The Walls of Home

What are these walls made of?
Bricks, adobe, porcelain, illuminous glass,
Paper mache, cement blocks, aluminium fills,
ply woods, stones or concrete fillings?
Huh! They are made of inestimable characters -
The fruit of the Holy Spirit – love, joy, kindness, peace,
faith/faithfulness, patience, humility,
self-control and goodness.
...creatively crafted by godliness and contentment
And arranged in courses by the bloodline.
Walls of home enclose the father, true and strong;
The mother in queenly quest,
striving to show the world God’s way is the best;
The children, led to know that truth is absolute.
The walls of home, like galleries,
hold pictures rich and rare;
All framed in golden memories,
and kept with loving care.
Some tableaux echo childish glee,
and others are serene;
While love, and faith, and loyalty
illumine every scene with astounding clarity.
Tho’ years may alter museum halls,
and banish transient arts;
The timeless joys within home’s
Walls are etched on human
hearts which stand in eternity.
Walls of home professionally finished and aesthetically ornamented
with the portrait of a real man, a real woman and godly seeds.
Walls of home make the home not only
peaceably habitable,
but also, a home away from Home (Heaven);
A home where God’s will is sought;
A home where the Lord is an honoured Guest/Dweller;
A home where the altar fires burn with white flames;
and glow with a glorious, irresistible, infectious radiance;
A home that is free from the blight of wrong, intolerance,
prejudice, inequality, disorderliness, immorality,
religious disparity and disunity...
How so much important are the walls of home.
Can we view Nigeria as our ”National” Home?
Then, with the walls of home,
A peaceful Nigeria where the Lord is our God
And where everyone is ONE is possible.
We become the happiest and strongest people on earth.
We are one big family and live in the same
Home called Nigeria.
Regardless our diversities, we are ONE.
One Big Family One Great Home.
Thank God for the gifts of the Walls of home
which enclose us all.

THE DEMAND OF DEMOCRACY

Today, we live in a world where the major system of government that can reliably deliver desirable dividends to the populace is “democracy”. Democracy, a system of government that is of the people, by the people and for the people…This simply implies that, it is a selfless service that is out-rightly ‘others-centred’. It requires selflessness and self-sacrifice.
The process of consolidating democracy in our country saw the emergence of several politicians with selfish intentions, visions, social agenda and political programmes. This explains why we have not been enjoying the expected benefits of democracy even after about 11years of consistent democratic leadership in the nation. One can say that we have barely seen a true leader we can call a statesman, because our leaders are not leaders but rulers ruling with their rods of corruption.
How can we achieve true sustainable development, increasing nation-building and see the desired change or transformation? This question resonates in the heart of everyone seeking for a change.
50 troubled years have passed, we are still wading in the sea of confusion, increasing rate of corruption, abject poverty, youth unemployment, poor health system, bad transportation system, poor education system, miasmic economy, homelessness, epileptic or erratic power supply and socio-cultural integration almost in a dreadful state, a bizarre cynosure as we witness intermittent intra-tribal and religious mayhem in the Northern part of the country, with ungodly kidnapping which has become youth employment innovation in the Eastern part of the country. These pose serious threats to our existence and make our survival as a nation more difficult. A revolution might be inevitable to achieve some of the dreams of our fathers. After all, J.F. Kennedy (35th President of the U.S.A.) once said many years ago that, “Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.” The reason for the agitations, emancipations, quakes and crises in the Niger Delta. Also, the intermittent religious and intra-tribal clashes in the North.
We have paraded and seen more of political liars and rulers as leaders; people who lied and deceived us to power with their countless points agenda, with little or no achievement as a proof to ascertain their customary lies and deceptions (which have become national polity in governance). They left the nation impoverished and systematically looted the national treasury of which they refer to as “national cake”, thereby becoming richer than ever imagined. No wonder they had refused to declare their personal assets.
The demand of true democracy is truth, nothing more; that we begin to say the truth, nothing but the truth – “…for we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.” 2Corinthians 13:8b.

“Democracy demands that the truth should be told always and that charlatans and saints should be called by their proper names.”
Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

They thought killing Dele Giwa, Ken Saro Wiwa and other notable journalists who stood for the truth is killing truth. They only succeeded in killing lies forgetting that truth will always prevail.
Jack Kemp said, “Democracy without morality is impossible.” Where is the morality of truth, honest, sincerity, justice, equity and freedom in our nation?
Disunity and lies are the bane of our national polity.
Gerald R. Ford (38th President of the U.S.A.) noted few decades ago that, “Truth is the glue that holds government together.” Truth in politics, nation governance and public service is not just calling a spade a spade, but walking and working one’s talk always. It is to fulfill all the promises made during political manifestoes and campaigns. It is to deliver sustainable development, meets the needs of the electorates and considerably improve the standard of living of the citizenry. It is for all public leaders to have a sense of accountability and as well to hold them accountable. It is for justice and equity to become the cause of the orders. It is to sacrificially love other humanity just as you love yourself. It is to always walk in absolute fear of God. These are what true democracy that will deliver needed results demands.
This was what our founding fathers conceived that enabled them to serve our Motherland faithfully, selflessly and sacrificially.
Have you ever taken time to meditate on our national anthem and pledge, especially, the second stanza of the anthem?

“O God of creation,
Direct our noble cause
Guide thou our leaders right;
Help our youth the truth to know
In love and honest till to grow
And living just and true
Great lofty heights attain
To build a nation where peace
And justice shall reign.”

Alas! More than 60%Nigerians cannot recite the first stanza of the National Anthem perfectly not to imagine the second stanza.
You can see that for our nation to really achieve development, attain great heights among others in the world and build her walls with abiding peace and justice; TRUTH is indispensable and UNITY is unavoidable. Both the young and the old, male and female…all must adopt the principle of truth and unite as one entity.
This is a clarion call to all that we should begin to assume our post and take a stand on truth, and hold each other hands-in-hands to lift high the banner of our nation among the nations of the world.
As 2011 general elections knock at our national door, I call on all and sundry to look for credible leaders and vote for truth not for political party. Your vote is your voice of truth; you cannot afford to be disenfranchised by standing indifferently. The success of this coming election will determine our next phase as a nation and you hold a stake to its success.
Consequently, as we all begin to promote and celebrate truth, hope is re-liven in us and I tell you, change we will see. Alfred E. Smith said many decades ago that, “All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.” This is not just only a fact, it is very true. To many skeptics who believe the resurgence of military administration is what we need for transformation in our nation, I urge you to realize the need for the continuity of democracy.
Hereby, I see a new United People of Nigeria; I see a new sovereign free states standing united as one entity rise high as the King of Africa; her people bounded by brotherly love, love towards one another across our diverse ethnicity.
I see a new United People of Nigeria; a new nation where the sons and daughters of the Islamic adherents play together in peace with the sons and daughters of Christians on liberty or unity playgrounds.
I see a new United People of Nigeria; a new country where resilient, entrepreneurial and high-spirited brothers from the Niger-Delta join their fellow brothers in the East in genuine brotherhood to establish an unparallel economy we can be proud of.
I see a new United People of Nigeria; a new country where the languages we speak matter not and the differing faiths we practice become insignificant to nationhood, but the beauty of our unity despite our diversity guides our paths daily and informs our national mindsets of which we package and sell to the world.
It’s time to build a nation you and I can be proud of; a nation we dream for our children and children’s children, a place they can call their home.
I am still as hopeful as ever before now.

Happy 50th Anniversary to everyone both at home and in diaspora.

God Bless Nigeria! God Bless Us All!!

A NATION IN SEARCH OF CHANGE

On latitude 4ºN to 14ºN of the equator
Longitude 3ºE to 15ºE of the meridian,
Spheres the grandest of all freed-shares,
Adorned with transcendent beauty,
Treasures and resources overflowing
Like milk and honey in Canaan;
Crowning him “the Giant of Africa” –
The largest cluster of Negro in the world.

Fifty years of turbulent, painful expedition has gone;
Led by different consortia of unscrupulous,
Corrupt, self-centred, nefarious tyrants.
Most of those who witnessed
The outset of the ultimate search for a real change
Will wonder how long it will take a nation
Blessed with all necessary primary tools needed
To truly discover the desirable change.

Lemme say, they have discovered some things:
They discovered prejudice, hatred and selfishness;
Greed, corruption, intolerance, bribery, state-theft;
Kidnapping, glorified lying, homelessness, insecurity;
Religious crises, intra-tribal wars, social unrest, retro-development…
Half a century has come and gone,
Here we are still searching for the misplaced change,
With no clue to finding it.

Fortunately, the golden year will witness
Another extravagant process of leadership shift of the present consortium.
What will be the fate of our generation and those yet unborn?
That is, the aftermath of 2011 National general election
Will determine the next phase of our strategic search.

This golden independence anniversary celebration is with mixed feelings:
Feelings of thanksgiving and worship to the Sovereign God,
For sustaining us despite the evil discoveries…
Feelings of distress, agonies, travails, cries, umbrage and disappointment.
Distress from indigenous slavery; agonies and cries of the innocent blood,
Maiming, destructions and kidnapping due to intolerance, insecurity and prejudice;
Umbrage and disappointment because of bad leadership and our retrogressions…

Feelings of hope, hope for an abiding change.
Hope that we can still discover unity
Regardless our different faith, beliefs and practices;
Regardless our tongues and culture.

Hope that we can truly achieve sustainable development
And build a nation we can be proud of,
Redeeming our lost image for our children and those yet unborn.
Hope that genuine leaders with good and selfless intentions and visions,
Who will depict true statesmen will emerge.
Hope that we will for the first time
Conduct a non-controversial free and fair, peaceful election
By 2011 with accountability.

Hereby, we will all converge sooner than envisaged
At our confluence to celebrate
The dawn of a change, a new beginning, a new United People of Nigeria.
Together we stand and change for the best,
Divided we fall and disintegrate for the worst.

Change we believe;
Change is possible
And change we will achieve/get.

God Bless Nigeria! God Bless Us All!!

NIGERIA SPEAKS

They said I can’t cry, but I cried;
They said I can’t move, but I moved;
They said I can’t fight, but I fought and won;
I won and INDEPENDENCE was my reward.
They said I can’t stand, but I stood tall to become the PRIDE OF AFRICA.
They said I can’t run, but I ran to survive.
I have been running for 50 years now,
Passing on the baton from one generation to another.
I was born with a vision of unity and faith, peace and progress;
Joined together in a connection with three resilient cords;
Forged at inception in the furnace of freedom, justice and truth;
Led in the direction of brotherhood and patriotism;
But, alas! Swayed by greed and nepotism
That breeds insatiable corruption;
And trusted in the illusion of pains;
I am Nigeria.

These raised a tension of separation,
An insurrection towards disintegration;
A digression that caused a national or federal dilapidation.
Yes, I am Nigeria.

My diversity is not equipoise to division,
It’s a divine design of beauty that generations will celebrate.
Though, the journey so far may call for sober reflection,
Rather than extravagant celebrations and attractions.
I will mention a suggestion,
Motion re-direction,
An illustration beyond imagination –
First, adoration to “Awimayehun”, the One that has the final say;
For His protection as a nation despite the turbulent past race.
Then, to consider the only option for a hopeful succession,
Makes the imitation of Christ indispensable.
This is communication of love.
Through communication of love,
Intuition of hope will be re-awaken in us,
Appreciable proportion of desirable change we shall get.
A golden rule everyone must allow to rule.

Imagine Nigeria with fully equipped, well funded schools (education system) – POSSIBLE!
Imagine Nigeria without potholes at intervals on highways – POSSIBLE!
Without traffic jams due to defiance, irresponsible leadership or above-the-law syndrome – POSSIBLE!
Without police checkpoints turning to toll gates and other checkpoint corruptions – POSSIBLE!
Without electoral violence, manipulation and mega-disenfranchisement – POSSIBLE!
Imagine Nigeria where electors vote and the votes of electorates count – POSSIBLE!
Imagine Nigeria with leaders having the fear of God and servant’s hearts – POSSIBLE!
With 400kmph metro lines in major cities and Nigerian Railways absolutely revamped – POSSIBLE!
With rural areas transformed to cities and cities to Mega-cities – POSSIBLE!
With a growing well-serviced world class economy – POSSIBLE!
With people bounded by brotherly love and united as one – POSSIBLE!
With an identity that generations yet unborn will be proud of – POSSIBLE!

All of these call out to a duo; You and I.
You and I to be the change we want to see in Nigeria;
You and I to arise and build a nation we dream for our children,
And children’s children.
You and I to begin to live for the truth, loving one another.
You and I are the hope of change in Nigeria.
You and I can make change possible in Nigeria.
No one will build Nigeria,
Nigeria will be built by Nigerians –
Nigerians like You and I!

God Bless Nigeria! God Bless You All!!
Happy 50th Independence Anniversary Celebration.

MNEMONIC OF HEART BREAK

To what will you compare these?
…rejected by the one you gave your heart;
Deceived by the one you most trusted;
Abandoned by the one you pray to spend the rest of your life with;
Cheated by the one you gave your all;
Denied by the one you most needed;
Despised by the one you most cherished.

To what will you compare these?
The agonizing pains of a heart-break;
The blast of a shattered dream;
The shame of disappointment;
The fear of a scattered future;
The headaches of sleepless nights;
The shocks from being beaten twice.

To what will you compare these?
The insecurity of sharing life with someone who doesn’t see what you are seeing;
The hurts of a haunted mind;
The depression of a hidden expressions and feelings;
The stench of failure;
The memories of regretful past actions, decisions and costly choices;
The unfairness of loving someone who doesn’t equally love you.

To what will you compare
The hopelessness of broken pieces?
Is it possible to build an edifice of hope?
Twice beating is twice shy…
How many shy will it be
When beating four times?
Better not to be beaten at all…

The Rhapsody of Freedom

The melodious cock-a-doodle-doo woke everyone up, as the sun rose over the vast pratum meadow to the east, the rustic foothills and plains of the plateaux in the North, tendering like the labyrinthine corridors glowed with golden light as if touched by an Angel or Midas from prairie.
The radiant sunrise reminded us that it was the dawn of freedom and hope – the Independence Day.
As I turned around to greet my father who had prepared to step out of the house.
He said enthusiastically with an infectious grin,
“We all dreamt of this gleeful day long ago.”
The first warm winds of spring gusted along streets and broad boulevards, calling out winter-weary residents who had pains of slavery locked up in their loins, into the daylight and allayed them. They thronged the sidewalks, strolling, linking mouths and hands together, everywhere smiling and chatting.
People hanged around in groups like village gossips, discussing on the wonderment.
The well-wishers visiting from overseas stopped at intervals, marveled,
“This is the enchanting Canaan promised in our travel guides.”
I came out to the street to observe the euphoria.
For the first time, I freely with so much confidence and pride walked through the alleys of my city.
Then, I sighed,
“Now this is a home, not a dungeon.”
I paused for a while and approached a group of onlookers who were deeply engaged in recalling the memories of the painful past.
One of them turned to me and laughed aloud.
“Thank God”, he muttered, and smiled. “There’s hope.”
The whole universe converged and stood on the soil of a neo-nation. They came to witness the ceremonious exodus of the John Bulls, and the birth and christening of a Negro-Giant, born to rise and become the Pride of Africa.
The neo-nation was called “Niger-ia”.
As we seceded from Great Britain in 1960, October 1, our first Emperor acceded to office.
I noticed unity et peace out of our outstanding diversity, such are residuum of our colonization.
It was a day of high joie de vivre; we were like men that dreamed, perhaps hallucinated. Several people never stopped asking themselves the question,
“Is this true?”
“Is it really real?”
Right there at the level of Tafawa Balewa Square, on the platform of unity, in the spirit of truth and patriotic brotherhood, and wearing an appearance or a countenance of faith; everyone chanted the anthemic songs of freedom and change.
(With sync voices) “See a change that will accentuate progress and development; a change that radiates an abiding illumination to our future.”
The atmosphere was filled with so much love; love for one another, love for our sovereign country…after the declaration…
I pondered,
“If love really means forgiveness, only God will tell if we can truly love by forgiving our Taskmasters...if we can really forgive our failed and failing fathers.”

(…Love is not which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken…Sonnet 1156, William Shakespeare).

A GREAT VISITATION

I received a mail from a friend today, reminding me of an important issue about God's visitation to us in this generation. Going through it, I was really touched and decided to share it with everyone here.


A Great Visitation
By Cindy deVille


The Spirit of God was heavy on our 11-year-old daughter, Destiny, when she came to us and said,"Mom and Dad, God just spoke to me and told me to come and tell you something." She really caught our attention because giving us words from the Lord is not something she normally does. She was trembling slightly, and we all felt the presence of God as she shared a vision she had had of a great harvest and told us what God had instructed her to say:

"Prepare your fields for rain, for I am coming!"

This was a very meaningful word to us not only because it was delivered through our precious daughter (fulfillment of Joel 2:28) but also because it reminded us of a prophecy we received two years ago that we titled "A Great Visitation."

We believe God wants us to share "A Great Visitation" once again. Our hearts are stirred today as never before with a sense of urgency for the church to prepare, to make itself ready for this Great Visitation and the coming of His glory (see Is. 40:5).

God instructed us at the beginning of the year to wake up His church, to shake up His people. It is time for the church to awaken from complacency and slumber! It is time to prepare, just as this word says.

Remember, this Great Visitation—His glory—is not coming to entertain us or to make us feel good, but to transform us. It will be a time of great change in the church—a time to set His house in order; a time of great cleansing, purifying, unifying and making ready the bride of Christ to rise up and be glorious in the earth. It will be a season of being prepared for His great end-time work—to bring in the harvest of souls—as well as for His return.

Below is the prophecy "A Great Visitation" God gave us during a time of deep intercession for the church. We pray it brings encouragement and also a sense of urgency about what is coming as this new decade unfolds.

FRAGILE HEART

Woman,
What a tender, fidel heart she has gotten;
So fragile that should be handled with great care.
It may be irreparably broken when jilted or slighted;
Shattered when dropped and irreplaceably destroyed
When disconnected from her Maker (God).

Therefore, watch your words when you converse with her;
Watch your steps as you approach to knock the door to her heart.
Just a simple and polite “ko ko ko” will do,
Not the big slam type – “gba gba gba sh.”

Always confide in her,
She will keep the secret for life;
Talk to her with high morale and respect,
She will definitely reciprocate.
Love her passionately,
She will respond with true love going extra mile
Just to please you.

Bless her pleasantly,
She will bless the world for your sake.
Treat her like a princess of the Island or Cinderella,
She has the strength to bring out the hero and king inside of you.
Always be sincere, telling her the truth,
Nothing but the truth;
You will be shocked to earn her absolute trust without any ado.

What a fragile heart she has gotten!
Don’t start with her in courtship
What you may never continue in marriage.
Always take caution to avoid hurting her;
And when you do unavoidably,
Learn to quickly say politely and sincerely, “I’m sorry.”

You know what!
Always remember to acknowledge her.
Each time you reach out to her-
Text her, call her, send gifts to her, or the likes,
Always tell her how much you love her.
Her fragile heart always wants to hear that irresistible 3-letter word –
“I Love You.”
You will be surprised to have discovered
The secret key to her fragile heart.


-------- Pearl Advocates 2010

WAIT...JUST WAIT!

Can u imagine the level of devastation a man can feel when he's forsaken and denied by the only woman he trusted and ever loved?

The woman...she deliberately cut off all communication networks; and decided to follow the wishie talkies of her friends and pressing folks.

The man...tenaciously sought the face of God like one who needed an extension of life on earth...Utterly surprised as the Latter resoundedly answered him with an instruction to WAIT.

For how long? He doesnt know...doing what? He will instruct further later...

The man...Summoned absolute obedience from the North to the South, East to the West and WAITED...

So long thereafter, he came to understand that he needed to wait for VINDICATION...
How this will happen...cant just figure...but strongly believes that He said it...He will do it...

The woman...faced hell...like someone passing through God's testing wilderness...experienced all sorts of desertation...emptiness...loneliness...unfulfilment...resulted to her taking a grudging decision to return against all odds and seek forgiveness and a second chance...

The man...this caught him unawares...cant imagine that God could just make it happen just like that...

The woman...returned...confessing that she was misled and wrongly influenced by hommie pressures and buddies talks and pieces of advice...how foolish she was to have danced to the tunes of all these incoherent drums...

The man...so passionate about his love for her...forgave her...accepted her...draw her into the warmth of his embrace for God to draw the duo into Himself...

The man...it dawned on him that the essence of the WAITING is that God wanted to lay him on the stretcher in His Intensive Care Unit to perfect His will in their lives...as such to ensure that he retains his love for her...

Can you JUST WAIT! There, yes there! He knows what you are passing through...feels what you are feeling...cares about you so much than you can ever imagine...Why cant you JUST WAIT! and see the salvation (rescue) of God?

WAIT...I SAY WAIT!!! Psalms 27:14

WORD OF PROPHECY ABOUT THE COMING REVIVAL OF LOVE

WORD OF PROPHECY ABOUT THE COMING REVIVAL OF LOVE
2 PETER 1:19; PSALMS 110:3


“Lukewarmness”, “Shallowness”, “Worldliness”, and “Unwillingness” have consumed the heart of My people. My Truth has been subverted by Agnosticism, Revelation displaced by Reasoning and Spiritual fervor and hunger replaced by Nominalism and Syncretism.
They have become lovers of (the spirit) “Money”, “Man” (themselves), “Matches” (Sports), “Media” (movies, entertainment, fashion and style, internet surfing), “Music”, “Magazine” (ungodly books), “Mantles” (positions), “Materialism” (human Materials – essentialism of physical objects rather than the mind or Spirit), “Medals” (Awards and Rewards) and “Myths” (errotism, fallacies, fables, coarse jokes, comedy).
They have abandoned the faith that was once delivered unto them and now giving up to all forms of deceits and pleasurable pseudo-truths. They have forsaken their first Love. They no longer have time with Me; My Presence has become so boring to them that they no longer earnestly seek Me daily, but rather seasonal when they think I am needed. They passionately pursue mundanity (mundane things) which has no eternal value with Me.
Oh! Come and see how much this generation has successfully surpassed the formers in evil deeds, corruption, abomination, wickedness and provocative sins.
I call you to come and see how My people have swayed and derailed away from Me. They have neglected their Source of life; the Air they breath; the Hope of life now and life to come; the All-Consuming Fire.
I am a jealous God as such that I am about to visit them. I will revisit My founding commission. I will visit them once again because I can no longer keep looking down from Heaven upon them, beholding their abominable sins and atrocities. The fate of the (coming) next generation is in malady and jeopardy.
I am coming to consume all their sins and abominations. They will not be spared. I will pour out My wraths upon all the abominables.
I will visit to shake vehemently the whole heaven and earth. I will shake the world’s system. I will shake the foundations of the earth on which the world’s system puts its confidence and trust and thrives. I will once again declare My Name to the whole earth I created – “I am that I am”. I am God and there is none besides Me.
But will I not yet be merciful? My mercy will prevail over judgment. I will pour out My Spirit upon everyone and it will rekindle My Love in their hearts. I will rekindle the fire of My Love in them and it will consume them all that they will run with it to every Nation of the earth and set them ablaze for Me.
I will revive My Love, My work in their hearts. My fear will consume them once again. But for the sons of perdition; the strong-willed; the hard-hearted; the unrepentant sinners, I will utterly destroy in My wrath. Who can withstand My Voice? Who can confront My Awesome Presence?
How much I wish you tarry and eagerly wait, and desire passionately for this day; the time of My visitation? I can’t relent or repent of My words which I have spoken.
Agonize passionately and wait in prayers to provoke and hasten My visit. Even if you don’t I will come willy-nilly and I will not delay.
I will come and revive My Love in them, and heal their lands from all evils, abominations, wickedness and corruption. My peace I will restore to you.
Before there comes a generation who know Me not, I will raise for Myself a DOMINANT ARMY who will never break their ranks; the league of firebrands who have been plugged out of My refining and defining fire.
Through My Army, I will establish My throne among every tribes and tongues on earth. I will set them strategically to every sphere of the world’s system – politics, sports, music, fashion and style, entertainment, economies, socio-cultural sectors including homes and families, professional sectors, all established institutions including Churches and schools (from Tertiary to Primary). I will equip them. They will set everywhere on fire and I will establish My throne on earth.
Be Prepared!!!

Tell these to My people because I will not tarry; I come quickly and I will not delay.



Received on 28th May, 2009

OYELAKIN Gbolahan O.
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