Security in Storms

Security in Storms The wind was contrary – Matt 14:24 Rude and blustering the winds of March often are. Do they not typify the tempestuous s...

Leave it with Him

Leave it With Him Consider the lilies, how they grow – Matt 6:28 I need oil,“ said an ancient monk; so he planted an olive sapl...

Will You Dance to this Rhythms of Love

In my heart I feel the stampings of dancing feet I hear the boomings of joyful drums A song is perching on the lines of my soul With...

Upon My Head the Sun Has Fallen

These holes you see in my shirts Are not the signs of poverty But the marks of survival The scares you see on my back Are not the em...

Don't Call Me Your Brother

Please Mr man Do not call me your brother I know how many children my mama has Do not call me your friend Can dogs and tigers share ...

If She Says NO!!!

If you ask her out Please do not shout For they like it when you lie I really do not know why Liars do not scream But just whispe...

Obstinate Faith

Obstinate Faith And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all t...

When We See Him Face to Face

When We See Him Face to Face I do not count the sufferings of our present life worthy of mention when compared with the glory that is to be ...

Receive All He Has For You

Receive All He Has For You Look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: for all the land which...

Desperate Days

Desperate Days But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a reward...

One Thing the Rich Man Lacks

You sleep on expensive beds In air-conditioned rooms Yet you complain of terrible nightmares But I spread my mats on the open grass ...

Are We Not Victims Too?

From this beautiful land Our fatherland They were taken away in chains Across  the Atlantic into strange lands Some drown in the sea...

Lust and Beauty

You twist like a serpent and smile like a goddess Each swing of your waist Is a heavy throb in my heart The way you call my name Ma...

Will You Marry Me?

Will you marry me? If I had no food in my plates No clothes on my hanger No money in my pocket No cars in my compound But only a si...

Be Definite in Prayer

Be Definite in Prayer And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto th...

J.P Clark: The. Casualties

The casualties are not only those who are dead. They are well out of it. The casualties are not only those who are dead. Though they ...

Christopher Okigbo: Elegy to Alto

(with drum accompaniment) AND THE HORN may now paw the air howling goodbye… For the Eagles are now in sight: Shadows in the horizon- TH...

Antonio Jacinto: Letter From a Contract Worker

I wanted to write you a letter my love, a letter that would tell of this desire to see you of this fear of losing you of this more th...

Lenrie Peters: The Fence

There where the dim past and future mingle their nebulous hopes and aspirations there I lie. There where truth and untruth struggle in e...

Christopher Okigbo: Hurrah for Thunder

WHATEVER happened to the elephant – Hurrah for Thunder – The elephant, tetrarch of the jungle: With a wave of the hand He could pull fou...

Kofi Awoonor: Song of Sorrow

Dzogbese Lisa has treated me thus It has led me among the sharps of the forest Returning is not possible And going forward is a great dif...

Victorious Suffering

Victorious Suffering Out of the spoils won in battle did they dedicate to maintain the house of the Lord – 1 Chr 26:27 Physical force is sto...

A Saviour and A Judge

A lady committed a crime and she was sent to court. The punishment for the crime was life imprisonment. She shed tears for help but to no av...

God's Timing

God's Timing And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame ...

According to Our Faith

According to Our Faith According to your faith be it unto you – Matt 9:29 “Praying through” might be defined as praying one’s way into ful...

Love and Sacrifice

It's was Mercy

'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour t...

To My Fair Lady

May be I've not taken time to know you And I'm not certain of your name But each and every time my fair lady You take my kindn...

Because of Who I am by Olatuja Abiola

Well, you may be pleased when you Look down your nose at me because I don't wear expensive things, Or Because I don't have the lat...

Patient in the Routine

Patience in the Routine Be thou there till I bring thee word – Matt 2:13 “I’ll stay where You’ve put me;  I will, dear Lord, Though I wan...

He Answered Nothing

He Answered Nothing He answered nothing – Mark 15:3,5 There is no spectacle in all the Bible so sublime as the silent Savior answering not...

Earth's Broken Things

Earth's Broken Things Fear not, thou worm Jacob...I will make thee a threshing instrument with teeth – Isa 41:14-15 Could any two thin...

Do Not Call Me A Village Boy

Do Not Call Me a Village Boy What's this uncooked junks you call salad? What's this worms you called noodles? I prostrated to g...

Who Will Be the Next King?

While it may be possible to demystify this poem along any thematic line...it is my intention to address the confusion that ransacks social ...

Hold on to Christ

HOLD ON TO CHRIST A Pastor was ministering in a remote area where he had to trek each Sunday for 4 hours through thick forest, and to ...

Audio Messages by Olatuja Oloyede

Download  Eternity   Download  Who are You? Download  Life of Sacrifice Download  Your Prayer Life Download  Life Beyond Downloa...

Strength from Sorrow

Strength From the Sorrow Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, the son of...

Deliverance in the Stormy Winds

Deliverance in the Stormy Winds The Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the c...

Treasures in the Darkness

Treasures in the Darkness Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was – Exod 20:21 God has still His hidden secrets, hidden from...