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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 typ…

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 …

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 l…

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…

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 d…

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 sc…

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 Lo…

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…

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: f…

Desperate Days

Desperate Days But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, an…

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 mat…

Are We Not Victims Too?

From this beautiful land Our fatherland They were taken away in chains Across  the Atlantic into strange lands …

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…

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 co…

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 un…

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 …

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: Shadow…

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…

Lenrie Peters: The Fence

There where the dim past and future mingle their nebulous hopes and aspirations there I lie. There where truth and u…

Christopher Okigbo: Hurrah for Thunder

WHATEVER happened to the elephant – Hurrah for Thunder – The elephant, tetrarch of the jungle: With a wave of the ha…

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 f…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 prayi…

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 th…

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 la…

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 d…

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, de…

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…

Earth's Broken Things

Earth's Broken Things Fear not, thou worm Jacob...I will make thee a threshing instrument with teeth – Isa 41:14-1…

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 noodle…

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 …

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 …

Audio Messages by Olatuja Oloyede

Download  Eternity   Download  Who are You? Download  Life of Sacrifice Download  Your Prayer Life Download  L…

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 un…

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 …

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…