The Breath of Life it Defines Me

I am a man that has seen both death and life

Made by the struggles ad scares that I have overcome

Not by myself but by the breath of life that made me whole

Drug Addiction choked my lungs and plagued my veins

Lust took over my heart like a disease with no cure it blinded my eyes not letting me see true love

My soul once filled with hate and rage that no light could shine in the darkness within

So I thought this was my Identity, and there was no change

I found out my life was bought with a high price the blood of a king

Yeshua the prince shed his blood for my sins

Yahweh the creator, the very breath of life

Breathed in my spirit and made us one

He took my old identity and now calls me Son.

With that breath I was given a new inheritance

I once was nothing more than a peasant, now my father is the King of Kings

His breath of life has defined me it made me it is my identity

So I take this Grace from this breath of life

And I show the world as I walk in my new life

Sin once took over my body like an Asthma Attack

And the cure was the breath of life that now defines me

My identity is life and a chosen one of the King

  

A Talk with Father

Lord Forgive me for not wanting to give to you ways.
                                                   My Son you have already been forgiven.
My fear has taken control Father, and I do not feel worthy.
                                                   I have told you that you need not fear.
I have been so impatient for years and you still remain true.
                                                   I have given you that promise and I stand by my word.
I have ran from my calling you have placed on me.
                                                   And I ran beside you, you just never knew.
I still have many doubts and I question all the time.
                                                   But you seek, knock, ask and look for my truth.
I want to give you my life but I find it hard to do.
                                                   I have giving you my son and his life.
Sometimes I look at the past and wish it was still my present.
                                                   But you know your past was so unfulfilled.
Sometimes I wish I could have both sides and live both lives.
                                                   But my life for you means and is so much more.
Lord show me your way, so me your truths.
                                                   You are on your way, keep looking.
Lord make my eyes your eyes, and my heart your heart.
                                                    Keep seeking me it will be true.
Father My prayer is that I be more like you.
                                                   I shall answer. 

X Rated

X RATED

I am X rated

So beware the words and my context may be risky

It may make some blush and others question their own moral stance

Caution is advised

I am covered in Parental Warning Labels

3 red x’s slapped crossed my face

I am Porn, Yes Porn

So you laugh, I am no laughing matter

I am like that stash under your bed

I am the site that you visit that gets 1 million hits a day

I am the store that is on the highway

I am $4 billion a year money making machine

I am X rated

For some it is no big deal they can look once and never again

For others I come into your life and take it away

I seem to cause no harm at first but then I hit you

I am 3 red X’s like a mark of death

You see I am a sneaky and tricky little thing

I can catch you off guard

I am X rated

I Lust that starts out small and then one day you cannot overt your eyes

I am Adultery because I cause you to want to look for to long for that which is not your wife

I am a sin that can be hidden

But I am not a small beast at all

I am X rated

I ruin lives

I take your money

I am a home wrecker

I am X Rated

3 red X’s

One X for the start of me

One X for the fact that I make your heart unclean

One X for the fact that I make you lose control

I make you forget who you are and what you were created for

I make you want things that are not worthy

I make you lust for women and men that are not real

I make you desire the unclean and unhealthy

I am X rated

I make you want something that is not made by me

I make you seek some things that are not of me

I make men put women down as if they are sluts

I am X rated

I make sex something twisted and made only of lust

I take your heart and turn it upside down

I am filth hidden behind a dvd or magazine

I am X rated

Beware of my charm for I am only to harm

I will blacken your heart and turn it away

I am X rated

I am porn

I have told you who I am

So now be warned

Take caution

Do not view me

I am X rated

I am porn

I do no good for you

Take caution for I am porn

I am x rated

Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette

Relapse in the chamber of a game of death

Loaded Gun, Druggie, Pot Head, Beer Chugger

Fearful of death again

Russian Roulette

Life will stop time will carry on

Forgotten childhood memories, lost soul to the darkness of the green

Russian Roulette

One hit can start it

One line can set it off

One x can do the deed

One sip and the party is started

Russian Roulette

Fear of Death, Fear of relapse

Risk for the thrill

Russian Roulette

My Roulette Game of Death

A Bowl, Bong, Blunt, Shot or Beer

Relapse is My Roulette

Russian Roulette

A Game of Chance

The drug or drink is not worth it

Russian Roulette

Former Addicted Changed

Russian Roulette

Fear is gone for Christ is real

The bullet is gone

I have not want

To Play a game of Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette the game has changed

The Game is done

I will not play

My turn at Russian Roulette

Life of a Sinner

           Life of a Sinner

The life you are about to hear has been forever changed and never will be the same

This man you see before you has been made whole and is on the path the was meant for him

My story is a cautionary tale of the life of a sinner that was made for more

If you knew before I became whole you would hate me and not believe I am where I am today

I was born July 18^th, 1983

To La’chom Madison a new Cop on the Force

They called him “Red” his hair would turn that in the summers

To Denise Madison once a Jackson a CNA spending hours on her feet

She was an artist at heart and a Loving and Caring Mother

5^th in line to my Dad’s soon to be 8

1^st in line to my mom’s soon to be 4

Middle Child with a Oldest Child Belonging

I was born in a changing decade

The Death of Disco and The Glitter from Glam Rock had almost lost its shine’

Punk Rock, Disc Jockeys, MTV and Hip Hop all on the rise

The mid and late 80’s my school aged years

Famine Hits Ethiopia thus began years of joke about starving East Africans

The Nazi Butcher of Lyons put away for good

The U.S. Bombs Libya setting up years of trouble ahead

Cocaine on the rise and the birth of Crack rock

Cabbage Patch kids are born and sent to little girls a crossed the USA

The 90’s my formative years and where most this story of a sinner really begins

MC Hammer haircut, glasses and pants in the 2^nd grade I was “Too Legit to Quit”

Vanilla Ice taught me he was “Back with a brand new edition” so I should “Listen”

New Kids on The Block taught us all how they “Had the Right Stuff”

Paula showed it was cool to dance with cartoon cats and sing in a cartoon scene

6^th grade the year that it all changed

I met Punk Rock and Heavy Metal

I found friendship in skateboards and gutter punk kids

CCM mags in my bag, skateboard my main mode of transportation

Dad flew the cope that year too; Guess he found a new family

With my father figure gone from the house this lead to crazy things

It was at a Plain White T’s when they were still somewhat punk and some other band

I met Cheech the only other black kid in the VP Punk crew

And he introduce me to my first Love Mary Jane

Before I knew the new crew had been marked as Troubled

I was a fly in the milk, I was a trouble maker among punk kids

I had a reputation with everyone as watch out for that one

Freshmen year came with a blast and hit

I met my girl named E she made my mind go wild and I sensed extra euphoria around her

It was girls, trouble and deans office everyday

And addiction on its way, I learned of white powder snow caped mountains and saw northern lights

I also met Lucy with her nothing was a true reality everything was bendable and breakable

My boy boomer I barely remember the good times we spent together

High School was and is a blur

Parties, Clubs, Raves and More

Drugs and Heavy Drinking, Blackouts and Whiteouts

12^th grade it all caught up to me

That bad boy reputation became true

Out of the school door in cuffs, in back of that cop car

BD school bond, No hope left, no life left

10/10/01 I found some hope, God spoke

I was alive for the first time

Saved 2 serve and made for more, Life of a Sinner had been changed

I received my call from God Matthew 28 assured me of that

Summer 2005 I had a saw p117

So I went

I learned to love justice, care for the oppressed and long for the widowed and fatherless

I went to a Wonderland and served city kids

2007 the sinners life came back I saw my mom die

Drugs, parties, girls and over drinking

Cop cars, hand cuffs, blackouts and whiteouts

Breast Cancer took away my families strength and my hope

But the sinner’s life did not last for long for God was in my foot steps

God showed me Romans 8 and I have yet to turn back

My life of a sinner once was of death, spoke of death, smelled of death and felt like death

But Christ has risen and death has been defeated

I have life and not a sinner’s life

This life of a sinner is no more for I have been forever changed

I have been made for more

Modern Day Slave

Modern Day Slave

Modern Day Slave unseen and unspoken of

Young Child, Small Girl, Teen, Young Women, Slave of the New Age

So I got your attention? Hard to believe!

What if I told you that slavery still is very very real?

Would it bring up images of whips and chains, boats packed with people, slave masters and civil wars?

What if I told you that the modern day slave can look like you and me?

What if I told you that there are more slaves now than any time in history?

That is more now than if you add up both the Trans-Atlantic and White Slave trades!

More Slaves than when the Jews were in captivity!

Does that bring rage to your bones! Or does it have no affect!

27 million slaves are in bondage today as I speak

700,000 are enslaved per year, And that’s new slaves a year!

This cannot be true! But oh it’s so very true!

What if I told you stories of pain and hardship, which could make a grown man cry?

A story of a young girl named Harshita her name means Joyful or one that brings joy!

Born in Rural Bangladesh to poor parents, Her mother died when she was young

Her dad enjoy the drink a little too much, he got remarried and his new wife did not like Harshita

So her loving father sold her, not only for his wife but so he could spend more on his clutch

And now she works in brothels and sleeps on the floors! She is shown no love and has tries in her eyes!

She is used day in and day out! Her name Joyful has been taken away for she has no Joy Left!

She is a Modern Day Slave

Or a Story of Little Lochan 9 years of age his name means bright eyes

Born in Mumbai, street vendor mother odd end working father

Lochan family is so poor he is forced to work to help out

He roles Beedies on the floor of a dirty factor

Hours and Hours with his small hands rolling the small cigarettes into the end of a sharp knife

All for less than a $1 a day

His bright eyes have lost their shine and their hope!

He is a modern day slave!

Ming and Kong twins born in Shantou to parents who could barely afford life for themselves

Sent them away with a family friend who promised work and education in the big city of Hong Kong

Yet they were sold into slavery, now they work in a sweet shop!

They make skinny jeans worn by a Hipster that smokes Beedies and drinks a Grande Nonfat Latte from Starbucks. All to seem cool!

He pays $90 for a pair of jeans and the twins get paid 50 cents apiece for their efforts!

Modern day Slaves!

This has barely hit the seats that we sit in here in America!

The West African

Nation of Cote D’Ivoire rich soil and beautiful lands

Home to Philippe 14 years old

Once loved to climb trees, run and play football

Now forced to work in the Cocoa Fields

Robbed of his education and childhood

He sleeps on the floor of a hut in the fields with 10 other kids

His pay is room rice and meat and the mat the he sleeps on!

Modern Day Slave!

Coffee it runs in my veins so this one hit home more than the rest!

Mateo 25 year old father of 4

Works in the High Mountains of Peru harvesting and growing coffee beans

He makes a month for what I pay a week for coffee at Starbucks!

He is my modern day slave!

The modern day slave is not like the one of old but is real!

She is a child slave in Uganda working for the LRA

He is the farm hand in American getting paid below minimum wage

They are the children making clothes overseas on the floor of a factory

They are the sex slaves hidden in the big cities all over the world that are hidden from or eyes

What can we do? Gain Knowledge! Pray Hard! Fight if you can!

Go for Fair Trade!

So you see the whips and chains, boats and slave master, slave courts of old

Maybe unseen now but it is still real

There is still Modern Day Slaves

Justice is Sexy!

Justice

·         The quality of being just: righteousness , equitableness  or moral rightness( to uphold the justice of a cause)

·         The moral principle determining just conduct

·         The quality of being fair and reasonable     

“Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.” Isaiah 1:16-17

The idea of justice has become Cool or Sexy in our culture! In fact there are hundreds of thousands Social Justice Groups in America. They have Justice groups to protect donkeys!  To Protect against Sex Trafficking and so on! The Church is and should be at the forefront of this movement!

God=Justice

“The Lord is a God of Justice.” Isaiah 30:18

God is for the very lost people that need Justice the most!

“The Lord is righteous, he loves justice.” Psalms 11:7

“The Lord is beyond our reach and exalted in Power; in justice and great righteousness.” Job 37:23

“The Lord will be exalted by his justice, and the Holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness.” Isaiah 5:16

When we as Christian think about Justice we have to think of a bigger idea than Right vs. Wrong! We must see the very image of God and who God is and then asks ourselves some questions in the light of that!

As followers of Christ, we have to take a serious stand for Justice it is in our very image. The call to justice is a large part of what God wants us to do. He wants for us to fight for his people and show his love and grace. Often we are the source and cause of injustice in the world around us, whether it’s through the way we treat others, how we talk about people(to their faces and behind there backs), the choices of how we chose to live our lives with no regard for how it affects others and so on. In order for us to take a stand against injustice we must start with ourselves!

“While women weep as they do now; I’ll fight. While little children go hungry as they do now; I’ll fight. While men go to person in and out, in and out as they do now; I’ll fight. While there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girls upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I’ll Fight I’ll fight to the very end.” William Booth