BARA...BBAS!

 I met the man…I met the man!

No not the Man…I mean the man…

From Pilate’s court with joy he ran

‘I’m free again!’  the words he chimed

The market square, he stood to dance

Condemned to death, today he sang

“I don’t believe what He the Man…”

“had told the world ‘bout He’s the One…”

“But  all I knew, my death at hand”

“For me to be then He was hung”

He sung, he sung, a treacherous man

Who’s place He took, the only Son

His legs, His hands, the nails were rammed

His blood He shed though all He’d done

Was love beyond what we could stand

I met the man…I met the man!

And now you read and dare demand

“Who is the man you seem to shun?”

The man I met was me undone

Today I’m done

To Him I thank

©Prince Ampofo | www.palministry.org

MY HELPER

Two of the greatest and most powerful events involving divinity and humanity have been God’s work of creation and Jesus’ work of salvation.

Is it not interesting that at the eve of each of these events we are introduced to a ‘Helper’?

God In Creation

God’s stupendous work reveals Man created in His image, put in His presence and perfected in every state. Yet God makes a declaration that excites a man who didn’t even think of help in any other form but God Himself.

Yes I am here, yes the garden is complete in itself, yes your naming ceremony of all things alone is proof of your dominion mandate,

“It is not good for you (man) to be alone….I will make him a helper…” Where does the helper come from, the man himself. The man indirectly helps God make him a helper as he sleeps and an extract is made.

God makes this Helper and the man makes her his wife.

Jesus in Salvation

With an assignment of releasing what would be the earth’s greatest help, Heaven throws a search for a helper and guess who surfaces? A woman named Mary.

Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, chose a team of twelve (12) to help Him in His ministry.  He walks the face of the earth with so much authority and love ( turned water to wine, raised the dead, unlike Moses walked on water without dividing it, fed a multitude with a little boy’s meal, etc) that his helpers are troubled by his pronouncement of his death.

…and like God, when he was so close to the assignment, He sits his people down and declares,

“…it is to your advantage that I leave…” Paraphrased, “I may have taught you a million lessons, enough to change the world, I may have taught you to pray to the father, but would need a ‘Helper’.

One who will come in my name.

Whenever Divinity reaches for Humanity, a Helper is involved.

Like Rahab, Lot, Jacob, help is proof that God wants to move you higher. 

I pray God grants us the wisdom to discern our Helpers and ‘Helpees’(those who need our help too!)  when we meet them. 

 Keep faith alive.

HE WILL WALK YOU ON…

Many a time people show up in our life and become so relevant we think life impossible without them. They become our Moses commissioned not only to free us from our past,  but to lead us to a place of promise.

Yet in the twists of life, just when we have showed up before what seem to be a life threatening obstacle which would simply not go away (our red sea), they are nowhere to be found.

Could be a parent, a best friend, a mentor – someone you least expected this from.

How painful such an experience….

But today I have news for you! I know 'a way'

If your ‘Moses’ won’t walk you through the ‘red sea’, No problem.

Jesus will walk you on the water….

Keep faith alive…

NO MORE OPTIONS? GREAT!

When I ran out of options, my faith mounts the skies like an eagle at high altitude.

When my untying the rope seem to be more entangling, when human effort is effortless, when sophisticated weaponry allows my seeing nothing but a mirage, when hope shuts down and reason needs rebooting, when all listening ears expire;

then the 'listening ears' to my prayer steps in!

Seconds and my bitterness is archived, plummeted in a testimony chest that awaits your own challenges. 

Heaven pulls my petition file and endorses for the release of uncommon grace and favour to see me through the mountains I face. It is in these moments the mountains disappear. A path clearer than the ones I have imagined in my wildest dreams is created before my very eyes. The promise of the one true God becomes so heavy in its implementation; so simple in its manifestation; and so glorious in its divination.

Don’t give up on your challenges! You are building gigabytes of uncommon testimonies to baffle the confused minds of the unbelief.

A CHALK, A PENCIL AND A PEN

When we were little (https://www.facebook.com/WhenIWasALittleChild), we used to use a chalk and a slate. My kindergarten class was the World Trade Centre. 

Transactions of children battling each other and batter trading for leverage to achieve unreasonable goals. My slate was my galaxy tab. You would find every information about me on it. And when I needed to refresh it, it was just a duster away.

Then came the days of using a pencil. Ha...how fulfilling it felt to hold on to my HB pencil. I was so into the pencil, i grew a very great artist. I would sharpen the tip to look like the apex of Mount Everest. What i loved most was the eraser, it reminded me of my chalk and slate days.

Graduating to the use of Pen was a kindergarten vision achieved. Just amazing. Truth be told, I had started using it prematurely; imitating my dad in the way he went about scribbling his name T-O-M-M-Y. I had grown out of using the chalk and walked by my kindergarten class every morning surprised by how short those kids looked and how much they pride themselves with their 'Some Song Galaxy Tabs'.

By the time I walked up to buy a pen for class, I would meet these upper primary kids coming for pencils. Ha..i would scoff! positioning my pen in my breast pocket to face the world! The joy of asking for permission to go out and sharpen my pencil, was joy the more.

Little did i realize that the transition was significant in my Success one day;

The chalk represented how easily I would be able to make mistakes and rob it off as a little child. How people would easily overlook my errors as unintentional. No wonder we fought each other every minute, yet forgot after the next minute that it ever happened.

The pencil would represent mistakes i would make in my middle age, once that would demand effort to erase...

The pen days would be errors that would demand a greater force to clean; which even after cleaning would leave scars to be remembered for years.

What a realization! The days of Rain Rain Go Away sure taught us how to actually stay awake to the deeper errors we could commit in our old age. Enough caused already! Look me through the eyes of a kindergarten child and let the scars I have created melt away.

What are friends for?

A HAMMER AND NAILS

Call me funny but I've been thinking. Thinking about what in a hammer and a nail would make Heaven qualify Joseph as the human father for Christ.

Thinking about why Heaven would introduce Christ to a hammer and a nail at such a tender age, when they ultimately would be the at the crucifixion, what the gun was at Newtown, USA.

Why did our Father's choice of a father have to be a Carpenter?
Was it perhaps to familiarize His son with the hitting-cracking effect of a hammer on the head of a nail?

If so it sure made Jesus Christ very frank. He'd hit the nail on the head whenever he got the chance.

Was Jesus being prepared? I wonder the number of times Jesus accidentally hit his own hand.

I wonder if he learned to value the 'ordinary' from watching his father Joseph carve something out of nothing. A lesson that ultimately led Him to refine fishermen into change catalysts.

O God! the lessons you teach!

GOD OF MERCY...UM...I MEAN MESSI ( BARCELONA)

I do not know how long you have been training but guess what?

Lionel Messi's baby boy had a standby team when in his mother's womb! In is breastfeeding and diaper moments, the little 'teletubby' signed his first football contract. How old was he? TWO WEEKS!

Surprised? Don't be...his daddy is the 'besssst' footballer in the world!

Then the TRUTH is revealed- Children of GOD, your price for glory has already been 'Christ' paid. Period!
Your architectural circumnavigation to the future is only a mirage.

It has no bolts and will not stand the rainy days. The Bible elaborates wonderfully, "Except the Lord shall build the house..."
(Psalm 127:1)

Family is a treasure, Training is important, Holiness is crucial, Money is fundamental, Education is key but I put it to you today: Your SUCCESS will never be your 'sweat' reward!

When your Father is a champion, you are a clot with a crown, majestic in the womb and born 'napkined' in AWESOME GREATNESS! Hallelujah!
(Jeremiah 1:5)

GHANA PUTS ON A SMILE (PAGE 1)

Written on Saturday, December 1, 2012 (Six days to elections)

The confidence of the Nigerian, the curiosity of the American, the discipline of the Japanese, the conservativeness of the German, the gallant nature of the Russian or the openness of the British all combined can never equate the 'natural log' of a Ghanaian.

Where natural log equals 99.9% of the average Ghanaian's ability. Below are 5 reasons (with examples) why the Ghanaian stands out;

1. Multitalented!
a)A Ghanaian striker ‘Suarezes’ a continent and a week later becomes a superstar rapper.
b)A flagbearer enters a laboratory…pardon me...a debate room; and comes out with a cough mixture

2. Invented Shortcuts
a)10 cedis is enough to take you to and back from the sun! (Trust me…through Navrongo)
b)First in line at a Metro Mass station, seven people after me get their tickets and the bus is already full! (Magic!)

3. Brilliant!
a)An unemployed graduate frustrated from a job search thinks outside the box. Sets up the UNEMPLOYMENT GRADUATES' ASSOCIATION and is now in business!
b)Police stops an overloaded truck and inspects the driver, not the car!

5. Accomodating!
a)Woman on first seat buys a bottle of coca cola and turns around to the rest of us, “You are invited”.
b)Accidentally stepped on the shoe of a macho man, “Oh sorry!” He responds, “No worry, you can do it again” (Huh?)

Kwame Nkrumah rose for change; first independent state in Africa (Something to brag about!)
 “Let us call her Ghana”  J. B. Dankwa had blasted! Amon Kotey  got busy and drew the Coat of  Arms,
Theodisia Okoh sampled colours to produce a stupendous beauty; The National Flag.

Ephraim Amu carved the heavenly words, “Yen ara asaase ni” and Philip Gbeho presented to the us the golden lines of our National Pledge and Anthem.
Ghana was born!

A nation with uncountable natural resources on her soils; but her greatest resource not found in the ground for men to trample on.
Her greatest resource is deep in the hearts of her people.
A resource so affordable money cannot buy!
Yet remains the world’s scarcest commodity.
A resource to keep; with or without Dec 7th 
A resource called PEACE


A short quiz before we vote;
Five representatives of each of the political parties were put in a room with their hands tied behind their back. They all feel sleepy over time.
How different will their ‘yawning’ be based on their party colours?

Wrong! Think again!

A ‘UNIVERSE’-CITY OF CHOICE

Before we ever stepped foot at University of Cape Coast,

University was just another big word we so much loved to scribble when a topic of the future came up.

The pursuit for placement made ‘sleeplessness’ our  students’ companion,

Yet the sweet taste of the ‘today’ held captive the burning desire for the ‘tomorrow’.

How we broke the ice?

He had done it again! The Man who called us ‘Genius’ before our birth!

The One we prayed to today. Remember?

Some say He changed the marking scheme;

Others argue it was the examiners’ mood He changed,

All we know is we were there!

University of Cape Coast

Like the skin of a ‘stubborn goat’ on a typical lip-cracking harmattan season, it only got tougher.

And planted in our minds our first moments of ‘’3b3fa and wa di agu’’.

 To thousands of other students, it remained University of Constant Confusion;

 To hundreds of others, it remained the University of Conscious Condemnation;

To you and me it remained and still remains the only University of Choice

The choice to live not for ourselves but for the common good of humanity; starting from our backyards.

A  deep sense of persistence granted us access to either join the ‘world’ or change the World

We chose the latter. Remember?

All the ‘trigonometric dichotomy of philosophical linguistics’ we were taught proved only one point;

That yesterday, our globe was our village;

Today our village is our Globe

Never did we realize that the most important lessons were not in the lecture theatres.They were lessons trapped in the monumental exhibits that stand ‘rain or shine’ on the soils of the land

The lady statue of Adehye Hall, with the grin of a well-fed vegetarian, in the silence of her ‘voice’, tells us how imperative Focus becomes in the struggle between persistence and pressure.

Symbolic of the existence of ‘frienemies’, the west African crabs of Oguaa Hall wish they had vocabulary

But unperturbed, they served the representation of a message that needed patience in deciphering.

The breastfeeding mother at Science Faculty, (we referred to as Mother UCC) stared in awe, marveled at how her stretch could still not deter us from gurgling down from her chest, nourishment for growth and maturity.

 We learnt how much knowledge is still hidden from humanity; from the statue that stands in the central junction to Science Faculty. With a torch directed at a book in broad daylight, we had instinctively recognized the extent that words underestimate the value of Purpose and Reason.

Bearing the surname of my mother in her ‘crucify Him’ days (youthful days), the gentleman Casely Hayford only kept mute and communicated by a strong wave of radiating confidence, in affirmation of who we can become tomorrow

Then we noticed something unusual.

The FIRST gate of UCC was closest to the gallant monument of Ghana’s FIRST President.

Was it a geographical coincidence? How I wished I believed in coincidence!

 Dr. Kwame Nkrumah stands with stretched arms to welcome us to the undeniable truth that ‘every one is a solution Ghana cannot do without’

These lessons (and more that demand deep thinking over these words), we cannot forget!

It is in the storms our faith is needed the most. It is in the darkness our light is most relevant. It is at the battlefield our cumulative abilities come in handy. We shall continue to persevere to discover the uncommon for Ghana; and for the world.

Today is future! The journey would have been the opposite without you. Remember?

A Statue of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah at University of Cape Coast

HELLO FEAR

Today is your last Mr. Fear
We dare look you in the eye!
For we are ‘heavily’ intoxicated in the ultimate Presence of Christ.

Let there be failure; ha ha we are CHILDREN OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD
Who shall separate us? With what? (Rom 8: 35)

This is our Sword of the Spirit!
We shut you down now with ‘ship sinking’ authority
Yes the address better be wrong…u don’t belong here!

This is the home of Kings. People set for a difference; pregnant with achievement, ruminating on fulfillment.

No want is stopping us ; we are closer than you think.
And if you think we are afraid, think again!
Read the tag-“Coheirs with Christ"

We remain unshaken; blessed to be a blessing.
In Jesus' name. Amen!

LET THERE BE LIGHT!

Light is sweet, so welcoming. The light of the first day of creation was so And so is the light of today and everyday.

Needless to say, the warmth we feel seconds we open our sleepy eyes to embrace the glorious radiance of each morning.

Light is sweet, so welcoming. Light was the solution to the first problem of creation: a formless and empty earth. (Genesis 1:2-3).

It continues to be the only solution for the reconciliation of man unto God.

Bottom-line, light is Power, and Pharaoh (just as with Moses) will not let you go without demonstrating this power.

We are set at default to shine wherever we stand

And Like the first day of creation, our conception came into existence following the words

'Let there be light!'.

For God foresaw us as the only solution to the entangling problems of this world!

Light is so sweet, so welcoming. We are inevitable to the chemistry of this world.

And just as light begins the day, we define a future predestined for greater works.

It starts with us having a mental picture and beginning to incubate the architecture of hope in God. These pictures are automatically printed in the outer world of our environment seconds we build up confidence in the Almighty.

QUALIFIED AT BIRTH…AWAITING WORLD DISCOVERY!

Question: Nazareth! Is it possible for ‘anything’ good to come out of Nazareth? (John 1: 46a)


When the book of life (Holy Bible) uses an exclamation mark, then it sure is a ballistic ‘shocking-to-the-bone’ reaction. This was the case of Nathaniel, after being informed the Messiah is from the insignificant, unwarranted town of Nazareth.


A million times you will be intimidated.


 But Heaven writes your story day by day beginning with the statement ‘Qualified at birth…Awaiting world discovery’.

Answer: Come and see. (John 1: 46b)

Gold and diamond make their way to palaces from dust from the earth. Searching for Oil may require millions of dollar yet most valued discovered. Wait on your discovery today confident in your qualification at birth.

To the world, a carpenter holds an unlucky baby in a manger; but before their very eyes was the solution to a broken world awaited.

That was Jesus Christ…you are next in line!

...AND THERE WAS LIGHT!

The distance between the sun and the earth is approximately 150 million kilometers, but it takes only 8min and 19sec for its light rays to reach Earth. 

Yet it is this 8min 19sec that provides the Universe energy needed by all forms of life. Surprised?

Well what is most amazing is that the Light in you is more magnificent than that from the sun. It is the true light of Christ; One that provides you the ultimate gift of life each day.

We strive for fulfilment! We have dreams unrealized, talents untapped, visions untouched, ideas shelved for years; because of our belief in ‘some’ mirage of limitations we’ve set for ourselves.''

You are the light God willed into existence. You do not yearn for greatness. Greatness enters as soon as you walk into the room.

Now stretch forth your hand and turn every touch into pure gold.

Walk shoulder high knowing that your light source is far-reaching than that of the sun. Circumstances that pull you back should only make you stronger; never waver in your determination.

Do not ‘chicken’ among the chicks...your rightful place is the eagles’ camp!

To the world, what you say will be impossible...but you surely will accomplish to make the impossible possible!

Be Strong!