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 ...

"Just as the physical body has a capacity and need for water, so Scripture points out to us that the human soul has a capacity and need for the water of the Holy Spirit. Just as the human body is made up of 70% water, so 70% of what you can accomplish for God comes from the Holy Spirit"-Dag Heward Mills

"One of the cardinal duties of the Holy Spirit is to transmit God's mind to you. He will not speak of Himself. Whatever He hears God say, He will relay it to you. He will show you things to come. If He does not tell you anything, then there is nothing unusual to expect. The Holy Spirit is on duty 24hrs/day; He speaks all the time. It is our duty therefore to learn about His voice and distinguish it from other voices"- Dag Heward Mills

"God seeks to use every child of His to fulfill a part of His eternal purpose concerning creation. But the truth is that He can only use vitally sanctified vessels; which means that if we yearn for God to use us, then we ought to be sanctified for His use". - Abraham Asiedu

  Rev Gordon Egyire Croffet sent me this document in my email during the days when my prayer life was not moving on smoothly as it used to.If you are encountering some problems in your prayer life, or if you seem to have lost your prayer life, why don't you read and apply the principles for having a good retreat. I'm convinced it will be a great blessing to you.