INGATHERING (Pastor Iyke Oyeka)

Seeing truly is believing, I do believe that a vision can only be stopped by the one who sees it.
It all began with a man who saw the youths of our generation dying daily from within.
They had all the answers but never had the right questions. They had strength and a great zeal but channelled to the wrong direction.
They had wonderful gifts but no guidance. He saw this and believed he could make a change.
I really don't know how much he sacrificed but it was worth it. Today, youths now have a platform to display their God given potentials, develop their dreams and live a purpose driven life.
God bless you sir! Twale...

Frankenstein

    I watched it with curiousity. It’s all about creation, a crazy scientist who animated a body. When a female scientist tried it with a rat, she was successful. It didn’t work out at first but it came to reality.
First of all, she had to charge up the rat, with electricity at a very high voltage. She got a steady heartbeat that soon began to drop, she increased the voltage and the heart stopped. After a while, she got a pulse and it came alive.
There are times in the life of a Christian that you would go through trials that might weigh you down and make you stumble. But God would see you through just as he saw the children of Isreal through the wilderness. Sometimes they fell. But they came out victorious.
My music, my life!
God bless you!

The beggar

    I saw him across the street, he waved at me hoping that I would give him something. I looked at him, I felt so bad inside, I gave him a few pennies hoping that I would never see him again.
   Although he was grateful for every penny that he received that day. But was he really grateful?
   The next day I saw him at the same spot, same old story and no physical change. I realized that he needed more than just money. He had lost hope, no focus, no dreams, no aspirations.
   Some of us today are like beggars. We keep going before going before God asking for mercy everyday because of the same sin. It could be fornication, lying, masturbation, adultery or even stealing. When would we grow up? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? God forbid!
   Mercy burns His ears when you keep repeating it. Its like a beggar you see everyday across the street, sometimes you get tired of giving alms.
   If you are a true Christian, stop being a beggar.
   God bless you!

Speechless

If I want to express how I feel towards a person or a thing and I do not have the right words to use, I would use something close to it to describe it.
   "Your love is magical, that's how I feel
      But I have not the words here to explain"
   God's love is not magical but it is supernatural. But to M.J, it was a magical feeling that cannot be expressed in words.
   "Gone is the Grace for expression of passions, but there are worlds and worlds of ways to explain, to tell you how I feel".
   I feel God's love is unimaginable, its beyond words. That's why he said
   "But I am speechless, that's how you make me feel. When I'm with you, I am far away and nothing is for real".
   When you genuinely experience God's presence, you would feel so free from all your worries and all the cares of this life.
   "When I'm with you I'm lost of words, I don't know what to say. My heart's spinning like a carousel, so silently I pray".
   Looking at the last line "pray". It happens when you feel God's overwhelming presence, you begin to pray silently in your heart.
   Michael Jackson was rich, famous and had a wonderful gift but he felt empty inside.
   "Helpless, hopeless, that's how I feel inside".
   That's how he felt when he encountered our Lord Jesus Christ.
   "Nothing's real, all is possible if God is on my side".
   Michael believed that everything he had was vanity because something was missing which people call the G-factor.
   "When I'm with you I am in the light, where I cannot be found. Its as though I'm standing in, a place called hollowed ground".
   The first part talks about his encounter while the other talks about where he stands.
   Apostle Paul said, the things I do not want to do, I find myself doing them. That's how Michael felt, but he discovered that within him, something held him down .
   "I can go anywhere, I can do anything just to touch your face"
   The woman with the issue of blood said in her heart, "if I could just touch the helm of His garment, I know I'll be made whole". Michael hope to get something from touching the face of who?
   "There's no mountain high, I cannot climb, I'm humbled by your Grace".
   Grace that humbles a man is extraordinary, it is owned by one man "Jesus Christ".
   But the question is, did he ever get the chance to be saved or did he hold on to his belief that he stood in a hollowed ground?
   It doesn't take time to understand a song just got to read between the lines and you would understand why the song was written. It could take an hour, a day or even a year. When you do that, you will realize how important the song is to the writer.
   God bless you!

Can you feel it?

   An impressionist paints the world the way he sees it. He's got a unique way of choosing colours while painting. It might not be what you expect but it is wonderful.
   Music is like a painting, the more you hear it, the more you understand it. It could take a month to understand a song the song to the fullest.
   The first time you listen to a song, you might not capture every detail of the song. But time after time, you'll get to know it better.
   When I listen to a song, I begin to wonder what the writer felt when the song was written and for what purpose the song was written. If I do not know these things, I wouldn't conveniently understand the message of the song.
   So many people believe music is all about beats, tones and melodies. But there is more to it than that. It is a means of communication between two or more people. It could be a cry for help, it could be a prayer, it could portray love, it could show deep emotions. That is music! If you do not understand that, then you don't really feel music.
    The world is changing, so many musicians today strive to be the best. They keep singing the songs people want to hear and forget about what the people really need to hear.
   I do believe each true musician have a feeling of what true music is all about, but due to unforeseen circumstances we become biased and lose focus. Please come back home and feel true music.
God bless you!

The guitar

The guitar has always been a part of my life. Although I couldn't play it but I just believed that someday I would. When I watched my uncle play, I admired the sound I heard and the Joy I could see on his face whenever he played.
It is a six stringed instrument that has inspired so many generations. It is a source of inspiration, to me. I could play it all day long, it gives inner peace.
I've met guitarists and the guitar seems to be their companion. They love it so much.
A guitar draws down the presence of God that is,  if you are skillful and you are filled with the Holy Spirit. You would begin to hear the inaudible melody from above. The Holy Spirit can make you play what you've never heard or imagined. Ask for his presence today.
God bless you!

Jesus the son of God

I've always wondered if I would ever have a personal interview with Jesus. I would have a lot of questions to ask Him, it might be crazy but it really is amazing. First of all, why was he born by a virgin and in a manger, wasn't there a better place for the birth of the Messiah? I mean, I'd love to be born in a golden house filled with roses... People would say it was humility, but I feel there is something more to that. It has to do with creation, I really do not know. When he was born, he was subject to his parents and did carpentry work until he was thirty. Why did he had to go through that process? Isn't he the son of God? Why didn't he begin his ministry at a tender age? When he chose his disciples, he didn't pick them because they were intelligent, talented, handsome or well to do, he just singled them out. I would love to know why, but do I really need to know? So many times when things go wrong, we begin to ask God why? Do we really need to know why or we should just believe in him? I feel we should just believe him. It was prophesied that Jesus would bring Peace to the world. When His disciples watched him die, it was like all hope was lost. But His death was for a reason, it reunited man and God. God's ways are never like us but we must believe in him, He has good thoughts towards us His children. We must never doubt Him, it might be crazy to understand His ways, but we must learn to understand him. God bless you!