BRIEF

I wrote the first verse of this song in a season where I was seeing people whom I had grown to love slowly drift away from church and eventually from the faith, their leaving being caused or catalyzed by church hurt. We cried to the Father for them with many groanings and tears and also tried to reach out to them but…

…and I wondered, “WHO WAS GOING TO LET THEM KNOW THAT IT WAS OKAY? WHO WAS GOING TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY COULD COME BACK HOME AND THAT THEY WOULD FIND LOVE IN PLACE OF THE CONDEMNATION THAT THEY PROBABLY FEARED/DREADED?

I noticed another significant factor that came into play in their drifting away. A believer whose heart has nurtured God’s word/seed and caused it to grow to a certain extent and then turns back could be an indicator of the presence of an element that’s causing a ‘choking’. Please keep in mind that this is not a standard reason for backslidings. The reasons could be as varied as the number of cases for all I know. This here was just the general and may I add, accurate, diagnosis then.

So what are these chokers/choking elements? Matthew 13:22 states them clearly.

 1. The cares of this world

 2. The deceitfulness of riches.

And we find a third in Mark 4:19,

  3. The lusts of other things entering in.

In Luke 21:34 where Jesus was speaking about the signs of the end times, he warned against being taken by the cares of this world, (And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and CARES OF THIS LIFE, and so that day come upon you unawares.) and guess what time it is? It's the end...

Verse one of the song basically paints a picture of such a one being choked.

I’m speaking to all those who may have strayed away from the Father’s love for one reason or the other. He still loves you deeply and He’s waiting for you with open arms; just longing for you. The choice is up to you, I’ll just say, “Weh rudi home!” (“You come back home!”) in the most polite manner that I can. :-)

And once you get back into His loving arms, verse three talks about how we can live free. Sin will not have dominion over us. He who called us is Holy and He calls us to be Holy (1st Peter 1:15-16). There is sufficient grace to-usward to live as God has called us to live. The truth is that we can live in victory over sin. How? It is up to us to appropriate that grace. Now would God require of us something that we can’t do or that He won’t help us do? He who calls us is faithful and He will do it (1st Thessalonians 5:23- 24). Holiness is not an option. It is a command/requirement in God’s Kingdom. Sure, there is no one perfect who does not sin (Ecclesiastes 7:20), but what I am saying is that sin will NOT dominate us. We will not be its slave. It will not rule over us. We have the victory and that’s why we can sing the ‘victory song’… (hint hint…yep, there’s a song. LOOK OUT for it :-). Anyway, so this also speaks to all of us who call ourselves followers of Christ. Catch the revelation and appropriate the grace and remember it’s ALL by His spirit.

In all this, let us remember not be judges of one another. That is not our role. We are simply called to love. Please feel free to hit me up in case of anything. The rest is in the song…

LYRICS featuring Nahbee

BASE: Luke 15:11-32

Got tear stained pages with your names written on them steady crying to the Father for your souls

Rudi home, rudi home…

Hii ni ya mthii aki-wa ame-fall ame-slip

(This is for someone when (s)he has fallen or slipped)

Weh usijali, kila mthii righteous hu-trip (Proverbs 24:16, Ecclesiastes 7:20)

(Don't you worry, everyone righteous trips)

God ni justifier, so si nani ku-condemn? (Romans 8:33-34)

(It is God who justifies so who are we to condemn?)

Just pray for them, gently restore them and eeeheeem (Galatians 6:1)

Turudi home tume-roam fi long

(Let's go back home, we have roamed for long)

Mi narudi home nime-roam fi long

(I'm going back home, I have roamed for long)

Prodigal gal,

hakuna fear

(there's no fear)

Love ya God perfect itanishikilia (1st John 4:18)

(God's love is perfect, I can hold on to it)

Turudi home tume-roam fi long

(Let's go back home, we have roamed for long)

Mi narudi home nime-roam fi long

(I'm going back home, I have roamed for long)

Prodigal bwoy,

hakuna fear

(there's no fear)

Love ya God perfect itakushikilia (1st John 4:18)

(God's love is perfect, you can hold on to it)

Umefuata raha za dunia

(you have chased the pleasures of this life)

Anasa na pesa pia

(comforts and money as well)

Wazishika hazishikiki

(you catch them but you can't seem to hold on to them)

Zaingia we hutosheki

(they keep coming in but you are never satisfied)

tena hukamiliki

(you are also not complete/fulfilled)

Zishazidi riziki

(you have more than enough)

na huridhiki

(but you are not settled/satisfied with that)

Mbo-na huridhiki ai!

(why are you not satisfied?)

While u diggin’ & u diggin’ & u diggin’ for that ore

You need to know that it’s Him you really searching for

that tugging on your heart?

That’s the father calling

Why u stalling

still ignoring?

Still running and hiding

Jesus Him still abiding

He be all up in yo zone

And the Father’s eyes be upon

the horizon

Ever hopeful that one day His long lost son

Will come back home

Turudi home tume-roam fi long

  (Let's go back home, we have roamed for long)

  Mi narudi home nime-roam fi long

  (I'm going back home, I have roamed for long)

  Prodigal gal,

  hakuna fear

  (there's no fear)

  Love ya God perfect itanishikilia (1st John 4:18)

  (God's love is perfect, I can hold on to it)

  Turudi home tume-roam fi long

  (Let's go back home, we have roamed for long)

  Mi narudi home nime-roam fi long

  (I'm going back home, I have roamed for long)

  Prodigal bwoy,

  hakuna fear

  (there's no fear)

  Love ya God perfect itakushikilia (1st John 4:18)

  (God's love is perfect, you can hold on to it)

Rudi home ume-roam fi long

Life si rehearsal na um! Filo

Hakuna kitu ka ku-fall in love in slo mo

Sound track ya mwisho ni dirge na hatukuoni no more

Baba niweke on guard kama Papa

Shirandula/ Heri kuishi bila ndula

Zanifikisha kwa hasidi wa kunifisha

Siri hizi nyingi jo wanaficha        

Chungu nzima ka’a kisima cha giningi

niweke under cover ka’a vitabu za msingi

Kristo, we ni barabara nitoe kwa mathara /Muhathara/

ulijitoa kafara/ kuokoa haka kafala/ ongoza me ndafalla, {ama follow}

Juu kupoteza direction ni kufuata erection

Na si unajua vile kwo huenda after post election

Na wakikataa correction

sitaki tension, wacha tu nirudi home tumange hii pension…..*2

Turudi home tume-roam fi long

  (Let's go back home, we have roamed for long)

  Mi narudi home nime-roam fi long

  (I'm going back home, I have roamed for long)

  Prodigal gal,

  hakuna fear

  (there's no fear)

  Love ya God perfect itanishikilia (1st John 4:18)

  (God's love is perfect, I can hold on to it)

 Turudi home tume-roam fi long

(Let's go back home, we have roamed for long)

Mi narudi home nime-roam fi long

(I'm going back home, I have roamed for long)

haujachoka ku-roam rudi home

(are you not yet tired of roaming, you come back home)

haujachoka ku-roam rudi home 

(are you not yet tired of roaming, you come back home)

Sold as a slave to sin,

jo! Sijielewi

(I don't understand myself)

Natenda nisilotaka nalotaka sitendi,

(I do what I don't want to, what I want to do, I don't do)

Ai,

ni dhambi ndani yangu, hai-

(it's sin inside of me, it)

-wezi kuwa mi-

(can't be me)

-mi mtu wretched (Romans 7:15-20&24)

(I'm a wretched person)

lakini kuna cure ya utelezi (Jeremiah 3:22)

(but there's a cure for backsliding)

Kwa neno,

(in God's word)

now mi ah know, sin nah dominate me now

Coz Jesus is mi Lord so how now brown cow?

ni victory song juu nisha-get revelation Ow!

(it's a victory song because I have already caught a revelation on it)

Niigawe? Sawa iSKIZE bila TUNE

(I share? Okay, listen to it without a tune)

Sin is crouching at ma door it desires to have me but  

I must master it before it renders me corrupt (Genesis 4:7)

Sin is not ma master, I’m under grace not law (Romans 6:14)

Jesus is ma master, His blood erased every flaw

He died, I died with Him I been freed from sin (Romans 6:3-7)

And now that I live in Him I can’t keep on in ma sin

He who continues to sin has neither known nor seen Him (1st John 3:6)

I crucify the sinful nature for I belong to Him (Galatians 5:24)

I died to sin, I can’t live in it any longer (Romans 6:2, 1st Peter 2:24)

Yea ma flesh is weak so I’ma make ma spirit stronger

I will not gratify its desires if I walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16)

And I put to death its misdeeds by the same Spirit (Romans 8:13)

Keep me from willful sins may they not rule over me (Psalm 19:13)

And let not my heart be drawn to what is wickedly (Psalm 141:4)

I seek you with all ma heart don’t let me stray from your commands (Psalm 119:10)

Abba! Take ma hand coz only in you can I stand and say…

Sin has no more dominion over me now

Jesus dominate me, Jesus dominate me…ya-a-ah!

Sin has no more dominion over you he-ey!

He set us free indeed (John 8:36) and He’s able to keep us from falling (Jude 24)

weh rudi home.

(you come back home)