Joel Kwesi Baidoo

LIFT UP YOUR VOICE Lift up your voice Worship your God by choice Singing to God is no noise From our hearts must ascend our praise The evil one wants to stop true worship in our days Lift up your voice Don’t hold back The light of His presence is penetrating the dark The enemy flees before we say Jack By yielding to the leadership of our Lord we shall not lack Lift up your voice Victory is ours As we expend our real prowess And show that we are no cowards In commitment and humility is seated our true powers BY: JOEL BAIDOO

WHAT GOES BEYOND THE GRAVE? When I ponder over the abundance of things we crave I ask myself what shall go beyond the grave Our lives will be valued not by what we received as much as what we gave Obsession with the accumulation of possessions could make one a slave Tied unawares in a deep populated cave The things we trust may later prove to be a mere wave I know a man who is able to save His grace could make even the timid brave The true path to fulfillment only He can pave His life and love are what shall transcend the grave BY: JOEL BAIDOO

HUMILITY Everybody is better than you! Of course, I know your primary reaction will be to repel this statement in your mind, but this is how the Bible admonishes us to think. Philippians 2:3 needs no interpretation: “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves” (NIV). Jonathan Edwards called pride “the worst viper that is in the heart” and “the greatest disturber of the soul’s peace and sweet communion with Christ”; he ranked pride as the most difficult sin to root out, and “the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts”. John Calvin once said that “God cannot bear with seeing His glory appropriated by the creature in even the smallest degree, so intolerable to Him is the sacrilegious arrogance of those who, by praising themselves, obscure His glory as far as they can”. True greatness is attained only by following Christ’s example. Are you following Christ? These are Christ’s words: “The Son of Man came not to be