January 1st, 2011 | By admin
I recently went to my homeland Ghana,Africa for 2 and 1/2 weeks. I learned a great deal and I felt it was imperative i share it so that I document this awesome voyage for my memories and also for you the reader that something you may hear in this note may change your life for the rest of your life. This trip was my 6th time to Ghana and everytime me and my family go its an incredible expierence full of insight, perspective, and revelation. Actually me and my younger brother Nick have dubbed our trips abroad “spiritual journeys” and no longer vacations. The reason being is that everytime we go we are illuminated and enlightened through the whole duration of the trip. On this spiritual journey perspective was added to my Knowledge of God, my life,marriage, my gifts, my purpose,my heritage, my family,my destiny, my relationships, my culture, the Word, faith, my desires,dreams, and goals.
First off all, i want to make a disclaimer that when reading this don’t start and then stop, read it the whole way through and you will get the full impact. As you read this open your spiritual eyes to hear what is being said do not view this with a religious mindset it will not make sense. First of all what i have realized about God is that no matter how much one knows about God we still will never fully comprehend Him and all His ways. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, His ways are higher than our ways we will never know completely how God works. He takes what is illogical in our eyes and makes it logical. He can do anything and everything. It makes no sense for us to try to figure out Gods ways or how He works we just need to learn to trust because God cannot be confined to the systems of mind nor the intellect of men. If you trust you dont have to figure anything out.
The presence and move of God is more evident in Ghana, Africa than it is here in America. Not because God loves Africa more but the mere fact they need Him more. In America we need God but in Africa they desperately need God and desire Him intensely. In America there are certain things we all dont have to pray for consistently such as water, shelter, food, etc. Even if your poor in America there are programs, government aid, foodstamps, medicare, assisted living,homeless shelter affordable housing, and more to help you if you are without basic necessities. In places of Ghana there is no such program or aid to help you, the only form of help you will receive is from the hand of God himself. Dont get me wrong Ghana is a very developed country and just like there is extreme poverty there is extreme wealth but the nation as a whole embraces God. So when you don;t have these basic needs you have to have results God has to answer your prayer or it can mean death. When your in a state of dependency God is all you have so you cant rely in yourself, your gifts, your money, your science, your theology, your education and so on, you can only rely on the living God. My friend was just telling me a pastor he knows went to Africa and asked God why is the worship of God so deep and the love for God so much more intense than churches in America. So God told the pastor its because of the level of suffering they go through in Africa that draws them nearer to me.
In Ghana people serve God or they serve the Devil, there’s no in between in Ghana its one way. There’s no bordering the fence people give there whole heart & allegiance to one or the other. In Ghana the Devil is not this fictional character we see in America with horns and a pitch fork. The devil is real! His presence is not questioned voodoo, juju, witchcraft and all sorts are openly practiced in most parts of Africa. Like i said people serve one or the other with their whole heart. So if you don’t serve God in Africa you could be exposing yourself and leaving yourself unprotected from voodoo or witchcraft to be performed on you. People die, get robbed, go mentally insane, lose their health and all the sorts from voodoo. In Ghana they look at you like an idiot if you don’t believe in God. Athiesm & Agnosticism is virtually nonexistent in Ghana. Belief in God is not just a club, religion, or social group its a matter of life and death. Children in Africa have God in their hearts from their foundations. Jesus is the way truth and life and no man can come to the Father except through Him. In America we got rid of prayer in our schools and that was a earthquake in our spiritual foundations destroying the epicenter of our nation. This nation was founded on God but now this nation is trying to reject the founder. Don’t worry America we will come back to God and we will be restored. This political correctness thing we see everywhere is nonexistent in Ghana. In America i get in trouble for praying or even mentioning Jesus on my job. In Ghana there are public buses with “Jesus loves you” or A bible verse or some other christian catch phrase on it. These phrases are on taxis, cars, peoples businesses, common marketplaces, and everywhere around town.
God is involved in all they do and God is dedicated in every facet of their lives. How come its not like this in America? Its because we lost sight of how we got to where we are as a nation. The same blessing that America has is the same thing that has cursed us because we have chased after the blessing instead of the blessser, the rewards instead of the rewarder. Its just like a double edge knife its great for cutting that apple but then the safe knife you used can be used to stab you. Sometimes in America we act as if we dont need God by thinking we can do it on our own and all we want is self help but the truth is We have allowed our blessing to become a curse. I’m not excluding myself i am a Ghanaian American and have seen the best & worse of both worlds. What does that mean for us do we get mad at ourselves for being blessed, NO! Instead of depending in self we must completely depend on God for everything. One may ask how do i do that you start with little things like God can you show me what to wear, which turn to take, which meal to order, because He cares about every little minute detail of our lives.
One thing we must realize is that no ones perfect,no one prays, no ones righteous, no one is wise, and no one does good because we are sinners UNTIL we accept JESUS and HIS righteousness (right standing with God) because our righteousness is filthy rags to God without Jesus. Someone had to pay the price of sin and He did and we must not think for one second that we did anything to earn it or deserve it. We were supposed to enter the Jail cell of Hell for our crime but our God the judge said I’m going to put my son to pay your bail and then take your position in that Jail cell so you can be free. Wow thats what Jesus did for you and I. When we understand this we will live differently its our reasonable service to go to church, its are reasonable service to pray, its our reasonable service to do what you say in your word. Instead we feel like God doesn’t want me to have a life God doesn’t want me to have fun which is false because His commands are for our benefit and our protection. Serving Him is the absolutely least we can do, and dont get me wrong I know its not easy but its worth it.
Another revelation I realized from going to Ghana is that I had a worldview of marriage not Gods view. Marriage is not just the thing to do after you get a degree, a job, and then a house. Marriage has become a status instead of its true purpose. Marriage points back to Our Father God and the son Jesus and how the 2 were 1 united for one purpose not 2 different individuals. Jesus came to glorify the Father and the Father glorified Jesus. Everything Jesus did was married into Gods agenda. Marriage is supposed to exemplify how the Father and Jesus are 1. So that a husband and wife can become 1 and when people see that marriage that oneness and agreement should point back to the Father & Jesus. All around the world marriage has been for selfish reasons i myself am included in that becausse I also thought it is “the thing to do.” Jesus had to work hard to be in Agreement with the Father while on this earth and the devil did everything He could to stop His unison with the Father. That explains why the devil attacks marriages so hard he wants to break the unity between the 2 so you wont glorify God with your marriage. People often recognize a change in the relationship when it leaves from the level of courtship into marriage and that is because marriage glorifies God so the devil does his best to distort it. The devil does the counterfeit opposite of God in all cases. God created husband + wife, the Devil is inspiring man + man, and woman + woman marriages which are totally incorrect.(This topic alone would be a whole another note) Marriage should bring God glory because it shows how two different people with different backgrounds, ideas, personalities, traits, and gifts can actually merge into agreement to become one functional team as opposed to two people coming together to meet their own selfish needs.
Everything points back to God creation, destruction, marriage, child birth, etc. Its amazing how the sun and the moon are equidistant to the earth. If the sun was one inch closer we would burn, one inch further we would freeze. The sun and the moon shine all over the world nobody is excluded. The exact amount of oxygen & carbon dioxide is put on earth so that we can all breathe & exhale freely. How does the water on the beach know when to stop exactly and come back? How does another human come out of another human? How does the earth spin on nothing? Out of all the planets how come we are the only known ones with animal,plants, and human life. How do you explain the complexties of our brains? Why is the universe in so much order and have laws such as the law of gravity? How do you explain DNA structure and behavior? How come we can believe we are able to create things with our creative power, but we can believe that we were not created but appeared here on earth??? God has surrounded us with evidence of His existence because He wants us to know He is there.
I read a press article from one of my actual mentors in the media industry. My mentors name is Mr. Timothy “Bliss” Jones. He is definitely a strong force in the Christian media/business arena with over 15 successful websites and counting. For example he has 
