his friend. Then he hated her more than he ever loved her and kicked her out after defiling her. Her brother killed him 2 years later.

Please... Don't play with sex. I beg you. God is watching. This is possibly my least eloquent post ever. But I beg you. I bet the young man didn't even enjoy his selfish act. You are not alone in staying pure. At least know that I'm with you.
✌KayO

THERE ARE 2 THINGS INVOLVED

There Are ✌ Things Involved.

There are times when we havtheo face hard facts and say it as it is. Today seems to be one of those days.

3rd June, 2015. Ghanaians learnt that fire can burn on water... the hard way. It was all about relative density and combustion, but this is not a science lesson. My concern is those who witnessed it first hand.

2 things happened that night:
*For some, there was excruciating heat and pain, then angels reached down and snatched them up out of their bodies into relief that lasts for eternity.
*For the others, there was excruciating heat and pain, and then demons dragged them out of their bodies into even hotter flames and torment that never ends.

The survivors live only to die another day.

You see, Basketmouth was right when he said this: There are 2 things involved. The late Rev. Blessing Tsukudo made those 2 things clear to me: Heaven or Hell. You get to choose one.

The Bible says:
1 John 5:12  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

If John was wrong... Well, then my life is being wasted... But if he's right and you're not with me, then your eternity will be a waste in a place where a drop of water is a luxury.

But before you make your decision about whether or not to believe John, and how dare he make such audacious statements, this is something else he said (how many people can say this?):
1 John 1: 1  What existed from the beginning, what WE HAVE HEARD, what we have seen WITH OUR EYES, what we observed and touched WITH OUR OWN HANDS—this is the Word of life!

This man ate and walked with Jesus. He was even there at the transfiguration!!

I think I'll believe him. 

Pick your side fast. He comes.

Oh, and when you see this: ✌, remember, there are ✌ things involved.
✌KayO

If we don't tell our story, who will?

If we don't tell our story, who will?

I watched a movie: Exodus, gods and kings.
Worst version of Moses' story I've ever seen! God was this little boy always making what I'm assuming was tea, and Moses never carried a staff, just swords, knives and daggers. The red sea never split, they waded through. And Pharoah survived the sea closing in on him.

But this is not the first time somebody has taken the truth from the Bible and decided how he thinks the story should go. If you've seen the Noah movie released recently you'd understand me.

The point is, when we need doctors, the world can provide, lawyers, politicians, armed robber, brah brah brah. The world always has someone to do any work as necessary, but NO ONE will preach our gospel for us like it should be preached... because NO ONE has experienced our Jesus like we have.

Romans 10: 13  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
 14  How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
 15  And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

✌KayO

Grace... To Me

Grace... To me

What is Grace to me? Normally I'd like to change the question to 'Who is Grace to me?', but not today.

To me, Grace is when the Mate says to one stuck-up passenger, "Bɔ so. Ma no nhyɛ  ha wai", because we all want to make it to Heaven.

Grace is when a girl goes to a 5-star restaurant for the first time on a date and wants to chew the bones of her chicken, and she's allowed because the Guy paid it all.

Grace is when a bowl-legged girl's beauty is appreciated because she accepted the gift of a long dress.

But even more, Grace is God telling me, "You are not good enough, but I am so trust Me".

It's when I take in without payment breath after undeserved breath just because He loves me.

Grace is the death that gives us life, the sorrow that gives us joy, the wounds that give us healing... His life for mine... Grace is Jesus Christ.
✌KayO

SUPPORT

SUPPORT

Yesterday was interesting. Windy, wet and cold. Malam junction got flooded by the rains and I was stuck in traffic from Lapaz. Eventually I got down at Barnyard and walked to Dansoman (for those who don't know, that's faaaaar). This was around 11:30pm, I'd been in traffic for possibly over 3 hours.

So when I say I walked... well, like 40% of that journey involved me wading through knee-deep water which was carrying anything and everything away. That's where Philip came in. A young man who was just as stranded as I was. We supported each other and made it through.

Let's juxtapose that against our spiritual lives: Eph 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love.

A little physics: when you lower yourself, you lower your center of gravity. You make yourself more stable, harder to push down.
And then Paul says we should forbear (hold up) one another.
Long story short, you need your fellow believer, not just for the fun stuff,but especially for the storms.
✌KayO